skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you have to be practical. It would be difficult to train an AI to consume Harry Potter and compress it but prevent it from recreating it. You can try and people do, but there are always ways around it.

But it's on an individual prompt basis. It's not like ChatGPT can produce the entirety of its text and sell it as a pdf. It's just a device that could reproduce it much like a word processor is a device that you can read the book and type out the contents.

So the question is one of practicality. Do we ensure that no copyrighted material is in the training data? Difficult but probably not impossible. But what you can't do is target the content in all its various other forms, from descriptions of the plot, reviews, fan fiction, etc. So in the end its pretty much a lost cause.

So what to do about it? I don't know. In the utilitarian sense, I think the world in which this technology exists in a non-crippled form is a better richer world than one in which there are all these procedural steps to try to prevent this (and ultimately failing).

Whats the harm here? Are people not buying Harry Potter books and just having an LLM painfully recreate the plot? I would imagine Harry Potter fans would be able to explore their love of the media through LLMs and that would drive more revenue to Harry Potter media, much like fan fiction and pirated music lead to more engagement and concert sales.

In the case of new art, maybe fewer artists get commissioned, but let's be real, Mike Tyson wasn't going to contract out an artist to create a ghibli style animation of him anyway, so there's really little harm in LLMs here to artists. If anything it expands the market and interest.
> Doesn't make any difference in practice meaning you never had a runtime error while running go?

I am not sure I have written enough Go to comment there, but I have worked extensively in other languages where runtime errors are possible, similar to Go in that regard. I have encountered runtime errors in said tests now and then, sure, but then you know about it and deal with it... So, in practice, no different than if the compiler told you that there is a possible runtime error.

> Who says you need a complex type system?

It is needed if you want to avoid the need for said tests. With a complete type system the type system can become your test suite, so to speak. But the languages people normally use, even those with "advanced" type systems, are nowhere near expressive enough for that. Meaning that you have to write the tests anyway. And then you'll know if there are any runtime errors as soon as you run your tests because how could the tests run without encountering the runtime error too? It is not like a CPU magically changes how it works if it detects that a test is being run. So, in practice, the type system doesn't change the outcome. But it is a cool party trick. I'll give you that.

That said, aside from these hand-wavy, make-believe stories, you are still very right that Go would benefit from sum types. For the reason that they map to the human model of the world very well, succinctly communicating structures that are often needed to be expressed. Languages are decidedly for humans. You can sort of work in the same basic idea in Go using interfaces, but it is far more confusing to read and understand than sum types would be. For a language that claims to value readability...
Probably seven figures, actually.
no. i can either become a ML expert or a security expert. not both. i speak for myself, though.

i'll let the ML experts make the tools that i use, but also have good job prospects because infosec fundamentals will always be needed. especially if we have product managers like the sibling commenter who is certain that he will have an AI product that changes the infosec world, even though the person has zero background in security. to me, that is even more encouraging about the job security.

also, the herd is going to AI. maybe i'm a contrarian, unfortunately, but that seems like a good signal to not follow the herd, but instead get into something that the herd will need more of.
My crank opinion is that we should invest in capability-based security, or an effects system, for code in general, both internal and external. Your external package can't pwn you if you have to explicitly grant it permissions it shouldn't have.
This roughly describes the startup I'm working at now. All co-founders and management have quit, along with most of our regular staff. The rest of us are also looking for a way out.
This looks promising! Are you considering adding GPU support? It would be great if I could spin up a CUDA-enabled container right on Cloudflare, as opposed to using a Cloudflare worker to spin up a serverless GPU container on some other cloud provider.
I miss it too.

I think by the end I was far more invested in the characters rather than the plot though.
It's just what Trump and his circle allude to. They believe globalism is an existential threat and that without a swift and powerful shift, the US will sink.
Adobe charging subscription is one of the most asshole moves I've seen in software.

I understand that you can charge monthly if you provide a service. You can charge monthly for SaaS or PaaS, but charging monthly for a desktop application can't win the goodwill of the people.
> Does OpenAI really make sense as a chatbot company?

If the chat bot remains useful and can execute on instructions, yes.

If we see a plateau in integrations or abilities, it’ll stagnate.
Not if you focus on churning business credit cards. You will see a credit inquiry on your personal credit report. But that’s it. The actual credit card doesn’t show up on your credit report and the sign up bonuses are usually higher.

https://johnnyafrica.com/multiple-chase-ink-business-cards/

With Amex it’s even better. Once you have one credit card with them, they usually don’t even run a credit report. That means you can then sign up for business credit cards with no effect on your report.

