skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You absolutely can make money if the games allow transferring assets, or you can transfer an account to someone else.

See: the whole CS:GO lootbox fad. On top of the value of the cosmetics which could be traded, "Creators" were making enough money streaming lootbox opening to be able to afford hypercars.
> they keep going at this rate

The run-down rate more than doubled in August [1]. Current estimates to optimal balance sheet are about 4 to 5 years [2].

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/mone...

[2] https://advisors.vanguard.com/insights/article/thefedsplanto...
GDP isn't the economy. The economy can grow to some limit but will stop, and it will be more expensive, in terms of things we don't currently assign value to like water, air, quiet, peace in order to get there.

Another question is "what's it worth?" since the rat race will continue for quite a while. Some people think it's important that the earth hold 30 billion people, as if they wanted to live shoulder to shoulder and eat factory food.
I've never bought a bond in my life (I didn't even know what they were) until someone told me they are currently offering 9.62% risk free returns! There's a very low limit on how much you can buy per year but this seems like a no brainer to me.

https://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/research/indepth/ibonds...
How are you going to un-invent it? Will this involve confiscating GPUs or criminalizing owning more than 1 of them? The thing is much like the problem of gun control in a warzone; weapons are just not that hard to make especially if you have a surplus of parts.
You mean continue to back them. They're currently backing them. I believe they're continued to show their support today. Seems there is something there you don't see.

China is making serious overtures about invading Tawain. It's well known they want to take Tawain "back". Letting them US and other countries waste their weapons on killing Russians is benefical to them. It also creates an overall unstable geopolitical envoirnment which they can take advantage of. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
China gains little from rearming one of their biggest adversaries and angering their European partners.

It is much better off continuing to do what they're doing today: providing token diplomatic support to Russia in exchange for steeply discounted fossil fuels.
Ironically, that's what I expected the article to be about. Discussing cheating detection. Like it's f**ing title suggests.
That doesn't excuse downplaying the security issues so common when using languages that do not offer memory safety.

Microsoft:

>we’ll peek at why we think that Rust represents the best alternative to C and C++ currently available.

First, there are plenty of fantastic memory safe languages already available and widely used inside and outside of Microsoft, including .NET languages like C# or F# and other languages like Swift, Go, and Python. We encourage anyone who is currently using C or C++ to consider whether one of these languages would be appropriate to use instead.

We, however, are talking about the need for a safe systems programming language (i.e., a language that can build systems other software runs on, like OS kernels). Such workloads need the speed and predictable performance that C, C++, and Rust provide.

When thinking about why Rust is a good alternative, it’s good to think about what we can’t afford to give up by switching from C or C++ — namely performance and control. Rust, just like C and C++ has a minimal and optional “runtime”. Rust’s standard library depends on libc for platforms that support it just like C and C++, but the standard library is also optional so running on platforms without an operating system is also possible.

Rust, just like C and C++, also gives the programmer fine-grained control on when and how much memory is allocated allowing the programmer to have a very good idea of exactly how the program will perform every time it is run. What this means for performance in terms of raw speed, control, and predictability, is that Rust, C, and C++ can be thought of in similar terms.

https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/07/22/why-rust-for-safe...
I wouldn't really say Stable Diffusion marks images as AI-generated. There's a script in the Stable Diffusion repository that will do that, but it's not connected to the model itself in a meaningful way. I use Stable Diffusion a lot and I've never touched this script.

https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion/blob/69ae4b35e0a...
The French in Vietnam and the Algerian civil war lost as well. As did both, the UK and France along side Israel, in the Suez crisis (granted, Israel did pretty well on their part).
You just said the models pretty much all work the same way, then you said doing what I described won't help. I'm confused. Apple and Google both offer real time, on device transcription these days, so something clearly works. And if you say the models already all do this, then running it 30x as often isn't a problem anyways, since again... people are used to that.

I doubt people run online transcription for long periods of time on their phone very often, so the battery impact is irrelevant, and the model is ideally running (mostly) on a low power, high performance inference accelerator anyways, which is common to many SoCs these days.
Quantifying hierarchy and dynamics in US faculty hiring and retention
It's not even necessarily trying to emulate any particular image it's seen before; it may just decide 'this is the kind of image that often has a watermark, so here goes.'
I think it might be even less problematic with something like Whisper than with DALLE/SD? Merely consuming data to train a system or create an index is not usually contrary to the law (otherwise Google wouldn't exist) – it's the publication of copyright content that's thorny (and is something you can begin to achieve with results from visual models that include Getty Photos logo, etc.)

