skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Apologies! I got that from some blog post somewhere I believe, not from any personal wackereren our judgement (which I should have signalled better in my post).

No worries. :) Most blogs on the topic I encounter in the wild make incorrect claims, I understand the confusion.

> Nonetheless, would reading a parquet file with polars be faster than reading a csv?

Yes, much faster. Please don't use the csv format for anything of a reasonable size. It is a terrible format to process and very ambiguous.
Who's to say that GPT isn't just analogous, legally, to lossy compression algorithms, only with a particularly interesting interpretation of "lossy"?
‘Not soulless blocks of rice’: the secret world of Japan’s robot sushi chefs
I think that's rather a case of hindsight as we now realise and agree that Alexa, Siri etc won't evolve past this crude monetization scheme.

They began as very much what you describe though, to generate pr and make their underlying ecosystems seem more attractive and advanced.
Rephrasing of the question: If you put you eyes on a single pirated work in your lifetime, all future potential creations are potentially inspired by that experience. Is every future creation of a human who has put their eyes on a pirated work copyright infringement?
From your first article:
"hundreds of police officers have been caught posting racist and bigoted social media content"

According to Statista[0] there were 660,288 officers in the US in 2021. Even one racist cop is too many, granted. But if we assume the maximum on 'hundreds', 999/660,288 = 0.0015.

0.15% is still a problem, but your article makes it sound like a pervasive problem, which it clearly isn't. That article also spends about half its length heavily implying that Kyle Rittenhouse was a far-right white nationalist militant hunting protestors. If you watched the trial, you would know that's certainly untrue despite the prosecutor & news' best efforts to paint him otherwise. This article is exactly an example of the false narrative I was talking about.

White nationalists are fucking scary. But outlets like The Guardian are making money fear mongering that they're lurking behind every corner, that your police and firemen and friends and neighbors are all cryptofascists.
A lot of work in Bible translation over the millennia has been motivated by translators’ desire to make the most important document in history, the stuff of salvation and life itself, accessible to the common man.

Luckily, there is room in the world for (and demand for) countless approaches to Biblical translation, from the hyper‐literal to the simple paraphrase.

Any person who’s participated in a group Bible study (except in those kooky KJV‐only cults) has experienced reading Bible passages out loud in a circle of people, each of whom happens to be quoting a different translation of the same text.
> granularly tweak resource utilization on a per-operation basis

This is a really good point. Either I took a thorny path learning Lambda or they don't make it terribly obvious that when you pre-allocate larger amounts of RAM (thus more $$$ in GB/s cost) you also gain substantially better CPU performance.

So when you have a compute intensive task with a low memory footprint and want to improve latency, you may actually want to allocate lots of unused RAM.
That is strange. I'm not sure what would cause that unless it was running in some ephemeral environment. What OS? Can you open a github issue with a screenshot?
There's a new entrance to the Elizabeth line right on the market https://goo.gl/maps/xJ5c4NFaPZeZTQTK9
Isn't the Android tooling mostly Gradle and IntelliJ though, which Google don't make.
yes stable diffusion is not great about handling multiple ideas. New image models coming out soon though.
So you are saying we should prosecute MS because co-pilot is distributing the copyrighted work? Or in other words why is co-pilot spitting out the code to someone else (often with copyright notices removed), not code distribution?
Is this about jealousy then?

Or it’s just too fast so let’s stop it?
"Grok" isn't really a good example - it was invented by a recent English speaker and used quite enough that it was clear enough what it meant (I'm not sure if Heinlein explained it outright but I don't believe he objected to various definitions published. Further if you do consider it a word in another language it translates reasonably directly into "understand intuitively" in standard English, not much different to how the word "get" is often used.)

Leaving a word untranslated (but transliterated into modern English orthography as best as possible), with footnotes explaining possible meanings is seemingly sensible enough but the Bible is meant to be the "word of God", and leaving it sprinkled with words that nobody's sure about the meaning of would tend to undermine its attempt to sound authoritative on matters spiritual.
Farringdon to Smithfield is about a 3-4 mins walk up Cowcross Street, pretty convenient
Something I find fascinating is how a game can have a… I dunno… “Viability Curve” that isn’t just a line.

For example, my kids rarely draw in Tic Tac Toe. At their skill level, it’s a very winnable game and therefore fun game and therefore viable game. But it’s not even a viable game for two adults who have studied it for a bit. All draws all the time.

Less expert players of chess also don’t draw often. The game is sufficiently complex where practiced adults still win and lose a lot.

But then you get to grand masters and draws become common. The game, as designed, seemingly becomes less “viable.”