As far as websites,

https://www.offeroptimist.com/
"Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay": Blue Cross Approved Surgeries Then Refused to Pay
I'm a potential user in the wiktionary frontend market cause I'm addicted to checking pronunciations but it seems the support is not great, for example searching "dog" there is no IPA.
Maybe for public services, but Google did the "cattle not pets" thing with custom Frankensteined beige boxes starting really early on
And we know there will be zero prosecutions for it, because there will be no investigations.
I wonder how you could retrofit something like that onto Go for instance. I've always thought a buried package init function could be devastating. Allow/deny listing syscalls, sockets, files, etc for packages could be interesting.
Apple, Nvidia, Dell, and Others Get a Tariffs Exemption Under New Rules
Haha. That sounds like something Sonnet 3.6 would do, it learned to cheat that way and it's an absolute pain in the ass to make it produce longer outputs.
It’s harder to build one smartwatch from scratch - it took decades and trillions of dollars. However, having already built N of the same smartwatch model, it is much easier to build the N+1st than to build a mechanical watch.
Navigating the Tariff Fallout
iPhone won't face Trump tariff price hike for now following exemption
That's just overfitting. Using too flexible a model without regularization.
Yes, web is a niche. Outside of web there is simply no possibility of turning untrusted input into executable code so sanitation isn't needed. In web development you already have two dozen templating libraries that offer much more comprehensive safe and fast text-generation solutions than what t-strings do.

Pre-compilation means that you first compile the template, then you supply the template with values when you render it multiple times. This is not possible with t-strings since the values are bound when the t-string is created.
> becomes

Why should it? "The artist sees in the wild horse a metaphor of death, as expressed in the fleeting image painted with solemnity, stillness and evanescence". That could be a (sketchy) example of understanding - and it does not need a verbatim or interpolated text to be there.
>We estimate a minimum of 130 million pounds of electronic waste

Since 2014, could be realistic.

>We estimate that the expiration of Windows 10 will result in 1.6 billion pounds of electronic waste

If these figures are on the same terms, that would be a whole order of magnitude more in the next year than it was the previous decade combined?
Building a Developer Motion
I’m not sure if it is the Chinese models themselves that will save us, or the or the effect they have of encouraging others to open source their models too.

But I think we have to get away from the thinking that “Chinese models” are somehow created by the Chinese state, and from an adversarial standpoint. There are models created by Chinese companies, just like American and European companies.
What about the colors? Dark mode? Is that hard-coded or adjustable?
Ok, you are very balanced in your opinion.
My issue is whit extremists from all sides,
I can't complain on reddit about Israel crimes without getting accused of supporting Hamas, or nazis or stuff like that.

What I see from pro-Israel gov accounts is bullshit like
1 we have video of war crimes, like killing red cross
2 pro Israel bots(I told you the clues ) come and deny the news is real,video appears so deny the video is real, then they claim that for sure there must have been some weapons or Hamas leader hiding there.

Also what is your opinion on Trump and Israel cleaning up Gaza of Palestinians and making building soem comercial crap there? Genocide does not always mean killings.
Or data labels on the bars themselves
> German passionary patriotism has been artificially subverted and shut down, and the nation instead has been flooded with non-Germanic elements, thus completely destroying the very definition of German.

> Ask any German on the street, and nobody will be able to answer: What defines being a German, who are the Germans, what is their history, and what awaits German people in the future.

I don't think so, you will meet plently people that will be able to tell you about Germany's history, or at least recent history. And what defines being German, you might get different answers, but is that so bad, and where wouldn't you? Hasn't multiculturalism just become a big part of Germany's identity, and not destroyed it as you claim? Döner just as the simplest example.
When you're logged in at https://account.adobe.com/plans, click the first link in the left sidebar with your current plan, it should mention the day you signed up.
Do you know that YouTube hasn’t reassigned the video’s ad revenue to the IP holder and the IP holder hasn’t requested it be taken down because they now receive compensation for it from YouTube?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatari_involvement_in_higher...

Thought this was common knowledge at this point.

"Approximately 200 colleges and universities in the United States concealed information regarding about $13 billion in unreported donations from foreign countries, much of which originating from Qatar."

"Reports on antisemitism in the United States indicated that between 2015 and 2020, institutions receiving funding from Middle Eastern donors experienced, on average, a 300% higher incidence of antisemitic incidents compared to those that did not. During the same period, institutions receiving undisclosed funds from Qatari donors had, on average, 250% more anti-Semitic incidents than those that did not.[18][1][6]"
If your response to someone disagreeing with you is to just call them a bootlicker I don’t think we’re going to get very far.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatari_involvement_in_higher...

Thought this was common knowledge at this point.

