skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't agree with this at all, but I do think the way you framed this makes our disagreement very clear.

If the task at hand is to write a positive poem about an evil/bad/fascist figure, then I don't think it's untrustworthy to go through with this request. Is part of your position on this the assumption that this poem would be published, and thus a poor reflection upon it's author to those that don't understand the reason why the poem exists?
This can be entirely avoided by simply printing the material.
There is a small community of people interested in formal verification. Unfortunately, it is mostly confined to the academic and research communities, rather than regular software engineers. In part because the tools they use do not have the same level of productivity.

But it seems like one possible next step in programming language evolution. Security and correctness will likely matter more and more.

Productively producing incorrect and insecure code may be less valuable in an age where machine learning and botnets are constantly improving and trying to break into your systems, and where a greater and greater percentage of GDP is dependent upon systems not failing. Increasingly we are building systems where lives are on the line, and failure is not an option.

I would say that this does kind of end up as a bit of an aesthetic divide. Because this is kind of an old school view. There's whole aspects of computing right now that are very trendy which have thrown that old school approach out the window.

The field of machine learning is fine with having systems where they have no real idea of what a system will do, whether that result will for sure be correct, how it came up with a particular result, or reliably being able to reproduce the same result with the same inputs.

They may recognize that those are deficiencies, and be working to improve that, but ultimately their paradigm is inductive and statistical, and thus error-prone by its very nature. They recognize that this is a valuable tradeoff for many applications, and a way to build systems that do interesting things right now.

The "symbolic" AI approach would likely take decades to make visible progress.
Thanks for the inside perspective, very helpful. There's no doubt that corruption in banking was a complete free for all in the past during times of intense financial deregulation, and that regulated markets have improved their vigilance markedly since then. It makes sense that for banks such as yours, there might be a sort of echo of the past in scandals being outed presently. And a lot of those cases are more wilful ignorance and poor due diligence as you say

Of course CS is in a tax haven, and their dirty laundry generally seems much fresher and much more deliberate than negligent. E.g attempting to help cover up assets of Russian oligarchs under sanctions after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

And the Credit Suisse leaks last year revealed just how much dirty money flows through the bank still to this day.
can't say for spaceX, but most NASA glue is built in house. close to zero proprietary ones.

maybe the vlsi is closed. but that is "industry standard" i guess. rest is a bunch of mathy-language du jour held together with python or something.

...opaque docker containers going to prod doesn't have a excuse other than inefficient orgs fulled by VC or Ad money. Or maybe they do, but you won't excuse them using NASA as an example :)
FTX bought Voyager when they went down.

Acquisitions != health
> But there is also the consideration that probably it's there for the reason of preventing drugs from being laced into the mail, even into the very paper.

Nah, my money's on this being the latest in a campaign of depriving prisoners of vices. First they came for the cigarettes.

This is more likely about porn. Some of the most inventive smut I've ever seen was written by/to prisoners. You have to be a real poet laureate to get erotica past dedicated censors without too many redactions.

Moving this correspondence to digital, limited-access kiosks means you don't have any romantic hope to cling to (or jerk off to) back in your cell.
I feel like this is signature Apple, and most people who know much about digital photography (especially in phones) is aware that Apple has fairly distinct processing techniques – not necessarily distinct optics.

What Samsung did was relatively covert in comparison.
It’s worth pointing out that there can be a distinction between the type of information in signals and the type of information in filters. I think people feel disturbed because they think the filters here are overfitted, therefore are just parroting out memorized patterns of the moon. But if it were a filter that generalized to everything, people would just say “wow the camera sensor is amazing”.

The irony is that the backlash here will just guarantee that they put more effort into making this generalize better, so it’s received as less gimmicky. Whether that’s just putting an enhancement neural network in optical form at the ccd level or something else is anyone’s guess. People say they don’t want detail that’s not there, but to some extent the amount of detail is always being infused with assumptions and heuristics at every level of the imaging pipeline.
From the FAQ:

>How much land is included in each US $49.99 plot?

>Each plot is one square foot in size.

So, with 43,560 square feet in an acre, that works out at over $2M an acre. Pretty good return on your investment in a plot of bogland.
Quality 3d animation software is available to anyone with Blender. If someone gets this renderer working as an addon (which will obviously happen) artist will get a side by side comparison of what their work looks like with both cycles and a professional studio product, for free.

This is win, win, win for Blender, OSS and the community.
What happens to photo attribution, credit, copyright, etc in these situations?

If I take a picture of the moon with my astrophotography setup, I can release that with whatever licensing I choose. If someone takes a photo with their Samsung phone, and it replaces that image with a stock photo that has been very permissibly licensed, they would not be able to do anything with that image that does not fall in line with the license. But who's being told what the license is?

