skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author in the quote wrote «understanding», whereas the poster here is talking of «compress[ion]», and the two are very different.

Understanding a text is not memorizing a details-fuzzy version of it.
During this term.
When I suspect that it will make stuff up, I tell it to cite the docs that contain the functions it used. It causes more global warming, but it works fine.
If gen-AI had been used to produce Nosferatu there still would have been a case, right?
It's true that niches have their jargon, but I tend to be suspicious when the jargon makes its way into marketing pitches.

It's one thing if your software vendor writes the software in Haskell, but if their pitch to you is that the software has 40 patent protected monads and is entirely dotless and lambda lifted, you're probably being taken for a ride.
No offense but if that's what kills your entrepreneurial spirit it doesn't sound like it would've carried you very far. It's really not that hard if you want it. You'll need it sooner or later anyway if you want to be more than a one man show.

Like I said, you'll be facing a lot of substantially greater challenges.
from my comment

> at the same time, i could totally see myself scanning through a README and going “yep, sounds like what i need” and making the same mistake (i need other people checking my work too).

yes, us humans have similar issues to the magic black box. i’m not arguing humans are perfect.

this is why we have human code review, tests, staging environments etc. in the release cycle. especially so in safety/security critical contexts. plus warnings from things like register articles/CVEs to keep track of.

like i said. don’t blindly trust the untrusted output (code) of these things — always verify it. like making sure your dependencies aren’t actually crypto miners. we should be doing that normally. but some people still seem to believe the hype about these “magic black box oracles”.

the whole “agentic”/mcp/vibe-coding pattern sounds completely fucking nightmare-ish to me as it reeks of “blindly trust everything LLM throws at you despite what we’ve learned in the last 20 years of software development”.
This is a spot on analysis. Bluesky and Mastodon are full of people that felt and continue to feel disenfranchised and excluded. They embraced Bluesky because it reminded them of what Twitter used to be and had found themselves what they felt was a relatively safe space.

Companies like Adobe and other major tech players have enabled the hostile environment we see growing every day. It’s no wonder that disingenuous posts like this from predatory companies receive such a backlash.
I don't know – if there's still dumb money being thrown towards AI in non-tech and non-privacy-heavy industries, especially ones traditionally targeted by ransomware, there'll always be a chance of datasets getting leaked. I'm thinking retail and consumer product-oriented companies. (There's always non-Western governments without strong security orgs, too.)
Blocked on conversion from flex to grid, which never happened: https://github.com/ChartsCSS/charts.css/issues/45
Very useful when the network and power lines are down. You've never been in a distater zone, have you?
To build tokenizers that use hashed identifiers rather than identifiers as plain English?

e.g, "NullPointerException" can be a single kanji. Current LLM processes it like "N, "ull", "P", "oint", er", "Excep", "tion". This lets them make up "PullDrawerException", which is only useful outside code.

That kind of creativity is not useful in code, in which identifiers are just friendly names for pointer addresses.

I guess real question is how much business sense such a solution would make. "S in $buzzword stands for security" kind of thing.
I went thru a couple of F91W and the bracelet kept breaking. I since got a A158WA-1. Check it out.
Nations.
Yeah, they just have to make it through the hype and innovation cycle.
He definitely blinked. Also illegal immigrants who work in hotels and on farms won’t be deported. Weird.
We are actually solving this problem by building the Huggingface Hub[0] for browser automations -automatically tested and updated around the clock, and a homegrown distributed automation framework [1] that can leverage your own browser, your community’s or your team’s up to millions of orchestrated browsers.

It’s not just for AI, we created a custom package format[2] for automations that can run in CLI as a one-off, a REST API server, an MCP server with a single command..

0: https://herd.garden/trails

1: https://herd.garden

2: https://herd.garden/docs/trails-automations
Agreed. So not EVERY LLM is automatically copying in principle, but most of the current implementations probably retain TOO MUCH of the original sources to NOT be copies.
Superficially f-strings reminds you of php and everyone remembers how awful that was. But Python's implementation is leagues better and we also have better tooling (ie smart parsers) for handling fstrings.
It’s an indie game. I think that adding a full-fledged note system with as much creativity as paper+pen is a big undertaking and perhaps not the best use of resources for the developer
So training AI on copyrighted data isn’t a problem unless it spits out the data verbatim. Correct?
I'd expect watermarked model weights plus a lot of liability to distinctivise leaking the model.
But they’re not using it with its normal meaning in the headline. They’re using it only with the “term of art” meaning. You’re insisting on seeing a double entendre that just isn’t there.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury.

