skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they're not worried that their projects will stall for a few months, as everyone else's will as well

In a competitive market, there would be defection from any layoff cartels, to gain market share.

If the employer has a monopoly, they are mostly competing with themself.
This is an odd thread. If a group is able to take control and prevent OpenAI from becoming a for profit corporation would be a welcome
development.
They do if you have high shoes like boots.

I always fold up my pant legs so they can see I have low shoes and then it's no issue.
Is there any chance that the board considers it at all?

I mean its mission is to maximize the interests of shareholders, and right now, it's unclear that OpenAI will maintain its dominating position over competitors in the long run.

EDIT: forgot to mention I am not a Trump/Musk guy in any way. Just talking about the deal here.
https://archive.ph/rFJ9B
Well, I would assume that everyone having premium would mean that the price would need to cover each delivery going only to one person at a time, which does sound sustainable to me.

In the longer term though, I wonder if we could have mobile (robotically operated?) kitchens, optimized to finish preparing the dish just as they're about to arrive at your doorstep.
I think you'll find those same people were wasting an equal amount of time in the work place as well. They just find other ways. I know one guy who was writing their novel at work, because it only requires a computer/is discrete.
Wow, an actual good idea from Trump. What a pleasant surprise.
> So no other country in the world can write code as good as wherever you are from?

I didn't say this -- I think it's your take. Even more -- I'm such an "outsource" software developer who is working for US and EU companies. My take is that overusing outsourcing in the long term, you can lose local education because "we can just hire from ... so why do we need to teach ours?" -- I saw it already, even on an "in-country-scale" level.
> At least in my area (NJ) we lose power around a week on a good year, approx 2 weeks out on a bad year. Outages usually caused by trees falling during thunderstorm/wind, sometimes snow, not hurricane. Oh and drunks slamming into poles. Everyone has generators or other forms of backup power in my area.

I had no idea your basic infrastructure was so bad.

Why not demand buried cables? Trees can't fall on them, drunk drivers can't knock them down.

On the other hand, here in Europe I've never had any problems remotely so common and severe, not in any place I lived, even with overhead power lines, including the tiny remote (by local standards) Welsh hamlet: https://maps.app.goo.gl/AtGFM9C5xJ6GrMJz5?g_st=com.google.ma...
Interesting. I love 5 + Brave New World, I think it's my favourite Civ. I bought 6 on a sale (so it had been released for a while) and I found it awkward and clunky so I never really managed to get into it and went back to 5. Are you suggesting the game improved after that? In what way?
maybe let it reason in latent space but have a method to transform and output it to text for inspection.
Dupe (634 points, 14 hours ago, 831 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43004889
I am an author who derives his principal income from my published works. Millions of people have illegally downloaded my work, and I would love it if they had maybe sent me a dollar or two if they read it, but so far the bitcoin address published in the book for piracy donations has yet to receive even a single sat. I see this as just a fact of life for publishing in the digital age, so I try to make my work more valuable to have in paper form that in digital form…. To make it an indispensable tool that merits its own physicality based on its utility.

I cannot imagine claiming that I have a right to the -ideas- or concepts in my work , though.

That is what patents are for, and a patent also doesn’t give me the right to exclusive use of my ideas, just limited exclusivity of implementation.

The relatively free sharing of ideas is a fundamental pillar of society, and without the free sharing of ideas, modern civilization would be impossible.

Copyright doesn’t grant you exclusivity to the ideas in your work. It doesn’t grant immunity to having a few sentences repeated even verbatim. Fan fiction is fair use, as are most derivative works.

The only legitimate use of intellectual work is the extraction of knowledge from it, basically the equivalent of reading or teaching it. Training is teaching. It could have been done (much more slowly) by going to the library and using the books in the library to train from. It is not the redistribution of these works. It is the use of these works. If a book cannot be used to transfer knowledge or ideas, then is it legal to read it at all?

There may have been flaws in the process of “reading” this work that involved technical violations of copyright law. But the use of information that is published and not covered by an NDA is part and parcel of the fundamental benefits of living in a society as we understand it.

The use interpretation, application,and processing of knowledge is what we are really discussing here. If we say that copyright prevents this, then we need to abolish libraries, schools, newspapers, the internet, any mechanism by which copyrighted material may be exposed to persons who might wish to use, interpret, or apply that information. What tools they use to do this is irrelevant.

For those that would say that training creates a copy, I defy you to have any llm reproduce a significant body of copyrighted work. You’ll have about as much luck as asking someone to do the same from memory. And if they can, what does that mean? Is the savant reader guilty of copyright infringement if they write down their recollection? Perhaps.

