skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it’s extremely easy to coerce direct copies out of models that artists could be pursued for infringement if they drew, but companies reselling said copyrighted artwork face no penalty

The purpose of the model isn't to make exact reproductions. It's like saying you can use the internet for copyright infringement. You can, but it's the user who chooses the use, so is that on AT&T and Microsoft or is it on the users doing the infringement?

> They sell these images and give no credit or cash to the images being “interpolated” between.

A big part of the problem is that machines aren't qualified to be judges.

Suppose the image you request is Gollum but instead of the One Ring he wants PewDiePie. Obviously this is using a character from the LOTR films by Warner Bros. If you're PewDiePie and you want this image to use in an ad for your channel, you might be in trouble.

But Warner Bros. got into a scandal for paying YouTubers to promote Promote Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor without disclosing the payments. If you're creating the image to criticize the company's behavior, it's likely fair use.

The service has no way to tell why you want the image, so what is it supposed to do? A law that requires them to deny you in the second case is restricting a right of the public. But it's the same image.

Meanwhile in the first case you don't really need the company generating the image to do anything because Warner Bros. could then go after PewDiePie for using the character in commercial advertising without permission.

> Notice this doesn’t extend to open source, it’s the commercial aspect that represents theft.

It's also not really clear how this works. For example, Stable Diffusion is published. You can run it locally. If you buy a GPU from Nvidia or AMD in order to do that, is that now commercial use? Is the GPU manufacturer in trouble? What if you pay a cloud provider like AWS to use one of their GPUs to do it? You can also pay for the cloud service from Stability AI, the makers of Stable Diffusion. Is it different in that case than the others? How?
> One of the nice things about Flajolet/Sedgewick[2] (mentioned in this post) is that it gives a nice set of combinators for (at least it seems to me, in theory) precisely enumerating how many "steps" an algorithm would take given some input. I optimistically imagine a world where we replace the relatively non-specific asymptotic bounds of an algorithm with a very specific quantification of the work an algorithm will take. And that this in turn would free TCS to focus on things that are more germane to the field as a whole.

Check out the Art of Computer Programming, by Knuth. He writes all of the algorithms in a hypothetical machine code called MIX (MMIX in later editions). He does go through algorithmic analysis to the degree you describe, showing exactly how many cycles a particular routine may take to complete, based on different variables. This is actually fairly complex even for simple programs. Consider the simple case of computing the maximum in a list:

let current_max := 0
for x in array_of_numbers {
if x > current_max {
current_max = x;
}
}
return current_max;

Anyone can tell you this runs in O(N) time. But exactly how many cycles would this take? Ignoring the architectural details, you would need to know how often the condition "x > current_max" is true. If the list of numbers is in ascending order, this will be true every time, if it is in descending order it will only be true once. The difference in the number of cycles between those two cases is significant. I believe Knuth works through this example, and shows that, for a randomly-ordered array, this would be true around log_2(n) times.
We [1] use ECharts to visualize all of our data and it's pretty great to use.

It's also very pluggable, so one can only import the components one needs for each chart.
Meaning if you only use the `bar` series type, you can just only import the `bar` component. Same thing not only for other chart types but also stuff like mark areas or zoom controls.

There's also a bigger update in the work which brings e.g. violin plots.

[1] - https://donation.watch/
I got to tour a new recycling facility in my home town last year.

It's neat seeing the increase in automation and improvement in processes.

> Getting as many residents as possible to even consider recycling is the obvious first benchmark for any successful program. In Sarasota County, 94 percent of households recycle, while within Sarasota’s city limits, the rate is 75 percent. In Manatee County, it’s just 56 percent.

I think if we're really serious, our long term goal shouldn't be about getting people (at least Americans) to put in the individual effort. It's improving sorting at the waste site.

Ideally I think everything should go into one bin to be collected and sorted later. We need Wall-E.