But I’m curious if there’s a U-shaped game out there: viable for beginners, viable for experts, tedious for intermediates.
The issue could be related to Chrome itself and not twitter.com per se. Did you try restricting some other site on Chrome like reddit.com or facebook.com, and see if that works?
So what if it does?
Google Docs is great for what it is, the problem is Google's insistence on building everything as a web app regardless of that decision's technical merit. Until the point where the web app architecture wets itself and gives up Docs has a reasonably good UI and the collaborative editing was/still is best in class.

That said, the speed with which the product evolves is glacial these days. OK I'm only a lite user but other than non-paged mode I'm struggling to recall what they've really added even in the last 5 years.
> All Correct.

Says who?
If you're used to installing python packages it should be relatively easy. There are other projects with nice UIs but that's not what this library is for.
Perhaps standing up against corporations is itself a proxy for some even more deeply hidden system of human values. But what could human minds value, if not free and open IP or opposition to corporate entities?
You're well within your rights to do that, nobody is saying otherwise. What I am saying is that Apple has the right to then say "you're too much hassle" and close your account.
Haha my first thought as well:

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Gemstone (currently Gemstone IV) is an online MUD that has been around for 30+ years and has a pretty thriving community and very active development as well as strong gamemaster interaction. https://www.play.net/gs4/

There is a free subscription but it is quite limited compared to the paid membership. I used to play back in the mid 90s and resubscribed a few years ago because I have found nothing else nearly as complex or immersive. Steep learning curve to start but folks are often willing to help others learn. Check out the learning wiki at https://gswiki.play.net/Main_Page
the daily ritual, probably
Artists get inspired by others all the time, and if the results are far enough from each other, then nobody has a problem with that. In fact, pre copyright, the similarities used to be even larger. Art lives from the concept of taking ideas, and improving on them.
this should do it:

>> aimg edit input.jpg "make it pop" --prompt-strength 25
> Google has actually begun VIDEO verification where you literally have to facetime with a Google employee to verify you own the business you say you own... even this can be gamed since any type of manual verification will be outsourced.

I feel that this is going to be a big negative externality of AI: since it makes faking everything much easier, all verification processes will become more difficult and expensive. Eventually there will start being "you must come to this office and present ID" steps, with all the associated costs.
Oh come on, Apple has had numerous privacy issues as well.

What about uploading every photo to their server to check for child porn?

What about uploading every binary you run to their server to check if its “approved”?

People really need to put down their “sheeple” glasses. Apple is a huge public company like all the others, beholden to profit their shareholders and thats it.

All that virtue signalling that they do is just a smokescreen. They are not any better or worse than MS/Google/Amazon etc…
Which reminds me of socialism from my childhood behind the iron curtain.

The dolar shops had the luxury stuff. Normal people didn't shop there. Corruption was the normal and you had to have money and a bribe to get something.
> I would like to see more money flowing toward open source creators and maintainers. It's terrible that companies use the OSS that's built on the backs of people that do not receive remuneration for their efforts.

Support them directly, then, if they offer the means to do so. Corporations don't pay the creators of open source software because by definition they don't have to. They also tend not to contribute back to projects, have a habit of abusing licenses and stealing code, and have an outsized influence on the community (see Google/Chromium's de facto control of web standards.)
Matter of opinion though. I decided a few months ago to try some different frameworks and libraries etc. I had a project in mind that was more than trivial. I did like sveltekit. I do like vue. But I can't get over how much further and faster I was able to get up and running with react.

With svelte I ran into an issue, I'm sorry it was a few months ago and I forget exactly what it was. I spent hours trying to get around it, and then read online others had the same issue and it just wasn't catered for. Whatever it was, it was frustrating enough that I just gave up.

I tried a bunch of different libraries as well. One nice thing about react is that you get to choose from a variety of interesting state managers on top. Yes, svelte just worked (except when it didn't) but actually the constraints of each state library helped with structure.

