skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Building a product by transforming a collection of works cannot be fair use by any stretch of the imagination.

A) The courts are deciding this now, and B) we already live in a sick reality distorted by the DMCA and we need a major copyright reform.

> I have to assume from your casual dismissal that you're not aware of the consequences of missing it.

You managed to completely ignore what I said about diminishing energy requirements for compute. You're arguing disingenuously and now you're attempting to insult my intelligence instead of focusing on the argument.

It's really telling that this is the typical fashion in which these argument play out. I have no interest in continuing a conversation like this if you can't make good-faith assumptions in your argument as per the Hacker News guidelines.
Ok Haskell programmers, I love you guys but this has now gone too far and I am officially intervening. The rest of the programming community and I are all super worried about what all this Haskell is doing for your health. Please stop before it's too late! Perhaps even touch grass, as drastic as I know that sounds.
Getting your quantum computer to do a classical task (and actually simulating it) is far from easy.
Old English poetry tends to have commonality at the beginnings of words (e.g. alliteration) rather than rhyming at the ends of words. Or so I remember from The History of English Podcast.

It's now 180 episodes in and talking about Shakespeare. Old English was some episodes back, as you might imagine.

As with many others posting here IANALinguist.
I also don't understand the weird rules key fobs and locks have, the states seem totally divorced from the real world.

But part of the nice thing about the app is that there's no cost to having extra "keys," so there's no reason to not have the app for your wife's car on your phone.
Only appears that way because of the size of the icons representing them (which at the base zoom level are kilometers wide). If it was drawn at real scale the objects would be insignificant.
Quantum dice roll is _the free will_ in this context. So your free will is what sets the dice; as it is extraphysical, it will look like randomness in the physical world.
Hmm, where do you see $5.2?

I see $0.182/h/1M ts = $0.182 per 1k metrics (S.STARTER.A instance)

Also Oodle website says to "Contact for pricing beyond 5M". While VictoriaMetrics Cloud only starts at 1M (S.STARTER.A), and "Contact Us" starts at 125M active time series.

PS: time series is only one dimension, there's also storage size, retention, query/alerts frequency etc.
> Before things like this become widespread, can we get some etiquette (and legal awareness)?

I was watching CNBC interview last week with the founder of https://mercor.com/ (backed by Benchmark, $250m valuation).

The founder was pitching that their company would take every employee's employment and payroll history (even from prior roles) and use that to make AI recommendations to employers on things like compensation, employee retention, employee performance, etc.

The majority of what the founder was describing would clearly be illegal if any human did it by hand. But somehow because a LLM is doing it, it becomes legal.

Specific example: In most states it's illegal for a company to ask job candidates what their salary was in prior roles. But suddenly it's no longer illegal if a big company like ADP feeds all the data into a LLM and query against the LLM instead of the raw dataset.

Copyright issues wasn't enough to regulate LLMs. But I suspect once we start seeing LLMs used in HR, performance reviews, pay raise decisions, hiring decisions, etc, people will start to care.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/video/2024/09/27/streamlining-hiring-wi...
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At shorter distances, Sifan Hassan also pulled off a triple-medal performance (bronze at 5000 and 10000, gold at marathon) at the Olympics that hasn't happened in 70 years and most people thought would be impossible in the modern era of professionalized and specialized running.
`returnBurrito` is defined above it.

`return` is a specific function of a Monad, and it is not used like the keyword "return" in other imperative languages.
i would love a drop in self hosted replacement for datadog that looks good.
$20k per year for a brand new drug that went through 15 years of development is peanuts. Welcome to healthcare in the country that leads the world in pharma research, for good and for ill.
> it’s still relatively easy to understand how well you’re doing at any point

This isn’t true, and is actually a large part of why go computers were getting destroyed by humans almost twenty years after deep blue took down Kasparov. There were articles as recent as about 2012 despairing that computers would ever “get” go.

