skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I fail to see the significance of this "urging of caution". What's next? Will they tell us those are not really analog like neurons and are in fact using binary numbers in their calculations? O the horror!

Who cares? Everyone knows ML models do not reflect the mechanics of how biological brains work at low level. The most obvious is that they use electricity, discrete numbers, much faster refresh rate etc. As a consequence the other low level "implementation details" will differ. The closer to "the hardware" the more differences there will be. I woukd be extremely surprised to see similar encoding, activation waves/patterns as in biological systems in ML for this reason, but also because how different the learning data and even the learning mechanism is. The brain has no backpropagation.

However, there is deep similarity between both and IMO we are not far from AGI(decades at most). There is a measure of similarity between some advanced ML models (stable diffusion in visual, bloom in reasoning) and how our thinking works. This is especially visible when those things break or produce unexpected results in comparison with damaged/psychedelic human brain.

Just like a human performing a math calculation and a computer performing the same calculation are doing essentially the same thing despite vastly different "implementation method", and same as computers helped us advance our understanding of mathematics(and physics etc) ML models will help us understand more about how our own thinking works.

Just as there is something universal in an act of adding two numbers, there is something universal in an act of processing language to derive intent and carry out complex instructions.

The crucial unknown however at this stage is whether our most advanced ML models are indeed using the same universal high level mechanisms we do to understand our input when they demonstrate their incredible capabilities or are they simply some advance method of compressing and searching through the training data? The first stage of answering this question is to determine if there is really a difference. Perhaps all we are, are databases doing an effective search algorithm over our training data?

This is what science hopefully will answer in coming years. In one way the pace of incredible discoveries of those new and bigger models is not leaving the scientific community enough time to study those models fuly. I can imagine many lifetimes could be spent just studying bloom or stable diffusion, but how to do it when new models twice their size show up 6 months later? How to focus on one model and one application of it in this quickly changing environment?Still, I'm very grateful that I can see this progress during my lifetime. While growing up in the 90s I had this feeling of "missed opportunity" that I never saw nor I have taken any part in the computing revolution that happened before I was born, but this new AI revolution certainly makes up for that.
If you create an efi payload, you remove the need for the /boot partition and for grub2, killing 2 birds with 1 stone.

The payload can be managed by your UEFI bios and efibootmgr, allowing more advanced thigs like signing your payloads with your own keys for a true secureboot instead of the hackish "MOK" that's just using unprotected UEFI variables
Think we have extra. Emailed you too.
They've always got Vegas.
Yeah, we're just now reaching the embracing. First Windows+WSL becomes the ideal dev environment, then Linux apps run natively without WSL, and then... why run a Linux kernel? After that they'll have their sights on the real prize: being the dominant browser again.
My reading was that they're suggesting that in so-called two-party consent states, getting a third person in the room (whether or not it's done surreptitiously) and then having consent from 2/3 parties makes the recording legal. That's not true, of course - "two-party" is a bit of a misnomer. This feels like dangerous advice.
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Fyi - Vanguard is only good for simple, long term holding. If you are interested in a little more day trading type activity, then Schwab, TD, and Fidelity are much better.
Suppose you own the rights to a jpeg. And I apply a simple algorithm that increments every hex value. So 00 becomes 01 and so on. The gibberish images it spits out would be so different then your original image that you wouldn't have any claim to them at all.
Pretty sure they have Robinhood-esque mobile update coming.

Edit: It's already here.
That I did, thanks for pointing it out. Phone posting does that.
I've just returned to Australia yesterday after 10 weeks living with my family of five (kids 4-10) in my shuttle bus in the US. Following vanlife communities, some people routinely raise this sort of thing like it's a gotcha, which I find strange. Advocating! Realistically, if you're on a roadtrip and broadcasting it publicly, the laundry stops and the like just aren't very novel or exciting. You photograph the hikes and the food and so on. I don't document doing laundry at home either!

Some people handwash clothes. Others use laundromats.

For the most part, I renovated our bus in a few days so it's nothing slick. We didn't bother with a bathroom because it's a lot of extra effort for something you rarely need. Maybe it disgusts some people, but when camping I can go 10+ days without a shower and don't feel horrible. People sponge-bath or use wipes. People with van showers often just use them as wet storage areas.

RV parks in the US right now are US$40-100. If you're not boondocking, state/national park campgrounds are often $35-40 range - you can get a mid-week basic motel in a little town for $40-50 and chew through someone else's internet, hot water, etc.

Many people forgo a sink, but washing dishes isn't too painful, even with unheated water or water heated on a gas cooktop if you don't have a hot water system.

We typically travelled with a few gallons of drinking water and then 10 gallons of water for washing up. People with better setups would have a lot more. Expedition vehicles have even more (water, grey, black and fuel, etc).

