skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Auto Generate Viral Clips
You can use it to make clips with captions and gameplay, which used to get 30k views on an account I created last week (https:// www.tiktok.com/@daily.clips.comedy?
_t=ZT-8t0SdMn8mdi&_r=1)

Many social media platforms like TikTok pay creators for viral content in various ways, and this site could be a way for you to get started in a somewhat passive way! I'm also working on posting on all platforms to make it fully automated!

Keeping it free for now to get some feedback and feature suggestions! I may run out of OpenAl credits soon, however. A known issue is that the editing takes a longish time, which I want to speed up with a GPU once I can fund the project more.

If you have suggestions or would like to support, please comment!
The controversy here is that LibGen doesn't legally distribute its content. Mass-scale training on pirated content is... legally murky, to say the least.
A human is a mostly blank slate...but it's a really sophisticated slate that as you say has taken many millions of years of development.
Shadow libraries are a heavily-discussed, recurring topic on HN,

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=libgen&type=all ("LibGen")

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=anna's%20archive&type=all ("Anna's Archive")

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=z%20library&type=all ("Z-Library")

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=scihub&type=all ("SciHub")
programming.dev has some good ones
> having licenses which forbid using the output of their models to train other models

I haven't been following it closely, but aren't there already court rulings saying that generative AI output by itself is not copyrightable?
Just add another four digits to the start of IPv4. Treat any IP of the current length as 0000.CurrentIP.
The irony is, it's sort of a household name on HN for over a year now, being way ahead of what was available commercially on the market - and yet, it seems most people here haven't heard of it.

(The author used to post a lot of insightful comments here about LLMs and other generative models, too.)
That is not "just" for people who do not have social skills, do not know how to fit in etc. Starting something is a thing people with good social skills and confidence do. If you already feel rejected and do not know how to make interactions work, trying to start something will make you feel even more rejected and lonely.
Yes; it's still reasonably broad. (MACHOs? WIMPs?) But this is still, in terms of all possible explanations for observations re rotation curves, and the Bullet Cluster etc, well defined. It includes a lot of possibilities, but also excludes.
I meant that you tend to spend free time on that as opposed to treating it like 9 to 5 job. and again it is important that if you do that, it is because you just want to see what comes out of your experiment/learn a new thing etc rather than because you have to publish or is forced by your advisor.
Games like this based on an existing skill would really benefit from the ability to start at higher levels. I'm a pretty proficient typist, it'd be a lot more interesting to me if there was any risk at all of me failing.
There's not much caselaw as to whether those terms are actually enforceable yet, but it at least indicates what they want to happen.
He was sentenced? I thought he didn't make it to trial?
It saves a ton of time creating. It wastes a lot of time maintaining and cleaning up infections and debugging poor performance.

Is like Dreamweaver but you have to run Dreamweaver all the time your site has visitors and an instance of Dreamweaver for each visitor.
Your blog really helped me during the early years of my PhD. Thank you!!!
Did they seem personalized or do they just mass-mail every developer they can find? 100 users seem very little to go through the trouble of acquiring an extension and then push bad code.

Did they ever give you an idea of what they are ready to pay?
Embarrassing behavior for someone that became wealthy off other peoples' open-source contributions.
https://cults3d.com/en/collections/best-stl-files-cars-3d-pr...

You're welcome! :P
Giving Big, a California Couple Gets Gratitude and Scrutiny (2024)
I'd say religious indoctrination turned out pretty traumatic for me. Gotta teach those kids that they'll most likely burn in hell for eternity while they're still young and impressionable.
I do think a new way of thinking about copyright is needed for AI. Allow tech firms to train on all material, but there should be an AI tax that serves as compensation back to the public commons for what was taken from it and privatized.

The status quo favors large players who can navigate the legal system.
We are approaching the "UBI or Guillotine" fork simply because rules and regulations work selectively. Just like with the "If we pay for copyright or business becomes impossible" defense, this is yet another wast unfairness against those who had to transfer their resources to learn a skill. Awful lot of people had hard life or got into debt for things that big tech is immune from.