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences.
This is just another reason why dependencies are an anti-pattern. If you do nothing, your software shouldn't change.

I suspect that this style of development became popular in the first place because the LGPL has different copyright implications based on whether code is statically or dynamically linked. Corporations don't want to be forced to GPL their code so a system that outsources libraries to random web sites solves a legal problem for them.

But it creates many worse problems because it involves linking your code to code that you didn't write and don't control. This upstream code can be changed in a breaking way or even turned into malware at any time but using these dependencies means you are trusting that such things won't happen.

Modern dependency based software will never "just work" decades from now like all of that COBOL code from the 1960s that infamously still runs government and bank computer systems on the backend. Which is probably a major reason why they won't just rewrite the COBOL code.

You could say as a counterargument that operating systems often include breaking changes as well. Which is true but you don't update your operating system on a regular basis. And the most popular operating system (Windows) is probably the most popular because Microsoft historically has prioritized backward compatibility even to the extreme point of including special code in Windows 95 to make sure it didn't break popular games like SimCity that relied on OS bugs from Windows 3.1 and MS-DOS[0].

[0]: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/05/24/strategy-letter-ii...
I'll just ask the ruling AI to summon one into existence from the required atoms?
Like saving an image as a JPEG doesn't make it a new work
at some threshold understanding becomes memorization which becomes the ability to recite it. it's not two different things, its points on a spectrum.
Fewer UK tourists visiting US amid Trump's policies and rhetoric
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Also let’s not forget that windows 11 puts random news stories in the start menu. Here in Australia, a lot of them are clickbaity scams. I really can’t believe Microsoft is endorsing whatever horrible choice of news provider they’ve teamed up with. It really spoils their brand image.

There’s a way to remove it, of course, by running some obtuse console command. But normal people have no idea how to do stuff like that.
Excuse me sir, English is not my mother tongue, I had to learn it the hard way; and it is blatantly obvious to me that Trump talks like a baby or a senile person, with the same poor vocabulary (proven by any analysis software), broken sentence construction, and nonsense.
I'm not a finance person, but how is net income of $9.9B for FY 2024 not profit?
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As far as I can tell, what you're missing is the massive ease-of-use and approachability, especially for non-technical users, of a web-based graphical "convert X to Y" interface vs. facing command line ffmpeg, which they probably haven't heard of.
Tools like those exist. The problem with them is that they use unsafe blocks a lot, and the code usually isn't very idiomatic. Translating global variable state machines into more idiomatic Rust state machines based on things like named enums, for instance, would be very difficult.

With the help of powerful enough AI we might be able to get a tool like this, but as AI still very much sucks at actually doing what it's supposed to do, I don't think we're quite ready yet. I imagine you'd also need enough memory to keep the entire C and Rust code base inside of your context window, which would quickly require very expensive hardware once your code grows beyond a certain threshold. If you don't, you end up like many code assisting LLMs, generating code independently that's incompatible with itself.

Still, if you're looking to take a C project and extend it in Rust, or perhaps slowly rewrite it piece by piece, https://c2rust.com/ is ready for action.
Do you think Sam will follow through with this?

> Therefore, if a value-aligned, safety-conscious project comes close to building AGI before we do, we commit to stop competing with and start assisting this project. We will work out specifics in case-by-case agreements, but a typical triggering condition might be “a better-than-even chance of success in the next two years.”
There is its own beauty and craftsmanship in cramming billions of transistors on a 4nm die.
I really like SQL personally. You’re right it does work well, but I suspect that’s because it has a limited domain instead of being a general purpose language.
Calling congresspeople critters (or swamp people, reptiles, snakes, clowns, vermin, etc) is not a lurch towards fascism; it's the status quo. Dehumanizing congress has been a national pastime since congress started getting dysfunctional in the late 20th century. "Congresscritter" has been part of the vernacular since at least the 70s (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/congresscritter)
Nixon Opens Trade with China (1972)
People consistently like free stuff more than they dislike ads.

