skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An algorithm that predicts the best next possible outcome, with trillions of parameters can hardly be called intelligence in my book, it is an artificial I will give you that.

I am old enough to remember a bot called SeNuke which was widely used 10-15 years ago, in the so called black hat SEO community, the purpose of the bot was to feed it with 500 words article, so the words can be scrambled in a way to pass the Google algorithm for duplicated content. It was plagiarism 101, now I don't recall anyone talking about AI back then or how all the jobs of copy writers will extinct, and how we are all doomed.

What I remember is that every serious agency would not use such tool so that they can't be associated with plagiarism and duplicate content bans.

Maybe it is just me but I cannot fathom the craziness, and hype of a first person output.

What we get now with LLM models it not simply an output of link and description of lets say a question like What is an algorithm? We get an output that starts with "Let me explain" ... how is this learning and intelligence?

We are just witnessing the next dot com boom, the industry as whole haven't seen such craziness despite all the efforts in the last 25 years. So I imagine that everyone wants to ride the wave to become the next PayPal mafia, tech moguls, philanthropist, inventors, billionaires...

Chomsky summed it best.

RIP Aaron
Given that it has been submitted in court, does that mean you can say what the longest verbatim extract was?

It seems like that would be a fact that couldn't be argued with.
Realistically it doesn’t work like that often.

Most of OSS or even SaaS stuff is useful in F500 company but not more like convenience and not being able to put value on it. This also you can see in article even SaaS vendors have to make shit up to seem more valuable for big companies and use value based pricing by calling people and trying to push BS on them.

I also don’t see companies running much OSS systems as reselling them because then usually they rather build their crappy one like article mentions because they want to own whole IP.

Amazon pulling it of on Elastic was mostly because Elastic built a brand - they are not pulling this off on a random project. They might use some project to run their infra but attribution of value to a specific lib or project is super hard. Then also Amazon is making money because it is Amazon not because they use Linux kernel. It is hard to wrap head around anyway ;)
Oracle won't stop emailing me, or give me a place to unsubscribe... all because I wanted to try one of their VPSes on a 30-day trial like 5-10 years ago, that I never even used.

They called me after the 30 days and I even told them I didn't use it. Yet they still insist on emailing me every 3 weeks about some security policy junk.
Great CPAN modules released last week
I think the "natural piety" part also gives the works a very universally accessible quality - every culture in the world understands and has its own version of it in their religion or spiritualism. One doesn't need to know the details of Christianity or German culture to follow the emotions and motivations of the characters. The same with the archetypes: siblings, stepmothers or stepfathers, these are universal roles. Even when our modern-day lives don't feature many "hunters" or "woodsmen" it's part of every culture's collective history.
This is the case not only in the Nordic countries, but also across Europe like Germany, Netherlands, Italy, UK and probably others.
What gets me more is the constant narrative of the pursuit of happiness as the end goal, which drives people into painting the perfect future in their imagination where their relationships have zero friction, they enjoy every day in the office, etc.

Because you just can't think "what would make me happy" without involving people who aren't even around in the present moment. In fact, if somehow someone manages to come up with a way to satisfy happiness by ignoring their environment then that person deserves my sympathy, because the goal is not to be "happy no matter what goes around you": That requires detachment.
I didn't mean gag as joke, it was a direct reference to the article, but I see that people might be confused.
> has there been any useful Programming Language that has come out of PL research/ Academia in the last 20 years?

The goal of PL research is not, usually, to produce languages that see commercial adoption but to produce ideas that industry adopts. You cannot say a language like Rust is not influenced by PL research.
Meh. I have seen these debates long enough to see that there is a lot of truth in that judgement. We are supposed to give infinite benefit of the doubt to people even after it is super clear what it is that they are saying. I have seen these paranoid SJW accusations to .... turn out truth enough times already.

Turns out, people who say these things are the ones who actually listen with comprehension to what is being said in those circles.
Wondering whether we will see some combination with Cyc at some point (which tried to solve the „encoding of the world“ problem)
It’s not really a Show HN. Or is there a way I can use this without paying?
Lmao, my thoughts exactly.

Q: why I chose common lisp

A: I was looking for a lisp to begin with

This is almost like a satire. But I've found it rather funny. It presents question and provides an answer which is contradictory at first but still makes sense.
But does the patient get better or worse with each update?
This is cool for sure, but I fail to see the audience. Microblogging may work well enough, but for anything more substantial you will likely still need to make edits within their app down the line — even immediately after posting when your markup is inevitably rendered differently than you expected.

