skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh, this one actually seems to work... I ask for pixel art and it gives me pixel art (Stable Diffusion and DALL-E keep giving me needlepoint).
AMD seems to be focusing on traditional HPC, they've got a ton of 64 bit flops in their recent commercial model. I expect their server GPUs are mostly for chasing supercomputer contracts, which can be pretty lucrative, while they cede model training to NVidia.
Super cool... but these tools always seem to be in the non-existent middle of a Venn diagram of "big enough a dev can't hold all context" and "small enough no one is going to care if we hand over everything".

What are your thoughts on this issue and the future of these kinds of tools where teams have to hand over the key to the city on a ongoing basis and running on dev computers?

Most dev tools are isolated to a certain extent and aren't getting blank checks to the entire engineering department from top to bottom with access to external tools that detail business concerns. These tools seem like extremely ripe pickings for targeting for corporate espionage / hackers to 'pwn' companies.
The AI copyright fight: a guide
I completely agree with your assessment, but my point was, in the 90s and 00s, we were still in the bubble. we still thought of our news media as being completely trustworthy. even the post-9/11 invasions being predicated upon news media consent manufacturing wasn't enough to shake us out of it—nobody blamed the news media, Bush (and some of his cabinet) "took the fall" for the whole thing. we can look back on it now and obviously it's almost hilarious how terribly complicit the news media was in manufacturing consent for war crimes, but at the time, we didn't think about it that way. nobody thought about it that way. it was The News, which we had trust in, because we (90s millennials) had grown up watching it, and so had our parents.

the popular idea that the news is largely full of shit did not come about until Trump popularized the term "fake news", and then they threw it back at him, and so on and so forth. (hopefully it's uncontroversial to state that Trump would not have been likely to be elected if people didn't have smartphones with which to consume sources of news other than that of the mainstream legacy news media.) before that, people still generally trusted the news media, even while still actively having boots on the ground in the Middle East due to the previous round of gaslighting. both Obama administrations, as far as I can recall at least, were still in an era where most people more or less trusted the media. sure, maybe you weren't a fan of FOX News or MSNBC or whatever, but you still felt like, no matter what your political affiliation was, you could tune into a cable TV news program and more or less get the truth about what was going on in the world. I had a one-semester Current World Affairs class in high school in 2007, and we spent most of it watching cable news, reading newspapers, and talking about it, without any of the default critical position you'd (hopefully??) expect today.
people are reporting similar in the discord, I think their email service is just getting a little hammered rn
Anti-virus have been trivially bypassed for decades without the need of AI
We could have just used Linux, which was free, instead of pirating Windows, but we didn't.

People in developing countries chose to pirate and use Windows because it ran most of the important apps of the era, namely video games, which were also easy to pirate, and because it ran on any custom built PC from the parts each user could afford to scrap together. It was the perfect storm.
> could you point me to some evidence that the epiphenomal effects of the named condition are clearly merely caused by a temporary increase in receptor densities?

When someone takes prozac and tries to stop, they have withdrawal effects. Prozac increases serotonin which increases receptor density.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1014862808126

Why should this be any different from DMT?

I have been studying neurobiology for 20 years. I thought a lot of things that I found out were wrong.
I loved this article since I was one of those who installed fzf, didn't get it, and walked away (at least twice).
In fact, Qualcomm has announced a "Cloud AI" PCIe card designed for inference (as opposed to training & inference) [1, 2]. It's populated with NSPs like the ones in mobile SoCs.

[1] https://www.qualcomm.com/products/technology/processors/clou...

[2] https://github.com/quic/software-kit-for-qualcomm-cloud-ai-1...
Answers with Joe Scott did two videos on this story, the latest one 7 months ago revealing his name.

One year ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCDOYDNZUMI
7 months ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve_JrmYsU0I
"Now, Meek appears to be on the wrong side of the national-security apparatus. And no one can say for certain if law-enforcement officers actually removed him from the building. And thus, a riddle was born. Documents pertaining to the case remain sealed." (https://web.archive.org/web/20221019003915/https://www.rolli...)

The editor of Rolling Stone had information saying that first sentence, which he introduced, was false.
I don't want to pile on the execs more, but I am suspicious of the "far in excess" number. In absolute terms, sure. Line workers probably don't have any clawback. But even after that clawback, I'm guessing the execs walk away fine?
For the longest time I would have said the internet was the most revolutionary moment in the last century.

But the more I dwell on it, I debate if the pocket touchscreen smartphone was really the moment.

