skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Even if Russia is on the wrong side here, killing a bunch of 20 year old soldiers while they sit around in mud doesn't help much

Ah, I can reply now. You added this to your reply after I made my edit to my own comment responding to your earlier remarks, so I'll make my additional reply directly here.

This view of war reads like naivete to me - the naivete that can develop if you've only learned about war on TV and on Wikipedia, from far away where everything is abstract. I would invite you to talk to some veterans of war, victims of invasion, refugees from combat zones, and consider revising your perspective.

My in-laws who fled century-old farms in face of an invading army would strongly disagree with your view on what would or would not help end this war. Abstract moral relativism over individual soldiers hasn't saved any children from being kidnapped to Russia.

Assuming you enjoy a comfortable existence in a first world country, you unfortunately play an indirect part in killing humans every day. Our first world system drives less fortunate humans towards death every day to operate, and the people who really, deeply do not want any part in that are spending their lives working for the less fortunate in places outside the first world. But by advocating against the measures Ukraine could use to defend itself, you are playing your own part in allowing Russia to continue mounting a bloodthirsty war of conquest.
There are exceptions for LEO in each of the relevant laws - cited in the article - but thanks for fighting this battle.

We didn't get this way overnight so while I'd love my idea to fly immediately, I appreciate people pushing things the right direction.
Using victimized in this acception is insulting to actual victims.
> The good thing about it is that you give them a chance to comply and ease your concerns. If they fail to do so, you then you can ban them for actually failing to do something instead of being Chinese or making you nervous or something. This makes all the difference.

That's what US is doing, if I got it right. Tiktok apparently is not playing by the rules, hence a ban. Not today, maybe tomorrow... who knows.
Ive observed the average user go from zero to hero on ChatGPT in about 30 minutes.
If you're willing to put an afternoon's work into it, you can easily and inexpensively build a home surveillance system with ZoneMinder that stores all data securely and safely on-prem. The cops can still take it, but it requires a few warrants to do so.

Shameless plug -> https://nbailey.ca/post/nvr/

But it's also important to only record what you absolutely must. I think putting CCTV cameras inside your house is insane, and putting up cameras in any "private" outdoor area should likewise be avoided. Once the data exists, somebody will want it eventually.
My understanding was builders' remedy skips all the municipal planning rules but that CEQA still applied as a state law. That makes it a key tool left for NIMBYs to smother a project to death.
This will be all the rage, now you can produce ad spam and SEO crap fully automated, and don't even have to hire copywriters any more.
Not especially. I'm more thinking of things that have a potential of being near a live mic, where a cooling fan is a no go, at least without a defeat switch.
I'm wondering to this day why web browsers don't run a full text search index locally. Only saving urls and titles is not enough. Especially if I spend more than a minute on a page I would like it indexed. And today being today, I would also like a LLM on top.
Google’s One plans are getting expanded VPN access and dark web monitoring
> That statement indicates you do not fully understand pledge(2) and unveil(2).

Not so, not so at all. You have to take my statement in context.

The point was those technologies, while nifty, are entirely irrelevant if an attacker gains remote root.
In this scenario, there would be no need to provide video from cameras inside the house.

One big issue I have here is that Amazon provided video from cameras inside the home that could not possibly have what the police are after. Not only is this a privacy violation, the police are going to waste time looking at useless video. Seems to me that dumping huge amounts of data on police is an issue of cost to the community.
> Most shortages seem to be due to economic sanctions and trade embargoes.

Not really. Cuba is free to trade with any country that's not the USA (and is even free to trade with the USA except for certain entities or commodities).

Decades of corruption, incompetence, brain drain and failed government made the local economy unable to compete.
I still do that from time to time. Not everyone has fast upload (compared to modern file sizes), so sometimes driving somewhere to pick up a flash drive or SSD (or mailing it) is faster than sending it over the internet...

I have symmetric gigabit, but my buddy in Fresno sure doesn't.
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Get updates on when Datadog is recovering in real-time (aka about 25 minutes faster than the status page) with the free Metrist.io app and Slack integration.

We use functional testing for Datadog and other cloud dependencies so you can know how they are functioning in real time.
> To consume? Yes, I agree that should be anonymous. But to contribute? It's ridiculous to demand that a provider be willing to host your content, even simple comments, without knowing who you are.

That is precisely why virtually all countries have privileges for services hosting user-generated content on the Internet.

Unfortunately, both wide parts on the right and less wide but still significant parts of the left want to cut that privilege in the US, and that is Just Not Good At All.
Yes, I think that's a fair statement. I've developed many habits over the decades that, most of the time, don't really matter. But when they do, they matter a lot and I'm very glad I had them.
Isn't a deviated septum a mechanical problem in the nasal passages? How does rinsing help?
I feel like a comment that just asked for a source would be less substantive and more dismissive. Adding examples of how it goes against my intuitions serves to justify the request. But we can agree to disagree there.

