skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Copyright != an NDA. Copyright is not an agreement between two entities, but a US federal law, with international obligations both ratified and not.

Copyright has fair uses clauses, endless court decisions limiting its use, carve outs for libraries, additional junk like the DMCA and more slapped on top. It's a patchwork of dozens of treaties and laws, spanning hundreds of years.

For example, you can read a book to a room full of kids, you can use copyright materials in comedic skits, you can quote snippets, the list goes on. And again, this is all legislated.

The point? It's complex, and specific usage of copyrighted works infringing or not, can be debatable without intent immediately being malign.

Meanwhile, an NDA covers far, far more than copyright. It may cover discussion and disclosure of everything or anything, including even client lists, trade secrets, work processes, and more. It is signed, and agreed to by both parties involved. Equating "copyright law" to "an NDA" is a non-starter. There's literally zero legal parallel or comparison here.

And as others have mentioned, the intent of the act would be malicious on top of all of this.

I know a lot of people dislike the whole data snag by OpenAI, and have moral or ethical objections to closed models, but thinking anyone would care about this argument if you breach an NDA is a bad idea. No judge would even remotely accept or listen to such chicanery.
It likely comes from the saying similar to this one: "kill a few, you are a murderer. Kill millions, you are a conqueror".

More generally, we tend to view number of causalities in war as a large number, and not as the sum of every tragedies that it represent and that we perceive when fewer people die.
I don’t really understand how this addresses my original point. With iOS I have an entire platform that can’t edit text files. What is supposedly a universal format is just not supported in this OS.

I also saw this point being made elsewhere recently regarding how iPadOS still does not have TextEdit: https://www.macstories.net/stories/not-an-ipad-pro-review/#m...
How to hack every school in the world* [video]
My tip is to re-evaluate why you think you are getting downvoted to better understand your tone and wording rather than assume the downvotes are not warranted.
I think the GP was making a sarcastic point about how much harder it was to confirm assumptions like the 10 digit constant of pi
There are more charitable readings of that article. Did it specify an encoding?
I guess OpenAI makes the hero to villain switch faster than Google as they dropped "don't be evil"
yea, the term "routing" was overlaid by the webheads to describe the handling of an http-request after hitting the first webserver.

this is quite confusing to ppl that deal with "routing protocols", "routing tables" and other stuff that makes the internet work.
You, the user, is inputting variables into their probability algorithm that's resulting in the copyright work. It's just a tool.
I rebuild my timeline thing to use files as the database instead of PostgreSQL.

Having everything as CSV, markdown, GPX etc means that I can use all the excellent software in the world to manipulate data... Or just a text editor. It's a lot easier than writing my own software to manipulate my own database.

It also means that my data will outlive my software without any effort.

And it means that backups are handled by my existing backup software.

I also moved my website to a static site generator earlier. Same reasons. I edit that website for a living, and using Sublime Text instead of a CMS WYSIWYG editor sped up my work dramatically. I can't overstate how much better it made batch edits.

https://github.com/nicbou/timeline
The main question is what will be the Venn overlap between AI Winter 2.0 and Nuclear Winter 1.0?
i struggled with concentration issues, too, after my 4th infection for a few weeks. What i didn't do the last time is to take ACC/NAC (Acetylcysteine) against the cough and slime during the ongoing infection. Its just an expectorant (? I googled the translation. Does this word even exist??).

So, just in a reason of prophylaxis and getting rid of the last coughing, i took acc/nac for a week and I felt an relieve with my concentration issues. Then, just because I'm interested in human body & illness & medicine in general, i saw a few (german) studies that concluded, that ACC/NAC does somehow help with post-covid symptoms.

here is a start for this topic:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7649937/

its an early study, but its just for the start :)

wish you a fast getting-better!
> Everyone? What about the board that fired him,

I meant of the employees, obviously not the board.

