skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a good thing! If a company cannot raise to fame unless they violate laws, it should not have been there.

There is plenty of public domain text that could have taught a LLM English.
US Navy Patent №_3045596 R.S. Rae's Guided "DS-40" Missile / the Cannonball[PDF]
ok, yes, you should not introduce style problems to begin with. but if the problem is already there from an older PR, it should be fixed separately.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42281618
Yup, it's entirely down to zoning.
Alcohol suppresses REM sleep, I’d imagine folks with FNSS would get the same quantity of sleep with much worse quality.
I would actually love it if that was true. It would reduce a lot of legal headaches for sure. But if that was true, why were previous GPT versions not as good at understanding language? I can only conclude that it's because that's not actually true. There's not enough digital public domain materials to train a LLM to understand language competently.

Perhaps old texts in physical form, then? It'll cost a lot to digitize that, wouldn't it? And it wouldn't really be accessible to AI hobbyists. Unless the digitization is publicly funded or something.

(A big part of this is also how insanely long copyright lasts (nearly a hundred years!) that keeps most of the Internet's material from being public domain in the first place, but I won't belabour that point here.)

Edit:

Fair enough, I can see your point. "Surely it is cheaper to digitize old texts or buy a license to Google Books than to potentially lose a court case? Either OpenAI really likes risking it to save a bit of money, or they really wanted facts not contained in old texts."

And yeah, I guess that's true. I could say "but facts aren't copyrightable" (which was supported by the judge's decision from the TFA), but then that's a different debate about whether or not people should be able to own facts. Which does have some inroads (e.g. a right against being summarized because it removes the reason to read original news articles).
Thank you. How many of these ISPs are small businesses?
Kth: High-Performance Selection Algorithms for Go
There's a large financial incentive to making it work.

There's an infinitely smaller financial incentive to making sure it works well and functions securely. Thus it rarely happens...
Really? You're surprised that I don't want to get in a vehicle driven by Greg in Florida while he's scratching his nuts? ... Or Javinder in India while he's got a side eye on how his cricket bet is going?

Count me out. This is a laughable version of the promised vision.
We're not talking about monitoring traffic on roads there, but about an embedded spying device that is enabled even when you're in your own garage and is also being used commercially to monetize your private life.
Excellent points.

(much of the below has been posted in other discussions here, my apologies to folks who are seeing it for the _n_th time)

This is a sort of tool I've believed in/wanted for a long while (and I've been funding the author and chatting with him on Discord and via e-mail), but there seem to be a few fundamental issues which good answers need to be found for:

>What does an algorithm look like?

Can such visual tools be expressive enough to justify the effort?

They seem to work well for problems which can be expressed as one screen of diagram --- and while making modules would seem an easy way to increase the complexity, this goes against the initial mode of expression and if overdone, results in the wall-of-text one is trying to escape from, just dressed up in colored boxes and lines. Once one starts to scroll, or can't see the entire flow at a glance, things get complicated.

And of course, there are collections such as:

https://blueprintsfromhell.tumblr.com/

https://scriptsofanotherdimension.tumblr.com/

which might be used as arguments against.

I've been using:

https://www.blockscad3d.com/editor/

but it doesn't support all of OpenSCAD (and has some annoying bugs in what it does try to implement) and also funded:

https://github.com/derkork/openscad-graph-editor

but it has problems with a stylus (I have to leave the Windows Settings app open to toggle stylus behaviour which is enough friction that I don't use it as much as I would otherwise).

Hopefully the author will pop in and share a bit.
I have wanted to do something like this for news websites for a while now. I tried the recipe site, my first url from lifehacker wasn't supported, the second attempt from the curated list gave an error loading site, so maybe make the links clickable, have a top 10 ready to go ( cached) at bottom of landing page. Write a bot to periodically check the list of sites this works on and indicate how recent said check was done. Then I might spend more time. Good luck!
Does it? If the sun were rotating around the Earth, there could still be another planet behind it, rotating synchronously with it.