Or maybe we will come into the conclusion that all this works only if there's no such thing as IP, reset the playing field for everyone and if anyone wants to make money will have to actually work for it every single time. IIRC that's what's happening in China and its how they surpassed US in innovation.

Technically, that's a deregulation - just not the kind of deregulation the big tech is pushing for. Maybe the next time there's a graph showing how regulations made EU lag behind, add the graph of China too to spice things up.

With so many technical people out of work and promises of make the employed ones obsolete too, it can be a good idea to let people build thing instead of unfairly concentrating even more power onto kleptocratic entities.
No, I asked if Unix was open source. The macOS kernel is a BSD derivative. BSD != Unix. If the comment was to hold true, they should have said BSD wants your MacBook.
> I'd argue that Big Tech is pro copyright

I agree but for a different reason -- cost is actually relevant, in the sense that only the biggest player can afford to pay for the copyrights. If you are a small player, however your tech stack is or how good your model is, if you can't afford it, you can't compete with Google.
That always seemed to me as just a convenient stick with which to beat him - much as Al Capone was done for tax evasion (without wishing to draw any other parallels between the two)
Praseks has some with venison in it, too. :) Any other brands you like? I sense I can trust your tastes. I was out in the middle of nowhere near Tyler recently and got some “famous” sausage and it was the same bland, hot dog like texture I can’t stand.
Right. A "system" is the observable parts.

If you have a good wall of abstraction, you have freedom in the internals and security in the observables.
> "Big Tech vs. Big Copyright"

Indeed. But when do those intersect or diverge?

I don't blame him. What would you do? If I had a near perfect data
training set of all the most useful books and a hungry AI to train, it
would be the logical step.

The reason this is news is because of the stinking hypocrisy of it
all. It's really the same topic as the Swartz-Altman discussion here
[0], in that these giant companies want to have it both ways.

Where is Zuckerberg's shout-out for Alexandra Elbakyan? [1] Or for
Brewster Kahle? Or any of the wast army of people who preserve and
curate the vital culture of humanity by protecting it from
intellectual property dungeons?

The colossal hypocrisy is that a company like Meta wishes to live
under the protective umbrella of "Intellectual Property". It wants to
stop me just stealing it's stuff and setting up a better Facebook

Were it exposed to the same rules it wishes to live by, it would be
torn apart by vibrant and deserving competition within days.

All the Zuckerberg, Meta or OpenAI are doing is setting the ground for
the abolition of intellectual property. They are literally the
proverbial people who will buy the rope with which to hang themselves.

(Edit. that doesn't make sense insert <proverb about buying ropes
that actually makes sense>)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42671427

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Elbakyan
Also free. That helps.

But the sad state of the affairs is that if Aaron Swartz does it, he ends up dead; if Meta does it, everything is fine.
>authoring the RSS spec at age 14

No sources on this, though, only a couple articles from around the time of his death stating it as it was a fact already.

In all this time, and with all this fuzz, none of the actual authors of RSS, which are still alive, have come clear about this.

Disclaimer for immature people: This is not meant to disrespect Aaron's memory and/or legacy.
And how does that differ from any person without that information?
I hold both of them high enough. As Aaron, I did my good share of book/articles piracy, even before it was online (here in Mexico it was veery common to Xerox and share whole books with students in the 80s and 90s).

I understand, Aaron became a martyr; even though he died due to depression and not for "a cause". I applaud what he achieved as a person.
Anticipatory Grief Resources to Support Healing
Yeah. I gave up after about 10 minutes of it being not even remotely a challenge.
Context requires quadratic VRAM. It is why OpenAI hasn't even supported 200k context length yet for its 4o model.

Is there a trick that bypasses this scaling constraint while strictly preserving the attention quality? I suspect that most such tricks lead to performance loss while deep in the context.
We made agent Stern, an AI that you can form contracts with to achieve some goal by a deadline.