I could be convinced to restrict freedom to prevent harm, but doing so just to have a positive impact goes against me on principle. I get the sense that this is a common principle because all of these lists specifically discuss harms, but it may just be an American thing. So I'm going to talk about trivialization, but it's fine with me if you'd rather argue against this paragraph (or ignore me entirely).

The closest I can find to semantic satiation having significant effects beyond the short term is in helping stutterers, where the meaning of the words would be irrelevant. I may not be using the right search terms though.

An important distinction re: political parties is that they are using the relevant meanings. A master git branch, as far as I'm aware, does not refer to someone controlling someone else but is used in the sense of a master recording. In any event, US Republicans talk about CRT and US Democrats talk about fascism, both ad infinitum. Neither side is trying to normalize or trivialize their attack words, so that's a point against 'if it didn't work, it wouldn't be in their playbook'.
That includes arrest records, not just convictions. About 3% of the population has served any time in prison, and about 8% of the population have been convicted of a felony.

https://news.uga.edu/total-us-population-with-felony-convict...
Very cool demo, got it working on M1 macbook, generates each pic in 140s. Fun experience without specific setup.

Does it also work for cuda device? Is there any plan to support other models soon?
Most people now never saw the innards of their computers (or phones) and also, everything is always "on", so there's less distinction between RAM and disk.
Weird because Google groups is heavily used internally at Google. Unless there's an internal replacement coming, I don't see how it could die.
> My experience has led me to believe that most individuals in favor of corporate DEI initiatives are earnestly and in good faith attempting to put into practice the recommendations of critical race theory and related frameworks.

Yes, of course they are. As explained by Chomsky's model of propaganda, corporations hire true believers for these roles because they are the most effective and reliable.

> most managers and employers are not so crafty

Amazon being so crafty is a documented fact; it's naive to think they're the only ones.
Hi Saoirse, I've admired you for a long time. Thanks for all you've done and this blog post, which I emphatically agree with.
The allure of convenience makes a lot of people blind to what's going on outside their small bubble of awareness. I see it a lot in the boomers around me.
> that the context-awareness is just a very well done illusion

Could you expand on this? The context awareness is the part that blows my mind. I would be disappointed/fascinated to find out that it’s “just” a simple set of tricks!
This is a really interesting use-case

Applying "transformations" or classifying data in this way without having to setup a lot of detail-work seems like a real labor-saver/multiplier
> I'll be turning 18 in a few months. All the responsibilities [..]

<chuckle> (sorry!)

... but, like most soon-to-be-18-year-olds, you have no idea![0]

18 is nothing, but do try and enjoy it while you can :)

[0] just like me, way back when...
Interestingly enough that group does tends to advocate for 4th amendment protections, at least within limited scope. Although those same concepts and case law could be applied to other areas. So it's possible to piggyback off of it.

Some examples are red flag laws which use the civil system to avoid the protections of the criminal system for the government to seize property (beyond a reasonable doubt, right to representation, ex parte protections, etc). Police stopping, questioning, and sometimes seizing guns (property) without any crime being committed and with some of those guns (property) being destroyed. There is of course pushback on things related to data reporting such as registries (Ring is essentially a registry that allowed police to contact the individual in this article), new credit card merchant codes, and data abuses of carry permit information (disclosing names and addresses of gun owner which is basically a map for thieves).
That’s the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs company. This is a competitor. Here’s a good overview of their business model: https://d3.harvard.edu/platform-digit/submission/goodrx-or-g...
AI isn't "imitating" anything. Imitation is a conscious effort a human makes. Any artist could try copying someone's style by looking at a piece of art.

AI can't look at an image and say "I'll imitate that". A human "trains" an AI on images to create a model of how X looks with different examples and piecemeals together something that looks new but is in fact a million tiny data copies from all the images it was trained on so the original source cant be detected. The AI can't do anything it hasn't been trained on.

As I understand it, while it may not copy the exact image it has copied data associated with the image in a way that copyright law could never have anticipated.

So the solution is simple, train your models on your own stuff if you want to claim copyright to the work commercially or pay artists for your training data.
The reddish, glittery mud the Inca used for perfecting their stone masonry(2017) [pdf]
The consequences of allowing that is seen in the other responses to the GP: lots of useless fluff comments.

