skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To the best of my knowledge, no individual has ever been sued or prosecuted specifically for downloading books. As long as you're not massively sharing them with others, it's not an issue in practice. Enjoy your reading and learning.
Thanks for sharing! Mine was a pretty similar experience in the eighties, because you could learn so much just by reading books and doing experiments. Recently, I got three Commodore 64 (the descendants of the PET) and I just want to type some BASIC games and start learning. I'm very humbled by the experience of writing "Programming Boot Sector Games", because like you, many people have told me about having a nice experience reading and learning with it, and I'm glad the effort was worth it.
And waiting 2-3 seconds on a spinning circle. Success!
I'll give it a shot, but IMHO while the logic of "runs" isn't super complex, it is way too hard to see at a glance and so I don't see myself giving much time to this.
> He backed Trump due to the president's commitment to the rule of law, he said, but now Mr Ripp thinks Trump is flouting the correct procedures for reducing the federal workforce.

Should someone who ignores a simple fact like Trump being a convicted felon and casts their vote based to Trump's "commitment to the rule of law" be allowed on a plane that flies dangerous weather?
I haven't tried it yet but that looks like exactly what I've been missing.
I see that you don't have a new argument, and instead resort to personal attacks that have nothing to do with the topic. Concession noted.
Necessity was a fact in the early 1900s. So necessary people had their kids work for extra income. Did you never study history?
what are you using to block entire geographical regions?
That was a sarcastic one, made by a comedian who used to work in tech, lol
I do not know whether Anglican and other churches were able to provide charity such as soup kitchens or emergency food distributions, but some reasons given for the New Deal in the US was that many people were unwilling to accept charity from churches, especially with rising sectarianism, and for that same reason, charity/outreach operations had perhaps become fragmented, and literally slicing up the pie smaller and smaller, in terms of funding, volunteers, and coverage, for a multiplicity of humanitarian non-profits.

Nowadays the State Governments simply fund, assist, and promote those non-profits, and mental health care, etc., so American taxpayers are not merely paying "church tax" but synagogue/church/mosque/temple/ashram taxes, to support the plurality of faith-based charities who serve the poor and marginalized. And that's why the government itself can be reduced in size and scope as public-private-religious partnerships take up the mantle.
Sure, but OpenAI (same as Google, and Facebook, and all the others) is illegally copying the book, and they want this to be legal for them.

It's perhaps arguable whether it's OK for an LLM to be trained on freely available but licensed works, such as the Linux source code. There you can get in arguments about learning vs machine processing, and whether the LLM is a derived work etc

But it's not arguable that copying a book that you have not even bought to store in your corporate data lake to later use for training is a blatant violation of basic copyright. It's exactly like borrowing a book from a library, photocopying it, and then putting it in your employee-only corporate library.
I agree with your assessment of greater cause and free information, but in this case, the issue appears that the photos are not the most flattering. Look at the examples at the top of the article. Leo is simply looking down and not at the camera. I guess you could argue the Scott Baio is a picture that should be upgraded, but as mentioned in thread, his PR people could easily correct that.
Side comment about suboptimal HN commenting or UI...

This post is about someone noteworthy dying, but the top relevant comment is followed by over a dozen screenfulls of text about a sewer inspection van, before you get to anything else.

If you start paging through it, do you close the browser tab in annoyance before you get to any further discussion of the person and why they're noteworthy?

> 4. Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spying, has died (eff.org) 1404 points by leotravis10 20 hours ago | flag | hide | 306 comments
If they had access to internet, you weren't in the parts of Africa I'm talking about. There is a difference between undeveloped, developing and developed.

