skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Marcus’s problem here is less with not being given credit as it is with how LeCun has suddenly shifted to similar opinions without any attempt at reconciling how, until very recently, he openly denigrated Marcus and his ideas.
I don't think it's the employer's legal duty to verify the validity of the SSN, just that it is provided. That kind of makes sense but it's a shame we have no system to actually validate that. It's probably on purpose so we can have immigration and workers for the jobs American's don't want to do but not seem like we're pro immigration on the political front
If the government can do it, so can corporations. And individuals, for that matter.

There's more than just the government to be afraid of. If you're hiding from an abusive ex, they may be able to find you despite a new life under a pseudonym. No matter how many proxies you're behind, an advertiser could skip the tracking cookies and connect the dots between accounts with writing style. If you've written anything under your real name, you could get doxxed by connecting it to your "anonymous" Internet posts.

So indeed: maybe you shouldn't be writing on the Internet at all. If it's possible at all, forbidding the government from doing it will not make you any safer.
From what I can tell the splitters essentially convince the playback device to play by relaying whatever HDCP messages the TV sends:

Playback Device (Roku etc)
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Splitter ------ Unauthorized Player (Recorder)
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Authorized Player (TV)

Without this the Playback Device will show a black screen, an HDCP error message or something similar, but even with the splitter & an authorized player it seems the content can be encrypted.

Since the TV obviously has the capability of decrypting the content it seems like there should be a way to split the signal somewhere between the main TV board and the display panel(s), which sounds like a big deal. Or maybe someone could make an incomplete splitter / recorder that just needs a legit Samsung board attached to it?
No it isn't understandable because they don't ever call themselves Americans. It's purely a pedantic and sanctimonious point.
100%, what I have seen is alot of companies are trying to emulate Google's laid back culture in shipping products. The problem with this is Google is one of the most successful monopolies ever created. Alot of these tech companies are not, but they emulate the perks and wlb that google has which leads to situations like what we are seeing now.
The FDA announces a new definition of what’s ‘healthy’
Refused, or asked to un-freeze. Depends on the banking institution.
They might as well change their company name to Close AI at this point.
They're everywhere at most companies, sometimes in non obvious ways.

For instance, marketing sometimes has its own developer / engineering teams, rather than running their work through the engineering org. Thats an example.
I have noticed an effect similar to Gell-Mann amnesia:

Often you see news articles about new things freaking people out: technology, social changes, products, apps. Sometimes people are freaking out for good reason, and sometimes they're just silly, and you think: there are smart people and dumb people in the world, and the dumb people like to freak out about the wrong stuff.

And then you read about times in the past when people were freaking out about something that we now know to benign, but you easily forget that those might just be the dumb people from the past. Did anyone who was, like, intelligent or wise worry about push buttons? Presumably not.
That's not how these two credit card networks work.

You have card issuers and acquirers, both of these can be local, so it's not a big issue if you're cut off from the world.

It's more like a web of trust peer-to-peer protocol, so if a foreign entity removes you from the web of trust, you'll still be able to have transactions with anyone that still considers you trustworthy.

That's probably the only reason why visa/Mastercard is so broadly accepted.

Amex is run differently, and it's rarely accepted outside of the USA for example
Youtube and insta reel also copy the tiktok
I think it’s called “shipping”
The app continue to work for everyone that has already installed it.
And you can still redownload it from your purchased page.
So it shouldn't be a major issue.
What I don't get about TLA+, as far as I understand, it'll "only" tell you whether or not some invariants can be violated, given the current design of your program.

While this does sound useful, it also sounds like now the problem is just shifted to coming up with proper invariants, isn't it?
Trump got most of his ads for free - news companies letting him call in and say anything unquestionned for as long as he liked
For real it's insane to me how much I bump up against their community guidelines. For example, you'll get a community guidelines block if you enter a prompt like "An illustration of a computer in the style of Henry Vandyke Carter".

removing "Vandyke" from the prompt lets it go through[1], but doesn't result in the style I want. Because there's no artist that I'm aware of that goes by "Henry Carter". The middle name is important.

