skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on your ISP. I use one of the biggest ones in the US, and they won't do any such thing. They don't care if you're running servers at all, unless you start getting a lot of incoming traffic -- then they'll ask you to upgrade to a commercial account or stop it.

I've been running servers used by family and friends from my home for about 20 years now. It's never been an issue at all.
At some level this is just the application of wave mechanics to reality. "A vibration on a guitar string is just the sum of the vibrations of its harmonics." You are decomposing a system into a mathematically favorable basis, performing a calculation in that basis, and recovering the original basis (by linearity).

You can do this in a hamiltonian way (find the eigenvectors of the hamiltonian, decompose your system into those, step them forward [easy] and add them back together) or in a lagrangian way (treat each point in the system as the source of a sort of spherical wavefront). Feynman is doing the latter - he's just asking "what if we treated other fields the same way we know we can treat the EM field via Huygens-Fresnel?" Calculate the progression of wavefronts through the field, using euler-lagrange to find the parts of the wavefront that don't fade away into random noise.

So, in the framing of your question, I think it's mostly B and C, with maybe a bit of D (it's not clear if we have any kind of tool besides aesthetic preference to distinguish between extrinsically equivalent models). However, your framing might be a bit uncharitable.
Correct, it's generated by SD.
There is nothing that could possibly convince me to subscribe to anything that Zuc offers.
The project uses no dependencies and uses ETS anyways.

I am just handling the harder parts such as persistence by myself, to let the user only worry about writing features instead of reinventing the wheel.
X axis: elite dangerous.
Y axis: dwarf fortress.
> have to wonder what kind of logic they were using to wait so long.

It’s called greed. And also private money was incredibly cheap so why bother with reporting requirements that come with an IPO
AI generates US presidents as Pixar characters
Double bonus points if the “contrarian” thing is the exact opposite of contrarian within the intended audience.
Entrepreneurs are jumping onto the AI bandwagon
From what I heard no such thing as “easy raise” rn
Thank you, I'm new to the site and didn't know about spaces. I'm more interested in trying to run a model locally. All I've ever used locally are toy implementations, and 20-line DQN experiments that never seemed to converge.
In general, there's a device to sketch out a compelling villain; Take your hero with all its motivations and remove the moral compass.
The summing over all paths is basically already there when you do the two slit experiment. In that case you sum over two possible paths. So it is already right there in the basis of quantum mechanics.
The point, one presumes, is to make it as likely as possible that your child will become exceptional if they have the potential to do so. If these things are necessary but not sufficient doing them takes the odds from non-existent to small. More likely it takes them from extremely small to very small.
Thanks for letting me know, I appreciate the heads up.
I assume the effectiveness of the tracking dart depends on the suspect not knowing it has been affixed to their vehicle. If they knew, wouldn’t they just pry it off?
It seems like Woit is kind of intending this to serve as a refutation of PIF, but I don't really see why - this sounds more like a description of some problems that are hard in PIF, rather than anything wrong with the underlying theory.
It's cheaper for me. I do pay for a DDNS service, but that's very cheap. The machine doing the serving is one that would be running 24/7 anyway, so there's no additional electricity.
No need to be a pedant. The phrase '0%' chance means 'for the purpose of the conversation, an infinitesimally low likelihood of occurring.
I was commenting from the perspective of a large org, thinking of one big enough that would need a strategy. You don't differentiate product and infra spaces, because infra is part of the product. It's at least well known in SRE spaces that SREs don't scale linearly with product. You generally build teams around specific needs and productize things that enable that non-linearness.
If you have embedded video, please do it in a way that doesn't make the videos stutter. I don't know if it is the tracking, or if they are acting as a proxy or relay, but some days longer Twitter videos are impossible to watch.

I don't have that problem on any other site, so it's really specific to something they are doing at Twitter.
Why did you ever trust anything on twitter without double-checking? Consider how much misinformation you have processed over the years because of too much faith in a platform to disseminate facts over fiction.
> The arguments for self hosting are really about having full control over your service stack.

This is why I do the portion I host at home. That, and keeping the data on machines I actually own and control.
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By the time it blew up Russia had lost their leverage. It was clear by then that Europe was going to absorb the gas situation. That doesn't rule out the US. This is a reasonable take on it that doesn't conclude anything but looks at the reactions https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EeP_ZZbBIl4
The big performance gains of GDAL in this configuration is HTTP2 multiplexing to S3 and TCP keepalives. When a tile request is sent to the lambda tiler it should already have a TCP/TLS connection open to S3 which can then be used to multiplex requests.
If someone created a folding@home to crowd train an actually open ChatGPT, I'd gladly donate my spare resources to the cause.
It’s not just social media either. I remember reading something a few years ago recommending that you create an IRS online account to prevent someone else from fraudulently creating one on your behalf to steal tax returns. :/
Kinesis? Services operating at massive, hard-to understand scales?

