skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If what you said is correct then why do things like this happen?

You misunderstand what I am saying. I am interested in finding a way to deploy genAI that has no copyright issues from the commercial deployment side. I am not saying that this is what companies are doing right now. But I want to see if it is possible to provide the service they are providing, without the copyright issues. My point is not that midjourney didn't use non-publicly viewable data in their training, it is that they did not need to. I am confident their services can be replicated without using non-publicly viewable works. Then the copyright issues that remain are those of training on publicly-viewable but not copyright-owned works, and distributing the results commercially. These I am addressing in my OP.

> Just because something is publicly available doesn't mean you are permitted to use it as you see fit.

Again I am not so interested in discussing the training aspects, as many people would, for example, agree that training on publicly available data for scientific reasons, or to make some internal model whose results never get shown to the public, is quite okay. It is imo the easier issue to deal with so it is not the focus of my post.

> If we are going to paint with broad strokes, are you supporting this?

The issue of deepfakes can be dealt with on a level that does not involve copyright. It is not relevant to genAI vs copyright for me.

> I must also assume that you can see from my perspective that something being publicly available or even privately available doesn't mean that I have consented to you doing as you please.

For me, morally, I am allowed to think about your work in any way I wish, and I am also allowed to use pen and paper, a drawing board, or a computer to assist me in my considerations of your work. It is just my responsibility that the products of my considerations do not reach the public eye if they are be harmful, criminal or infringing etc. If I draw profit from your publicly available work, that is not necessarily to the detriment of you. If I use your posts on reddit to train my companies internal application filtering model then I am not taking anything away from you, and I am not infringing on your copyright. If, however, I train a model that copies your very funny tweeting style, and create a bot that makes twitter posts based on that, then I am potentially taking something away from you and potentially infringing on your copyright, depending on the similarity of my posts to your posts. If I create some PR-consulting company that creates tweets for customers and claims to own and sells the right to that intellectual property to their customers, then I am quite likely infringing on copyright because my model might have produced works for which you actually own the rights.
GCP prices are ludicrously high. You're far better off to just get a VPS and self-host Postgres and your webserver. Which is what we did at my last startup; only thing we used GCP for was build servers, and only because we got a ton of free credits. We could've gotten a paid intern for the money we saved.
The lords and churches of the past wouldn't even dare to ask as much as 30% of revenues in our feudal past.
I agree with everything you said in both your posts, but you should maybe try to be less condescending.
I love when people do this. It makes the internet feel a lot cozier. I still get replies and private messages about really old Reddit comments.
Thanks for the tip, that is useful to know
"The software relies on [...] RSA-2048 [...]".

Dumb. The one screenshot shows window decorations for Windows OS. I doubt I'll ever not completely ignore this project and also I will forget I ever looked at it. Into the trash it goes.
A bunch of banks closing uk-nationals-with -eu-residencies accounts?
Oh, and passport control?
Remember Brexit?
Only windows? That's gonna be a no from me dawg.
Why should it be, it provides the tools, as proven by the results.

The matter is one of these tools is being taken away.
I'd argue 0.15% is a huge cut for the service they're offering. With Apple Pay the payment is still being processed by the card scheme, the merchant's acquirer, their bank and the user's bank. Each of these charge fees and Apple's cut likely comes out of the user's bank's cut, since they are the ones co-operating with Apple to get their cards onto Apple Pay. In the EU, this fee called interchange fee is limited to 0.2% for debit cards and 0.3% for credit cards. Imagine if Apple managed to negotiate for 50-75% of that. That would be ludicrous in my eyes.
> priced at £200 per 100g

Blimey.
I tested with London to Paris — if it's easy with your routing system, you should add the Channel Tunnel as a fake road. I'm not sure why it chose a ferry so far off the shortest route.
Do you really think that there will be more competition? I fear what will happen is that the big corps will set their own stores to distribute their own apps, and that's pretty much it. The user won't see any difference in pricing. The small dev will be hurt because each store will make less money and will likely implement price increases to compensate.
It makes a mockery of simple models too. Models of double pendulums and three body problems don't match the empirical world for very long.
Smells like ChatGPT blogspam.
Your whole rant completely misses the point. It's not about upgrading, I mentioned repairs. It's not the price of the raw storage that is the problem. It's the data you stored. You need to be able to keep it in your possession or it's not your data.