"Approximately 200 colleges and universities in the United States concealed information regarding about $13 billion in unreported donations from foreign countries, much of which originating from Qatar."
https://old.reddit.com/r/Millennials/comments/1jx4unb/anyone... - original post + https://ghostarchive.org/archive/XwHey?wr=false - archived version of it.
A literal vm is hyperbole and sloppy language on my part. I meant all the different forms of containerising or bundling apps with all of their dependencies and os environment.
From Google's blog post:

> Our GDC air-gapped product, which is now authorized for US Government Secret and Top Secret missions, and on which Gemini is available, provides the highest levels of security and compliance.
ABC: Learning the Alphabet with Java Annotations (2024)
It just needs pandoc to do document conversions and we are golden
Your experience and mine are polar opposite. We use search differently is the only way I can reconcile that.
In this case it's a little bit worse; the "nate" app had a literally "0% automation rate," despite representations to investors of an "AI" automation rate of "93-97%" powered by "LSTMs, NLP, and RL." No ML model ever existed! [1]

See:

> As SANIGER knew, at the time nate was claiming to use AI to automate online purchases, the app’s actual automation rate was effectively 0%. SANIGER concealed that reality from investors and most nate employees: he told employees to keep nate’s automation rate secret; he restricted access to nate’s “automation rate dashboard,” which displayed automation metrics; and he provided false explanations for his secrecy, such as the automation data was a “trade secret.”

> SANIGER claimed that nate's "deep learning models" were "custom built" and use a "mix of long short-term memory, natural language processing, and reinforcement learning."

> When, on the eve of making an investment, an employee of Investment Firm-1 asked SANIGER about nate's automation rate, that is, the percentage of transactions successfully completed with nate's AI technology, SANIGER claimed that internal testing showed that "success ranges from 93% to 97%."

(from [1])

[1]: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/media/1396131/dl?inline
Show HN: subletters.fun
My friend and I have been working on this word game as a side project for about six months, and we’re excited to finally share it beyond our family and friends!

The idea came from a simple game my friend used to play with his kids during long car rides — just using their heads and maybe a pencil and paper. He had such fond memories of it that we decided to bring it to life as a proper game.

We’d love for you to try it out and let us know what you think!
Usually, when the model hallucinates a dependency, the subject of the hallucination really should exist. I've often thought that was kind of interesting in itself. It can feel like a genuine glimpse of emergent creativity.
They're still common (except for alpha) platforms in some market segment specific corners of embedded development. So, maybe for those purposes?

Though, the trend I'm seeing a lot of is greenfield projects just migrating their MCUs to ARM.
Honestly, that should be your default stance with any agreement with a company.
Too much butter? You're not living if thats too much butter!
The next step could be to ask it to generate the missing function.
To be fair, the whole "vibe coding" thing is really really new stuff. It will undoubtedly take some time to optimize how to actually effectively do it.

Recently, we've seen a lot of a shift in insight into not just diving straight into implementation, but actually spending time on careful specification, discussion and documentation either with or without an AI assistant before setting it loose to implement stuff.

For large, existing codebases, I sincerely believe that the biggest improvements lie in using MCP and proper instructions to connect the AI assistants to spec and documentation. For new projects I would put pretty much all of that directly into the repos.
All files pokes a big hole, really you want portals. You probably also want audio. And perhaps graphics acceleration depending on the software, and other limited hardware access. And dbus (but sandboxed proxy access). Probably some global config from the host as well (fonts, themes, cursor). And…well maybe there’s more but the point is it depends on the software. Maybe it is that simply sometimes. Often it’s not for non-trivial applications.
These days they are more of racialist scientism meet & greet
Long read; these bits were notable to me:

> But the insurer’s defense went even further, to the very meaning of “prior authorization,” which it had granted women like Arch to pursue surgery. The authorization, they said in court, recognized that a procedure was medically necessary, but it also contained a clause that it was “not a guarantee of payment.” Blue Cross was not obliged to pay the center anything, top executives testified. “Let me be clear: The authorization never says we’re going to pay you,” said Steven Udvarhelyi, who was the CEO for the insurer from 2016 to 2024, in a deposition. “That’s why there’s a disclaimer.

> At the trial, Blue Cross revealed that it had never considered any of the appeals — nor had it ever told the center that they were pointless. “An appeal is not available to review an underpayment,” acknowledged Paula Shepherd, a Blue Cross executive vice president. The insurer simply issued an edict — the payment was correct.

> On several occasions, though, Blue Cross executives had signed special one-time deals with the center, known as single case agreements, to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment.
The last one here seems to show both. Maybe its just a config issue

https://chartscss.org/components/axes/
Nice!

I loved the Emerald Chronometer⁽¹⁾app for iOS / iPadOS and all its various “calibres” that you could flip over and show in day or night mode. Sadly the dev has removed the apps from the App Store, but it still runs (for now.) It’s a fun use for an older iPad on a stand.