I'll look at svelte again next year, but if I was starting a new product right now I'd go for what works, has the best ecosystem and most familiarity with developers - react. The alternatives have some pros but are not yet compelling enough (excepting some more server side driven solutions but that's out of context).
If there is an actual set point theory I didn't learn about it from this article. What are the metabolic pathways that alter the set point? How do the recommendations affect those pathways? What actually is the set point? Is it one thing or many things? And surgery alters the set point, really? Isn't surgery a mechanical solution instead of a hormone altering solution? The set point theory seems more like an observation that the body acts like it has a set point rather than an actual theory about the biochemistry of the body. Does fasting alter the set point? Does food composition affect it? Does sugar affect it? To what degree does each type of exercise alter the set point? What raises the set point? If we have an initial set point why do we ever gain weight at all? Is the set point measurable? Do the drugs actually affect the set point or just temporarily fool it and how? If science has proven a set point exists why is science still doing research on methods to change behavior? If food makers have altered food to increase the set point is that not a major clue to what causes the set point to change and to what the set point is? There seems to be a lot of willful ignorance in the medical research on obesity, particularly research in behavior change. I've worked on some of it that I thought was absolutely useless.
The AI doesn’t understand what it consumes. That is why the models still can’t add two numbers.
'because Ukraine helped'

Ukraine didn't 'help', it paid compensation to the families of Israeli and Russian passengers [0].

'Ukraine continues to pay money to victims of Russian attacks'

Who are Ukrainian citizens and the Ukraine blames Russia from the beginning. Nothing similar at all.

[0] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/13...
This is such an interesting topic.

My ideal legal system would be easy for people to represent themselves, but expensive for people to bring forward frivolous cases.

I wonder how both can be achieved at the same time?
weak encryption or clear format ?
It rapidly becomes unreadable?
No, Bob’s put into stasis until Alice is out of stasis, and then he is tried for the appropriate crime. I suppose you could say that the minimum sentence is losing the same amount of time that Alice lost with her loved ones.

There is also the interesting question, what if Alice was never in the bubble in the first place?
I also like The Simpsons’ word, “cromulent.”

It has no meaning and yet it seems to fit in a lot of places. It’s almost like a parity correction: we’re missing data here, just fill in the blank based on the context.
Why would Google care? Their business is making an appearance of providing useful information, not actually providing useful information.
entire islamic theology is based on Abraham and his actions, the rituals in the holy journey of Hajj and Umrah are all repeats of actions of Abraham and his family.
There is: Mohammed met many christian travelers and decided it was a good idea to unify people.

The stories are the same, the people are closer than Italians and Israelis, and saying Christianity is Abrahamic because Rome killed a guy who reneged most of jewish literal intepretation then elevated him as a divine figure is just as silly...
Microsoft is not an artist.
The point I was trying to get across is that environment doesn't need to be list of name=value pairs, it's just list of strings and you can put anything in there.
> (A quick search will find you people telling you not to use the King James translation.)

Most of them are bad reasons - for example, one very popular criticism is the claim that KJV invented the usage of the word "unicorn" in the Bible, and it's actually a wild ox. But it was traditionally translated that way from the time of the Latin Vulgate, and nobody knows for sure what a re'em is. [Ed - it turns out the Septuagint also uses the word μονοκερως, so it goes back even further.) So while it seems reasonable to personally disagree with the choice of word, it's going too far to declare it to be wrong when a) nobody knows what the referent is for sure b) the two pre-existing "canonical" translations have used your equivalent translation for ~1800 years.

You can find people explaining why not to use any translation; people are, uh, religious about their chosen translation and the KJV is the old guy you've got to tear down. But any mainstream translation is probably OK. You certainly miss out on a lot of poetry and historical citations if you skip out on the KJV, and there's very few actual problems with it. Probably the fairest criticism is the general decline in reading ability means that many people find the KJV hard to read, and the NKJV in that regard is only a minor improvement for modern audiences.
Tbh there's a lot of research that went into LLMs
I think Judaism and Islam have more in common with each other than with Christianity.

Christianity's belief in the divinity of Jesus is shared by neither other religion. The Jewish jurist Maimonides ruled that Christians were idol worshipers because of their belief in the trinity and Muslims were not (Menachem Meiri rules otherwise).

But more than that, in terms of practice, Muslims and Jews share a great deal. Praying in a certain direction. Praying several times a day. Specific dietary requirements, including banning pork.

And Jewish and Islamic thinkers were in constant dialogue, I'm not sure why anyone could say there's no philosophical continuity.
My examples only were meant illustrate that scale is a well known "thing" in legal systems and I happened to pick things with two illegal endpoints (IANAL).
You could look at other things like the need for permits for certain things as a function of size and use, if you want simple examples for scale mattering and legal endpoint(s).
There is a major cost of switching cloud providers, which means it’s less of an efficient market than it could be. Since all of the costs are transparent AWS knows how much more they can charge while still being cheaper than switching. Push the break even point far enough out and few companies will even consider switching.