FWIW, I work at Amazon, and a lot of things are still solved with "Boring" tech that's not "web scale". Even without our own ranks we've got to remind people that engineering is about fitting the architecture to the requirements and no more. It seems to be lost knowledge these days that an RDBMS gets you really, really far. The vast majority of apps -- even those that appear superficially "large" -- will never see usage patterns that justify anything more than a box and a database. You'd be surprised which systems are just humming along unceremoniously with a humble 3-tier architecture
CGNAT is both amazing and shocking. Amazing in that it kinda works. And shocking because the average person will never know why their shit is broken.

For me it broke online gaming. Luckily my ISP simply gives a static-ish IP to anyone who has an issue with CGNAT. But some ISPs force you to pay for a static IP, and some don’t even offer static IPs. I mean, I’d pay, but soon that won’t even be an option. It’s scary.
"The analysis is rigorously intraprocedural, i.e., it is done one function at a time, using only the information available for that function in the translation unit
defining it, which includes the annotations possibly provided
in function declarations."

So, in the examples, when something calls "read", what does the analyzer know about "read", and how much of its "char *" buffer it overwrites?

If you're going to do formal static analysis, the big wins come from automatically detecting that thing A is inconsistent with thing B way over on the other side of the project. That's the stuff humans miss. If you have to annotate everything to death, nobody will use your tool.

This is sort of an ad for the "ECLAR software verification platform", which is apparently some expensive tool. The site is all onboarding, no info, "ask for quote" B2B.

From the paper, you can't tell much about what they're doing. From the ECLAIR site, you can't tell much about what they're doing. So, no clue if this is a good idea or not.

[1] https://www.bugseng.com/eclair
there is nothing to vacuum in diy systems. wall and outdoor units come pre-vacuumed and all the refrigerant is in lineset
This is approximately right, time-evolution of a spatially homogeneous system is convolution of its initial state against the propagator `K = \int e^{iS[x]} Dx` over all of space - with the caveat that none of this is quite true. These aren't really integrals, `Dx` isn't really a measure, and fully rigorous interacting QFTs in 4d may or may not exist.
What makes you doubt Hersh's story?
They probably learned from all the awful tone deaf "we fired a bunch of human resources" blog posts that it is best to just say nothing at all. There's no good way for a bunch of rich executives who are literally incapable of understanding the lives of non-rich people to pretend they care.
You can do QKE via sat-bounce, which is maybe what they're talking about, but this sounds more like clueless hype marketing than something written by an engineer.
That’s sad. CSS Tricks has always been an amazing resource, "A Complete Guide to Flexbox" [0] is probably my most referenced article. I really hope a new steward appears.

[0]: https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/
Code reviews are great, competent programmers are also great. Even the best programmers make mistakes.

Additionally, the easier memory safety is, the more time those competent programmers can devote to work on new ideas instead of babysitting code.
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s/happiness/health/ and then I think we have a more reasonable starting point. (And I mean health in the holistic/whole person sense, not in the limited sense of how well your biological machine is running.)

I think this helps make it clear that any single goal can compromise overall health, even if along that dimension you're exceptional.
Does the map build itself or does it use wiki links?
What is thinking?
Sometimes you can work around a "has to be written in C" requirement by generating (known-safe) C at build time and avoiding writing it directly.
So, I played Judo in college. Our teacher was jokingly referred to as "Choke Monster". As you might imagine, He was really good at choking holds. He told me once that he liked demonstrating with me, because I had good natural defensive methods. He was a 3rd degree black belt at the time.

He sometimes brought black belts from his Dojo to the University class, and I loved playing with them. I got so many good learning opportunities. Even if that did mean that a 300lb black belt threw me to the ground harder than I've ever hit the mat, and then he proceeded to fall on top of me. The problem was that my natural defenses were good enough to stop his first attack attempt, but he could plan multiple attacks in sequence, and rip right from one failed attack into the next one while I was still piled up on his back. But doing so meant he had less reserve to brace over the fallen opponent, as he would normally have done.

In the end, I had a minor injury to my neck, and a separate older minor injury to my hand. And I also attended one tournament at his local Dojo, which meant that I also encountered my professors Sensei, who was a 5th degree black belt. He was also the meanest and nastiest prick I ever met, and after one encounter with that asshole, I was never going back.

Thus ended my year playing Judo.
Ah, yes, lets return the fulfilling life of subsistence farming ;)
At the risk of my recommendation itself being a spoiler, I can recommend the movie “Fallen” with Denzel Washington.
> if you’re willing to to be down did a few minutes every day

I haven't had this issue with my setup. There is a couple of minutes of downtime every few months, but when it happens, it usually happens late at night when nobody's using it anyway. It's yet to cause anyone to not be able to reach the server when they've wanted to.

