skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can ingest millions of line of code in minutes/hours? If AI can ignore copyright, why can't a human? Are we already inferior to machines just because of our copyright system?
Interesting, didn't know it was receiving money. Too bad it uses Scheme macros that I can barely stand... it'd be nice to have defmacro/quasiquote/gensym/etc... like some other Schemes provide.
The headline of this HN post is misleading, it isn't really a "ban" as such and doesn't have to be "enforceable." These are guidelines whose target audience is good-faith developers who want to make positive contributions to NetBSD.

The comments saying "heh, those stoopid NetBSD maintainers would never know if I slipped a bit of AI into their codebase" are missing the point. The point of the guideline is to say that people who use Copilot/etc for NetBSD development are dumb assholes, so don't be a dumb asshole.
For context: https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2401.3/04208.html

HN discussion (4 months ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39191899
A bit unexpected coming from a non-profit organisation that supposedly has an altruistic mission. It's almost as if there was actually a profit making agenda... I'm shocked.
Robots that are powered by AI might be able to.
Totally agree. Information could be better placed. I guess the assumption was that either the professor himself or somebody else was sued or had legal trouble in the past ...
Very interesting. If you could elaborate, are there linguistical/historical reasons for that ? Does Dutch use more "fine-grained" concepts on average ?
Or, more appropriately, for people that aren't novices using AI

"I copied the code because it looks just like what I'd do and oh it knew the library calls I couldn't remember off the top of my head. Let me just fix some of the hallucination here and... all good. That saved me like 30 minutes :)"
They’re currently made up of humans, but more and more will be made of computers. In their human forms, they’re still a subversion of human values, doing things as a whole, because of incentives, that the individual humans wouldn’t do. But in the future, entire corporations will get whittled down to machine processes. An AGI decision maker at the top and each individual task replaced with robot or software agent.
Pretty much every startup today is thinking about how to use generative AI. Is that what you want your side hustle to be about?
People care because AI will gladly regurgitate whatever it learns.
its not about enforceability its simply about covering their ass
There is the possibility as in weed legalization that now you get more users who would otherwise avoid it. An increased user base means additional users going for the hard stuff.
True, this is how RAG works, but this is why I prefer to use open-source LLMs for RAG: because the token costs are less opaque and I can control how many chunks I pull fromthe database to manage my costs
I feel like Steve Jobs also fits this category if we are going to talk about people who aren't really worthy of genius title and used other people's accomplishments to reach their goals.

We all know it as the engineers who made iPhone possible.
My take is this is Abu Ghraib again.

David McBride is a military lawyer and is standing up for justice for
the soldiers accused of war crimes because there is evidence they were
acting under orders and did not simply lose discipline and go rogue.
In other words this was coordinated terror campaign, not a few soldiers
getting trigger happy.
I cannot agree more with the author’s point of view. As an illustration, many people want to use GPS for the safe positioning of trains in the European Train Control Systems. This makes the space sector happy because it justifies the expenditures incurred for putting things like Galileo in orbit. However, in a pre-war check exercise, one immediately come to the conclusion that all European trains would crawl to a stop in case the GPS is jammed or interfered with. We were not very listened to… until Ukraine.

Critical infrastructures should not depend from things that are located in space or on the other side of the planet. These are one of those things were market logic should be anticipated with regulations (we can’t wait for the next Titanic). Another point touched by the article.
You seriously trying to take his credit away for reusable rocket with "nu uh, it was in scifi first?" Wow.

"A cynical habit of thought and speech, a readiness to criticize work which the critic himself never tries to perform, an intellectual aloofness which will not accept contact with life's realities—all these are marks, not ... of superiority but of weakness.”
As many have stated, I would assume more than 38%. But good quality content is rare and the dynamic content made page combinations go infinite 20 years ago.

We are maintaining 25y old urls is a bit ehh. cumbersome, and I sometime wonder if its worth it. Most of the traffic seem to come from bots and they do seem to learn some of the 301's. It seems to be good for SEO, etc.

Some users also gets redirected to the content on the new urls. It feels a bit like helping an elderly person over the street to where the shop is.

Anyway, I hope that bots and humans trust our services more.
This is off topic, but I’m idly curious about the history of shipbuilding regulatory changes after the Titanic. Where did Brenno de Winter learn about them?
All of the leaders who learned a lesson from that era have retired, and the latest batch of MBAs didn't learn their history, and don't care to hear from the engineers and designers who did. Around and around we go again!
What about Palmer Luckey ? I don't think he received a lot of criticism before he founded Anduril Industries.
Surprised to see this on HN.

Contentious and depressing outcome, however rarely with classified documents does a judge rule the ends justified the means.
> It can be tricky to discuss AGI in any precise way because everyone seems to have their own definition of it and ideas about it.

