skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Comments about the product moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35246253.

Comments about the waitlist moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35246260.
I have two of them. Absolutely love them.

My workflow isn't nearly as heavy as OPs (mostly DevOps stuff; some Kubernetes clusters here, some toy Go apps there), but it does a great job at these tasks while being super quiet and fast about it.

Our other Mac Mini sits in our living room and is used for Zoom game nights. We play Jackbox on it.

The Intel Mac mini that it replaced would really struggle with Jackbox despite having "fast" chips. On the M1 mini, the fans don't even turn on, even while sharing it over Zoom with other people's video on.
Do the cars drive at freeway speeds, 60 mph plus on the freeway? My impression was they don't go on roads with speeds that fast, they limit themselves to roads with speedsmaybe up to 40.
Yeah, probably. I like OSX a lot, which influenced my original decision. But I don't require it like some do (IPhone developers for instance).
Being human readable is nice, but compared to something like lichess’s Huffman based encoding, it’s something like an order of magnitude larger than needed. If your reference base is several million games, that really adds up.
Fujifilm is a twenty billion dollar company. Imaging is just a hobby for them.

Though I agree that if it were truly hemorrhaging them money, they'd have sold it (like Minolta or Pentax) or spun it out into its own entity (like Olympus).
It's been so long since webassembly was announced, I don't remember why I was ever excited about it. I don't think it serves much of a purpose in 2023, as Javascript JITs are quite fast.
Yes, but that is not going to explain how a large crop eliminating 90% of the image area is not going to shrink the filesize more than a little bit
Hey, thank you. good catch
If we are bringing in AR glasses in the mix, there's no need for the bloom filter. Just highlight the relevant bus if its the one for you. Let the computer handle the mental load of matching schedules.
Ahh this is really interesting! Thanks for sharing.
Losing the staff is worse
I don't see why this is hard to understand. If you're spending so much on childcare that it eats up the majority of one parent's salary, that parent might as well stay home. The problem is that it's the usually the woman giving up paid work in favor of being a stay-at-home parent, as if the general assumption is that the man should work and not raise his kids.
AI is coming from software engineers, and increasing their impact.

Yeah, it makes it take less specialized knowledge and effort to produce code of any given scale, and if the quantity of impact for programming were to be static, that would mean fewer programmers.

But that’s true of every advancement in the history of programming, which just keeps causing employment of more programmers at higher wages in the long term.
I figured they knew that google search hasn't worked for years and were working on solutions that no other company could match. Guess I was wrong.
There's no perfect mix.

In an ideal world, you'd build an order book of every investor that wants in and how much they want. Once you had that book filled, you'd allocate by weighing long term value, price, etc.

Realistically you can't do this (ok sometimes you can). The situation is dynamic and you generally want to take the bird in hand vs. risking the longer process. BUT there's a limit to that, and if you sequence things well - say start the longer processes first - then you have more flexibility.

But remember, the biggest point is that the seed round is just 1 moment in time. If you can't fit someone in but you like them, build the relationship for next time.
It's a marketing term rendered meaningless by the marketers. Even those who know better keep calling LLMs "AI"
Just like most here, my initial results are very poor. Token limit is tiny as well which is very limiting.
See also:

Google Bard waitlist - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35246260

How about we use that thread for comments about the waitlist/country/account restrictions, and this thread for comments about the product itself.
This reminds me of the early binary DOC file format that was essentially a dump of Word's working memory. You could find all sorts of leaked data in the slack space between text chunks. Sometimes from other processes since `malloc` doesn't zero memory. I think there were a few instances of people being caught doing bad things because of identifying information in a Word DOC.

But why is this even happening? The standard procedure to overwrite a file is to save to a temporary file first so an error that occurs during the write won't damage the existing file. Are they really doing an in-place write and how does that affect the shadow copy if you wanted to restore the previous version of the file?
Oh wah.

Anyway, they do actually have a "what for" at the link: https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd0003...
C# ended up with `when` for guards as well, a couple years ago :)
I mean, the whole laptop story was clearly held back and conveniently timed by political actors in an attempt to manipulate the media. I have my problems with NPR, but I'll go on the record and respect them for not playing ball and doing proper due diligence.
So, I'm a moderately-experienced LaTeX user. What is the argument for me switching to typst? I read the repository's README, and would be tempted to consider it as a complete newbie with limited needs, but I couldn't find the compelling argument for ditching (La)TeX in favor of this. Especially given the size of the LaTeX community and availability and accessibility of (sometimes hacky) LaTeX solutions for a zillion situations.
Speakers have a right to speak. Closing ears can be seen as a violation of the first amendment. After all, is it really speaking if the government forces everyone not to listen?
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> I would agree that the aha moment was not for everyone at the same time.

