skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would never do this with a public AI system. If it’s running entirely on my own resources, that might be an interesting question to ask.
Whoops, I meant "land vertically".
The automated lab of tomorrow
Age is a problem and it’s not ageist to say so. What we’re talking about here is not a world where a 24 and a 56 year old cannot both play on the same ball team. We’re talking about elderly people. Your grandparents. I love the grandparents of mine that are still alive but my god are they nowhere near fit to lead a freaking country. One still uses the term “the gays”, one is losing their coherence in small ways, one has serious health problems which are the dominating factor in his daily routine. Seriously. I’m not saying you’re subhuman scum if you’re old. I’m saying maybe you’re past the point of political effectiveness and relevancy.
This typically comes with Lisp or Haskell, prolog is an interesting case!
To be fair, the OP was some how just pointing fingers. I took a quick look at the issue, 2 of 3 links mentioned are actually with detailed build instructions. It's only ventoy_unix doesn't. Giving that it's just someone's hobby project, I don't see that as a particular issue. A PR to fix those would be much better than the post.
Elon Musk's X lawsuit against Media Matters scheduled for trial in April
> The point is profit is not a measure of wealth creation. It's neither necessary nor sufficient to create wealth.

Profit is the difference between the cost of some activity vs the benefit of that activity. How else can you measure wealth creation?

> My university recorded a bunch of lectures for remote students a decade ago when I was there. They could release them to the public (in fact, while I was there, anyone could go view them for free in person in the library) at essentially no cost, creating a large amount of wealth but no profit. But they haven't and likely won't.

Have you considered that the university may fear getting sued?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26136320

> In 2020, the government artificially tanked interest rates, causing asset holders (e.g. homeowners) to profit greatly without creating any wealth.

To explain why the above statement is nonsensical it would take a couple paragraphs but I expect most readers will not need that. It speaks for itself.

> profit generating activity is not the only activity or the most important activity.

To spend and benefit from wealth you have to create it and profit is a measure of wealth creation. How did you read my words and reach the conclusion that I think profit generating activity is “the only activity or the most important activity”?

> And in this very moment you and I are doing that with our discussion.

Yes, we are enjoying leisure time because of activities that generated surplus wealth (including knowledge) by millions / billions of individuals now and in history. Without surplus wealth our lives might be more like those of our relatives in the animal kingdom.
Big fan of wz_mini_hacks[0] for folks that want to use them without the the Wyze cloud

[0] https://github.com/gtxaspec/wz_mini_hacks
I had logo on my ti-99/4a. https://archive.org/details/tibook_ti-logo
"And if the conviction would not exist officially anymore, I would have allmost nothing solid against him,..."

I reckon your example illustrates my point that people never quite forget any accusation whether true or false. And it's why I suspect it may be evolutionary or partly so (but I've no proof of that).

Why? Well, the person to whom you are referring would be perceived by the vast majority to be a menace to society and potentially very dangerous. His past actions and behavior were so hideous and unacceptable that they would never forget what he'd done. And I'd posit this makes sense from an evolutionary perspective—if we forget about his past actions and or hide facts about them then we do so at our peril. Keeping such knowledge is thus a survival instinct.

Even if it's demonstrated he's changed, it's nevertheless better people keep knowledge of his actions and behavior because there's always the possibility he's a recidivist or that he could become one in the future. Clearly, it's not in society's best interest to either hide his past actions or to forget about them entirely.

That doesn't contradict what I said earlier (and perhaps I should have been more precise in what I said). However, your case is extreme and it should always remain so. The other extreme is where some trivial misdemeanor could be blown up out of all proportion and ruin one's life.

Now let's consider a hypothetical case where someone's life can be ruined through a false accusation. Person A intensely dislikes person B for whatever reason (it's irrelevant) and secretly spreads false rumors that B is a pedophile when he is not. This example is NOT in the same league as say the one I used earlier where people called me a 'ratbag' behind my back, it's altogether something much more sinister and dangerous.

Person B cannot protect himself because he doesn't know where the rumor started (or cannot prove his suspicions, or he may be altogether unaware of the rumor and never learn its consequences) and therefore he cannot sue in a defamation case. And likely worse, those who hear or become aware of the false rumor about B will never forget that they've heard it. Moreover, those who become aware of the rumor may not inform B of the fact, B may never learn why he's always being shunned.

Mud sticks. What remains stuck on B may only be a tiny trace—and he may not even be aware it's there [if he's unaware of the rumor]—but nevertheless it's still there! And its presence has consequences.

Personally, it's hard for me to think of any action that's more despicable than what A did. I'll refrain from stating what punishment I'd dish out to A if I were ever given half a chance.

