skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The stone soup story was about sharing, though. Everyone contributes to the pot, and we get something nice. The original stone was there to convince the villagers to share their food with the travellers. This goes against the emotional implication of your adaptation. The story would actually imply that copyright holders are selfish and should be contributing what they can to the AI soup, so we can get something more than the sum of our parts.

From Wikipedia:

> Some travelers come to a village, carrying nothing more than an empty cooking pot. Upon their arrival, the villagers are unwilling to share any of their food stores with the very hungry travelers. Then the travelers go to a stream and fill the pot with water, drop a large stone in it, and place it over a fire. One of the villagers becomes curious and asks what they are doing. The travelers answer that they are making "stone soup", which tastes wonderful and which they would be delighted to share with the villager, although it still needs a little bit of garnish, which they are missing, to improve the flavor.

> The villager, who anticipates enjoying a share of the soup, does not mind parting with a few carrots, so these are added to the soup. Another villager walks by, inquiring about the pot, and the travelers again mention their stone soup which has not yet reached its full potential. More and more villagers walk by, each adding another ingredient, like potatoes, onions, cabbages, peas, celery, tomatoes, sweetcorn, meat (like chicken, pork and beef), milk, butter, salt and pepper. Finally, the stone (being inedible) is removed from the pot, and a delicious and nourishing pot of soup is enjoyed by travelers and villagers alike. Although the travelers have thus tricked the villagers into sharing their food with them, they have successfully transformed it into a tasty meal which they share with the donors.

(Open source models exist.)
Pictet's Experiment
Do you have appetite for a poem? @sama made it on my list of Silicon Valley villains [1] long time ago:

"Villain staging the show /
open, close /
you can count on the con man to wow you /
even though, the only trick he knows /
is the “law” of scale /
but let's just hope /
The con man doesn't turn into evil /
when the thing he has is real and powerful"

[1] https://www.drmindle.com/ai-is-not-dangerous/#villains-in-th...
Do they transmit this information anywhere? A lot of this can be attributed to the anti-burn-in tech that dims your screen if the image is mostly-static for a long time.
Ok but if the tv has no internet access what is the smart tv going to do with all these nice screenshots? First rule: never provide Internet access to your smart tv.
Everybody saying this is nothing burger is absolutely wrong. This is not overhyped. A lot of comments like, well my distro doesn't do this, and well yeah nobody uses printers anymore. A print server is design to be exposed. Office networks will use one and they have important data. You would think there would be some kind of hardening.

Honestly, this looks intentional.
Like cyber exploits then. Get someone to click a link to download something then access their email to send someone else an email and so on.
Ah well, not great. I didn't know his HN accounts, I think I mostly read his site for TempleOS and something else (can't remember, it was long time ago so this was mostly a gut feeling).

It's true it feels like it comes from a different place, but yep, not great.
Clickbait. You are never given an answer, just some speculation. "Some believe" etc.
cannabis not a good example as it is still criminalize at Fed level including earning money in that industry and putting it in a federal licensed bank...
Do you use a zero drop shoe, barefoot style shoe, or run truly barefoot? I have noticed that I have been cranking up the cushioning as I have increased my mileage, but I also have found that my favorite sandals are zero drop Bedrocks.
There is always more money available for bullshit generation than bullshit removal.
> A wire signal is a brevity code used by telegraphers to save time and cost when sending long messages.

> Today, amateur radio operators still use codes 73 and 88 regularly, and -30- is used in journalism, as it was shorthand for "No more - the end".
> That said, I don't really follow his stuff because I find him so annoying. Perhaps I am missing something.

Yeah, you are definitely missing something, go watch some interview compilations from him. You will absolutely know why he is popular. Don't judge a book by its cover
I don't see anything on the Wero and ETI websites to suggest that WERO is a replacement for Stripe, Paypal or any other payment intermediary.
On all the French sites, what comes across is ‘Wero replaces Paylib for payments between friends’.

For money transfers between individuals you know, there are already better solutions, including immediate SEPA wire transfers, Paypal and Sumeria.

The question of transferring money to a stranger or to a business, whether by contactless phone payment or a QR code, remains unanswered.
You could run 2020 locally, as long as you accept far reduced detail in the terrain. Assuming its also the case here?
I don't necessarily disagree, but the original comment didn't suggest that gambling and cannabis are equally harmful, or even that cannabis is harmful. The point was that policymaking seems to tend toward all-or-nothing (either fully prohibited, or anything goes), and the legalization of cannabis is a recent example of that. The goods or harms of cannabis are beside the point.
Good founders were already in founder mode
How the Spice Was Taken Out of European Cooking (2015)
Yeah there's Vipps in Norway, Swish in Sweden and I imagine something similar anywhere else. The market demand is too enormous to not be fulfilled by 2024.
Lookoutforhotmale?
> Seems like it can't be disabled any more?

