skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Tech textbook tycoon Tim O'Reilly claims OpenAI mined his publishing house's copyright-protected tomes for training data and fed it all into its top-tier GPT-4o model without permission.

"I am shocked, shocked, to find that copyright infringement is going on in here."

"Your LLM, sir."

"(Oh, thank you very much.)"
Even if this were implemented, any country taxing wealth would see a flight of capital to other countries not taxing it.
That’s because the control circuit is hidden in a monolithic IC. If you’re really curious, here’s a
datasheet for an old fashioned design with a block diagram and theory of operation described that should give you some hints. https://www.meditronik.com.pl/doc/plus/zn409.pdf

If that sort of thing interests you, there’s a whole field of control theory to study.
Berkeley's Willard Jr high school bussed 7th grade student s up to Lawrence hall of science in the fall of 1970. I was the 3rd grade younger brother that started to print all the code, so I could walk through it. There were at least 70 to 80 kids there, and only two years later, they added two more 30 person labs. Dartmouth BASIC and HP basic were at most universities. While punched card FORTRAN was as most engineering schools.
Alpha was so far ahead, compared to the other mid 90’s “workstation” vendors. I went to a university with tons of DEC hardware, then worked at a mostly DEC shop for a bit. It’s a shame DEC died.
There are certainly legitimate cases where the placeholders come from a separate request. Most
CRDTs and similar sync engines you don’t want to (and/or are not allowed to) store binary images directly inside them, so you need to store references to some other blob storage. But Blurhash is a simple short string (and LQIP here is a simple integer) and those store well in CRDTs and other sync engines, so you can pair that with your reference pointer (which might not even be a URL depending on your blob storage engine and its sync mechanics and authorization schemes and whatever else) and whatever other metadata you want/need to include like width/height or aspect ratio and alt/title/caption.

When the CRDT or document sync engine inevitably sync much faster than your blobs you have something to show in that placeholder. If the blob sync fails for some reason, you still have something to show more interesting than your browser’s old broken image logo under your “Sync is slow or broken” warning.

I think placeholders help a bunch in situations like that where your image fetch is a lot more complicated than a URL that you can add in a `src` attribute. It’s also really easy to get into situations where such blob fetching is complex: In cases where you have to respect user and/or tenant privacy and need complex OAuth flows. In cases where you need end-to-end photo encryption. In cases where you need peer-to-peer sync and only P2P sync because you’ve been mandated to reduce touch points and likelihood of accidentally storing photos at rest in middle layers. Situations like images of HIPAA data, PII, PIFI, etc.

On a static site with public (or cookie sessioned) images direct linked by URL, yeah the placeholders don’t do much other than check certain design boxes. There’s lots of other places images (and their metadata) come from, and placeholders are a useful fallback in the worst cases.
I find it hard to believe that when the AI generates crap code, there is absolutely nothing you can do (change the prompt, modify context, add examples) to make it do what you want. It has not been my experience either. I only use AI to make small modules and refactor instead of one-shoting.

Also I find "AI makes crap code so we should give it a bigger task" illogical.
By 100+ comment discussion I assume you mean this HN post in its whole? People here aren't checking the facts, so the fact that only one person found an issue doesn't mean much.
Where are you getting >50% of the population from?

He did not even get 50% of the votes cast for president. More people in the USA opted out of voting for him than to vote for him.
Dented cans aren’t a sign of botulism.

Botulism increases internal pressure of a can, so cans that are puffed are dangerous.
>> Well, tariffs are about as regressive as you can get

I don't know.

I used to be poor, maybe 60% of my income went to housing.

That wasn't imported.

My food was mostly sugar, wheat, corn, and high fructose corn syrup.

Also not imported.

Maybe the car. I had an older car that I worked on myself, but it was made in Japan.

That would be the main one.

The job I had back then is gone, I was a manual laborer and what I did for work in the early 1990's doesn't exist now, it has been automated away.

I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. It was shitty work but I didn't have to talk to anyone. Are tariffs going to bring back shitty work for people like I used to be?

Whatever happened to all those losers of the year?
For which side?

Most examples boil down to common sense. Nobody is going to arrest a 14 year old for driving their dying parent to the hospital.

Similarly, it is reprehensible but legal to pull up a chair and watch a child drown in a pool.

There is a difference between law and morality, and humans will use the second to selectively enforce the former.
There are precisely three models for funding

Private - this includes funding by selling item(s), licensing work, and private equity

State

Charity - this includes volunteers, patrons, donations, sponsorships.

Charity relies on people willing to donate for the betterment of others.

State funding fails because of the political nature of the person holding the purse strings.

Licensing, copyright, physical sales are the only thing that artists have to sell.