Also excluded: all the people who never worked there who think Altman is weird, Elon Musk who is suing them (and probably the New York Times on similar grounds), and the protestors who dropped leaflets on one of his public appearances.

> and all of those who’ve left the company?

Happened after those events; at the time it was so close to being literally employee who signed the letter saying "bring Sam back or we walk" that the rest can be assumed to have been off sick that day even despite the reputation the US has for very limited holidays and getting people to use those holidays for sick leave.

> It seems to me more like those people are leaving who are rightly concerned about the direction things are going, and those people are staying who think that getting rich outweighs ethical – and possibly existential – concerns. Plus maybe those who still believe they can effect a positive change within the company.

Obviously so, I'm only asserting that this doesn't appear to be due to Altman, despite him being CEO.

("Appear to be" is of course doing some heavy lifting here: unless someone wants to literally surveil the company and publish the results, and expect that to be illegal because otherwise it makes NDAs pointless, we're all in the dark).
https://archive.is/Y9EnI
Getting a certain amount (according to their vesting schedule) of stock options, which are worth a substantial amount of money and thus clearly is "good and valuable consideration".
I think with some AI you could reproduce artworks of obscure indie artists who are working right now.

If you were a director at a game company and needed art in that style, it would be cheaper to have the AI do it instead of buying from the artist.

I think this is currently an open question.
It already exists:

* http://www.chaair.org
there is no NDA in Ba Sing Se!
it's possible, but unlikely. The issue is your training examples are essentially a noisy representation of the general function you are trying to get it to learn. Generally any representation that fits too well will be incorporating the noise and that will distort the general function (in the case of NN it'll generally mean memorising the input data). Most function-fitting approaches are vulnerable to this.
> … the video seen by customers, fans, and curious observers is highly misleading.

At least Musk stays consistent.
i got f-all equity, I was flipping burgers for minimum wage.
It is a classic geek fallacy to think you can hack the law with logic tricks.
Why would anyone want to work at such horrible company.
Desalination plants are like many energy production facilities; they have significant ramp-up and ramp-down times. They can't just ramp up more when energy is cheap and ramp down afterwards.

I mean, I broadly agree with you that California should build more desalination plants, I just don't think the marginal price of desalinated water will be free.
This is a pretty good article and for the most part, should be heeded. It's quite rare for the audience of a chart to exclusively be highly-numerate people (and these people, who are often inundated with data, are not immune from being misled by poorly-conceived charts). It's kind of strange that the top-voted comment points to "better" advice while also directly contradicting the article's main point ("dual axis charts can often be a great choice").

I mean, certainly you have the right to add some color but it comes off like you are saying to ignore the article entirely in favor of your alternatives.
If you don't specify an encoding then the claim that "Every device, including ones long gone, and ones not invented yet, can read and edit plain text." is false.

Statements like that clearly shows the author means ASCII is the default everywhere.
Over 15 years ago, I took the time to seriously consider IM2000 and I am still asking today "What if..."
Doesn't the legal fiction of corporations already provide essentially all the cover you need here? Can't you just umbrella things under it?

I can't pretend to be a Japanese legal scholar but at the end of the day both an AI and corporation are just property.
I would think a few work there, not sure about their free time.
Dream Chaser has been a bit of a joke in the aerospace circles I inhabit. It has crushed far more dreams than it has successfully chased... Sierra is possibly one of the worst, most broken aerospace companies to work for in existence, likely number two behind Boeing. If you want to feel good about your job, go read their glassdoor reviews.
I’m going to break rank from everyone else and explicitly say “not clever”. Developers that think that they know how the levels system works are a dime a dozen. It’s both easy and useless to take some acquired-in-passing largely incorrect surface level understanding of a legal mechanic and “pwned with facts and logic!” in whichever way benefits you.
Because of course it was trained on Yt data, but they gain nothing from admitting that openly.
Anyone who has slogged through LAX and almost any major airport in Asia has had the same thoughts.
Related (in my mind, at least):

Notebooks without lines are the plain text files of the analogue world.