Yes, and the aha moment for (generative) AI is at the same time for everyone. That's what makes it a true aha moment.
Any day now they're going to release some new messaging and video offerings that are going to really turn things around.
It did. Netscape provided that aha moment - via the Web - in the mid to late 1990s. It shook the landscape at the time. If you lived through it, you know what I'm talking about. It was suddenly popping up everywhere, across all media, across the general population. It rocketed into the mainstream in the matter of a few years. Even if people didn't fully realize it was the Internet making it possible.
I suspect the Onboard GPU being so new and different contributes to many of these problems.
There's at least 50 videos on the channel on any of the issues I consider to be main issues that are 5 minutes or less. The people who make the criticisms you make usually don't watch any of those.

It's not just the 10 minute video they think is boring, it's anything I produce. They're not viewers, they're commenters when something frontpages reddit or hn.

and that's fine - people don't have to watch or like my stuff. I just don't produce content for people who will NEVER watch my stuff. It's like fogo de chao trying to cater to vegans.

I could make this video 30 seconds, but it loses its effect. It loses the story, which is what draws people in who otherwise wouldn't care. Without the history, the details, the villain, and the point - do you honestly believe a 15 short of "hey bro john deere uses gpl stuff and doesn't release it rawr" would have the same effect as this video? Even 10% the effect, of getting normal people to care about farmers getting screwed? I doubt it.

I could be wrong, but as far as "Pushing into mainstream" - it made CBC news, at least half a dozen other news stations, got a 50 page report from the FTC, made it to the president's desk, was mentioned in an executive order, and a bill just passed a week ago.. I don't know how much more mainstream it gets unless the issue gets made into a boy band.
I mean to be fair, they're being used as symbols here so the fact that they're latin alphabet doesn't make a particularly big difference. Replacing the letters with very easily distinguishable non-language symbols would probably be better though.
That isn't what is happening in either the original bug for the Google Pixel Markup tool or this bug in the Windows Snipping Tool. What is happening is that the software is overwriting the original image with the new one, but not truncating the file, so if the new compressed image data is smaller than the old, the remainder of the old image still exists at the end of the file.

This data is not made available to the user to uncrop the data at a later time, so it provides no benefit to the user, just risk of privacy violations.
the full quote from Steinbeck's article "A Primer on the '30s." Esquire (June 1960), p. 85-93 tells more about socialists/communists, than it tells about capitalists class:

"Except for the field organizers of strikes, who were pretty tough monkeys and devoted, most of the so-called Communists I met were middle-class, middle-aged people playing a game of dreams. I remember a woman in easy circumstances saying to another even more affluent: 'After the revolution even we will have more, won't we, dear?' Then there was another lover of proletarians who used to raise hell with Sunday picknickers on her property.

"I guess the trouble was that we didn't have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist. Maybe the Communists so closely questioned by the investigation committees were a danger to America, but the ones I knew — at least they claimed to be Communists — couldn't have disrupted a Sunday-school picnic. Besides they were too busy fighting among themselves."
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He might have been using OBS that's compiled for Intel, which struggles a lot and has weird bugs. OBS just recently started officially shipping Apple silicon builds. Those perform way better.
huh interesting. Thanks for the reply.

I understand the perspective of not wanting to give out material that may result in a drug overdose/death. I get it on an emotional level, but it just doesn't really make sense to me. For example, what is safer for a junky - to recieve prescription grade norco, or to sniff a pile of heroin that came from god knows where cut with god knows what? so in the case of a pharmacy sweating people about the legitimacy of their need for a norco, my way of thinking is just give the damn things out. If its a junky, so what, they just got a cleaner safer high. And if its legit, then you have just helped someone who you would have otherwise burdened with the inability to get their drugs.
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The problem is Congress. If we increase taxes, will Congress use the money on the debt? (Arguably that would also fight inflation.) Or would they just spend the money on more programs? That won't do anything about the debt, and it also won't do anything about inflation (because the same amount of money is being spent, the only thing that changed is who has it to spend).

Well, knowing Congress, which do you think they're going to do?

I suppose that kind of cynicism means that Congress can never do anything to help with the debt, or to help with inflation. But, frankly, I don't trust them to do the right thing with a big new pot of money.
Seems like a recipe for unmotivated and low quality govt.
As opposed to the character from Melty Blood? Yes, names are usually overloaded and context matters.
I think this is a more common thing than people realize, people who have quite a bit of expensive camera gear and have been into the whole thing since the film days but yet are simultaneously really happy with a smartphone.

For me multi-lens phone cameras was the thing that really tilted things. I know initially I was infatuated with SLRs and DSLRs because of the big fancy lenses, especially the long ones out beyond 200mm.

But over time I realized the vast majority of my favorite photos were all getting taken with lenses < 100mm in focal length, and I simultaneously got bored with the whole "bokeh" stuff and narrow depth of field. That's what made it so hard to avoid using the phone more and more often.. a super wide, a moderate wide, and a short telephoto cover so much.