It's one thing if you come up with an app where you take a picture of something on your mobile, but it returns the exact same thing photographed by a professional with much higher quality than mobile, that would be one thing as everyone would understand the situation. This is pretending you have a better camera than you have and selling it as a better camera even though your camera isn't really doing the work.
I would not recommend doing it through Docker, though, especially after this change. We use AWS's ECR, and you can set it to do pull-through caching of public images, so images you've already used will stick around even if Docker blows up, and you don't have to pull the images yourself, you just point everything in your environment to ECR and ~~ECR will pull from docker hub~~ (EDIT: it only supports quay.io, not docker hub) and start building its cache as you use the images.
I'm not really sure if they are competing with Unreal. Large studios will probably never use real time rendering for the final render unless it achieves the same quality. Dreamworks have built a renderer specifically for render farms (little use of GPUs, for example) which means they are not targeting small studios at all, rather something like Illumination Entertainment or Sony (think Angry Birds movie).
> By rigorous I mean conducted over at least several hours by a panel of expert evaluators drawn from a wide range of academic disciplines such as computer science, philosophy, psychology, law, history, physics, mathematics, biology, medicine, sociology, and communications.

Passing such a test is not a property expected of the average human yet the average human is considered a general intelligence, therefore this is not a property of a general intelligence.
I get that buying your groceries and morning coffee with crypto probably isn't happening anytime soon, but why do you single out those three things? I don't get what you mean by ownership, conversions are automated and easy (things like Uniswap), and transfers are as straightforward as transferring money could possibly be (insert recipient, insert amount, hit send). What do you mean?
> I don't know what your last paragraph is supposed to imply.

It's pointing out that the left hates libertarianism and Peter Thiel, leftism is literally the opposite of libertarianism, and so you would expect a left wing news outlet to try and trash Thiel and libertarians whether or not the argument makes any sense or whether it's actually their fault. It's a bias warning.
Major animated movies take years to develop, and they don’t like to change the build process during. I used to cover a major animation studio for a major Linux vendor and they did in fact use very old shit.
Yeah, that's fair. Thanks for pointing it out.
My understanding is they legally can't. It was trained used OpenAI, which doesn't allow using their output to train new models. Someone would need to find another data source to fine tune llama.
Apple makes it incredibly easy to manage and cancel subscriptions. Would that all companies matched them!

One reason I don't begrudge them their 30% is that I could easily lose that much or more trying to get some vendors to cancel subscriptions if I didn't have the easy options Apple provides. Epic is clearly one of them.
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Even better the calls from prison can often get instamarked as spam by Google with little way to know they're potentially being silently dropped if you want an ounce of quiet from your cell phone. Recently saw a video from a guy who had a friend get incarcerated and they had a hell of a time getting calls through because of spam blocking.
Additional info from Petapixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/03/14/webb-photographs-the-rarely...
In order to refute your thesis, we have to explain why your imaginary situation is not superior to reality? How about it's completely made up?
Hyperion has the advantage of being exclusive to WDAS, so they can tailor it to their exact workflow and requirements, while Renderman is a commercial product with many users outside of Pixar all with their own wants and needs.
Founder of a bootstrapped 17 year-old SaaS company here.

I've read countless books on this topic.

The book that helped me the most was "Good to Great" by Jim Collins.

It has memorable nuggets of advice, summarised neatly into insightful chapters.

Once you learn these nuggets you never forget them, and you end up leveraging them regularly in your day-to-day entrepreneurial decisions.

It's a bit like Covey's 7 Habits book, but geared for entrepreneurs wanting to grow a successful business.

Good luck on your journey. It's tough, but worth it.
open source doesn't have to compete.
This style of explanations is awesome. Check out Bartosz Ciechanowski's stuff for a few masterpieces - https://ciechanow.ski/
Goalpost moving? Since when was this the goalpost of… AGI.
Point of order: Is it not possible that Trump in particular just stood in opposition to the ACLU's worldview/mission statement? For that matter, they're not really keen on some of Biden's immigration policies either.

