skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does the FBI do anything about this? Is the fact that Indian and other "third world" scammer call centers operate with near-impunity being treated as an assault on American citizens as it should?

Yeah, uh, the travesty that is the "do not call" federal list is all you need to know.

Like everything these days, if it's not for important people, and by people I mean corporations, the government doesn't care.

You want to know what shows how bad our government is these days? I'd guess that support for Do-Not-Call is probably over 70% popular support, and it never gets implemented properly, enforcement is clearly nonexistent.

There is a decade-long war on consumer protection and credit protections for everyday people.
Go's internal linker is much faster than the system linker thanks to some go-specific optimizations. Go must fall back to the system linker whenever CGO is used.
Usually you stick a CNN (or whatever other vision encoding neural network) after the image inputs and pipe the output of the CNN as an additional token or tokens of the GPT transformer (into the layer after the text embedding layer). That way everything is differentiable. You can pre-train the CNN and Transformer independently and then train them together (usually easier to train this way), or just train them from scratch. There are lots of other ways to combine two networks also.

So input is now one (or more) images and text, and output is text. There are ways to position the input image in a particular location within the input text as well. Training data can come from websites, etc.
I already live in a pay to win world so the idea of unwinding in one seems insane to me.

My biggest beef is when this is added in an update after I bought a game that didn't have it.
And you think the Google Play Store (or the App Store) for that matter could even know what apps are doing? With iOS, the protection comes from its tighter permissions model and sandboxing
neither is a single train line.
I wonder if Amazon has done anything with their delivery drone "mothership" patent. I seem to remember talk of supplying merchandise to large events.

https://www.theverge.com/2016/12/29/14114190/amazon-patent-d...
I want an open version of this that I can train on any data I choose, can give any prompt I want, and runs on my hardware.

However, I feel like the best and most useful versions of this type of software would (by necessity) only be able to run at a huge scale, cost millions to train, etc.

Now instead of having to worry about the bias of the sources I read, I have to question the bias of the language model based upon who created it.
How is it an "assumption" that Monte reveals a goat? Doesn't the question explicitly state that Monte opened one of the other two doors to reveal a goat?

Are there versions of the question where Monte doesn't reveal a goat behind his door or chooses the same door as you?
This is good and useful for some purposes but over simplifies and leaves out important trade offs. It’s like treating cities as interchangeable fungible commodities like low quality coffee beans or flour.

For example, the premium some would pay to live near certain amenities or family. For example, being within easy weekend driving of world class skiing, backpacking and hiking.

If I was paid 100k and had to pay 10k to live near those amenities vs Nebraska, no question I’d pay. These are hard to factor into a ranking like this but without some consideration of them the list is of marginal use.
Credit Suisse, Authorities Weigh Spinoff, Backstop
Low stakes with string or wire strung among'em should be enough in most cases to deter off-path tromping eh ? Plant something inside their perimeter so it all looks preplanned.
> except you cant deploy Nix files

NixOps and nix-deploy: EXIST! https://arista.my.site.com/AristaCommunity/s/article/Deploy-...

> better be sure that every employee is using Nix and have the same configuration. The whole point of docker is to make reproducible builds everywhere, not just your computer.

lol, "tell me you never used Nix without telling me you never used Nix" because it literally guarantees that, each project is a pure environment with no outside influences. THAT IS LITERALLY ITS ENTIRE PURPOSE OF EXISTENCE lolol

I absolutely guarantee you that you will have more reproducible builds with Nix than with Docker. I know, because I've worked with both of them for months on end, and I've noticed that it pains me to work with Docker more than it pains me to work with Nix (hey, it's not perfect either, but perfect is the enemy of good in this case)
> Something doesn't add up here.