It reminds me of the old 2D Runescape days where the language filter would convert "dictionary" to "**tionary".

[1]https://ibb.co/4106mfF
So we have gone from a categorical "not cheaper" to "almost always not cheaper," except for two circumstances, no, three. Progress!

At my last company, providing SaaS for the education market, moving from a datacenter to AWS saved almost 70% year-over-year. In the datacenter, we ran machines to cover our peak load, which only happened a few times a year. In AWS, we scaled way down and auto-scaled up during those peak weeks.

Is the entire education market "exceptionally bursty?" I suppose it could be considered so. Bar exams and midterms and finals certainly don't happen every week.

I'll wait for people to tell me how AWS was the wrong solution, and how we did everything wrong before that, but the bottom line is we saved a lot of money, accelerated our development schedule by building all new functionality using the so-called "serverless" stack, and succeeded so well during the pandemic that another company acquired us... which is why it's my former company.
It's an API limitation afaik, not tied to whether you pay.
Even now, the most garbage youtube video out there is still probably useful as training data for some AI (maybe even to generate horrible youtube videos)
except that s3 doesn't infinitely scale.

Try uploading 5PB of content and downloading it that day at 1M RPS.
I'd suggest you read on scientific outputs of collider experiments. They do perform precision experiments and detailed measurements of particle properties and fundamental parameters of the settled fundamental models. The picture you are painting of "some theorists come up with crazy ideas and then we spend billions on colliders and then nothing" - is completely bogus. And that is very illustrative of the harm that Dr. Hosssenfelder does as a popularizer.
Some more artists that often seem to yield interesting results: Giger, Klee, Klimt.
You mean on the AWS/service provider side? I've also participated in internal incident response on the service provider side and we again made SLA refund decisions based on actual customer impact not our status page. But then again we diligently update our status pages so there's that.
I used it to debug the design of a bidirectional message-passing system with checksums, acknowledgements, retransmissions and message-order-maintenance guarantees.

Here is the good:

* A high level of confidence in the design - useful for systems you need to be reliable, or where a bug could create hard-to-diagnose problems.

* The satisfaction of having done a really good job for once, like the great programmers of yore who couldn't patch after release and had to get it right the first time.

* Interesting in an academic sense.

Here is the bad:

* You can still make a mistake when translating the design into code.

* The tools are sometimes baffling, both in their design decisions and their performance. Be prepared for some frustrations.

* With the tools complex and the design proven, your colleagues might not take over the TLA portion of your work and carry it forward.
He’s matched some “linguistic patterns” that seem to indicate that LeCun has adopted ideas for which people like you call Marcus a fool. I’m going to cut him some slack.
I'm confident that Amazon will get sync working long before the PineNote becomes a daily driver for most folks. I love fiddling with my PineTime, but the key word is "fiddling", and I don't see that the PineNote is any further along than the watch is.
Not to mention compliance. If you have to go through third-party audits (and most businesses do after reaching a certain size), then using standard services from a public cloud provider can simplify things significantly. Sometimes that's because you can just offload "security of the cloud" to the cloud provider, and other times it's because there are well-established guidelines for how to achieve, say, PCI compliance on AWS.
Good question but I'd say the former. One can imagine all sorts of 'negotiations' that restrict civilized competition which people feel forced to agree to in the moment. A free market is one in which sellers are free to compete, and buyers are free to buy. That does require various kinds of trust-busting.
See:https://doi.org/10.1088/1681-7575/ac7bc2
One gets paid big sales commission bucks and the other does the actual work and is told "we can't afford a raise this year"
> have to hire

But [to state the obvious but sometimes overlooked] you don't just point an AWS account at the company git repo and walk away.

There's a lot of work and expertise needed to keep AWS setup up and running, so you already have to hire people.