Of course, cloud providers have so successfully trained US customers some 23% of them think nothing of not owning their data any more. That's the lunacy I am talking of.
No one would look at a veracrypt archive containing a copyrighted work and confuse it either. They look very different to the original files but both the encrypted file and the learning model's weights allow one to reproduce the copyrighted work.
Congratulations on your superior sense of orientation.
Well, they are the remnants of a society, were you could still trade in your works worth for "love" or at least a "dont break the chain" genetic future in the shape of a "family". And now this contract is up, they want to burn the whole thing down.
TL;DR Incels over estimate how much attractiveness and money matters and it might be nice to educate them

Also: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/31/radicalizing-the-roman...
> If someone is giving you 3 years of profit up-front, that's probably not worth it.

TBH, 3 years of profit upfront is probably worth it if you have no good plans to expand that profit.
I have a similar background with math as the commenter. +1 to Lockhart. If the commenter finds numbers interesting they may also really enjoy his book “Arithmatic.” I found it so refreshing. It truly reoriented my whole relationship with mathematics.
I'm fine with not owning my games. I'm not fine paying for it though.
I am ok with side loading. Of course, side loaded apps would need to be sandboxes for security reasons and should not be allowed to access basic services like calendar, contacts or iCloud.
jwplayer.com was not hosting the content in this case. It was just the javacript player being fetched by the page.
What is the target market? IPhone users? What's preventing the developer from shipping their app as a web app? The developer can still reach their target market.
BFF, Backend for Frontends
If you want to know more about this kind of topic, I am reading nice book about history of americas before europeans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1491:_New_Revelations_of_the_A...
Think you should be responding to the GP - not me. I agree it’s not a monopoly. Hence why I pointed it out.

GP made the monopoly comment.
I'm not commenting on whether the protests worked. Just on whether they were hard to organise.
Java today is used and works fine for many high performance applications.
> as they cram another million people into gridlocked high-rises in their smoggy grey hellhole, that we in the country are bad for the environment?

Uh yes, if you shove a million people out in the middle of nowhere, you have to cut down all the nature, remove the wetlands, pave a bunch of really wide roads, and now all of a sudden your paradise is a bland soulless sub-urban hellscape that is no longer environmentally friendly.

As for gridlocked, I can walk to multiple bakeries, grocery stores, and parks. The vast majority of my driving is to places that are less than 15 minutes away.

My rural friends talk about taking a quick trip that's only 90 minutes away. 90 minutes there 90 minutes back, shit, that's 2.5hrs extra spent driving compared to my 30 minute round trip commutes. If I go over the last 5 or 6 months I haven't lost a total of 2.5hrs to gridlock.

> Or that the soulless crowds you have to navigate through every morning and evening are friendlier than the neighbours and strangers who wave and chat everywhere I go?

Why do you think people in the city are soulless? Cities are bastion of art and creativity.

I say high to my neighbors all the time, we get together for drinks and we swap baked goods. This is made all the easier by how close we are together.

Indeed, once I moved into the city, meeting people became easier, and the people around me are friendlier. (And I'm in Seattle, literally the worst city for meeting people in!)
Even when we reach a point where the hype is appropriate and the tech is actually ready and I can expect to finally buy a robot that will clean my house and do our dishes I still won't be getting one since you can bet that any robot sold to consumers will be constantly recording audio and video of the inside of our homes to send back to the manufacturer and all of that data will ultimately be used to enrich others at our expense, shared with law enforcement, and most likely end up in the hands of data brokers.

The days where new cool technology that would make our lives better was something to look forward to are over. Now it's "How is this new technology going to be used against me?" and "How soon will this technology be deliberately made worse in order to take more from my family?"

The best we can hope for is that cleaning robots will be something that people can build and program themselves from trusted parts, but considering how that hasn't worked out for most of the recent tech in our lives today I'm not encouraged. No one I know is using a cell phone, a smart TV, or a modern game console that they built themselves. Most people feel that they are incapable of even putting a simple camera on their own front door that doesn't also hand their data over to amazon and to the police.

Until new technology can be truly owned by the people who pay for it, and isn't used against the buyer for someone else's interests I'll be skeptical of every new device and gadget they try to sell us.
I bought a second Pixel 5 after breaking mine because I loved the screen size. The current model at the time went back to a bigger screen.
The disclosure timeline section is worth a read of itself:

> 2023-11-14 Quarkslab replied to the prior requests and commentary from various vendors as follows:
Stated that the blog post about the issues would contain the technical report submitted to the disclosure coordination forum and a detailed timeline of the relevant events in the disclosure process. It would include proof-of-concept code to trigger vulnerabilities 1 to 7 but NOT exploit code. Reiterated that the purpose of reporting the vulnerabilities was to help vendors identify and fix them, not to debate about the editorial policies for Quarkslab research work.
scares over LGBTQ+ content

Indeed, but also aggressively pushing that kind of content in the first place
> can you imagine a car company controlling the fuel you put in your car, the tires you buy, the repair shops you use

Assuming a slightly generous definition of "the fuel you put in your car," you've just described a lease.
This is a commit that changes the now-defunct Zig compiler written in C++ to be careful when it calls malloc. So it has nothing to do with the semantics of the Zig language or the compatibility of zero-sized Zig slices with Rust, C, or C++ APIs.
> Q: Why is the quality of your work worse?

