skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's a statement of fact: it has been a non-issue for me.

Yes...

> If you're like me, it's statistically reasonable to assume it will be a non-issue for you too.

No! This simply does not follow from the first statement, statistically or otherwise.

You and I might or might not be fine; you having been fine for 100 hours on the same configuration just offers next-to-zero predictive power for that.
Yeah, no sock puppet here. This is the link
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39757978
Paid internships are common, and LLMs are so much cheaper than humans they might as well be free.

The prices on OpenAI's website are listed per million tokens, the cheaper model can read a typical book for less than the cost of that book in paperback, second hand, during a closing down discount sale, and even the fancy model is still in range of a cheap second-hand paperback (just not during a closing-down sale) for reading and just about the price of a new cheap paperback for writing — cheap enough it might as well be free.

Plus, they're an intern at everything all at once. You don't get to hire someone who has a late-degree-level grasp of programming (in every major programming language at the same time) and genetics and law and physics and medicine and who has a business-level grasp of all the most common written languages on Earth — there is no such human.

(If and when we can make an AI, be it an LLM or otherwise, which can act at the level of a senior in whichever field it was trained on, even if that training takes a gigawatt-year to compute per field, and even if inference costs 100 kW just to reach human output speed, it's going to seriously mess up the whole world economy; right now it's mainly messing up the economic incentives to hire people fresh from university while boosting the amount of simple stuff that actually gets done because normal people and not just business can now also afford to hire the weird intern).

> and might even grow to good hires.

Even if they do, will you be the one to hire them?

Also, ChatGPT has so far existed for about as long as I spent on my (paid) year in industry that formed part of my degree. It wasn't called an internship, but it basically was. In that time, the models have grown and improved significantly, suggesting (but not proving, because induction doesn't do that) that they will continue to grow and improve.
I think the majority of explosives are used for fireworks and mining, but I honestly have no idea how to get an accurate count of explosives set off in mining vs. explosives set off in warfare.
And on top of that, can obviously recognize parrots in the video thumbnails.
At first I assumed this would finally blocked auto-generated garbage SEO spam results. But it seems to just list a bunch of AI art generators and other pretty useful content.

This seems more like a whitelist tbh.
ast-grep is great too, we've learned a lot from it. If you like yaml, you should definitely try ast-grep.

The main area GritQL shines is in taking simpler transformation patterns and composing them into complex migrations. For example, the OpenAI migration was built by incrementally handling the different edge cases we've seen in the wild: https://github.com/getgrit/stdlib/blob/main/.grit/patterns/p...
The HR system has (had?) “abd” as an education level/degree between MS and PhD
I remember what ten years ago in San Francisco the cops found a guy shot to death in Bayview. Cops suspicion was he broke into the wrong car and a gang member shot him.

Guy had been arrested over a hundred times for breaking into cars in the previous couple of years. So this guy was breaking into several cars a day every day for years and only stopped when someone shot him.

I definitely feel that old school habitual criminal laws were over strict and subject to abuse. But not having them at all is also bad.
Google is big enough to avoid innovators dilemma. You just create a new company and leave it alone.

I reckon it is more that you needed special circumstances and series
of events to become OpenAI. Not just cash and smart people.
I have about fifty private github repos and hundreds more public github repos (half of them forks of other public repos). I've verified that none of my private repos are in the dataset, and all of my public repos are.

I was expecting to see at least one repo that shouldn't be there depending on when the dataset was put together. In 2015 I changed a repo from public to private, which I think might suggest that the dataset was built after 2015 since my now private repo isn't in the dataset?
> If a public repo does not have a license, it does not mean it free to copy and distribute.

Whether or not it is free to copy and distribute, it should be free to copy and distribute. (My opinion is that copyright is no good; if the file is public then you should be allowed to copy and distribute it.)

> If a private repo has an open source license like MIT, then the crawler has a right to copy and distribute that repo. Regardless if it has authorization to access the repo or not.

I should not think so. The license would only apply if you have a copy of it anyways. If you are not authorized to access it because it is private, then you would have to get a copy from somewhere else, and if nobody else is providing a copy, that shouldn't give you the right to unauthorized access. However, if it has been done, then it is done, so now there is a copy, and the license (if it is a license that allows copying it in this way) would authorize you to continue to use and distribute the copy that you have.
> Basically, you tell your AI what you want to do, and it does the computer work for you, showing the results the way you like. You won't have to dig through tons of useless apps anymore. It'll search, sort, and create feeds for you. This is what scares advertisers the most

Not just advertisers. There isn't much point in creating any sort of fun content on the web if it never actually gets seen by human eyes, but instead is just regurgitated into a slurry.
Well you can’t use it as a vaccine since there would be no hiv to preemptively excise.
I just use cloudflare tunnels (cloudflared) - don't have to install any certificates, it's all handled by cloudflare. Yes, it exposes globally, but that's often convenient to share a link to my dev with colleagues. And it has been fast enough. Downside is that you need internet connectivity.
a judge can compel you to do cryptographic math in your head after you have forgotten the private key? the entirety of reaching into peoples minds with law is nonsense
I Hate Conventional Commits (2021)
Even though they were only my public repos in there, I really don't like this being opt out instead of opt in, especially since some of those repositories were not under fully permissive licenses
Certainly. Once you have a deterministic environment, the ability to replay execution is basically free.

