skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the author, Jan Heine, is originally from Germany. He does own and operate a US-based company, so it's not that surprising that he's writing from that perspective.
IANAL, but my understanding is that it's more complicated than this. Generally commercial benefits (i.e. taking money) is one of the aspects being taken into consideration to decide if something is fair use, but it's not the only one and not making a monetary/commercial benefit does not guarantee that work is considered fair use (which is the exception we're talking about here).
Reapers aren't the only military drones, and yes, there are drones that do help establish air superiority, either on the reconnaissance and logistics side, or (more recently) directly on the combat side.

China doesn't have the same level of sophistication in stealth tech, and they still struggle to make decent jet engines, because they don't have the required materials technology for certain components. There's also decades of work in signals processing, which is at least as important as the platform. Not to mention sensor packages, but they almost certainly have a lot of that down. A drone is simple until it needs to fly close to the coffin corner, do air-to-air refueling, land on a carrier, be invisible to radar, be hardened to jamming, act as a wingman to a human pilot... You get the idea.

And since it apparently wasn't obvious, I'm not really talking drones specifically, I'm talking about all defense hardware. China doesn't have anything close to an F-22, and as far as we know, their tanks aren't as good. They can't build carriers that can compete with US ones. But they're already outcompeting the US when it comes to building civilian vessels, and they're taking over the electric car market. How long until they can build a decent carrier or tank?
No it isn’t. When people see the anti trans party winning elections they see that as permission to bully trans people. The vote directly leads to abuse.
Why? For fan content, using the original characters in new situations, mashups, new styles etc.
The #1 economy on that list has a zero percent income tax.
If you don't know anything except how words are used, you can definitely disambiguate "bicycle" and "car" solely based on the fact that the contexts they appear in are incongruent the vast majority of the time, and when they appear in the same context, they are explicitly contrasted against each other.

This is just the "fancy statistics" argument again, and it serves to describe any similar example you can come up with better than "intelligence exists inside this black box because I'm vibing with the output".
It's trivial to get around these rules. Northern Irelnd is (or was at some point) a country of origin for both the EU and the UK. So a company could produce something in Greece, ship it to Dublin within the EU, then truck it to Belfast in Northern Ireland, and export it to the US with a UK certificate of origin.
Well, property is theft, as we all know.

Unlike what they name in physics, laws in juristic field are not a given by the cosmos. That's all human fantasy, and generally not enacted by the most altruistic and benevolent wills.

Call me back when we have no more humble humans dying from cold, hunger and war, maybe I'll have some extra compassion to spend on soulless megacorps which pretend they can own the part of our brain into which they inject their propaganda and control what we are permitted to do starting from that.
>> Dems just need to spin these tariffs as the largest tax increase in US history

And then what? From a quick look at the 2024 Democratic Party Platform:

"Democrats will make billionaires pay a minimum income tax rate of 25 percent, raising $500 billion in 10 years. We’ll end the preferential treatment for capital gains for millionaires, so they pay the same rate on investment income as on wages"

Tax increase.

"We’ll put an end to abusive life insurance tax shelters, and stop billionaires from exploiting retirement tax incentives that are supposed to help middle-class families save"

Tax increase.

"We’ll eliminate the 'stepped-up basis' loophole for the wealthiest Americans"

Tax increase.

"Democrats will close the 'carried interest' loophole"

Tax increase.

"we’ll increase our new stock buyback tax to 4 percent"

Tax increase.

"Trump doesn’t care: he slashed the corporate tax rate to 21 percent, down from 35 percent. President Biden will raise that rate back to 28 percent"

Tax increase.

"And for those billion-dollar tax dodgers, the President signed a historic 15 percent corporate minimum tax into law"

Tax increase.

"He also reached a global minimum tax agreement with 140 countries"

Tax increase.

"Biden will double the tax rate that American multinationals pay on foreign earnings to 21 percent"

Tax increase.

"It means ending special tax breaks for corporate jets, and boosting fuel taxes on corporate and private jet travel"

Tax increase.

"We’ll also eliminate the so-called 'like-kind exchange' loophole that allows wealthy real estate investors to avoid paying taxes on real estate profits, as long as they keep investing in real estate"

Tax increase.

"It offers corporate landlords a basic choice for the next two years: either cap rent increases at 5 percent, or lose a valuable federal tax break"

Tax increase.