And replacing hard to recycle materials with ones that are easy to or compostable.
Yeah that's exactly what I am talking about. Like I was working on this livekit project and I asked cursor, could you help me override this method? it very confidently gave me the incorrect answer and instead of speeding things up, I had to spend 2 hours just to figure out how do it by digging in their docs.

I am just curious here, would this be something you'd be willing to beta test? while I build it? I am dogfooding my own system and I wanna work with 5-10 people who have felt this pain and want to do something about it.
Fingers crossed they’ll finally enable sending files to people
OK, so ask them for something they've written in the past 2 years.
I've often seen the statistic where the US Government at point was almost entirely funded by tariffs (and that this was to justify removing the income tax), but this seems to be misleading as from what I remember, at that time the Government was also much less powerful and didn't have as much of an active role providing services to citizens so I doubt tariffs would be able to supplement what other plans the Trump admin has.

Any info on this?
You can always find a lot of us on LinkedIn :D {I work at Tailscale}
> How AI models are trained with a great disregard to consent, ethics, and licenses.

You must be joking. Consumer models' primary source of training data seems to be the legal preambles from BDSM manuals.
For next time, just right-click the text you're trying to identify the font for, hit "Inspect" and click "Computed" on the right in the styles sidebar. And you'll see `font-family`.

You'll often see multiple listed, like `-apple-system, "SF Pro Text", Helvetica, sans-serif` in this case. It tries to use them from left to right.
Only to use the actions within on public repositories.

https://docs.github.com/en/actions/sharing-automations/shari...
The well known book "The Mythical Man Month" is in large part based on the author's experience as one of the top people on the System 360 project, and what went wrong during the effort.
They have raised before, so that money helped shape the service you enjoy.
But you still had to get an interview first, which is often the most difficult part. Not everyone is so lucky to get such a chance. What then? Go homeless or lie till you get an interview?

The funny thing is I'm not even a mechanical engineer, but a a CS engineer, just mostly experienced in a stack that's not used much anymore but it's not like I can't learn another stack, I just refuse to put up with discriminatory hiring practices that treat you as a checkbox list, and so I have to work around the employers'/recruiters' bullshit hiring practices.
> and hired my best programmer.

And they're still around? Or moved on when hiring defroze again, to get a non covid salary?
how long ago did you find it? Maybe you can share the dev progress if it was a few years back.
It is banned in India for Ice Creams & frozen Lollies / Ice Pops, but allowed within limit for general use (soda, bubble gums, packaged juice, etc).

Health department officials said, "Saccharin is harmful to children especially those under 14 years. It affects bones badly. These ice candies are sold in rural areas and their sale picks up during summer"

Some ice cream producers prefer to use saccharin as it is quite cheaper in comparison to sugar. To earn heavy profits during summer when the demand for ice candies goes up significantly, some of the ice cream producers use saccharin. Officials said that saccharin is more than 300 times sweeter than sucrose (sugar), the officials said.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/ice-cream-pr... / https://archive.vn/wRTE5
> can achieve the same thing

Did you even look at echarts demos, or amcharts demos for that matter -- it's basically the same thing, but paid for: https://www.amcharts.com/demos ?

I don't have anything against charts.css, but it's like comparing a children's plastic toy to a real space shuttle. I spend most of my work hours developing a heavy business analytics application (not unlike Apache Superset), and it would simply be impossible to implement it with something like chart.css
You spent a lot of words saying “nobody knows anything” while conveniently ignoring the mountains of defectors’ testimonies, satellite imagery, and reports from human rights orgs that paint a bleak but consistent picture. But sure, let’s pretend the real problem is me not being epistemologically pure enough about the world’s most repressive regime.

Your entire comment boils down to: “We can’t trust any sources, so how dare you have an opinion.” That’s not skepticism, that’s intellectual paralysis dressed up as nuance.

And yes, invoking Flat Earth was apt—because entertaining every counter-narrative, no matter how unmoored from reality, in the name of balance is exactly how we ended up with people thinking the Earth is a disk.

But by all means, tell me more about the utopia behind the DMZ, if not hush too. You have said a lot of nothing.