Before phone, I printed Mapquest onto paper. The end result was pretty similar to me using an old paper map. The internet was evolutionary in that regard. It replaced some newspaper, and letters/phone calls. Text messaging sort of existed tangentially parallel to the internet. Search engines were pretty cool. It was only when the internet became portable that it really infected every moment of life. You didn’t have to like, drive home, to go dial in. Even having a color touchscreen pda that ran doom, it was still a novelty, and not like an extension of my being like the iPhone is now. Momentum scroll. And realistically it was the iPhone 3GS or iPhone 4 that was the turning point. iPhone 4 introduced mobile copy and paste.
I can agree with that. It’s hard to point to a single moment. It was more like a 20 year assimilation of everything. Google search was the biggest watershed I can think of. The iPhone was incredible, but also a giant step backwards as it had such a limited browser and connectivity. And for many years it was sort of a weird counter culture place where only geeks gathered.
"I know I like "classical" music, but I dont know what. The problem is getting to know it. The barrier to entry is so large."

Decades ago when I was young the percentage of people listening to classical music was much higher that the 1% shown here. I can't tell you what that percentage was exactly but as an illustration quite a few radio stations that now play pop or rock music were once classical music stations.

Also, when I was at school music was a compulsory subject and we didn't listen to pop or rock music in lesson time but rather classical music. And it wasn't just listening, I still recall us kids having to follow full orchestral musical scores in time with records. One such work that still sticks vividly in my mind is Morning from the Peer Gynt Suite by Edvard Grieg: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x463zoWpiVI. This score was chosen for us kids because it's comparatively easy to follow.

What that amounts to is that we had much more exposure to classical music at a very early age and thus we had become familiar with it even though pop and rock were also completing for our attention. Moreover, we were deliberately exposed to the 'pops' from the classical repertoire at that young age specifically because these works were much easier for young minds to assimilate. For example, Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Ravel's Boléro,
Dvořák's Humoresques, Rossini's
William Tell Overture (aka the Lone Ranger theme music)—this was another score I recall following at school.

That classical music cultural background has now essentially all but died so it's little wonder that the classics are left to the 1% or so of Diehards like me.

The trouble is that the percentage of the population who has the potential to like classical music hasn't changed but rather, unfortunately, it's the opportunity to be exposed to it at an influential age that has.
> eat one pizza all by myself, to the shock of everyone else around me

I'm puzzled. Which kind of cultural context does this unfold in? Are these pizzas extraordinarily large? Or is it just a cultural issue that you are supposed to share in any event?

Where I'm at (Northern Europe) ordinary pizzas are about the same size of a LP record (around 30cm, or one foot for the metrically challenged). Unless you specifically order multiple (and/or "family sized") pizzas you are really expected to eat the whole of one pizza by yourself. It's in no way remarkable.
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Political endorsements can affect scientific credibility
Intel's Head of Graphic Chips Unit to Depart
They were also late to the GUI game…
Compression ratios vary between different tools, I wouldn’t expect an image file size to scale at all smoothly with its resolution
Hi, the installation issues will be worked on, CIEL was not ready for prime time :] But we can have a look together on GH issues. BTW my Gitlab CI pipeline passes. You probably need to get the latest "cl-str": git clone https://github.com/vindarel/cl-str ~/quicklisp/local-projects/
Parents don't want religious or quasi-religious viewpoints foisted on their children. Leave both LGBTQ and religious indoctrination out of the schools. Respect the right of parents to train their children as they see fit, outside the classroom and the school library.
Not to disparage the poster, but these type of comments always come across to me as astro-turfing.

At no point has anyone been advocating for a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) and furthermore the only people who stand to gain from this are the powers that be. I'm vehemently against a CBDC purely because I like to play a thought experiment if I were from the 18th century and landed in the present day, how hard would it be for me to engage with society. A CBDC is 100% the anti-thesis to creating and supporting people.

In short, boo to OP, I doubt their legitimacy.
Coming soon :) -- we started with React and Vue is the next web frontend framework on our list.
It's absurd really. Massive pressure to pick the cheapest bid, then very slowly discover that the cheapest option can't actually do a reasonable job in a reasonable timeframe, then some years later try again with the same cheapest must win premise. It's kind of optimising for cost but poorly and with no feedback loop.
I think the field of chaos theory has branched into several other fields, so I would not necessarily agree that it is dead in the water. I personally have worked on projects within the last few years studying chaotic dynamical systems from the point of view of operator algebras.
Your suggestion made me wonder: are the OpenAI API responses deterministic? I would expect that if one gets a different reply to the same prompt each time (as I would expect, given the probabilistic nature of LLM), that makes "benchmarking" kind of weird. Or maybe the solution is just to run the prompt 100 times and mean/average across whatever metric is being used
Is there a solution to being liable for distributing illegal/immoral content as a peer on PeerTube? That's what's keeping me away.
If you were intending all along to be speaking generally, replying to the description of what they experienced with lumber prices and mills operating at maximum capacity with "What you describe is the definition of price gouging" could lead many readers (including this one) to conclude that you were speaking specifically about their situation rather than generally about the topic.