You go to an undeveloped place, you wouldn't be worried about phones or internet access. You just accept that you're going to be off the grid for the duration of your stay in that village. Alternatively, you bring your communications equipment with you so that you can stay in touch with your, "base", for lack of a better term. But I can tell you right now, that equipment better not be dependent on internet access.
> When you read a copy of a book

They're not talking about reading a book FFS. You absolutely can be sued for illegally obtaining a copy of the book.
Determinism is unrelated to correctness. Deterministic means the output depends only on the state you consider to be relevant, and not other factors. A stopped clock is deterministic: no matter what you do, it gives you the same output. A working, accurate clock is deterministic if you consider the current time to be a relevant piece of state, but not if you don't. Consider how "deterministic builds" need to avoid timestamping their build products, because determinism in that context is assumed to mean that you can run it at a different time and get the same result.

LLMs can be deterministic if you run them with a temperature of 0 or a fixed random seed, and your kernel is built to be deterministic, but they're not typically used that way, and will produce different output for identical input.
>Do we suspect there's significant demand for internet in North Korea?

Why not? They literally throw USB sticks and optical media over the border. After my country broke away from communism, content consumption of foreign media was the highest priority.
> When the sun is at its highest in the sky we call it midday or noon but the earth spins on a slightly inclined axis so the point closest to the sun is constantly changing. This change means that a person in London will have their midday at a different time to a person in New York and that will be different to a person in Beijing

This is a very misleading description. The point closest to the sun would be constantly changing even if the axis of earth's spin was not inclined relative to the sun.
The [0, 1, infinity] rule has been simplified to [1, infinity] rule.
I think the reason UX moved into its own realm (like "UX designer") is to create the processes to get actual UX expertise.

Without deliberate UX expertise, you're on the hook for having UI implementers (software engineers) who happen to be good at UX, and that's not a great way to go about ensuring that you have good UX because you're reliant on serendipity.

And of course once UX becomes its own prong that you're trying to optimize for, the simplest thing to do is create UX positions in your company. Which is much simpler than figuring out how to hire software engineers with UX expertise or good intuitions.

Just consider how few hiring processes involve someone clicking into your github projects and evaluating them just to see what kind of code you write. That's much harder than doing a canned leetcode or canned questions interview.
I also can't believe how many cars display a terms of service Every. Time. You. Start. The. Car.

So incredibly ugly, tacky, and unnecessary.
This is going to go pretty OT from the original post.

The handful of times in my ~20 year career that I've gotten a shortened interview process because of connections, the organization has turned out to be a dumpster fire. Admittedly, I ignored red flags that I wouldn't have if I wasn't feeling special for having an "in," so part of that is on me. But lowering hiring standards to preference one person means they'll lower the standards for others, too, and that has consequences. As much as I'd love there to be shortcuts in life, I'm not sure they really exist.
I guess this is a joke but honestly I think that Python -> Rust is a pretty strong one.

I'd bet that the sort of person who is maintaining packaging for a bunch of Python users would like an opportunity to learn Rust on the job. I would.
That's not a one-to-one analogy. The LLM isn't giving you the book, its giving you information it learned from the book.

The analogous scenario is "Can I read a book and publish a blog post with all the information in that book, in my own words?", and under US copyright law, the answer is: Yes.
Yes, but this is not the right model. What OpenAI wants is to borrow a book, make a copy of it, and keep using that copy, in training their models. This is fully and simply illegal, under any basic copyright law.
No it is not. This is PR speak. Here is his exact quote: “I think that having a culture that celebrates the aggression has its merits”
He knew what he was talking about.
A Guide to In-Browser LLMs
I was born in the Canal Zone while it was still a territory of the United States. I’m a natural born U.S. citizen. Few Americans have a better claim to the Canal Zone as I do and I absolutely don’t have a legitimate claim to any part of it.

As sometimes happens between nations the Canal Zone was given to Panama by the United States. It is theirs. We don’t have a moral right to claim it back 25 years later. Picking on a much smaller and defenseless nation does not make America strong. We have become an infantile super power. This is a disgraceful time for America.
Nice, works for now, I'm sure they'll pull the rug on this solution too in under a year.

I'm switching browsers, I hate ads more than I like Chrome.