At least from the point of view of the Greek, who didn't know how gravitation works in detail.
I think this is probably correct on the balance of probabilities but I have 2 concerns with it.

Firstly the “it would be illegal to listen” argument feels absurdly naive. Whilst almost certainly true, it only “matters” if the penalty for the crime is meaningful in context. Jail time for Zuckerberg? Probably don’t do it. A fine? Probably do it because it will likely be immaterial to the upside.

Secondly the parody-like definition of what “listening” actually means. No one is thinking a warehouse full of humans with headsets transcribing conversations and picking matching ads. An AI is perfectly capable of transcribing at scale and near real-time and linking this to keyword matching and ad-serving.
There's been plenty of effort put into that but it's not easy. Iceland is very windy and the temperature fluctuates a lot but the main problem is the sheep which are allowed to run around where they like.

It's also difficult to find good places to plant them. We don't want to destroy moors and wetlands that bind more CO2 than trees ever will or the bird habitats.
One of my $previousjob's managed to invent their own kind-of sort-of double entry accounting system, but not quite. So whenever anything went sideways (and we interacted with Stripe, so something always went sideways), it required a lot of manual intervention with changing of amounts in various tables.

I pushed for offsetting entries instead, but was overruled. It was a _nightmare_.

Thankfully, it is not $previousjob.
How do you interface with an interactive system without interaction?
COVID affected my sleep, but I wouldn't classify it as “long COVID” Does anyone have interesting insights or resources about this? I’ve found a references, but HN is one of the best resources to ask for this.

It seems to improve over time, and I don't have any trouble napping during the day. However, my main issue is fragmented sleep: I wake up a few times at night but can fall back asleep easily. I used to sleep continuously, so I’m curious about what part of the brain this could be affecting and how can this be changed. I tried melatonin [1] in different dosages, from extra low to relatively high.

I’m fairly certain COVID was the cause since the symptoms coincided with the infection. Of course, statistically speaking, it could be a coincidence involving other factors, but I’m not planning to dive into a PhD analysis of it, yet!

[1] https://gwern.net/melatonin
> Same with Trump.

With buying cars you get to choose between more than two candidates, you can choose "wait", and the other candidate isn't worse.
If there is one blog I've fell in love it, it's nullpt.rs.
Still waiting for part 2 of Reverse Engineering Tiktok's VM Obfuscation
It's not nice to stick eyeballs under people's vestiments. It's not nice to put hands on a stranger. Bad faith actions can be responded to without malice but there is no need to be nice. Non consentual cameras in a private dwelling are never good faith.
The logical step after that will be Mechanical Turk for remote driving.
I couldn't agree more heartily.
Though I have to thank/apologise/admit
that I read the comments here,preferentialy, to the actual articles
as the caliber is almost always higher than whatever is published.Plus it saves me seeing paywalls, and needing to enable
java/cookies,dom, or switch to megadvertizemento birage-o-browser
text,blessed text
Sound like you exist in some very insulated bubbles.
I don’t understand why this is a bad thing for so many people here. This kind of tech will eventually allow more people to have their own “private driver” who works remotely and on demand. Fully reliable self driving via AI isn’t coming for a very long time.
My approach to this is to write a bunch of tiny “kernels” which are obvious to SIMD and then inline them all, and it does a pretty good job on x86 and arm

https://github.com/maedoc/tvbk/blob/nb-again/src/util.h
The Haystack Editor has been mentioned here previously, and seems quite promising.