So yes, please leave that stuff on reddit.
Another Emacs integration, using org-mode for ChatGPT and DALL-E: https://github.com/rksm/org-ai
I had a good friend go through the same complications (they're back to ~80% at this point, six months later). Watching that video was an eerily familiar experience...
> Oh so you're saying that things like ASLR, chrooting, and safe programming practices aren't useful in things like httpd, because you might run an insecure PHP app, and the only thing that helps you then is something like SELinux?

You sure put in a lot of effort to misconstruing me there. So many people in this thread who are responding emotionally and without the knowledge to really have a proper discussion.

Instead of trying to defend pledge, maybe do some more reading on SELinux and understand just how fundamentally different the approaches are, and why pledge just can't compare.
> the clean air act . . . empowers (or in that case creates) the Department or Agency to make rules within some often quite broad guidelines

I think the SCOTUS disagrees. This evidence among others:

https://nypost.com/2022/06/30/scotus-restricts-upholds-epas-...

Your claim is how I thought we all believed government worked for many decades, though.
Yes, although it's rarely possible to know which bottlenecks will hurt the most up front. Unless you've done the same thing before, which is not the case with anyone pushing boundaries.

Basically this is an argument around so-called premature optimization. Good to have issues now while it is mostly enthusiasts that are the customers. Guessing that this bump will be forgotten in five years? And not like AWS et al don't have outages occasionally that they learn from.
Orchestration is it's own ball of wax.

If there was software I could just dump an MP3 into and get a basic chart with chords and a melody...that'd be pretty amazing. I've done it, by hand, and the results were even published... it ain't easy. 30 minutes of moderately complex pop rock took a couple of months off and on.
hey, they made amazon pinky-swear they wouldn't violate HIPAA.

and companies have never reneged immediately after promising not to do bad things.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/25/the-live-nation-and-ticketma...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/18/technology/live-nation-ti...
There is a big problem in the U.S. where people don't trust bureaucratic regulation so we do it through the courts instead, which is much more expensive and 'random' because decisions are made by judges and not technocrats. Those technocrats are in theory more qualified to design regulations and are more accountable to voters who elect their bosses. You can go too far with regulations as well (see regulatory capture), but a new election can in theory more directly improve a regulator than it can improve the complex random set of rules set up by the courts.

With laws like CEQA and NEPA, lawsuits just keep layering condition upon condition that needs to be addressed to be compliant. Environmental impact studies have been getting bigger and bigger (and thus much more expensive). Fighting lawsuits is much more burdensome and time consuming than just having a regulator (which is not to say that regulatory oversight is never burdensome, just better than what we have). It also means rich people who can afford lawyers are more able to enforce regulations than poor people. This is a difficult hole to get out of unless we can persuade voters to push politicians to reform these laws.
I would rather that the incentive system be geared towards balancing quality of life with affordability. Clustering businesses together is how we go to paying for "Cost of Labor" which systemically advantages already very rich people becoming richer while marginalizing geographies that don't exist to cater to businesses with dense, high income people. My hypothesis is the more average the experience is across a nation the more peaceful and enjoyable life becomes.
Thank you! If only I had been a better programmer back then I'd probably have opted for a solution like this. Instead I had worked out through the year and made some highly custom system that resulted in very similar patterns. Too ingrained in my app now to consider new options but might be a good idea to build on top of those next time around!
I share this sentiment. First I try to figure out their monetization strategy. Not finding it is a red flag unless it is obviously a small side project. Then I try to figure out where I am in their funnel. How hard are they likely to try to force me to get the paid version? Finally, I ask myself if I see myself eventually paying for the product if I need to. For example, is it a company I respect and is the product priced fairly?
this is really cool and well done. i will start using it in conjunction with Codeium's plugin (free Copilot alternative): https://github.com/Exafunction/codeium.vim

for transparency: I'm from the Codeium team, and we are big fans of getting this AI gen tech to all developers on all IDEs for free - we've also open sourced an emacs plugin: https://github.com/Exafunction/codeium.el
Nuclear fission, nuclear fusion, digestion—all of these are reasonably well-understood phenomena. The physics and chemistry behind them are clear. Making nuclear fusion energy-positive and economically viable is an engineering problem.

Consciousness, intelligence, sapience—these are not well-understood phenomena. We don't know what makes us conscious. We don't know if other animals are, or to what degree. It's not even possible to determine with any scientific certainty that another human being is conscious.

As things stand, "we can build an AGI" is not a scientific statement. It is not grounded on a foundation that allows clear reasoning about it, one way or the other.

Your arguments are not incorrect; however, they do not bridge the gap to "and so we can definitely make a conscious, sapient, intelligent computer." Being able to replicate particular capabilities of the brain is not the same thing.

And, again, that's only the first unfalsifiable proposition that must be satisfied in order for the purported AI threat to be real. They also have to be capable of breaking free of our control, decide we're a threat to them for whatever reason, and have the means to carry it out.
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> I would appreciate some evidence for this claim.