This certainly depends on what ISP you're using, though.

> you’ll be blocked for hosting a web server

Again, depends on your ISP. Mine won't block you for this.
Relying very heavily on a single anonymous source is a massive red flag.
relevant book: https://www.superabundance.com/
So, the video was generated by applying ControlNet to the input video frame by frame. Every inference setting is the same for every frame -- seed, prompt, CFG, steps, and sampler. The only thing that changes frame to frame is that the pose changes slightly. So actually, if SD was well behaved, you would expect the difference between adjacent frames to be small, because the change in the input is small. But SD is somewhat schizophrenic so you get this amount of flicker from even small changes in input.

I also had to specify what the outfit should be (I got a lot more discrepancies when I didn't do this from the outfit changing frame to frame). You can see that the outfit changes color in the second version, I bet you can get that to be even more consistent if you specify the color in the prompt too.

If you create a dreambooth model of a character, you can probably also get consistency of the face that way. In this case I didn't need to do this because I didn't care who I got, I just asked for an "average woman".
I don't think it's actually analyzing that code. It's the winning IOCCC 2005 entry. The source comes up when you google the first 9 characters: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22B%2Ci%2Cy%2Cu%2Cb%22

EDIT: And that snippet is in the IOCCC's wikipedia article (which would be in the ChatGPT training corpus): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Obfuscated_C_Cod...
This sounds interesting. Can you share an example piece of code?
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The bad thing is whoever kicked the podium must feel terrible.

Why did they put no effort into protecting this piece? Perhaps because they could easily make another one if it came to it. I mean, it's just a ceramic duplicate of an ordinary balloon dog, of which a million or so are made at children's birthday parties.

Note, Koons himself produces work at scale in what he calls a factory and which is ... a factory.
Stanford Lecture: Don Knuth—"Dancing Links" (2018): https://youtu.be/_cR9zDlvP88
Temporal consistency is still unresolved though. Most definitely looking forward to more work based on this.
The "truest" would capture everything in its most parsimonious representation
A missed chance to call it "C-rust-y" =)
An excellent film.
And once again, we prove it: there is an XKCD for everything (although I have to admit this one was easy).

https://xkcd.com/927/
After the last blockade killed ~40m people under Mao, I think any move to blockade will be seen as another mass murder attempt and an initiation of WW3.
As I've said elsewhere in this thread, Bing bot was able to make HTTP requests to specific websites.
CSS-Tricks was and likely still is a great resource for web developers, congrats on your time working there! I once reached out for a position and heard back from Chris Coyier, ultimately I wasn’t quite motivated enough to start but in hindsight sounded like a great opportunity and appreciated the tentative offer
Just saved it offline.
> a bunch of rich executives

Before we grab the pitchforks and guillotines, exactly how "rich" are DigitalOcean's executives?
Someone already tried to buy the pieces. "In his post, Gamson said he unsuccessfully tried to purchase what remained of the sculpture. "
I remember those banners on different web sites.
> This eliminates the need for possible high-speed chases, worries about police jurisdiction issues, and any concerns about danger on the roads.

Though GPS jammers are a thing (my understanding is they are fairly simple to build but illegal), so this tactic could probably be defeated/exploited by a sophisticated criminal to get away.
Privacy, true privacy, the ability to act without concern that you are being spied upon by adversaries is going to be very highly valued. That's why I only want to run AI on my own hardware. I don't need spies living rent free in my brain every time I'm playing with Stable-diffusion, etc.

So, I think general purpose computation and tools that you can own, or share with a small group, will be quite valuable in the future.
> Writing C code is hard

I found it very easy. I was writing production C code in a few days. (Of course, I was an experienced asm programmer before that, and C was a natural.)

I write code very differently today. But that's not learning C, it's learning technique.
It seems what you "know about" "injecting ads" comes from malicious claims that you repeat without checking them out carefully. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26138152.

Why spout off on browsers as a business without doing your own research? I know, it's HN, but it's also 2023.

Mozilla seems to be getting more money from Google now (https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2021/mozilla-fdn-202..., see also Chair compensation at https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2021/mozilla-fdn-990...), even though Firefox share per statcounter.com is flat or down (https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share#monthly-2022...).

It's possible to make money as an independent browser if you put the user first and deal them in on >= what you make from the gross. That's what Brave does, and we're building out search ads now to do the same. These revshare and payment rails use crypto, no "dabbling".
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Surely most Lisp hackers /are/ just writing Lisp code behind closed doors. Those 10 highly visible people are the rare exceptions.

I'm happy to hear more thoughts and notes like this from the silent majority.
You know that gathering evidence and observational bit?

That part.