I think it'd be a lot harder to make a case for an accurate audio to text transcription being seen to violate the copyright of any of the training material in the way a visual could.
After the Federal Reserve adds money to the economy, they usually want to take some of it back out. They take money out either by selling bonds or through taxes. The goal of removing money from the economy is sometimes to control inflation, but it's debated whether "printing money" actually affects inflation.
The point is that if a popular search engine returned pages primarily based on whether particular search terms appeared in their self-published indexes (rather than using a crawler that parsed the page content to build its own index), web sites could easily publish indexes that just listed popular terms users are known to search for regardless of whether the site had anything to do with those search terms. Pretty much what uses to happen 10-15 years ago when everyone believed meta tags were the way to achieve SEO.
You may be confusing Litestream and LiteFS.

Litestream writes everything to S3 (or similar storage).

LiteFS lets different nodes copy replicated data directly to each other over a network, without involving S3.

In either case, the actual SQLite writes and reads all happen directly against local disk, without any network traffic. Replication happens after that.
That's like me creating a car that's faster and better then other cars and more energy efficient.

Would it be legal to ban Tesla because it harms the car industry through disruption? AI generated art is disrupting the art industry by creating original art that's cheaper and in the future possibly better. Why should we ban that.

By harm I mean direct harm. Theft of ideas and direct copying. But harm through creating a better product. Morally I think there is nothing wrong with this.

Practically we may have to do it, but this is like banning marijuana.
I tried feeding the four examples from this announcement into Google as dictation inputs and it just sits there blankly. On the JFK speech test file in the repo, Google understands perfectly. The samples in the announcement are clearly outside the capabilities of anything Google has launched publicly, but I don't know how that translates to overall utility in every day applications.
There's a --device flag you can pass. I've been trying to get `--device cuda` to work on my Windows machine and it's saying that torch wasn't compiled with CUDA. Trying to figure out what's going on there.

And on the M1, supposedly PyTorch has support for hardware acceleration using MPS (Metal Performance Shaders, announced here https://pytorch.org/blog/introducing-accelerated-pytorch-tra...) but when I tried `--device mps` it blew up with an error "input types 'tensor<1x1280x3000xf16>' and 'tensor<1xf32>' are not broadcast compatible".
"Mechanically, the Fed will reduce its securities holdings by not reinvesting the funds it receives from maturing securities[...], which will reduce [...] the size of its balance sheet."

https://www.stlouisfed.org/open-vault/2022/may/how-will-fed-...
Yet another online UUID generator
> Once he graduated from high school, the way he differentiated, including being friendly to future VC’s was his own doing and drive.

I think this only makes sense if you believe that "being friendly to future VC's" is entirely independent from "the family you were born into" - to which I would add social class and family connections. Given my experience with friendships and professional relationships I think you would have an advantage in getting to meet a VC and then making a good impression if you had experience interacting with people like them.

None of this is to say that it's impossible to make it without those advantages, but they do exist.
Yeah I feel that, intimidating for sure. Without Google maps I probably would've been pretty lost as far as the subway goes when I was first learning it, and I can't say that I haven't accidentally taken the R like 3 stops too far already :)

I appreciate the piece; the topic is something I wouldn't have considered without reading it.
> We become puppets driven by intelligences orders of magnitude more sophisticated than us to mine resources in order to keep them running

What do you think corporations are
What does silverblue give you on top of what Guix and Nix already provide?
> * at least fifteen years to get another passport in a great environment before 2014

Getting another passport is really difficult and expensive.

My family emigrated 16 years ago and I still can't get one. In my entire family only one of us succeesed.
I don't see frontends using REST servers doing what I see with GraphQL.

UI using REST server tends to centralize the API client, call the endpoint(s), and make that available to all components.

UI using GraphQL often has frontend devs doing their components, running their ad-hoc queries for "just what they need". More network calls.

So overfetching like with REST tends to lead to less network calls unless you are extra diligent on a GraphQL project.
To tackle inflation, will it be fair of US government to ask money back in small chunks from people who got it during Covid lock-downs?
The main source is definitely monetary policy, this was supremely obvious from the enormous asset bubble that ballooned out of the pandemic with risk-on assets like tech stocks and crypto exploding in valuation. The reason this happened is when interest rates are held at near zero then future profits are valued significantly higher (normally they are discounted by the interest rate, or more correctly the "risk free return" of US 10Y government bonds).

It also manifested in higher savings balances etc.

The main reason this happened was the Fed didn't trust the administration to deploy appropriate fiscal stimulus as in the past trying to rely on US politicians has been a poor choice. Unfortunately we ended up with both monetary policy and fiscal policy deployed at full ball.
If we had seen a weaker or more targeted monetary policy that aimed to just unfreeze credit markets and have fiscal policies step up to handle depressed employment/industry shutdowns the fallout would have been significantly decreased.

For instance China did cut rates and reduce the reserve requirement ratio (US also did this, it was essentially zero until start of 2022) they didn't get anywhere near that "essentially zero" rate that the US did. This means their domestic inflation remained manageable, most of their inflation is attributable to imported sources like energy and commodities. They instead pursued more targeted policies aimed at addressing specific industries and socioeconomic groups affected.