These examples only illustrate why defamation is such a difficult and vexed matter.
Setting up your own recursive DNS resolver to circumvent ISP blocks is pointless unless you do so on a VPS or something, because otherwise, your ISP will just hijack the recursive queries it makes. And DNSSEC doesn't help if the ISP just wants to block you from learning the real IP.
Mu. Russ Cox quote indicates that the maintainers of goimports and gorename do not need to handle formatting at all (and hence, benefit). The go team put that wholly in the gofmt team's court. Otherwise, the go team would likely have to handle tickets about how the formatting of goimports and gorename differ over time for edge cases (if only by paying the social capital of ignoring the tickets).
> Margaret Hamilton worked out how to write bug-free software during the Apollo 11 project. The IT industry collectively went, "meh."

That's an often repeated myth but it collapses the moment one digs a bit further (rather than swallowing preposterous statements). She was a glorified manager at best, others did the programming that actually mattered.

Hal Laning [2] was primarily responsible for what Hamilton gets credit for.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/18yum8s/no_marg...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LELUXyVDOKk
Users should have the right to reformat their own copy of others content (automatically as well as manually). However, if they then redistribute the reformatted copy, then they should not be allowed to claim that it is the same formatting as the original, because it is not the same as the original.
This was a big surprise for me when I set up a local DNS for work. Everything suddenly felt much snappier.
https://www.mic.com/articles/85987/turkish-protesters-are-sp...

Repressive governments have a history of legal orders telling Google to block protestors from accessing twitter.com but Google always refuses to comply. So their new policy of complying isn't about legality. France is a big market. Perhaps it's about money.
It is sad, and confusing, to read comments like this on HN.

I mean, you're not even wrong.
They did fight it in court. They lost.

I'm surprised you're so keen on having big tech companies intentionally ignore court orders and just break the law. Like, it's obviously something none of us should want.
The difference isn't so much the server, but the third party. You're allowed to modify computer programs (websites) as part of using them. You aren't allowed to then transfer the modified version (see section 117 of the US copyright code).

If you're in control of the server there's a plausible argument that you aren't transferring it. When perplexity is in control of the server... I don't see it. A traditional ad-blocker isn't "redistributing the content to the end-user who requested it" because it's the end user who has ownership over the data the whole time (note: not the copyright, the actual individual instance of the data). Unlike with a server run by a third party there is no third party legal entity who ever has the data.

You could conceivably make "ublock origin except it's a proxy run by a third party and we modify the website on the proxy", I'd agree that that has the same problem as a service like perplexity (though a different fair use analysis and I'm not sure what way that would go).

> I'd also point out that in the U.S., search engines have passed the "Fair Use" test of exemption from copyright — I think it would be very hard to make a distinction between what a search engine is doing (which is on a server!) and what an LLM is doing based on trying to say copyright distinguishes between server vs client architectures.

Well, sure. It's easy to distinguish between an LLM summarizing content and a traditional search engine though (and in ways relevant to the fair use analysis), just not based on the server client architecture.

Disclaimer: Not a lawyer, not legal advice, and so on.
Velocity is good for impact, typically.
Is TikTok the New YouTube?
This is extremely useful and seems like what I need to fix all of my structured output woes, when my model gets chatty for no reason.

The issue poorly glosses over explaining what feature they are talking about, here's a link to the docs about it: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/blob/master/grammars/...
Not an expert, but can give it a shot:

(1) Much development is already moving from CUDA to the LLM, so less of an issue. Nvidia is also doing more work to increase interoperability. Could be an issue I guess, but doesn't seem like it since there's nothing close to CUDA or the ecosystem.

(2) AMD has attracted significant investment looking at appreciation in its market cap, with a PE ration 3X Nvidia's. However, AMD is so far behind in so many ways, I don't believe it is an investment problem, but structural. Nvidia has just been preparing for this for so long it has a temendous head start, not to mention being more focused on this. Remember AMD also competes with Intel, etc.

(3) Hyperscalers already are building their own chips. It seems even Apple used its own chips for Apple Intelligence. It's relatively (which is doing a lot of lifting in this sentence because it's all HARD) not too hard to make custom chips for AI. The hard (near impossible) thing is making the cutting edge chips. And the cutting edge chips are what the OpenAIs of the world demand for training, but releasing the newest best model 1-3 months ahead of a competitors is worth so much.

If anything, I'd say the biggest threat to Nvidia in the next 1-3 years is an issue with TSMC or some new paradigm that makes Nvidia's approach suboptimal.
Some architectures are very cheap to implement initially but are more expensive to maintain and evolve. Some are the other way around, require higher upfront expenses but allows to operate and evolve the product easier.

