skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “We thank the Attorneys General for the opportunity to let them know what we have done and will continue to do to combat this rise in car theft and the role social media has played in encouraging it,” Kia said in a statement.

This sentence literally makes no sense. They're thanking Attorney General for the opportunity of letting them know of the role social media played? I think they might have maybe wanted to thank the social media actors involved in bringing this to light - but failed to write an English sentence saying so.
A few people have built frameworks to do this.

There is still a very large open problem in how to federate large numbers of loosely coupled computers to speed up training "interesting" models. I've worked in both domains (protein folding via Folding@Home/protein folding using supercomputers, and ML training on single nodes/ML training on supercomputers) and at least so far, ML hasn't really been a good match for embarrassingly parallel compute. Even in protein folding, folding@home has a number of limitations that are much better addressed on supercomputers (for example: if your problem requires making extremely long individual simulations of large proteins).

All that could change, but I think for the time being, interesting/big models need to be trained on tightly coupled GPUs.
I wouldn't go so far as to call it green fascism, but where I live right now we have to fire up our generators regularly and sometimes the power will go out for several days during winter storms. So forcing us to switch to electricity is risking the lives of some of my neighbors because it's not a reliable source of heat for us.

If we're going to be required to do this, they should require the public utility to maintain the lines to the degree that they can survive the frequent windstorms and snowstorms that happen here.
It is well documented that the CIA heavily influenced elections in Italy after ww2, especially in 1948 when they supported the Christian Democrats in opposition to communism. It’s not the Cold War anymore, but I’m sure this part of their history is a factor.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Italian_general_electio...
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Because there isn't a universal truth ), at least if there is we as a species don't (can't know it) especially as it relates to how we all interact not only with each other but the planet, etc. You're version of good is another's version of bad, if we can't have neutrality, we're just building another machine to amplify whichever group builds it's values and right or wrong just depends on where you stand.

To break it down, do we want to be neutral or do we want, SiliconValleyGPT? What happens when instead of that we get SaudiArabiaGPT? Or ChinaGPT? Or RussiaGPT? DeepSouthGPT? I just picked arbitrary places but you see my point, I hope.
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Isn't this what the embedded folks always (should) use?
Blackmail is a form of extortion. If it were true that extortion required violence or destruction (it does not) then so would blackmail.

I’m not exactly what you mean when you say that “criminal blackmail excludes legal process,” but if you mean that threatening to go to the police with evidence of a crime if the criminal does not give you something of value, you are absolutely mistaken.

Threatening to go to the police without seeking something of value for your silence is certainly legal, but the moment you try to sell your silence you’re going to be wandering around in the vicinity of extortion.
And after that we'll just stop being able to understand any code whatsoever, since it'll be written by AIs in a way no human could ever understand.

Not to mention that humans will stop learning how to program, since they won't need to as the AIs will be doing all the coding for them.

There'll be a general de-skilling of humans, as they offload the doing of virtually everything to robots and AIs.

Then Idiocracy will have truly arrived, only it'll be even worse.
Good.

Crypto has no use case at all and the exchanges harboring these speculative tokens needs to be destroyed.
No, but other manufacturers are much more conservative about how they market their software (e.g., naming it ‘driver assist’ vs ‘autopilot’). It’s an obvious and explicit declaration that their software should not be relied on to be the main mitigation in safety-critical scenarios.
That reality check is nowhere in sight. The games industry beats the TV+Movies industry combined in annual revenue.

IMO the real underlying issue is publishers being far too overbearing on the dev studios. There's plenty of industries where you'll really never hear of the parent company unless you actively look for who owns what. Which reflects a much greater degree of autonomy (do what you want, but meet the bottom line for our investors).

It doesn't appear that game studios today acquired by big publishers have ANY autonomy, which is why they get tanked with high frequency. If you were to do an E3 today (setting aside the political dimensions) the publishers are so self-unaware they'll smother every studio with their brand. It'll be one big microsoft booth vs one big sony booth. Totally idiotic.
Coinbase and Binance are firmly under the microscope of the US Department of Justice (DOJ)
If it's the intent and that's what democracy is predicated on but it isn't then why does it matter? The purpose of a system is what it does, not what it was designed to do
Twitter became a very politically charged platform after 2016, mainly among Americans. They'd be idiots not to take advantage of that.
The state of maine basically invented those weighing stations yet they only operate like once a month, if that.

