skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I think the question is are these people just philosophers pontificating about AI doom, or are they AI researchers creating techniques to make AI decisions less opaque and biased (or less biased in undesirable ways at least)?

The latter are definitely useful but the former is something you start so you can look good and then disband a few years later when they produce little useful output and cost a ton of money.
Russia isn't currently in a position to invade another country.

In the medium-long term, *stans might want to balance the relations between Russia and China (and a bit with the West) which might make further Russian invasions unlikely.
Large scale insect production for animal feed has only been going for about a decade, so not much hindsight - but so far it is looking great: https://www.science.org/content/article/feature-why-insects-...
Changes happened somewhere as a result of something happening and, presumably, someone somewhere was impacted in some sense.
That story was fake news
Probably has more to do with the fact that those 3 banks are in 3 very high cost of living areas. New York, Bay Area, Socal
If you trust them it technically (legally, things can be different) doesn’t matter much (they need to use https, and there’s the risk of them being hacked) whether it’s done client-side.

If you don’t trust them you’d have to check that they work 100% client-side every time you use such a site, and people don’t know how to do that.

That’s were tools you host yourself (on a server or by locally installing them) make a difference: you have to vet them only when you install or update them, not at every use.

Also, you can restrict the capability to install or update to qualified personnel who should do a better job at security evaluation than your regular employee working under a tight deadline.
Go generics allow all kinds of things https://github.com/samber/mo
спасибо,товарищ русский
Someone on the Internet is very wrong today.
https://archive.is/eUXkd
Actually, Java does have sum types nowadays, and you can write a recursive list implementation like “new Cons(2, new Cons(3, Nil.nil()))”.

Here is a definition for a Maybe type, converting it to a List is left as an exercise to the reader :) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35133670
The difference is that this article is an advertisement for the app they're selling.
> I'm not sure how you made that jump in logic.

What jump? You literally said that all the data is stored somewhere else.

> stores and establishes cryptographic proof of ownership.

It stores some unenforceable token that is only valid as long as those who actually enforce ownership agree that it proves anything.

So:

- all data is stored elsewhere, on centralised servers

- proof of ownership is enforced by centralised entities (governments, courts, police, etc.)

Great application of blockchains.
>NFTs: the thing nobody needed, let alone wanted

Its a good idea to handle ownership of finite digital assets. Imagine buying a song or video game online, and then being able to sell it or give it to a friend later, without having to go through a central authority (and not be breaking copyright law). Just like with a CD.

Unfortunately, 99% of NFT projects have been essentially penny stock schemes, so now that's what everyone thinks of them as.
Good article. Reminds me of the old climbing mantra:

The best way to learn is through experience. Usually a very frightening one.
Pro. Never tried home.
Indeed, we’ve seen this movie before. If the CEO really wants some AI product to exist, an AI or even normal ethics team will end up getting steamrolled by any number of product teams in order to make an AI product happen sooner, actual ethics be damned. I’m actually really grateful that GDPR landed a few years before ChatGPT did because at least there’s a regulatory fear of god keeping product teams honest on the privacy aspect of AI ethics.
I guess there's basically 3 approaches to customer service:

1. Excellent customer service, that tries to make the customer as happy as possible, within reason.

Amazon seems to be the big example of this one.

2. Terrible customer service, that has a hostile attitude towards the customer.

I'm not sure who's a good example here. Comcast?

3. Non-existent customer service.

This approach has been made famous by Google.
Actually, there two big reasons why people disliked CDs in the early days.

First, the analog-to-digital converters (ADC) of the time were absolutely terrible. Which resulted in CDs being actually worse than their vinyl counterpart.

Then there was also the people that liked the "warmth" of the vinyl, which is something real that can be measured (at least for old vinyls, don't know for the modern ones). Funny enough, this was due to the vinyl being less 'precise' than the CD, but it had a sound signature that many people preferred, and still prefer today (most modern headphones and speakers aren't neutral-sounding by choice).
What makes Svelte easier than other approaches?
The only time I ever went to Pachinko, it was with a cousin-in-law. The first thing he taught me was how to place a coin at the right place to hold the dial. That leaves you with almost no interaction with the machine, except when it wants you to press buttons in the middle once in a while. Combined with the noise and (at the time) smoke from cigarettes, it was a dreadful experience.
ChatGPT is fun and helpful but it's only the peak of an iceberg of what GPT-3 is capable of. How could it be implemented in various industries and business areas to make our work easier, faster, and more effective? Can we use it to simplify and speed up processes, streamline operations and provide higher-quality services to our customers? The article presents cool examples of how GPT-3 is being used and loads of inspirations on how it can be used.
I think you're confused about the politics of the region. The US isn't a major factor in the decision making of central Asian countries. China however has taken a much more active role in central Asia which has changed the balance of power and enabled countries to disengage more from Russia.
That's been addressed now (MIT in case anyone is wondering). Seems like your call out worked.
Using the top slider on that page, try dragging the slider back and forth quickly. Random numbers will pop up at 500ms(?) intervals. When you let go of the slider it will keep updating with random numbers for a long time (I watched it go for 30 seconds).

