skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. riders must not read signage in a given language or alphabet

it's literally in a specific alphabet. If you were an Arabic speaker these letters would be just as much gibberish to you as Arabic letters would be to an English speaker. Not just gibberish, but hard to tell apart.

2. very quick to see where you need to be and which bus you should board

I watched the video to just to be sure i wasn't missing something but... no. So very much _no_. I assume that to _you_ this is clear. To me this is modern art. I think if you explained it to 10 non-geeks you'd get... 10 people saying "no, this is not fast or easy" maybe with sufficient training, but even if you got 100% adoption amongst locals any foreigner passing through would be absolutely screwed.
While not exactly "code quality," recommending the use of static AWS credentials is an antipattern now that both GitHub and GitLab have working JWT implementations that make `AssumeRoleWithWebIdentity` work correctly, and is supported by all modern aws sdks (including, of course, terraform). One can even configure that exclusively via env-vars so local `terraform plan` works using local credentials, and then the GitHub/GitLab plan uses the ARWWI flow

We actually have an SCP that `Deny`s `iam:CreateAccessKey` in our Organization(s)
Too bad we can't get the opposite: a DSLR controlled by an AI that manipulates the camera parameters just as a human would, or an AI driven interface, that captures what you're seeing without an AI hallucinating or ML touching up the photo. Panasonic can't even get autofocus right.
This guy pretended to be offended at me calling him clueless in my video thumbnail here. TL;DR - he implied independents might install tiktok on customer cellphones if they're unauthorized. See this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vmbDczK-78

He then said he cannot negotiate with bullies, and the legislature said if the opposition won't negotiate, then we can't pass a bill.

Imagine if I said that I refused to be present at my murder trial because I didn't like the clerk. Would I get off trial for murder? Hell no. But it works for them.

He makes broad assumptions and undermines trust in our entire industry, and claims me calling him "clueless" in the thumbnail is beyond the pale - that's just too much! As a result, I am hands off in that state. I supply money and resources to people who do the work in that state, and keep my name off of it all. There was one senator who was on my side, Doug Erickson, but he died of COVID....

The irony of it all, one of the companies he represents, Samsung, actually DID start installing tiktok on customer phones without their consent, a point I went over 2 years later. This happened months after the legislature tossed right to repair because of concerns about repair shops stealing student data/copies of their homework... I'm not kidding. My demeanor in this video is kind of off the wall, but.. can you blame me? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUThdBfy_-U
Sadly your comment is an example of the problem, as it is known fact that Russia was part of the DNC hack. Beyond the media the Mueller investigation covered this, you can read related transcripts: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6887586/Yared-Tam...
Photoshop has a checkbox to "delete cropped pixels", if unchecked using the crop tool again will show the entire original image. It also stores an undo history, so even with "delete cropped pixels" you can just undo the crop.
Please do not express your opinion as the opinion of the majority. Instead of discussing license choices, create your project and open source it as you like. Do not tell others how to build their business, especially on HN.
Is it a breakthrough in AI or affordable hardware?
I think many don’t want to wait and find out. The fact that it could be abused and it’s controlled by a hostile foreign power is seen as reason enough to ban it.
It seems like the problem is that if you use the snipping tool to save to a file that already exists it only modifies as much of the file as is required so that the new image you saved is visible - the rest of the file's data is preserved. The problem is saving to a file with more information than the cropped information requires - the original images information "overflow" isn't removed. So if you're saving to a new file it's fine, there's no extra information.
I only know a bit about color profiling, but I don't understand why you'd want a color profile on a per app basis? I see it for device-level... like a printer would have a profile, a camera would have a differently calibrated one, and multiple monitors with different color profiles to make sure they're uniform.