Crimes as a business is just not policed anymore.
My preferred size of company would not have the resources for a team dedicated to infrastructure. In companies this size, there would be multiple developers skilled enough with the tech to support it fully from installation, configuration, optimization, backup, DR, upgrades, troubleshooting, designing and implementing solutions, etc. Everything. I've worked at several companies of this size and much prefer the broader scope of responsibility and experience to what you get somewhere like you described.
Yeah, surely the fan-boys who remain at Twitter are interested in lowering the visibility of Elon, not the opposite.
If you’re living paycheque to paycheque then where is the extra money going to come from to buy expensive bulbs?
Yup. I think the thing most people need to see at this point is that almost every car maker will follow GM at this. They would rather the Google deal where they get a cut of the pie and some control rather than the nothing they get with Carplay/AA.
Christ Jesus, the USA are on average as good as Merthyr Tydfil, the epicenter of Welsh coal mining, which Maggie Thatcher destroyed. It's bad, but no one anticipated it to be that bad.
> There is code that favor Elon's tweets so I'd yes that's probably what they use

Where?
> say they feel like they need to be teacher + daycare + parent for a subset + law enforcement officer etc. [...] When teachers actually get to be teachers it seems US schools do just fine or better than most of the world

Some of it is definitely because of the lack of a support system at home (poverty, absent fathers...). But I think a lot of it boils down to culture. And if we're to look at it based on race, White Blacks and Hispanics could all improve.

There's a lot of families where school is seen as unimportant, and where education isn't as valued as it could be.
My main questions: Will these repositories be used in production by Twitter? Is this now the mainline, not a semi-regularly-synced mirror?
Excellent. I have an original mortal kombat cabinet I'm restoring, I can't imagine delving into an esoteric project like this.
So what’s currently free on both CarPlay and Android auto will be chargeable after 8 years?

I’m buying another brand that doesn’t pull this shit.
I expect they're tracking the red team/blue team metrics because of the political shitstorm that's been the GOP's assertions they're being silenced by The Algorithm.
It's not. I follow a fairly small # of people (~500) and getting people to reliably show up in is a long-running problem. Following is not enough, you have to favorite or somehow interact with them sufficiently to be sure of seeing all their tweets. It's quite annoying.
Hey it's a quite impressive chatbot. One that takes 8 years of humanity's content to train, and enough compute to melt a glacier, and can summarize emails and create copy really well. It can even write jr grade glue code!

It's gonna be Alexa for Bing, or something...
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This is a very cynical take. They should be commended for publishing recommendation code at all, which no other major social network does.
Yes it was possible. Steel was also available before the industrial revolution... but guess what, it's called a revolution for reason? It become cheap enough to upend preexisting social status quo. It was a social phase transition caused by technology.

We're dealing with a very nascent AI revolution right now. A social phase transition has already started: on the forefront there are graphic artists (midjourney v5 is literally revolutionizing the industry as we speak) and NLP researchers (GPT-4 has reduced the need for applied NLP to basically zero), but it's only a start. The cheapness and availability changes everything.
Less safe would be that existing heavier cab hauling a triple-wiggle-wagon commonly used for tomatoes on I-5 in California. But I'm just having fun with your idea.

Perhaps they could have added requirements in the regulation that the batteries in 2035 must be solid-state, safer, and less than 50% of the weight of their current battery tech. I think there should be government incentives to help fund and improve battery tech and electric motors. Current solid state batteries would meet this requirement but AFAIK have not found their way into automobiles just yet and are just starting to be mass produced.
I know there's a joke about this regarding his ego and there's certainly some truth in that, however it's also quite believable that after a deployment he might have noticed the popularity of his tweets going down (since he no doubt checks his reach), so I can kind of understand how he might see "republicans", "democrats" and "celebrities_it_makes_sense_to_check_this_with_my_account_as_i_am_a_very_active_user" as core categories that need to have their reach balanced.
There are many competing definitions of the middle class. Instead of sticking to definitions from centuries ago, it's better to consider how the word is used today. And according to the common usage, ~50% of people in developed countries are middle class.

The line between the working class and the middle class is difficult to define. You could describe the middle class in terms of having the extra income for some luxuries, owning your home, having higher education, having the social capital from growing up in a family with educated parents, having a white-collar job, and so on. Those with most of these attributes are middle class, while those who lack most of them are working class.

What you call the structure breaking down somewhat I call a massive expansion of education and wealth that defined the 20th century, particularly in Western Europe. Communism was defeated by turning half of the working class into middle class and improving the quality of life for the rest as well. As people now had a vested interest in the system, they no longer wanted to overthrow it.
A risk assessment and threat analysis typically requires a definition of who the adversary is and what the risk of using any service is in regard to that adversary.

Reasons I heard for a lot of companies to not use GCP/AWS/Github simply were: It is a US company, it will be very easy for CIA to retrieve that data (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act) or poison the service, let's use XYZ local provider.