You have just echoed Turing from his seminal paper without adding any further observation.

> ...you are overestimating the ethics of a species that exploits or eats most other species...

Life would not exist without consumption of other life. Ethicists are untroubled by this. But they are troubled by conduct towards people and animals.

If the conventional measure of an artificial intelligence is in terms of a general inability to tell computers and humans apart, then ethics enters the field at such point: Once you can't tell, ethically you are required to extend the same protections to the AI construct as offered to a person.

To clarify my previous point: pragmatic orientation towards AI technology will enforce a distinction through definition: the Turing test will become re-interpreted as the measure by which machines are reliably distinguished from people, not a measure of whence they surpass people.

To rephrase the central point of Turing's thought experiment: the question of whether machines think is meaningless so as to not merit further discussion because we lack sufficient formal definition of "machine" and "thought."

> ...the computers don't need us point...

I see no reason to expect this at any point, ever. Whatever you are implying as "computers" and "us" with your conjecture of "need" is so detached from today's notions of life is also meaningless. Putting a timeframe on the meaningless is pointless.

> ...go on without us...

This is a loopy conjecture about a new form of life which emerges-from-and-transcends humanity, presumably to the ultimate point of obviating humanity. Ok, so "imagine a world without humanity." Sure, who's doing the imagining? It's absurd.

Turing's point was we lack the vocabulary to discuss these matters, so he offered an approximation with a overtly stated expectation that by about this time (50 or so years from the time of his paper) technology for simulating thought would be sufficiently advanced as to demand a new vocabulary. And here we are.

If you contribution is merely recapitulation of Turing's precept's from decades ago, you're a bit late to the imitation game.
It's a good sign that unlike fyne, this library passed the very first test I threw at it: rendering some CJK text. Fyne can't do that unless you give it one custom font to render everything in — well, good luck finding one satisfactory font encompassing all commonly used scripts around the world, not to mention emojis. Which means fyne is immediately dead to me whenever I'm building anything with a remote chance of user-generated/web content and/or localization.
It's funny how most people just assume engineers aren't checking the output of Copilot's suggestions.

Reading code for correctness takes only a moment, you either know how to verify its correctness or you don't; writing the code yourself doesn't change that.

Furthermore, code which is meant to be depended upon should come with tests, and if those tests pass with bad code, the tests are wrong.
You should see the hit pieces happening in the Australian press right now. They're claiming he's not a whistle blower, but apparently an idealogue. They can do this because, despite the fact that the war-crimes he exposed were real, the actual details of said crimes are still hidden behind a "national security" veil.
The neat thing about mhtml is it's plain old MIME. You can change the extension to eml and open it in email clients.
Haddock now lives in the GHC repository
Sure, but the toddler is doing it because they are not mentally capable of walking, synthesising visual data into a coherent world model or communicating with words and evolution has prepared them with the understanding that it is do-or-die on those fronts. Their motivations are urgent and important, but not adult. And the point of their creativity is to figure out how to conform ASAP - adults can't really harness that energy because by and large they are all already great at conforming (vs a toddler, anyway).

I suspect these others are motivated by different concerns. It is the difference between a baby dropping a block to work out gravity - which everyone does - vs Newton dropping a block to work out gravity. One of those is an adult motivated by an interesting form of creativity, and the other is something that everyone can do at any age, they just don't need to because they figured it out at the time. The motivation here is critical to assessing the action.
> when morality was worth something

There has never been a time when everyone behaved morally, and it's unhelpful to view the past in this way.

MLK himself was murdered.
> As far as I'm concerned the gold standard of understanding something is being able to construct a program that replicates it which is exactly what we can do with LLMs.

But we actually can't! We can build a program that can build a program that is the LLM, which is not the same! I'd argue that you're right insofar as training is concerned. We understand training very well. But the actual model, how it operates, what it actually knows, we don't know how to build that, we don't know what weights to put where.
> Nearly one-in-five tweets are no longer publicly visible on the site just months after being posted. In 60% of these cases, the account that originally posted the tweet was made private, suspended or deleted entirely. In the other 40%, the account holder deleted the individual tweet, but the account itself still existed

this seems extraordinarily high. since they cant do that estimation on all tweets ever sent it must be a bias of their sample
The New Yorker piece is pretty terrifying and manages to be so while bending over backwards to present both sides of not maybe even suck up to SV a bit. Certainly no one forced Altman to say on the record that Ice Nine in the water glass was what he had planned for anyone who crossed him, and no one forced pg to say, likewise on the record that “Sam’s real talent is becoming powerful” or something to that effect.

It pretty much goes downhill from there.
Try this for an easier read:

https://theconversation.com/we-mapped-a-lost-branch-of-the-n...
I agree. For the people who think that every tiny piece of code has copyright, have you never written the same code for two different projects?