It makes an interesting contrast to:

https://leo-editor.github.io/leo-editor/

I wound up using TeXshop/TeXworks with a Literate Programming setup I hacked together with a bit of help from A.X. on tex.stackexchange:

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/722886/how-to-write-...
Cannons are legal to own, which is a little wild
Most Information about AI is in the public domain....?
AI boosting productivity, hindering delivery
That last point is _very_ interesting.
Probably not as surprising given the recent reports that Twitter downranks tweets with hyperlinks.
Dude, that sounds stressful, but you seem to be agreeing to live a prisoners life and leaving your family within it. I'm am legitimately sad to hear about your situation.
So when everyone in the world starts going to your friend instead of paying Reuters, what happens then?
You'd think that if they can't get a reliable self driving car given how much training data they must currently have, perhaps they need to try a different strategy.
Steven Wright: "I have this switch in my house that doesn't seem to do anything. It's in a hallway, so every time I pass it, I flip it: up, down, up, down...up...down. A few months after I got the house, a guy from Indonesia called me on the phone and said...'stop it'"
There's a section of rail line between Senneterre, QC and Cochrane, ON in north-central Canada constructed as part of a quixotic federal project a century ago to link the grain-growing praries with an Atlantic port. It was barely ever used and then abandoned in the 1990s. It's the very fringe of the interface where North American industrial civilization reached, and has since rolled back. It's amazing how completely nature has swallowed everything back up. The bridges still stand but they won't in another thirty years or so. Even the railbed constructed to high quality with packed stone dust has trees growing out of it again. I've explored some of the route and I was reminded of who were the great engineers here before humans - beavers completely transform landscapes. They've dammed every causeway along the route, which only further accelerates the erosion. They've flooded a couple rail stops and old logging villages I had hoped to check out. Before long you'll have to know exactly what to look for to even find the line.
Oof, I saw "CoralQueue" on the product list on your website and I just immediately assumed it was a paid product. But I didn't even think of looking at the LICENSE files, my bad!

Regarding the docs, I was only looking at CoralRing, and it looks like CoralQueue has some additional documentation that applies to CoralRing as well. After reading through them everything makes a lot more sense.
> but the GPS and eSIM that comes with most (all?) new cars

All. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECall:

“eCall (an abbreviation of "emergency call") is an initiative by the European Union, intended to bring rapid assistance to motorists involved in a collision anywhere within the European Union. The aim is for all new cars to incorporate a system that automatically contacts the emergency services in the event of a serious accident, sending location and sensor information. eCall was made mandatory in all new cars approved for manufacture within the European Union as of April 2018.”
> React developers are web developers.

This has felt increasingly untrue recently. I hope I'm just experiencing the peak of the bell curve but I've been bumping into more and more devs who only have experience in SPA React and associated styling frameworks. Ask them to actually style something and they flake out.

I was used to some tribalism in backends (everyone thinks theirs in the best and equally hates PHP devs and Wordpress) but can all publish a static page if asked.

It's a self fulfilling issue. Mid-managers want React because Facebook and pre-juniors train to meet job postings. Not enough question it.
I believe the sticking point is that they are only now doing this industry standard practice- years after selling cars with FSD
> Doctors have been next to useless in helping

With the current state of medical care basically anywhere you either have some cookie cutter ailment or you're more or less completely on your own. Nobody has time to spend looking into it nor wants any liability for suggesting the wrong treatment given that they have no idea what's wrong. Even with the common well researched stuff they're making educated guesses half the time.
The number of engineers I've met that realized only too late that, by definition, floats and doubles are absolutely *not good* to deal with money is unbelievable. At this point it should be universal knowledge, but it isn't.
Show HN: Workshop of the Elves – Secret Santa Generator
Assigns Secret Santas!

Enter participants manually or through text or excel. Export them via text or excel.

Source code: https://github.com/abishekvenkat/workshop-of-the-elves

I would appreciate ideas or feedback. Thanks!
Sure, and then do that with every other piece of work theyre unfairly using
the customizable node source code is neat
Aren't the drivers being hired for their recently announced Robo-Taxi fleet and not private, personal cars like your comment suggests?
So a taxi? Just with even lower pay and less skin in the game?
I'm aware of that. That's why I questioned the validity of the idea, because it seems too risky to rely on. Probably unsustainable because the ever faster changes of the 'meteorological machine' will disrupt many other mechanisms, because they are too slow to adapt.