Try that checkbox: https://www.howtogeek.com/742678/how-to-turn-off-animations-...
TSMC execs allegedly dismissed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as 'podcasting bro'
Or the same car keeps getting stolen as someone else suggested. So the % of distinct cars may be lower.
The difference is this is proprietary and you have to maintain it plus train every new employee on it till the end of time. I'm sure you've noticed Microsoft's direction is to use more and more public tools in their software and avoid less popular and proprietary tools (even their own). It's done to reduce costs of both development and training.

They have no regard for the outcome of this approach when it comes to software UX because most of their customers don't get to choose the software they use (enterprise). The apps just need to be good enough to sell to company management.

It's a very good business model and only surprising if you consider MS to be a software company more than they are a money making company.
I'm not sure if you're being disingenuous, or if you genuinely don't understand the difference.

Pirate Bay: largely facilitating the theft of material from large corporations by normal people, for generally personal use.

LLM training: theft of material from literally _everyone_, for the purposes of corporate profit (or, well, heh, intended profit; of course all LLM-based enterprises are currently massively loss-making, and may remain so forever).
Yeah, no different than the misinterpretation - and parrotting - of the 10,000 hours rule. That is, 10k hrs isn't a guarantee for anything. It says that if you hope to gain mastery, expect to put in at least 10k hrs.
> If you write regularly and you're not using AI, you simply cannot keep up with the competition.

Wrong. I am a professional writer and I never use AI. I hate AI.
Even in the thought experiment you give, which obviously has very little to do with someone working without putting significant capital at risk - if the lottery is EV negative, then although the first win may be luck, the choice to stop playing after the first win is not luck but skill :)
Indeed, you can't argue state lotteries aren't gambling. But hey, there is a wide spectrum of how bad each form of gambling is, and lottery is very much on the lower end of it.

Very, very few people spend $200 a week on lottery tickets -- they spend a few dollars here and there a week. (Spending $200 is just silly and barely increases the chance of winning or return -- if someone can't see that, well, can't stop them from wasting money) Of course, I would like state lotteries to be further restricted, but that's still much much better than online sports betting -- people can lose six digits of wealth quickly, and that has a much bigger and immediate impact on lives than state lotteries.
you're really showing your hand here...
Notably Debian pulls it in by default so if you've set up cups on a server, cups-browsed is likely up and running.
Or employer inflicted and you install libreoffice.
Nice. I will definitely consider your book over other books. I'm not interested in reading AI-assisted works.
I'm not sure it's always that hard to tell the AI stuff from the non AI. Comments on HN and on twitter from people you follow are pretty much non AI, also people on youtube where you an see the actual human talking.

On the other hand there's a lot on youtube for example that is obviously ai - weird writing and speaking style and I'll only watch those if I'm really interested in the subject matter and there aren't alternatives.

Maybe people will gravitate more to the stuff like PaulG or Elon Musk on twitter or HN and less to blog style content?
I'm not sure if the analogy still works if you're trying to compare fossil fuels to LLM. A few decades ago, virtually all gasoline was full of lead, and the CFCs from refrigerators created a hole in the ozone layer. In that case it turned out that you actually do need a few guardrails as technology advances, to prevent an existential threat.

Although I do agree with you that in this particular situation, the LLM safety features have often felt unnecessary, especially because my primary use case for ChatGPT is asking critical questions about history. When it comes to history, every LLM seems to have an increasingly robust guardrail against making any sort of definitive statement, even after it presents a wealth of supporting evidence.
For one, I trust authors more who are not too lazy to start sentences with upper case.
Which law are you referencing?

Copyright as far as I understand is focused on wholesale reproduction/distribution of works, rather than using material for generation of new works.

If something is available without contractual restriction it is available to all. Whether it's me reading a book, or a LLM reading a book, both could be considered the same.

Where the law might have something to say is around the output of said trained models, this might be interesting to see given the potential of small-scale outputs. i.e. If I output something to a small number of people, how does one detect/report that level of infringement. Does the `potential` of infringement start to matter.
I used to collect many things, also on my pc in digital forms. then oneday my hard-drive just straigh-up died, no backups ofcourse the smart teenager i was. I was super sad, for like 1 hour, and re-installed and started 'clean'. That really felt like a big relief, and i got rid of all of my collections of useless stuff. loads of old pcs, laptops, tapes, cds, whatever. Ended up at somepoint only having a desktop, some speakers and a bed. now i have a little more again, but no collections, i just throw everything that's not usable to me anymore, or give it away if it might be usable to someone. feels great not having so much clutter and stuff around me anymore. real easy to clean the house too now :D
That means the code you wrote must have been pretty boring and repeatable. No way AI would produce code for, for example, proprietary hardware solutions. Try AI with something which isn't already on StackOverflow.

