skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To be clear, I hope that training AI on copyrighted images remains legal, because it would cripple the field of AI text and image generation if it wasn't!

Temporarily, yes. However it wouldn’t be the worst thing if they were forced to work on sample-efficiency. And I maintain that if they want a large dataset of images they can collaborate with Twitter and Instagram to add an image license option to the image uploader, and provide a license option that explicitly allows this kind of use.

AI needs sample efficiency research and if they actually had to get consent for their images there are a lot of artists who wouldn’t feel like their work was being ripped off.

It’s probably better if this kind of use is broadly permitted, but I don’t think it’s the disaster some think it would be if they were forced to get consent. There’s already millions of openly licensed images in several collections online (Creative Commons, Wikimedia Commons) and if they forced people to provide licenses on sites like twitter we could actually have open datasets for this instead of these kind of grey areas of privately scraped datasets.
All of the responses are about game development, and that sort of thing which I totally understand. but all of their quotes are from like cad developers.
so I definitely feel like they are mistargeting at this point
Thanks, I’ll be sending an email soon.
>This sounds like a very categorical claim.

The claim is explicitly non-categorical, as the usage of the word "tend" shows.

>It seems hard to measure, quantize and produce rigorous and replicable results.

Not really.

First you split your informers into groups, based on sex, social class and/or education level. Then you pick a linguistic variation that you know to be stigmatised, but still present in that group regardless. Then you analyse the frequency that that feature appears, in comparison with another variation for the same feature.

If I recall correctly one of the first to notice those gender discrepancies in speech was Labov, so you might have some luck if you websearch "gender paradox Labov".
> we should teach why things are important.

What are these "things" you speak of?

Here's what I know is important: not drinking and driving. How did I come to believe that was important? Maybe because it takes almost zero effort to discover that over 10,000 people die every year because the people who stole their lives justified drinking and driving.

There is zero justification. ZERO. If you're under the influence, you don't get to be the person who drives your wife to the hospital in an emergency. You don't get to escape tornados. You don't get to move cars in your driveway. If you want to have the freedom to do those things at any moment, don't drink alcohol.

Frankly, that last "maybe" of yours has me seething. It's not exactly fair to you, because I have to assume you've not lost someone in that way. But I have, and many other have as well, and you expressed an interest in learning important things, so let's learn from this story:

When I was a teen, my best friend was killed by his dad moving a car out of their garage. It was a Saturday afternoon, and his dad and his dad's buddies, had been working on a car in the garage, and drinking beers. After finishing work on the car, they decided to begin work on another car. To do so, they needed to back the first car out of the garage, then pull the other one in. Something that sounds very similar to "moving your own car within your own driveway."

The problem is, my friend's dad neglected to look in his mirrors or over his shoulder as he went to move the car. He backed it up, then hit something. Because he had been drinking though, his reaction times weren't great. Rather than stopping when hitting something, he continued to roll another fifteen feet down the driveway, which is when he discovered that he'd hit, then flattened and smeared my friend, his son, down the driveway before he even noticed. It was a closed casket funeral, and the dad wasn't allowed to attend. He was in jail, awaiting a trial. It wasn't a slam dunk case though. He had a blood alcohol level of 0.075, under the legal limit for his state. The jury decided that the influence of the alcohol, though under the legal limit, was enough that it impaired his ability to operate a vehicle, and found him guilty, after which he was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

My friend's dad decided that because it was his car in his driveway, drinking and driving was justified. It wasn't. He lost his son and his freedom. I watched someone who I'd known since I was an infant, someone who was closer to me than my own brothers, get run over and destroyed as I stood there, yelling for his dad to stop.

There's zero justification for drinking and driving.
> That's a typical case for a lot of databases. Most of the "hot" data is in a small subset of the pages and many of those can live in the in-process page cache.

Yes, though most database engines end up managing their own cache and using direct IO, rather than the VFS cache.