It can be hard to argue against a good smartphone + a small drone as a travel photography kit.
Does this finding affect Shor's Algorithm which I only learnt about last night from Veritasium ?
It also makes me question how different this is from what we (humans) do. We learn a bunch of information from a variety of sources and experiences and synthesize that into answers. Sometimes we are correct and sometimes we are not. I suppose the difference is that we can extrapolate from our synthesized information vs simply formulating answers, but what the best LLMs do doesn't seem radically different than the average person.
2023 AI is basically magic.

LLMs and diffusors are the first AI technology to keep the AI name. All previously developed AIs lost their AI naming rights - magic powers - soon after production deployment. These two are truly AI - they’re still magic, perhaps even more so than even 3 months ago and given the number of parameters in them, this will likely remain true for a while. Working with ChatGPT and stable diffusion, seeing GPT-4 write games and midjourney generate presidents of US as Warhammer 40k characters really feels surreal.

This is the sufficiently advanced technology. Literally indistinguishable from magic.
Is this purely a preprint or has it passed a peer review?
Looks promising. Obviously bad news for photographers.

What does the license imply?
> Can I use my virtual faces for commercial use?
> Yes. All images produced are released under the CreativeML Open RAIL-M license.

Does it mean someone else can use the picture freely (which wouldn’t be the case for traditional pictures)? I understand that you delete them after 7 days. But what about people who find that picture online?
> Quick impression: it's not as good as ChatGPT.

Not as good? ChatGPT is crap since M$FT re-donated OpenAI with $10b. Even the paid version is worse[1] than Bing Chat.

[1] https://wojteksychut.com/posts/ml-text-summarization-reliabi...
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As envisioned, the six-engined XB-70 Valkyrie could cruise for thousands of miles at Mach 3+ while flying at 70,000 feet (21,000 m) – which was meant to make it practically immune to interceptor aircraft.
You say Google is not banned, then try to open google.com through any Chinese ISP, can you get anything but connection timeout? Also check Google's transparency report.

Which Chinese law didn't Google follow? Failure to implement the never public admitted content censorship?

Did Chinese government ever acknowledge it's internet censorship?

While banning TikTok is not fair to me, saying Google isn't banned in China is lying.
> there is always going to be some level of false positive

That's not necessarily true. Even if you're dealing with a large number of stops, routes generally aren't changing very frequently. This means you can afford to spend some time tweaking the output to get the false positive rate down to zero.

This isn't strictly a Bloom filter anymore, but I think any level of false positive makes this a non-starter. I can't imagine any transit agency would knowingly to put up signs that will misdirect customers.
I've wondered that myself. Either way it had to be returned.
If you find such a place, don't hesitate to spread the word :)
This is also true of mainstream media publications.
I tried getting it to generate code but it kept telling me it was only a language model.
> Unbelievable, I can't understand how people haven't noticed that. "Wow I crop an image and it doesnt get smaller WTF???"

Most people are not super techie computer users.
Amazon layoffs will shut down camera review site DPReview.com after 25 years
For a small group of enthusiasts, sure. Ask random people whether they know or have used Netscape Navigator and 95%+ of the responses will be "huh, what is that?" Now ask them about ChatGPT and you will see the difference.
Can it run in a docker-compose container with a set ressource limit?

Do each node earn points for supplying resources that can then be spend for greater query / process speed?
I can confirm this. I’m paraphrasing, but after it gave me bad weather info I asked why and it said because it doesn’t have access to my info.
An end of the world newsletter seems pretty fringe to me. Or maybe I’m just out of touch with politics.
Even if had he no financial stake in the company it's clear (and understandable) that he feels a sense of ownership of what it does today and wants to see it continue to succeed. To the point he's definitely likely to be somewhat blind to its failings.
The internet would work just fine without smartphones.

Smartphones would be pretty useless without internet.
The problem with ChatGPT is that it is sometimes plain wrong. I don't know if there is a diff between 3.5 and 4. Probably not.

A test is to try to get ChatGPT to solve simple math problems. It fails. One can even instruct it to apply simple methods like Newton Raphson, Runge Kutta or some Euler bla.
Make arguments that a particular project needs to be invested in, but by using "business lingo" rather than "technical lingo"
Yeah, I was thinking that it could mean both when I responded at first.

In terms of quality, it's mediocre. I find it bland and boring, and if you try to let it write poems, raps or anything with a deeper understanding it fails more than chatgpt would.

I disagree though, absolute speed is going to be important for the chatbot that wants to disrupt the search space. I could see Google Assistent relying on it more for information, and it would be near instant.

For writing large texts or digesting many other documents it will probably matter less, yeah.
Me too. I still use it.
> So just one hour after Google Bard we have yet another senselessly geoblocked feature.