Besides, I'd rather spent hours on writing a code, than trying to explain a stupid bot what I want and reshape it later anyway.
You should really have a look at Marx. He literally predicted what will happen when we reach the state of "let machines do all work", and also how this is exactly the way that finally implodes capitalism as a concept. The major problem is he believed the industrial revolution will automate everything to such an extend, which it didn't, but here we are with a reasonable chance that AI will do the trick finally.
Presumably this means one day it will just stop working when Microsoft decide to shut down the cloud backend.
I'd challenge you to read those results again. They admit to the evidence for health effects being elusive (due to limited or no robust studies), yet there is still enough evidence to summarize the following:

"

There is substantial evidence of a statistical association between cannabis use and:

The development of schizophrenia or other psychoses, with the highest risk among the most frequent users (12-1)
There is moderate evidence of a statistical association between cannabis use and:

Better cognitive performance among individuals with psychotic disorders and a history of cannabis use (12-2a)
Increased symptoms of mania and hypomania in individuals diagnosed with bipolar disorders (regular cannabis use) (12-4)
A small increased risk for the development of depressive disorders (12-5)
Increased incidence of suicidal ideation and suicide attempts with a higher incidence among heavier users (12-7a)
Increased incidence of suicide completion (12-7b)
Increased incidence of social anxiety disorder (regular cannabis use) (12-8b)"

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. The Health Effects of Cannabis and Cannabinoids: The Current State of Evidence and Recommendations for Research. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/24625.

I would warrant that these summaries should be a concern for anyone using cannabis and that blanket statements regarding the overall tone and summation of the report negating health effects of cannabis is somewhat misguided.
> if you know the truth you can make much better decisions than those who are ignorant

There are some fallacious hidden assumptions there. One is that "knowing the truth" equates to better life outcomes. I'd argue that history shows more often than not that what one knows to be true best align with prevailing consensus if comfort, prosperity and peace is one's goal, even if that consensus is flat out wrong. The list is long of lone geniuses who challenged the consensus and suffered. Galileo, Turing, Einstein, Mendel, van Gogh, Darwin, Lovelace, Boltzmann, Gödel, Faraday, Kant, Poe, Thoreau, Bohr, Tesla, Kepler, Copernicus, et. al. all suffered isolation and marginalization of some degree during their lifetimes, some unrecognized until after their death, many living in poverty, many actively tormented. I can't see how Turing, for instance, had a better life than the ignorant who persecuted him despite his excellent grasp of truth.
Most merchants in the EU are not interested in partaking in a dispute arbitration process. You will find such disclaimers in the TOS of many european webshops, as the EU has laws in place that would permit arbitration.

If there is a dispute, it will typically end up in court.
There is. Be vehemently against AI, put 100% AI free in your work. The more consistent you are against AI, the more likely people will believe you. Write articles slamming AI. Personally, I am 100% against AI and I state that loud and clear on my blogs and YouTube channel. I HATE AI.
So what? It's pretty hard to tackle the root causes of anything and we are plenty happy with solutions that stop bad habits in other ways.
Should we have the FDA just ban harmful substances or do we need to educate everyone about everything eatable?
Surely education would be better, but it's just not feasible and creating a world in which you have to dodge yet another scam seems bad to me.
If they process personal data without explicit user consent, in violation of a privacy policy that outlines the types of data collected and how it is handled, it could be a GDPR violation. For example, if I cast photos of my children via Chromecast or entered my email into a Netflix app, and they send those images or my email sent to a server without my consent, this might also constitute a GDPR violation. It would be great if Max Schrems or a similar privacy advocate took up such a case.
I'm in the market for a new TV. Is there any source that lists models that do NOT engage in this sort of spying? I am willing to pay a significant premium and forego convenience features, but I lack the expertise to review products myself.
With smart boxes you have much more options. I'm thinking a stipped down android TV box doesn't make screenshots and track you like most smart TVs do, they also don't serve random ads on the home page.
Turning OpenAI into a Real Business Is Tearing It Apart
That is something I agree with.

One cannot be DDOSed with junk when not actively trying to stuff as much junk into ones head.
I don't really want to increase the amount of time I spend doing code reviews. It's not the fun part of programming for me.

Now, if you could switch it around so that I write the code, and the AI reviews it, that would be something.

Imagine if your whole team got back the time they currently spend on performing code reviews or waiting for code reviews.
I mean, Stablediffusion is right there, ready to be used to produce comically awful porn and so forth.
I came across this experiment in the book "Inventing Temperature" by Hasok Chang.

Chang seems to present it as if it is a phenomenon that modern science can't explain (possibly I misunderstood him).

But I think the explanation is basically that the cold object is blocking "ambient heat" (ambient infra-red light), the same way that a dark object blocks ambient visible light.

