skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always upvote Ben Eater's project(s).

I got his 6502 kit and worked through his YouTube videos to get it up and running with LCD display and all. I want to actually frame it and get it running, hanging on a wall.

If anyone is new to Ben, find a comfortable chair or couch, make some tea, take a breath, and begin your descent into his long-form breadboard series of nerd-splaining how a CPU works, beginning with basic logic gates.

His follow-on series is a little higher level. He's still at it with the breadboards but he allows that this time the CPU (a 6502) is already built for us. He then walks through how the address bus works, how to attach RAM, etc.

It makes me wish I could be transported back to the 70's when things could still be understood.
I agree and I’d think we’d have a good time chatting about it.

To me, the concepts of self-determination and owning humans are in conflict. I think it’s appropriate and important to honor the gallantry and sacrifice individual soldiers.

But it’s important to appreciate that the Confederacy was explicit in its evil, and the labor of those soldiers in civilian life was cheapened by the aristocrats who founded the Confederacy to preserve their human property. And the (specious) ideals of self-determination were discarded as the demands of the first modern war demanded centralized control.
Why do you HAVE TO one-shot? No one says you have to code like those influencers. You are a software engineer, use AI like one, iteratively.
Now AIs are stealing from AIs.
One of the possibly obsolete things I enjoy about working with a human junior dev is that they learn and improve. It's nice to feel all this interaction is building something.
> Regardless, the current law would suggest that the infringing action happens at inference time, not training.

Zuckerberg downloading a large library of pirated articles does not violate any laws? I think you can get a life sentence for merely posting links to the library.
Resentful of what? Directed at whom? There are lots of options that cost less and many are shorter than four years.
Seems pretty reasonable to presuppose this when you filter to people who are literate. That’s darn near a definition of literate, that you can engage with the text intelligently.
> Textbooks aren't just communicating theorems and proofs

Not even maths papers, which are vehicle for theorem's and proofs, are purely symbolic language and equations. Natural language prose is included when appropriate.
Yes. I 100% unironically believe that anyone should be able to use anyone else's work royalty/copyright free after 10-20 years instead of 170 in the UK. Could you please justify why 170 years is in any way a reasonable amount of time?
Office has a port to Mac that is perfectly fine. Teams has a port to both Mac and Linux. Azure is a cloud service, but most of its development tools that I've used had Mac clients. I don't know anything about BI so I can't speak to that.

Office even has a web version that generally works fine. I ran it on Brave browser in Linux last week. Teams browser also works fine, I use it to talk to my parents.

I don't think your examples are good on this.
True, I see hika.fyi as more of a "deep research" tool. Rather than delivering instant, magical results, we provide a set of tools and frameworks to help you dive deeper into your research.
I’ve kinda done this at different points. Sometimes people need a good stern talking to out of band.
just a bunch of status 200 GET requests. a few are scripts, but mostly just images
> Remember all those people who are resentful (of course that word) towards degree-holders because they wish they had one themselves?

I think the fair comparison isn't they have a degree and I don't, it's they have a better life/savings/house/car than me, which is enabled in general by getting a degree, which becomes the common contention point.
How would you know what he believes?

There's hype and there's people calling bullshit. If you work from the assumption that the hype people are genuine, but the people calling bullshit can't be for real, that's how you get a bubble.
Is it this? I didn't know about it until your post.

https://help.matterhackers.com
Kudos to the author for writing an academic thesis on distortion in music, but it sure reads like an academic thesis rather than a statement about art.

In contrast, I thoroughly enjoyed and resonated with this short conversation between Henry Rollins (Black Flag) and Don Was (President of the Jazz label Blue Note) about distortion in music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p6_WCqaucc
I am not a software engineer. I don’t live on a coast. I grew up intermittently poor before I did well.

I am not unsympathetic to someone in the rust belt, anywhere really, who needs help. I don’t expect them to be a software engineer. We should provide robust social safety nets, guarantees of remote work in some fashion, whatever it takes to help these people live good lives until they retire or die. Tax me more, I insist. But, I don’t think that’ll make them happy nor what is on offer with this administration. It’s certainly not what they’re voting for. To reconfigure domestic manufacturing will take 5-10 years at least, and the evidence is robust the electorate is too unsophisticated and impatient for that.
A language is invented for a domain for precision and clarity the natural language cannot provide … trying to do the opposite would certainly create more work
It's how you keep the riff raff out.
I guess country of residence has a lot of relevance here...
> Copyright makes the legality of arXiv

Why? I thought that authors post the articles to arxiv themselves.

> It locks publicly funded research behind paywalls.

