skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>US States .. states in other G20 countries not so much.

the article is about the U.S? Not sure what point you are trying to make.

I'm going to have to say there is something fishy about that quote - unfortunately
https://usafacts.org/articles/what-are-prison-work-programs-...

I mean if it's 800,000 are forced to work it means that just about every employed prisoner is forced to work.
This might be changing the meaning of forced.

There is force where you get moved out on a chain gang in the morning and brought home at night.

There is force where you get told if you don't work we will report to the parole board you refused to work and you won't get your parole at the hearing.

there is force where your family isn't giving you any money and so you need to work to make money.

But while there are lots of people who do not want to work at the jobs available because they suck and are dehumanizing there are obviously jobs that people do want and will compete for.
thou, the question is, wheather you can buy a friendship with the money. the answer is probably, no, hence it's not worth it.
Same here. The title reminded me of that time when someone turned their dead cat (and apparently various other animals since) into a drone.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36954689
From [0],

Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 17 U.S.C. § 106 and 17 U.S.C. § 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include:

1. the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
2. the nature of the copyrighted work;
3. the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
4. the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.

The fact that a work is unpublished shall not itself bar a finding of fair use if such finding is made upon consideration of all the above factors

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Let's polish over the "scholarship, or research" clause for a moment, because none of the commercial entities are doing it for research. Assuming the fair use clause didn't fail there, let's focus on two important points:

3. the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
4. the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.

First of all, an LLM remembers almost all of its training material verbatim, or almost verbatim, which is undoubtedly a substantial amount of the work ingested*, and secondly, the effect of such systems on the whole market or job ecosystems is disruptive. You can create something in the style of someone from your couch for free or $10/mo.

Whatever you do, you can create derivative works of the ingested works, or derivative works containing ingested parts verbatim at great speed with this "Shiny LLM thing".

A human neither can ingest that amount of information, nor retain all of it that perfectly, hence limiting the inspiration from these works, and forces one to add their own original ideas or inspirations rooted in other sensory inputs (feelings, sight, own experiences, etc.), not reducing the value of the work used, or not damaging the creator of the work the creator got inspiration.

Incidentally, we have a word for cases this inspiration gets a bit too far: "plagiarism".

From that point, an LLM, which remembers everything verbatim and mixing them together is arguably making plagiarism from many sources to create their own works, while being unable to cite them accurately. A very useful property, indeed.

*: I know how an LLM stores its data in its weights, but even without the data itself, the weights can construct the training data verbatim in many cases, so it stores its training data. Not in its original form, but in a derivative and reversible form, not unlike compression.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use#U.S._fair_use_factors
You're right that it's not there yet, but it's scarily close.

I used a generative AI music tool to create ~1 minute snippets of fully mixed music. The tool offers 2 fields: Lyrics and a style prompt. From the initial audio you can generate continuations from them, creating different branches and there's some syntax to specify structure too ([chorus], [verse], [outro], (instrumental) etc). The quality of the compositions is quite good, though the choices it makes can be rather random just like any generative AI but that isn't always unwelcome.

From there I picked the best and most interesting bits of audio, split them apart those apart into separate tracks (vocals, guitar, percussion) with another AI. At that point I can bring them into a music sequencer, pull them apart, time stretch, rearrange, anything. You can generate an instrumental with a lead guitar, pull it out and sprinkle it through the entire song. Re-spin vocal deliveries, mix and match them.

This is a draft of something I've been working on: https://voca.ro/15yurCvoA9yR

The main drawback is the quality, it's like a mediocre cassette tape recording much of the time and splitting it up into tracks causes some generation loss.
> I think there are really no winners here

As with any bubble, the winners are the people who cashed out at the right time
Of all the things to see the Tether people indicted for on HN,

it's increasing the price of Bitcoin?!
What a mess. The YouTrack system is quite difficult to parse anyways, there are so many related issues and so many products that I get lost. I haven't even bothered creating an issue around this stuff because it's simply easier and faster to downgrade the product at this time. As a long-time paying customer, this entire rollout has felt insulting.
The cost of a legal defence to just have someone read some paperwork and say yay or ney.
The latest updates fix updates of the AI plug-in as far as I can tell.
Modern systems are already BIOS-compromised by the state, powering them up would instantly summon the "termination drones".
To Be Is to Be a Value of a Variable (2006) [pdf]
A while ago I noticed that the full name of the UK currency was "pound sterling" and that "sterling silver" describes relatively high-purity silver. Because of this, I wondered if the coin was supposed to be of equal value to 1 lb of silver, and it turns out, yes: https://web.archive.org/web/20131203201915/http://www.britan...
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.

Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.

Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts.

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

-- Ronald Reagan
The only thing putting Mercedes at risk are previous sentences going heavy handed on ethical security researchers that bothered contacting german companies. You can find some examples online where just "poking" with leaked credentials not unlike OP was not looked favourably upon.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/19/germany_fine_security...

https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/another-...
https://archive.vn/nXxs3
Can the folks on HN guide me on how to learn and master linear programming and create a consulting career out of it?
I've been exposed to linear programming slightly at work and I find this to be powerful technique to solve a lot of problems that are currently written with generic software programming with better results. I feel there is good opportunity to create a consulting career/business out of it, though having the knowledge and expertise is necessary and there aren't lot of good resources on the internet to learn.
Be very careful about comparing TDPs, especially across manufacturers. It doesn't really say anything about real power consumption. The TDP difference is so big it probably represents some real difference in power consumption, but actual measurements are necessary to say anything concrete.
People are different.

You like to move place to place and meet people. Some like to stay in one place, meet people occasionaly and spend more time with their family, hobby (sometimes you can't really take your hobby with you), camp in the wild with your dog etc.
It's a QEMU wrapper. I don't know how is this useful. It might save you 2 minutes. Maybe more with windows 11 because of tpm.
Yes genuine competition is good and all it needs is browser consensus really.
That just sounds like anti computers but few decades ago
This article is trying way, way too hard with its prose, and not hard enough with its content.

A lot of it is "argument by adjective" with phrases like "small, sad, thwarted" having the responsibility for making the case that the author is trying to make.

You could replace all the adjectives with positive ones and change nothing else, and it would make an equally good case for the opposite position.
JetBrains' AI product didn't even function at first for me. I purchased a plan, opened the pane in JetBrains and it gave me some weird error about my account. A day later, it was working but it was very bad. Would insert code all over the place, would regularly fail, and was just terrible compared to Copilot.

I got a refund.
The unrelenting 'Great Betrayal' has killed the dream of the cushy tech job
Ask HN: Google Bard – Usage of Extensions
What is y'all experience with Bard usage, and specifically its extensions such as Google Maps, Flights and so on?

I was able to let it create some interesting custom maps via Bard requests, however info provided by Flights extension was plain wrong in some experiments.

So, I have got mixed feelings from the experience so far.
Texas seized part of the US-Mexico border and blocked federal Border Patrol
Competent management would atcept the report of this and scream about it. That means lawyers taking whoever is at fault to court. That means invoking the contract line to to pay (which they would have put there). That means of course a way to report things like this that any busy doctor can figure out.
> With the rise of AI and its impact on the labor market

Which impact ?
> Auto makers seem obsessed with controlling the spare part market

It is a major source of revenue and allows for markups to be optimized for brand.

A lot of parts are shared across lines within a manufacturer and across manufacturers.

MB wants their customers buying MB parts with an MB markup. Even if it's a Bosch part that is identical in a Ford.
And yet Rider, using the same engine, is lightning fast and has been since the earliest alpha releases. If I were a conspiracy theorist, I’d say that Microsoft keeping VS 32 bit for so long in part to hobble ReSharper.
You get the gist of the benefits—to get to a point where you can "implement JavaScript-style RegEx literals" without too much effort by removing some barriers to implementation—but some of the conceptual specifics in your understanding are off.

> I think what your saying is the following?:¶ The scanner has a "(/" token which triggers dropping into a different scanner/parser for RegExes

Not quite. First, you don't have separate `(/` and `/)` tokens. The `(/` character sequence is the start of a single pattern literal (the same way that if you're parsing JSON, the opening double quote is part of the string literal). What it does is serve as an unambiguous symbol that yes, what we are seeing here is a literal for a PCRE-style pattern. Secondly, you don't have to have a separate scanner. That's sort of the point—supporting "eggular expressions" is easy because tokenizing them is drastically simpler than the hacks regarding context-sensitivity that you must weave into both your parser and scanner (and complicate the scanner–parser contract) if you want conventional unparenthesized literals. Adding support for the parenthesized form to your lexer amounts to just a few lines of code, and not only that, but very simple, very boring code of the same sort that you have elsewhere—easier than the code to support numeric literals, even—whereas the same is distinctly not true if they are allowed to be unparenthesized.

(NB: I mentioned 80/20 before. These "eggexes" are also the good kind of partial implementation: a pure case of forward compatibility—if you support the parenthesized form now, there's nothing stopping you from relaxing the paren constraint in the future and announcing that you now support unparenthesized literals.)