So if you look at a dark object you're not seeing "rays of dark" hitting your eyes, you're just noticing the absence of the ambient "rays of light" that you're accustomed to seeing all the time.

Similarly for heat: the thermometer gets cold because it is in the heat-shadow of the cold object.

The heat that the thermometer is radiating is not being topped up by the ambient heat, because it is in the shadow.
The start/stop VCR thing was called PDC, and IIRC it worked in the UK, as long as you'd set your VCR to the exact scheduled times of the program:

https://625.uk.com/pdc/
> Unless your servers can print for some reason

> This may vary by distro and cloud image, but in general your servers should not be vulnerable to this. Your desktops may be.

... if you're not running CUPS then you're not affected. Noted.
True, but ToSes don't apply if you don't explicitly agree with it (e.g. by signing up for an account). So that's not relevant in the case of publicly available content.
Not 100% sure what Will was trying to say, but what jumped into my head was perhaps that we'll see quality sites try and distinguish themselves by being short and direct.

Long-winded writing will become a liability.
https://archive.ph/DjUxR
Wow they will not live that down!
With a friend, I created a website about a race track in the past two years. I definitely used AI to speed up some of writing. One thing I used it for was a track guide, describing every corner and how to drive it. It was surprisingly accurate, most of the time. The other times though, it would drive the track backwards, completely hallucinate the instructions or link corners that are in different parts of the track.

I spent a lot of time analyzing the track myself and fixed everything to the point that experienced drivers agreed with my description. If I hadn't done that, most visitors would probably still accept our guide as the truth, because they wouldn't know any better.

We know that not everyone cares about whether what they put on the internet is correct and AI allows those people to create content at an unprecedented pace. I fully agree with your sentiment.
This is the whole problem with half-measures
You might be interested in Candli (https://cand.li). It is the result of research into making video game creation accessible to children, with a focus on combining technical and artistic development (https://gtc.inf.ethz.ch/research/game-based-education-and-le...).
If you write for yourself, whether you use generated text or not, (I am using the text completion on my phone typing this message), the only thing that matters is how it affects you.

Reading and writing are mental processes (with or without advanced technology) that shape our collective mind.
I liked the "New to AWS / Experienced at AWS" cartoon.
By AI here, it is meant generative systems relying on neural networks and semi/self supervised training algorhms.

It's a reduction of what AI is as a computer science field and even of what the subfield of generative AI is.

On a positive note, generative AI is a malleable statiscally-geounded technology with a large applicative scope. At the moment the generalistic commercial and open models are "consumed" by users, developers etc. But there's a trive of forthcoming, personalized use cases and ideas to come.

It's just we are still more in a contemplating phase than a true building phase.
As a machine learnist myself, I recently replaced my spam filter with a custom fineruned multimodal LLM that reads my emails a pure images. And this is the early early beginning, imagination and local personalization will emerge.

So I'd say, being tired of it now is missing much later. Keep the good spirit on and think outside the box, relax too :)
10-4

( https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24353 doesn't seem to have numeric codes, yet probably they were translated for the benefit of the reader: I doubt "Please send slower!" was transmitted in exactly those characters during a conversation which opened "B m—X n")

EDIT: confirmed: Then followed the figure "4," which means, "When shall I go ahead?"

EDIT: according to http://www.civilwarsignals.org/pages/tele/wurules1866/92code... Nattie's "Please repeat." would've been "R" on the wire, so "Please send slower!" was probably symbolised with equal brevity?

It also gives -13- as "I understand", which makes more sense, as a reply to -12-, than the wikipedia page's entry.
I actually disagree with that. People are so busy hoping things will get better, and creating little bubbles for themselves to hide away from what human beings as a whole are doing, that they don't realize things are getting worse. Technology constantly makes things worse. Cheering up is a good self-help strategy but not a good strategy if you want to contribute to making the world actually a better place.
In Star Trek, one thing that I always found weird as a kid is they didn't have TVs. Even if the holodeck is a much better experience, I imagine sometimes you would want to watch a movie and not be in the movie. Did the future not have works like No Country for Old Men or comedies like Monty Python, or even just stuff like live sports and the news?

Nowadays we know why the crew of the enterprise all go to live performances of Shakespeare and practice musical instruments and painting themselves: electronic mediums are so full of AI slop there is nothing worth see, only endless deluges of sludge.
>In the past, you had to put a lot of effort to produce a text which seemed to be high quality, especially when you knew nothing about the subject. By the look of text and the usage of the words, you could tell how professional the writer was and you had some confidence that the writer knew something about the subject. Now, that is completely removed. There is no easy filter anymore.

That is pretty much true also for other media, such as audio and video. Before digital stuff become mainstream pics are developed in the darkroom, and film are actually cut with scissors. A lot of effort are put into producing the final product. AI has really commoditized for many brain related tasks. We must realize the fragile nature of digital tech and still learn how to do these by ourselves.