skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You mentioned this only briefly: Population is not the only thing that has grown the count of trials.

Law itself has expanded significantly. There are now many more crimes a person can be accused of.

This is particularly evident in drug prohibition: possibly being in possession of a very small object (that isn't claimed by another person to be missing or stolen) is an incredibly low bar for crime accusation. An accusation of "sale or distribution" is even easier to construct!

And we can see the result: 26% of arrests are for drug related crimes[1]. These cases aren't just being thrown out, either: 46% of prisoners in federal prison are there for drug related crimes[1]. That means their cases must have added to the number of trials other prisoners have to wait in line for. A high conviction rate also motivates law enforcement to pursue more of these arrests.

By decriminalizing drug use, we could factor out a quarter of all arrests! That would surely present a significant decrease in wait times for trial.

Are drug related crimes really so serious that we should continue to pursue them, even when that pursuit overwhelms the entire justice system? That seems incredibly irresponsible to me.

[1] https://drugabusestatistics.org/drug-related-crime-statistic...
Had to be told NOT to fudge the rolls, right? If it seemed like the rolls were skewed in the first place?
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This is a bit ridiculous. It's well known in medicine that members of different ethnic groups have different risks and complications.

This article describes how members of different ethnic groups have different complications in pregnancy. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7290488/

Here is a review about how race affects Adverse Drug Experiences (In response to commonly prescribed drugs), published in the journal of ethnic and racial health disparities.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40615-015-0101-3

Sure it would be better to sequence each person's genome to accurately place them on the spectrum of human genetic diversity, but that's not practical in a hospital or emergency setting.
Nonsense — the cash-flow, risk, and needs of a Farmer's bank would be dramatically different than SVB's customers. This isn't about branding.

Whilst a bank specialising in agri-financing could still make the same mistakes that SVB did, any involvement by the government would be recognising the unique characteristics of the agricultural sector and the broader impact to the nation should farm's fail. People need to eat.

That said, I do think there's an anti-Silicon-Valley sentiment in pop-culture (but I'd be wise not to extend that sentiment to the Federal government.) The sense is that this is a "rightful comeuppance," but its also hard to argue that is not deserved given the way in which the organisation got itself in this issue in the first place.
We should support Nvidia H100 Confidential GPUs once this option is available on Cloud Providers
Are you the Opentrons guy?

And yes, this is the time for my favorite quote of all time:

Ever tried, ever failed, no matter!

Try again, fail again... fail better.

- Samuel Beckett

(punctuation by me, probably)
The joke I've heard is "six seasons and a movie" that goes back to broadcast TV series. Something about contracts running six years, so costs balloon after that, and a one-time movie is much easier to schedule a group of actors for. I've long wondered why Netflix doesn't do it more often. I'm sore about the cancellation of "Santa Clarita Diet" and I think it could easily be wrapped up in a movie.
That’s factually incorrect—there’s not actually a significant amount of genetic divergence between racial groups.

There’s a saying—if you pick two chimpanzees in the same forest, you are likely to find more genetic differences than if you pick two humans on opposite sides of the world. Genetic diversity within a given racial group is much larger than the genetic differences between different racial groups, which makes it very difficult (at best) to come up with some kind of genetic criteria for defining race.
That his optimism is statistically-provably misplaced.
open source developers shouldn't have to police this, companies should just follow the licenses from the beginning.

GPL doesn't say you must provide source code once you get caught, it says you must publish it the moment you release a derivative work.
...in people who are already disposed to these disorders.
One of the nice things about having an off-site backup is that, in addition to being offsite, it's presumably a completely different backup process so if the local backup wasn't working for some reason (and you didn't notice) you're probably still covered.
the fact that our fingers also look weird in our dreams is just a coincidence right?
There's a typo in the "Mission" section "Only by limiting the reliance on AI and continue to create original content can propel us forward as a species".
An AI wouldn't have made that kind of mistake
I mean, look at GRSec, if they can get away with it, anyone can.
take it from me; "doc bros" are far, far worse.
Leaving out “soon”, there’s truth to that, but the immediacy really depends on how this generation of AI develops and where it encounters its limits. It’s not there yet and we actually don’t know how far these current advancements will take us.

It’s tremendously useful technology for many domains already and you can see the stepwise refinements that will permeate many parts of our lives. Big money corporations are productizing those elements already.