> I don't love the user experience of that, but maybe that's just an aesthetic opinion.

Yeah, aesthetic is right. I actually prefer them parenthesized, anyway, for entirely unrelated reasons. Similar constructions like "foo".bar and [].baz, while technically permitted in the grammars of several languages, raise my hackles. It's no less true concerning literals used for pattern matching. Parens need to be inserted on the lhs of the dot for anyone who wants my approval in code review. As it happens, though, there are benefits to readability on multiple levels (i.e. for both humans and machines).
You give the mechanic an opportunity to cut your brakelines too and they don't do it. It's part of the appliance, it should be accessible. Maybe I was imprecise with open-source, I meant more source-available.
Computers are the worst and should be treated with nothing but disdain and trepidation. Just talk with anyone who has worked with computers for more than an hour.
Hard to answer this question as it largely depends on what you are doing with your VM. This appears to be a wrapper for QEMU and tries to pick reasonable settings to make spinning up new VMs easier.
Was there an oversupply in actually built properties in places people want to live? My understanding is that property prices in major cities are still massively unaffordable
Presumably the reasons why police want to retain a car in a investigation don't apply here. They know who (what) the driver was, and with the telemetry from the vehicle, they can know exactly what happened. They don't need to collect evidence to prove which human was behind the wheel. There's no point searching for drugs or alcohol. They don't need to dust for fingerprints. They don't need to confirm that damage to the vehicle corroborates eyewitness accounts about what collided where.
Now that's annoying. That specs page for the 8700G used to say "ECC Support: Yes (Requires platform support)" three weeks ago. They've since removed it.
Pretty sure there was an agreement in place [1]:

> This blueprint would be elaborated on in the Hong Kong Basic Law (the post-handover regional constitution) and the central government's policies for the territory were to remain unchanged for a period of 50 years after 1997.

We should have simply never have handed it back over to China and allowed Hong Kong to remain independent. From what I understand, it was some compromise that involved the Royal Family.

> As a brit, much as my colonial arse would love this to be true [..]

I'm not going to paint a picture that British colonisation was all good, but some Countries had it better. In recent times the people of Hong Kong and Burma (Myanmar) have begged for British intervention.

> [..] the UK of the 80/90s is not the UK of today. For better or worse.

I would love to disagree with you, but I can't. I suspect most Countries are in precisely the same place, where the average person feels as though things have gotten worse.

I think the way to solve it would be to take a near-term economic down-turn and solve our fundamental issues: the interest on debt alone is astronomical, local governments need cleaning up (if only people knew the half of how corrupt they are), large investment into local security (military, NHS, energy, food, manufacturing), etc, etc. The next 20-40 years would be miserable but we would emerge strong.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-British_Joint_Declaration
Chris Date and the Relational Model (2014)
On MacOS HistoryHound gives you a searchable index of webpage content, though it doesn't store the full contents of pages in a way that can be viewed offline.

https://www.stclairsoft.com/HistoryHound/
Ask HN: How to pass OpenAI token securely to website?
I'm just doing a project requiring a user's OpenAI token (using mine will be expensive), but I expect low conversion because most people think I want to steal their tokens. How do we guarantee the user that nothing wrong will happen with their tokens?
That’s one confusing URL.
at least historically handhelds can't be too expensive if they want to archive wide success

M2 Max isn't available on the free market (as part) but if it where it likely alone would cost noticable more then what a full handheld can afford to cost
There actually are A320s with integrated airstairs, though it isn't as common as it is for 737s.
The state today: https://lwn.net/Articles/946526/
Those machines are vectorized, batch computers. They process data in an entirely different way and also lack the required IOs. I doubt Doom on an ASR-33 would be much fun.
You still have to be reasonably intelligent to be personally well-organized, which is a key component. Also, getting a company (or just your group) organized and maintaining task-focus is definitely a type of talent. So yeah, you don't have to be a math genius or software expert to be the next Steve Jobs, you just need find a lot of Wozniaks who will do what you tell them and let you keep most of the money. Which is extremely difficult.
I played music from a young age, studied Jazz and honestly, the hope of making a decent career out of music died about 50 years ago with the advent of recordings and high quality audio equipment, once live musicians were no longer required to have music in commercial settings, it was over because the average punter, who knows really nothing about art, couldn't give a shit what they're listening too. The side effect here is that with this change, the incentive for brilliant musicians to exist died too, and so we're left with the seriously diminished music we listen too today.