So yeah, it still is a combination of things but monetary policy in the US had an outsized impact on inflation globally compared to circumstantial factors IMO.
Ah, no. Though I've occasionally found auto-generated db schema diagrams useful, I've never had any practical use for UML diagrams.
This comments is unfairly downvoted.

I am a head of operations in an online casino. I am responsible for gameplay provider integrations, psp integrations and many things more.

The slots rtp is absolutely set by the game play providers, even the aggregators just pass it on. It is not configurable in any way, not on user level, not on casino operator level, it is always global scope.

The game play providers earn by rev share, they are the top of the food chain and it would be economical suicide to provide different APIs, they have some settings depending on some GEOs, but these are things like no auto play, stake limits etc.

Any regulated casino is using these, the audience is not naive, of course, there are some fly by night operators using pirate games, but this gets detected fast and is often the reason for these casinos having bad rep online, amongst affiliates who will not have them listed etc. These are operated by incompetent people.
Thanks for the suggestion. I have his other book "Order of time" (beside me no less) that I have yet to finish but have liked so far.
There are tons of alternatives: https://european-alternatives.eu/alternative-to/google-analy...
Have a look at this:

https://en.chessbase.com/post/is-hans-niemann-cheating-world...
A world where we can't use copyrighted material to update neutral network weights is a world where we can buy books but not read them...
> Raising rates causes the Fed no harm other than (a) risking recession and (b) creating accounting losses idiots politicise

There is C: politics. It is believed that the Fed is directly responsible for Carter losing to Reagan. (though it isn't clear how the election would have gone otherwise, it wouldn't have been the landslide it was) The Fed also reports to congressional hearings.
> signal-to-noise problem solved right.

One evening, I was sitting alone in the eating area of a very high end office, and noticed a whooshing sound coming from the top edge of the room. I thought it was maybe some air vent, but there was no wind outside. I stuck my phone camera up behind the front lip of a shelf and saw a set of speakers. They were playing something close to brown noise!

And, I learned about sound masking [1]. So, apparently there's two ends to be avoided, in the signal-to-noise problem!

1. https://cambridgesound.com/learn/sound-masking-101/
You're assuming that associations to blocks of linked genotype is the end of the story.

Yes, an association to a phenotype using data like that sourced from 23&me only generally points in the direction of the genes and snvs which cause alterations in phenotype, but that is just a stepping stone.

It narrows down the search space to about 1-2% of the genome, which then follow up studies can fine map. Using high resolution data, such as whole-genome or exome sequence, you can then pinpoint protein-coding changes which alter phenotype. This is what a lot of people are doing right now, using the last decade of GWAS results to fine map using WGS.

If you discover exactly how the machine breaks, it is a lot easier to fix it, or at least prevent it from getting broken in the first place.

It is not a simple as flipping one switch, and it is an incremental 'boring' process, but the potential to better understand disease today and in the future is worth its weight in gold.
> "inspiration" cannot be taken to court even if you feel like you were stolen from.

Never doubt the ability of people's greed to force someone else into a court room.

Just look at the 'blurred lines' case where someone was inspired by a musical genre to write a song that didn't copy anyone's music but was still ordered to pay millions because he copied the general "feel" or "vibe" of someone else's work. (https://abovethelaw.com/2018/03/blurred-lines-can-you-copy-a...)

I imagine a lot of AI generated images might copy the "feel" or "vibe" of something in its training data.
Do you pay the creators of TV shows and movies directly? I don't. Curious how you manage to do this if so. And if not, what's different about youtube?
Growth slowing = repricing from growth basket to value basket = 70% stock price cut
Layoffs are a way to get rid of low performers without legal issues.
> If I deposit $1,000 into my local bank, and they turn around and lend $900 of that back out, that creates money

im kind of ignorant so please forgive if this is not correct, but i've heard its not necessarily "creating" money since its (the 900 dollars) all on the balance sheets as liabilities?
Japan also has low inflation.
Nope, that doesn't look good! I honestly just googled the error and installing setuptools fixed it for me, but I barely know anything about the Python ecosystem so I'm really just fumbling around here.
Lol, as if the government has any idea of who it gave money to
Maybe I was unclear. The comment above mine said Russian citizens should donate a significant portion of their earnings to Ukraine. That's the part I objected to.
> We’re talking about a sport — or game, depending on your point of view — where you or I could beat Magnus Carlsen, probably the best chess player in history, if we simply mimicked the moves of the best chess engine.

Except not at all, or not anymore than anyone could "beat" the world's foremost martial artist, with a gun.

For an absolute novice to mimick 100% or even a large amount of chess engine moves, it would be exceedingly obvious that they are cheating, even by the most cursory and rudimentary of cheating detection measures and mildly versed (in chess) observers.