Sounds like June 2025 is the real date when it'll no longer be possible to use manifest v2 extensions per https://blog.chromium.org/2024/05/manifest-v2-phase-out-begi...
Yes, as the number of wheels scales up, powered carry becomes necessary.

Another mechanism that's been used is sort of analog - differential gears, with two inputs and one output. Race track totalizators used that to add multiple unsynchronized inputs. Here's one from Adelade.[1] The machines were huge and heavy, but reliable.

(It is a tradition and a contract term in the gambling industry that gambling equipment companies are strictly liable for errors. As a result, that industry builds unusually reliable equipment. GTech once mentioned in an annual report that they paid out about 3% of revenue in error payments.)

[1] https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/historydisplays/SecondFloor/To...
Well that's the thing. You don't need a NoSQL database to design a data tier that scales to accommodate distributed write-heavy workloads.
I'm currently using Rust for my saas product (very much a b2b web platform + api). It has been great so far. The only pain point is the change > rebuild > refresh flow is a bit slow (5-8 seconds to rebuild).

It isn't ideal, but it comes with a number of positives. I am able to change code across the whole codebase with a high degree of confidence when it compiles, it's working. Even in my html templates.

Previously, my product was written entirely in Go. The change > rebuild > refresh flow was better in Go, but I had less confidence with code changes (especially around go's templates and runtime errors).
Putin agrees in principle with proposal for Ukraine ceasefire
Those people are good at imitating the form of what curious and highly motivated by things beyond money do naturally.

Early programming blogs were written by people who had thoughts they just needed to share with the world. Because they were highly confident and self motivated people, they also often ended up being sought after and making a lot of money.

Then later others tried to turn the process into a formula they could use to increase their earning power, even if they were writing about things they weren't passionate about.
This is why I opposed historical designations. Most old buildings are obsolete and need to be destroyed. There are only a tiny number of buildings that are really historic, sure save them, but the vast majority are just old and need to be knocked down for something better. If it isn't taught in history class then it isn't historic.

It is easy to see the loss of something old. However the opportunity cost from not building new is something that is very hard to get people to understand.
Just for clarity of anyone else passing by, the full title of that study is:

The EU Suppressed a 300-Page Study That Found Piracy Doesn’t Harm Sales
What a villain.
Hi, CEO of Cape here. Great insights. Salt Typhoon is just the latest example of how fragile these systems are. Vulnerabilities in protocols like SS7 are just the tip of the iceberg, and the incentives to fix them are weak. Telcos prioritize uptime and revenue collection over security, and addressing these attack surfaces requires coordination between multiple entities—something that is slow and complicated. The industry tends to accept these risks rather than truly mitigate them.
NASA, Yale, and Stanford Scientists Consider 'Scientific Exile'
Your claims about his background and connections are speculation. Being well connected or foreign born isn’t proof of wrongdoing.

While the U.S. is a constitutional republic, that doesn’t negate the democratic principles at its core. If he’s being targeted for his speech (which immigrants have a right to, under US law) then free speech is absolutely relevant here.
If you are not capable of distinguishing between truth and lie, and not capable of reflection which is the drive behind learning from past mistakes - then yes.
6,000 years, according to Wikipeda. That is wild.
Public Intelligence
> Meta et. al. aren't "stealing" anything anyway

They were caught downloading the entirety of libgen.
If it EVER gets to -20 that is what matters. You need to prepare for the worst case weather, not the common ones.
> just... Not write more code

But the abstractions don't really adapt themselves to be performant in each usecase the way you imagine. I gave an example of c# distinct() above. Sure, they can. But do they? No. They only save anything at all for trivial usecases, where the imperative code is also obvious to parse.
Well yes in places with no internet access people don't buy internet, but it's a bit tautological. People who survive by subsistence but come upon hard money somehow, in some place with towers, I have personally seen them blow a whole month pay on phone credits and it wasn't uncommon.
No, he's wrong here, too. The FD&C colors are about as safe as food additives get. Some have extremely weak negatives, hard to detect without huge surveys and powerful statistics. Banning all of them outright is absurd.