You "patreon" style falls somewhere between closed source - you can only access if you buy your way behind the curtain, and charity, where creators have to rely on people donating so that their works can be seen by others (for free)
I've rarely read a rant that didn't consist of some good logical points
Well I mean, nitpick, but Fentanyl is a useful medication in the right context. It's not inherently evil.

I think my biggest concern with AI is its biggest proponents have the least wisdom imaginable. I'm deeply concerned that our technocrats are running full speed at AGI with like zero plan for what happens if it "disrupts" 50% of jobs in a shockingly short period of time, or worse outcomes (theres some evidence the new tariff policies were generated with LLMs.. its probably already making policy. But it could be worse. What happens when bad actors start using these things to intentionally gaslight the population?)

But I actually think AI (not AGI) as an assistant can be helpful.
What happens if he fails the inspection? Nothing?
As another 90s kid feels like there is some lesson here on how few things last forever
Tunnock's tea cakes cleared for take-off by RAF 60 years after ban
Ahhhh now the comment meaning clicked for me. I totally misunderstood it.
I think the guidelines actually say not to post comments criticizing the website layout, etc.
>. Let’s say I write a book or record an album and there is no copyright. How do I get paid?

I've purchased books that were in the public domain and without copyright. I've paid for albums I could already legally listen to for free. I've paid for games and movies that were free to play and watch. I'm far from the only person who has or would.

The people who pirate the most are also the ones who spend the most money on the things they pirate. They are hardcore fans. They want official merch and special boxed sets. People want to give the creators of the things they love their money and often feel conflicted about having to give their cash to a far less worthy corporation in the process. There are people who love music but refuse to support the RIAA by buying albums.

There are proven ways to make profit in other ways like "pay what you want" or even "fund in advance" crowdsourced models. If copyright went away or, more ideally, were limited to a much shorter period of time (say 8-10 years) artists would continue to find fans and make money.
a little sprinkling is OK.

This isn't progressive enhancement, the page is completley unreadable without running JS. It rather irks me that someone who clearly knows about the basics of computing would do such a thing.

Also, can one do a TCP stack in 8 bits?

Yes. Lots of low-end IoT devices have an 8-bit MCU. Also, this:

https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Contiki
Or more directly: many people with degrees are given management positions unjustifiably.

It's bizarre to see it all playing out in the open.
It strikes me that perhaps the prompts are not expansive or expressive enough. If you look at some of the prompts our new wave of prompt artists use to generate images in communities like midjourney, a single sentence doesn't cut it.

If AI is just compression, then decompressing a generic pop-culture-seeking prompt will yield a generic uninspired image.
Humans think they can produce chain-of-reasoing, but it has been shown many times (and is self evident if you pay attention) that your brain is making decisions before you are aware of it.

If I ask you to think of a movie, go ahead, think of one.....whatever movie just came into your mind was not picked by you, it was served up to you from an abyss.
I'd love to see the chart of the rate against growth in discrete end identities in proton. Ie, some sense of the % because the absolute doesn't mean much without understanding how protons userbase worldwide is growing.

I would also have loved a breakdown by origin-LEA to the Swiss judicial system but that may be behind the legal/NDA wall.
Limited Partners.

My first thought was when you leave one in the sun and then try to play it, the warpage will be the cause of the needle raising from the LP.
> Effortless Collaboration: The app supports easy collaboration, even in offline scenarios.

mmm, yes, i see
"their own" = CloudFlare and/or those who have vested interests in closing up the Internet.
The type of cheating I do rarely interfaces with other players, outside of enriching them with the spoils of my effort when I'm through. In a protracted way I can agree this "ruins the fun"...but not in the way that griefing does. I just spike in-game economies and leave. Balance is shortly restored.
> Here's the dangerous way I put it that I only tell senior people: understand why rules were made and make sure the people who made them would be happy.

If you aren't absolutely sure those senior people know what they're doing, the this is a great way to end up with originalism.
I disagree re toil. The original idea that brings a creative work into existence is only a tiny part of how that work evolves with every step. For example absolutely no writer starts off writing their final draft. They write & through writing their ideas are clarified & new ideas form, that they did not previously have, all due to the 'toil' of writing the previous drafts. Skipping all the steps that are required to create significant work leads to shallow work born from instant gratification, exactly like the Ghibli slop. It's not 'gatekeeping' that something requires time & effort. All that Ghibli slop is already forgotten, despite saturating social media only a few days ago, because it so shallow. The story & characters & intent is what gives Ghibli films meaning & human resonance.
Paywalled.

https://archive.ph/Ko4pe
I did find this Idle Game entirely in CSS amusing: https://lyra.horse/css-clicker/
While the majority of revenue of Microsoft is not Windows anymore, I think Windows defines the brand much like how iPhone and Mac define Apple even though that might be part of the revenue not all of it.