Agreed, I'm mildly annoyed that farba.js repo has not been updated since 2021 (no further info) + grammar issues [1]

[1] https://github.com/FarbaCDN/farba-public/blob/master/src/far...
Europe has a completely different approach to crime. Superficially many jurisdictions in Europe are way more strict than anywhere in the USA. For example in Switzerland you will go to prison for driving 45MPH.
I don't understand what the issue is. Don't use an LTS distro if you want up to date software. Fedora and Arch are up to date for Podman. Alpine seems to be one minor version behind.
Very nice!

I wish you had a page listing which vendors you currently integrate with. I was able to find it in the docs though, eventually.
> Short of literally superimposing fixed images of the moon on top of people's photos, which this is not doing,

it is 95% doing exactly that. taking your blurry moon, putting what it knows about the real moon on top of it, and doing an incredibly precise photoshop job to merge them together. it's using real world photos in a hardcoded database to substitute information directly into your photos, just in a very sophisticated way.

it's completely gross and I would want no part of this on my camera.
Isn't all that investment outside of China? My understanding was ghost towns weren't investment based but planning failure based
The groups that are almost always going to be test cases for more involved surveillance or severe constraints on specific freedoms: prisoners, sex workers, government assistance recipients, disabled people. If they're doing it to one of these groups they want to be doing it to you too, and probably will be in a decade or so.
> Is there any way we can prevent these models from being abused by large corporations for profit?

Competition, from for-profits large and small, non-profits large and small, and the rest of the open community.

Don't trust what BigLLM™ is saying? Here's a dozen others you can ask...
Why not use your own registry with a pull-through cache?
If you only ever-so-slightly perturb paths, you generally don't get anywhere near as much of a benefit from monte carlo integration, especially for things like light transport at a global non-local scale (might plausibly be useful for splitting for scattering bounces or something in some cases).

So it's often worth paying the penalty of having to sort rays/hitpoints into batches to intersect/process them more homogeneously, at least in terms of noise variance reduction per progression.

But very much depends on overall architecture and what you're trying to achieve (i.e. interactive rendering, or batch rendering might also lead to different solutions, like time to first useful pixel or time to final pixel).
That's why Alpaca is so exciting: it instruction-tunes LLaMA to the point that even the tiny 7B model (the one that fits on a phone) produces useful output: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/13/alpaca/
o boi, shrek engine
The USPS will already scan envelopes en-route to you; I'm almost certain they could open them and do the same quite easily, maybe for a fee.

https://www.usps.com/manage/informed-delivery.htm
> Why are they popular? It makes little sense to pay $90 a month per line.

Whoever is paying that much probably doesn't do his/her research or have access to some providers.

I pay $35/mo to T-Mobile. 5 GB at high speed per month. Unlimited everything else.

Seems their minimum is now $40/mo, but it goes down to $35/mo if you have two lines.

I'm sure some MVNOs are a lot cheaper, and I'm all for it. But complaining that the alternative is $90/mo is hard to swallow.
Dividing by the absolute value fails for 0. Also, only some CSS implementations support abs().
Articulating why a certain function is bad design or is actively harmful is not the same as gatekeeping. I have lost opportunities because I chose to follow my ethics over my bank account. I do not regret those decisions.

Software developers should have a professional code of ethics. Other professions have them, why not computer scientists, computer engineers, and software developers? There is the ACM/IEEE-CS Software Engineering Code, but I don't know any professionals outside academia that remain ACM members, IEEE membership might remain relevant for computer engineers, so I may well be wrong in that regard.
oooh, I did not know of this, nice!
I think it's fun
Learning from Silicon Valley Bank's Apologists
> Is there any way we can prevent these models from being abused by large corporations for profit?

No. I mean what, are you gonna get them to halt development? I'd also say heavy-handed regulation is unlikely because the US Government views itself as in a technological competition with China, it won't want to slow things down.

> Will the future be populated by LLMs that all want to control the information I have access to?

Nothing's stopping the open source community, or you yourself, from making your own. You have a computer connected to the internet after all. But it will require lots of technical expertise, data, and money.
Good point and makes sense - probably the reduced trail dominates most of the feel. I wish I had time to dive into a model to see if there really is any non-minimum-phase behavior.