But to be as fair to the pessimists as the optimists, its actually still a very big leap from Modjourney and GPT-4 to something that becomes the next camera or typewriter in terms of ubiquity. Because we saw a huge leap recently, we feel close and excited — and we might prove to be in hindsight — but we also might see that there are some hard conceptual limits that we won’t see anyone break through for another fifty or hundred years.
Can you quantify how significant the fuzziness has to be before it should not be subject to analysis? Species is a lot fuzzier than you think.
How LatAm Tech Is Replacing Retool with Google Sheets and Notion
Background

The Latin American e-commerce tech scene is ops-heavy. With cheap cost of labor comes a high number of ops workers that rely on familiar multi-purpose tools: mostly Google sheets and Notion.

FYI I’m a founder of Bracket: a two-way data syncing product that lets you read & write to your data store from Google Sheets & Notion (and Airtable). Here’s a problem we stumbled on along our journey.

The Problem

When ops teams grow so large, engineering can struggle to keep up with internal tool demands. We have worked with companies where 100-member ops teams rely on 3 engineers to maintain all of their data pipelines, including data fed through internal tools. And since ops teams heavily prefer easy-to-use tools like G Sheets and Notion, the reality is that data often gets siloed in every-multiplying spreadsheets. It quickly becomes a headache for engineers to not only design, create, and maintain internal tools, but also convince huge ops teams to migrate their tooling.

Use Case

We stumbled on this same use case for e-commerce startups in Colombia, Brazil, and Mexico.
Logistics startups have a ton of workers on the ground: field operations, warehouse operations, delivery operations, etc. Updating status along the lifecycle of an order, especially between teams, is a constant pain point, but one that can be solved when teams are able to use familiar tools that are syncing with a single source of truth For example, when an ops worker acquires an order from the supplier, he can update the status on the Notion mobile app. That status will sync to Postgres, and from there it will update the customer (through a user-facing portal) as well as any other ops teams that are syncing from Postgres. Similarly, when a package is damaged in the warehouse, someone can update a Google sheet that syncs with Snowflake to indicate inventory changes and potentially trigger a restock alert..

The common ground between these two examples is that in both cases, ops teams need to be able to read and write real-time data across an order’s life span. Engineers can either create and maintain internal tools from scratch and convince ops folks to use these tools, or they can integrate their data store with the tools that ops teams already love. In LATAM, we see that more and more eng teams are opting for the second option.
And this is why in many organizations I insist on mirroring every packages and images that we depend on.
You answered your own question. Most people don't need to print say, color photos anymore because they can be shared digitally more easily. However, people still need to print out documents physically sometimes.

I will say that color printing would have been preferable, had it not been for the adversarial business demon who is summoned when you say "color inkjet" three times.
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1 million rows in 10 seconds is impressive. What was the size of CSV?
I think the correct response here would be to reply to sales emails with double the length of AI generated and leading-on text.
90% of the food produced here is exported. This tiny country is the second biggest food exporter on the planet... The result is that our nature is destroyed, and that we can't build any more houses to solve our massive housing crisis.
The security group meetups are back and popular, it probably doesn't hurt they are held at a bar.
> SVB was the only bank (or maybe one of the only banks) that allowed anyone to set up a bank account with them without visiting the country

There are plenty of others, Ally being the next off the top of my head. This doesn’t, at all, free you from AML or KYC.
How do you back up issues/pr discussions?
Can we define species? No.
I fully believe that once AGI gets in the hands of the common people, then internet communication will stop being as popular. At least communication in the form of talking to strangers online. It will be too hard to determine if you are actually talking to a real person or not. And people also may feel too worried that their likeliness will be used by an AI model to generate deepfakes of them.
https://usebracket.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_license_litigation
If we go with this argument how much of biology becomes humanities?
It's a bit better than before but still not right:

https://twitter.com/Excaldata/status/1636375182750396418?s=2...
It's a _headless_ Content Management System. https://www.contentful.com/

They are useful in organizations where the people who author and publish the content aren't the same people who known how to code a website.
Yes, for example in Argentina it's mandatory to add a text legend that warns if the human figure on a graphic publicity has been been retouched
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This is a classic, textbook example of entryism. It's happening to tons of institutions, including science & medical institutions, in the USA.