Or is it the actor that causes them to do so? Or is it the act of distributing that perfect memory that then is the violation of copyright ? (I’d argue this is the line in the sand).
Stacks of doom are worse than 1UPT, but not every player experiences it that way. Joining units is a decent middle ground. The new mechanic (commanders) does not get this right in my opinion.
_Every_ Civ game is loathed on release, and beloved a few years later (generally after a bunch of expansions). It's how it works. I think Civ 2 was the last one for which this was _not_ the case, tbh (it was so clearly better than the original).

(I had missed that there was a new one out, might have to give it a go, so that I can moan about how it's worse than VI, and then forget about that in a couple of years.)
And I was talking about property. Replying about something else made no sense here.
Discussion (66 points, 10 hours ago, 116 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43007052
Will this come for iPads? I really liked playing VI on iPad
Yes banks employ less people. In my country there are now account managers handling hundreds of clients virtually. Most of the local managers got fired.

I find it easy to say from our privileged position that "tech might replace workers but it'll be fine".

Even if all the replaced people aren't unemployed, salaries go down and standards of living for them fall off a cliff.

Tech innovation destroys lives in our current capitalist society because only the owners get the benefits. That's always been true.
I agree -> even if someone spends their time "rediscovering" an existing solution, I think that the learning experience of coming up with a solution without starting from current best solution is really valuable. Maybe that person doesn't reach the local maximum on that project, but having a really good learning experience maybe enables them to reach a global maximum on one of their next projects.

If I want some novel ideas from a group of people, I'm going to give them the framework of the problem, split them into groups so that they don't bias each other, and say: go figure it out.
That seems to be "Sven" - first name, "Magnus" - middle name, "Øen Carlsen", a combination of two last names, "Øen" from his mother and "Carlsen" from his father.
The big scandal between tech chiefs back in my day was when Bill Gates and Phillipe Kahn yelled at each other at a conference.
I don't see an obvious undo button, but upon switching to a keyboard with ctrl (I'm on mobile currently) ctrl-Z does it.
Higher-level languages still operate according to defined rules and logic, even if we can sometimes disagree with those rules, and it still takes time to learn the implications of those rules.

AI prompts.. do not. It's fundamentally just not how the technology works.
It runs on Metal!
That deeply bothers me. With all the technology, libraries, frameworks, processes and even with AI, we are supposed to build better software, if not faster.

What we do is making the same mistakes over and over again, but piling them faster than ever because we can make a simulated token emitter go brr...
In fact it is not impossible that at some point they will be forbidden by some legislation.
Gosh this sounds like such a miserable way to work -- spending all that time trying to teach your tooling to be reasonable.
The main issue I have with Civ games is the atrocious AI. (Ive played every release since Civ1) On higher levels the computer civs get basically unlimited free resources, free unit spawns, start with half a dozen settlers, etc etc and still barely put up any resistance.

I heard on Youtube reviews this is improved in VII, but no details? Does anyone know whst the situation is there?
> Given that the strategy game has 7 in the title, I think they've had a good few iterations at this point.

Of late (at least for 5 and 6; I haven't looked at this one yet) they've been using the new versions to make _major_ changes which would clearly break the old game, and then iterating via expansions.

Possibly in a parallel universe there's a Civ game that's just Civ 2 after 29 years of iteration (Civ 2 being the first one that really received universal acclaim), but that's not they way they've chosen to go (though arguably that's kinda what Freeciv is).
From Sid Meier's I played only Colonization and I'm still crazy about it. An the music!

Kiss pinky ring / Hold SmellyTown fur party
Not a penny for those heretic swines
Very well, we shall withdraw our forces!

And trading with Aztecs!
You're blaming the boneheaded decision of adding ads to a Jeep on DEI? JFC, get off of Twitter and Newsmax already.
This shows what it looks like in other countries.
Krapivin's work was a result of his study of the Tiny Pointers paper; his paper has already been linked in another response.
As much as Musk has been unhinged lately I feel he is the good guy if it is really true he is trying to restore the "open" in OpenAI
It takes 8hrs to do a 300km journey?

Google says the train is only 4hrs!
That's a form of sale, if it's only one IAP.
Yes, but it seems the connectors, not the entire cable are too high resistance.

Using a larger diameter wire would drop resistance in the cable, but if it has to go through the same connector, it will likely still get hot.

Also, NVDA might be telling the truth about poorly seated connectors, that could raise resistance and heat significantly. That could also be handwaving away a business decision to move forward with a design with too little margin.
That would be reduntant. The car can drive you directly to the sponsored destination.
Tangential, does AI pick up new knowledge of new tools? AI helped me write much better bash since there is tons of content by volunteers and less across-country animosity. Svelte and Fastapi were made/popularized this decade and people dont want to help their AI/offshore replacements with content. Will current AI get good at them?
It's nice for more complex queries. Not a big difference for simple ones. I don't have a more nuanced take here - it works fine.
What are his options, really?
sounds like a great idea for a Premium subscription
Is that true for the current board arrangement?