It is not copyright, it is scientists who do not want to publish their work (that they got paid for) in open access journals. And it seems the reason is that we have the system where your career advances better if you publish in paid journals.
The main takeaway of this whole LLM chatbot nonsense to me is how gullible people are and how low the bar is.

These tools are brand new and have proven kinks (hallucinations, for example). But instead of being, rightly, in my view, skeptical, the majority of people completely buy into the hype and already have full automation bias when it comes to these tools. They blindly trust the output, and merrily push forth AI generated, incorrect garbage that they themselves have no expertise or ability to evaluate. It's like everyone is itching to buy a bridge.

In some sense, I suppose it's only natural. Much of the modern economy sustains itself on little more than hype and snake oil anyway, so I guess it's par for the course. Still, it's left me a bit incredulous, particularly when people I thought were smart and capable of being critical seemingly adopt this nonsense without batting an eye. Worse, they all hype it up even further. Makes me feel like the whole LLM business is some kind of ponzi scheme given how willingly users will schill for these products for nothing.
I think you can get a life sentence for merely posting links to the library.

This isn't true in the United States. I would be surprised if it were true in any country. Many people have posted sci-hub links here, and to my knowledge nobody has ever suffered legal problems from it:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Fundamentally, rules almost always come with compromises — for the sake of making rules understandable by humans, they have to be relatively simple. Simple rules for complex situations will always forbid some amount of good behaviour, and allow some bad behaviour. Many of society's parasites live in the space of "allowable bad behaviour", but there is a lot of value to knowing how to exploit the "forbidden good behaviour" space.
Beauty of Capitalism: everything has a price.

Next time please pay me $5 when you sell my data.
Rights you basically can’t use without a lot of money
>Nobody would vote for a politician who just makes things worse

Why not? One thing is the campaign, another one is exercising his power. To quote a famous Argentinian President: "If I said what I would do, they wouldn't have voted for me".
but on the other hand, having a rising browser engine might eventually remove this avenue for fingerprinting

If what I've seen from CloudFlare et.al. are any indication, it's the exact opposite --- the amount of fingerprinting and "exploitation" of implementation-defined behaviour has increased significantly in the past few months, likely in an attempt to kill off other browser engines; the incumbents do not like competition at all.

The enemy has been trying to spin it as "AI bots DDoSing" but one wonders how much of that was their own doing...
The cultural revolution approach to AI.
You mean the part where he pulls out Marshal McLuhan to back him up in an argument? "You know nothing of my work..."
The limiting factor is power, we can't build enough of it - certainly not enough by 2027. I don't really see this addressed.

Second to this, we can't just assume that progress will keep increasing. Most technologies have a 'S' curve and plateau once the quick and easy gains are captured. Pre-training is done. We can get further with RL but really only in certain domains that are solvable (math and to an extent coding). Other domains like law are extremely hard to even benchmark or grade without very slow and expensive human annotation.
The article rendering hurt my eyes, and then it was a pdf of the source code! :-(
An immigrant is a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country. An immigrant visa is a necessary precondition to being an immigrant.
But why do you want to make a collection of pixels that resembles existing characters and not create your own?
Meh, I don't prefer OSS. I prefer tools that work well, whatever they may be. For a long time, that was Windows. Microsoft went to hell, so now it's Linux. I'll happily use commercial solutions so long as they're good.
(It's a high-res image of the printed code.)
Why do you think it's a good idea to buy olive oil from Tunisia instead of from California? Are you aware of how much CO2 is released to ship a trivial commodity across the atlantic ocean?
That's the point though.

What's left of Sun is basically a startup founded by a few ex-employees, some open-source software, and the rest of their IP being milked by Larry Ellison.
It’s worse in music: the folk music that came before recorded music had a long history of everyone borrowing and putting their own spin on someone else’s tune and, today, this is viewed as some kind of assault on the originator of the tune.

If companies can’t gatekeep our artistic culture for money, we’ll be better able to enjoy it.
I don't know, that sounds like the basic argument for copyright: "I created a cool thing, therefore I should be able to milk it for the rest of my life". Without this perk, creatives are less motivated. Would that be bad? I guess an extreme version would be a world where you can only publish anonymously and with no tangible reward.
It’s amazing the lengths people will go to just to ruin something fun for other people.
The step of building up hydrocarbons by Fischer-Tropsch is capital intensive and requires an expensive machine which probably doesn’t become economical even with cheap syngas.