Also, I skimmed the following to help my understanding; others may find it useful too: https://www.cyclingtips.com/2018/11/the-geometry-of-bike-han...
And the people who comment "BTC is up 30% since SVB" are making their argument centered around $USD value of BTC.

Whatever happened to "1 BTC = 1 BTC" do they not teach that to kids these days?
Yep, Zelle is a piece of garbage that's hopefully banned soon. I've refused to take or send payments in Zelle, no refuse.

I'll refuse to do business with anyone who doesn't take a credit card.
You can't really control for this because it's completely subjective.
The potential for a shift from online interaction mostly taking place in centralized, corporate-owned systems to federated ones without any centralized control is interesting. In the previous shift from small siloed websites to big centralized services, reddit largely replaced message boards, and a large-scale shift to federated systems will require a replacement for that.

That's not to imply a shift to federated systems is inevitable, though I do consider it desirable.
Lots of countries have "Romeo & Juliet Laws" that decriminalizes sex with minors if both parties are within a few years of each other. For example, France has the age of consent at 15, and decriminalizes sex with under 15s if both parties are within 5 years of each other. There are caveats: the exception doesn't apply if one party has legal or factual authority over the victim, or are related.
Indeed we both have 4090's so that might explain the issue.

It sucks that nvidia is more buggy in general on linux because they're currently the only realistic* option for working with a bunch of ML stuff.

* Yes ROCM is gaining support, but it's still trailing behind CUDA unfortunately and you can't beat the 4090/3090 for ML in the consumer range right now.
Roubini warns US bank failures, Credit Suisse contagion could spread globally
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What is the boundary between the analog and the digital if not the "electronic frontier". The EFF started by defending a physical book publisher that was accused of receiving a document about digital systems.
FDIC uses funds from the member banks and backstopped by the government to make depositors whole.

In this case, all depositors with no limit.
Lem’s Cyberiad is one of my favorite sci-fi books of all time and I frequently find it relevant to situations I am in or observe today.
It is on S3.

keeb@hancock > [/home/keeb] dig +short hub.docker.com
elb-default.us-east-1.aws.dckr.io.
prodextdefblue-1cc5ls33lft-b42d79a68e9f190c.elb.us-east-1.amazonaws.com.
Yeah, but it's not free, and creating a ticket for purchasing a license for my work machine is a PITA. I'm sure the actual cost isn't an issue, and it would likely get approved, but the friction is there, the purchasing/reimbursement UI at my corp isn't nice.
1 bit will mathematically be guaranteed to be more efficient for performance-per-parameter so to me it is a pretty clear eventuality one day, but I think also the relative performance % will likely tank still. Impressed honestly that it held so well at 4 bit tbh, I thought personally that 8 bit was the ceiling.

However I can see fractional bits (via binary representations) and larger models happening first before that compression step.

And then we have the sub-bit range..... ;DDDD
Are you implying that any company using AI for the purpose of increasing the profitability of the company is "abusing" AI? Or are you talking about something else? It kind of across to me like you thought the use of AI with profit as a motive is always abuse, not sure that I understood you correctly.
It’s quite a bit bigger than GPT-2 which was a really big deal not very long ago (remember the unicorn news article example and the slow release because it was apparently too powerful?)
These articles are written by people completely out of touch with your average American. The median household income in the US is around 70k.
So is Docker Inc. The last I heard it is profitable and is doing quite well
Yeah, there's a certain number of stabilized units which are "high-end" (for those earning 80-100 percent of the local median income), whose rents scarcely differ from those of market-rate units.