> It's not bypassing the transaction engine semantics. For WAL mode, SQLite can determine when pages are updated by checking the SHM file and then reading updated pages from the WAL file. Pages in the cache don't need to flushed on every access or even between transactions to be valid.

That sounds a lot like at least the SHM & WAL checks wouldn't be cached by the VFS, but as I've been looking at the design more carefully, I'm starting to think I understand the idea here. Basically, the SHM & WAL get updated separately, so you might read a stale version, but since you aren't elected to be a writer, that just means you're looking at stale data, not creating an integrity problem.

> The main goal of LiteFS is to make it easy to globally replicate applications. Many apps run in a single region of the US (e.g. us-east-1) and that's fast for Americans but it's a 100ms round trip to Europe and a 250ms round trip to Asia. Sure, you can spin up a multi-region Postgres but it's not that easy and you'll likely deploy as separate database and application servers because Postgres is not very lightweight.

So, I get that multi-region Postgres can be tricky to set up, if you're doing multi-leader, but this seems about as complicated as a "single leader, many followers" set up, and given that what you're trying to do is shave off the hundreds of milliseconds from partially circumnavigating the earth at the speed of light, I'm not sure the perceived performance differences are significant (or really even measurable) compared to fluctuations in network latency of requests to the region-local node.

> LiteFS aims to have a minimal footprint so it makes it possible to deploy many small instances since SQLite is built to run on low resource hardware.

This part I'm getting and the objective a lot of sense to me (and certainly running local postgres instances on every node wouldn't be an obvious approach to me). I hadn't thought of FUSE + SQLite as a way to get there, so this is an interesting and surprising approach. I'm looking forward to how this plays out.

> As far as comparisons with Postgres over UNIX sockets, I agree that the performance of a single instance is probably comparable with a FUSE layer.

Interesting. I was thinking I was missing something. Thanks for all the insight.
The discovery wasn't by Isreal, but Jordan. No idea where fake scrolls fit in here.
As a household with two Puget Systems workstations, i can attest that this article is very representative of their attention to detail.
The workstation built in 2015ish was their Serenity series (nod to Firefly), designed to be as quiet as possible. It does so amazingly well by using large fans and lots of acoustic filtering. My 2022 gaming machine is bigger than that but still very quiet in almost all circumstances. Great place to have a custom build. Not the cheapest though.
A Box<dyn Bird> is some sort of Bird on the heap. But if I pass a Box<Goose> to a function which wants a Box<dyn Bird>, then my call moves the Box<Goose> into the function, I don't still have that Goose, it's gone, I hope the function takes good care of it.

If the function only wanted a reference to it, that would be &Box<dyn Bird> and then I wouldn't give up ownership by passing it to the function. But that's also a very strange thing to ask for, since we can instead pass a reference to a Bird, no need to Box it.
I imagine limitless tailor made entertainment and control on a per-user basis.

"Play me Frank Zappa's new album featuring Kanye West."
> unless they are incredibly greedy

That's the crux of it, isn't it? A lot of people think that they are greedy. Also, most tethers were created in 2020, when short term treasuries we're yielding nothing. Which made the incentive to "cheat" much higher than with the present rates.
Toyota was just my random example. Point being, if you offer to pay the asking price, it's pretty painless at most places just like at Tesla.
To put employees through this when meta and Google have billions in cash is disgusting.
This comment, and maybe an adjacent thread that mentioned Richard Stallman, have inspired me to coin the word Stallmanfreude: the mixed feeling one has when Stallman is again proven right.
I'm confused from how we got to "USA potentially had the ability to prevent the war if they had..." to "This means long before we can talk about Russia maybe feeling threatened by NATO expansion they need to stop the war they started."

USA/west could have made concessions that weren't really concessions (taking Ukraine NATO off the table) before the 2022 invasion. Those concessions may or may not have worked. We're now just supposed to ignore that fact and pretend that it never happened until some point in the future that may never take place?
Yes because I am also giving you $100 when you give me $95.