I thought they were set up a some kind of non profit and thier mandate was to pursue other goals not profit. That was what caused the issue with the altman firing previously right?
Has Civs fixed any point of the static nature of the game after begin? I like paradox games like Crusader Kings where the game throws curve balls and the whole game world feels alive.
But they are making unauthorized copies: Their training data set is analogous to private collection of duplicates.

What do you think copyright law(suits) would do if a regular person made copies of every book and movie and song they saw, placing the duplicate media in a room of their house?
The idle chit-chat, the wasted hours commuting (cycling rules), the lack of control are the essence of work life. WFH is largely like a chicken in a cage, just pooping out eggs without even being able to rotate.
I was big into civ5 and a bunch of mods including Vox populi. I enjoy 6 equally after the expansions.

Equally, I don’t enjoy five any less.
> I think Civ 2 was the last one for which this was _not_ the case

Good addition. I just wanted to say I was pretty sure Civ 1 and 2 were immediately loved upon release.

I skipped 3 and 4, but I do remember plenty of complaints about 5 and 6, but they're great.

I almost never buy games on release day, but this is Civ. Maybe I should just get it right away. I keep starting new Civ 6 games for some reason.
Swedish, german, spaniard spanish, french and luxembourgish french.

Sometimes they do a decent translation, too often they trip up on grammar, vocabulary or just assuming that a string of bytes means the same thing always. I find they work best in extremely formal settings, like documents produced by governments and lawyers.
The problem is the following two lines produce different outputs, despite having content that means the same thing:

console.log(JSON.stringify({ x: 5, y: 6 }));
console.log(JSON.stringify({ y: 6, x: 5 }));
These days it's usually better to try and find players on youtube or twitch than to read text based reviews.
Also when all DLC have been released, bundled into one package, and on sale for at least 50% off.
For this sort of high-load factor application, its not so much "memory constrained" in the sense of embedded hardware, as is it "memory constrained" in the sense of "my petabyte database table needs 1 TB just to store the index"...
You misunderstood the meaning of what I said. Private equity has existed for a long time, but as an asset class has it had a huge boom for the past 20 years, gaining market share that it never had. This trend has been recognized by several media outlets. This article in Moonfare shows the private equity AUM has roughly tripled in the past 15 years and the number of private equity funds quadrupled between 2012 and 2021 [1]. This article by Citizens Bank documents the exponential rise in the number of companies owned by private equity while public has remained flat [2]. Another article discussing the exponential growth can be found here [3].

I guess I wasn't super clear, but anyone who's worked in the actual industry would have understood what I meant. And the fact that you didn't suggests to me that you don't have a lot of practical experience, or if you do you are stunningly aloof to the workplace discussions of your colleagues.

People who actually work in the industry would also be familiar with the fact that, yes in fact people who run funds with a half trillion under management can be stunningly unsophisticated and simply go with flashy new trends - like private equity! This has been commented on in several industry podcasts.

And again, your reference to academic studies in the financial field which, despite some people like AQR using them in their marketing, most practitioners seriously discount due to the severe problem of selection and survivorship bias, makes me believe you actually don't have any idea what you are talking about.

Actually you've said a lot of absurd things:

> Hedge funds don’t magically take your money any more than Santa Claus takes your money.

Again, people don't generally control what their pension fund invests in.

[1] https://www.moonfare.com/pe-masterclass/private-equity-marke...

[2] https://www.citizensbank.com/corporate-finance/insights/priv...

[3] https://www.dakota.com/resources/blog/private-markets-on-the...
> 2. Copyright's basis is "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts".

This is what the US constitution say. There are more legal theory than the US constitution. In fact, the idea of copyright predates the US constitution.

For example, the "Labor theory of copyright" [1] argue copyright is a exclusive right because every individual has a right to the product of their labor.

See also "Philosophy of copyright" [2] on wikipedia.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_theory_of_copyright

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_copyright
> Probably his whole life is from a position of insecurity, i feel for the guy. I dont think he s a happy person i do feel for him.