That said, relative to grading an essay, I’d tend to agree, go is easier. But that said, if the goal is to find the edge, so to speak: to figure out what “mundane” is and then go a bit beyond, that seems eminently possible for a computer to do.
That's like saying "how do you monetize the internet?"

There are so many ways, it makes the question seem nonsensical.

Ways to monetize AI so far:

Metered APIs (OpenAI and others)

Subscription products built on it (Copilot, ChatGPT, etc.)

Using it as a feature to give products a competitive edge (Apple Intelligence, Tesla FSD)

Selling the hardware (Nvidia)
At the same time, it appears that you could load all artificial objects in Earth’s orbit onto a single small container ship.
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> Only around one in four English words is Germanic in origin, whereas half of English words are Latinic or Romanic.

Are you measuring by fraction of words in a word list, or fraction of words in a typical utterance? Word usage is highly non-uniform, so you'll get very different ratios between the former and latter.
Yeah this is a one-liner in JS

for await of (const name in ips.map(getName)) console.log(name)

Although you’d want more frills to deal with rejections
Anyone who thinks LLMs have not come a long way in approximating human linguistic capabilities (and associated thinking) are in fact, engaging in (delusional) wishful thinking regarding human exceptionalism.

With respect to consciousness, you are doing nothing more than asserting a special domain inside the brain that, unlike the rest of the mechanisms of the brain, has special "magic" that creates qualia where classical mechanisms cannot. You are saying that there is possibly a different explanation for intelligence as consciousness, when it would be much simpler to say the same mechanisms explain both. Furthermore, you have no explanation for why this quantum "magic", even if it was there, would solve the hard problem of consciousness - you are just saying that it does. Why should quanta lend themselves anymore to the possibility of subjective experience/qualia than classical systems? Finally, a brain operates at 98.6° and we can't even create verifiable quantum computing effects at near absolute zero, the only place where theory and experiment both agree is the place quantum effects start to dominate. The burden of proof is on you and Penrose as what you are both saying is wildly at odds with both physics, experimental and theoretical, and recent advancements in computing. Penrose is a very smart guy but I fear on these questions he's gone pretty rogue scientifically.
The code is F#, not Haskell.
I'm going to have to hard disagree with this take. I do agree that probably a large majority the cookbooks that you can currently walk into a bookstore and buy are garbage. But in the comments here are excellent suggestions for proven, classic cookbooks, and you will be a better cook, possibly even a great one, if you absorb them.

The stuff written here: "* Measuring ingredients..." is completely unrecognizable to me. For instance, ovens do have hotspots but a solid convection function pretty much eliminates that as an issue.

Also, I think there is some confusion about what it means to measure. What competent recipes try to do is balance the need to indicate how much is going to be made ("serves 4-6") and then, this is the key: within that constraint they tell you the ratios of the ingredients. Which is obvious, isn't it? Except I've seen people get annoyed when they don't honor the ratios.

Ruhlmann wrote a book about this: "Ratio". His book "Charcuterie" is terrific if you really want to learn how to make tasty stuff.
I tried my standard testprompt:

Two cars have a 100 mile race. Car A drives 10
miles per hour. Car B drives 5 miles per hour,
but gets a 10 hour headstart. Who wins?

And the Liquid-40B model failed with a long explanation why car B wins the race.

Amusingly, the explanation is quite convincing and very similar to how Zeno explains in one of his paradoxes that a fast runner can never overtake a slower runner with a headstart. Because every time the fast runner gets to the point where he saw the slow runner, the slow runner is already a bit further along the track.
Ayad Akhtar isn't afraid of AI [theater review]
Kris Kristofferson writes a fan letter to Muhammad Ali
I'm curious how this works, it looks like they haven't published yet but two of the founders are authors on this paper:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.06147
So things haven't changed in the 30 years since I left academic medicine. Par for the course given how grants and funding are carried out. This will continue to happen as the system design guarantees this outcome.
Strong brand value seems like insurance.

You don't think about it when you don't need it, but it bails your ass out of otherwise-impossible situations when you do need it.

