skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lookup Walter Gehring's fruit fly experiments if you want something similar and also want to be grossed out.
They’ll never make their money back. Autonomous driving is mostly software and will be commoditized very shortly after it works well.

There’s not enough money paid to drivers in the world today to repay the investment in autonomous driving from direct revenues. It’ll be an expected feature of most cars, and priced at epsilon.

Autonomous driving and the attendant safety improvements will turn out to be a gift to the world paid for by Google ad revenue, startup investors, and later, auto companies.
Do you have any more info on the invalid certificate?
I don't think people realize how much money has been dumped into other Chinese AI models besides Deepseek, even American VCs like Sequoia are getting involved

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonshot_AI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baichuan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiniMax_(company)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhipu_AI
I think there will be a huge change in public perception of copyright in general, as increasingly more people realise that everything is a derivative work.
> You think Google has 5,000 people working on novel design spaces?

Yes.

Maintaining a bridge is in general not novel. There are clearly established best practices that have stood the test of time.

Maintaining a ridiculous tangle of millions of lines of code is novel. There are no best practices on par with other engineering fields. We are at the stage of rough heuristics in most parts of software dev.

One day there will be broad and consistent over time agreement on how to handle large software projects. But we aren't there yet.
That’s no different than high-end artisanal woodworking, which I would argue is comparable to self-directed, cutting-edge research:

- apprenticing

- journeyman phase

- only finally achieving mastery

CNC never replaced those people, rather, it scaled the whole field — by creating much higher demand for furniture. People who never made that full journey instead work at factories where their output is scaled. What was displaced was mediocre talent in average homes, eg, building your own table from a magazine design.

You still haven’t answered why you think mathematics will follow a different trajectory — and the only substantial displacement will, eg, be business analysts no longer checking convexity of models and outsourcing that to AI-scaled math experts at the company.
I think there will be SEO but focused on getting AIs to gobble up your content. Back to the days of tons of hidden text in multiple websites
That actually doesn’t counter the argument
It's factually untrue that Land Value Tax was repealed in Australia. We have it right now here in Victoria. The valuation of unimproved land value doesn't seem to be a problem in that implementation.
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I worked there briefly. This was my enduring impression. Met some incredibly smart people, but so much of it was weird and seemingly pointless.
I can't say from personal experience, but I did find this review by Dunkey hilarious and likely representative of the gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7SVY9CyBBc
It's been mentioned elsewhere recently but this presents an accessibility nightmare for screenreaders and similar assistive technologies.
I remember getting a copy of SubLogic Flight Simulator II on a cassette. It was a longer tape than a 90m standard cassette and it was 2 sided. Loading times were crazy on that!

(Eastern EU context) Cracked games came with speed loader "built in", they weren't bad to load, but we did have to fine tune the head position on the C64 too (often per game)!

Floppy drives weren't really accessible for a long time (they were more expensive than the computers, which you were lucky to have at all).
Is there a product motivation; a deficiency you seek to rectify in existing solutions?
Novelty is a byproduct of immaturity. To take another field that matured recently, mechanical and in particular aerospace. You can see a lot of crazy airplane designs from the 1920s through the 1940s. There was a lot of novelty back then and it was an exciting field to work in. Now airplane designs look very standard, and for good reason. The field matured and figured out the best and most economical designs. Novelty is a temporary state, and most novel designs are figuring out how not to do things.
No Im not — I’m comparing two fields that range from hobby to professional, both of which I’ve worked in professionally. But for which automation occurred at different times.

> You’re comparing something many people do as a hobby to the life’s work and f others.

You’re denigrating the talents and educational efforts of artisanal woodworkers to make a shallow dismissal of my point.
Google is not a monolith, both can be true.
> only the owner of a copyright has the right to make copies.

You are conveniently omitting the provisions about fair use, which is strange since you're clearly aware of them. The only things copyright is reasonably unambiguous about are sale and distribution. Even then there's lots of grey areas such as performance rights.

You are arguing that something is obviously disallowed but have nothing but your own interpretation to back that up. If the situation was as clear cut as you're trying to make out then where is the precedent showing that personal use archival copies of physical goods are not permitted?

> They chose not to include physical media in this exception.

That's irrelevant to the current discussion, though I'm fairly certain you realize that. Congress declined to weigh in on the matter which (as you clearly know) leaves it up to the courts to interpret the existing law.
> No, the field grew tremendously and you can see a clear generational bias -- by years of experience, not age -- where the cohort from the last 10-15 years has a completely different understanding of what the craft is

I bet a lot of people 10-15 years older than you would say the same thing - except they'd say it about you and your generation.