"We oppose the use of private-school vouchers, tuition tax credits, opportunity scholarships, and other schemes that divert taxpayer-funded resources away from public education"

Tax increase.

"Democrats will make Medicare permanently solvent, by making the wealthy pay their fair share in Medicare taxes"

Tax increase.

"To cover those costs, the law finally restored a vital 'polluter pays' tax that had lapsed 26 years before"

Tax increase.

"fight for a global minimum tax that ensures corporations pay their fair share"

Tax increase.

Spinning the tariffs as a tax increase will do what for the Dems, exactly? Democrats love taxes on corporations, do they not think the consumer bears much of the costs of those taxes?
> Do you assume it can't get worse? Or that 10 other things could not get worse?

> Like, much much worse?

It will at least afflict the comfortable, otherwise they wouldn't be so opposed.

And that's fine. We've been running on a twisted "win-win" logic in this country for a long time: no policy can be pursued where the working class "wins" unless the well-off also "win" (because if they don't, there will be much whining), but if the working class loses it's "Who cares! They've got to suck it up and adapt. Be more grateful and go fill the holes in your life with cheap shit from Walmart."

Enough of that, and a lot of people rightly stop caring if things can get worse. Trump is the chickens coming home to roost. If people didn't want this outcome, they should've gotten together to fix the problems with neoliberalism.
Obviously a horrible hideous theft machine.

One thing I would say, it's interesting to consider what would make this not so obviously bad.

Like, we could ask AI to assess the physical attributes of the characters it generated. Then ask it to permute some of those attributes. Generate some random tweaks: ok but brawy, short, and a different descent. Do similarly on some clothing colors. Change the game. Hit the "random character" button on the physical attributes a couple times.

There was an equally shatteringly-awful less-IP-theft (and as someone who thinks IP is itself incredibly ripping off humanity & should be vastly scoped down, it's important to me to not rest my arguments on IP violations).... An equally shattering recent incident for me. Having trouble finding it, don't remember the right keywords, but an article about how AI has a "default guy" type that it uses everywhere, a super generic personage, that it would use repeatedly. It was so distasteful.

The nature of 'AI as compression', as giving you the most median answer is horrific. Maybe maybe maybe we can escape some of this trap by iterating to different permutations, by injecting deliberate exploration of the state spaces. But I still fear AI, worry horribly when anyone relies on it for decision making, as it is anti-intelligent, uncreative in extreme, requiring human ingenuity to budge off its rock of oppressive hypernormality that it regurgitates.
An essential question is, what is the political angle for Trump and the right wing? They know what they are doing. They know it will cause economic calamity.

They often seek to create calamity and crisis - with Covid; spreading fear (of immigrants, etc.), hatred and violence; disrupting health, education, and housing; international peace and security (NATO, Ukraine, etc.). You never see them spreading calm and peace - crisis seems necessary to their movement.

Tanking the economy does the same thing, but it is a much bigger step that impacts many of their supporters. What is their exit plan?

I expect part of their plan is to blame others: They will blame Democrats somehow, and other political enemies - it doesn't need any basis because the Dems don't have any effective means of refuting it to the public; whatever the GOP says becomes reality. I suspect they'll use it to ramp up hatred and fear, blaming their current objects of hatred such as immigrants, minorities, certain religions (a traditional object of blame, the right has already been normalizing antisemitism and general prejudice - which makes antisemitism inevitable. Rogan recently hosted a conspiracy theorist blaming Jewish people for 9/11, for example - how long before does he blames them for the economy, 'undermining President Trump'), liberals, etc.

Edit: I did some rewording
That's fair!

Before using an existing solution, I like to understand how it works to make sure I will not get bad surprises: being able to reverse and debug using assembly code can be a helpful skill, and likewise for understanding DNS.

Yesterday I vibe code a DNS server from scratch in half a day, because I wanted to test something very specific bridging DNS and mDNS. Doing the same thing for health checks and geo routing may take what, another half day?

The experience and understanding gained can help decide if it's worth using a service like route53 or not, or even better: just doing without the feature, because if you have 1 VPS, "YAGNI" is the likely answer!

If the poster is seriously thinking about scaling to 2 VPS or more, the experience gained will expose the various ways it can fail, to maybe reconsider the decision (maybe instead get beefier hardware?)

In my case, I saw the DNS-mDNS isn't much a problem, so I don't have to reconsider adding the feature I want.
That's absolutely correct, KV cache is just an optimization trick, you could run the model without it, that's how encoder-only transformers do it.