It's always a balancing act. The corollary us that there is no one right architecture, the choice depends on circumstances, and should sometimes be re-evaluated.

Another corollary is that flexibility is extra useful, because it allows to evolve and tweak the architecture to.some extent, maintaining its efficiency in changing circumstances.
> For better or worse, if you do business in <x> you follow <x>'s laws or GTFO.

That does rather imply that the laws are worthless. Obviously there is going to be someone who doesn't do business in France and operates a public DNS server that doesn't censor anything.

Regardless of that, I would challenge your premise. You can violate an unjust law and risk the consequences. And if you get the PR right, there may not even be any consequences:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%E2%80%93FBI_encryption_d...

But to your point, this is one of the reasons it's important to get these laws off the books and keep them off the books. Once you have the law, the government gets to choose the test case. You know perfectly well they'll be using it against dissidents and false positives tomorrow, but the test case is going to be some loathsome terrorists or a commercial piracy operation with no shades of grey, and then that's the case that sets the precedent.

They should never be allowed the opportunity.
The ultimate goal or SA is to fulfil the quality goals. Cost reduction can be one.
> I am fine with folks using my content to train their models because this training does not directly steal any traffic. It's the "train an AI by reading all the books in the world" analogy.
But what Perplexity is doing when they crawl my content in response to a user question is that they are decreasing the probability that this user would come to by content (via Google, for example). This is unacceptable.

This appears to be self-contradictory. If you let an LLM to be trained* on “all the books” (posts, articles, etc.) in the world, the implication is that your potential readers will now simply ask that LLM. Not only will they pay Microsoft for that privilege, while you would get zilch, but you would not even know they ever read the fruits of your research.

* Incidentally, thinking of information acquisition by an ML model as if it was similar to human reading is a problematic fallacy.
It’s not. Nobody is saying old people are subhuman scum who shouldn’t be treated kindly and with respect. The argument is that after a certain point you may not have a lived experience that is relevant anymore for being an effective political leader. The same way we wouldn’t put two 80 year olds in the cockpit of a commercial aircraft… the risk there is obvious and clear.
Great book, I've learnt a lot from it
We did a book club on this at work a few years back. I found it extremely repetitive.
How will users find the new domains? If they can reliability do so then dns is not needed in the first place. If not, then the laws are effective.
Or just don't wanna bother. Ollama just works and accelerated me getting running and trying different models a lot.
Performance is very much still relevant in the modern day, even given the area under the curve of moores law
Mechanisms by Chebyshev
Benn Jordan is real nerd’s musician. I’ve followed his music as The Flashbulb for more than a decade, but found his YouTube channel last year, and was delighted to see how engaged he is with the science of sound, as well as his commitment to supporting music programs for children, and advocacy for artists.

If you like very complex, dynamic down-tempo IDM, I recommend The Flashbulb, highlight track is Undiscovered Colors from Arboreal.
Version 11 had lots of hand-coded behavior. Version 12 is entirely a neural network, trained on human driving. Partly it comes from people running FSD and intervening sometimes, and partly it comes from just passive observation of a people doing their own driving. When FSD runs, video feeds into the neural net and it outputs vehicle controls, that's it.

Learning to respond to gestures is just more training on video and car control data. It shouldn't be hard to believe given all the other things we're doing these days with large neural networks.
There is other alternative, such as: get rid of their DNS service entirely, or make a petition for changing these laws.
Signing in with a Google account is a no-go for me.
I'm trying to figure out where the value of experiencing it "in person" comes from.
The article is too thin to know what, if any fight was had.

I suspect France could find a way to make things very difficult for them all.

I suppose they could withdraw their service from the country in protest, but it's not obvious that would leave anyone better off.

It's a difficult call and I'm not prepared to harshly judge an organization for complying with a legal, enforceable injunction.
17-year old created a tool for creating legal documents for SaaS companies
Uh, there's nothing in your link about a government ordering Google to block Twitter? Since you say this is a common occurence, I'm guessing it'll be easy for you to find a source that actually supports your claim.
Is there life on one of Saturn's moons? Scientists plan a mission to find out
Rats are much better as pets.
> How is using perplexity any more so making a copy than your browser is making a copy

Both are, the difference is that your browser doesn't transfer the copy to a new legal entity after modifying it. Rather the browser is under the control of the end user and the end user owns the data (not the copyright, but the actual instance of the data) the whole time.

> Your logic would also imply that viewing a website through a VPN not operated by yourself would require the VPN operator to have a redistribution license for all the content on the website which is not the case.