A large chunk of the visible mainstream Republican platform is not very civil liberty friendly at this point, and the Dems have not been let entirely off the hook.
Roubini is a victim of his own popularity. He was nicknamed "Dr. Doom" once, and now he desperately wants to live up to that name, so he keeps predicting the next doom. I wouldn't take any of his predictions seriously.
The fact that you would use words like "prefer", "lie", and "celebrate" in this context indicates that you are deeply ignorant about the underlying technology. Your claims are wild, unsupported conjecture and cannot be taken seriously.
EA Leaders Were Repeatedly Warned About Sam Bankman-Fried Before FTX Collapsed
The irony of this post. Brains are sparser than transformers, not denser. That allows you to learn symbolic concepts instead of generalising from billions of spurious correlations. Sure, that works when you've memorised the internet but falls over quickly when out of domain. Humans, by contrast, don't fall over when the domain shifts, despite far less training data. We generalise using symbolic concepts precisely because our architecture and training procedure looks nothing like a transformer. If your brain were a scaled up transformer, you'd be dead. Don't take this the wrong way, but it's you who needs to read some neurology instead of pretending to have understanding you haven't earned. "Just an emergent propery of billions of connected weights" is such an outdated view. Embodied cognition, extended minds, collective intelligence - a few places to start for you.
As someone said above: GPUs are fine & faster as long as your scene stays simple. As soon as you hit a certain scene complexity ceiling, they become much slower that CPU renderers.

I would also argue that for this specific task, i.e. offline rendering such frames, the engineering overhead to make stuff work on GPUs is better spent making stuff faster and scale more efficiently on CPUs.[1]

I worked in blockbuster VFX for 15 years. It's been a while but I have network of people in that industry, many working on these renderers. The above is kinda the consensus whenever I talk to them.

[1] With the aforementioned caveat: if the stuff you work on is always under that complexity ceiling targeting GPUs can certainly make sense.
it wasn't intended to be a research paper. it's a tech report.
I would too. I'd sell my soul even for a mere $100 million. Where I firmly draw the line is $10 million. Just try and test me and you'll see.
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Yup. LLMs are obviously general intelligences. AGI is just a loaded term with posts constantly shifting.
Isn't step one make people not work by savaging them on income tax, because who wants to bust their ass to break 100k when they're getting a 60% tax bill.
Mostly lawyers.
There are just a few members of Congress that meet that description, however. They only wield a lot of power when the rest of Congress is divided neatly into two nearly equal parts. The moment actual default becomes a real possibility, the mainstream members of both political parties will briefly form a consensus and kick that can down the road a ways. Just like they always have. Not too far, mind you, because it must remain something they can argue about periodically.

The bad part, of course, is they likely won't do that until we've already done some damage to our credibility.
"The banks could have bought insurance against rising interest rates, but they didn't. "

See, this always worried me. How do you buy insurance against rising interest rates? Or more precisely, WHERE to you buy insurance against rising rates? If the answer is "from other banks" (which it presumably is), then there is no hedge in any meaningful sense. My reasoning is that it's a closed-loop system. They can't all pay off each other without counterparty default somewhere along the line.

I guess what I'm trying to say that rising interest rates are bad in the sense that it creates losses (be they realised or unrealised) that are systemic to the whole banking system. There needs to be some outside party that can soak up the losses. That outside party is The Fed
Those users probably didn't need their RAM anyways
Structural basis of odorant recognition by a human odorant receptor
Very interesting, I guess the only way you can do this is if you add their car to the app. Maybe this guy added the car and then tried to steal it?
https://www.tesla.com/en_eu/support/how-add-or-remove-vehicl....
Generative AI, just like search engines and all the recommendation system, will be a part of our daily life.

I think the next generation will have a hard time to imagine a world without generative AI. Just like while I was born before google, I've forgotton how to look for very specific info in a physical library.
> this is a very specific and enumerated right in the Bill of Rights

I don't want derail this with a discussion of a highly politically charged topic, but this is a very disputed (and modern) interpretation of the second amendment. I just bring it up because there's no consensus about it, and reasonable people have different opinions.
I mean, any party could have been running the place for the past 13 years, there's no way to tell.
18 USC 1702 only applies if you are opening someone else's mail because you want to "obstruct the correspondence, or to pry into the business or secrets of another". Presumably the courts have determined that this does not apply to prison officials opening mail addressed to prisoners.
Well, your friends will all be doing the same thing, so you'll need AI tools to de-falsify their selfies. Eventually, it will even learn what you would have liked/favorited/retweeted and just do it for you. From that point your social media presence is a self-licking ice cream cone and you can just ignore it and hang out in the Discord/IRC/group text.
Reactive Programming in Financial Markets
What if that average human has unlimited time to access and cross reference the entire written internet?
What do you mean by "Most privacy advocates probably do plenty of things I would be perfectly happy to see made illegal"? Can you give some examples of what you mean by things you want to see made illegal?
The American Hawk looks with disbelief at someone who wants less war, not more.
Bring your own schema and generate sql from your natural language questions.
I think part of the issue is the sheer scale of the problem.