What a world we live in. You cannot even call NK a repressive regime without folks jumping to point out how wrong you are. Maybe you need to go through the test your self and denounce the supreme leader.
This article is (2021). It gives some context to the newly claimed "dire wolf" resurrection based on a genetically modified gray wolf.
I dunno, I managed to get stellar reviews form my boss and colleagues after getting the job. Maybe not everyone is incompetent.

Maybe some people who are good at doing one thing, are also gonna be good at doing other things, but HR and recruiters are terrible at screening for adaptability and transferable skills, or they are just risk adverse and play it safe for an easy pay cheque, so you end up missing out on jobs you could do just fine, simply because in their limited understanding of tech jobs, you lack some buzzwords in your resume or some years of experience.
Correspondences Between Wittgenstein's Tractatus and Programming
no interviewer has ever looked at it

How do you know this? Did you challenge every interviewer to tell you whether they'd looked at any of the code on your personal github page?

If I review code on someone's github page, that doesn't mean I'll proactively ask them about it in an interview.
Statements of the obvious. If you're a well paid computer programmer you should be investing most of your income. The best time to start that was years ago, the second best time is right now.
No, it's not that simple. This is an instance of context collapse; people dunk on that exchange because they believe it's an HN person belittling Dropbox as a product, when in fact it was an HN person helpfully offering notes on a YC application.
I'd enjoy interviewing the candidate.
> Credit cards don't just offer chargeback capabilities. They offer pro-active fraud protection. They alert you for all kinds of threats, data breaches, double-charges, etc. They will sometimes lock your card and not let a payment go through, if it is suspicious, unless you perform extra confirmation via email/text/push. They offer virtual cards that you can activate or deactivate with any given vendor, to improve your privacy, security, and control.

> Having your card stolen, either physically or virtually, becomes much less scary.

I assume Pix and UPI (India) offer indirect fraud protection by keeping payment records. At least in Brazil and India, fraud does not seem to be so bad as to require the regular use of credit cards.

> When used responsibly, with rewards programs, the numerous benefits over cash make sense even in the unusual case where cash payments get a discount.

Nobody was talking about cash. Neither Pix nor UPI nor FedNow are cash. Cash = coins and bills.

> And, obviously, credit cards let you borrow money which provides flexibility to allow payments even if your paycheck hasn't yet arrived. And occasionally, going into debt intentionally can be wise, when making an investment.

That's balanced by the fact that it can also be highly unwise. Moreover, for most payments, borrowing money is simply unnecessary.

> Zelle and debit cards have similar kinds of protections that make it safer than cash, and there's an audit trail. Though, it is more dangerous than credit cards.

Again, cash is irrelevant here. Moreover, any advantage of instant payment systems with fees hold only insofar they (the advantages) more than outweigh the cost of the fees. The expected value has to be positive compared to UPI & Co. Which seems unlikely.
I agree it's silly, but worth noting is that the target audience for those pages are usually:

1. Potential customers

2. Potential investors

Both groups are a lot more swayable by social proof from seeing the "investors" than the devs as they infer a lot of credibility based on who has funded you. Similarly that's why you often see big company logos on marketing pages because it makes other customers more likely to buy. "<xyz> is too big to be wrong about this product"
That makes sense! Like if you wnat to work in the defense sector in for example Germany, you would need XYZ certification or this clearance? Is that what we are talking about
they are missing the mark by not featuring it in their demo. The us national budget comes to mind as a feature clip in the demo for sankey.
Oddly, what tends to matter for competence in X domain in relation to the brain isn't the absolute size of the brain (or brain region) but size relative to 1. The other structures in the brain 2. Total brain size relative to body size
It wouldn't be accepted by a palindrome-detecting function but it would generally be accepted by puzzle-solving conventions (e.g. for crosswords), which normally ignore spaces.
> But there are a few I've met that ... they are certain apple can do no wrong. sigh.