"Entryism (also called entrism, enterism, or infiltration) is a political strategy in which an organisation or state encourages its members or supporters to join another, usually larger, organization in an attempt to expand influence and expand their ideas and program. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entryism
Everyone will have their own AI
They will also have a strong position in the provinces. The government was setting a framework, but counted on the provinces to do the actual implementation. That approach will almost certainly fail since it seems likely the BBB will be able to block this in many rural provinces
Uh, the post says "they clearly lifted the GPL licensed bf_blenlib".
Is there no land to build on left as everything is agriculture?
And how those cars were built? Electric cars generate more tons of CO2 to make than conventional combustion ones. But it's expected to pay off as long as the electricity is generated cleanly.
Legal trouble and jail probably causes some disorders to manifest (like extreme anxiety).
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If I was a billionaire this is the sort of thing I'd fund. Like the EFF but specifically for open source developers and projects.
I unironically agree
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> That doesn't completely justify Lego

Unless Bricklink actively hid it during acquisition it doesn't justify Lego at all.
Keep in mind that in this case the threat comes from within the groups that agree with her ideology, but believe she is controlled opposition. The same pot of crazy she (unintentionally?) tried to activate.
True, but to be clear, they had gone extinct thousands of years before the Spanish brought them back, so the natives in the early 16th century had no way of knowing about them.
Digikam is less crashy than it used to be. Its slowly going through my 650,000+ photos and finding faces. I started this past Sunday. I expect to be done in a week or two.
Magic Shell: Copilot-like auto-complete functionality for the command prompt
An open-source, natural language shell powered by GPT. Very interesting long-term memory mechanic for remembering and using facts.
Nitrogen emissions are mostly caused by cattle, in particular cows. Beef, milk and cheese might be more expensive due to these measures, but cheaper, more sustainable food (vegetarian food/chicken/egss) would not be affected by the proposed measures.
Humans are pattern-finders and pattern-inventors. Astrology is a good comparison.

"Race" is about as real as :) is a face.
demur, not demure
That would mean they are making other countries food cheaper as well.
Don't forget the hypocrisy of wanting other people to do their bit to combat climate change while you fly in your private jet and use the excuse that one person's contribution is insignificant...
I think this is a common cultural practice in many places in the US. It is nice to say nice things that are not necessarily true or make friendly invitations that are not firm invitations. In other cultures it is better to say true things and/or limit pleasantries that are not true.
This AI, already today, by giving answers and ideas to scientists is helping moving the science forward.

At some point (if not already!), the AI may be able to make its own discoveries that even the smartest humans didn't think of.
> respecting terms is a nontrivial effort.

This is true of almost all contracts. If respecting terms was easy, we'd have no needs for lawyers and courts.
a lot of people in this thread seem to have no understanding that some people enjoy the act of writing or of painting by hand. Every framing in here to the tune of “everyone will use AI” is nakedly utilitarian. Sometimes people pain pictures or write not just because they enjoy the act. Sometimes people paint pictures or write because they want to communicate; not everyone will feel like they’re communicating from themselves when the words or pictures come from a machine. Generating content from a dataset is a way of exploring the dataset; generating content from within is a way of exploring yourself. They are simply different.

and fwiw, a lot of the assumptions in here are akin to saying at the dawn of photography that nobody would ever paint any more. Photography of course replaced certain entire categories of painting, but didn’t erase painting from the face of the earth altogether. Of course there are far more photographs than there are paintings, but volume alone is not the totality of meaning.

Generated content is strictly culturally regressive anyway. After a hundred years of ChatGPT will people still be writing prompts with “in the style of [person who produced all of their work before the year 2000]”? That would be a sad and boring future.
Not a hallucination.

Black body radiation coming off that thing that's nearly sun-hot pumps a lot of energy out into the world. Everything that can absorb some of it does so, and twitches.

We tend to think of radio receivers as something special, but they're highly optimized versions of processes going on all the time all around us.

The clearest example I've personally experienced of this was out in the boonies watching a meteor shower with an astronomy club. After a few times hearing my glasses "hiss" just as I was seeing a meteor I asked about it and the fellow in charge (chair of the college astro department) filled us in. It was freakin' awesome.
Finding faces or identifying faces? Because I tried the latter and it was horrendously bad.
Strapi stopped recruitments in France for financial reasons
Maybe so, but:

1. most of them are probably outside the the jurisdiction of the hypothesized team mentioned above

2. that's a lot less than $50 million

3. this could be addressed with regular police work
I let marijuana destroy my life. For about a year, I experienced all the benefits ppl use it for. Then all of a sudden I would get panic attacks and full-on psychosis. I would not wish these episodes on my worst enemy.