And the ironic thing is that these local providers had either a terrible reliability record or poor security posture so a mildly competent mediocre hacker would be able to compromise the data which is being defended against CIA. Not once in tens of engagements I came across a calculated measure of defending against nation-state vs run-of-the-mill malware.
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Humorous conspiracy theory: Imagine if it is not, but sanitized, and then someone added in Elon Boost to make it look credible. :-)
Probably going to mirror the transition from single-threaded to multi-threaded compute. Took a while until application architectures took hold of the populous to utilize multi-core.
Most of Singapore is opt-in - people moved there for exactly reasons you don’t like.

There are billions of people who would love to live there.
Well we're now half a year in to the first rounds of layoffs. Time flies.
people use to program by punching cards. then compilers came.

I'd say the opposite is about to happen: the boilerplate work will be done by AI, leaving more time to higher level abstractions to humans.
But it actually has. Lack of CarPlay support was a major reason I didn't seriously consider a Tesla for my last purchase (long before they became electric MAGA hats), and I know other people who have the same issue. Are we statistically significant? Not enough data. Maybe not. But there's definitely some money that Tesla's leaving on the table.

Volvo/Polestar has a rather nice, well-integrated implementation of CarPlay, in fact. It definitely can be done. GM is insane.
yeah agree on that for sure. 2 years is nothing. And i increasingly prefer not to OS/DWM tinker and more use the laptop as a tool. THat wasnt the case as much 12 years ago where a LFS install or just making something work in a weird way was part of the fun.

The Wayland default (and maybe they still default to wayland) is tough for me. Wayland struggles with Nvidia cards and specifically multi-monitor setups on an external dock/gpu.

That said I moved back to X11 and its all cheeky on my laptop. I was on minor released from 20.04 to 22.04 mainly to try and get support for the newer intel graphics drivers on the 11th gen chips etc. Again was touch and go a bit, but it worked, just wonky.

I specifically recall not liking the 16.04-18.04 upgrade path in that it would keep legacy options if you went the do-release-upgrade path, but if you did a fresh install of 18.04, changes were different. I think that was mostly upstart stuff, or maybe the network stack config options but also some of the desktop window management stuff.... Im sure that was to placate some of the complaints and keep the upgrade scripts sane, but it was weird in that certain options worked fine if they were carried over from the upgrade but the same config files did nothing if you copied them to a fresh install of 18.04. TBH though its a nitpick and i dont even think i can tell you more specifics that above at this point and frankly if they see a path thats better....who am I to judge. Im not keeping track of whether upstart or systemd is better maintained or scalable for an OS kernel etc....

22.04 is pretty great honestly. I do need to reboot for the PCIe/eGPU changes but otherwise its pretty much plug and play.

For prod servers even, i typically run a do-release-upgrade and just let er rip these days and worse case its a rebuild on 22.04 or something.

EDIT: heres a good one i caught. 18.04 to 20.04 moves to netplan, and it no longer uses the MAC address for DHCP identifier, instead it uses a guid....thats annoying.
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Last weekend I built some tooling that you can integrate with huggingface transformers to force a given model to _only_ output content that validates against a JSON schema [1].

The challenge is that for it to work cost effectively you need to be able to append what is basically a final network layer to the model that is algorithmically designed and until OpenAI exposes the full logits and/or some way to modify them on the fly you're going to be stuck with open source models. I've run things against GPT-2 mostly but it's only list to try LLaMA.

[1] "Structural Alignment: Modifying Transformers (like GPT) to Follow a JSON Schema" @ https://github.com/newhouseb/clownfish
I think the relevant part of the code is in this other repo:

https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm

Not sure if it has what you were looking for (and maybe you already checked this repo, too!), but it's more relevant than the linked repo imo
I'm going to use this comment as a good suggestion for folks reading this thread to look at Jim Lill's youtube channel. He is a down-to-earth gigging musician who goes through the scientific process to try and accurately guage what aspects of the Electric guitar chain (from strings, to body, to amp, to speaker cabinet) actually affect tone.

And spoiler alert; with a couple of flat solid-state volume boosting pedals, an EQ made on a breadboard, and cheapo amplifier he was able to basically recreate the tone of several famous amp sounds. Honestly it makes me reconsider what sort of setup I want and need personally.

I do think that tubes do give a particular overdriven characteristic that is difficult (though far from impossible) to achieve with solid-state components; I don't think it's impossible (or even difficult) to make a solid-state amp that is as good as a tube amp. Just happens that when you use SS components, it's almost always much cheaper; and it becomes harder to sell an expensive amp if your cheapest amp is almost as good. So I believe that the engineers at the big name guitar amp companies tend to give less effort and development to cheaper amps than their big siblings. Which has given SS amps a bad name.
You can find the auditor’s report and learn more about how the ASU works. The cameras are 90s tech and not suitable for identifying individuals - just good enough to track the movement of someone they already know about.