How it works:

1. Tweet at @sternseesyou to set a goal and deadline

2. Put stakes on it by depositing SOL

3. Stern mentors you while holding your money hostage

4. Complete your goal and show Stern proof

5. Get your SOL back

Stakes + Deadline = Motivation

Example thread showing how it works:
https://x.com/BasiliskASI/status/1878336132171145236
A small collection of Unix/Linux Fun. Some classic works:
http://crn.hopto.org/unix/#fun
I suspect (and this is rank speculation from a great distance) that a lot of SV tech leadership (of different kinds) has perceptions that were formed by the era of the Napster saga and haven't been revised since. PG seems committed to the idea that brash young wheeler-dealers can cut corners to win big and nothing really bad will happen as a result; as of recently Brewster Kahle seemed to be convinced that the final triumph of free media was just one more big push away.
Nah it’s just that Zuck watched the Barbie movie and realized Soace Karen was getting entirely too much limelight and declared a Year of Masculinity
Funny that the world where almost all human knowledge and art is free and accessible for everyone exists in parallel to one where articles about which McDonalds meal are you
are paywalled, and funny which world civilized nations have chosen in order to protect The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and all the artists whose livelihoods depend on reruns of iCarly.
Food costs money. When the price of your labor becomes zero, you can't afford to eat.
Indeed, but the author works through a deeply idiosyncratic train of thought before getting to that, and then quickly continues with some creative analogizing about how the idea of an invariant might be applied at other scales.

For an essay titled "What is an invariant?", it doesn't really focus on answering the question at all and so the GP's failure to spot the traditional answer is pretty reasonable. A more fitting title may have been something more like "Invariants in software system design" -- better framing that it'll be a survey of examples and their rationales rather than an analysis of invariants.
He's saying that he wants to pay Trump to win these lawsuits, which is a smart move as we know justice is for sale.
> To be fair, OpenAI's products are not really models, they are... products

What's the distinction? What kind of functionality do they offer that other models don't?
> This theory has it that all types of energy—including matter, radiation, and pressure—curve space, and the curvature in return influences how the energy-types move. The authors of the new paper, led by Antonia Seifert, don’t question this. They question instead how we use Einstein’s math.

This is so fascinating. I think the principle applies to so much of the natural sciences. GR describes a set of rules (differential equations using tensors) that describe how matter moves in spacetime, and how it curves it. But outside of certain specific conditions (Schwarzschild etc), we can't (yet) use it to build useful models! We can use it to an extent to validate parts of models, but it leaves so much to the imagination. We are still using Newtonian models in cosmology, then applying GR effects like GEM piecemeal, and the time dilation effects in the article, where complexity and understanding allow.

We have these rules, but don't know how to use them to model! See also: Quantum mechanics and ab-initio chemistry. It's as if the universe is written in differential equations, but we are novices at how to use them.
Common mistake in English, usually the writer means "should've".
They're saying that Meta has been kowtowing to the incoming administration in hopes of getting in their good graces.

Rather famously, some elements of that administration are above the criminal code, so that's not implausible.
> Wrapping C code is basically done everywhere except for a few outlier languages

Agreed, I only included this because the author mentioned it explicitly as a requirement. From a "allows plugging into some other, large-community imperative language, like Clojure does with Java" perspective - in terms of library access - the combination of having well-polished interfaces to both C and Python is pretty powerful though.

> the compile times were slow enough to be painful for me

I think this, and the developer experience in general (eg. linting, IDE support, etc.), has been the biggest reason the excitement for Julia dampened over time, despite it being a wonderful language in theory. It's been getting better, from "painful" to just "somewhat annoying" for me, but not quickly enough to turn it around (IMHO).
The pivot would potentially help his cause though , would it not ?
PP is referring to Facebook/Meta's new policy changes like banning intelligence/sanity-based insults on the Platform, but carving out an exception specifically and explicitly for transgender people as targets, and removing tampons from men's bathrooms.
I'm still in early stages of exploration, but vllm seems to be compatible with most models on huggingface.
> The loss or gain for each metal was then summed up to get the total. If the total basket of metals had increased in price, Ehrlich had to pay. If it decreased, Simon had to pay.