The smell of it is so ubiquitous now that it's legal and it's a great deal of anxiety for someone like me.

I acknowledge its benefits and that I'm probably a rare case. But it is disturbing to me how mainstream it's become. Certainly..some ppl will face the same repercussions I went through and I don't want that to happen.

I still think it should be controlled medically and not as available as lotto tickets
I saw this first somewhere, not HN.
Damn you've done and tried a lot of stuff!

What I've learned from that resume is that you can fail 100 times, but all you need to be "set" is one ZipX that gives you the cash freedom to chase other dreams.
LinkedIn expands its generative AI assistant to recruitment ads and profiles
Look into the history of drum machines. When they arrived in the late 70s, they sounded terribly mechanical. In the next couple of decades, small amounts of variation were added to make them sound more natural, the way many photographers today are adding artificial artifacts to photos that have been cleaned up too much by cameras' semi-automated post-processing algorithms.

But how sterile will art become? Already most people become inured to mass synthesthesia, where pureed sterilized Disney-fied content is fast becoming the unavoidable norm in so much of our media (e.g. pop and country music). Today's AI yay-sayers are receptive to a synthetically generated window onto the world are looking only at the first step in what will surely be a progression -- from a highly variable world of human-wrought artifacts to a homogeneous digitally simplified model of the world, one that will evolve into something ever more 'palatable', until... what? Is that a trend you would welcome?

Not I. Especially with Microsoft and Google and other gigacorporations calling all the shots in the absence of informed enforced guardrails to constrain how this rapidly evolves.
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Or, the ffmpeg folks detected and got in touch, so it was corrected. Blender folks might have to do the same.
Miller is designed around the idea of structured data. This is a higher bar than naively manipulating text, and the user has to be more deliberate to extract fields. Doing cli manipulation of a csv that contains quoted commas is challenging with the standard tools.
Archived copy: http://web.archive.org/web/20210301135016/https://devtalk.bl...

From comment #3 in this discussion:

> Got bored, did some digging in their binary, they built using some of our our svn libraries (I know it’s our libs since the paths embedded for some of the source files are local to my computer :slight_smile: ) which makes it easy to track down

> they ship openimageio 1.7.15 which means the code is likely from somewhere in between 2017-06-04 and 2018-08-27 which is indeed around the 2.79 time frame.

> It would have been nice if they kept the code opensource, so it could get all the improvements blender makes easily, but they seemingly chose not to go that way. which is somewhat strange since they clearly lifted the GPL licensed bf_blenlib [1] so the closed source nature of eyesight is odd to say the least.

> [1] the executable contains strings like <inline>Error! Could not get the Windows Directory - Defaulting to Blender installation Dir! , Error! Could not get the Windows Directory - Defaulting to first valid drive! Path might be invalid!</inline> and <inline>BLI_dynstr_append text too long or format error.</inline> that can only could have come from bf_blenlib
> `jq` supports `@csv` for output conversion but not input

Actually, `jq` can cope with trivial CSV input like your example, - `jq -R 'split(",")'` will turn a CSV into an array of arrays. To then sort it in reverse order by 3rd column and retain the header, the following fell out of my fingers (I'm beyond certain that a more skilled `jq` user than me could improve it):

jq -R 'split(",")' example.csv | jq -sr '[[.[0]],.[1:]|sort_by(.[4])|reverse|.[]]|.[]|@csv'

"color","shape","flag","index"
"red","square","0","77"
"purple","triangle","0","51"
"red","square","0","48"
"red","circle","1","16"
"red","square","1","15"
"yellow","triangle","1","11"

NB. there is also an entry in the `jq` cookbook for parsing CSVs into arrays of objects (and keeping numbers as numbers, dealing with nulls, etc) https://github.com/stedolan/jq/wiki/Cookbook#convert-a-csv-f...
> ...in people who are already disposed to these disorders.

So? If the disorder would have otherwise remained latent in an individual, and marijuana was the environmental factor that caused it to manifest itself, then that's definitely a negative health outcome of marijuana.
And there remains a GIGANTIC difference between what AI does today and its version of a cathedral-button.

It’s a bit more like a hand crank that builds a lopsided toolshed at this point. Which is absolutely incredible, to be honest, and couldn’t have been anticipated by many people five years ago, but doesn’t necessarily entail that the cathedral-button will arrive any time soon.

We kinda have to be patient.