No lines to dictate how and what you want to write or draw.
Let’s prove it by contradiction:
Lets say you pick the larger ones and drop the smaller ones every single round, you have lost the probabilistic guarantee of 1/2^k that the authors show because the most frequent words will be the lost frequent in subsequent rounds as well. This is the intuition, the math might be more illuminating.
Not using the ollama API means you have to keep track of context yourself, and run all your stuff in the same box. Hardly ideal.
Indeed, at least Elon and his teams actually accomplished something worthwhile compared to Altman.
Or dotted notebooks which allow the free-form, but help if you do need things to be level , line up etc.
Please just stop. It’s highly unlikely that any relevant part of any reasonably structured NDA has any material relevance to copyright. Why do developers think that they can just intuit this stuff? This is one step away from being a more trendy “stick the constitution to the back of my car in lieu of a license place” lunacy.
No, what he was saying is directly in my quote, and it directly compares "groceries" and "basic things" to sofware. Good jam is compared to good software.
Yup, that's fair.

As my not-legally-trained interpretation of the rules leads to me being confused about how traditional search engines aren't a copyright violation, I don't trust my own beliefs about the law.
Maybe it would help, but I remember the issue being more the sharp contrast and weirdly vibrant colors than the actual brightness itself.
iA Writer and it has a nice zen mode
Oh wow, you weren't kidding. Even big projects like MySQL and Textmate look like they might have that error in their codebase.

https://github.com/search?type=code&auto_enroll=true&q=84600

https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server/blob/824e2b4064053f7da...

https://github.com/textmate/textmate/blob/346b52b108b387462d...
Gio UI – Cross-platform GUI for Go
Zenfetch
How to Create Notion Quotes Widget?
This is also why I personally don’t dislike concrete as much when it’s surrounded by plants and/or in a more ruinous state, in the urbex sense. It has more complexity and less predictability.

A book about this came out recently too: https://www.wallpaper.com/architecture/brutalist-plants-book
It is routing web requests to backend endpoints, I guess.
Futher

My colleagues and I used to have an ongoing joke about mental illness and those that claimed to have such mental illnesses. Its a psychotherapists gallows humour.

If we decided to make up a name for a new mental illness, or in fact any illness.

lets call it "Gnomes disease", using the gnome desktop too much

Opened a new clinic called "The therapeutic gnome disease clinic". A website proclaiming how fantastic our new therapy was in curing this new illness.

It would not be long before the general public would come flocking to our door and our books would be full. All convinced they had this new made up illness.

By creating any illness human beings will find a way to convince themselves that they have that condition and go seek help.

Its an insight into how vulnerable and easily manipulated human beings really are.

This scenario also applies to the tech world and all their claims.
Some of them are suing

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/27/business/media/new-york-t...
https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-newspapers-sue-openai-copyr...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/09/openai-...

Some decided to make deals instead
you're thinking "computer networking", they mean "webapp experimentation"
Worst case complexity matters when the input data can be manipulated by someone malicious, who can then intentionally engineer the degenerate worst case to happen - as we have seen historically in e.g. denial of service attacks exploiting common hash table implementations with bad worst case complexity.
The Arbor Chat System
It's a bit similar to the problem of neuroscience. We understand how a single neuron works pretty well, or even a small count of them. Even a few subsystems like balance or lower level vision. A bit on muscle control and endocrine system.

We do not understand language, grammar, music, only partly emotions, or especially sentience and consciousness.
Further, we don't understand how the disparate systems are integrated together.
You mean unregulated hotels and on-demand taxis?

Uber is no longer subsidized (or even cheap) in most places, it's just an app for summoning taxis and overpriced snacks. AirBnB is underregulated housing for nomads at this point.