You will not yet escape them on "Hacker" News.
are you hiring EE/Firmware by any chance?
If you haven't seen Larry McVoy's issues with git, I think the list still has some weight.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40870840
All these artificial sweeteners taste terrible to me. A very "chemical" taste and especially smell to all of them, reminds me of insecticide. For carbonated beverages, I prefer plain carbonated water, though sometimes I will buy a flavored (but unsweetened) variety.
There's an ambiguity here between palindromic words and palindromic sentences (where punctuation and spacing are non-breaking):

"Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog"

or

"A man, a plan, a canal, Panama"

though it seems that all of the answers (in the one tutorial and one round that I played) are single words, often slid in as character insertions. Just go light on the spacebar, apparently.
4 mph takes talent, especially over distance. Andthat’s on hard surfaces. From what I understand walking on sand is deceptively taxing. I’d say 2-2.5 and not as the bird flies distances. So ten to fifteen hours of walking if your feet let you.
Does this do anything differently from https://backloggd.com/? I've been using Backloggd a lot over the past year and I'm not sure how this is different (aside from being ad-free, which is nice)
yes, most of the time I want a link to a page
I like Plotly.
Yep, I continue to use multiple search engines and strategies to find stuff. Llms have been added as a tool but in general they mostly allow me to expand my context rather than provide outright answers.
After many trials with other libraries, my team settled on Apache ECharts last year, and we do not regret it: excellent documentation, performant, highly configurable yet easy to use, and supporting all the chart types we need (bars, stacked bars, maps, zoomable/scrollable time series, and scatter plots).
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Product-wise this seems to fall into the "sounds great, if it a) works well and b) is cheap enough to use regularly" category, so instead I'll leave some more general musings on the company for my fellow nosy outsiders:

After researching this company for a bit and reading stuff ranging from their basic-but-spot-on vision statement published today[1] and a careers page that reads like any ML researcher's dream[2] all the way to a (shockingly nuanced!) discussion of "red flags" on /r/MachineLearning[3], I think the only clear takeaway is that this is a fascinating+enigmatic entrant to the AI field.

For example, California's Senator Wiener gave them credit in a Twitter post for "supporting" the writing of SB1047[4], the strongest AI safety bill in the US by a longshot (...that was sadly killed late last year by an alt-right podcaster). I know we're rightfully cynical on here about AI regulation pushed by for-profit firms, but helping write the bill that OpenAI criticized seems like a unique badge of honor! It does make me wonder why they're a purely for-profit firm if they're so interested in safety; both Anthropic and OpenAI2.0 are organized as Public Benefit Corporations, which IMO is at least a better-than-nothing pinky-promise. Redditors mentioned the founders are loosely associated with e/acc, so maybe they're just free market true believers?

On the tech side: they've been around since 2021 as "Generally Intelligent" (yes, that one...), but after a long post-GPT2 period of focusing on foundational models & benchmarks, this is is their first consumer product announcment AFAICT. They describe the underlying tech as an "agent environment architecture," which seems to match my initial impression that they've pivoted somewhat towards symbolic architectonics?

I happen to be way too confident that this is the only way forward for 99% of non-dominant players, so it gives me hope that a seemingly ethics-forward, research-focused company is well along their way here! When I asked the "does it work well" question at the top, I think it's telling that I wasn't questioning the underlying model's one-shot IQ, but rather the system's UX and internal deliberation architecture...

Godspeed Josh n co. All that aside, excited to see Sculptor in action someday!

P.S. If any insiders read this: is the name a reference to Minksy's "Sculpting" paper[5]??? He's been losing the usage battle to "vibe coding" much to my dismay, so I'd be thrilled to have a new ally lol

[1] https://imbue.com/company/vision/

[2] https://imbue.com/careers/

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/17hns0t/d_...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_and_Secure_Innovation_for...