I guess what I'm trying to convey is that the latent representations within a transformer are conditioned on all previous latents through attention, so at least in principle, while the old cache of course does not change, since it grows with new tokens it means that the "state" can be brought up to date by being incorporated in an updated form into subsequent tokens.
This is a tangent but I think that this neat illustration of how LLMs regurgitate their training material makes me voice a little prediction I've been nursing recently:

LLMs are better at generating the boilerplate of todays programming languages than they will be with tomorrows programming languages.

This is because not only will tomorrows programming languages be newer and lacking in corpus to train the models in but, by the time a corpus is built, that corpus will consist largely of LLM hallucinations that got checked into github!?

The internet that that has been trawled to train the LLMs is already largely SEO spam etc, but the internet of the future will be much more so. The loop will feed into itself and become ever worse quality.
One problem is that we have been basing too much on [human brain] for so long that we ended up with some ethical problems as we decided other brains didn't count as intelligent. As such, science has taken an approach of not assuming humans are uniquely intelligence. We seem to be the best around at doing different tasks with tools, but other animals are not completely incapable of doing the same. So [human brain] should really be [brain]. But is that good enough? Is a fruit fly brain intelligent? Is it a goal to aim for?

There is a second problem that we aren't looking for [human brain] or [brain], but [intelligence] or [sapient] or something similar. We aren't even sure what we want as many people have different ideas, and, as you pointed out, we have different people with different interest pushing for different underlying definitions of what these ideas even are.

There is also a great deal of impreciseness in most any definitions we use, and AI encroaches on this in a way that reality rarely attacks our definitions. Philosophically, we aren't well prepared to defend against such attacks. If we had every ancestor of the cat before us, could we point out the first cat from the last non-cat in that lineup? In a precise way that we would all agree upon that isn't arbitrary? I doubt we could.
This – eliminating costs and other negative effects of transportation – is one of the major reasons people started living in large cities, instead of spreading themselves out in small tribes across the land.
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Two other single-handed round-the-world accounts I enjoyed are Robin Lee Graham's _Dove_ (the name of his boat), and Chay Blyth's _The Impossible Voyage_. Graham's voyage was noteworthy because of how young he was -- 16. He might have been, as I recall, the youngest ever to make such a voyage at that time. His book was later made into a film starring Joseph Bottoms and Deborah Raffin. Blyth's was noteworthy because he was the first to sail singlehanded "the wrong way round," westwards, nonstop. Incredibly arduous. Wikipedia says The Times called this "The most outstanding passage ever made by one man alone." His vessel was a 59 footer called "British Steel."
yeah, migrations are generated from the Declarative files. For example, the steps are for adding a new column:

1/ Add a new column to the declarative file

2/ Generate a new migration: `supabase db diff -f my_new_migration`

3/ Review/edit the generated migration, check it into git

4/ Apply migration to database
Meh. People also invent justifications after the fact.
> Presumably React Native apps do something to that extent?

Not in the background they don't, no.

> Or, if they don't, whatever optimization they use

They don't have one. There is no optimization they can do to run JS in the background. Push notifications in a React Native app either use native code or rely on declarative payloads sent from the server.
Also, a crutch for doing long division is not the same as a crutch for general thinking and creativity.
Chrome has randomized its ClientHello extension order for two years now.[0]

The companies to blame here are solely the ones employing these fingerprinting techniques, and those relying on services of these companies (which is a worryingly large chunk of the web). For example, after the Chrome change, Cloudflare just switched to a fingerprinter that doesn't check the order.[1]

[0]: https://chromestatus.com/feature/5124606246518784

[1]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/ja4-signals/
>There's certainly cause to celebrate Wine's accomplishments reverse-engineering Win32. But it's far from the only thing required to get games running, and I think you've oversold it's importance.

Thats like saying you think I've oversold Chromium because Brave has done the heavy lifting (I bet you use Brave too, I sure don't nor ever will).. You sound incredibly confirming to the gamer-stupidity that revolves around the Steamdeck community.. You literally discredit Wine a decades old project to shine on a fork that is a few years old. You're exactly the type I'm talking about- get a grip.
Yeah, you don't want to stop business, but if the price gap is massive, it might be good to ask why. Sometimes it's because something is more efficient in that country. Others it's just people getting taken advantage of.
Yes - exactly. If they were that smooth and looked that good, I'd like more of them. So creative.
I don't even mind this particular piece, but I do mind most of what gets labeled as contemporary art. Or pretty much anything since Duchamp's Fountain or maybe Yoko Ono's Cut Piece before that.
I think it's not holding up that well outside of predictions about AI research itself. In particular, he makes a lot of predictions about AI impact on persuasion, propaganda, the information environment, etc that have not happened.
It's not a single image though. Stitching 3 or so input images together clearly makes copyright laundering legal.
> backend devs can't or won't produce something people can use.