If you gave me $100 15 years ago and today ask for $5 back, you're taking money from me (also every month we handed the $100 back and forth)

Why does it make sense to think of it any other way?
Thank you! This is exactly the answer I was looking for!
I totally buy the game developer need here, as well as some of the live video processing folks. but that convinces me even more that these are totally mistargeted given their sales points
I like that better than anyone who can take endless free money loans with little concern because of zero or negative interest rates can play “VC”.

I can easily name a dozen companies and technologies that massively changed the world from 2000-2010 (not saying for better, but undeniable), what have we really developed that didn’t exist in 2010-2020 in this era of Free Money and “Unlimited Potential”?

Hypothetical question.

From my view, I’ve seen VCs come in and use capitol to build up people with good intentions or ideas, and immediately get them absorbed into the giants who are also throwing away endless free money even if their business model is awful.

I’m not looking forward to hyper inflation. But I am looking forward to a slower tech market that actually has to provide something useful in order to stand out.
Renewables are cheaper (and plentiful). If you choose to not build them, no one will shed a tear when you get punched in the face. How’s Germany’s “nuclear turndown and be beholden to Russian gas” policy working out?

Regardless, stop subsidizing fossil fuels. There is no reason not to resource an energy transition and electrification of everything effort as if it was a war effort. To not do so is, clearly, full of economic peril.
I'm on Windows, using Task Manager, the dedicated GPU memory went from 1GB before run to about 9.8GB for the most time during run, peaking at 10.2GB. So pretty close to the 11GB limit of my 2080Ti it seems.
I think calling cannabis bad or good is a false dichotomy. Sometimes peanuts kill children, that doesn't make peanuts "bad". Maybe cannabis causes schizophrenia in rare cases, does that make it "bad"?

In this specific case, the authors started him on a treatment for schizophrenia and he got better. Why continue him on this treatment if they thought it was simply the cannabis that caused it (as he would abstain from then on). Also, they increased his dose prior to discharge.

I'm not arguing that cannabis didn't cause his schizophrenia, just that this doesn't sound like cannabis induced psychosis, which is a different diagnosis with different prognosis.
When I used to run Windows, the very first thing I would do would be to turn off all the GUI animations, and switch the desktop back to "classic Windows" desktop, resulting in a usually more stable machine.

So it depends on which direction you push the customizations.
Tether has lost one or more cases already.
YouTube video with 0.16% curse words is restricted but others with 3.40% are not
Can you plug this into a computer on your premises to get speech recognition without amazon, apple or google's cloud (or any other cloud) involvement?

Right now I decline all speed recognition because I don't want orwellian listening devices in my house or pocket and haven't seen an answer. (Also haven't been too bothered about speech command interfaces to bother with a load of research - lazy me).
And sometimes they spontaneously reignite after they were put out.
Charles C. Mann – Americas Before Columbus and Scientific Wizardry
Then everyone clapped in perfect rhythm.
True, we have a few big inefficiences (on a local registry but still) that we didn't fix yet because no proper solution or higher priority tickets.. so CI just triggers loads of wasteful rebuilds.
The right to privacy isn't just about the potential for harm. I wouldn't want a stranger watching me have sex, even if they were a completely passive observer.
Interesting, but GWAS studies are very sensitive these days. What's the effect size? Can we conclude anything about it from 13%–16% heritability?
Broad markets will crash and LPs will ask for capital back. The overhang will drop without requiring investment.
How hard is it to get codeblocks working instead of them focusing on every use case on the planet. It's so damn terrible.
Just because 85% is environmental doesn't mean that there's hope for us all. It's a common mistake to think of genes as unable to be changed and environment to be changed. But, for example, maybe if your mother smokes during pregnancy, it inhibits the part of your brain that handles beat. In that case, the trait is environmental AND innate. For another example think of one-armedness. Most people with one arm will have lost it in an accident, the fact that the trait isn't genetic doesn't mean there is hope for them to have a second arm.
Related question, why are Google products so good, relative to Microsoft?
HexoSynth – A Hexagonal Modular Synthesizer
It has 4 different instruments though, I believe this is the NIRcam and the MIRI can also take pictures. I'm not sure that either one is necessarily "better" than the other though.
I keep thinking about the Republican Space Rangers TV show from GTAV every time the Space Force is mentioned. So I can't take them seriously anyway.