Everything's fine for uninsured property... until it's not.
They say it's not a transformer.
https://archive.ph/nBgOs
the question is not really whether english is germanic (it's clearly germanic! nobody disagrees!) but whether it's a creole
I think if you look at the actual news reporting on Fox News, it could be closer to center. But when you factor in their opinion "reporting" it's very clearly heavily right-leaning. Problem is, most of their viewership can't tell the difference.
not a crime, more like an act of self harm
The most frequently used words are almost all Germanic. There are a lot of technical words with Latin or Greek etymologies that are hardly used in quotidian conversation.
> Also, again, it’s not a tuple. It’s an array with 2 elements. JavaScript does not have tuples or the semantics for interacting with them as such

Not true. In TypeScript, there are tuples — you can perfectly describe an array having 2 elements with different types, and even give names to them:

type KVPairTuple = [key: string, value: number]

We use it all the time for simple 2-element thingies. You can say JavaScript isn't TypeScript, but cmon, just everybody out there uses TypeScript, it is the basic norm nowadays. So we're really talking about TypeScript semantics here.

Also, even JS uses tuples for its core APIs. Enter `Object.entries` and `Object.fromEntries` — they operate on kv-pairs in form of 2-element arrays. So your assertion that tuples are something alien to JS ecosystem isn't accurate simply because of that.
It’s probably too late for a tax-only solution. Either the tax is too low to have the necessary effect, or people will overthrow the government who instated it. The change we need has become quite drastic.
Subhead: “His new play, McNeal, starring Robert Downey Jr., subverts the idea that artificial intelligence threatens human ingenuity.”

> Sher: This could sound geeky, but what is the distinguishing quality of making art? It is to participate in something uniquely human, something that can’t be done any other way.

So if the Greeks are gathering on the hillside because they are building a space where they can hear their stories and participate in them, that’s a uniquely human experience.*
A monad is a weird/unnecessary concept for a type that wraps another type (and makes certain guarantees). Like you can have a List<Int> so List is a monad type. There's also an "option" type in many languages (which is just a list of size 0 or 1), which is a monad.

Some people call futures monads.

But the real takeaway is that people pretend they want you to understand all this type stuff, but they don't, they want to make up new complicated words for obvious ideas that you already understand, so they can feel smart. Once you understand it they aren't "smarter" anymore, so they make sure to explain every weird term they made up with 5 other weird terms they made up and insisting that all this abstract theory is relevant to everybody when it's not.
> My family makes its motor oil stir fry all the time, and we love it!

What weight works best? Synthetic or dinosaur? Have you tried adding a bit of gear oil for more viscosity?
They're quite different from DBSP. Given a program execution, Salsa/adapton seem to reuse prior steps from an execution when the input changes.

In contrast, DBSP has built-in knowledge of incremental versions of operations and composes them. Here's a blurb from a recent paper we submitted:

DBSP is not tied to databases in any way; it is in fact a Turing-complete language that can be used for many other purposes. But it works particularly well in the area of databases, for two reasons:
– DBSP operates on values from a commutative group. Databases can be modeled as a commutative group.
– DBSP reduces the problem of incrementalizing a complex program to the problem of incrementalizing each primitive operation that appears in the program. For databases there are known efficient incremental implementations for all primitive operations.

As to whether DBSP could be used for an incremental compiler backend, we think not (at least not with our current understanding). Would be cool to explore though.
I'm glad he vetoed the bill, but his rationale is worrisome. Even if he's just trying to placate SB 1047 proponents, they will try to exact concessions from him in future sessions. I'll take this brief reprieve, but it's still a large concern for me.
Note that when YCombinator first started in 2005 (the batch that Sam Altman was part of, as a college dropout), they were not prestigious. They largely funded college students that nobody else would invest in. But part of Paul Graham's philosophy for it is that "If you do anything well enough, you'll make it prestigious" [1].