I think this is the wrong way around, as the price dropped and that’s why Ehrlich lost and had to pay, no?
Yes. Every "AI" company is training their software on everything, regardless of what they claim, and making millions, billions of dollars on it.
I agree. An additional perspective that I have found useful came from a presentation I saw by one of the pragmatic programmers.

They suggested thinking about investing in skills like financial investments. That is, investments run on a spectrum from low risk, low return to high risk, high return.

Low risk investments will almost always pay out, but the return is usually modest. Their example: C#

High risk investments often fail to return anything, but sometimes will yield large returns. Their example: Leaning a foreign language.

Some key ideas I took away:

- Diversify.

- Focus on low risk to stay gainfully employed.

- Put some effort into high risk, but keep expectations safe.

- Your mix may vary based on your appetite for risk.
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I guess the parent is saying that the new administration could be more business friendly in prosecuting this type of cases. It might even drop this case altogether. But only if Meta is "friendly" to the administration too.
what do you think about these guys: https://exa.ai/
Stripe-Recommendations
> We are approaching the "UBI or Guillotine" fork

Even in the 18th century, the French aristocracy mostly cruised through the Revolution from afar, surviving with fortunes largely intact to this day [1]. If the fork is UBI or guillotine, the selfish move by the private-jetting billionaire class—personally and financially more mobile and global than the French aristocracy ever was—is the latter.

> if there's no such thing as IP, reset the playing field for everyone

Your thesis is letting Altman, Zuckerberg and Musk have free rein would decrease inequality?

> IIRC that's what's happening in China

Not really [2].

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37655777

[2] https://www.chinaiplawupdate.com/2023/08/china-prosecutes-11...
OpenAI did not break and enter into private premises to obtain such data.

This is the crime that took place, it was not just a copyright issue.
How can you get the definition of fairness so backwards? Giant corporations provide literally everything you take for granted and they should be punished because you are envious? I don't get it.

There is a reason everyone with over 130 IQ wants to work for them rather than starting their own companies.
Wouldn't this just be foundational model + RAG in the limit?
Are there any minimal / micro LLM's that are paired with a large RAG vector database, but still have performance on par with the huge LLM's? i.e. shifting parameters from weights to vector database, so that a smaller LLM can fit in RAM, and the vector database on disk. Possibly multiple calls.

When you ask a human to switch context (changing topic) or to change activity (e.g. football to table tennis), they typically need some warm-up too, so it seems excessive to have all knowledge in high bandwidth RAM.

It would seem basic mathematics, set theory etc should stay in RAM.
Maybe a sign of NVIDIA divesting low-margin SoCs or finding a way to be in nextgen phone chips ? (Edit:) solidifying the cuda moat in phone SoCs too ?
Impact of solar geoengineering on temperature-attributable mortality
Big tech will win, because what they're doing is already basically legal, and they're worming their way up the new administration's ass.
Calling someone Karen is a misogynist slur, and calling a man by a woman's name without consent is doubly a misogynist slur.
Since I have loads of pdfs from libgen on my laptop, I guess I should not complain about the Zuck for just this once.

Also libgen is amazing. You're missing out if you're not using it.
Ask HN: Uber illegally tracking European users?
Located in Europe. I uninstalled the Uber app from an iPhone (thus erasing the app and all its documents) and restarted the iPhone. I then went to the website and deleted the account entirely

I wanted to double check that Uber had properly deleted the account. I reinstalled the app, which opens on the sign up page, and clickd at the bottom "Find my account".

Suprise! (or not) Uber recalled exactly my account.

I tried to swap the sim and change the wifi, it still did the same.

The phone has no personalized ad enabled (so does not send an IDFA).