There are some utility functions that I have written dozens of times, for different projects. Am I supposed to be varying my style each time so that each has its own unique copyright? I do not believe any court would interpret copyright to work in this way.
Reverse Engineering to Get Back LG Camera DLC
I doubt the people that think it’s fine to not respect NetBSD ethos are even capable of contributing anything to it so I’d say the project is fine.
>You are better off with an element picker and some heuristics to generate a selector / xpath query.

Bummer. I wanted to try my hand at this. There has to be some trick where you can combine LLM and some element picker to get a really robust solution right?
Some of the interactive stuff on old BBC election coverages still almost work to this day.

Hard to imagine that with many sites now 20 years on. It's not even that it;s impossible with the technology, it's probably closer to how writing got worse after the invention of the word processor. Every thing is managed and structured now so the freedom / bubble needed to make things good in a way that can't be easily explained is gone.
To borrow the catchphrase of one of my favorite hackers ever: “correct”.
Tinnuci pushed back against layoffs, Elon fired her and her entire team
Ketogenic diet induces cellular senescence in multiple organs
Copying functions and not understanding or getting told that it’s garbage?
Who cares? In the case of some sort of big war why would you care about "cyber security" when the day to day problem is not dying from starvation, being drafted, radiation posioning or what ever the problem is.

These kind of "we need to prepare" are silly since they implicitly downplay the severity of war and bring us closer to it.
Although I do agree anyway (there are more insidious reasons, mainly in how it destroys thinking) but this is a pretty useless working model of AI.
Or we could use microwaves to drill holes as deep as 20km to tap geothermal energy anywhere in the world

https://www.quaise.energy/
However, the easier programming gets the less people who doesn't know it need to do it because it's more likely somebody has already solved their problem.
Tell me you've never used a platform without bot moderation without telling me you've never used a platform without bot moderation.
"""It was once: “If it ain’t Boeing, I ain’t going.”

Now, some travelers may be thinking: “I ain’t going if it’s Boeing.”"""
They're still using CVS?
Between this article and others that I have read, it's difficult for me to not see the term 'AI Safety' as mere newspeak.

Why is this term so vague everywhere it is used?
This is what people do not seem to understand. It is all about legalities; copyright, licensing issues, whatever.
This is a misinformed and incorrect take. The PROTECT Act of 2003 [0] makes it illegal to possess CSAM that is generated by superimposing faces of minors onto sexually explicit imagery, or vice versa.

This bill predates generative AI models by decades. There is no need to engage in conspiracy theories here — the law is clear that this kind of imagery is illegal.

[0] https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/senate-bill/151
If you don't know, it's a yes
> Especially semi-technical people who’s specialty isn’t programming.

That would be worse kind . Imaging fixing bug of those people with LLM Hallucinated code that runs but having wrong logic all over the place.

I reduced use of LLM for coding these days. I only ask it to generate templates or write some repetitive codes and sampledata.
Never mind, dupe:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40397823
"the right tool for the job" is sometimes admitting the breadth of underlying dependencies and ambiguous format specifications are unfeasible to fix with your teams time budget.

The design in question currently only processes around 1.8M large image files a day, and does not require additional work/re-implementations to support the dozens of questionable user file-formats. i.e. the plain old ImageMagick lib does most of the heavy lifting at the end.

Would I trust such a solution for something like a native client side web-browser etc... absolutely not... but for the core-bound instance overhead, the resource cost was acceptable for almost a decade of uptime on those system instances.

Use-cases are funny like that, as there is no perfect solution... but rather a tradeoff of what features get the system functional and reliable. Part of that is admitting integration of 3rd party dependencies is a long-term liability, and domain specific languages almost always fade into obscurity.

Cheers, =3
Dat het verschil in gemiddelde passieve woordenschat tussen Duitse en Nederlandse moedertaalsprekers zo groot is, twijfel ik als linguïst toch wel een beetje aan.

Are you sure that there study/studies are sound and use directly comparable measures for passive vocabulary items?
Do you feel the same way about normal autocomplete?
What a weird time, when it's safer to be a war crime whistle blower than an airliner whistleblower.
Everything is computerized now. And most adjacent power wars will most likely be non-nuclear in nature until it crosses a red line.
FWIW, I just tried Arc on Windows, but it seems like it doesn't do tree-style tabs at all, unless I'm missing something obvious?
This video is way too funny. Thank you for sharing.
I would be interested. How do you plan on dealing with IP address bans?
Australia has outrageous Human Rights legal standards for a western country so this is to be expected.
Man, i hate it.

Not only a lot of communities are hidden because of Discord (at least with Reddit they were more discoverable), the worst part is the fact that they are unsearchable or behind a paywall.

Like the "join my discord if you pay at least 3$/mo!" is pretty innocent but you are gatekeeping a community that before was pubblic.