> For performance reasons, you may want to trigger state change only when the user releases the slider.

Not a great workaround, now I can't see the number I'm selecting. With the 500ms render time, it's going to feel really slow to pick a value. The perf needs to be fixed for this to be usable.

edit: Oh: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35148526
> the credit system is only related to your ability to repay debts.

Is it? In Australia things like rent, electricity and phone bills all have credit checks attached. If you fail to pay bills (which I guess is a kind of debt but not one that originated with a loan) then you need to pay a large bond. If your credit score does start to slip, life becomes increasingly expensive and limits your ability to meet ongoing obligations.

> It is neutral to, and cannot be easily and directly cooped for Government control of personal behaviour, morality, and relationships.

Yes it can, for example the behaviour of poor people in rental accomodation is much more heavily policed than wealthy people who own their houses.

Poor people are stigmatised and frequently held to a higher standard because they are seen as "relying on other people's money", and the slippery slope nature of for profit credit scoring exacerbates this problem.

> It is not a tool of total social control

You've clearly never been poor, nor had any problems with your credit score.

> And it is not centralised to the same entity that has a monopoly on force.

Again, you've obviously never had a problem with your credit score. Companies that can afford to pay legal fees are definitely aligned with the same entity that has a monopoly on force.

You should get out more.
My wife will insist that one cup of tea I bring her is amazing, but another one is disgusting. However, they're all from the same box of teabags, made the same way, and the biggest correlation as far as I can tell is how long she has left it to go cold.
> From what I’ve seen it’s the exact opposite? They want AI development to slow down so we can get it right and make it safe.

The only way that the alignment faction wants to slow things down is in that they want to maintain tight control of models and gated access to assure “proper” use. This does have an effect of slowing certain kinds of development, as broader access to build around models without centralized controls fosters some aspects of development (the “Stable Diffusion moment”) but in ideal terms, the alignment faction is about fast-but-narrowly-controlled development.

The ethics faction is more about slowing things down – though more about adoption, particularly in sensitive uses, than development – but is more oriented toward openness/transparency.
well, i guess laws against murder, makes murder no report them self...
Rerun dev here :). Yes, we're using egui with its wgpu backend! As someone else pointed out it is backend agnostic - it essentially generates triangles & textures in GPU friendly way and passes those down to a backend implementation.

All the visualizations like the 3D scenes with point clouds etc. are rendered with our open-source in-house renderer ("re_renderer") which itself is then passing wgpu surfaces/commands to the egui wgpu backend that composites everything together then.
It is more challenging, but not as much as it was before the pandemic started. 5 years ago less than 1% of the companies were offering 100% remote positions. Nowadays I can say that, at least from my point of view, I find that at least 30% of the companies out there offer 100% remote positions. I think this number is going up as well (as well as hybrid, though).

Thankfully, 100% office work is less and less common.

Nevertheless the biggest advantage is (as usual): your skills. If you ace the interview, companies in general will want to hire you no matter what.
I would expect books to be pretty safe. I can see people paying a premium for no ai books and stores declaring as much.
Here in the UK I find working from home more comfortable, but there are pros and cons to both WFH and offices. But I get about 3-4 hours back per-day that I would have spent on a train. I also save money on transport and lunches in London. Finally I'm able to work for companies across the country rather than everything being focused in London which is evening the playing field.
The Visitor pattern, which is a must in certain niches is exactly analogous to pattern matching over a sum type, and I am fairly certain that I can objectively say that the latter is a million times more readable and maintainable.

It doesn’t make OOP obsolete, though, at all. Certain other areas are better expressed as hierarchies, e.g. GUI nodes.
> How would you design an HA system that has literally 0 downtime

When you ask a question like that I can't help but asking back: How would you design any system that has "literally 0 downtime" and why do you think it is only possible to achive it using a blockchain?

As for the second part: proving some digital data is originating from someone is what we have been doing using cryptographic signatures for quite a while now. How to do so in a stable fashion that resists changes to the original data e.g. editing, cropping, color-manipulation, pitch shifting, etc is the challenge. This is called fingerprinting.

To proove ownership of a material you just need a list of fingerprints and a reference to the entity that owns the rights. How to do reliable databases is a problem that we sort of know how to deal with in 2023.

The question is, why would you need a blockchain for that problem? The hard part is not trusting the entity that stores the data, the hard part is trusting the data that is entered into that database. And for this kind of problem the best construction we have found so far is dedicating some institution to that purpose and have copyright-holders proove their ownership of their data to that institution. But if you have an institution that you already need to trust with data entry you can also trust them with data storage or not?