What I am curious about is what happens when the original product that makes the company popular starts to experience poor quality. Take Google for example, its search has been on a decline in the last decade or so and needless to say the company is experiencing problems as well in the last few years. While GCP and GSuite are significant, people have lost faith in Google which probably started with search.

Windows 11 and the iPhone seem to be heading towards same fate as Google search imo.
I don't consider stylistic imitation, or even outright copying or obvious copyright infringement, to be theft per se, since the original is not taken away.

But training automated systems on the works of human artists in order to create dirt cheap imitations at scale in their (formerly) distinctive style could certainly make it harder for active artists to find paid commissions.

Flooding the world with inferior imitations seems like it might have some negative consequences as well.
While I like the seamless integration with GitHub, I’d imagine this doesn’t fully take advantage of the stateful nature of MCP.

A really powerful git repo x MCP integration would be to automatically setup the GitHub repo library / environment and be able to interact with that library, making it more stateful and significantly more powerful.
As someone who is very much into heavily distorted guitar with long feedback loops, I appreciate your comment (especially for the insight). I'm a huge fan of doom/stoner/sludge/psychedelic metal (and all variations of those), where distortion and feedback are often used to create sounds that are difficult to notate. Combined with progressive metal/rock, which is heavily reliant on that jazz/rock fusion, and you get entire genres built around the harmonics and odd sounds that show up from lots of distortion.

I feel that Sunn O))) - named after the amplifiers, are a great example of slow rhythm music that relies upon heavy distortion and feedback to create the atmosphere and primary sound of their music. This is just a modern band, but the experimentation and techniques go back to psychedelic and acid rock from the 1960's, and mostly center around Black Sabbath as "the" band that really created the prototype for the sound.

Monolord, Bongzilla, Acid King, Bongripper, REZN, and SLEEP are some great modern examples that fit what you've described.
Every job I have worked, there's the rules, and the actual rules.
The rules are what is written down, the actual rules is what is enforced.

If the company wants you out or considers you low value/high maintenance, they use the rules.
If the company likes you, they use the actual rules.
If you are on the promotion track, they use the actual rules.

Also, it turns out the actual rules actually have serious revisions as you go up the corporate ladder - things that would get you fired might not get your boss fired, and definitely wont get the CFO fired.
> so you gotta do your best to signal to the reader where you lie

Or what?
Mostly latency. But even if a single robot could be driven by a data centre consider the energy and hardware investment requirements to make such a creature practical.
There is already exemptions for research. Look at licensing around things like ImageNet. There's similar licensing around things like LAION and Common Crawl[0] It's also not legal to just scrape everything without paying. There's a reason the NYT sued OpenAI and then got a settlement. It's still illegal for Meta to torrent terabytes of textbooks too.

[0] https://commoncrawl.org/terms-of-use

> In this regard, you acknowledge that you may not rely on any Crawled Content created or accumulated by CC. CC strongly recommends that you obtain the advice of legal counsel before making any use, including commercial use, of the Service and/or the Crawled Content. BY USING THE CRAWLED CONTENT, YOU AGREE TO RESPECT THE COPYRIGHTS AND OTHER APPLICABLE RIGHTS OF THIRD PARTIES IN AND TO THE MATERIAL CONTAINED THEREIN.
How were they "pure bread hackers"? Was Gates especially proficient with code? I've never heard that. From what I read, they were the enemies of hackers. This really seems like looking back with rose-colored glasses.

My understanding of Microsoft's success was it came from marketplace maneuvers, many ranging from unethical to illegal, not from quality or innovative hacking. Compare Windows with any contemporaneous MacOS, for example. They took over the office productivity software market by illegally leveraging their Windows monopoly. Their initial and core success - getting DOS on IBM PCs, which led to the Windows monopoly - was simply leaping at a business opportunity, I think even before they began developing the product.

Didn't they generate fake errors for Windows running on DR-DOS, or something like that, even though it ran fine? Do you mind that they tried to destroy and monopolize the open web (thank you Mozilla!)?
Mutual Co-op 'still in the game' as profits soar and it cuts debt
Back in the 1990s my boss went to a conference where there was a talk on OSINT.

She was interested in the then-new concept of "open source" so went to the talk, only to find it had nothing to do with software development.
It's fairly easy to make the association with just text. If you injest all the content in the world, excluding copyrighted material, I would still expect a picture of harrison ford!
I also did the 6502 and added a Pi Pico for VGA output and USB input.