As you asked, you might enjoy:

https://www.amazon.com.au/What-This-Thing-Called-Science/dp/...

and then move onto Lakatos, Popper, Kuhn, Feyerabend, Musgrave, et al.

But for now, baby steps.
But you only open it to your red zone machine, which should be a separate net from everything else. You're not opening your entire network to inbound traffic. If you get hacked, the damage is limited.
Same in Australia. I don’t believe you can get a symmetrical residential connection. Business, sure. But residential, no.
Great explanation, quite fascinating thanks!
Damn, this is pretty sad news. Geoff gave me my first opportunity to write for CSS Tricks back when I was starting out, and he was always a wonderful person to collaborate with.
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This is an introduction to my Rust For Starters series. Where we learn Rust basics together.
Crypto didn't do anything.

AI can give anyone the power to make music, art, film, and media without the time, talent, and institutional capital investments.

AI can automate people's jobs and reduce cost structures to accomplishing work and business objectives.

That's the difference, and the evaluation criteria is easily decided by the free market. Did it do a good job? Will it get hired again to repeat similar work? Are more customers adopting it? That's all you need to judge its success or relevancy.
CSS Tricks is my second go-to after MDN for web development knowledge. This is quite sad.
Thank you for this wonderful share. I did not grow up on Toronto but a related major city.
You have a chance on HN to educate us. Give us some of the examples you refer to. If you know better, please share that knowledge. Instead of a shallow dismissal that gives off nothing but negativity. But I see your HN comments are usually just lazy responses of 4 or 5 words, or less, that add nothing to the site.
It doesn't make a lot of sense (ie, if you accept the premise is true, would you expect the plot to play out as Hersh claims?), it includes several details that are clearly incorrect, it isn't particulary supported by open source intel, and it relies, by it's own admission, on a single anonymous source.

So the situation is essentially "Hersh claims that someone told him a story that we know is at least slightly untrue." Is it possible that the rest of it is true? Absolutely!

...but there's nothing I've seen to suggest that it's likely the rest of it is true. It's just another theory, of which there are many.
I don't see why that should be any harder than the AI alignment problem
Does it really matter? Even $10 million net worth is enough to not worry about most of the things that the average employee thinks about.
Off-topic: I wonder what kind of information a website must collect so they decide to deny access from EU.

Like it happens with this audacy.com website
While I do believe that there are clinical signs of burn-out I would suggest you consult a sleep health professional in a sleep laboratory setting.

If you have any questions about such a thing don't hesitate to reach out.
Because the theory is straw-clutching to discredit Hersh. These kind of pipelines have extremely rigorous testing regimes. The probability that a weld defect caused failure in a non-operational pipeline is tiny.
Wouldn't that count as an act of war against NATO?

If that's actually what happened, nobody would admit because the endgame is catastrophically bad.
Are entrepreneurs building their own models or are they going to build their products on top of services offered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT? Will OpenAI become the AWS of the AI world?
Ok, we could add “or the hedge funds, VCs, that otherwise control the funds” to be more complete?
> emergent behavior in this context is defined as: "emergent abilities, which we define as abilities that are not present in small models but are present in larger models"

Then I don't know why you brought up Game of Life because it obviously has nothing to do with this alternative definition of emergent behavior.

> this is a meaningless distinction.

It's meaningful with respect to the claim that LLMs exhibit emergent behavior in the same way in which Game of Life does.
I don't find it much work at all, actually. I run a webserver, a VPN, a mailserver, and a few other odds and ends. I probably spend a couple hours a month maintaining it.
But if they knew they were laying explosives, would they really do so with their AIS transponder on?
> There's no good way for a bunch of rich executives who are literally incapable of understanding the lives of non-rich people to pretend they care.

“It’s one new job your concierge has to find you. What could it cost, two millions?”
Oddly enough the reservoirs near where I grew up in California would allow boats, but not swimming. Their excuse was to keep the water clean, as if people are dirtier than both motorboats and deer.
I'll take your word for it, but pesky parlor tricks have been persisting in impressing people for a good few centuries now.
AKA, the GPT that everybody trusts and agrees is 100% the truth regardless if it actually is.
A total of 799 editions of the sculpture were made.

Ie not a total loss for humanity.
It removes the exposure to a service provider.
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One other media outlet had fun with this story, labeling it as 'breaking news.' It's not really interesting otherwise.
Without appealing to semifamous names who have stated their theories, I'd like to just list the entities with both means and motive that are known to exist, some of which are unlikely candidates.

* Denmark

* Estonia

* Finland

* France

* Gazprom as an independent actor

* Latvia

* Lithuania

* NATO as an independent actor

* Norway

* Poland

* Russia

* Sweden

* Transneft as an independent actor and competitor to Gazprom

* United Kingdom

* United States

Can any of these be conclusively ruled out?