They're a branch of the military, and every other branch has a theme song, so I guess they get to have one, too. I'd have picked the theme from Starship Troopers, but I wasn't given a vote for probably that reason.
That was my thoughts. People are probably pummeling GCP GPU free tier right now with stable diffusion image generators. Since it seems like all the free plug and play examples use the google python notebooks.
> It's a shame that FoundationDB went closed source…

For anyone else who's confused, FoundationDB went closed-source in 2015 but went open-source (Apache 2.0) again in 2018.
Your (and the other person's) set pf inputs drive a mathematical function that derives the same output.

If we were all honest, we'd give up the idea of copyright altogether where ML is concerned. You can't get much closer to "It's just math, man" than what it is currently.
Previous:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32890702 (2 points, 1 comment)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26628285 (265 points, 70 comments)
Not saying this with regard to this situation specifically, but personally I'd be fine with banning one word criticisms. They tend to be imprecisely used, which is a major problem when talking about hot button issues. Most arguments are a matter of degree as opposed to absolute, so precision is the point of the conversation.
If _accessing_ the filesystem counts toward being an OS, and not _implementing_ the filesystem, then I guess Qt and the stdlib of every lang is also "kind of an OS"
> You can have two people with similar jobs, similar computers, similar software, etc. One person will have crashes and problems all the time, and the other person, smooth sailing. Nobody knows why.

Imo this is just a result of the chaotic, unreproducible install processes typical for proprietary software and a hesitancy to do root cause analysis on a workstation when you have time pressures to focus on other things.

The deep mystery of 'no one knows why' when it comes to issues is something I've never experienced on a personal Linux machine as an adult. But most of us work on machines where software installers can do whatever they want, we don't control the software update cadence, and our computers are bogged down with all kinds of instrumentation (AV, privilege management, data exfiltration monitoring, etc.) that affects performance and compatibility in complex ways and whose configuration we may have limited capacity to inspect or modify.

The hopeless sense of mystification here is not a fact of computing. It's a function of being alienated from our computing environments. We don't have to work this way, and I wish we didn't. But we largely do.
I just hit 'ignore', lol - there's definitely a lack of self control I am absolutely well aware of - but I've only recently quit alcohol; I think I need to take it one thing at a time. A device that is actually limited in its functionality will help the most, right away.
I dont think parent was making a confused point.

Natural pricing simply means whatever the market was prior to COVID , with all its imperfection, including the central banks' 2% inflation target
This is a common viewpoint for sure, but it is also very odd. It is completely and totally obvious when this happens, and the end result is that the manager just looks bad to their manager because they are obviously doing the wrong thing for the company. so it is mostly self harming.

Even at the worst companies I’ve been at I have never seen anyone rewarded for behaving this way.
For this reason the US military said NO to Microsoft [1]

The more the deep state (nothing about conspiracy theory, it's just the people at the oval office, and their surroundings, mostly industry lobby) want to trust and push Microsoft, the worse it's going to get in the coming years were AI, software and hardware will be the deciding factor for the civilization war we are currently living

> Microsoft insiders worry the Pentagon may walk away from its $22 billion contract for mixed-reality goggles as the device continues to disappoint the military

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-military-hololens-...
Not going to comment much on how much of a risk it is to use a Google product in this way. Just going to say that ChromeOS is pretty much designed to work with Google's primary apps: GMail, Drive, Hangouts (or whatever it's called these days), etc. So my point is that if you want to stay out of the Google ecosystem, it wouldn't make sense to use ChromeOS in any case.
Know Your Your Enemy is fantastic. It feels like the only serious cultural analysis today is coming from thinkers pretty far to the left. Which is sad because that has not always been the case
If the Whisper models provide any benefits over the existing Talon models, and if it's possible to achieve any kind of reasonable interactive performance, I will likely integrate Whisper models into Talon.