Even now I can't be sure whether you think the multi-quarter increase in price of building supplies in 2020 and 2021 was price gouging or not.
Wrong tool for who?
To be more specific "acropalypse" refers to any image editor which does not truncate the original file before overwriting it with the edited version, leading to portions of the original being recoverable by an adversary.

It originally referred to a specific vulnerability in the Markup app found on Google Pixel devices (CVE-2023-21036), but apparently now includes other unrelated apps.

Source: It was me who came up with the name :)
Employment contracts, especially for white collar work, are rare in the US.
Signing NDAs and acknowledging that you've read the handbook, while common, are not employment contracts.
VP at a bank is basically just a checkbox.

Depending on the subset of banking you work in basically everyone is a VP because everyone needs that title in order to do their jobs without running afoul of the regulations. These people will have cookie cutter employment contracts if any.
That's interesting, but I'm not sure it works. I think that works out to "for any given prompt, distribute credit to every source image that has a keyword that appears in the prompt, proportional to how many other source images had that same keyword".

If I include the tag "floor", do I get some (tiny) percentage of every image that uses "floor" in the prompt, even if the bits from my image did not end up affecting model weights much at all in training?

Worse, for tags like "dramatic lighting", it's likely that the important source images will depend on the other words in the prompt; "sunset, dramatic lighting" will probably not use the rely on the same weights or source images as "theater interior, dramatic lighting".

And then you get the perverse incentives to tag every image with every possible tag :)

I'd love to be convinced otherwise, but I'm not seeing prompt-to-tag association working.
https://reflectoring.io/java-release-notes/
https://advancedweb.hu/new-language-features-since-java-8-to...
You could just believe Trump on his word but that seemed to change.

Unless there is a perjury penalty involved, and suddenly there was little to go on.
The comments here are particularly disappointing. Relitigating old Microsoft debates (all the way down to adolescent insults — instead of Micro$oft we have (c)opywrong), blaming Microsoft for global inequality (!), multiple references to AI being “bullshit” because a model didn’t perform up to snuff on a particular task on a particular try.

HN used to (this is a new account, but I am not new to HN) embrace technology, optimism, and the intersection of the two. Now it’s a race to see who can demonstrate their bona fides by sneering enough or affecting enough disillusionment. It’s really disappointing! And yes, I realize I’m not being the change I want to see, but it is so disheartening to see so many grumpy people racing to tear others down.
Gates is still a stakeholder in Microsoft. I think this piece is not independent of what Microsoft is doing right now.
Ironic given how Gmail started.
and film photographers weren't as serious as daguerreotype photographers in the 1840s.

the market shrunk because gatekeeping photographers were insufferable and tone deaf and everyone ignored them because they had an accessible solution that was good enough.

if you want to pursue a convoluted process for self fulfillment, the choice is yours, but almost nobody else will care about the output of your photos or your fine tuned process.
Apple is already rolling out new text-to-speech models to automate audio book narrations on their ebook platform. Having heard the samples, it sounds better than most tts models available. I imagine apple already has plans in place to integrate _some _ new Ai tools into their products, but I think they will probably wait for things to settle before making a bigger commitment.

I think apple is well positioned to either buy an AI startup or integrate open source projects into their ecosystem and create a “Her” like product. Where a context aware assistant is consistent across your various operating systems. I don’t think any of the other vendors have quite the ecosystem to pull it off.
To Tame the Debt and Inflation, We Need to Increase Taxes
Well, when I'm considering biking or driving my car, the destination is fixed. I can drive 2 miles to the store or I can bike 2 miles to the store. I'm not choosing between, should I take an average bicycle trip right now, or should I take an average car trip right now. So the danger per mile does seem like the relevant metric there.
Most of the time theses images don't end up in the file system. They are going to the clipboard and then copied to a chat or imgur
Thanks for pointing this out! This is an old version btw, I'll update the video to show a new version in a moment.
The blog post was published on the 16th.[0] Pixel 6 and 6a started the update rollout on the 20th.[1] The March security update was scheduled for earlier but was delayed for 6/a for some reason, and it seems like the Project Zero team didn't check on the actual status of the rollout.

[0] https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2023/03/multiple-inte...
[1] https://9to5google.com/2023/03/20/pixel-6-march-2023-update/
>that is not how FOSS works

Right, and that's what the rest of my sentence was meant to convey. However, the author goes to great extent to obfuscate this fact, as this faq demonstrates: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/parallel.git/tree/doc/cita...