I'm more interested in something later in the article: "eliminate a loophole that lets food and beverage companies bring new ingredients to market without agency oversight". It's remarkable how little companies have to do to bring in a new food additive.

But that loophole is a much bigger deal for supplements, rather than food. Food is just food, but supplements are supposed to have beneficial effects which are practically never true. The FDA has rules, but they're widely ignored, and even when practiced allow a lot of latitude for weasel words. Many people -- including Kennedy -- believe in the value of a lot of things with no science behind them. At best, it's a waste of money. At worst, it's actively killing people.
I respect it. In my very biased opinion, it's worth enabling for this article.
Maybe this data constraint from data vs GPU constraint for China will force America to innovate. Maybe innovate in data generation
> a single human cell is more like an ecosystem than a machine

Good point. Not to mention the massive reliance on organisms like mitochondria and bacteria that don’t even share the host’s DNA.

> [imitate human labor] within extremely narrow confines and quite often going over into just conjuring up nonsense

Much like human labor.

So the intelligent, reflective and thoroughly iterated work is hardly replicated at all, and the poorly imitated, easily repeatable coursework and boring paper sludgework excellently so.

So we don’t just get to criticise LLMs for not actually being intelligent. We similarly get to criticise humans for not being so when we might think we are, either.
Hey Democrats, wake the f–k up
private property is sacrosanct except when an exception that only applies to them it would make a billionaire richer
Trump faces fight over 'biggest' environmental deregulatory action in US history
> The analogous scenario is "Can I read a book and publish a blog post with all the information in that book, in my own words?"

The analogous scenario is actually "Can I read a book that I obtained illegally and face no consequences for obtaining it illegally?" The answer is "Yes" there are no consequences for reading said book, for individuals or machines.

But individuals can face serious consequences for obtaining it illegally. And corporations are trying to argue those consequences shouldn't apply to them.
It's an interesting idea but I really don't like it.

The runs not being visible makes it a really unsatisfying experience - you just kindof click around hoping that a cell is part of a long run (and therefore more constrained).

Most runs are length 2-3 as well and entirely within the the same "region", so are therefore redundant as they're already constrained by box logic.

Nice idea but its a miss for me.
It's totally cringe, and the first couple of times you have to do it it'll be uncomfortable. But growth happens at the edge of your comfort zone and you'd be mistaken that everyone's a born natural at it. Most people have to practice at it in order to get good at one. Few people just born with it. So what, you're not one of them. You weren't born knowing how to program either.

As far as slimy, I mean, yeah, don't break ethical boundaries; don't lie, don't take credit for other people's work; and it'll be fine. The ick feeling comes when we see others do amoral things like that and get ahead, but all you have to do to avoid that slimy feeling is to not lump all self-promotion together, and then just don't do the unethical bits.
> I wonder how much the pent up infrastructure work to avoid these issues would cost.

The cost is essentially incalculable. Back in the 1800s people kept poor records of what they were stuffing under the streets, and the records that were kept were lost, and the ones that weren't lost are sitting in a box who knows where. NYC has effectively no idea what they're going to find under a street every time they tear one up, and the deeper you dig, the more you find.
These things have been reported hundreds / thousands of time if you read enough news to get informed of them. That's the only reason you know about them. There's no reason for a random local news station in rural Oklahoma to cover the South Sudan's civil war or Libyan slave markets.

That war and slavery are bad doesn't make the curtailing of civil rights for millions of people suddenly a nothingburger.
It's hard to generalize about pilots and private jet passengers, but there is definitely over-representation from the "wealthy and unaccustomed to being told NO" crowd. One of the "5 Hazardous Attitudes" that we all learn is Anti-authority[1]. If you want to live, but don't like people telling you what to do, please do not become a pilot.