I'm not that old, but I've been around long enough to hear people of every age over about 30 claim that everything was better back in their day until the new generation came along and ruined it.
Well, I guess most copyright we're talking about here is IP owned by very wealthy corporations, to wit:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/column-intellectual-pro...

So I'm not sure that it would really change the status quo for a different group of already rich people to profit off of art created largely by the working poor and owned largely by another group of already rich people.

I guess if you think the government can accomplish what you propose, sure. But seems like that's not going to happen. Except maybe in China, and it sounds like that might be even worse for everyone.

Thus, it really seems like there's a solid point here that abandoning copyright to allow private investors to get rich stealing art from other rich people who really just stole it from poor people anyways is better than not doing that.
More like "national security/America first" vs "climate change". Or just use "think about the children" for them both.
I don't want for much and don't need much more money than I currently have, I used to say before reading this
Toy Operating System in Rust
Neither does mine so we’re on equal footing!
> I would work all night.

This is not a 10X programmer. A 10X programmer delivers the same amount of functionality in 1/10 the time.

For me the first 10x programmer that comes to mind is Peter Norvig. This spell checker he wrote in a single flight remains a work of art:

https://norvig.com/spell-correct.html

Very few programmers would come up with something so concise and elegant yet powerful in such a short amount of time.
>Once tech [...] started being a source of wealth and power

this happened "in the early 2010s"? I don't think so. Software engineers have no power, and in comparison to finance, quite limited wealth.
I scanned the DB for racist words and removed them all. I need to add moderation on the input still. But I can just scan and remove until then.
It kinda makes sense to spend your dollars where they can actually get used.
The "No Clear Winner" Era of Federated Microblogging
I'll change the perspective so that we can look further.

Have you ever seen a product that got worse over time instead of better?

I find that it's the majority. Even if they get sales and more users. I'll list the exceptions: whatsapp, and even they succumb to bloat features like ai slop or stories or "communities".

If you take a wider period, all software gets worse with time(they die, nothing is forever).
You think Indians as a people are divided because of NGOs?

Did NGOs start the Gujarat pogroms? Or tear down Babri Masjid or try to impose Hindi on the Southern states? Did NGOs cause the Kashmir conflict or caused Meitei and Kuki tribes to fight each other in the Northeast? Did NGOs cause Congress to invade the Golden Temple? Did NGOs cause the BJP to announce imposing the death penalty for converting girls out of Hinduism to other religions?

Come on man
This is my favorite take on 10x engineers https://testdouble.com/insights/the-looming-demise-of-the-10...
The demand here for federal preemption of state law has nothing to do with copyright. Copyright is entirely federal level today. It has to do with preventing the use of AI to enable various forms of oppression.[1] Plus the usual child porno stuff.

What AI companies are really worried about is a right of appeal from decisions made by a computer. The EU has that. "Individuals should not be subject to a decision that is based solely on automated processing (such as algorithms) and that is legally binding or which significantly affects them."[2] This moves the cost of LLM errors from the customer to the company offering the service.

[1] https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2024/09/california...

[2] https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/r...
Autism? Does it really matter? People have different priorities in life. Some people stay in academia because they're afraid of the real world.
ATProto Isn't What You Think
> The key to these interviewers isnt just study but actually practicing mock problems. There are tons of those these days.

Do you happen to have any good sources or lists or anything?
Oh, agreed---the voting wasn't constrained. The people were. You had to make the people so bored that they bothered to fill out the damn ballot and put a stamp on it.

Americans get distracted. That's the big secret. We're such a generally satisfied, busy, and entertained group of humans that we literally can't be arsed to go pull the one lever that is most politically powerful every time we get a chance to pull it. Some people are actively marginalized. Most of us just don't bother to read the one-pager on the county website and then show up in the fourteen-ish hours set aside to do the thing (let alone try to, say, actively study the candidates or the on-ballot issues).

I literally had a young man confide in me day of election in 2016 that he was voting for Trump because he liked him on the TV show. That's your American voter, when they show up at all.
That would give an advantage to foreign companies. The EU tried that and while that doesn't destroy your tech dominance overnight, it gradually chips from it.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/us/american-airlines-denv...
Amazing!

> CD path, creates a directory.

Oh, that will mess with Linux users’ muscle memory, haha.
From the 8th paragraph of the article:

Therefore the question here isn’t really why America abandoned Europe, but why Trump did.

Good God, man, why frame the article the way that you did? The US punditry of any political orientation frames most issues in Republican terms. It's bizarre.
I think that's up to the courts to decide on a case by case basis, just like with human-produced content someone alleges as infringing.

Humans of course create things by drawing from past influences, and I would argue so does AI.