Anybody reasonable gives up and goes to some kind of single entity fuel like methanol or butanol or dimethyl ether. The aviation industry is the one exception but half of that is that if they did get serious about sustainable aviation fuel they’d suddenly realize they should have switched to methane long ago.
> "resist the temptation to get better ratings from gullible humans by hallucinating citations or faking task completion"

Everything this from this point on is pure fiction. An LLM can't get tempted or resist temptations, at best there's some local minimum in a gradient that it falls into. As opaque and black-box-y as they are, they're still deterministic machines. Anthropomorphisation tells you nothing useful about the computer, only the user.
All those ideas were rationalizations because people didn’t want to pay for stuff, just like your post effectively blaming the victim of IP theft cause corporations undeniably do suck so we shouldn’t care if they suffer.
Can stable diffusion be created without using copyrighted content? Maybe we should have some exemption for non-commercial research but definitely not for commercial exploitation or generating copyrighted images using open-source models.
Sigh. When you talk to these people their eugenics obsession always comes out eventually. Set a timer and wait for it.
This is the same group who voted based on the price of eggs increasing.
Worse, I'm a parent! :D
May I ask why you want to use someone's work instead of creating your own?
I need a Ghibli version of that terminator now.
That's how society progresses though. Before 1865, slavery was mainstream and abolitionists were weird radical crazies. Before 1965, "Jim Crow" laws that said non-whites had to use different bathrooms and drinking fountains were mainstream, and people who opposed them were seen as unreasonable.
Provided computers isn't part of "ultra high end of competitive e-sports" - it's pretty standard. The tourney just needs to pull enough eyeballs to interest a PC hardware company.

Cheating still happens.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z-kmSF5Qxk
Doesn't it count as distribution? I thought DMCA requires to delete links.
If other countries are sensible, they'd tax (er tariff) American software companies - because a large amount of software is less useful than goods.

A 20% tax on Facebook and Google isn't going to do anything. A 20% on Office 365 is meaningful but only until they find software alternatives from anywhere else in the globe.

As for the US, O365 will not be more expensive but the cost of producing O365 will be. It will be up to execs to determine if they want to pass the costs to the shrinking number of businesses or if they want to eat the cost of production at the expense of shareholders.

Either way, American society is going to eat the cost, either in loss of customers or in loss of 401k.
There's a reason the "con" in "con man" stands for "confidence". Turns out the illusion of confidence is the easiest way to hack the human brain.
Fun fact, GW-BASIC was a descendant of the original Altair BASIC. The "Translation created 10-Feb-83" headers on each source file refer to tooling Microsoft had that automatically translated the 8080 assembly to 8086 (it shouldn't be taken as a build date since they were manually modified after that point). Besides GW-BASIC, source code for the 6502 and 6809 rewrites of Microsoft BASIC were available up to this point (see https://www.pagetable.com/?p=774 and https://github.com/davidlinsley/DragonBasic) but I believe this is the first public release of the original 8080 BASIC code.
I realise no one is infallible but do you not think Daniel Kokotajlo's integrity is now pretty well established with regard to those incentives?
I'm always ambivalent about things like this showing up here. On one hand, it's good to let others know that there is still that bit of rebelliousness and independence alive amongst the population. On the other hand, much like other "freedom is insecurity" projects, attracting unwanted attention may make it worse for those who rely on them.

Writing a browser is hard, and the incumbents are continually making it harder.
I'm doubly disappointed because of your comment because that is not the alternative. You implement the technology with user experience as #1 priority and build layers upon layers of defenses against abuse and with trust establishment as its foundation.
The idea that someone can't use ideas without someone else making money from it is a really, really, radically weird idea and is very new in the history of human society.
Let me preface this with a disclaimer. The games I cheat on are mostly private servers of active games, that exist in defiance of the companies Terms of Service. Mostly RuneScape servers or other MMOs being privately hosted. Whatever that caveat may lend.

This is exclusively what it is for me. I don't care about the games I cheat on at all. The game is finding ways to cheat that the host can't combat. If I can't beat them, I find a new private server. To be fair though, those guys generally don't have the resources or know-how to battle cheating to the degree major companies can and I'm a noob so it's a learning environment for me as well.
Sanders might impose tariffs, but he would be smart enough to realize that if trade deficits need to be reduced what matters is reducing the deficit on the aggregate trade, not reducing the deficits individually with each trade partner.

Trump is treating each country as a separate issue and wants to reduce the deficits with each of them. That's completely stupid because even if every country got rid of all trade barriers and protectionism there would still be deficits with some countries and surpluses with others because different countries need to import different things.

For example say country A needs some natural resource that they have no domestic supply of, so they import that from country B. A uses that to produce goods for their own use and for export.

Country B's biggest need is some other resource that they lack, so they use the money they get from selling their resource to A to buy the resource they need from C.

In this scenario A runs a trade deficit with B and there is nothing whatsoever wrong with this.