The idea of mechanizing/automating/centralizing that stuff is irking me in general. One could argue that the biologisms which evolved us, and we with and through them, are just another, rather imperfect way of doing this, by slow, biologic means.

IMO this only leads to transhumanism, which I consider BS, because it will produce shadows/weak simulations of the real thing and philosophical zombies.
Hey dude. Any idea if 1000 labelled images are good enough for training and how much time it would take to train on a a40 nvidia like on https://www.runpod.io/pricing ?
A fantastic show is up now at Buffalo's AKG (https://buffaloakg.org/art/exhibitions/electric-op), including work by Bridget Riley. She had a solo exhibition at AKG in 1990.
In my very limited experience of firing a handgun you shoot with a slight pause between shots to bring the muzzle back down on target.

If you go full auto, I suspect the shooter would find their muzzle going higher and higher so after the first couple shots they are shooting way high. So if they have 15 bullets in the magazine 3 are good and 12 are way off target type deal. Whereas if they were pulling the trigger at each shot they might aim the '12 air shots' more effectively.

Pure speculation but as I said has the feel of one of those things that may be counter intuitive to what you would initially expect.
Sure, but Intel needs this more than America does. This is an article about what Intel must do, rather than a justification for investing $100 billion in Intel. This important part is glossed over in a couple of lines at the beginning of the article.
Kadane's Algorithm: The Journey to Maximum Efficiency
More compute.
> There are many TV channel alternatives

There are many social medias

> public TV is pretty transparent

In what manner? As a kid I didn't know that the pokemon cartoon existed in order to make me buy trading cards.

Even in news there is an army of editors and producers making decisions all of the time. This leads to things like the state media adding sound effects to footage to make it more sensational and then after losing in court investigating themselves and finding no intentional wrongdoing [1]!

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/nov/05/abc-editorial-...
Colorado posted a summary on their state office website and characterized the applicants at a high level:

https://broadband.colorado.gov/funding/advance-BEAD
> Getting a bad night of sleep now and then is annoying, but not a health risk. However, chronic poor sleep may increase the likelihood of developing dementia, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity and even cancers of the breast, colon, ovaries and prostate. [0]

[0] https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-preventi...

Is it entirely possible that yes you can get 2 hours less sleep, but you're at higher risk of developing dementia, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, etc.? I don't see anything discussing long term effects of less sleep in comparison in TFA.
It's notable that almost every animal sleeps in some way, even organisms that are away from sunlight (ie. creatures that live underground).

If you sleep 30% of the time, that's 30% of the time you aren't eating, mating, etc. Also, during sleep you are more vulnerable to predators. One would expect evolution to get rid of sleep in creatures who don't rely on sunlight cycles.

So, there must be some really good evolutionary reason for sleep.
This argument doesn't really make sense. The "expectation of privacy" in public doesn't refer to losing all your rights and letting anyone peek into anything when they want to. Vehicles can also be used on private roads or property, so the privacy invading tech would need to account for that (which I'm sure it doesn't, and there isn't a straightforward solution)
.NET still doesn't have any real time GC, zero pauses GC, bare metal implementations, cloud JIT, a compiler development framework, has lost the mobile OS wars.

So I would slow down on the whole Java versus .NET flamewars, regarding who's more competent.

I use both ecosystems, because both have plus and minus, and complement themselves.
Killer whales will go after elk and deer (for instance) when the opportunity arises.

Humans in the water also seem like low reward but minimal-effort.
How sturdy is this claim?

If we presume it's illegal to train on copyrighted works, but Wikipedia, a website summarizing the article is perfectly legal, then what would happen if we got LLM A to summarize the article and use that to train LLM B.

LLM A could be trained on public domain works.
> Again, Maven doesn’t make it easy to show the classpath used to call javac ourselves.