In fact, what has been described is basically the replay engine in a record-replay system which “runs” the recorded execution of a non-deterministic system in a deterministic mode to replay the exact same execution. As such, it retains the same benefits available to any replay. The key here is that you can “bypass” the record step since you are already running in the replay engine from the start.
People should stop pretending Apple products are secure in any sense of the word. Pegasus software and similar have been working just fine on iPhone. For literal _years_.

Apple is fundamentally incapable and more to the point unwilling, to protect the users from external threats but especially from Apple itself. They are abusing their control over iOS and strip mining the users for data regardless.
Guys, Apple (and others) have gone too far for too long with the monopolistic practices.

This has to stop at some point, this is way too detrimental for the whole software ecosystem. They simply have too much power.

The bullshit about the necessity of security warning for non-nerds family members is FUD.
PDF.js came out of Mozilla, not Foxit.
ebike
.085%. 1% of 10T is 100B. Big numbers are big.
Is the 2B from commission? At what percentage of the whole being laundered? I'm a bit confused as to how exactly BC plays into this?
Shareholder value is fine. Share seller value is what is targeted.
There are specific latent reservoirs the HIV hides in. It wouldn’t need to get every cell in the body, just have a favorable probability distribution to hit the reservoirs.
Blocking any .ai domain seems completely off the mark. I thought this would be sites which have obviously AI generated content.
"a Rust CLI" - "C 96.5% Rust 1.4%"

Not that I'm complaining ;)

Is it a new way to market a C tool?
It takes decades to figure out that playing the game under layers and layers of management in mega corps - is equivalent to undervaluing yourself.
Have you ever found this quote?

> These findings, combined with earlier results on synthetic imagery, audio, and video, imply that technologies are reducing the cost of generating fake content and waging disinformation campaigns.

That paragraph comes from this [1] now-deleted blog post from OpenAI in 2019 when they decided not to release GPT-2 due to "concerns about malicious applications of the technology". It's hard to argue that GPT and friends are not "tools to generate spam" when the researchers themselves argued that point years ago.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20190214171619/https://blog.opena...
C++ itself seems to be working pretty hard year after year on this task of killing C++ with endless half baked features that fail to address real problems
Help me understand.
Interior ministry looking to turn people's smartphones into pocket sirens
I notice Austria an France seem to have a lot of such dumb taxes in common. I guess it must be to feed those generous welfare systems. But these taxes are basically robbing Peter to pay ... Peter.
So let me understand this.

Step 1) "Software Heritage" crawls the web (not only Github; they definitely crawl ANY gitlab instances they find online among practically everything else).
They "store" ANY type of source code, irregardless of the license of that code. They admit as much in their own FAQ ( https://www.softwareheritage.org/faq/#24_What_is_the_policy_... ) :

> Software Heritage archives everything that is publicly available, without preliminary tests or checks [for LICENSE file or others]. You are responsible for checking whether the source code you find in the archive can be reused, and under which terms.

Step 2) "Hugging Face" uses the Software Heritage dataset to build some AI training dataset ("The Stack"), again, completely ignoring licensing. You apparently have to manually opt-out if you don't want your COPYRIGHTED source code to be included there. But as far as I can see, opting out is only considered AT ALL for Github repositories via https://huggingface.co/datasets/bigcode/the-stack-v2 . If you have your source code published outside Github, then your code appears to be used, period.

> The Stack v2 is a collection of source code from repositories with various licenses. Any use of all or part of the code gathered in The Stack v2 must abide by the terms of the original licenses [...]

Step 3) Eventually and inevitably someone releases some model trained on this dataset, ignoring licensing again.

Step 4) Someone uses code generated from such chatbot, unknowingly violating everything software license known to man.

Step 5) ???

Step 6) Profit!

Where do these "Software Heritage" guys mention which user-agent their crawler is using so that I can permanently ban them from my websites?

At least archive.org does that and they have a much nicer way to request exclusion from their archive.
I'm glad it worked for you and was easy to set up. If you run into any trouble or have any feature requests, please file an issue on github!
Is it possible to introduce a trial? I'd want to make sure that the features work as described and am curious how smooth this works when not using your Macbook often. Like whether it will sync them in the background when the laptop is closed. Should I simply buy and go for a refund via Apple if it doesn't work out? Though I feel like this might be worse for you.