Not once in that 2000-word rant does Ole outright state that citation is entirely voluntary, and not a condition of the license. Instead, he describes the notice's "GPLv3 compatibility" in a way that incorrectly states you must either respect the license notice or treat the software as it is not open-source. He also responds with vitriol to people who do choose to fork his software, as evidenced here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=905674

I wouldn't have a problem with the program's current behavior if it simply made you type 'i understand' instead of 'will cite', and made clear that it was a non-binding request. As is, the program attempts to sound like a license agreement while Ole insists to maintainers it is not.
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You are wrong. Try gpt4. Gpt3 showed the glimmer on certain questions. Gpt4 is smart, maybe not quite as smart as me, but I fully expect gpt5 to be as smart or smarter than me.
I'm not sure that's true. Even among teenagers right now, there's widespread recognition of the downsides of social media/always connectedness/etc, and if there's one thing we can rely on kids to do, it's to poke and prod the "sacred cows" of their parents generation to find out if they're any good or not.

The "always connected nature of cell phones" is pretty clearly not any good, and you can safely assume that most teenagers right now have watched at least one parent, grandparent, or relative get turned into something disgusting by being always connected - that one relative who's always on TwitFace railing about how evil Muskerberg is, or whatever the outrage of the day is. I've got a few. They're certain that Zuckerberg is a traitor, will be arrested Any Day Now, etc... and can't comprehend that by posting all about this on Facebook, all they're doing is helping out his yacht fund.

It's been an utterly toxic last decade of consumer technology, from human-first perspective, and I'd wager that those being born today will have the long view back over that and see how awful it's really been.

Remember: Last year, vinyl outsold CDs in "units moved" for the first time since the mid-1980s, and is showing no signs of slowing down any time soon. Instax cameras ("Polaroid, but newer") are quite popular. There's a rejection of modern digital/consumer tech going on.
Many other fields too.

Mendel's discoveries weren't appreciated until after he died. When Narinder Singh Kapany invented fiber optic cable in the 50s he had no idea it would lead to revolutions in computer networking, gastroenterology, and other fields.
Russiagate was not about the Russian interference in the 2016 elections, it was the claim that the Trump team was explicitly coordinating with Russian interference in the 2016 election. The interference happened, the evidence of coordination is weak at best.
The ability to leave the house for one :)
Modern C++ OpenSSL Examples
What if you need to generate a picture of Hello Kitty for an article someone is writing about the art style of Hello Kitty or something? I.E. Fair Use cases.
Please don't post shallow, dismissive clichés. They're repetitive and therefore the opposite of what we want here.

You may not owe faceless BigCorps better but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Oh my god, this is fantastic. It doesn't solve the DSL part but it does solve the output-to-PDF-using-CSS part. They also seem so nice!

I guess I can clobber together my own DSL and then run with this. I can't thank you enough
var internetExperience = uBO ? Experience.NICE : Experience.DIE_A_LITTLE_INSIDE;

var internetSafety = -10;

internetSafety += windows ? -5 : 3;

internetSafety += uBO ? 4 : -9;

internetSafety += uMatrix ? 13 : -99;
Notice in that section I called it within a subshell. If I ran `vi $(find / -name nginx.conf)`, and there happened to be multiple files named nginx.conf lying around my system, my guess is `vi` would try to open all of them as different buffers, which is not generally what I want.
There are other reasons too like scale. Obviously not everyone can work on those types of projects but few companies can claim their engineers' code will affect a billion users for example. At that scale, the problems that need to be solved can be interesting even if they're trivial for a smaller set of users.
A close relative is an architect. The way construction projects are managed is waterfall.

It is made worse by the fact that you typically have
1) a large number of different expert firms involved, creating huge dependencies (imagine instead of FE & BE, having 8 different types of engineers, that can only work in a certain pre-defined order and have very limited availability (so if you are late and miss a slot, they may only be available again a few weeks or months later)
2) communication is either physical meeting of principles (bosses/managers) - rarely actual workers, email or paper print outs. It is not uncommon for on premise workers to work with month old plans that have since been changed.

Buildings are one of the few purchasable objects that have gotten more expensive over the last decades (compared to pretty much every consumer goods item).
But we're talking about forcing preemption, which is basically calling into the runtime, isn't it?
It looks like AI is having self-driving hype moment. It works neatly on simple roads while you keep your hands on the steering wheel and watch the car. There are wowzers but the whole Internet feels like ChatGPT is about to disrupt the very fabric of the Universe.

Wonder what will be equivalent stories of careless people turning autopilot on and going to sleep while the car happily drives them off the highway.
So, the above was somewhat flip and terse, but the kind of lawsuit being avoided is also the kind of thing that provides clarity on legal issues and removes spaces of doubt. This can be broadly beneficial.

Giants battling it out can result in a clearer environment for everyone else that couldn’t afford legal risk in an environment of doubt.
> Top executives already pocketed 32 billion ChF in bonuses since 2013. In the same period, CS lost 3.2 billion ChF.

How were shareholders OK with this? After all, top executives are still "just" employees of the real company owners - stock owners.