[5] Starts on page 49 in this (19-page) PDF: https://courses.cs.umbc.edu/471/papers/minksy91.pdf
I don’t use LLMs for factual information at all because it is likely biased or wrong.
I think it being Chinese is part of the reason as some of the examples in the early days were Chinese only, which could deter some people. It is certainly more complex (for a good reason in my opinion), I can see why it is not well known since I think the vast majority just wants to create simple charts. However, with echarts, it really can meet Enterprise needs.
There is again no need for first person pronouns there.

E.g. 'File not found' vs 'Sorry I could not find the file you were looking for.' Same stuff, but one just adds an artificial and unnecessary anthropomorphization.
It's an estimate, but AIUI yes.
I wrote about those, too: http://blog.littlepolygon.com/posts/missile/
Do they do anything or are they an expensive toy in the shape of a humanoid robot?
A link to the IBM Redbook Technical Introduction [PDF]:

https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg248580.pdf
The Pros and Cons of Lambdalith
I don't understand how relevant is that this person used AI for preparing etc.

I think you're drawing the wrong conclusions from this experience, and if you believe it's right so, it means you didn't interview before AI.

It was exactly like that. The only difference was the lack of availability of tools that can give you the answer right away, fake the voice, etc.

But even then, if it stinks, trust your guts.
Seconded. This would be super useful.

Amazing game!
It literally isn't.

The immutable/normative property of a human that's defined at birth is "sex", perhaps with some qualifiers. "Gender" is a mutable/descriptive property that's context-dependent.
We’re currently in the golden age of LLMs as search engines. Eventually they’ll subtly push products and recommendations in their output to steer you toward specific things.
Whether the poster was "belittling Dropbox as a product" or "helpfully offering notes" seems like a judgment one can make about the exchange, regardless of poster's intent. I never understood this to be the reason it was referenced, more the SMOP thing. But I hear what you're saying about the details getting warped over time. (edit: And I do think people sometimes use it as a case of "if you listen to everyone's feedback..." but I think that still rings true: regardless of the judgment you place on it, it could have been demoralizing to Dropbox's founders.)
> I've even had homeless people ask me for Pix instead of change on multiple occasions.

Sounds like WeChat Pay. It's been years now that beggars in China only carry QR codes.

I saw a guy at a freeway offramp in north Texas with a Venmo (?) address scrawled on a piece of cardboard.
WNT = V + 1, M + 1, S + 1
When I search 'dc plane crash' in Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo I don't get results buried under ads. When I search 'air conditioner for sale' I do get ads at the top of each of those, but that's more okay because I am looking for things to buy. And it's easy to look past the ads to get to sites like home depot or other traditional retailers that come up not just because they purchased ad space.
Car culture is expensive. All those costs can be greatly reduced by a working public transport and more walkable cities
Paying for ad-free search engines do exist as an alternative, sucks a lot for the ones who cannot afford such a luxury but at some point I noticed that for my life search is quite important, both personally and professionally, so I haven't minded paying for it after the free experience provided by Google, Bing, etc. started worsening.
if you're using chatgpt, how are you ever actually sure if what you're being told is something a human actually said? are you really cross-checking everything, even things that aren't immediately falsifiable?
there has been far more degradation to the natural environment than mere air pollution. general sherman decimated the plains indians with a memorandum. do you think that you are sufficiently better and sufficiently more indispensable than a plains indian?
Solving a “Layton Puzzle” with Prolog
You make more than $220k. Holy fucking shit that's a giant ass pile of money!

Objectively, you. are. not. a. failure!

Ninety-five percent of US households earn less than that. Ninety-five!

The material fact here is you have this made up story in your head that's not supported by the limited facts you've given us. I'm not going to change your self image by yelling at a stranger over the Internet; if traditional talk therapy with a human didn't work, discuss it at length with ChatGPT, or go see a sex worker, they're surprisingly good for talking to. You're also welcome to email me, link in bio.
Llama is not an image generating model. Any interface that uses Llama and generates images is calling out to a separate image generator as a tool, like OpenAI used to do with ChatGPT and DALL-E up until a couple of weeks ago: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Oct/26/add-a-walrus/