Tried it out just now as a free user and it synced thousands of completed reminders as `- [x] ...` for each. It's hard to make the jump to pay for this when I cannot test it out fully.
Exactly. The alleged superior safety of Apple products is basically a myth.

They are not even able (or willing) to curate their own store from blatant scams.
US battery storage smashes deployment records in Q4 2023
Do you happen to still have that email? I'd like to search my inbox for anything similar, and would love some snippets to search for.

Edit: I asked this before the parent commenter included the contents of the email. Thanks parent commenter!
The question directly above is about using AI as to enhance the content-blocking technology, not about using blocking technology to target AI content.
Report: https://www.woodmac.com/industry/power-and-renewables/us-ene...
> So what really happened? Most likely little quality control, garbage copy cats running around and now there is an insurmountable amount of spam.

That, and there isn't a lot of space for real innovation within the "GPT" framework that OpenAI provides. Most of what's available in their store is literally just prepackaged prompts, and there's only so much that can accomplish. You can ask a chatbot to pretend to be an expert in a topic all day, but that won't actually make it into one.

If Apple's App Store were just a form you filled out to release versions of Flappy Bird with new graphics or whatever, that'd fail too. Developers need conceptual "space" to innovate; I'm not convinced that's possible when the interface (a chat window) and the back end (a language model) are both set in stone by the platform.
> The SLS had numerous technical issues throughout 2022

And then it launched in 2022. The point if you look at a breakdown of days late the percentage looks very different than if you count moving the launch date back 1 week just as important as moving it back a year.

Talking about number of delays is kind of silly when there’s orders of magnitude between the longest delay and the shortest.

> from 2021

The specific example I was thinking was more recent than the 2021 tweet. He’s made the comment several times in various contexts, thus people being reasonably concerned about the companies finances.
I went through my private repos and the only one I found was one where I had forked a project, called `documentation`, and my fork made it into the Software Heritage archive. Sometime between then and now I deleted my fork and cloned a private repo with the same name. I confirmed the Software Heritage archive only has the one that was public and not the private one. I feel like we'd be hearing much louder alarm bells if the Software Heritage archive included private code given how many people rely on private GitHub repos.
Also I refused to learn basic traffic rules and now I keep ending up in accidents. I didn't need to know traffic rules when walking! I was told walking but faster with more capacity to transport cargo >:(
QAM, a pretty core piece of radio tech: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrature_amplitude_modulatio...
That is not an excuse to make it even more insecure, though.
Heard the following joke a while back, seems pertinent:

Gaia making a mental note: "Hmm. The jury is definitely out on whether it's a good idea to combine large fore-brains with opposable thumbs.."
> Corporations should only return cash to investors (via dividend or stock buyback) if they do not have a high yield way to invest the money internally.

*It should be noted that this is true due to the tax code rather than some underlying economic principle. Dividends are taxable whereas reinvesting is a tax deduction.
> No! This simply does not follow from the first statement, statistically or otherwise.

> You and I might or might not be fine; you having been fine for 100 hours on the same configuration just offers next-to-zero predictive power for that.

You're missing the forest for the trees here.

It is predictive ON AVERAGE. I don't care about the worst case like you do: I only care about the expected case. If I died when my filesystem got corrupted... I would hope it's obvious I wouldn't approach it this way.

Adding to this: my laptop has this btrfs bug right now. I'm not going to do anything about it, because it's not worth 20 minutes of my time to rebuild my kernel for a bug that is unlikely to bite before I get the fix in 6.9-rc1, and would only cost me 30 minutes of time in the worst case if it did.

I'll update if it bites me. I've bet on much worse poker hands :)
I agree that a realistic error rate for this particular bug is much lower than 1 in 1000 hours (or it would have long been caught by others).

But that makes your evidence of 100 error-free hours even less useful to make any predictions about stability!
> They need tons more training but no one wants to pay for that.

No one agrees on what type of training they need.

> We underfund police compared to other OECD nations.

This is just not true. The US spends 32 billion dollars on policing[0] while the UK spends 433 million euros[1]. Even if adjusted for PPP that still massively puts the US ahead.

[0] https://www.lexipol.com/resources/blog/2023-doj-budget-highl...

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-funding-for-...
apologies if this should be a discussion/issue/whatever but:

Do you envision going up against CodeQL and/or <https://www.jetbrains.com/help/qodana/about-qodana.html> by making semantic information available to the ast nodes? OT1H, I can imagine it could be an overwhelming increase in project scope, but OTOH it could also truly lead to some stunning transformation patterns

e.g. https://github.com/github/codeql/blob/v1.27.0/java/ql/exampl... or even more "textual" semantics such as

var foo = "hello".substring(1); // knowing "foo" is a String

Since you already have GitLab on your docs page, if I could pay for CodeQL over on GL that would be a game changer IMHO
I don't have any concussions as far as I know, but my brain feels like this sometimes. I wake up and it just feels empty, there's very minimal internal monologue and it feels hard to recall anything of note. I've taken to loading up a bunch of Jeopardy questions into Anki and then doing 50 or 100 random questions over a period of a few minutes, and that seems to get my brain turned on and the inner monologue comes back, and I can recall things. I'd love to know why this happens.
Google did it and it's fine.