E-mail has an "open protocol / data ownership" appeal to it as well, but that's kind of a facade in this case; you just get to store a log of your API calls, essentially.
The "special" barges could have a commercial use.
China has a huge number of mega products and services it is offering to the rest of the developing world, and is useing non traditional engineering to get jobs done quickly and on budget. Railways, mines, solar and wind ,and new ports are, point and click.
The idea of China conducting a DDay type attack
are preposterous, they will use an overwhelming
scale, ultra high tech, remote warfare attack.
It will be very, very, quick, and close to bloodless.
Drones, missles, precision removal of all ranking
officers and comunication hubs, total coms denial,
1.5 million armed combat troops, landing in personal vtol, and water based craft, 20 min latter, the very high likely hood
of a surrender and declaration of joyous re-integration of greater China. With, most importantly the anouncement, that it will be business as usual next Tuesday, just the flag, head of government, and certain departments will change.
China has a file on everyone in Taiwan, what they do, where they do it, and where there most basic loyaltys lie and they are making it known, that peoples best move, is to ignore the whole thing,
as an inevitability, that does not have to effect
them at all.
Its working.
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> Even most Republicans are proponents

If this was true, Republican policies and representation would look much differently.
Let us ponder for a moment that this is how autocracies go astray, but instead of the banhammer, it is jail or gallows for the dissidents, and possibly a war against an external enemy. No checks on an individual's power will result in self-defeating madness, at least sometimes.

It is also a counterpoint to the "just educate people more" crowd. That doesn't save bad institutions from going haywire. Matt Mullenweg is almost certainly a highly educated, well-traveled individual, and yet he rules his roost like Mao once did.
I see your point and mostly agree, but looks like we still need to use different words for the ways that neurons are digital compared to how transistor-based (binary) computers are digital...
Thanks for the good advice. I’m not a game developer but I bought the big sprites pack because he’s been working on it for a lot of years and deserve some compensation.
i dont have a wife
Maybe at the worlds best universities. For sure not at an average one.
I share your psychology.. sadly I never found a place with high drive people (colleagues or hierarchy), for a while I did hard tasks for their own sake but after a while this difference in mindset across the company has diffused in me and I'm ground to a near halt (you know when the simple thought of opening a source file makes you sick to your stomach).

Did you find that job through a friend or by interviewing ? if so did you find ways to filter low drive teams ? I sometime mention I seek high speed but I don't think I can trust HR on this.
We're not talking about efficiency, we are talking about engineering developing before science.
Isn't this ipfs?
https://lemmy.world/c/technology is pretty good.
That's not going to matter much for someone with hardly any Factorio experience. (But computer-savvy enough to install v1.1, which I would assume a HNer to be.)
No, you should not have that right. Copyright allows you to sell artificial scarcity. AI does not replicate your work directly. So you can still sell your artificial scarcity even if it is trained on.

At least you're acknowledging that training rights are a proposed expansion of current IP laws!
I've experienced that once in a simulated environment; there's a museum in Nijmegen that has an indoor setup to simulate being completely blind, you get a stick and a guide and have to navigate a living room and the like. Can recommend if you're interested in accessibility and the like!
> Free speech only means you are not prevented from expressing yourself. It does not mean freedom from consequences.

Honestly, I find this to be very manipulative rhetoric. Effectively, it makes the notion of free speech mean absolutely nothing. The problem here is that people want to pretend they are for absolute free speech, because saying something else is socially punished. But they are not in reality, sometimes for good reasons, so they resort to this sort of sophistry.

You can say what you want in North Korea, freely. It is just that you wont have freedom from consequence int he form of torture and death.
> Hear a lot of bad things about the academic rat race, pressure to public even at masters/PhD level

Strongly depends on the advisor and your goals. If you want to stay in academia, some amount of publications is required. Your advisor, especially if he pays your salary, may also push you to publish. If both are not an issue, I guess you can even finish without publications.

> I could probably hack out some paper into journals but whether I could have any real impact "on demand" (versus say spontaneously coming up with something) is a big question mark, especially within the deadlines given in the program

Nobody comes up with good ideas on demand. As you progress in your academic career the rate of ideas (theoretically) grows. That's why you need the advisor: he can come up with ideas at rate sufficient for his students
I have no trouble believing that the engineering competence of Azure is especially low.
I wish remote build/deploy for Raspberry Pi was in a better state - it seems like a perfect fit for NixOS.