Rather, I think that what's happened with YCombinator is that it's followed the growth arc common to all institutions. You start with somebody who has a good idea and a passion for making things better for some subset of humanity. That attracts other people in a virtuous cycle. But eventually you hit a growth limit and saturate your market. At that point, the focus of the people in charge turns to wealth extraction, leveraging your brand, reputation, and market position to make ever increasing profits. Eventually you squeeze everything there is out of your market, your product is shit, your employees don't care about you anymore, and you get replaced by a younger more beautiful que^H^H^Hstartup.

I wouldn't bother applying to YC now - I don't feel like they give enough for the equity they take, their advice has become formulaic and well-known, and I'd rather go do what I love. But in 2005, when nobody was funding college students and the popular wisdom was that the Internet was a dead fad, they were revolutionary.

[1] https://paulgraham.com/love.html
And how does ammo add up. Cartridge weight of 7.62×39mm is about 16 grams, one magazine is 30 rounds. Meaning more than half a kilo per each. Or with 3-4 magazines 2 kilos.
Whatever feels for you emotional or not is irrelevant. It is science-backed that each and every "Schizophrenia" symptom of a book that resembles the bible and nothing else (going by the name of DSM) is a product of chemically induced damage and torture with neuro-toxic poison.
This is my favourite comment on YCombinator and I had to reply to get a reminder.
I use Tabnine - https://www.tabnine.com/
It supports multiple LLM's and it has it's own internal one, and it can be secure for a company and their codebase, unlike the generic OpenAI, Claude, etc.

I do have OpenAI keys and Claude, and I use them both (just as the mood fits, to see which works best).

I'm been coding for decades, so I"m quite experienced. I find that an LLM is no substitute for experience, but it definitely helps with progress. I work regularly in a range of languages: Java, Javascript with Typescript, Javascript pure ESM, Python, SQL. It's great to have a quick prototype tool.

One key takeaway - learning to "drive the LLM" is a skill by itself. I find that some people are "hesitant" to learn this, and they usually complain about how bad the LLM is at generating code.. but, in reality, they are bad at "driving" the LLM.

If I put you in an F1 car, the car would perform perfectly, but unless you had the skills to handle the car, you will not win any races.. might not get around the track one time..

Also, I'm in my 60's so, this is all "new" tech. I've just never been afraid of "new" tech. I'd hate for some 30 year old hot-shot to show my up because they learned to master using that LLM Tool and I just blew it off as "new tech".

Anyway, my $0.02
monad means a datastructure that implements flatmap.
To be fair, this article does say:

>What are Language LFMs not good at today:

>Zero-shot code tasks

>Precise numerical calculations

>Time-sensitive information

>Counting r's in the word "Strawberry"!

>Human preference optimization techniques have not been applied extensively to our models yet.

Maybe it's just not trained/tuned for math-related challenges. Or maybe it's an architectural challenge.
ok, but i'd wager brain cancer (the cause of death in this case) lacks this correlation. And yes RIP, Mutombo seemed like an exceptional person.
The case for spaced repetition in K-12 classrooms
:( one of the most iconic NBA players. Mutumbo will be remembered.
It's an endotaco in the category of fast food, what's the problem?
I love the posts about how YC was better back in the day.
It was the same, it's the same. It's just bigger and there's more timeline now to reflect.

If you think the partners (the core of which have been there since day 1) have really changed their outlook that much then you've not been paying attention.

YC has always been a smorgasbord of status seekers, dreamers, ruthless pragmatists, creators and artists. It's a big community that keeps growing, the good parts and the bad parts.

There were scandals then, there are scandals now. They pick some teams perfectly and others totally wrong. The most important thing is that they keep doing it every year and more people get access and a shot at doing their thing.