It doesn't because the VPN doesn't modify it, and the law explicitly distinguishes between the two cases and allows for transferring in the case of exact copies (provided you transfer all rights). I left this part of section 117 out because it wasn't relevant, but I'll quote it here

> Any exact copies prepared in accordance with the provisions of this section may be leased, sold, or otherwise transferred, along with the copy from which such copies were prepared, only as part of the lease, sale, or other transfer of all rights in the program. [And then the portion of the paragraph I quoted above] Adaptations so prepared may be transferred only with the authorization of the copyright owner.

> How do you think google is able to scrape whatever they like and redistribute summaries of the pages they have visited without consulting everyone who has ever made a website for a redistribution license.

A fair use argument, which I think is less likely (and I'd go so far as to say unlikely) to apply to a service like perplexity.ai but is ultimately a judgement call that will be made by the legal system and like all fair use arguments has no clear boundaries.
I’ve heard this before. Is there a way to reliably detect if this is occurring or case studies of where this has occurred?

Edit: I assume dns over https prevents this also, right?
Q&A: Studies reveal gut's true stem cells, challenging previous assumptions
But the Shimano/Sram cartel really want to keep the chain/derailleur cash cow alive.
Not shocked, not a problem.

Easier to copy/replicate, packaged with a GUI, provider with a commercial relationship, programmatic support ( formulas, vba, COM, raw data access)

Would be closer to sqlite than server side though, but it's capacity for replication and sharing makes it more adecuate for sqlite.

Sqlite's lack of GUI gives data a programmer bias, important data uses excel because unless you are in a technocratic environment.
If you want to judge someone so badly, why not go after the politicians who are creating these despicable policies?
Personally I think the short term thinking pervading the American corporate world is nothing short of delusional. I’ve heard similar things about Japan, their woodworking is world class in its precision and simplistic brilliance.
Postgresql superseded mysql ever since the maria fork/oracle acquisition.
I was thinking that too. Could be -plagiarized- inspired by the birds, since the flow of the article starts out the exact same way
The only way available to immediately test whether Perplexity pretends not to be Perplexity is by actively requesting a page. The fact that they mask their UA in that scenario makes it fairly obvious that they are not above bending rules and “working around” inconvenient for them public conventions. It seems safe to assume, until proven otherwise, that they would fake their bots’ user agents in every other case, such as when acquiring training data.
Microsoft is in so many government offices around the world it's not even funny.
We don't need to measure everything, we may talk about variables that are hard or subjective to measure.
Twitter and Wikipedia as a source to locate the actual dns address worked for the pirate bay back in the day, I assume if nothing else piracy sites would not be afraid to just use raw ip addresses.
I run tmux on my server and it's the single biggest user of memory (about 30% larger than the long-running node app) and while there's a client attached it constantly shows >5% CPU usage. Given the amount of time I'm connected this dwarfs all other resource usage on my server with the possible exception of occasionally building updates for saturated that's not in the repos. In April, I finally closed out and restarted the entire session (which had been running for ~2 years at that point and was using ~300M RES compared to the current 150M)
Yep. I would vote for a yellow haired keyboard warrior or a bible fearing evangelical regardless of whether I share a single political belief so long as they’re participating in the society I actually exist in. 80 year olds don’t live in the same world.
I once attended an all-hands meeting at work. They literally had a lady there drawing those sort of whiteboard cartoons as seen in the Mission Statement video while the meeting went on -- and that was her entire job. Companies hire her to summarize meeting points with twee little cartoons on a (virtual at the time, because pandemic) whiteboard; and then an image is saved and made available to all attendees as part of the meeting minutes.
I don't think LOD optimisations are enough when you are in the middle of a solid with complex holes in it, but that's a detail (no pun intended) - there are doubtless lots of other techniques you can apply. but my larger point was whatever optimisations you make, performance when looking at the entire city from the outside is likely to be better than looking at some part of it from the inside.
Just a note that swinging kettle bells, à la the simple and sinister book caused medial epicondylitis for me (buggered up the tendons in both my elbows). This is taking a long time to heal and limiting options on other exercises I can do that involve even a moderate grip.

My recommendation would be to rent a rowing machine and try that first.
Why should we not want this when the law is bad? The government should face pushback from all sides when attempting something odious.
I profiled my code and you're right that it was using a big chunk of CPU on generating the input. Approximately 40-50% of the CPU time was taken up by go's rand.IntN function.

I was able to optimize it so that I only call rand.Int63 twice per string generation, bringing the CPU time of that part down to 10-15%. I'm getting 11.3 MH/s now!
I’ve always been curious why dns is a go-to for oppressing unwanted websites. Is it truly difficult to block at an IP level? There would be collateral damage in doing so, but it wouldn’t take long for most VPS providers to dump piracy sites if the alternate is their entire network block being dropped.