The evidence would be any time someone complains about censorship done by social media platforms, and the response is "Its a private company it can do what it wants!".

Surely, you aren't going to pretend that you haven't heard people say this line, over and over and over again, in these discussions before?
The tech that detects that you're asking a racist question can detect you're asking about Kubernetes or orchestration in general and serve you up an ad as easily as it serves up an explanation of why you shouldn't ask racist questions. It is no different to the AI at all.
I currently run frigate with Docker and the setup is pretty straightforward if you know how to modify YAMLs. Got rid of all my eufy stuff after the scandal. It’s so nice to have an on premise system since you can set a camera VLAN to have no internet access. The tensorflow lite based detections is miles ahead of motion based detection too.
Wait. Is temperature=0 "pretty deterministic", or is it deterministic?
> I'm not sure, after a certain threshold, more money = more happiness.

Well definitely, as can be seen because the richest man in the world does not appear to be the happiest man in the world. Within reason, I'd say more freedom = more happiness, and money is a tool for getting more freedom.
The thing is, HIPAA doesn't apply here. HIPAA doesn't actually cover "anything medical." It only covers (approximately) things involved in getting insurance to pay for medical treatment. GoodRx did not touch the consumer's insurance, so they "complied" with HIPAA by not being a covered entity in the first place.

At the Federal level, the only broad general protections for medical data are (apparently) some FTC fine print. The fact that this exists at all means that medical data is treated more seriously than other forms of personal data, but as you can see that is a very low bar to clear (literally doesn't exist).
just saw your comment, any recommendations for non-realtime video upscaling?
An "answer machine" such as Ask Jeeves is a fantastic and desirable tool. So is a search engine.

I think a lot of people (with Google's encouragement) don't see them as two different sorts of tasks, but they are. In an ideal world, we'd have both.

If Google (or whoever) wants to be an answer machine, that's cool. My fear is that it will be done instead of, rather than along with, a search engine.
What's the prompt?
Not to mention your name doesn't show up in a registry (Ring client list), so they might not even ask you for video if they don't go door to door.
> Governments don't come from the geography, but the people.

I think that's something the left is increasingly uncomfortable with; the idea that some countries aren't as developed as others because of its people and that simply transplanting people across countries won't change anything to it.
Which rules?
Your pool, landscaping, and traditional appliances are all fairly mature and stable in a way that lets local workers learn basic, repurposeable maintenance skills that last a long time and cover a large number of clients.

We won’t have that for home compute appliances until hardware/interface innovation slows down, and that’d actually been trending in the other direction for a while now. It will stabilize, even while innovation happens at other layers, but core stability plays a huge role in what you have in mind here.

Cloud stuff basically hid that that stuff on the other side of a pipe for a while, but has its own drawbacks and we’re likely seeing the start of a turn away from it.
However, going into such multi hour/day journey once in a while is very effective way to learn. And writing down that journey is also very effective in forcing you to really go through and really learn.
What?! This goes against everything I believed.
I believe that you conflate “power” with capabilities wrt AGI.

I’d argue that power is in relation to reach and the capacity to influence. In this regard, ML has quite a bit of power these days, from deciding whether you are allowed to take a loan, to driving engagement in social media, to predicting and influencing what you will watch, to the way our language is even used.

There are also quite a few implicit ways that ML models have influenced society, eg GPGPUs with emphasis on ML, and ML accelerators everywhere. The effectiveness of certain algorithms made us use them more often which influenced NVDA and Google towards developing hardware to accelerate those common cases thereby creating a feedback loop where our algorithms are chosen based on works well on our GPUs (cf transformers).

As such systems become more prevalent and influential, ensuring safety and explainability will help us prevent pitfalls that put humans at risk.
I find I can put quite a bit of kale in a fruit smoothie before I can even tell it's there.
Some twat in Berkeley swatted blindly at a vaguely sympathetic individual with a bike lock, and combined with the perception of a condescending attitude towards rural Americans, I guess that means the non-entity “antifa” has forfeit some moral high ground to push back on the multi-million collection of assault weapons right-wing militias wield with little to no formal training and at best a tenuous grasp on American history and/or objective reality, or the never ending smorgasbord of violence and trauma it causes.
I use the website I built - https://datente.com

I don't read every entry

I don't hit it every day

But it's what I use
> GoodRx displayed a seal at the bottom of its telehealth services homepage falsely suggesting to consumers that it complied with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA),

$900m in funding[0] and their business practices are straight out of a fly-by-night MLM brand.

[0] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/goodrx
I don't think I know enough to evaluate the case around gain of function research, all I know is that the blog post didn't make any effort to.