On the other hand, the Federal Aviation Regulations are vast and detailed, and as pilots, we are forced to become mini-lawyers as a side job so that we can know and understand them all. Go to any online pilot forum, and half the posts are pilots quoting 14 CFR at each other and micro-analyzing each word from the holy text.

1: https://www.faasafety.gov/gslac/ALC/course_content.aspx?cID=...
>Why would the skin color of those who lived there 1000 years ago be relevant to anything? I don't see many Americans advocating for an expulsion of all non-indians (rightly so).

it's kind of too late to expel non-indians, because there are virtually no indians left.

there's a lesson to be learned from their fate, don't you think?

>Also, when was the last time a nationalist wave led to anything good for anyone? All I can recall is ruin and suffering.

well, a fairly recent example would be Ukraine, which would be a Russian province now if it wasn't for their ethnic - yes, ethnic, not civic - nationalism.
To make the change in your environment:

1. Create or edit the UV configuration file in one of these locations:

- `~/.config/uv/config.toml` (Linux/macOS)

- `%APPDATA%\uv\config.toml` (Windows)

2. Add a section for default groups to sync:

```toml

[sync]

include-groups = ["dev", "test", "docs"] # Replace with your desired group names

```

Alternatively, you can do something similar in pyproject.toml if you want to apply this to the repo:

```toml

[tool.uv]

sync.include-groups = ["dev", "test", "docs"] # Replace with your desired group names

```
The picture was clearly based on El Castillo [Temple of Kukulcán, in Chichén Itzá], which is on the Yucatan Peninsula. Note the chamber on top.

It looks nothing like the Aztec Pyramid of Teotihuacan, which is flat on top and has no structure.

In other words, this is AI slop that makes something that looks plausible, and is utterly misleading.

As someone who has spent decades of my life on history, this makes me weep for humanity.
Updated title: "Social Security Backtracks on DOGE Phone Service Cuts After Media Report"

A few things get saved by media attention, but the firehose of sometimes-criminal actions mostly get by without being noticed.
That was one of my other theories- a miss-click or a click that the user thought went to one of their other organizations. But if they are setting up dark patterns to farm clicks, are those really expression of use intent?
The homepage is wild too, not that I can read most of what it says

https://mameson.com/
Don't you love people make claims and the can't substantiate the claim? They just down vote your comment.
> ask for regulation then ask for exempt

That's exactly what has been happening:

Ask HN: Why is OpenAI pushing for regulation so much - 2023

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36045397
Even if such promises were made and indeed kept for some people at no point that I am aware of was the situation ever long term stable. AFAIK Soviet Union guaranteed dignity in retirement and planned to not have to pay for it through achieving a post-monetary society. The US made similar guarantees and planed to out-grow the costs (i.e. ponzi scheme).
210k Volt Plasma Cannon
This is not about memory or training. The LLM training process is not being run on books streamed directly off the internet or from real-time footage of a book.

What these companies are doing is:

1. Obtain a free copy of a work in some way.

2. Store this copy in a format that's amenable to training.

3. Train their models on the stored copy, months or years after step 1 happened.

The illegal part happens in steps 1 and/or 2. Step 3 is perhaps debatable - maybe it's fair to argue that the model is learning in the same sense as a human reading a book, so the model is perhaps not illegally created.

But the training set that the company is storing is full of illegally obtained or at least illegally copied works.

What they're doing before the training step is exactly like building a library by going with a portable copier into bookshops and creating copies of every book in that bookshop.
Half on topic: what libs/etc did you use for the animations? Not immediately obvious from the source page.

(it's a topic I'm deeply familiar with so I don't have a comment on the content, it looks great on a skim!) - but I've been sketching animations for my own blog and not liked the last few libs I tried.

Thanks!
The question is whether it destroys the incentive to produce the work. That is the entire point of copyright and patent law.

LLMs do indeed significantly reduce the incentive to produce original work.