The serious problem of cheating in chess, is not at all that a John Doe with zero chess knowledge would rise up the ranks and become the world champion cheating. The scary prospect is when cheating is done by strong chess players, because they only need two or three tips from an engine a game, to have a massive advantage over everybody else.

Carlsen himself discussed this topic last year: https://youtu.be/VcbHmHHwlUQ
I would LOVE to buy a USDT put but I would only do it on a known exchange. Not some back-alley mechanism where I would likely get scammed. As far as I'm concerned, the entire crypto ecosystem is at risk, and all it will take is BTC below $15k to see a lot of fallout and collateral damage.
True but that's from mostly a technical perspective. It is also (more?) important to know how a community thinks.
It is only meaningful in a relative sense - AAA is less likely to be allowed to fail (or maybe actually fail?) than BBb or whatever. Usually.
Probably both matter: suppose your grandma is your angel investor. If suddenly equities plummet, grandma sees less in her portfolio, so the funds available for angel investing are no longer there.

This is happening to me right now with my parents not being able to help as much with my kids' college tuition.
can you elaborate a little more?
This really makes me want to build a Amazon Echo/Google Nest/etc replacement that's open hardware, open source and most importantly recognises voice completely offline. I find that I don't use these smart devices for much more than setting timers anyway so this seems like an easy project.

I just wonder what system requirements Whisper has and whether there are open source voice recognition models that are specifically built for embedded devices.
It’s not a linear drop, the removed 20B from mid April to mid June. Then another 120B in under 3 months.
Yep, same for me, on M1 after enabling MPS (with `model.to("mps")`) it just either SIGSEGV or SIGABRTs every time with that line. The extremely unclean nature of the abort is making it hard to debug :(
Money can get funnier, but it can never get less funny.
If your only method of communication is a blockchain, a public key is who owns that public key. "Hello, I am q8oYflHjXyXj7Pgu /0R4fkOjFG83GTI8 2bmTfBkzRcLJXNiN 4FuHE7Me71aWyTbk, let's agree on a symmetric key." is incompatible with the would-be impersonator supplying a different public key. (Assuming you're paying attention, I guess, but the original claim was that it was impossible, not that it was awkward and easy to screw up, since the latter is more or less true of practially all cryptography.)
> The problem with that is that Russia is also heavily encouraging citizens to action in other countries (such as attacking humanitarian aid to Ukraine or Ukrainan refuges). Or regular spies.

This.

We already have Putin's pundits demanding thins like the Russian diaspora to increase waste of gas in Germany and the like to contribute to keeping Germany dependant on Russian gas.

We have elements of the Russian diaspora organizing protests against support for Ukraine, and in support of Russia's invasion.

We have Russian tourists flashing Russia's fascist symbols and messages of support of Russia's invasion, oppression, and genocide campaign.

And now these guys are supposed to want out?

These sudden refugees are no better than those Russians who suddenly felt compelled to flee south Ukraine, specially Crimea, when Russia's war effort started to crumble.
> If I deposit $1,000 into my local bank, and they turn around and lend $900 of that back out, that creates money.

While you are right about fractional reserve creating money, this example is a common misconception. When you deposit $1000, the bank assumes a reserve of $1000 and lends out $9000. This, is assuming the bank has enough reserves on hand. And reserves for the bank is either central bank money (given by fed) or treasury bonds (bought from your $1000 deposit) or MBS (bought from your deposit).
> Federal loans do not have limits on amount.

This is false.

> Loans are non-discharged (you can't shed them in bankruptcy).

They’re also not collaterized. As a taxpayer, I’d be very much against a non-collaterized loan that anyone can get without much care for credit risk, that’s dischargeable in bankruptcy. In private sector, dischargeable debt with no collateral, like credit card debt, has 20%+ rates for people with low credit scores.

> 3) There is no intensive for schools to charge less. (schools likely should have skin in the game if borrowers end up shedding debt through time expiration or bankruptcy).

If debt is held by federal government, the students defaulting will not be much of an incentive to the school.

> Loans or the amount of the loans are not weighted at all by the future prospects of the person

Indeed. The most recent loan forgiveness plan is basically mechanical engineers subsidizing drama majors.
Can this be used as a real-time transcription or is it too slow for that?

Curious what anyone is using these days for a real-time transcription. It doesn't have to be perfect, but just good enough.

My kids watch some youtube vidoes where people will make a mod where it converts them talking to text then look for keywords and spawn a boss in Terraria if you say the wrong keyword etc.

I made a clone of that with the .NET System.Speech.Recognition library. It... works.. but my biggest problem is that #1 it waits until you are done speaking to translate to text on the callback, so there was too much of a delay for it to be fun.. the point is that it will be checking a stream of chatter. #2 is the recognition is pretty crap, I mean it's nearly good enough for my silly purpose but it's still pretty bad.