- Altman on bloomberg

The shitposting upgraded to level 3
rock hound here
I have soft tissue fossils,skin and scales, crinonind body parts, plant fossils, and a small trackway
other trace fossils,like waves from an ancient beach....found on a modern beach:)
my observation is that the amount of actual field work bieng done is low, and that setting up a world wide app, that would connect accredited researchers with dedicated field workers(rock hounds)(( and pay them and credit them)), could advance our study of lifes origins and path in a timely and cost effective way.
there are a bunch of competeing apps for geo locating varios flora and fauna, that combine field work with a social media aspect
seem popular, but personaly, no one is getting my
gps co-ordinates, without paying me.,...every time
No. Rich Americans do, while everyone else doesn't because America has one of the high rates of economic inequality in the developed world.[0] Why do you think there are so many homeless people in America? America also lacks universal healthcare, unionization at meaningful rates, worker protections, compels slavery of incarcerated people to work for corporations, and offers poor people an inconsistent usually pittance of help. It's far easier to live in Canada, the UK, or somewhere else because there's a social safety net that America lacks.

0. https://youtu.be/QPKKQnijnsM
it's even worse than 6's AI
The worst things can come from good intentions. Competition is better
But that information doesn’t help much without you having played VII like OP ;)
I don't envy anyone trying to make games for people like this. It must be demoralizing.
Time will tell.

I still believe that we can approach even the most chaotic conditions, with a disciplined strategy. I’ve seen it happen, many times.
Civ 6 was free on Epic a couple of years ago. And free for keeps, I mean. That was the best time to get it.
That makes sense and “simpler” is probably not the right word to have used, as that is too positive. :)

To fall back on the reliable technology principle: it depends on your use case.
> 81% on metacritic, 52% user reviews on Steam

This _always_ happens with new Civ games, though. Definitely back to Civ 4 anyway (I don't remember Civ 3, though I assume it existed); I think Civ 2 _was_ seen as kind of perfect on delivery.
I don't think he's doing it for altruistic reasons. And he bought Twitter for to "restore free speech". Not exactly what's happened there. He's not even remotely trust worthy in the slightest.
> the wasted hours commuting (cycling rules), the lack of control are the essence of work life.

Good riddance then.
I don't see the relevance. This isn't about people, it's about corporations.
Maybe it's just me boomer reading this, but I think all 3 points listed in the article are more of predictions from the author (with rationals from the author). However, AI today maybe different compare to AI in the future.

I'm a programmer, I love my skills, but I really hate to write code (and test etc etc), I don't even want to do system design. If I can just say to a computer "Hey, I got this 55TB change set and I want to synced it up with these listed nodes, data across all node must remain atomicity consistent before, during and after the sync. Now, you make it happen. Also, go pick up my dog from the vax", and then the computer just do that in the best way possible, I'll love it.

Fundamentally, programmer are tool creators. If it is possible that a computer can create better tools all by itself, then it looked unwise to just react such technology with emotional rejection.

I mean, the worries is real, sure, but I wouldn't just blank out reject the tech.
I would say not letting your thoughts be constrained by the bias of existing approaches.

This isn't easy, at all. It requires training yourself into having a open and flexible mind in general.

Not knowing about something is more like a cheat to get there easier.

But it's supper common that innovation involves a lot of well known foundation work and just is very different in one specific aspects, and it's quite hard to know about the other foundation work but not that specific aspect especially if you don't even know which aspect can be fundamentally be "revolutionized"/"innovated".

But what always help if you learn about a new topic is to try blindly first yourself and then look at what the existing approaches do. Not just for doing ground braking work but even for e.g. just learning math.

One of the math teachers I had over the school years before university used this approach for teaching math it yielded way better independent understanding and engagement it helped me a lot later one. Sadly I only had that teacher for 2 years.
I'm curious if you know what a Nazi salute looks like? Make a comparison by looking it up, he does the salute twice.

Of course you can argue in bad faith because it costs you nothing to be wrong but does that imply you are promoting this behavior? Seems like the obvious implication

The media is outraged because a duck quacks like a duck
> Could this perverse incentive be rectified in some way?

Yes, the companies will slowly disappear into oblivion with competitors (ie: China) gradually eating their launch.
People have written books. Those books were copied into something, called "Books3 section of ThePile". Now those people trying to sell their books, but nobody needs to buy them, because one can download thePile.

This alone is awful and wrong, and we all know this.

Now comes Facebook, and builds an LLM. The LLM can now write somewhat nicely sounding books in no time. People who wrote those books and put all the work, time etc. into it, are angry. And they are right.

It is very telling how many words and arguments are used here to make Facebook's behavior sound like a good thing, or a necessity.
Managed to see them in London a few months back, can definitely echo the recommendation! (The warm up act could have done with a sound check but I was very impressed with his playing an OG GameBoy as a MIDI controller)
There was no good way to handle it, Pro-Palestinian propaganda was very active, to a significantly larger extent than it is now.
Leaving Amazon