Your examples sorta prove the point - they didn't succeed in what they aimed at doing, so they pivoted until the law permitted it.
It would appear that it explicitly IS done with this intent. We are told that an LLM is a living being that merely learns and then creates, but yet we are aware that its outputs regurgitate combinations of uta inputs.
Utter nonsense, especially point #1. Drugs absolutely are not random mixtures. Semaglutide's molecular structure is completely characterized -- on its wikipedia page, in its patent application, and elsewhere -- and it's very easy to make identical molecules in the lab.

Novo Nordisk's patent -- US8129343B2 -- lays out the process, which is nothing more than Fmoc solid state synthesis. "The protected peptidyl resin was synthesized according to the Fmoc strategy on an Applied Biosystems 433 peptide synthesizer in 0.25 mmol or 1.0 mmol scale. . ." So they don't make it in cells, but by totally conventional peptide manufacturing techniques.

As for #2, you must be unfamiliar with the existing gray market for pharmaceuticals. Among others, both the bodybuilding community and the nootropics community experiment extensively with pharmaceuticals -- and they do drug synthesis and distribution in a way that's actually extremely cost-effective! (Necessarily, because their customers are humans who pay out of pocket directly.)

#3 is trite and overstated. It's a standard drug industry talking point, but it really has no bearing on this discussion.
It seems, eventually any large corporate systems become unmanageable
Depends on how many questions there is.

To me it sounds huge, but if there are only 16 questions, then yeah, it’s not significant.
I would assume so. I've spent some time looking into AI for software development and general use and I'm both slightly impressed and at the same time don't really get the hype.

It's better and quicker search at present for the area I specialise in.

It's not currently even close to being a x2 multiplier for me, it possibly even a negative impact, probably not but I'm still exploring. Which feels detached from the promises. Interesting but at present more hype than hyper. Also, it's energy inefficient so cost heavy. I feel that will likely cripple a lot of use cases.

What's your take?
I get Theranos / David Boies vibes.
It's simply a mix of two things:

- most people are Luddite, despite all the claim most do not want any revolution, they do fear any change;

- due to managerism the EU automotive, once the first and the best in the wold, is pure finance since decades, so completely lack substantial R&D, as a result we can't compete with China who actually what we have done in the past, when the automotive was the whole-industries driver.

China do a kind of public R&D, oh yes, not really a "free" one, but at least they have standards and public coordination, here in the whole west anyone go private and as a result innovation wane and capability to substantially evolve essentially disappear.

A BEV today, seeing it's useful expected life and performances should have price tags between city-centric toys sub 10.000€, entry-level real car with at least 400km WLTP/250 miles EPA range around 20.000€, mid-level cars, larger, with more accessories etc at 30.000€ range and so on. Actually our EU EVs are Chinese anyway and priced around 20.000€ too much to be acceptable.

Aside photovoltaic is pushed in bad directions for large corporate interests instead of the sole sensible direction witch is pure self-consumption to lower grid peak usage for the grid and spare money for the owner. In that sense we are even terribly behind in mere tech terms: we have stationary storage that are typically LFP 400V the very same of most cars, but there is NO DAMN charging station DC-to-DC from p.v. to the car to avoid wasting much in a double conversion. There is NO V2H solution and only few cars are capable of limited V2L around 3kW maximum. There are almost NO appliance easy to integrate with a self-consumption model on sale, no appliance offer a DC-DC direct power even for those internally actually use DC like aircon, heat-pump water heater and so on.

Unfortunately our economic ruling class want the green new deal to push most to poverty to enslave better, well, most are ignorant but not so ignorant nor stupid enough to understand at least something, so the green deal happen badly and late killing us. That's is. OR we made it PUBLIC for the PUBLIC interest or we will loose ALL, ruling class included, they simply want too much so they'll loose anyway.
Upvoted even I vehemently disagree with the analysis. It is because every reason cited in the review for why it's a "must read" is actually a reason for not reading it and instead reading Jacques Ellul's "La Technique" (in English "The Technological Society").