If we are talking about something like a content creator focused about an hobby or pc problems you can see how Google will become even more useless.

Reddit was the least bad choice between it and Discord but has failed the "i want to be a social network".
That is my point right there.
Is there an enemy factor measure which reflects how many countries have to sanction/attack you directly before you are enable to maintain the economy and social services? It would be interesting to have an index of geostratigic resilience.
Just took a look, and it seems like Vivaldi has vertical tabs, but the similarities end there, it doesn't seem like it does tree-style tabs? Just has groups + one level of tabs...
That's unfortunate. I actually liked Flutter.
As an outsider on most IT security so take the rest of this with a grain of salt, but I think reliability is a good way to view this topic. Complexity is the enemy of reliability and security. Most organizations seem to operate under the delusion that you can brute force your way to security through audits and policy. They're trying to 'test the quality in' so to speak. Think of the legion of security admins who diligently tweak windows group policies, firewall settings, and systems like 2FA/MFA. Nobody can stomach the truth that most of these things have grown in complexity beyond their ability to be truly reliable. They're basically the IT equivalent of locks on a few doors of mansion with 80 windows, they prevent some crimes of opportunity but won't stop an attacker motivated by something else.

This also doesn't tend to bother security people. It's interesting, it quickly shifts to, "Well we don't run a nuclear reactor..." or "We're not a cloud provider or a bank", so they think they're not critical infrastructure and crimes of opportunity are really their main threat (ransomware, disgruntled ex-employees, etc). Also, their job usually depends on tweaking the knobs in this complex pachinko machine, so to have some outsider tell them to throw it all away is basically like saying you think they should lose their job as well.

I don't know where this rant should end, but I think if I was tasked with making infrastructure decisions, It would be really hard for me to not use things like OpenBSD and SQLite for a lot of it. I'm sure someone here will say actually those are bad for various reasons, but they at least seem to capture the ethos of, "We're going to just say no to things and try to control the complexity of this thing." They also don't seem very motivated by making money which tends to be the root of most compromising decisions.
A fuller detailing of the case is available from this news article:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-14/military-whistleblowe...

While this article is from the nationally funded news broadcaster it is the same news organisation that McBride provided the documents to - which were then used to produce 7 stories, leading to it being raided and the follow-on events. Detailed information of that is available here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_Files_(Australia)
Yeah, people do things financially not optimal for the sake of ethics. That’s a key part of living in a society. That’s part of why we don’t just murder each other.
Why a New Yorker Story on a Notorious Murder Case Is Blocked in Britain
Its easy to parse this though. If the funding for these physicists comes from a defense source like DARPA or one of the many other places where defense funds research, then it counts in the defense budget.
Building with Parenscript and Preact
You are grossly under-estimating the ability of the FBI’s cyber forensics teams to discern whether or not data was planted maliciously or produced overtly, as well as under-estimating the ability of the courts and a jury to understand when someone is willingly producing CSAM versus accidentally being in possession.

This prosecution is the first of its kind for the DOJ. It is highly unlikely that they would pick this case to take to trial if there was not certainty about the actions the perpetrator engaged in.
> Everything that can run in parallel, will run in parallel.

On the CPU, there's typically a threshold where dividing and coordinating the parallel work takes more time than simply doing the work on a single thread. Thus you can make the overall runtime much faster by not dividing the work all the way, but rather stop at that optimal threshold and then just loop over the remaining work in the worker threads.

How does this work on the GPU using Bend? Been too long since I did any GPU programming.
Interesting that the WASM demo on the front page just render a black rectangle where the text is supposed to be on my fairly vanilla Windows 10 PC with Chrome (it rendered fine in Chrome on my Android phone).
Real-time multimodal analysis using one 4090 and open-source paligemma
Super lekker!
(That means love love love)

As an American who lived in Amsterdam for 3 years, to learn from their horticultural and eco leadership, I can say this is perfectly typical of the Dutch. Smart, easy, sustainable, beautiful.
Weird but pretty much the entirety of human history
Buy a quality printer for their asking price and make your own molds. If it's fairly large, you may want to put the mold in sand for support, or cast in sections. Just remember to leave yourself pick points for lifting, and use dowels to join your segments. Embed a little steel, like a mesh, if any parts may be in tension or subject to bending.

You've discovered a market with unmet needs!
You are doing superb. Just remind your self there are people that think Elon is incompetent despite TESLA and SpaceX.
And how many years ago was that?

I used to venture far when I was 13. Times are different now
What do you expect of a country that has abandoned Julian Assange. Australia is a despicable place when it comes to Human Rights, personal freedom, and privacy
Pro-cop, pro-surveillance 'hacker' lol
This stance is CYA. There's no way to enforce it but by stating explicitly like this, they save themselves possible legal pain.