TL;DR: some of these things are glossed over because they're boring. Washing up isn't difficult in a van/bus. People use laundromats for clothes. Showers/bathrooms use up more space and are a hassle to build.
Getting a bunch of folks to develop open source chips is a colossally smart hedge against existential risk. There's been vast consolidation/buy outs in chipmaking, there's been huge supply side shocks... keeping & maintaining chipmaking as a general faculty humanity & google is ok at is incredibly cheap, given the risk it guards against.

Simce Im using a rate-limited comment, I want to chip in to remind folks this is a slightly odd process. It's mixed signal, much bulkier & more robust than a logic oriented process. It's not small, but is more ideal for analog signals, rr, power supplies, et-cetera.
Yeah, I prefer Midjourney pricing which is a monthly flat fee with multiple tiers. Unlimited use.

https://midjourney.gitbook.io/docs/billing#plans

I hope it stays reasonable as they continue to gain traction.
Kinda weird to be downvoted for the above. GP said L-arabinose's available in Japan only. I responded to that. Could one of the downvoters please at least let me know what about my comment was so bad?

For reference, here's one place that sells it in the uk [0]. It's made in the UK as well.

Directions are:

Take 2g of Powder approximately 30 minutes before main meals.

Which matches the second part of my post (pre-meal supplement).

[0] https://www.sweetcures.co.uk/products/l-arabinose-original-p...
People who got six months of a Netflix subscription as a Christmas gift and got partway through a series,
Yeah, that article is about the same person. He played guitar I believe, so it's no wonder he ended up owning a music store.

The music in the 3DO version was recorded by him and his church band... mainly because there was no time to write a music driver and it was much simpler just to stream regular AIFF audio... It's a "heavy metal guitar" version of the music, which is pretty fitting all things considered.

Strangely enough, the music he provided was the only positive thing that reviewers had to say about the game at the time. Many consider the 3DO port music to be better superior to the original FM tunes.
I couldn't agree more ;)
"XYZ corporation donated thousands of dollars to needy children this year as an example of an exemplary tech company.

In addition XYZ corp sold Iran social media tracking software allowing the government to ruthlessly execute the traitors that dare say negative things about the glorious leader

We offer XYZ the leaders in tech award" --NYT

Um, yea, have HR departments that tell everyone how damned good they are already. You could fill encyclopedias with the output every year. Meanwhile they aren't going to tell you how they do 50 bajillion means of tracking your wife to determine if she's pregnant in order to serve an ad to her first before their competitors (and offer the data to the state if requested).
Not just image generating systems. Basically all neural network based AIs have a tendency to fail in ways that are very brain-like. GPT-3 produces output that seems to make sense as long as you aren't paying too close attention, image recognition AIs are more likely to mistake a cat for a dog than for something completely unrelated, speech recognition AIs often make very sensible seeming transcription errors, etc. Not to mention how revolutionary NNs have been in solving problems that brains find easy but machines have traditionally struggled with, and how terrible they are at things machines find easy and brains have traditionally struggled with. Maybe there's no relationship between the way NNs work and the way brains do, but the end result certainly seems to be similar.
uh - you just specify the location of your initramfs in the kernel boot params and that's it, no need for all the above
Yes, I look at code. I'm professional developer. I will spend 1-2 minutes at scanning per thousand of lines.
Sure, those comments might be considered infringement, but that's from an earlier version of Codex. Copilot does not return that code. The complaint even says so.
As a swiss person, all these names of common christmas cookies here are making me hungry.
Then you went from there to "Its definitely embezzlement as it is."
I was happily employed, but wanted to stress test this strategy (and keep myself sharp, as practice in case anything did happen), and several years ago I did. Between a Wednesday morning and a Friday afternoon, I had set up over 40 interviews in the 2 week period starting the following Monday. I additionally scheduled a few more on Monday, for a total of 50+ round 1 interviews. I don't remember the exact numbers, but I had low double digit round 2s and single digit round 3s scheduled as well, with many more round 2 requests in the weeks following the resolution of this test.

It was exhausting, and the exhaustion scaled nonlinearly. By the end, I cancelled the last 5-10 first interviews, and all of the second/third round interviews. I did so with the same tact I recommend regarding replying to recruiters, and made no bad blood in the process. Several of the recruiters got such positive feedback from some of the clients that they told me I was welcome to apply again whenever I was ready.
The news was that you couldn’t even talk about the truth of the situation in DMs on Twitter.
If the poster was using Robinhood, I suspect that branches might not be cared-about feature.
The resource is not "free": it is provided under a license that attempts to lay out the terms the entity using the resource must comply with in order to get the benefit of using their product; just because this is a non-monetary compensation doesn't mean it is "free".
Federating is hard, and Signal is trying hard to solve the metadata problem in a fundamentally different way (which I happen to believe is better).