Wait, I was under the impression that maven dependency plugin has a command for exactly that (dependency:build-classpath or something like that)?
ClosedAI etc. are certainly stealing from open source authors and web site creators, who do own the copyright.

That said, I agree with putting more emphasis on individual creators, even if they have sold the copyright to corporations. I was appalled by the Google settlement with the author's guild: Why does a guild decide who owns what and who gets compensations?

Both Disney and ClosedAI are in the wrong here. I'm the opposite of a Marxist, but Marx' analysis was frequently right. He used the term "alienation from one's work" in the context of factory workers. Now people are being alienated from their intellectual work, which is stolen, laundered and then sold back to them.
> Often, nothing at all is objectionable about a downvoted post. I've read many that are perfectly reasonable, intelligent and specific to an issue at hand, but they still get downvoted because they "went against" some particular hive mind tendency of the kinds of people who frequent this site and who were interested in that post

For me, I simply refuse to trade in the comment karma currency here. It’s so wishy-washy. I may post a comment or opinion that HN hates, but I am not going to self-censor an opinion on a topic I want to share just because I think might be HN controversial and receive downvotes. Also, I specifically want to read a heavily downvoted comment because often there are sometimes interesting takes in there. Also the dimming to me is annoying, it’s akin to shouting down a speaker rather than using reasonable debate and conversation to explore a topic.

Finally…I refuse to downvote any comment. Who am I to contribute to censoring a speaker for other people?
no i havent, but judging by the name - machine learning - i think it is the case.
On modern planes there is a very high degree of automation already. But it's a fine balance, because too complex automations can be confusing or unpredictable to the pilots. There are a few crashes due to pilots not understanding/fighting with automation.
The "I'm a tech guy so I shoot my printer if it makes a weird noise" meme essentially.
I happen to agree with most of what he said, but man, that tone was insufferable ...

(non-wrapping extra long lines have not helped but maybe that's on my user agent)

My rules of thumb:

* informational website / blog - static frontend (Django! :heart:)

* some interactivity - htmx

* a lot of interactivity (app that happens to libe in the browser) - spa (React and weep)

For a very strong assertion he makes (even if you need spa, react is obsolete), he dismisses finding a good alternative as an exercise to the reader. The ones listed offhandedly in a side note look all the same (as react) to me.
This is not about usage. I am not saying we should live without cars. I am saying that there is a very bad systemic issue if people simply can not live without owning a car.

If you want to make a comparison with utilities: The fact that people in Flint are getting bottled water delivered from distant cities (and the fact that some people prefer to drink bottled water anyway) does not mean that this is not a serious crisis.

I am not saying "other people can live without cars, so just suck it up". I am saying "if you are living in a place where you can not function without a car, this is a serious issue and you should be getting the pitchforks to hunt down the responsible authorities that brought this to you."
It's crazy the EU passed this and collecting someone's IP address or assigning them a random UUID is considered a GDPR violation.
Right, thanks for the correction: I wanted to highlight the need for "replaying" all the other transactions with a blockchain.
> true rust developers

true rust developers will program with magnetic needle
Yea, open web for the win.
If I thought that nobody had a chance in hell of competing with generative models compiled by Disney from its corpus of lighthearted family movies, I'd be even less keen to give unlimited power to create derivative works out of everything in history to the companies with the greatest amount of computing power, which in this case happens to be a subsidiary of Microsoft.

All property rights depends on public funding the infrastructure to enforce them. If I believed movies derived from applying generative AI techniques to other movies was the endgame of human creativity, I'd find your endgame of it being the fiefdom of corporations who sold enough Windows licenses to own billions of dollars worth of computer hardware even more dystopian than it being invested in the corporations who originally paid for the movies...
> Why do you do this?

Money, obviously. I'd also do it for $30-150k/year

> you know most users of forums and imageboards don’t want any AI content at all.

He's not creating or posting any "AI content"?