And that doesn’t even get into the technical side of it, which is a logistical nightmare as you mentioned with multicloud. (I don’t even want to think about it for my personal projects!) If C1 has around 50k years of AWS experience among all its tech employees, it will take a long time to match that in Azure or GCP.
Yeah totally. They never had much manual QA. I once worked at Google and part of my job was in a rotation doing server pushes. As part of the push process I'd quickly check out the one paragraph of release notes from the releng guy which would note any new user visible features, and go and play with them on a canary server.

The frequency with which new features point blank did not work at all just blew me away. The problem 100% of the time was that some dev had written a feature given a bug ticket, written some unit tests that covered the code, but never actually brought the serving stack up and played with it themselves. They thought QA meant some test with lots of mocks, not, ya know, actually testing the feature as a user would see it. It was painful to run the servers locally so they just didn't bother a lot of the time.
Descent job or decent job?
China is the largest trade partner of many other countries, why only Taiwan worry about being turned into a vassal state?

The majority of population in Taiwan is Han Chinese, using almost the same language as mainland China. It's not surprising that many of them will like to work on the other side of strait if there are good opportunities. People from mainland China too, especially for people in Fujian and Guangdong.

And eventually, hypothetically, people in Taiwan prefer and choose to unite with mainland China, maybe after PRC evolved into something more ideologically acceptable, I see more good than issues.
We are not dealing with AGI here. Current trained models are basically just using copy and paste, to create "new" works.

There is zero creativity, zero art, zero original thought, zero newness.

When actual AGI happens, then your arguments mean something. Such as in, at least 50 or 100 years down the road.
The article had a discussion about how existing metalenses were limited in size. So, I assume they're saying this metalense is superior to the state of the art in the field of metalenses.
Indeed, despite the tale in university that Matalab is what “the industry uses”, never found an established business willing to pay the license fee. The single only shop using Matlab I encountered was venture capital funded.

But truth be said, nothing so far quite managed to replicate Matlab syntax succinctness and ease - even if it’s a (unstated?) design goal of Julia.
There are free books (imagine the horror of people giving something away) and lots of out of copyright books.
It is superior, but it is absolutely still learning.

ML can do either facsimile or imitation far better than a human mind can.

You seem to be conflating both things and suggesting that ML only does facsimile, which is where the potential legal problems are.
You'd have to ask how they do this in one of the European countries that has this kind of system. I suppose for rent you might need to register the rental (not a bad idea for landlords to be registered), and for the heat pump perhaps the installer would claim the discount. As I don't live in one of those countries, I don't know exactly how it works.
Not strange at all. Working in a metric system is beneficial to our economy, and trading out to the rest of the world.

The options are to trade in Imperial measurements with the US, or the entire global economy in Metric.

The US can weather that difference given its size both physically and economically
Last week I asked Siri in my car for the name of a song with the lyrics, “hello darkness my old friend.”

I know the song and title. I was just having a brain fart. Siri had zero ability to help me. She just repeated the currently playing song.

ChatGPT would have been perfect, especially since it was a question that I could instantly verify an answer to.

I want my Ship’s Computer in my car.
Not a physicist, but Wikipedia seems to disagree with this.

> Due to this effect, known as gravitational time dilation, an object falling into a black hole appears to slow as it approaches the event horizon, taking an infinite time to reach it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole#Event_horizon
in order to get inspired

But that never, ever, ever happens with current AI. it is not AGI. it is inspired by nothing, has no creativity, nada, ziltch.
You’re getting downvoted for stating extremely uncomfortable truths. It’s not what westerners want to hear. Ignoring these objective facts is foolish and dangerous.

The reality is, with hypersonics (currently deployed), Russia or China could disable entire surface battle groups and there’s not much the US could do about it (conventionally).

I encourage everyone to break from their myopia and get a better understanding of the significant geoeconomic and power realignments going on right now.

It’s no longer 1992. We’re either headed towards global nuclear holocaust or back to a multi-polar world. May calmer heads prevail.

Two books on these topics:

- https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/40658433

- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52962238-principles-for-...
The reason why you put your eyes on something is probably that someone had the hope of selling it to you. Or that someone paid for it on your behalf. The difference is that machine learning algorithms never (or rarely) leave a single penny in their training set creators’ pockets, turning “no income” into the default outcome.

Copyright law is not about logically perfect system, but creating a general environment in which artistic, academic and other creations can appear and benefit the general population.
It's about a law designed by humans to give everyone a chance to make a living and contribute to the common good. You think you have found a loophole in that law that lets you use that work for free and deny author's any compensation.

Bear in mind, AI is not making artists or creative types obsolete - that would be fair game, just like computers made human calculators obsolete. No, this is about abusing other people's work.