FWIW I was YC W14 and yes it was totally better back then and we were all geniuses and pure lovers of startups only with no ego...
It's funny to observe that generational shift: I would have said "Pascal-style".
Which 'aspect' is supposed to be missing in Germanic language verbs? Because I can say those three example forms (aspect tenses?) in both Swedish and German without any limitation.
The problem with "wokeism" is that it isnt very nuanced though. Sure the academic form of it is, Ive read Kendi and found him quite nuanced. But the political movement formed on the backs of these academics works is decidedly lacking in nuance. It continuously misinterprets the academics who started the movement and then makes litmus tests around those mistaken interpretations. It very much is a populist movement
This. Seeing a lot of great stories of EVs being very useful in the aftermath of hurricane Helen in US. The Ioniq 5 can power a house for 5 days for example. And is more cost effective (since you also use it as a car) than installing batteries at home.
(Disclaimer not all EVs support V2L)
It's not known. It's a belief hold among some scientists.

It also assumes materialisam is true.
Would love to know the details of their situation. I'm guessing this is a case of hedonic treadmill and keeping up with the Joneses, or just generally extremely high expectations. And even if you have a high income that doesn't mean you can have everything you want right away.
The monad is none of the identifiers. If you combine the definitions you get a type with an interface equivalent to the monad and some floof methods (like the mission burrito starter, that's there just for convenience).
... with some GNU components stuck in 2006.
The article says beaked birds were more fit for the new situation not because they had beaks per se, but because toothed birds were obligate carnivores and beaked birds evidently weren't.

What I've read up to now is that the mammals that survived the K-Pg extinction were largely small, ground-dwelling creatures. Those likely had a similar sort of omnivorous or herbivorous diet and the right kinds of teeth to match.
> with support, you can find a path to recovery from schizophrenia

They misspelled "medication". There are narrow situations where very skilled psychiatrists have successfully treated schizophrenics using non-pharma (read: traditional) psychotherapy, but they are truly exceptional cases.

Being schizophrenic is not a lack of "deepening your self-understanding" that blocks them from "uncovering the root of " their illness! That is absolutely horse shit and belongs in a new age Homeopathy boutique.

Schizophrenics firmly believe their delusions and paranoia. In fact, one of the worst things you can say to them is "it's all in your head! The voices aren't real!". Commonly, they split the world into allies and suspects, so the moment you try to invalidate them, they add you to the list of agents/spirits/whatever is after them.

This disease requires a psychiatrist and medication, full stop, and is fully orthogonal to child abuse.
Well, of course.

I was responding to this:

> bookmarks should be centered around content and not metadata (links)

Perhaps I'm not understanding exactly what "centered around" means, but to my ears, that statement sounds like it would not be an improvement for my particular use case.

Not saying the idea is a bad one at all -- just saying it doesn't sound appealing to me personally. But I also suspect I may not really be understanding it.
How long do you have?!

A friend of mine pitched me this idea of “onlyfans but for NIL” and I’ve been running with that idea.

It’s been an insanely tangled web but there’s some crazy stuff happening and I think it can be a big business.
GNUnet: Build secure, decentralized, privacy-preserving distributed apps
Everyone I know who went to Georgetown has a positive story about Dikembe Mutombo.
"Middle class" is super-poorly defined. Marxists use it to mean petit bourgeoisie (ie people who own capital, plus professionals, so right from the start you have an anomaly, in that, say, a doctor is middle class even if they don't own anything; it's not purely capitalists). As you say Americans tend to use it to mean 'practically everybody'. The British definition has always been complex and is at this point probably complex enough that it's impossible to fully pin down; a huge part of it is _self-identification_ (there are plenty of British millionaires who consider themselves working class).
no one understands
Doesn’t GNU literally stand for “GNU’s not Unix”
Once upon a time I wrote a Python library that would interact with the NIST randomness beacon: https://github.com/urda/nistbeacon

Might have to go earth that project up and checkout this new version.
Looks more like F# (or something ML-y) than Haskell.

Yep, tuple or "product type."

Yep, in F# type annotations can be either in prefix style `List<T>` or postfix style `T list`.
Early Middle Ages were probably a point in history where Europeans were at their highest level in terms of overall health and quality of life.

Antiquity and Renaissance were both overcrowded, urbanized, with bad living conditions and worse food.