At a modest size startup we already have close to ten people DevOps team to manage AWS. That same size team could easily keep bare metal servers running. At our scale it's still a bit cheaper to be on AWS, but not too far in the growth curve it'll start to become cheaper to be on bare metal.
Not necessarily true - many were doing tons of scripting.
I was enthusiastic about DALL-E but the "safety measures" are both heavy handed and naive. It gets in the way for many normal/reasonable prompts but seems easy to work around with various wordplay, so not sure the point. Stable Diffusion and others have been much easier to deal with.
I'm not claiming that's their goal, but yes, Carmack often seems more interested in his craft than the end product. Which I very much enjoy, and the computing world benefits from. I wish more game companies were like that.

As to views on the end product as a whole: opinions differ, ridicule seems unwarranted.
Imagine they operate in 150 countries and have 50 team members for each doing sales and support and outreach. It still seems like a lot but being international does add a lot of jobs
same with the small tsu which makes you kinda pause/emphasize the following consonant.

Ex. あさり = asari = ah - sa - ri
あっさり = assari = ah <tiny pause, hard s> sa - ri

not to be confused with あつさり which is atsusari (which is a made up word), but because the tsu is regular sized, you pronounce it instead of altering other character pronunciations.

Also of note - they completely left out "n" ん in hiragana, ン in katakana.

And "wo" isn't really pronounced "wo", it is pronounced just "oh" and spelled "o" in romaji. And while there is a "wo" in katakana, I have never seen it used. It is used as a particle which is inherently a native japanese thing and ergo you use hiragana for it.
Kindle Scribe
It's interesting that you chose a competitive market to compare this with. In a competitive market, efficiencies go to the customer. In an oligopoly or monopoly, efficiencies go to the provider.

It's obvious that baking your own bread is a bad idea if you're okay with what you can buy from the competitive market. It's equally obvious that baking specialty, artisanal bread (and buying the commodity ingredients, such as flour, salt, and yeast) is cheaper than going around to several grocery stores to try to find the exact kind of loaf you want.

AWS is in an oligopoly, so it should be obvious that its efficiencies (in this case, its economies of scale) are not passed on to the customer. The strong, clearly expressed claim was fine.
Here is a link

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/04/apple-faces-clas...
> The only way I see this changing anytime is through a massive cultural shift

Solutions like that or, "if everyone would just _", or "everybody needs to _" will never happen. Just my own rule of thumb.
Yes the story is about envy. And wokeism is also about envy. So the comparison is fair.
I think I misstated my argument. :-)

The way schools are currently measured, the 5 are very, very important and the 10 are completely irrelevant. The only judgement is how many of the students are below the appropriate skill level. I don't believe anyone even measures how much in advance of the skill level students at or above the minimum are.
I guess when Skynet becomes self aware we can just wait for an AWS outage and then bulldoze the terminators into the landfill
Saw that one. How often was Epstein removing his gun and leaving it laying around the house that this was an explicit instruction?
I've always used https://www.antennaweb.org/ in the past.
> LeCun, 2022: Today's AI approaches will never lead to true intelligence (reported in the headline, not a verbatim quote); Marcus, 2018: “deep learning must be supplemented by other techniques if we are to reach artificial general intelligence.”

I swear same thing was being said 10+ years ago
Apparently it is some kind of benefit available to companies during a merger. There are like a thousand articles about it but I don't put a lot of faith in some random journalist nailing the details of the tax code so I'm not linking to any of them.

Perhaps a better question: If a particular show is written off, does anyone own the IP anymore? Do they still have the right to sue for copyright infringement if someone else broadcasts or distributes it?
Agree!. I'd love to live in a world where if the button I click reads "buy" then by law I actually own that:
* It can't be taken away [1].
* I can lend it to anyone I want [2].
* I can sell it to whomever I want, for whatever price I want.

If a company doesn't want to do this, then the button and all UI pieces MUST say "rent". Not just some minor line in the EULA.