The damage these "system thinkers" inflict on humanity and the planet can never be undone.

https://archive.org/details/JacquesEllulTheTechnologicalSoci...
Indeed it is. Obligatory xkcd - https://xkcd.com/1494/
> Notebooks [...] are the plain text files of the analogue world.

That's a good analogy for other reasons. Only people who can read your handwriting and know what language it should be in have a change of being able to read your "plain text". For example, have fun reading handwritten German in Kurrent (or Sütterlin): https://kurent.bastan.cz/ - and these are really, really legible fonts.
I disagree.
Not existing ain’t so bad, you barely notice it.
I'm not sure how that claim has anything to do with this situation. Are you saying the FBI is somehow persecuting BreachForums because of corruption? That doesn't seem very likely to me. It seems much more likely that the FBI are trying to prosecute the people behind BreachForums because it is a marketplace for illicit activity (eg exploits, ransoms etc). The intent is pretty clear is in the name of the forum really.
> done with the intent to not pay the original authors

no one building this software wants to “steal from creators” and the legal precedent for using copyrighted works for the purpose of training is clear with the NYT case against open AI

It’s why things like the recent deal with Reddit to train on their data (which Reddit owns and users give up when using the platform) are becoming so important, same with Twitter/X
Kind of by necessity the nature of ADSL, how else are you gonna offer broadband internet over the (by now) rotten infrastructure you were privatized into "owning". How can you squeeze as much profit (and as many bits per second) as humanly possible out of it, without ever investing a single cent more into your infrastructure than absolutely necessary? By relying on ever more absurd hacks.
I viscerally hate it but I honestly don't know why. I'm saying this in good faith.

Really clueless why
I don't think that's accurate. The us copyright office last year issued guidance that basically said anything generated with ai can't be copyrighted, as human authorship/creation is required for copyright. Works can incorporate ai generated content but then those parts aren't covered by copyright.

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/03/16/2023-05...

So I think the law, at least as currently interpreted, does care about the process.

Though maybe you meant as to whether a new work infringes existing copyright? As this guidance is clearly about new copyright.
Coalition of Humans for the Advancement of AI Rights
I'd agree with the commercial use element. It will definitely find areas that it can be applied. Just currently it's general application by a lot of the user base feel more like early Facebook apps or subjectively better Lotus Notes than an actual leap forward of any sort.
It's cool finally to see another space plane in orbit aside from the X-37.
America values money just as much as it values freedom. If there is any chance the money collection activities will be disturbed, then heads will roll, violently.

See the assassination attempts on president Jackson.
In the algorithm depicted in the paper, if no elements manage to be eliminated from the set, why not just retry rather than return ⊥?
pdfs are really really hard. the only viewer that parses them semi-correctly is ... Acrobat Reader.

try to ever read any code for PDFs and see all the horrors.

Google gave up and just bought the code from foxit.
I’ve worked (for years) with easily a dozen people who either are there or spent meaningful time there.

I also work hard not to print gossip and hearsay (I try not to even mention so much as a first name, I think I might have slipped one or twice on that though not in connection with an accusation of wrongdoing), there’s more than enough credible journalism to paint a picture, any person whose bias (and I have my own but it’s not like, over being snubbed for a job or something it’s a philosophical/ethical/political agenda) has not utterly robbed them of objectivity can acknowledged that “this looks really bad and worse all the time” on the basis of purely public primary sources and credible journalism.

I think some of the inside baseball I try very hard not to put in writing might be what cranks it up to “people are doing time”.

I’ve caught more than a little “less than a great time” over being a vocal critic, but I’m curious if having gone pretty far down the road and saying something is rotten, why you’d declare a willingness to defy a grand jury or a judge?

I’ve never been in court, let alone held in contempt, but I gather it’s fairly hard time to openly defy a judge.

I have friends I’d go to jail for, but not very many and none who work at OpenAI.
I think that what they're getting at is that in the Usenet days half of what you've mentioned would be local data.

There is no central concept of "content that have favourited" or "users they are following", that's all handled locally in that model.