I see you want federation, that's fine. I want private metadata. Don't use Signal if it doesn't do what you want, but maybe try to accept that not every project should do what you want. They have their preferences too.
No, it's my opinion that in linear regression an inordinate amount of time is spent with feature selection and ensure there's no correlations among the features. When data is cheap in both X and Y, winnowing down X is a lot of work.
This is a political minefield/one of the most polarized topics of conversation in a minefield of extremely polarized topics, and I greatly value this forum as a place for intelligent conversation. Please don't jump to any assumptions about my presentation of this perspective, or endorsement of crazy people who say similar sounding things, this is simply a summary of why this story is important to the right.

The Hunter Biden story is significant because there are emails which suggest Hunter Biden had ties to foreign companies that wanted access to his father. This could be grounds for a criminal case implicating his father.

Now, in a sane society during a less polarized election, this would have been discussed in the open, and people would make cases as to the relevance or irrelevance of the evidence, relevance to Joe Biden specifically, and whether the evidence merits investigation through proper channels in an open and transparent way.

Since Trump was viewed as even more corrupt and more of a threat by enough people capable of suppressing the story, the story was suppressed, and this conversation didn't happen until after the election. That does not mean the entire FBI and judicial process is broken like some people on the right claim, which is an extremely dangerous accusation, and the lack of a proper case means we do not know the extent or non extent of corruption, but the suppression of the story was a violation of public trust by those who suppressed it and poured a lot of fuel on an already raging fire.
Techies Against 'The Media'
There are a few clauses but the gist is pretty simple: approval of any transfer of option or underlying share must be approved by the board of directors + they may also exercise their right of first refusal.
I hope MS used a lot of AGPL code to train Copilot… This would be fun.

But no matter how this goes, in case training AI with copyrighted inputs is "fair use" that'll end up as the ultimate "copyright laundry machine" like this "joke" project here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220104214929/https://fairuseif...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27796124 (302 points, 151 comments)
There are many public examples of that same effect happening (for example https://twitter.com/mitsuhiko/status/1410886329924194309 ), and the legal team has been soliciting for more examples. Those examples are likely to come out if it does go to trial.
Years ago I was a student nurse and spent a lot of time on the geriatric wards, I really liked the old farts but was somewhat disturbed by how they could spend hour after hour discussing their bowels with anyone who would listen, very strange.

Reading this thread has sent me right back there.
Actually I should have mentioned this in the original post but I think the "3 arms" thing is kind of a bad example come to think of it. I think in general at least with SD, if's very unlikely to create 3 arms or or 8 arms if you for example ask for a person. Mostly it looks like a person because the text prompt maps to training data of persons, and so they will generally look like people with 2 arms.

However, where it struggles I find is with finer details, and also _placement_ of things like arms, eyes, and relationships between them. This I think is because it only has a general idea of the shape of persons but no data for the exact specifics like where the arms, legs, eyes and so on should be placed in a very realistic anatomical way, and this is where I think the challenge is - the gap between a general pattern of a person and an extremely specific but also general one where it can modify it and transform it like a real human artist can. I'm not sure that's in the data exactly
I recommend rmlint. Had great experiences with it. Just run rmlint /your/dir, and get an executable script to remove all found duplicates.

https://rmlint.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Exactly this. RH has a business model closer to casinos than it does to Schwab or Fidelity.

The headline feature for RH is "fee-free trading" which is fine, but once you read past the headline you'll come upon a vast amount of gamification, calls to action, and every other tool borrowed from gacha games and gambling generally.

In that vein I would expect their corporate performance to track more closely with gambling and F2P gaming peers than they would track more established stock trading apps.

More cynically RH's product was making people feel like geniuses in a bull market. The bull market is now gone.
Businesses will never do this without legislation.
I replied to this comment:

>“Fifth column” paranoia is a hallmark of authoritarian leadership.

Is it paranoia when within this very same thread people are making posts about ways to see the company fail? By omission or direct action, if the ideas are expressed here then they are held by workers at Twitter.

Do you fail to see how this is relevant?

They comment I replied to is making a rather poorly founded insinuation of authoritarian leadership, ie Musk, despite having 'lead' over the enterprise for days, at best.

Presently this jibe, 'authoritarian' is being levied at conservatives & most absurdly at free speech advocates. The idiocy of such an assessment is, in fact, the operation of an authoritarian ideology.

So, yes, I believe that makes it relevant.
The problem with the class action lawsuit against GitHub is this: if you host your code on GitHub, it doesn't matter what license you use. Microsoft can do whatever they want with it. You agreed to this by agreeing to their terms and conditions.
That boat sailed a long time ago. And while yes, there is a lot of interesting tech news out there, we've had tech companies become the largest corporations on the planet gobbling up every bit of information on every person, well it gets political really quick.
I don't think so. Start with Azure AD if you want the Microsoft system.
The answer to this is “why not both”. I work on an Azure service and we use Server Core for our entire fleet. Most do.
LetterBoxD – Like IMDB, but low SnR and useful instead of crappy
If they didn’t have to close shop, it’s a good time to move from that steaming pile of trash.