Talon's speech engine backend is modular, with Dragon, Vosk, the WebSpeech API, and Talon's own engine all used in different ways by users.
Ask HN: What are some ways people use voice assistants to be more productive?
An obvious one is, if I have I task that should takes 20 minutes, I can set a 20 minute timer to timebox it.

What are some other ways people use Google Assistant, Alexa, or Siri to be more productive?
Deploy Whisper on Serverless GPUs in seconds
But... they are paying them. What are you proposing? That they dissolve the team and just give the employees a permanent pension while not requiring them to find a new team?
many posts in recent years simply don't

Blame Google. It favors the newest content, regardless of quality.

Lots of valuable information on the web is just not searchable on Google, even with exact phrasing.

Shakespeare is next.
And a year or so ago, I remember reading an article refuting it; pointing out there would have to be something like 100M ants for each human for this to be true.
As for me, i'd rather to certify the product. Not the person.
This is a very good point - AWS uses tags to give instances a friendly name, so the name does not have to be unique. The same logic would not fail on AWS.
Smartphone camera oximetry in an induced hypoxemia study
anecdotally, my (meta) office bathroom hasn't had hand soap for over a week...
Why are you bringing up the word "harm" here? The relevant word is "privacy".

The relevant question is "has anyone had their right to privacy taken from them, as defined in EU law?".

The answer, according to the Danish, French, and Austrian governments (so far), is "yes".
On the other hand, if there is general bloat, an across the board cut could restore team health without sacrificing any of the company's seed corn (risky bets). Bloated teams can be awful to work in.
> This is particularly true for GPUs, which are uniquely squeezed by COVID shutdowns, POW mining, and growing deep learning models

Is the POW mining part true any more? Hasn't mining moved to dedicated hardware?
Do you have a demo audio clip for this? I'd be interested to see how it looks in practice.
> how stupid supposed smart people can be when it comes to applying metrics to an organization

At the end of the day even upper management doesn't matter. This is about Owners and Workers and everything in between is just fluff. The $300k - $400k these engineers are making is a rounding error. Turning middle management into cannibals so that one day they might reach slightly higher management is exactly what is supposed to happen, because it means they are willing to kill for the owners.
Exactly. Nobody likes it. We use it because we have to. We have to because it was already paid for.
What's particularly sad is that they're just cloning an existing thing. The "vision" need be nothing more than "see this, make something exactly like it that works". Google made similar mistakes with Google Chat but thankfully nobody uses that.
Personally I had no idea it was any more illegal to deposit your spouse's mail-in ballot than it would be to drop off their mail-in rebate. I expect most people are the same and would've dropped off their partner's ballot or their family's ballots with their own.

I agree that votes should have a robust accounting system and that every ballot should be linked with a voter registration. Frankly I wish we did mandatory voting like Australia.
Try chat.google.com sometime.
i live in puerto rico and people are not healthy
The term “trigger” in this context was initially used by mental health professionals in the context of setting off post-traumatic stress. I believe this here is an example of this primary (non-problematic) usage.
It then got politicized and associated with “snowflakes”, and endlessly mocked and memed. Actually may be that more people know the word now from right-wing trash talk than from mental health concerns.
I like Teams. Works fine on my Mac.
The company is reducing the amount of workers on its payroll.
I think we are saying the same thing, roughly.

Of course, "it's just math, man" isn't precisely a legal argument, either.