[1] Maybe the service where I downloaded it wants to go down? Great, then let me download it in a non-DRMed format to use forever.
[2] And not having available to use myself during that time. Sure.
Can this be used to train you own model? I have a moderately large medical image dataset that would like to try this with for data augmentation.
And there's no way in hell I'd trust them to run the core infrastructure for a business worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
I bet there's some market analysis of SaaS companies showing how differently they can be run. I wonder if it's bimodal - SaaS with <10% sales headcount, and SaaS with >50% sales headcount.
Are you saying you don't commit tax fraud on a regular basis?
Of course it's convenient, the big walled gardens are as successful as they are because they are very convenient as long as you're fairly typical (like the vast majority of people), you don't get kicked out (seems very unlikely) and they don't stop operating (not a big worry with Kindle). Scrounging books from ten different shops, giving my credit card to each, managing everything myself, no sync with my phone, higher prices, not finding some books because they're only on Kindle, that's inconvenient.
That also just sounds like Uber had hired crap talent....
Honestly they don't sound nefarious at all. It's actually what I would expect from their service.
Crooks can trick cell carriers' under-resourced customer support reps into transferring your phone number to a different SIM card. https://www.issms2fasecure.com/
> Even as someone who doesn't think the government should tell you how to live, you can't pretend to be blind to the fact of why the government doesn't want to promulgate this kind of promiscuity

I can. Make the argument, rather than saying "it's obvious -- you know. Come on, you know. It's obvious." Until the argument is actually made, it can't be engaged with. This just terminates discussion.
In most larger universities, you can get an elite education by carefully selecting which courses to take.

1. take the honors track

2. 90% of the classes should be STEM

3. the STEM classes should be heavy on the math

4. avoid classes the stoners and cheaters take

5. classes should entail 2-3 hours of work for every hour of lecture

6. work towards getting As, not just passing

7. don't cheat, you'll be sorry if you do

8. be prepared to work your ass off
It seems a little weird that billions of dollars of damage will probably be done to the state, and yet their senior leadership will probably still actively deny the negative impacts of a changing climate. It makes some amount of sense if you're power is actually going to be heightened by climate disaster (like Russia with the defrosting of Siberia), but Florida seems like it could literally be destroyed in the coming decades and still makes no actions to protect themselves
Dall-e is pretty useful but it makes me worry about my artist friends. I use ai art on my blogs but I hope to switch to paying humans to do it in the long run
Look at the FeinTech splitters for example. I’ve thrown everything from BRs to streaming at them and they can handle it all.
This comes up in every such discussion. The legalities of free speech apply only to government restriction, true. But the concept and ideals of free speech are something that a private platform can support and promote, or suppress and bury.

We need a concept to distinguish these for speech, like for software. Something like "Free as in legal" vs "Free as in voice".
Yeah, you can select "edge" for some resources (API Gateway and Lambda are two that come to mind) which just means it's located in all regions plus some additional "edge" infrastructure that isn't available as a region. AWS puts some restrictions on edge resources since there isn't enough capacity or full-region functionality.

Usually you pick this for stuff that is CDN oriented and front a regional service with that.
I watched Lamport's entire video series once and only just felt I was starting to get it. I will have to watch the entire thing again.

I also found a (very minor, inconsequential) bug in the materials and emailed him, and he wrote me back and said thanks, so that felt like a career highlight to me ;)
> Most old school sysadmins were doing everything manually with relatively little automation.

That's not true of any place I experienced in the early to late 90s. If you meant earlier, perhaps, I wasn't there.

The growth of perl, for example, was in great part from the sysadmin community automating everything.
But backdoor keys for authorities will not suffer this problem. Trust me. /s
One of my fondest memories is when my dad had the neighbor up the road from us upgrade his 286 work PC from 1MB to 4MB of RAM and replace the EGA card with an Orchid VGA card so we could play Wolf3D in a postage stamp sized window.