I deleted other apps from the same Team ID (Uber Eat).

The only legit way to "track" a device, as far as I know, is DeviceCheck's DCDevice. But this only stores 2 bits, certainly all the info Uber had.

It's painfully hard to escape BigTech's surveillance...

Hence my question:
Is Uber illegally tracking devices, and if so anyone has ideas how?
Zig is also not the only language that has interesting compile-time features. V (Vlang)[1] and D (Dlang) (among others), has them too. It's kind of weird that this is promoted so much with Zig, as if other languages don't have a lot of this.

[1]: https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/docs.md#compile-t...
Is there any experimental evidence for this model, does it actually lead to any verifiable predictions?
> 25% of US university students on antidepressants.

You need to factor in alcohol and drug use rates for previous generations, crime rates of youth and so it. It is not that current situation is optimal, but when I was young, you would not get antidepressants even if you actually desperately needed it. The taboo against admitting even to yourself that you might have mental health issue was too high.

Conservative minded people like to complain about lack of risk taking among youth ... but quite a lot of risk taking was pure self destruction or destruction of whoever you got pregnant (if you was a guy).
It's not pretraining data that we have encoded in our DNA - it's an optimized learning/prediction architecture that is encoded ... how to build a brain that will then be able to learn efficiently.

The amount of knowledge/behavior that is innate - encoded in our DNA - is pretty minimal, consisting of things like opposite sex sexual attraction, fear of heights, fear of snakes, disgust at rotting smell, etc - basic survival stuff.
99% of its source is open. I wonder what you think of open source applications that make API calls into closed source cloud systems?
Really cool! What I have always wanted was a version of those touch typing training sites like tipp10 but with some social aspects. E.g. like a running app where you can rack up kilometers against your friends but for typing lessons!
This sort of thing was widely discussed a few years ago, probably around the time of CA prop 65. I remember influencers buying their own equipment and were going to test everything.

Have we achieved so little? Are we so preoccupied by the stars and planetoids, awareness of our world’s sorry state is lost to us?

Makes one wonder what else we miss.
You can "listen to" an orchestra without being able to discern each violin. You can "listen to" the wind in the trees without hearing a single leaf tapping against a branch.

There's no suggestion that the user would be able to understand every single AM broadcast; it's just a way to get a sense of the "oeuvre" of the entire (covered) radio band.
I second the annoyance from the "category" being required in the task creation section without having any way to create a category in the task creation section. Creating a category isn't even a heavy lift process in its own creation section, so letting the user create a category in the task creation section should be simple.

It looks like a light weight tool. Thanks.
I should emphasize that I really don't think the dystopian version of this is likely to happen - the one where "AGI/ASI" puts every human out of work and society collapses.

Human beings have agency, and we are very good at rolling with the punches. We've survived waves of automation for hundreds of years. I'm much more confident that we will continue to find ways to use these things as tools that elevate us, not replace us.

I really hope the dystopian version doesn't come to pass!
A Redmi 14C offers 4GB RAM, MTK G81 SoC, for 499 CNY (about 66 EUR, slightly more expensive than the HMD one) in China.
It would be a strong competitor if it's that cheap in Europe as well, but sadly no. The price is almost doubled. That said, it's still a phone you shouldn't buy if you can afford a better one.
People who are smart typically have better things to do than talk about their IQs. Or sell ads, for that matter.
In the past we called that tyranny, when a power thought it could act entirely without restraint.

Now I guess it’s defended as good business and good science by so many flunkies.

Knifes edge stuff. Tech people should all be reading the books, not Mark’s steamroller.

There goes the gravy train
I don't understand. If something hurts your civilization but it was free, does that make it better? Like if everyone was able to build a nuclear bomb, would that make the ensuing nuclear winter more moral?
> non consensual computation

Gonna steal this one.
Aaron Swartz's Weblog
The other way to look at it though is that revolution won't solve your problems, and Americans are far too confident that it will.