Not sure how a blockchain helps when some guy claims the song I have written on another blockchain. In the end it will be governments who will have to recognize my ownership so I can sue and by that point you can safe yourself the trouble of using a blockchain in the first place.
There is a straightforward workaround, namely Shift+F10 -> OOBE\BYPASSNRO.
> The staff still does what they do today, but they no longer need to maintain their own database and IT application.

That's a very minor thing to maintain as compared to the multiple issues that blockchains bring into the mix.

And of course they will need to maintain an IT application: they will need secure wallet implementations, data entry applications to interact with blockchains, security audits for the shitty programs people keep calling "smart contracts" etc.

> Once it is on a blockchain it is conforming to a published standard for NFTs

Ah yes. It automagically conforms to some standard. Just because it's on blockchain.

> Because corrupt government officials have never doctored official records that weren't on the blockchain?

And how is blockchain helping you in this case? Or in the cases I linked: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27212564 and that you even failed to understand.
Budapest (no labor contract required for either):

Taxi services have licensing requirements and the rates are set by the government (Uber left the market), typical ride is 10-30 EUR. (Eg. airport to city center is 30+, also around 30+ min.)

Food delivery can be done by anyone, no licensing requirements. Around 700 HUF (about 2 EUR).
How slimmed-down websites can cut their carbon emissions
They said it was because of ethics. It was pretty transparently because of money.
In the similar vein as Ukraine? What's going on with their government?
Yes, I do---we experienced it in QEMU and the workaround is hideous (https://patchew.org/QEMU/20211201170120.286139-1-stefanha@re...). What happens is that errno can be compiled to

address_of_errno = &errno;
...
foo = *address_of_errno;

The compiler can assume that the address stays the same across the whole execution of the function and cache it in a register. Unfortunately, if you can change threads across yield points, you can end up reading the errno of the wrong function.

Instead, C++ stackless coroutines explicitly promise that you will read the TLS of the currently executing thread in this case.

This is what we found, but I cannot rule out that this is the only possibility.
Well, if entering "n-word" and "black person" leads to the same result then we could drop the "n-word". But yeah - censorship isn't going to stop there.
This is available to use in Notion and works great!
To be honest, cable quality do absolutely make a difference. Buying a crappy RCA cable from a third-party seller on Amazon vs a good quality one (we're speaking maybe $5-$10 from a reputable brand) will make a huge difference. Above that price tag sure, nothing changes (except if you have very long distances e.g. >5m cables where it could matter IIRC)
This is not true. 4.5% APY for deposits is still in their own website: https://www.svb.com/business-banking/business-checking
Just because the placebo effect is real, it's bad to advocate people spending $10k on a placebo.
I think that the vast majority of people do not like calling contractors for quotes. You have to spend time on the phone, wait for someone to show up at your house, wait two weeks, call them a bunch of times to ask when they will have time to send a quote, only to find out the cost is about 3 times what you expected, and the quote doesn't include a few things you specifically asked for.

If a company has a website where I can see an estimated price before I call, that's a huge advantage.
The article confuses instruct tuning with RLHF. Those are two different things.

DaVinci is also not instruct tuned, but it has an instruct tuned variant like the other OpenAI text completion models.

The article is otherwise good.
From what I know from an old friend of my dad, helping coworkers who lost their jobs to land somewhere else is a well rooted custom in US.

Said friend told me numerous stories about how he gave positive references or call his friends in other companies for positions for coworkers who were laid off, during his tenure in IBM.

Helping people who lost their jobs because of reasons which they can't control is being a good person, for once, too.
This is why the Rule Against Perpetuities exists for most (non-charitable) bequeathments in English law.
> this early in the adoption of token-based ownership

NFTs are on their death bed, there's nothing early about this.
That we're on track to maybe destroy ourselves is not a good reason to destroy ourselves harder.
Valuing it at NPV == Valuing it at mark to market
AGI worries we probably could ignore until AGI exists but there is now an industry around them which has its own momentum.
I swear I am not paid to shill for Java or anything…, but Java did get sum types recently, and it’s quite good. They made it in a backwards compatible manner by sealed classes that list all of its subtypes.

Switch expressions were also implemented, and they can exhaustively match on the given sum type. Pattern matching is quite limited as of now (only usable with records), but it is coming.
The larger the buffer size, the larger the latency. This is mostly irrelevant for playing an audio file, but in some cases a long chain of buffers in the OS before it leaves to the speaker can be an issue for music.