But I assure you the vast bulk of stabilized units have grandfathered rents from way back, and these are far below market. Which is why the industry always fights tooth-and-claw to get these restrictions lifted or lessened, any time they get half a chance.
GPT-4 def wont care
Codeburg is more strict for blocking projects at the moment. Wikiless is blocked by Codeburg for using the Wikipedia puzzle logo but is still up and unchanged on GitHub.
As a prior ACLU supporter, I eventually switched over all of that monetary support to the EFF, whose litigation matches much closer to what I believe are broadly important civil liberties.

ACLU meanwhile seems obsessed with limiting my 1A right to free speech, which is baffling. Not even to mention 2A rights.
I cant imagine what will happen when they add video. Right now its extremely expensive, but its definitely coming. All of youtube, all of the text on the internet, all pictures, consumed by some huge AI model. Who knows what it could learn from the movements, speech, etc in video
The name "OpenAI" still really bugs me. But it seems likely that turning into a for-profit corporation was critical to OpenAI's subsequent success.

It let them raise enough money to pay for top-tier infrastructure. It also gave them access to stock options, to pay for recruiting a top-tier research and engineering team. I don't think we would have GPT-4 and the OpenAI API if they hadn't turned into a for-profit company.

And honestly, compare what OpenAI has done for AI research to the impact of any nonprofit. What nonprofit has done the most for AI research? Stanford? MIT? I'm not sure what the top AI achievement from any nonprofit is, in the modern era. It's like nonprofits can do a good job of kickstarting a field (AlexNet, early PyTorch), but once enough money and attention goes into it, they have to hand the baton to for-profit companies.
The interesting thing to me is that our brains probably do something similar, converting multi-modal sensory data into the same 'model' that we experience as our concsiousness.
You sound like talking about https://github.com/smarr/RoarVM

RoarVM, formerly known as the Renaissance Virtual Machine (RVM) is developed as part of a IBM Research project to investigate programming paradigms and languages for manycore systems of the future. Specifically, this VM is meant to support manycore systems with more than 1000 cores in the future.

The RVM was open sourced by IBM Research under the Eclipse Public License. Please see the open source announcement for further information.

Today, the RoarVM supports the parallel execution of Smalltalk programs on x86 compatible multicore systems and Tilera TILE64-based manycore systems. It is tested with standard Squeak 4.1 closure-enabled images, and with a stripped down version of a MVC-based Squeak 3.9 image.

The RoarVM provides parallel execution of Smalltalk processes and thus, the programming model is a typical shared-memory model similar to Java with its threads and classical Pthreads for C/C++.
> Building in an environment with no outbound network access turns up all sorts of terrible things

Yes, highly recommended to build on such a system, it'll shake out the roaches that lie hidden.

In a small startup environment, the very least to do is at least keep a local repository of all external dependencies and build off that, so that if a third party goes offline or deletes what you needed you're still good.

For larger enterprises with more resources, best is to build everything from source code kept in local repositories and do those builds, as you say, in machines with no network connectivity. That way you are guaranteed that the every bit of code in your product can be (re)built from source even far in the future.
I don't have the numbers on the back of my hand, but they can be far less (often less than half) of the market rate - please see the sibling comment I just posted about this.
Here's my first thought when I saw the visual input mode:

Can I stream it screenshots, give it a goal, and ask it for click coordinates back? Can GPT-4 successfully use a PC desktop?

And my next thought:

Better try this with a VM without internet access ...
Yeah it was actually a very interesting argument to listen to in court. Would recommend anyone interested should go listen ti the trial
Possibly "Law Enforcement"?
>Why would you want to continue living in a place that takes what is a top 1-2% earner for our age group (25-30) and makes them feel poor?

Least out of touch FAANG engineer
Ask HN: Remote workers, what's been the “best” place you've worked from?
Price, food, quality, best beaches, etc.

What's been the best?
I've played this game. It will actually RELEASE THE HYPNODRONES.
Yeah that phrase doesn't really apply here. They're not pushing the solution onto any portion of the population - they're just straight up blackballing users.
Everytime a pull request is approved it goes to a test environment based on main branch.

Staging is an identical environment to production but with a subset of data.