> A: Because I am very, very smrt and engineering is for babies.

Lol. Sounds like someone was very upset about being called "not a real engineer".
Some people, like me, prefer the stimulation of cities to the quietness of the countryside. And city dwellers have a lower environmental footprint than rural people (in the West), because of efficiency in transport, recycling/treatment and land use. It's not a mystery, you can find dozens of sources in a second work your favourite search engine.
> a couple people were confused how banks were involved in the matter, and thought the banks were losing money somehow. They definitely aren't.

I agree that banks are not losing money by participating in PE deals. What else do we need to get on the same page on?
Incels are low on extraversion, high on neuroticism, not open to experience, low on agreeableness, low on conscientiousness.

If you had those traits during a winter in 10,000 BC, from the moment you started complaining about the cold, and being pessimistic about the upcoming mammoth hunt, and such... the tribe would not be as tolerant as our modern society.
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Not exactly a launcher but Everything by Voidtools is the fastest way to find anything on windows. You get search results while typing, it becomes an essential utility after using it once.
Part of the reason VC's are more comfortable investing in founders who have had exits already is they know the founder will be less tempted to take a $5M acquisition offer because he already has a decent amount of cash. Founders who have already had one liquidity event are more aligned with the VC's goals: swing for the fences — don't play it safe to make sure you can pay off your house.
It's obviously too late to change this in Rust's case, but I wonder whether being able to differentiate between None and the empty slice is actually a necessary property in general?

There are a bunch of languages where empty arrays are "falsy", and in those it's not recommendable to use the two to differentiate valid states. Feels like the same could apply here
Keep in mind that the "11%" applies to the fully implemented Brotli compression algorithm. Bounds-checks are a small part of that.

If you write a micro-benchmark for only bounds-checks, you'd see the larger difference more inline with the "125%"
I get a random series of letters that 'sound ok' captchas, ie "surfipol".
Which means they know i know they know what I'm using.
You don't need to be an "IT Genius" to host.
Yeah just because it's labor intensive doesn't mean it's good.

Im sure both App stores have lot of automated tests. But I've submitted a lot of apps and the feedback from Apple is much more specific and from humans.

I agree it's very annoying, often complaining about things that are explained in submission notes.

But if I submit and do around 5-10 updates per year that seems highly unlikely it covers their salary cost.
You've just summarized the abstract, which summarizes the entire article and barely exceeds a few sentences.
And anyone on Apple's scale is paying orders of magnitude less than that, even through Amazon.
But I don't need a lot of alternatives, just the better ones (for example, Ueli is that crazed example of using the whole browser for an app launcher)
By this definition everything is a monopoly in an arbitrary constrained environment.

Toyota is a monopoly for RAV4 manufacture. Can you get a RAV4 from Mercedes? Monopoly!
2x100 + 1x10 + 0x0, 1x100 + 2x10 + 0x0
Getting my degree in university, I've had a feeling like this during every exam season.
At first you have tunnel vision and a clear goal and you study for hours everyday for your exams.

Once they are over, it's like there's a weird purposeless feeling. To me it felt like I didn't know what to do with myself because all I had done before was studying so hard. I felt like I didn't know what to do for fun or what I even did in my free time before the exam season.

Obviously I'm exaggerating a bit and after a few days or so that feeling wears off. But it is a taste of how it may feel after getting the degree.
Which then means not going yellow or red technically constitutes fraud.
These explicit checks are basically what I mean by "convincing the compiler" (and sometimes, it isn't quite convinced!) - Yeah. Not fun at all.

Especially in Java, because "the assembly" can change as the JIT evolves. What is optimized today may not be tomorrow.
Strobing lights can trigger migraines, which can cause nausea.
More useful than my uses. I just sat in awe it could play audio from two sources at a time, with independent volumes and all, which was unheard of at the time.
But more “distance” between the two might be better, like, copying some value-like objects and doing the operation on that and copying back the result is much safer, than passing pointers between the two worlds. And this change might push the balance a bit to this side.
Metaphorically speaking, bits do rot, this is an expression for software stopping to work as the environment changes over time: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/B/bit-rot.html
> There are certain things I could do which would make me mean or disrespectful to you, like to make a parody of your work, but none of them go so far in being immoral that you should have any legal power to stop me from doing them.