I've got x86 servers running NixOS that are deployed using Colmena, but it seems to fall apart when I add cross compilation into the mix.
Regarding LinkedIn, It's quite the opposite for me. I use a Firefox plugin called "LinkedIn Feed Blocker" to avoid seeing what people post there.
I used to use Kbin before it stopped working.
I brought up eugenics because I’ve seen this before and you stepped up to bravely defend it against accusations of wrongthink. I think you’re telling on yourself here.
are you sure that is a solution? one party consent sounds like a default if the parties have not negotiated something else. but i wonder if it still stands if you have agreed to a different set of rules that would bar recording or at least bar the release of such recordings. for example the default rule is i can share what i want with a conversation i have with someone but if prior to the conversation i sign an NDA then i may face a civil tort if i share information barred by the NDA.
No, a MD is a professional doctorate with novelty and research requirements, it's between a DA and a PhD in terms of difficulty.
#lisp and it's offtopic channel #lispcafe at irc://libera.chat are far better.

Also, comp.list at Usenet.
Another day of stochastic harassment for old time's sake
It's incredible.

I've been experimenting with running local LLMs for nearly two years now, ever since the first LLaMA release back in March 2023.

About six months ago I had mostly lost interest in them. They were fun to play around with but the quality difference between the ones I could run on my MacBook and the ones I could access via an online API felt insurmountable.

This has completely changed in the second half of 2024. The models I can run locally had a leap in quality - they feel genuinely GPT-4 class now.

They're not as good as the best hosted models (GPT-4o, Gemini 1.5 Pro, Claude 3.5 Sonnet) but they're definitely good enough to be extremely useful.

This started with the Qwen 2 and 2.5 series, but I also rate Llama 3.3 70B and now Phi-4 as GPT-4 class models that run on my laptop.

I wrote more about this here: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/llms-in-2024/#some-of-...
I missed the edit deadline and wanted to add:

So instead of talking about there being 2^128 addresses, it’s more useful to talk about there being 4k global regions (/12 RIRs), assigning /32s to ISPs in their region.

Each ISP can assign a /48 to each customer site, which can then subdivide into 256 buildings with 256 VLANs each (or some other balance of the these, eg 8 buildings with 64 floors each and 128 VLANs on each floor) with the hosts selecting randomly (or SLAACly) from the final 64 bits.

Some ISPs where customers are in a single dwelling will only give you a /56.
Exploitation doesn't often end at certification. Academic world is very harsh for post-doc too. And permanent positions are rarer than degree holders.
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>Men occupy a position of institutional and societal power that makes such a comparison unhelpful, at best.

That doesn't justify discrimination. You're using the same argument Nazis used to genocide Jews: "they're overrepresented in positions of wealth and power so it's ok to discriminate and kill them all because it's obviously their fault for your problems".

You average man has no benefits in common with the top 1% of wealthy and powerful men who write the rules. The top 1% of Americans have more in common with the top 1% of Russians or Chinese then they do with your average Walmart American male.

Why punish men todays for the original sin? This only leads to extremism as backlash.
I wonder why you wouldn't deploy a spar horizontally, filled with dry ballast powder evenly along it's length, then tip it vertical once in position and pump in water to set the ballast. This seems an obvious approach, allowing use of a shallow dock ,so there must be some issue with it
When did I defend eugenics? What specifically did I say?
I like how the parent points out that it was a similar rule and not explicitly stated as "Chatham House Rules".

>This is not new. Many of the mailing lists that dominated the discourse of the early Internet in the 1990s operated under a similar rule. The novelty is that it disappeared almost entirely for decades.

Anecdotally, I believe this rule was followed implicitly and often subconsciously and probably through some of the peak blogosphere era, despite blogs being accessible by the general public at the time. People were still looking for their tribe to escape the intellectual, creative, or censored dullness of their local surroundings.

The concept of ratting out people who were looking for the same thing would not occur to most people. They prized the discussion they couldn't have elsewhere more than the specific points being made. It'd be like the pilgrims going back to England and complaining to the English about all the other crazy heretics in the new world.

The whole thing started disapearing when going "viral" on social media started becoming a thing.
There's Emacs and Slime too OFC. Also, Quicklisp/Ultralisp aren't ASDF, you are pretty outdated...

https://www.quicklisp.org/beta/

https://ultralisp.org/
This is in the middle of the desert at high altitude. There are basically no local people who aren't associated with the telescopes.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/cWgWx1RKjEUjavPn8

Whether the facility is built there or 50 km away, it's going to have to draw people from more than a few km away. The entire Taltal district only has about 11,000 people.
This post pits the two people against each other. Am I the only one here who likes both Sam Altman and Aaron Swartz? They've both done great things to help remix culture.

Sure, you could say that the law has come down differently on the two, but there are several differences: the timing (one was decades earlier), the nature of copying (one was direct, while the other was just to train and more novel), and the nature of doing (doing it individually vs as a corporation).