From staging we push a button manually to put it into production.

~50 services, services buses, domains, data storage, functions, networking etc. are based on pretty simple iaas (azure cli via powersehell) and is run on both dev, staging and prod.

Each team has a business capability and is doing their own thing in terms of how services are made etc. But it's all overlooked and enforced by seniors that enforce it and kick you out rather than bending some rule.

Strict but Neat. It works brilliantly
https://archive.ph/ert4b
The problem with iPhones is once updates stop there's nothing you can do. The iPhone 7 isn't current, it's stuck on iOS 15 while the newest is 16. And while the pixel 2 (which is only a month younger than the iPhone 7) only got official support up to Android 11; you actually own the device and can easily unlock the boot-loader to upgrade to Android 13.
Unreal is eating everyone's lunch. If they cannot get anyone else to contribute to their renderer, it will wind up getting shelved for Unreal with a lot of smaller animation studios already using Unreal instead of more traditional 3D Rendering solutions like Maya.
Better check your nation's laws. I bet they're the same of not similar to what's going on in Ukraine right now. I wonder what happens in the US if you try to evade a draft?

Actually, please show me a country in which an able bodied individual eligible for the draft in time of war can evade the draft without the help of corruption or legal loopholes.

> you've just openly admitted that physical coercion of individuals is justifiable and lawful as long as the end goals serve the purpose of the side who holds a preferential stance in power imbalance between an individual human being and the state in the given situation.

Are you a 'sovereign citizen' or something? This is literally how law enforcement works pretty much all over the planet. What you're trying to do is extend this to nation states to provide a justification for a war of conquest and honestly, it's not really working. A bit of a stretch. Very weak strawman..
More likely, this round of innovation is focused on integrating many engines into one product using techniques along the lines of langchain.

Instead of grinding increasingly complicated models that do everything, you train the LLM input/output engine to delegate to other systems and synthesize the results. There’s a ton of headroom down this road now that the natural language interface of the LLM has become so capable.

There are still surely active research tracks on integrating more data into more sophisticated models, but it looks like we’re at a maturity point where product engineering can start driving its own innovations.
it will have the ability to create infinite irresistible clickbait and become the most subscribed youtube channel of all time
Sounds like the same problem we have with information sources in general. Whoever controls the source will bias what comes out to its advantage.

The good thing is that open source versions are popping up everywhere. This wont stop and everyone will be able to run their local AIs https://simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/11/llama/. Problem is the 'best' one will likely be centralized. We have open source everything; nowadays you can run on your own version of most software categories but users still choose to use proprietary versions bc the convenience outweighs their need for privacy/objectivity.
even for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agaricus_bisporus? I masticate them well, and it tastes good

I see what you mean, for example for tomatoes as well, but it's a compromise, cooking destroys other valuable things
As such they are irrelevant to new arrivals or people weighing the possibility of of moving there.

Of course there are contingent factors involved. I'm just saying that factually, the median rent numbers put out by the brokers are plainly bogus.
It excludes annoying people who use emojis. I just wish it was updated to include removing the ascii emojis they unnecessarily add, often at the end of posts :)
You’re joking right?

https://www.aclu.org/court-cases?issue=prisoners-rights

There’s 11 pages of just cases from 1999 to today.
So is this like Fivetran, except between clients as opposed to vendor-client?

If so, any idea why most data integrations tools have not done this (or have they)? What is so tricky that they could not extend their tools to cover a customer's Postgres database?
How did they render it useless? I don't know anything about this but I'm picking up "no one goes there anymore it's too crowded" vibes.
Time for you to locally clone the dockerfiles you're reliant on, build up your own in house repository, and then do what has been done since time immemorial.

Mirror the important shit. No excuses, just do. Yes, it's work. I guarantee though, you'll be less exposed to externally created drama.

Making sure your org stays up to date though, that's on you.
Out of curiosity, what did the ACLU do to limit 1A protections?