Another instantiation: people like cheap goods more than they dislike buying foreign made goods
Google were pioneers to cloud computing

How so? Amazon were the first with S3 and EC2 including API driven control.
Well, you have left the token in. But it needs a token, so it will be faster to use the link in the web pages.
Seems like so much tech "innovation" these days is really just to sneak around laws and social norms in pursuit of a rent-seeking position.
Similarly, we already have AI, which is really MI (Machine Intelligence). Long before the current hype cycle the defense industry and others have been using the same tools being applied now. Of course, there are differences, such as scale and architecture, etc.
Which might also allow one to use tools that work on .NET bytecode. They include verification, optimization, debugging, and other transpilers. You might also get a grant or job offer from MS Research. :)
> while random non-certified letters are, apparently

They kind of are. Somebody would have to go and steal the physical letter and then read/scan it to make any use of it. That excludes pretty much all attacks on the process --- at least such where criminals might hope to make a larger profit than most other criminal enterprises available to them.

Whether that makes the letters a good idea is a different discussion...
I think started a little earlier, back when every site had a cgi-bin directory.

And, yeah, so much ... cruft now, and I rarely hear reasons for the tradeoff, other than "should" and "It will be great."

And if it is so great, why did it go away?
Why the heavy handed internet sarcasm? Youtube has handled this exact issue with fingerprints for a while.
In fact, the SVG specification is included in the HTML5 specification.
Nobody tell them what the wrap rate they’re paying contractors is. The universities were a deal at only 60% indirect costs.
Cheaper in what sense?

I’d assume the theta would be higher for 0dte? With normal options you could just roll out of them the next day. I guess you would be crossing 2 bid ask spreads, but is that more expensive than the theta decay?
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Are smartwatch brands truly competing against each other, or just holding back features to push high-end sales?
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It doesn't seem like a stretch that an LLM will very soon be able to configure your dependent web assembly components to permit the dangerous access. It feels like this model of security, while definitely a step in the right direction, won't make a novice vibe coder any more secure.
The 3D pie chart remains a classic and my igfavorite in this category.
In the medical definition, "fixed" is an important aspect of it. Maybe you have interacted with people with diagnosable psychosis, but if you haven't, it can be difficult to accept how the beliefs present.
> they took a lot of music and used that to create algorithms that are effective for reproducing real-world music using less data

That's redefining history. MP3 didn't evolve like this. There was a series of studies, experiments etc and it took many steps to get there.

MP3 was not created by dumping music somewhere to get back an algorithm.

> I think a reasonable route is that models shouldn't be copyrightable/patentable themselves

Why? Why can't they just pay. AI companies have the highest valuation and so have the most $$$ and yet they can't pay? This is the equivalent of the rich claiming they are poor and then stealing from the poor.
My first job out of college I was hired to follow around an MSP/IT consultant and learn what he did, specifically to cut the expense of having a MCSA/network engineer coming in weekly for basic desktop support.

I met him in the server closet and asked “hey, I’m new here - do you mind if I look over your shoulder?” He turned around and smiled, “if you are here to help, then you should sit down and I’ll walk you through setting up Exchange mailboxes for these doctors.” Before he left, he walked me through a RAM upgrade and gave me his lucky red screwdriver “ you got this, just call me if you have any issues.”

Later in my career, I continue to learn lessons from this interaction; lately the lesson has been one of “don’t be awesome in a vacuum” - a little bit of encouragement to the new guy can go a long way to adding another person to your on-call rotation that you trust.

20 years later, I still have his screwdriver - and I bring it every time we have lunch every once in a while.

Life is too short to not let the people who make life enjoyable for us know so.
> if we define “AI” as

something completely oblivious of the past, it would be a great disservice.

> as lossy storage

well that would just be a great misunderstanding of what "learning" is.
> If the code is there I assume it is running.

This is such a bizarre and dishonest mindset.

Windows also has code to allow automatic login without a password. Do you assume because the feature exists, it’s going to be enabled after an OS update?

What about the code to enable remote access for support purposes? That exists for a while, but people aren’t freaking out about it existing.
>What about text books, in order to train on a textbook, I have to pay a licensing fee.

Would that also apply if you bought the text books second-hand (or were given it)?
If you pirate a text book, learn from it, and then apply that knowledge to write your own textbook: your textbook would not be a copyright violation of the original, even though you "stole" the original.
Yes, I understand that. But it does require some method of creating the SVG data, which is generally going to be more difficult than styling td elements with `--start: 0.2; --end: 0.4;`. Most extant libraries for this use JS.
Yaml is a sad Icarus parable. The syntax is great but the type inference is too much. I don't see why we have to throw the baby out with the bathwater and settle for toml, though.