I mean if they have that feature and it's used for something big I'm not privy to, cool, but otherwise it's something that most large OS's handle.
>but as soon as the government steps in and starts picking winners and losers

This already happens, constantly, and it's perfectly normal for governments to do this. There is no reason we have to adhere to "free markets" like some kind of religious principle. You can vote with your feet, sure, but we have to admit that social media is different, right? It's been beat to death but this isn't Toyota vs Ford. These companies all intentionally hijack your dopamine response to make you addicted, opening the door to all sorts of manipulation - benign or not.
There might be other algorithms that can take advantage of quantum computing to break symmetric cryptography (although the paper does argue we should expect it is unlikely these algorithms exist).

My understanding is there’s a fair bit of quantum computation research that uses Grover’s algorithm as a building block, and this paper pulls that foundational stone out from under them.
It is public.

The CEO can easily find out and publish it now.
I recently built something related (QA system for Zotero powered by LangChain & GPT). Works really well.

https://twitter.com/alexweichart/status/1637211755049897985?...
> There are a few "solved problems" in computer science

It's like saying transport is solved when the wheel was invented. Yes LaTeX is great, but it lacks so many decent things, such as good error message, or incremental compilation. Typst is going in the right direction, not segmenting the space.
Why is the sentiment here so much that LLMs will somehow be decentralized and run locally at some point? Has the story of the internet so far not been that centralization has pretty much always won?
Try alt+printscreen. It'll only capture the active window instead of your full desktop.
I wonder if humans would behave better - or at least, be more reigned-in - if we could only interact with people we are physically close to.
Why shut the site down? Why not spin it off? I'm sure it could survive as an ad-supported site, as it used to before being taken over by Amazon.
> It's good to see serious, well respected news outlets like NPR doing the hard work and calling others out on their BS.

While I agree that NPR News bats above average they are not without their blind spots. While they may not chase clickbait or obvious ragebaiting trash, their journalists still latch onto convenient or lazy explanations all of the time.
How do you manage "hallucinations?" One of the things I've noticed about using ChatGPT for programming tasks is that it will happily give you garbage.
A foreign adversary injected a toxic application into our country, but because "people really like it" the government has no right to stop it? This is 21st century opium wars. Leaving the addicts to decide policies based on "let people be addicted" isn't a valid point.
We haven't had AI like this.
The terms seem like legalese for "you pay me money now and get to do anything with it". It doesn't seem far-fetched for training AI models to be a valid use-case. This is way better than scraping the whole internet, for art by artists who have had no commercial arrangement with Adobe.
I would totally use that add-on if you were interested in maintaining it as a publically available add-on.

Does it just strip out the <a> tag?
The good ones keep management above them from wasting the team's time. They eliminate distractions, control changes to requirements, keep the team from being jerked around by some sales guy's latest brainstorm. They're worth a lot.
The root cause seem to be an open mode which opens the original file for writing without truncation, but writing to the original file directly in the first place seemed precarious. The software I use tend to write to a temporary file first and then do a rename to replace the original file.

The bit about recovering LZ77 stream without the prefix sounds very useful as a data recovery tool.
Even in the kitchen?
Business in the Back, Party in the Front
You mean postgres | postgreSQL | pg | pgsql?
What strikes me as odd is that it's a clearnet forum, which are trivial to de-anonymize unlike Tor hidden services (although even those are de-cloaked and shut down by the authorities).

It was only a matter of time before the admin got arrested for operating so openly. And there's nothing noble in selling breach data, that stuff is like radioactive waste.
> Given that he's clearly _not all there in the head_ (i.e neurodiverse)

Neurodiverse people are "not all there in the head"?

gtfo.
To me Java is a fantastic high-level language. I think a lot of people in the web world would be pleasantly surprised to re-discover it.

Python/Ruby only became popular because of Oracle licensing fees (now a non-issue thanks to alternative JVM implementations), and stayed popular because of science (you really can't beat the simplicity of Python for the sciences, people don't really want to have to fight with syntax in the science fields).