The whole freaking point of money is to make it so you can trade for goods without having to have goods of your own that the other party wants.
...not before I get in peak shape, six months from now.
This dude will probably die of a heart attack on the toilet some day, and there will be loyalists claiming it to be a brilliant, final masterstroke.
All the voters did is allow the elites in rich countries to buy the rest of the country on the cheap once the American economy crashes and burns.
These days aimbots are so sophisticated and able to include fuzzing, that it's virtually impossible to tell because they can mimic a player's movement, miss occasionally, etc.

About the only cheat you can really identify is glass-walling, because usually people who do it eventually slip up and aim/shoot perfectly at someone they plainly cannot see.
>it's the heart and the detail that make them what they are. You cannot clone that

You absolutely can and these theft machines are proving that, literally cloning those details with very high precision and fidelity.
Strange, or well planned?
It’s one of the reasons why organizations that are run by lawyers or accountants almost always suck and often perform poorly. They tend to go back to their roots when uncertain and focus on chickenshit.

The exceptions are usually lawyers who discovered that they despise lawyering.
And not only that. People who do make a living producing creative stuff have to constantly monitor themselves for any hint of copyright infringement, because a copyright strike on their channel is existential. Even if the majority of the time the strike was total baloney. It makes it tough to create when you can be three strikesed or demonetized for playing something that sounds like a record label's melody for 20 seconds on your channel.
I don’t know about that, we seem to be so deeply into double standards for this stuff that we’ve forgotten they are double standards. If I aggressively scrape content from anywhere and everywhere ignoring robots.txt and any other terms and conditions, then I’ll probably be punished. Corporate crawlers that are feeding the beast just do this on a massive scale and laugh off all of the complaints, including those from smaller corporations who hire lawyers..
I'm skeptical that

1. Clearly define requirements

2. Clearly sketch architecture

3. Setup code tool suite

4. Let AI agent write the remaining code

Is better price-performance than going lighter on 1-3 and instead of 4, spending that time writing the code yourself with heavy input from LLM autocomplete, which is what LLMs are elite at.

The agent will definitely(?) write the code faster, but quality and understanding (tech debt) can suffer.

IOW the real takeaway is that knowing the requirements, architecture, and tooling is where the value is. LLM Agent value is dubious.
Possibly, but I've seen a lot of passionate types also very often have double standards. E.g. "That's different!", etc.
Dijkstra is entirely correct in this, and it's something I've been trying to urge people to recognize since the beginnings of this LLM wave.

There is inherent value in using formal language to refine, analyze, and describe ideas. This is, after all, why mathematical symbolism has lasted in spite of the fact that all mathematicians are more than capable of talking about mathematical ideas in their natural tongues.

Code realizes a computable model of the world. A computable model is made up of a subset of the mathematical functions we can define. We benefit greatly from formalism in this context. It helps us be precise about the actual relationships and invariants that hold within a system. Stable relationships and invariants lead to predictable behaviors, and predictable systems are reliable systems on the plan of human interaction.

If you describe your system entirely in fuzzily conceived natural language, have you done the requisite analysis to establish the important relationships and invariants among components in your system, or are you just half-assing it?

Engineering is all about establishing relative degrees of certainty in the face of the wild uncertainty that is the default modality of existence. Moving toward a world in which we "engineer" systems increasingly through informal natural language is a step backwards on the continuum of reliability, comprehensibility, and rigor. The fact that anyone considers using these tools and still thinks of themselves as an "engineer" of some kind is an absolute joke.
Very cool, thanks for elaborating on the process. Good luck, I'll be keeping an eye on your progress!
Interesting, thanks. That does sound like you could tell from inside if you there or not.

I'll have to read up on that, I always had the vague sense that on ~finite scale of time there existed a region of space where you couldn't really tell the difference if you're inside of a big enough black hole or not.

Which sounds like I'm probably just wrong.
This phenomenon is why I personally get so angry at the license washing that these models are capable of for code: I put out a lot of code as open source... but it is GPL on purpose, as I want your code to be just as free as mine in exchange for getting to use mine. But, now, you're all "I want to build that for myself!" and so you ask an AI and just describe what my project does into the tool... and who is to say it isn't generating something "too close" to my code? Do you even check? If you yourself as a human had first looked at my code, you'd have to be VERY careful to not be accidentally infringing my code... and yet people pretend this AI is somehow not capable of IP theft?!
> I'm guessing you've never created something of value before

That's an interesting speculation. You realize that it could also be turned against you, right? Never a good idea!

So, let's focus on the arguments rather than making assumptions about each other's backgrounds.

> People are entitled to the fruits of their labour and control of their intellectual property.

People are absolutely entitled to the fruits of their labour. The crucial question is whether the current system of 'IP' control – designed for scarcity – is the best way to ensure that, especially when many creators find it hinders more than it helps. That's why many people explore and use other models.
but selling it is another and these ai companies sell their IP theft with a monthly subscription.