Being mean is not and should not in general be a crime. There is asshole-immorality and should-be-illegal-immorality. In certain extreme circumstances, being mean is a crime (insult, extortion, harrassment, slander etc.), but it is not in general. Just consider parody, it is in often mean, from a plain view, but it is generally fair use.
I mean, if you were self-distributing your iOS app right now instead of having Apple do it, and you had to look up how much transferring data in the terabytes costs, you'd just use Cloudflare R2 instead.

I'd be willing to bet that, all things being equal, most apps would save money if the developers were self-distributing them instead of using the App Store.
how do you find Windows language settings via Everything?
I didn't look at the website, but seriously? Only Windows? What world is the author living in? Are they mentally trapped in 2001 or something? Any chat program that doesn't work on smartphones is dead in the water these days.
There are tons of these devices, I got one for $10 or so, it's the size of a mobile phone and comes with a full keyboard, trackpad, media keys, mouse keys, etc.
They also like their friends and family members alive and well.
Indeed, it's not a good article. It is low on actual information about causes, just one sentence, it is low on context and comparison, and spends time talking about other issues.

It is IMHO pushing a point of view that it hopes to confirm readers' current opinions.
Neat! Very handy for looking up issues remotely. It has a dependency on firefox, but on systems that have Nix, that shouldn't be too much of a problem.
One could take that more as to how effective American Exceptionalism propaganda is and how badly the U.S. messed up South and Central America between 1890 and 1980. Things often look better when looking in from the outside, after all.
Wouldn't those guys inspire some people to spend huge amounts of time researching, stock-picking companies you can understand with moats and good management teams, trying to buy when blood in the water, oddly favor junk food, etc.?

Jack Bogle would have you park it in a balance of broad index funds, and generally don't touch it, nor even think about it:

https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Bogleheads%C2%AE_investment_...
Er...freedom?
The results are significantly behind other languages, in part because of instruction sequences that Java users cannot use. I agree that it's unfortunate to add an additional disadvantage, and this one seems particularly brutal, because people who write automated trading systems commonly use Unsafe to emulate arrays of structs, and MemorySegment is not a good substitute.
Yes they have, but you can always just go a “scope” higher, and instead of doing a loop that calls out to FFI, you call out to a loop itself.
Just don't make something so complicated just to boot an OS. The damn thing is an operating system on its own now.
Would also explain why they were silent afterwards and took the loss sitting down; NSLs are scary stuff (what a democracy! --sorry, republic).
Ah so you do!

Your latency numbers for OpenAI (and Azure's equivalents) seem really high, I run time to first token tests and I see much better numbers!

(Also are those numbers average, p50, p99, etc? I'd honestly expect a box plot to really see what is going on!)
At this time of year, during daylight, the sun is mostly in the south in France. The journey is south-easterly and takes 5 hours, so the right side is sunny for most of the journey!
This may be the funniest and saddest thing I've read all year.

So $MEGACORP abuses their absolute monopolistic position in the market to underhandedly negotiate with book publishers and force their hand into working the way $MEGACORP wants: in order to gain access to $MEGACORPs completely dominated (but technically not a monopoly*) audience who wishes to buy books in a convenient way online, book publishers must bow down to $MEGACORP and pay the tax. Meanwhile, everyone else who sells books through alternative avenues is decimated because the audience only wants to buy books through $MEGACORP.

And you can replace $MEGACORP with both 'Apple' and 'Amazon', and it is 100% factually accurate. Beautiful. It's fucking turtles eating turtles all the way down.
If Chatterbug does Japanese, then Chatterbug.
A malformed request should not lead to a 500, they should be handled and validated.
Depends, some models are not freely available and in that case you pay very much for access to the model
You are proving my point. So what they charge in business is unrelated to their cost. They are paying for a lot more than they are getting. Exactly my point.

So “having a good business model” is punishable?
> 50MB app is approximately $0.0005

It's probably orders of magnitude smaller than that, like 2e-7 dollars per MB.

People have gotten use to AWS/Azure/GCP pricing when bandwidth is essentially free at scale. You can rent a few 100Gb/s ports for ~$500 to ~$5000 per month depending on location.

But I guess this is best case scenario and not everyone will have the capital/clout to colocate at POPs.
>Using your analogy, it's like minimum wage laws prevented open source software from existing because contributors need to be paid minimum wage.

I'd say it's different, either you work directly on an open source project and you know the license your work is under, or you license your own work to be/not be allowed to be used by for-profit companies.

>More generally, the issues of artificial scarcity get worse as well, since now the models are no longer an abundant resource, but one controlled and restricted for profit.

Sure but that should be done on a higher level, that takes on copyright largely instead of just letting artists and writers be screwed over. We are currently in a situation that only benefits one party anyway.