Just checked and no geoblock for bing image creator in india as of now.
I’d rather not have a government run by the same quality people who barely manage to operate the local Burger King.

The government is already bad enough.
AI will take the "means of production" from knowledge workers: their brains.
Aircraft, perhaps. AA rockets probably not so much. Huge radar and ir target. Isn’t real maneuverable at that speed.
> and presumably US companies

It would be simple to prove that TikTok (and it's parent company ByteDance) are free from foreign government involvements by simply disclosing their worldwide finances and having external auditors confirm they aren't receiving payments from adversaries.

I don't see why the company would prefer to face a potential ban from it's most lucrative market rather than go that route...
This could indeed be a wrapper for something like Dall-E 2. Like the latter, they seem to occasionally force some images to be (what US Americans consider) "diverse", i.e. making figures black even when it makes no sense.

The results can be quite disturbing:

https://www.bing.com/images/create/princess-peach2c-portrait...
There are some word games going on here. They propose a classical algorithm that uses the oracle exponentially fewer times than Grover's algorithm. But they're using a special definition of what it means for a classical algorithm to use a quantum oracle, meaning that each classical 'use' can take exponentially longer than a quantum computer using the oracle.

The net result is that for the worst case of oracles, Grover's algorithm is still faster than a classical computer.
> Well, knowing Congress, which do you think they're going to do?

Your position requires assuming Congress would not spend money if it wanted to but it required increasing deficits, and we know from history (recent and otherwise) that that is not a practical constraint, so...
Ah yes, the same Dutch intelligence agency that release from custody a person that stole nuclear weapons technology which enabled Pakistan to develop nuclear bombs. And did so at the behest of a foreign country. I wonder what else they'd do for a foreign country when asked?

1. All of the reporting on this in 2016 relied on the auditing I'm mentioning. Whether there was other evidence is beside the point - it wasn't something they used to influence their reporting

2. If it was known in 2014 that Cozy Bear was targeting the DNC and AIVD already had full access and knowledge of all of Cozy Bear's actions, why did they let them hack the DNC?

3. All sources say there were multiple people who had illicit access to DNC servers. There was clearly a vulnerability that multiple groups were able to exploit, and the exploiters were clearly doing nothing to prevent others from doing the same. Why are we so confident it was Cozy Bear?

4. Why did the DNC, after being told in summer 2015 that they were hacked, do nothing about this? Even the article points this out: "It is not clear why the hacks at the DNC could continue for so long despite the Dutch warnings." They continued to be allegedly hacked for more than a year since the leaked emails date as far as May 2016.

5. We're also completely ignoring that the journalist who published the emails explicitly said it was an insider who provided it, and there is no evidence that this journalist received information from Russian officials.

Literally none of this adds up to anything remotely close to conclusive.
AI generated pics of Trump arrest
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It feels like a lot of "things everyone knows" are slowly getting lost over time, as developers work at higher and higher levels of abstraction without deep knowledge of the layers beneath them (which is of course the whole point of abstractions, but they're never perfect)

Being a true "full stack" engineer is a superpower when it comes to performance optimisation, or vulnerability research.
And with good reason. While I like shooting with DSLM some software and hardware parts are just bad.

No GPS. The cheapest Android phone from 5 years ago has this. I don't want to use the shitty app to get geoinformation. Yes, battery lifetime - no need to enable it by default.

No embedded storage. With SSD prices cheap as now, add some 64 or 128GB storage. Keep the card slot.

More computational stuff, no need for enabling it by default, but stuff like taking 10 pictures, then selecting the best one automatically (or whatever the camera thinks is best). Additional: enable better tethering. On my Nikon Z7 I still can't set everything from the computer. Some settings depend on the mode (P,A,S,M) - why? Nobody knows.

If no flash, at least have some light.
I've got an IRC channel full of ChatGPT bots that answer questions from different perspectives (using [1] if anyone wants something similar). This comment made me realize it'd probably be extremely interesting to also let them debate between themselves to come to a singular answer -- and it'd also be interesting to see which of the popular language models most often "yield" to each other in bot-vs-bot battles (rap or otherwise). Probably a lot of exciting meta-analytics on models to be done here.

[1] https://github.com/drusepth/rubygpt/blob/master/council.rb
> I wonder what someone like 3blue1brown would make of this.

Although I am not Grant Sanderson (3blue1brown creator), I would wager very good money that he would strongly approve.

I am a research mathematician, I do read Quanta, and I've been interviewed for them also. Overall my impression is that they do a good job of making at least something of contemporary research mathematics accessible to the general public. Most people have very little concept of what we do.

It is a notoriously hard task, it is a vitally important one, and it is one that too few people are attempting. Quanta does the best job of it of any publication I know, and for that I am very grateful.