The plane is particularly useful for reducing the need for car chases.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tVI6fn4YGFo

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j0jTuCj7Qeg

Auditor’s report link directly to air support unit info: https://www.portland.gov/audit-services/news/2022/4/6/police...
Looking through it, the ... seems to be a placeholder for information they'd prefer to be kept private. For example, look in the keywords section in the same file you shared.
Yeah unfortunately it often ends up being a code for adjusting ML models to support certain world views or political biases.

It's too bad we haven't been able to separate the data science questions of how we feel about the training data, from the operational questions of whether (a) it's appropriate to make a determination algorithmically and (b) whether the specific model is suited to that decision. Instead we get vague statements about harms and biases.
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I am not sure about that. Twitter has open sourced a lot of stuff in the past. There were certainly people there who would run the site as a nonprofit public service if they had the choice.
Any commentary on what ChatGPT can and can’t do is completely irrelevant if the tests were not done against the GPT-4 model.

It’s like debating what computing machines are capable of when you only have access to an analog watch.
I think the sorts of people who are prone to philosophizing about AI certainly consider this. I also think that whether or not we are isn't actually all that relevant to criticisms being presented.
Well, yes and no.

Single Income Married families have some benefits, or if one party makes a lot less than the other. However there are other disadvantages in some cases; after my first wife got married to me, her financial aid went into the toilet. Even though I was making less than 50k a year myself (and paying enough in student loans/etc that we were barely making ends meet,) that income counted against her. [0]

[0] - Filing separately (as we did once we were separated before our divorce) had it's own disadvanatges; namely that I could no longer declare my student loan interest on my taxes.
Google Maps is on both

Not mine. Oh well, another reason to skip GM.
Thanks for book refs. Would you recommend any of them for a bright teen? [1] sounded like a good candidate.
They are only ceasing to operate in US, they will continue to serve rest of the world (95.75% of world population).
Would this work? I assumed that ISP blocking would still block even when I use a Pihole.
I would never buy a new vehicle without CarPlay. This is a move so stupid, even knowing GM, I’m shocked they would do this. Anyone in the US that isn’t broke or opposing Apple for ideological reasons is all-in on the Apple ecosystem because it’s the only tech ecosystem that actually works and half-ass respects the user.

A recent survey had 87% of people between 14-25 in the US own iPhones and nearly 80% of those who made over median income own iPhones.

Who does GM think is buying new vehicles when economy car base prices are pushing $30k? Someone with a free government Android phone is not dropping $30k+ on a new car.

I can’t wait to see GM go out of business from this sheer stupidity.
The importance of Twitter was it being the primary posting location for a lot of things. A number of the artists and other creatives I know have gotten absolutely gutted by this.
This isn't a technology story. This is a police made up evidence story. They claimed a source told them that this guy did it. Which seems impossible according to the facts the NYTimes laid out.
Interesting, I guess people re-invented the system all over the world. In Turkey at least, the system is analog of the "gold day" tradition of the housewives who would gather in each others house in rotation and give the host money or gold to finance the purchase of things like fridges etc.
End of a crappy era, in the US

The extortion racket bucket shops cant go fast enough!

Long live DEX’s, liquidity pool technology has been an incredible boon to the crypto space, shifting dynamics away from exchanges directly to the project issuers and community.
These line-noise programming languages read like a cruel joke on engineers in the finance world.
Great! But nothing is going to change until people realize that the problem is the feedback loop. It's not the recommendation engine itself, it's the fact that there's no way "out" of the feed that the engine produces. It recommends you stuff, you have little choice but to engage with it, and then it trains on that information.

This is the problem with most of social media today. It is a very well known problem in ML [1], but nobody is willing to do anything about it because it's a fundamental UX change. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, they have defined themselves by their recommendation engines.

[1] https://towardsdatascience.com/dangerous-feedback-loops-in-m...
This isn't /g/, you have to employ a minimum level of politeness here.
I'm honestly surprised anybody is still buying GM cars/trucks.

If you want a truck, get a Ford. They're hands-down the best in class. Or get a Toyota or Honda if you roll that way.

If you want an SUV, well, everybody is making those and GM doesn't have any standout offerings.

If you want a luxury car then there are much better options that are not only more luxurious, but more reliable, and oftentimes cheaper.

If you want reliable, cheap transportation then you're getting a KIA or Hyundai.

No matter how you slice it and dice it, the answer is never GM. (I'll concede the Corvette, they're great sports cars, but c'mon! Not many people are buying those!)

And now they're nixing CarPlay?