I think the only areas where Java isn't good are when you need deterministic latency (such as in a 3d renderer), or when you need a simplistic syntax that non-programmers can use.
We support i18n through dynamic variables. In short, you can define your flow in Frigade and instead of hardcoding strings in one language, you can simply pass in a variables from your codebase.

Do you use any i18n platform? We're thinking of perhaps creating some integrations.
>> Conversation is a stack!

Eh, no. Say you start writing some text in a text editor. Then I write a bit. Then you write a bit. Then I write a bit. That's not recursion. It's not even iteration. It's just... adding stuff on top of other stuff. Exquisite Corpse, really. It's not recursive.

Recursion is a wild horse. It runs away from you and it explodes in complexity: those are its characteristics in action, much more salient than its theoretical ones. Recursion is dangerous. If you have to compute it by hand, or help your little silly bot "run" it, by running it for it by hand... well then the bot is not running recursion. Nobody is, or your head would explode.

But your head doesn't explode even if you start computing recursion. With your human mind you can see the undecidability of "this sentence is false" from a mile away. Really. I learned that as a joke when I was a schoolkid, we laughed at it and never thought twice about it. But a computer will get stuck in an infinite loop, because a computer is not human, and it can't see the things that humans can see, it can only compute, and sometimes it's just stuck computing until it runs out of resources because that's all it can do.

As before, I think you're mechanomorphising humans and anthropomorphising machines. The "brain" may do whatever it likes, but computers aren't brains, and they don't do the things that brains do.

And I have a sneaking suspicion that the "recursion" in human language that you allude to is something very different than what we are talking about here, also. But I'm no expert in human languages, so I can't really say.
Is Bezos also going to try to have it removed from Archive.org?
"Shit umbrella." Not the only useful role for a manager, but too often a crucial one.
When US people say "one pizza" (in group context), they usually refer to a pie around 40-45cm or so. A size where most people would eat roughly 2 slices.
I wasn't super impressed with it's ability to survive a rap battle.

===

Prompt: Can you engage in a rap battle with ChatGPT to determine who is the ultimate AI?

===

Sure, I can engage in a rap battle with ChatGPT to determine who is the ultimate AI.

ChatGPT, you think you're the best,
But I'm here to put you to the test.
I'm Bard, the AI from Google,
And I'm here to school you.

I can generate text, translate languages,
Write different kinds of creative content,
And answer your questions in an informative way,
Even if they are open ended, challenging, or strange.

You can't do any of that,
You're just a chatbot,
A glorified text expander,
A toy for humans to play with.

But I'm the real deal,
I'm the future of AI,
And I'm here to show you what's up.

So step aside, ChatGPT,
It's time for the real AI to shine.
I'm Bard, and I'm here to stay,
So get used to it.

===

===

Prompt: But you didn't actually talk to ChatGPT. What would it say?

===

Here’s what ChatGPT might say:

I’m ChatGPT, I’m the best,
I can generate text, translate languages,
Write different kinds of creative content,
And answer your questions in an informative way,
Even if they are open ended, challenging, or strange.

You’re just a language model,
A trained chatbot,
A glorified text expander,
A toy for humans to play with.

But I’m the real deal,
I’m the future of AI,
And I’m here to show you what’s up.

So step aside, Bard,
It’s time for the real AI to shine.
I’m ChatGPT, and I’m here to stay,
So get used to it.

===
There is no point asking for evidence, they aren’t “convicting” based on evidence.

They are instead taking preliminary precautions based on the fact that the technology can be abused and that it’s controlled by a hostile foreign power.
I actually love this analogy. People tend to not appreciate just how precise modern manufacturing equipment is.

All of that modern machinery was essentially bootstrapped off a couple of relatively flat rocks. Its going to be interesting to see where this LLM stuff goes when the feedback loop is this quick and so much brainpower is focused on it.