The main place you will see this issue is playing audio in something like a video game due to an action like pressing a button, firing a weapon, etc then it can be very noticeable if you're buffering too much audio because it wont sync to what you're seeing and the game will feel laggy even if it's running at a high frame rate.
>> but you don't really care about that when you are intending to hold the bonds to maturity. They where solvent when bonds where valued at maturation rates

Actually if you're a bank whose business model is predicated on interest spread between your assets and liabilities you do care. This is particularly true for banks like SVB whose duration of liabilities (deposits) is short because suddenly cost of deposits rises while longer-duration 'held to maturity' assets still generate the same (low) rate of interest. Suddenly the bank is loss-making.

People are talking about mark to market like it's irrelevant but it's actually a very important market signal. It is not just relevant for balance sheet valuation. It is also a signal of future income statement profitability unless duration of assets is well matched with duration of liabilities.
Good. Less brainwashing and bias in the products.
There has been no mistaken belief that has casued as much suffering worldwide as the false belief that "we are the government".
Is this a response?

I asked what's wrong with a venv and I got a rant…
Don't waste your time.

The huge uncertainty around all climate change predictions makes them not worth spending much time thinking about.
Project Yeti: How HSBC Bought Silicon Valley Bank UK for £1
You forget that the £6k is total sales, he's made about 1/6 of that. I think 7k/year is extraordinarily optimistic based on the sales he's seen so far
Surprised they had to rearrange things. I would have thought they could simple azure it. I guess that means the big clouds can do individual gpu but not meshed setups required for big models?
"While we don't have any physical prototypes at the moment... working on building traction via preorders... start building hardware once fundraising is complete"

Sorry mate, I stopped reading at this point.

It sounds like you might be trying to tackle too much at once. Unless you have very deep pockets (which I'm guessing isn't the case since you haven't secured funding yet) you might be better served finding a route that gets you there via smaller steps with discrete wins along the way. If there are companies out there as you've described who are good at one piece, consider starting with a product that works well with the portion of the puzzle they already solved - perhaps with an eye to eventual acquisition (them of you, or possibly you of them once you've built up a reputation for execution and growth in this space that will attract sufficient capital).

It's along the same lines of reason aircraft companies don't generally build a new engine and airframe at the same time. Even Apple started off with a simple music player before they grew a whole iOS ecosystem.

It sounds like you have a clear vision and your past experience will serve you well. I'd really love to see innovation in this space and wish you luck.

One other gut feeling from reading this that I have to share, which may be painful for you to hear... the timing of your post and its similarities to a Kickstarter come across like this is really more of a pitch to drum up attention and VC funding.
The original "news" are from some Telegram channel from Mar 4.

Almost everywhere there is an absolutely identical text, without sources.

I couldn't find anything remotely similar in .kz
https://archive.is/K0yBL
CISA and Girl Scouts of the USA strengthen collaboration to bring more young women into cybersecurity, and help them stay cybersafe while selling cookies.
I'd love to hear the VC case for this startup. I see a very late entrant, bringing no real product innovation, into a market with big established players. The only thing new I see is going D2C. But many others have commented how going D2C with this product makes no sense.

And if D2C is the play, it would make far more sense to just rebadge an existing high-quality unit and sell that.
As this always comes up, disability is not an on/off, it's a spectrum. And we all will disabled in one way or another sooner or later.

Even if you're young and healthy, but you pulled a muscle helping a friend move their couch, you will likely want to sit down on a bus.
Authenticity, proving authenticity, will be a big deal in future.

On another topic, when desktop publishing first came along in the 80s, everyone had a go at it…. anyone with access to a computer threw together documents full of fonts and fancy layout. They looked like crap.

Remember Print Shop Pro?

In time it became clear that DTP is a tool for expert designers. Same with AI art … everyone is getting fancy pictures done but in time they’ll lose interest and these tools will become tools for designers to drive.
Great reference materials for urban planning.
I can't believe I'm about to defend this, but unless you have an anti-static grinder spraying water does cause a lot less mess and ground coffee flying everywhere. I had to do it with my Wilfa Svart grinder (and still do when I use it) but I don't need to do it for my Niche Zero. When I use my Wilfa Svart without a spray of water (or just a droplet of water stirred in with the handle of a teaspoon) I notice the coffee is a lot messier coming out of the grounds container.

No idea if it impacts taste though.
Slightly tangential, but here's a viz of how sprawled out London's bus network is https://youtu.be/xAnCD_Czwxw?t=648. Quite amazing how well the bus system works.
You’re contradicting yourself. If the logo doesn’t matter, then using a generic vector isn’t a problem. In fact, it is better than paying for any “logo maker” because it’s free!

I have no qualms with companies starting out and using something generic to make due, as long as they understand the difference. But the dozens of logo maker websites including yours all sell themselves as if they’re the same as a custom logo, and they’re not.

Also, the name and domain do matter. I’ve seen projects fail because they inadvertently named themselves after a negative word in another language.