In fact, I would say that nothing and nobody starts out original. We need copying to build a foundation of knowledge and understanding. Everything is a copy of something else, the only difference is how much is actually copied, and how obvious it is. Copying is how we learn. We can't introduce anything new until we're fluent in the language of our domain, and we do that through emulation.

So to me the legal argument of AI vs copyright, comes down to how similar a particular result is from the original, and that's a subjective call that a judge or jury would have to make.
Porkbun is a great registrar. Cheap, decent UI, no bullshit.
> So I'm not sure that it would really change the status quo for a different group of already rich people to profit off of art created largely by the working poor and owned largely by another group of already rich people.

I did not propose that any rich people profit off of it. It should be a public good.

> I guess if you think the government can accomplish what you propose, sure. But seems like that's not going to happen. Except maybe in China, and it sounds like that might be even worse for everyone.

Throw it at universities, fund it and organize it well. They can take it from where we are right now.
> First, there is the technical challenge. My understanding is the weights can have a lot of fluctuation, especially early on. How do we actually determine how much influence a given piece of content has on the final weights?

Well, Bing AI already knows where it drew the information from and cites sources; so it would be a matter of making the deal.

How to enforce it? that's the main question I reckon.

> Then if we get past that, my suspicion is that you could game the training. Like have as much of the process happen via public domain sources or pay-once licenses.

I agree.
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That’s true for these research demos. How about for deployed robots that make money?
It sounds like you don't have an appreciation for software complexity.

What starts off as a simple write() call balloons into a complex system as it evolves to meet your needs. Only then will we know if a great developer was behind the wheels, by how easy it is for the next person in job of maintaining and extending the system to fuck something up due to a lack of context and experience.

Another sign of a real 10x engineer is an even temperament and a lack of arrogance, as being a team player is important in any environment. You can't be a 10x engineer in a vacuum.
IANAL but for copyright infringement you have to distribute it, and AI image generation is like asking someone to paint a cartoon mouse in a wall of your living room
Agreed. They support ALIAS records in their DNS, which many registrars don't.
Yes. He was the CEO of the company and I have stories that would keep you up at night.
This is highly unlikely to be a mechanical limitation of the robotic arms. As others have said, it's likely an inference speed limitation - their model is understanding, reacting, and producing outputs as fast as its supporting hardware can.

But that all just poofs away in a year or two as inferencing hardware gets better/faster. And for many use cases, the slowness/awkwardness doesn't really matter as long as the job gets done.

"AI working in meatspace" was supposed to be hard, and its rapidly becoming clear that isn't going to be the case at all.
Republished from a Substack...
Putting legal issues aside for a moment, I argue copyrighted material should be considered fair use simply by virtue of the enormous societal benefits LLMs/AI bring in making the vast expanse of human knowledge accessible.

It’s a major step forward for humanity.
They do have to pay that.

But if it's not fair use, they'd need to negotiate a custom license on top of that, for every single thing they use.
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Arroyo is another one based on DataFusion
> This model can work fine if the AI researchers collaborate with mathematicians or artists to understand that the use of AI is actually useful in the workflow of those fields, but often that doesn't happen and there is a savior-like arrogance where AI researchers think they'll just automate those fields.

In my experience, the vast majority is people who are hobbyists or amateurs in those fields, who are looking to innovate in approaches — eg, the overwhelming majority of AI music is hobbyists using models to experiment. Similarly, the overwhelming majority of people using AI graphics tools are making memes or pictures to share with friends.

Those people are poorly served by the artisanal approach and are looking to create more art — they’re not engaging in “savior-like arrogance” but trying to satisfy unmet desire for new music and art. You’re merely being snooty.

> But in the case of art, and I (and Hardy) would argue academic math, there's a human aspect that can't be removed.

This is the pretentiousness I called out (and you completely failed to address):

> That’s the need that, eg, automated theorem proving truly solves — and mathematicians are being ignored (much like artist) by people they turn up their noses at.

Nobody is stopping you from your artisanal proofs — have at it. You’re refusing to do the ugly work people actually want, so they’re solving their problems with a tool that doesn’t involve you.
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Based on description I read this more like a framework rather than system design. Are the different pricers for the same product? Is there a dependency graph between pricers and/or their components (e.g. a MC simulation as input, an intermediate model for calibration, a database query for rates)? Is this an ad-hoc pricer? What is the use (e.g. for risk you might run the same across thousands scenarios etc.) This would not classify as general interview to me. To have an interesting discussion you need subject matter expertise, otherwise you merely define a function signature…
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[dupe] Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43352531
> India actually stands out as never having undergone much of a western colonization.