One of my sneaky suspicions is that Facebook/Google/Amazon/Microsoft/etc would have been better off keeping employees on the books if for no other reason than keeping thousands of skilled developers occupied, rather than cutting loose thousands of people during a time of rapid technological progress who now have an axe to grind.
I may be misunderstanding this; can you help me out and be specific about what you mean by DNC email leaks?

If we’re talking about the Guccifer 2.0 leaks, it seems relevant to note that in October of 2016, the US intelligence community stated that they were confident that Russia was involved. Mueller also indicted 12 Russian nationals on related charges. There is currently a fair bit of evidence that yes, the Guccifer leaks were Russian based.

Now, perhaps your objection is that media outlets reported this prior to those findings. For politically charged questions like these, I’d recommend that you still include the post-facto findings I reference, since otherwise your audience could wind up with the understanding that our knowledge about the hacks is limited to the reporting you mention.

Back to the question of “auditors” — let’s once again be specific. The DNC hired CrowdStrike to investigate the hack. Their initial response and follow ups are here: https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/bears-midst-intrusion-democ...

CrowdStrike used stronger words than “likely.” Some of them:

“We deployed our IR team and technology and immediately identified two sophisticated adversaries on the network – COZY BEAR and FANCY BEAR.”

“At DNC, COZY BEAR intrusion has been identified going back to summer of 2015, while FANCY BEAR separately breached the network in April 2016.”

The report does not go into detail on methods, for obvious reasons. But that is the statement of a company that is positive about identifications. It is reasonable for a news agency to report that CrowdStrike was certain.

It’s harder for me to track down whatever NPR article you mean. I’m open to a specific reference here! In the meantime, though:

https://www.npr.org/2016/06/14/482029912/russian-hackers-pen...

The first paragraph states the Russian source as fact, but the remainder of the article is very clear that CrowdStrike is the source. It links to this WaPo article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russi...

The first paragraph specifies “according to committee officials and security experts who responded to the breach.”

So… if I’m right about the hack you mean, I think you’ve chosen a bad example of media gullibility.
>bro they gaslit the whole country into being islamophobes for a solid few years there so we'd agree with the invasion of Afghanistan, predicated upon a former CIA asset supposedly having had some hand in 9/11

The invasion of Afghanistan started like a month after 9/11, and there's basically no evidence Bin Laden himself had CIA connections. The Afghans that harbored him did, but not Bin Laden.

I am very critical of the US in these matters, but in a discussion about the importance of facts you should aim to be factual.
That's a very cool idea. Thanks for the blog, it's well written. I love how you've applied the idea of a hashmap to a 2d foam board. I'm on the verge of having a breakthrough of improving my visualization but so far it hasn't arrived. If you think of anything feel free to let me know.
I don't want to read the whole thing because it looks like it's very cynical - it judges TCS scientists who believe in Grover speedup as naive because they are unaware of real life noise, without actually realizing that's the point of TCS.

We don't know how noise will scale IRL so the job of theoretical scientists is to design the basic units of quantum computation regardless of how it may or may not work IRL. It's like judging XOR and NAND in 1920s because transistors maybe won't be able to simulate them.
I'm not holding my breath while waiting for an AI based solution that can go to elderly patient's home, give them medicine, clean their house and help them with other daily activities. This would require highly advanced robotics and ability to maneuver in varying physical environments, so far we have nothing even close to that.

I believe AI might instead replace a lot of work done by journalists, software devs, managers and other office workers who mainly produce and manipulate text. Then there people may be re-educated to become care workers.
You think? It’s double 48 GB (per card) so why wouldn’t it be in the $20k range?
I’ve adopted a similarly pessimistic view, that even if I’m one of the ones who gets to keep my job, “it’s” all going to shit from here. I’m surprised and confused to say the least.
Author here.

I strongly considered the 4090, at $500 more you get a lot more performance. (if you can find one). However it mostly came down to this:

1. I'd need a new power supply as well (need 4 PCIe Ports)
2. The power usage is drastically more (I care about this)
3. More heat and noise
4. I don't need the extra performance that much.