I'm still working on ways to add more to the design -- it's been a fun hobby. I actually enjoy cutting the wires and physically putting it together.
> neutral civil servants

Look I'm not saying we don't have these but the set of positions that are neutral is much smaller. Thanks to the political whipping boys de jour any position of power within academic or educational institutions has become politicized.
Check this yt channel out: https://youtu.be/ENlcDdyUHC8?si=cq7zob46DX-oRRaj
Wow this is what put food on the table for us as a kid. Respect to VAX / VMS. I wonder if anyone remembers sperry univac digital burrows etc tech co of yore. It gave me a childhood in America, so however old or obsolete it may be I have a fond place for it.
> but on behalf of the common folk universities have been failing their core mission - to provide the people with a quality education.

I see this a lot and it’s a concerningly reductive argument. Say what you want about a lot of colleges but when you talk about that mission you are talking about public colleges. Most have far lower endowments and most are very reasonably priced or free for instate students.

Georgia and California are great examples of this. The support for these institutions that used to come from states has gone down enormously while the cost of goods has gone up.

As a result it is not unreasonable to me for them to charge out of state and international students much much more. Georgia shouldn’t be subsidizing the college degrees of Alabamans, nor California of Arizonans.

All that to say the economics here are far more variable than people give much thought to and it’s easy to point at headline grabbing numbers that don’t reflect reality.

Schools rent the ones pressuring kids…their parents and society is.
Why not just continue use the Microsoft account?
CEOs should give LinkedIn a rest
> You can't provide a service and also charge for it in the exact same instant.

Sometimes you can, and it's those cases that I'm thinking of.

But even when you can't, why not create the transaction up front and include the conditions under which it should or should not proceed at a later date? If you want a third party as a mediator, just in case, why not make that part of the transaction too? Why not ensure now, that the money you'll be paid later, actually exists and can't be spent on something else in the meantime?

So much becomes possible if both parties are on the same page yet neither had to build that page from scratch.

> How much waste are we talking about here?

Well there's all the business that doesn't happen because while I'm a bit curious about your service, I'm not curious enough to give you my credit card and trust your pinky-promise that you'll charge me like you said you would.

And then there's the business that doesn't happen because micropayments are required for the business model (many tiny credit card transactions being prohibitively expensive).

And then there's all the money that gets wasted when resolving disputes in court when mediators could've been bound to the transaction up front--mediators who are more familiar with the parties and the situations and who have access to a single source of truth about the nature of the disagreement rather than having to reconcile both versions of some "handshake agreement".

And then there's maintenance for all that billing pipeline code which is implemented over and over again--slightly differently by each company but rarely meaningfully so--which has to account for two worlds: one which creates debts, another which eliminates them, just to align the conjunction of those worlds to an arbitrary cadence (typically monthly) which has no correspondence with the product's usage. If you offload the accounting to public infra immediately, then you don't have to build and maintain infra which keeps both worlds in sync.

All told, I think it's quite a lot. As for the waste heat from bitcoin--yes, bitcoin is stone-age crypto. What we need for this probably doesn't exist yet.
Ah yeah, fentanyl drug adulterers, what great benefactors of society.

Screaming "no one is evil, its just markets!" probably helps people who base their lives on exploiting the weak sleep better at night.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_good
That doesn't mean he is wrong. That _is_ the only way.
I’ve been hearing for 20 years that any second now Secure Boot be used to block people from installing Linux. It has never happened, not even on Microsoft’s 1st-party hardware. Give it a rest, yeah?
You are correct, thank you. Dave Cutler has apparently done many guest spots on Dave's Garage, so many that I confused their names! Appreciate the correction, so I can perform some better searches of Dave Cutler, having only looked into the videos on YouTube.
OT:

There is a initiative around bringing Indian languages into today's tech.

Named BHASHINI.

I initially thought the title was referring to that project given the similarity in name.

(Bhasha = Language)
> expert software engineers are legitimately seeing their productivity increase 10x

It's funny you would say this, because we are really commenting on an article where a self-proclaimed "expert" has done that and the "10x" output is terrible.
The engagement ring is a good example object, but I feel it serves the opposite argument better.

If engagement rings were as ubiquitous and easy to generate as Ghibli images have become, they would lose their value very quickly -- not even just in the monetary sense, but the sentimental value across the market would crash for this particular trinket. It wouldn't be about picking the right one anymore, it would be finding some other thing that better conveys status or love through scarcity.

If you have a 3d printer you'd know this feeling where abundance diminishes the value of something directly. Any pure plastic items you have are reduced to junk very quickly once you know you can basically have anything on a whim (exceptions for things with utility, however these are still printable). If I could print 30 rings a day, my partner wouldn't want any of them as a show of my undying love. Something more special and rare and thoughtful would have to take its place.

This isn't meant to come across as shallow in any way, its just classic supply and demand relating to non monetary value.
Yeah, just chiming in to say the same. Essentially all of my thinking is geometric in nature. The only time I have any internal monologue is as a mnemonic device to remember a sequence.