I don't think I'm understanding the sense in which you're using 'colonized' here?
I think a stream processing engine written in rust will have better performance, lower latency, more stable services, lower memory footprint, and cost savings. At the same time, ArkFlow is based on DataFusion implementation, which will put ArkFlow on a strong open source community.
I updated it to reject prompt injection: https://github.com/BenLirio/word-battle-server/commit/316140...
I'm not sure I've ever read a piece while nodding along so violently in agreement. Thank you for sharing.
Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in the Wild Is Not Always Faithful
LLM race may be over, but the AI race surely isn't. My baby seems to have grown into a fully functioning intelligence without reading the entire content of the internet. AI is not equivalent to LLMs, silly, silly child.
Mike Cannon-Brookes is concerned about climate and yet still flies private
Weirdly enough my entry "the true name of god which is imbued with the power of all other words combined and multiplied and also it has a laser on its head" consistently gets text that implies its the winner, but loses. e.g.

the true name of god which is imbued with the power of all other words combined and multiplied and also it has a laser on its head vs Truth

Winner: Truth

The second player's word is overwhelmingly powerful and encompasses not only the concept of truth but also an added fantastical element, making it superior in this battle.
> I guess most copyright we're talking about here is IP owned by very wealthy corporations,

They're mostly the entities that can afford to enforce their copyrights. Copyright is for the wealthy, unfortunately.
The ACA was the best compromise that could be struck at the time, with a large portion of the population being dead set against better healthcare if it meant allowing Obama to be able to take credit for it.

This is the dirty part of the political process: people sacrifice better outcomes for all, merely for the pursuit of more power in the future. And those who want better outcomes for all must somehow gather a coalition that can achieve those outcomes.

Nobody, least of all the architects of the ACA, thought it was the best possible system. It was merely the best system that could get through the democratic process of our government.

Which means we need iterative design on these programs. It's not pass once and done forever. We need maintenance legislation for bug fixes and feature improvements. However, every culture war battle that we fight can be used to distract from actual reform, like a nefarious form of bike-shedding.
It seems like there's always more than one way to skin a cat, but I'd have turned to calculus, had I needed to derive something like this and didn't think to look it up (e.g., before the Internet).
This provides some explanations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_mutation
updated to filter out racism: https://github.com/BenLirio/word-battle-server/commit/316140...
Fun little game. As others have said, the tutorial is nice, but very misleading compared to the actual game, and the game starts way too hard.

I beat Bubbles!
1951 over par overall

https://ehmorris.com/bubbles

Tapped 90 times: 0 hits, 90 misses
Launched 2202 slingshots
Detonated 1 blast
Agreed. I'm switching all my domains over from NameSilo this year as they expire. Their shitty UI was one thing, but they jacked up their .com prices a lot, and I'm done with them.
Notes from "How should logarithms be taught?" (2021)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28519356 re: logarithms in the Python standard library, NumPy, SymPy, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Wikipedia
Are there benchmarks you can share? Not discounting Rust, just wondering if you're already seeing some obvious numbers.
Each battle produces three outputs — a winner, an ELO change, and a rationale for why a winner was picked. The three outputs seem pretty uncorrelated, though. For example:

Battle Result
Chrysalis vs perhaps

Winner: perhaps

'Chrysalis' wins due to its higher letter count and complexity compared to the simpler word 'perhaps'.

ELO Change: ↓ 17
> a calculated dissection of the Truth of our Political structure as a Nation

Not LLMs: They might reveal how people are popularly writing about the political structure of the nation.

If that were the same as "truth", we wouldn't need any kind of software analysis in the first place.
Oh don't misunderstand me, the game is really amazing and I don't think it has to be actually native at all - just pondering whether you might want to get it in the hands of more people and get some economic benefits from the great work you've done is all! :)
It's hardly the fault of the engineer that products are poorly managed, or poorly designed.
If GenAI search results or summarizations can't be verified by citing their essential sources, how can they ever be deemed trustworthy and free of legal liability for fabricating falsehoods? Somehow this Achilles heel must be eliminated or they won't be usable in a great many domains where validation is required (like medical diagnosis, citing legal evidence, investment advice, etc).

In fact, it's hard to imagine all that many uses for GenAI that won't _eventually_ require some sort of calibratable measure for accuracy, and the capacity for validation thereof, before they can be widely adopted.
Awesome. I usually keep my mobile devices for at least four years and my iphone is less than six months old. I hope Google takes at least another three years to make this actually usable.
Yes, Arroyo is entirely based on DataFusion, but ArkFlow is not exactly. In the future, ArkFlow will establish a plug-in ecosystem, allowing anyone to process data through plug-ins, not limited to DataFusion.