But this doesn't have to reflect on them. You don't have to hate one and love the other... you can like both of them.
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This guy got a free flight to Barcelona. What should he do? https://x.com/JamesIvings/status/1878285428966740260
Because I think it was removed unfairly and so I wanted to repost it. Clearly it was removed in error seeing as the thread is still up.
Yeah, I wasn't criticizing or anything, that's why I wrote it as clarification. I assumed other people like me might read your comment without having read the article.
If OpenAI had run its company by hiding their hardware around a university campus they would have gotten in trouble too. It is not as much about the scraping as it’s the the part where MIT sees a masked person sneaking into backrooms hiding equipment that got AS in trouble. And of cause that he literally disrupted service to jstor because he did a poor job of scraping it. He could have gotten through all of this if he had appeared less like a cyber terrorist in his execution of his plan, but of cause he though he wouldn’t get caught doing it, so he never considered how it would look if he did.
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They are the two primary objectives over the course of the last 20-30 years, however change can and should occur even if it does initially cause ripples. A child with enough exposure to the world would have zero issues programming fizzbuzz should it be required in the career they wish to go in. Learning how to learn and what you enjoy learning matters far more than rote learning how to act and be in a career. Of course, if you give a child an adults work day every weekday then of course they may struggle to find that as they will be burned out doing 10 hours a day.
Open source the models it is the only right decision.
This just embeds a PDF on a webpage. What’s the difference to simply hosting a PDF publicly, seeing as any major browser today displays PDFs anyway?
Do you have anything to back that up with, as far as I understood it Indian CEOs are responsible for significantly higher percentage of market valuations than their population percentage in the US.

Palo Alto Networks & Arista, Microsoft, Google, Adobe, IBM, Netapp, Micron... Even World Bank has an Indian CEO.
It is funny, how link to text with these words: "Everybody has to host their own content" points to medium.com, not to tautvilas.lt
> Suppose I "scrape and store" every book I ever borrow or temporarily-owned, using the copies to fill several shelves in my own personal library-room.

Yes, but you don't know that they did that. They could've just bought legal access to copyrighted material in many cases.

E.g. if I pay for an NYT subscription that gives me the entire back catalogue of the NYT, then I'm legally allowed to own it. Whether I'm allowed to train models on it is, of course, a new and separate (and fascinating) legal question.
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No, the difference is that MP3s can almost completely recreate the original music, while LLMs can't do that with specific pieces of authored works.
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But what about fundamentalist Christians? Watching from Europe I have a hard time picking the more fundamentalist country between the south of the US and the Vatican.
Absolutely. Abolish all copyright. I can't believe hackers have lost their pirating roots and have become copyright zealots instead.
More than decade ago, I didn't understand an actual value of Lisp, but I remember this song well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM1Zb3xmvMc
Why would one need more? HN can already be a massive time killer.

Yeah, for professional I also read lwn.net without discussing very frequently. For leisure/hobby I am in railway forums.
> Companies die because nobody is willing to work on the code anymore.

Can you name some examples? I never heard of this before.
> The leaf functions come first, and the global interface functions are last.

To me that is backwards. I prefer code written in a topological order for a number of reasons:

- It mirrors how you write code within a function.

- It's obvious where you should put that function in the module.

- Most importantly, it makes circular dependencies between pieces of code in a module really obvious.

I'm generally not a fan of circular dependencies, because they make codebases much more entangled and prevent you from being able to understand a module as a contained unit. In Python they can even lead to problems you won't see until you run the code[0], but circular imports are probably so common that current type checkers disable that diagnostic by default[1].

I think languages that don't support forward references (C, but also OCaml and SML) let me apply the "principle of least surprise" to circular dependencies. OCaml even disallows recursive dependencies between functions unless you declare the functions with "let rec fn1 = .. and fn2 = ..", which may be a bit annoying while you're writing the code but it's important information when you're reading it.

[0]: https://gist.github.com/Mark24Code/2073470277437f2241033c200...

[1]: https://microsoft.github.io/pyright/#/configuration?id=type-... (see reportImportCycles)
If you don’t want this type of comment I kindly suggest you don’t post this kind of article.

The atmosphere on the site of what you make it and if you promote this kind of racism and misogyny then you should expect an angry response.
The UK has a highly competitive system for a limited pool of public funds, many students are self-funded in PhD programs. The UK has some great programs but unlike the US and continental Europe it is highly skewed towards the upper classes as the only requirements for entry are basic competence and money for the fees.
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As a professor many years after the PhD my advice is to do the PhD only if you are genuinely excited / cannot stop yourself from doing research. Only then it will outweigh the negatives of difficulties of getting the jobs, somewhat low pay etc.
At least from my point of view I always tried to work on what was interesting to me and what I was good at/or it was interesting to learn vs optimising what is more high profile/sexy. I don't think it is a universal advice but at least I always enjoyed what I did
Do you have proof that he is a sociopath?