When is the last time you heard a Stan Getz equivalent?

Maybe there is still some more raping to be done by "the industry", but the whole scene has been raped and pillaged quite devastatingly already.

There honestly seems to be a strong and enduring resurgence in live music popularity, which IMO is exciting, and I think will continue as the quality of commercial music just seems to go down the toilet year on year.

The other issue generative AI will have is the same problem most musicians have, people like familiarity, you can making incredible music and 99% of ears will have no interest in it because it's unrelated to anything they, or they're fiends have listened too while going on that summer road trip in college. Why do people still listen to Vanilla Ice?

Music is a wonderful, creative, artistic pursuit, just don't expect to make too much money out of it, and you'll be in line with reality. I play guitar for my son when he can't sleep, and it's the most rewarding thing I've ever done musically.
Who'll be buyer for 2B worth of tether?
IKEA is a rather famous "non profit". Patagonia recently became another "non profit" for tax and inheritance purposes.
I used to teach at a boot camp and it can be really good if you choose the right one. In person full time showed the best results vs online and part time. You can do all the same learning on your own but the bootcamp accelerates the learning and a good one will also help you with a job with networking and interview prep.
This is just wrong. Almost none of the IDEs have community editions, EXCEPT IntelliJ and Pycharm…
I think autonomous vehicles are exceptional occasion to apply similar practices to commercial airlines.

The reason it could not be done with cars is the drivers. Drivers simply cannot be held to the same standard as commercial pilots or staff.

Remove the driver from the equation and it might just be possible to replicate the process.

That assumes regulation that will require "operators" to provide truthful reporting of accidents.
Learning to program is 95% being frustrated and 5% feeling amazing when you've done what you set out to do.

Try online courses first and see if the 5% is there. It's going to be an uphill battle otherwise.
Law enforcement is probably gonna want to avoid the chance of that wallet being backed up somewhere else and suddenly showing up empty.
> Should all our financial systems be open source too?

Yes.
> Do people need to know who the bearded man is on the front of it as well?

Robert V. Barron, right? ;P
A website from French Antarctica? Cool.
as long as you don't run into any bios issues it should work as good as recent AMD laptops (which AFIK work fine if you use a recent stable kernel)
Looks like this tries to use better default settings for qemu, which doesn't always have good defaults.

I think that is useful practically, as a learning tool, and as a repository of recommended settings.
I'm in R&D and am constantly reminded by other coders around me that I'm not very smart, but these smarter people are constantly doing predictable and suboptimal things in their very complicated ways and getting poor results, over and over and over.

I think I've got suckered into a clickbait substack and a circular discussion on HN to cause various people to respond each in their own silos, asserting their own worth either as self-assigned intelligent or self-assigned stupid people.

I'm a stupid person (not least for falling for that) but I get paid to think uncommon things, which turns out to be not only marketable but productive. Some of what the substack invokes is perfectly true: I get by on determination and crunch, to the point that I have to watch it (right now I'm experiencing health issues which I think trace back to the amount of crunch I can't resist doing, out of fear.)

I daresay there's usefulness in reminding people not to just pursue the 'highest intelligence' path. From where I'm standing that's a ridiculous mistake. Higher intelligence can quite easily give rise to high rationalization and rigid thinking. This is probably why some tech folks go in for self-destructive behaviors like getting wacked out on ketamine in the belief that it will increase their brain plasticity. I don't get to do that stuff with drug abuse so I have to go about it in simpler, experiential ways.

It's a 'right tool for the right job' situation. It's not broadly useful to be hyper intelligent or hyper plastic. Willingness to try and ability to care about the situation go a long, long way, and that's very much the purview of this substack post. Not a bad summary, I'd say.
This reminds me of the case discussed in the movie Bridge of Spies. There were multiple impacts. One side sees one accident, starting and the first impact and ending at the second. The other sees two distinct accidents, one impact and a second separate impact rather disconnected from the first. Crashes are messy. They are always up for interpretation. That is the reality of driving. Only in hindsight can we apply the arbitrary legal rules to allocate blame. The reality is almost always that everyone is at least partially at fault.
Other implants like the Utah array have killed just as many animals to be honest. People are upset because the monkeys seem intelligent, are cute and Elon is connected to the company. They stick their head in the sand the moment you mention that in some parts of the world this type of monkeys are kill-on-sight pests beaten to death in droves by people with sticks.
Saying we’re going to focus on X is different from saying well half ass X.

“we are confident”

It they don’t think it’s necessary that means they don’t think it’s important or needs to be executed well.