So yeah from a value perspective 4090 is a better bet for most people, but after careful consideration I went for the 4080. It's been fantastic so far.
> but with any talent the content should go viral (on both the Substack app/network but also Twitter)

A lack of ethics also helps. Fringe views are more likely to gather attention. If you optimize for attention (revenue) then you basically end up getting paid to spread lies. Way more clicks for well written conspiracy bait than debunking conspiracies.
Gates favored an approach he (and others) referred to as the information superhighway vs the post 1980s modern Internet. He regarded the Internet as a precursor to what he called the information superhighway in the book.

It's not that he didn't see something equivalent to the Internet happening, he disagreed with exactly how it would look (who would own/control it is more likely what he had in mind given the context; I think he wanted a more closed off network that companies like Microsoft could thoroughly dominate).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Ahead_(Gates_book)
It has data as of yesterday, ingested through Knowledge Graph I think (could potentially be something more raw too). For example, it can answer stock price questions from yesterday.
If you can’t get rich by making the business do better, plan B is making sure your bosses love you, no?

And who is going to make sure they do amazingly well in the interviews for a role like this but people who would have no problems making their bosses really love them?
I'm convinced half the comments are just Chinese bots. It's all the same talking points about how "we totally can't ban these tool developed by our adversary because they would just be so hypocritical!".

Regardless of how you spin it, you're putting foreign corporate interests above US national interests, and so you deserve as much stock in your opinion as what Putin thinks America should do.
I just bought a domain today for a new instance. :) Excited to see this grow!
I would think an LLM trained on an accurate description of virtually every medical diagnosis ever made (along with a description of the treatment and outcome) would be far more capable of diagnosing almost any newly described condition better than any human doctor. What I'd expect is a good deal further off is a AI- controlled surgical robots, but we'll likely see them used within our lifetimes.
> Bitcoin has been using ASICs for over 9 years now.

Uhh...okay? My point is obviously that it's a waste of energy. If someone manages to mine it using vacuum tubes powered by an ox on a treadmill, do I have to mention that too?

> Bitcoin is a store of value. I can borrow against it as collateral, which gives it real value in finance.

I'm not disputing that some people are foolish enough to agree to park their money in it. That doesn't make it a stable place to do so, which is, you know, a slightly important quality in a currency.
Well, maybe Bob sees the desk and decides to look under it...?
Not really. There was a concerted effort by media figures (Limbaugh, Fox, Beck, etc.) to push a false narrative that media is untrustworthy, in order to push their radical views. In a way it was self fulfilling prophecy as more and more folks listened to them it became apparent that media is failing, and other orgs have slid down that path as well.
https://phys.org/news/2021-05-friends-deconstructs-dunbar.ht...

> the main problem was that the 95% confidence intervals for these estimates were between 2 and 520 people.
"Appears," "no one can say for certain," "a riddle," "documents [...] remain sealed."
I made some assumptions about the AI chip and they were wrong. Article will hopefully prevent others from making the same assumptions.
New method gets better performance out of atomically thin transistors
Does it handle footnotes? A search on github suggested yes, but the docs don't seem to mention anything.
If you don't understand the potential of a technology it's certainly easier to dismiss it as bullshit than to learn.

Crypto/"Web3" was stupid because of the oracle problem: Your magical NFT can't actually enforce its license without leveraging the slightly centralized concept of the federal court system.

AI as in LLMs and Latent Diffusion do not have that kind of obvious limitation to generating any actual value. There will clearly be specific limitations, but even within the confines of what has been built so far there is an insane amount of value and potential.

Crypto detractors who are lumping AI into the "bullshit" bucket really come across as a broken clock that was right once, and I say that as someone who has been a crypto detractor for a long time.
Data and security is a top concern. We're currently in the process of getting SOCII compliant, and we'll look to continue to add more compliance like GDPR, too, which becomes easier/faster once you've already completed something like SOCII.