You know Russia's Supreme Court has declared that "the international LGBT public movement" is an extremist organisation and banned its activities across the country. And they already start to detain people because they worked at gay bar.

Once Kremlin pass a law to report all LGBTQ people to authorities should Apple obey as well?

PS: Have Grindr on your phone? Welcome to Gulag!
Beautiful and well written article. Unfortunately I made a small mistake in the second quizz :P
Hi, glad you like it!

Version 1.1.0 just shipped that allows you to specify a Global Filter; only Tasks containing the filter will be synced if that's what you're after? Or would you like to exclude notes from being included based on properties at the beginning of the document?
Have you figured out if there is a way to prevent them from doing that? The email I got, which I assume is similar, was suspiciously lacking a "just GTFO and leave my website alone" option.
Not all of us do, bro.
The C is all generated parsers, all our actual coding is done in Rust.
>>The Ministry of the Interior wants emergency messages delivered to people's phones in a way that would bypass silent mode. <<

exactly this is why i ripped the speakers from my phone, and use an earpiece
I just upgraded the tool at https://observablehq.com/@simonw/github-public-repo-history to use lowercase comparisons (previously it was case sensitive) so it's worth having another look.
Alongside this, I have found that Google Scholar's search has become noticeably worse in the last year or so. I can search for an author's name and a few keywords from a paper title and it won't show up, even if the paper has like 5000 citations.
Can someone recommend an app for ipad that can read PDFs? I want to be able to bookmark using my browser but read it on my ipad. Sort of like "Save to pocket" extension.
> The matter is, none of the languages, especially the so-called “C++ killers” give any real advantage over C++ in the modern world.

To you. There are pleeenty of people who want to write performant code in a safe manner.
The tricky part is that the ongoing training of ever-more-interesting generative AI *depends* on the ongoing labor of artists.

Proponents of the current economic model like to frame the artist rejection of AI as an obvious case of Luddism. Of course the artists reject this, it threatens their economic station! And: it's not even wrong.

But, it is a high modernist foible: at some point the raw resource is fully exploited and the wave of companies that rode high on its vast-but-unrenewable quantity will reckon with reality. Their businesses are unsustainable (who could have foreseen it!).

In the mean time, artists won't disappear. Most likely what will happen is that they will continue to subsist - they are essential in this economic loop, whether fairly compensated for their labor or not - but with an even lower economic posture than before.

I don't think there is a moral crisis here, but an economic one. Incidentally, an injustice is perpetrated upon an entire class of laborers. I'll leave it to others to decide the morality of that, considering all the trade-offs.
> That parrot looks almost exactly like a 4 year old using youtube.

I've heard people describing parrots like hyperactive 4-5 year olds so many times... it's nice to see that in practice lol. It must be a great pet, I could never deal with the constant pooping though. Imagine having to deal with them making a mess every 30 minutes for 70 years. How many poops even is that? Yikes.
> None of these questions have a definite answer without context.

This is a pretty annoying thing to do considering someone took the time to read through all this.

Also not original, I’ve seen posts in here like this 3 times already
The question is, would the craft now need help from reaction wheels to offset the inertia from the moving print head / paper feed? Or would there need to be a special version of the printer firmware that kept track of its movement so it could always impart equal but opposite inertia?
Bevy is written in Rust and according to https://github.com/rive-app/rive-bevy/, the backend used for the integration uses Vello (also Rust), not the Rive renderer. Could be that integrating Vello into the C++-based Godot would be finicky. With the Rive renderer open-sourced, maybe both Rive and Godot will see an integration using the Rive renderer?
Great, now bad actors can label child pornography as AI-generated to avoid legal consequences.

This label is worthless IMO. We're close or already at a point where it's impossible to distinguish between real and AI generated content. Any company offering "AI detection" are scammers. It's just plain not possible.
> But why can’t I just quit then? What’s the matter? The matter is, none of the languages, especially the so-called “C++ killers” give any real advantage over C++ in the modern world. All those new languages are mostly focused on holding a programmer on a leash for their own good.

This, very specifically, is the advantage these languages have over C++.

The benefit isn't the universe of things you can do (they're all Turing complete, you can do anything) - it's what the language stops you from doing. This is the thing the C++ committee never understood or at the very least never appreciated.
Neither did Kuwait. Canada, however, did have an increase. Global rates overall did increase.