Fidelity has been good to me.
This description of TeX's process (originally by Knuth himself) is quite tongue in cheek but I fail to see why this makes TeX's programming paradigm 'awful'. Think of it this way: both C and C++ (even Rust has macros, which I heard is the new hotness) have a preprocessor, which is exactly what TeX's 'mouth' is. The fact that the language of the preprocessor looks very similar to the main language does not make it weird (Rust again...). 'Loosely synchronised and on demand' is a very uncharitable description of what is happening: would you call JavaScript paradigm awful just because events are asynchronously processed? One tricky part of TeX is output routines running asynchronously with the main paragraph typesetting algorithm. This is indeed a compromise made by Knuth simply because in his days the thought of keeping the whole book in memory (which is what a perfect page breaking algorithm would require) was pure science fiction. A mildly augmented design will fix this (indeed, some modern implementations offer exactly this) but the solution found by Knuth is still incredibly beautiful. Also, 'the mouth does not do arithmetic' is not true at all. While I am not a big fan of LaTeX, its developers are incredibly talented programmers and they have implemented a fully expandable (in TeX parlance, taking place entirely in its 'mouth') floating point library in TeX (it uses some eTeX extensions for efficiency but they can be avoided as well; I speak from experience, since I do not use eTeX).

Finally, please do not let your fear stop you from enjoying TeX: most users do not do any serious programming and its output is aesthetically superb. If one day you decide to write some tricky macros, there is a vast TeXlore that awaits.
That’s the non controversial part. The bit that seems off is that there is an immune response.
Thanks for the recs! How does their cost compare to the 20-liter paint bucket?
So are my ex-girlfriends (as it turns out).
Maybe a data structure where you have an array of data and its hashed value, an eq implementation needs to go over the array to compare, but the ne implementation can short circuit by just comparing the hash. hash(a) != hash(b) => a != b, the reverse doesn't hold.
Anyone Got Unclaimed Property in CA?
Add to that that it feels like some people want this to happen. It's a cycle. Media wants more clicks, they cover and exaggerate every small layoff, even though in other times no one would have said anything, people panic, managers and CEOs panic, more layoffs, snowball effect.
It's a different set of problems too, cooperatives tend to have issues doing anything bigger than a local Bodega.

Even in software, once you're big enough to have a real user base you need infrastructure, servers, people to keep those servers alive, and on and on and it dilutes the mission because even while there's no scumbag investors, factions within the company will want more for less and vote that way internally.
https://archive.ph/pExmh
I transferred from Robinhood to Fidelity years ago and never looked back. Mobile app and website work great, had to call customer service twice and they were always helpful, good ETF screener tool. They have local branches in most major metro areas for in-person customer support as well. Commission-free trades just like Robinhood. Seamless integration with most tax software.

I just pile leftover savings into Small-Cap Value funds though, so my needs are rather minimal.
Is this is a direct attack on Red Hat?

MS Linux including MS Support! But install your favourite RPMs...
Well, they kept it running long enough for the VC's to get their cash out.
> which is enough to ping once per minute and still only use half your allocated bandwidth

Err, no - at 750 packets/month, you’d burn through your allocation in 12.5 hours at that rate.
Yep. My local credit union is offering 4.5% on an 18 month > $1,000 CD.
I experienced the same thing. I switched a couple of domains over to iCloud and within a week moved them elsewhere. I went from pracically no spam to hundreds of blatently obvious and easy to catch spam emails hitting the inboxes every day.

I dont know what Apple uses for spam protection, but its total junk. I could roll a better spam protection myself!
Interactive Brokers. If you are an occasional trader, go with the Lite option - it is commission-free but relies on pfof, just like RH. If you are more serious, go with Pro and you'll get routing to exchange in most cases.

TWS (their desktop app) has many options and target pros. However, I haven't used their web/phone apps.

> If Robinhood had to close shop

I doubt that will happen. Citadel will jump in and inject money, just like they did with Plotkin's Melvin Capital.
>Still Microsoft

Here, here. I haven't seen anything yet that isn't straight out of the MS playbook on this.
Those are the most famous people who have been kicked off of social media. I will admit to not knowing the details.

The other area you could investigate is the various controversies around Covid.
“Any reproduction in part or as a whole…”
If you are referring to DCS, I think that's absolutely down to the cache on the CPU and the memory subsystem as a whole.

I ran a Threadripper Pro system and it had the most stable VR FPS I have seen anyone put up (if not the fastest; clocks matter). I attributed it to cache and RAM bandwidth (8 channels... is a lot) and the 5800X3D numbers seem to support that.