Where by people you mean management and sales, and by produce you mean add 150 different tracker scripts? :).

Snark aside, contempt for frontend dev and contempt for users are two different things; the latter has thoroughly infected the fields of UI/UX. It's most visible in webdev, because that's where most UI work happens. Second to that is mobile app dev, where it's just as bad.

Also, there are actually two somewhat distinct types of contempt for the user:

1) Paternalism - "users are idiots and need to be babysit at every step, or else they hurt themselves (or make us spend money on support)"; this one is pretty overt in UI/UX.

2) Exploitation - "users are livestock, the purpose of the site/app is to milk them as much as we can - whether it's taking their data, money, or both; the design must guide users to allow extracting maximum value from them before eventually discarding them"; this one is less talked about, even though it underpins many UI/UX patterns (not all of them known as "dark patterns").
Why? That's what trade is for
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> problem-solving strategies and an execution engine

Extremely unfounded claims. See: the root comment of this tree.
Well, the point of the action in the US is to stop imports, not just tax them, so manufacturing moves into the US. The minimum fee per item is clearly punitive.

Not that that matters, most manufacturing will simply never be in the US ever again, and having punitive taxes like this will simply drive up costs massively.
Bonobos' calls may be the closest thing to animal language we've seen
True. Perhaps annotating the schema would help for simple things?
> This implies somebody with admin rights makes alterations in ad-hoc way without first doing it in test env.

Not necessarily. With a large team/org using the same database schema, it can just mean multiple people were trying to make changes to an environment around the same time, e.g. the migrations were applied in a different order in staging vs prod.

Some migration tools provide extra checks for strict ordering, but many do not. There's often no guarantee that the migration file naming scheme ordering, Git commit ordering, and actual DB apply ordering line up -- that's 3 different possible sources of truth, or more since the DB state varies by environment (dev/stage/prod etc).

Late-night hot-fixes (to solve an emergency outage) can be another source of inconsistencies / drift.

> If they continue with adhoc stuff, then it means auto auto-generated migrations will be different in test vs prod

That depends on the declarative tool and whether it fully syncs the schema each time, or just generates migrations which are frozen into a plan which is executed as-is in all environments. Not that full-sync is bad, but yes in that case it will generate different things in each env. Although the end result is that it will solve the drift, and give you the same end state in all environments. And that's likely what you want to happen: after running the tool, the database state will match the desired state which was expressed by the CREATE statements in your schema repo.

That said, the declarative tooling should have sufficient safety checks to ensure it doesn't do anything destructive in prod without very loudly telling you and requiring manual confirmation. That way, you won't be harmed when trying to synchronize an environment that had unexpected out-of-band changes.
> How hard would it be to automate these iterations?

The fact that we're no closer to doing this than we were when chatgpt launched suggests that it's really hard. If anything I think it's _the_ hard bit vs. building something that generates plausible text.

Solving this for the general case is imo a completely different problem to being able to generate plausible text in the general case.
OR use borrowing (e.g. current account deficit). If government spending drives productivity growth then it’s a net positive?

OR tax wealth. If most return on international capital investment is being stored in the US, taxing this effectively taxes profits on international sales???
Because it wasn't prompted to? Have you not ever used ChatGPT?
I‘m not so sure, unless you are playing a game of “name the character” you generally don‘t want Indiana Jones unless you explicitly mention Indiana Jones. Indiana Jones is a well known character, if you want a picture of Indiana Jones it is simple enough to just say: “Draw me a picture of Indiana Jones”. The fact that they didn’t say that, most likely means they don‘t want that.
I don't have the internal monologue most people seem to have: with proper sentences, an accent, and so on. I mostly think by navigating a knowledge graph of sorts. Having to stop to translate this graph into sentences always feels kind of wasteful...

So I don't really get the fuzz about this chain of thought idea. To me, I feel like it should be better to just operate on the knowledge graph itself