I spent weeks playing Wolfenstein and mashing the “MIL” cheat code on the keyboard as fast as I could to get it to register. The machine was so slow that it would often not process the multiple keystrokes fast enough to enable max ammo and all guns, without multiple attempts.
Mac users already have Rosetta, they don't need any limited gaming platform. And Chromebooks have native Android and Linux compatibility (plus Wine and Steam), so the WASM gaming would be useless for them compared to native GL/Vulkan rendering thru MESA under ChromeOS.
Cyc had potential and its still being used by some people, but its mainly dead now. I have been dreaming of a cyc 2.0 for a while, I did a tiny mvp here a while ago:
https://concepts.jtoy.net/

I recently wrote a review on Cyc as well : https://blog.jtoy.net/understanding-cyc-the-ai-database/
I don't think there can be a rigid distinction between "I don't want to see that" and "actual harm". We can presumably agree that it would be wrong if Google put up posters of naked women all over the office, and that the EEOC is right to prohibit such things as a hostile work environment. But what "actual harm" could you point to beyond the fact that the posters are offensive and people don't want to see them? I understand the appeal of being able to take a "live and let live" attitude without considering these kind of tricky values judgments, but I just don't see how you can avoid it.
The new(-ish) Prey comes close, but if I remember correctly, it still sometimes locks on to the screen you're controlling, taking you out of the action.

In Doom 3, you're still in control of your first person character, which is awesome.

Try it in the demo linked above, if you skip the cutscenes you can find a screen within the first minute of gameplay or so.
The Waitlist for DALL·E 2 Is Gone, Sign-Ups Now Open for Immediate Use
Yup, that's generally true. Otherwise, you really might not be better off with AWS.
There’s a middle ground. If I want a movie or TV show, I’ll buy it from iTunes and then strip the DRM / pirate it. If I can find it streaming somewhere that yt-dlp works, I’ll download it. I don’t mind paying for content but only if it can’t be taken away from me after the fact.
I just interviewed at Ocado and I agree that it looks like they have it together. But then they’re outsourcing a chunk of the software to my country so not sure if that reflects well on the UK.

Another one worth mentioning a bit closer to my field is CMR - a surgical robotics company. They’re blowing enormous capital trying to conquer Europe and it might be working. Their tech is convincing and they have good showmanship. If it works out that’s an enormous market.

But it’s not visionary - just building on many incremental improvements and respectful of the thorough research and validation required. My external (optimistic) view is that this is something that is given a bit more respect in UK culture. Something about strong educational institutions and empirical reasoned thinking. But then maybe it’s just my POV?
Don't other readers support Amazon's format as well, if de-DRM-ed?
Alright I agree. Sounds like a realistic use.

Still feels like a gimmick. Particularly because most of the value you get out of processing the audio, not the video. And video is the part of deepfakes that I feel never should have been developed (but was inevitable, someone was eventually going to make it happen).
> generating dead Putins, or what?

To be fair, the first ever prompt I tried out with an AI image generator like this is "putin eaten alive by pigs" :) It's hard to refrain.
I continue to be irritated that services that consistently return errors are characterized as "increased error rates" or "increased latency". They seem to use those phrases for any kind of outage.
Hetzner/OVH are HN darlings not because of how innovative they are in features, but in pricing.

They tend to show up as submissions mostly when something bad happens (e.g. price increase), but they still show up in comments a lot when people discuss how comically expensive cloud providers are in a direct comparison and how you can be similarly effective running on such pricing-focused hosts, especially if you know how to build the redundancy yourself (or don't need it).
Indeed. That's why they get tested.
Also having "an idea" expressed as one or two sentences is something different than implementing, trying out and writing paper about "an idea".
Right, which is why I can't imagine moving from AWS to self-hosting. Having to hire a full set of Ops people to manage what AWS is managing for me would hurt.
I’d tell you, but I’m busy making a grilled-cheese sandwich =)