If I have 366 people in jail today awaiting trial and I try one case a day on average, it would be a year before you get to the last person.

Yes, the problem is alleviated with more judges, more lawyers, and more juries, but that's the problem. Those resources are not infinite.
Housing.

NYC median rent this year is $3350. That's over $40k per year. On a $100k salary, which is about $60k after federal, state, and local taxes, rent is 2/3 of the take-home pay for someone making $100k.

More concretely, if you get $60k take-home pay per year after taxes, that's $5k per month, and if you pay median rent that leaves you with $1650 for everything else, and that rent price does not include all the utilities! That is pretty hard to live on if you have dependents. If you have to feed and clothe multiple people on $1650 a month you are going to feel pretty poor, even if you don't own a car!
As a bonus, even if it doesn't work, you're not getting eaten by Roko's basilisk because technically you helped.
Note that chargebacks are mostly a US thing. In Europe you basically can't charge back and last time I enquired about even blocking a company from making new charges I was told that doing this required me to block the entire card and get a new one issued.

It'd really very odd to see Americans insist that they should have the right to take a service, get the money back for it from the business i.e. get the service for free, and then go back and get service again! That's pretty unfair towards the business.
Not for serious volumes, there's also a load more feaatures only paid and enterprise accounts get.
LSTMs have been in the Google keyboard for years...
I think your site could use some copy editing. I was confused by the nested schema example [1], I don't even see NestedScema referenced after it's defined, maybe the float field should have used that type? Also noticed an instance of "BigQuer" on that page (not a particularly egregious typo, but I was on your site for all of thirty seconds).

[1] https://www.buildflow.dev/docs/schema-validation#examples
Yeah, I don't get this "It didn't cost the taxpayers a cent, so really it's all good, man, and not really a bailout" line that some people keep putting out, at all.
The recovery rate is written down in the terms of the swap. You'll have to read the contract.
I mean, OCI and containerd exist. You can have "Docker" containers without the Docker just fine. Just need to replace the user tooling, which I assume podman does? (never used it)
That would be nice...

Most groups, if you send money to support them, seem to then turn around and sell your info to every other group on the planet that might be related, on the "We got a live one!" list or something. It's impressive to watch, but it's also kept me from donating to certain groups, because it's such a royal pain to get off these lists. It typically takes 3-4 "Please take me off your list!" requests to get anywhere to listen, and a few groups have ignored me so long that I've resorted to Sharpie obscenities scrawled on their return mail to get my point across. Some don't even listen then.

But I could probably heat my house on the amount of "THIS OUTRAGE IS HAPPENING AND HERE IS A LOT OF... (over, please) INFORMATION ABOUT WHY YOU SHOULD BE UPSET AND... (next page please) WILL YOU DONATE????????" junk I get.

I have a standing policy of not giving anything to groups that insult me by putting "directions of how to read a multi-page letter" at the bottom, though. It's a thing on almost everything I receive.
Are you even familiar with the Turing test? Passing doesn't require the subject to demonstrate any particular level of knowledge or expertise. The subject only has to convince the evaluators that it is roughly as intelligent as an average human. Average humans are expected to pass such a Turing test.
you can use https://container-registry.com/ to store your images instead of Docker Hub.
As far as I know, the prohibition on opening someone else's mail (or interfering with delivery of the mail generally) is not based on the addressee's constitutional rights, but rather on an independent power granted to Congress by the Postal Clause. I assume there's some exemption to this for people in government custody, but I don't know exactly where it would be codified.

> The postal powers of Congress embrace all measures necessary to insure the safe and speedy transit and prompt delivery of the mails. And not only are the mails under the protection of the National Government, they are, in contemplation of the law, its property. [1]

[1] https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S8-C7-2/...
It’s only a matter of time
You could add a strikethrough on the red ones, and keep the color.

.nope { text-decoration: line-through; }
Starlark comes to mind, but that's probably too limited.
This page seems designed to direct attention anywhere but the meat of the issue: are the moon details in Samsung photos derived from sensor data alone, or also external photos? To me, the answer is clear: Samsung can’t produce this result unless they also ingest external, high res moon photos. Yet Samsung frames it as “enhancing details”, not “adding details”, clearly implying the details in question were already there in some form.
100%. I can barely read it. Perhaps changing the background of the text to red and green (and the text to white) would improve its legibility. There are likely better ideas, though!
Kalief Browder. Was awaiting trial at Rikers for years before charges were eventually dropped. In total he spent over two years in solitary confinement while never being tried for the petty robbery he was falsely accused of. Killed himself when he got out.