Wanted to mention it in case it gives you some inspiration. :)

⁽¹⁾https://emeraldsequoia.com/h/
Above I've already pointed to TWO types of data that bear on food insecurity in the US, and provided citations:

1. USDA data on food insecurity

2. Food bank usage data

If you wanted to understand the extremes of food insecurity, than data on malnutrition related deaths in the US would also apply:

• Mostafa, N., Sayed, A., Rashad, O. et al. Malnutrition-related mortality trends in older adults in the United States from 1999 to 2020. BMC Med 21, 421 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-023-03143-8

From the paper above -- "Despite some initial decrements in malnutrition mortality among older adults in the U.S., the uptrend from 2013 to 2020 nullified all established progress. The end result is that malnutrition mortality rates represent a historical high...Effective interventions are strongly needed. Such interventions should aim to ensure food security and early detection and remedy of malnutrition among older adults..."

If you wanted to explore malnutrition related deaths for other groups / time periods you could query the CDC Wonder data base using ICD-10 Codes E40 – E46 (as was done in the paper cited above; see also https://www.icd10data.com/ICD10CM/Codes/E00-E89/E40-E46).

• https://wonder.cdc.gov/ -- Search CDC Wonder for underlying cause of death

I did the query for 2023 and found were >22,000 malnutrition related deaths recorded by the CDC.

If this number went down significantly I would see that as evidence of a decrease in malnutrition in the US. If this number was near zero I would accept your assertion that no/few Americans are starving.

Given the preponderance of data, the notion that one could argue with a straight face that food insecurity in the US is of no concern seems shocking to me.
The capability of the model to infringe isn’t the problem. Ingesting unlicensed inputs to create the model is the initial infringement before the model has even output anything and I’m saying that copyright shouldn’t be assigned to it or its outputs. If you train on licensed art and output Darth Vader that’s cool so long as you know better than to try copyrighting that. If you train on licensed art and produce something original and the law says it’s cool to copyright that or there’s just no one to challenge you, also cool.

If you want to ingest unlicensed input and produce copyright infringing stuff for no profit, just for the love of the source material, well that’s complicated. I’m not saying no good ever came of it, and the tolerance for infringement comes from it happening on a relatively small scale. If I take an artists work with a very unique style and feed it into a machine then mass produce art for people based on that style and the artist is someone who makes a living off commissions I’m obviously doing harm to their business model. Fanfics/fanart of Nintendo characters probably not hurting Nintendo. It’s not black or white. It’s about striking a balance, which is hard to do. I can’t just give it a pass because large corporations will weather it fine.

That Fantasia video was good. You ever see Pogo’s Disney remixes? Incredible musical creativity but also infringing. I don’t doubt the time and effort needed to produce these works, they couldn’t just write a prompt and hit a button. I respect that. At the same time, this stuff is special partly because there aren’t a lot of things like it. If you made a AI to spit out stuff like this it would be just another video on the internet. Stepping outside copyright, I would prefer not to see a flood of low effort work drown out everything that feels unique, whimsical, and personal but I can understand those who would prefer the opposite. Disney hasn’t taken it down in the last 17 years and god I’m old.
https://youtu.be/pAwR6w2TgxY?si=K8vN2epX4CyDsC96

The training of unlicensed inputs is the ultimate issue and we can just agree to disagree on how that should be handled. I think
Yeah I'm sure every Chinese knows exactly what happened there.

It's not really about suppressing the knowledge, it's about suppressing people talking about it and making it a point in the media etc. The CCP knows how powerful organised people can be, this is how they came to power after all.
> So what to do about it

We proceed towards AGIs that implement proper understanding, and have them read all of the masterpieces and essays and textbooks - otherwise they will be useless -, as is fully legitimate in any system that foresees libraries.
Anyone have a readable mirror that contains text?
Show HN: A tool that makes numbers eye-catching using Unicode, anywhere
the subscription is a product
>Today at Google Cloud Next, we're thrilled to announce another significant milestone for Google Public Sector: the authorization of Google Distributed Cloud Hosted (GDC Hosted) to host Top Secret and Secret missions for the U.S. Intelligence Community, and Top Secret missions for the Department of Defense (DoD).

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/public-sector/google-pu...
People may learn from material that uses C for illustration purposes, but that won’t prompt them to write their own C. And don’t even mention ecosystem support in C/C++ where developers are notorious for reimplementing everything on their own because there is no package manager.
> It reveals that some people simply hate the whole concept of generative AI, regardless of how it was made. You're never going to please them.

and unfortunately for adobe: these people are its customers
Anybody expecting either honesty or subtlety from this administration will be sorely disappointed.
Some people think AI writing has a tell – the em dash
"useful hallucination" so much AI glazing its crazy
Did they abandon that goal? Last I heard it was still under development.
There are already GUIs for ffmeg and most image editing applications can save in multiple formats so its still not clear to me what this adds