Here's how yaml's type inference should work:

- All object keys are strings (with or without quotes)

- Value atoms are parsed the exact same way as in JSON5

I'm kinda shocked this isn't a thing. StrictYAML is cool but a bit too cumbersome IMO.
> Brain surgery requires a license.

This is rather a red-tape problem. :-)
What else would you call a watch movement? That’s just what it’s called, there’s no less fancy word for it.
The only real solution I see is lint and ci tooling that prevents non approved packages from getting into your repo. Even with this there is potential for theft on localhost. There are a dozen new YC startups visible in just those two sentences.
ACME is the one major company trying to be ethical with its orphan crushing training data and no one even seems to care!
> You're not using AI right

I use AI heavily, it's my field.
To use rust in places where you can only use C. I imagine there are quite a few obscure microcontrollers that would benefit greatly from this pipeline.

Hell, you might finally be able to get Rust into the Linux kernel. Just don't tell them the code was originally written in Rust to calm their nerves.
For debugging purposes, there's Debug.Trace, which does IO and subverts the type system to do so.

But with Haskell, I tend to do less debugging anyway, and more time getting the types right to with; when there's a function that doesn't work but still type checks, I feed it different inputs in GHCi and reread the code until I figure out why, and this is easy because almost all functions are pure and have no side effects and no reliance on global state. This is probably a sign that I don't write enough tests from the start, so I end up doing it like this.

But, I agree that doing things in a pure functional manner like this can make Haskell feel clunkier to program, even as other things feel easier and more graceful. Logging is one of those things where you wonder if the juice is worth the squeeze when it comes to doing everything in a pure functional way. Like I said, I haven't used it in a long time, and it's partly because of stuff like this, and partly because there's usually a language with a better set of libraries for the task.
Books have limited print runs. Many books in libraries are only borrowed and perhaps read a few times. Niche titles more so. Books go out of print and are hard to search for arbitrary text.
I agree that you should call the output copyright infringement (or not) without regard to how you got there. So, if it produces an identical copy of the text, or of e.g. Indiana Jones, that you then distribute it, sure, that is copyright infringement.

But the mere act of using them for training and producing new works shouldn't be! In fact, until 2022, pretty much no one regarded it as a copyright violation to "learn from copyrighted works to create new ones" -- just the opposite! That's how it's supposed to work!

Only when hated corporations did it with bots, did the internet hive mind suddenly decide that's stealing, and take this expansive view of IP rights (while, of course, having historically screamed bloody murder about any attempts to fight piracy).
Who would have guessed.
> perfect ASMR for nerds.

Haha yeah I like to have this on it the background when I’m doing other things.
That's what the legal department at my employer (huge multinational corp) came up with: When an employee uses one of the approved gen-ai models it's on the employee to check the output isn't infringing - legal argues that not doing so would be grossly negligent, making the employee personally liable.
> I have to pay

Fortunately, others have libraries. There is no need to pay for the examination of material stored in libraries (and similar).
Yep, have used long polling with no downsides for ~20 years. 95% of the time I see web sockets it's unnecessary.
> Anyone who offers a confident explanation of the situation is probably wrong.

Hear hear! Words to live by for even moderately complex issues.

The best you're likely to get in this is the constructed rationalizations of puppets who are blissfully unaware of the strings that tug at them. And this applies to everyone involved— the people for whom having kids is just what you do, as well as the people who have an intense anxiety about it. The decision for each individual probably happened long long before the explanation that justifies it.
This it totally the wrong analysis.

Think of AI tools like any other tools. If I include code I'm not allowed to use, like reading a book I pirated, that's copyright infringement. If I include an image as an example in my image editor, that's ok if I am allowed to copy it.

If someone decides to use my image editor to create an image that's copyrighted or trademarked, that's not the fault of the software. Even if my software says "hey look, here are some cool logos that you might want to draw inspiration from".

People are getting too hung up on the AI part. That's irrelevant.

This is just software. You need a license for the inputs and if the output is copyrighted that's on the user of the software. It's a significant risk of just using these models carelessly.
The Plaza Accord was 1985. And it wasn’t just between the US and Japan. iIf included France, Germany and the UK.

The Japanese economy continued to grow until the mid 1990s. I think the real culprit was low birth rate in the prior 20 years did not train the next generation of productive workers. China, South Korea most of Europe face similar issues