skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whose invading through the Bessarabian Gap or the Black Sea?

Egypt?

- USA is just going to come across either Alaska, the North Pole, or EU allies' military bases.

- UA/Finland/etc are going through their land borders.

- Rest of EU is going to have a problem without sending troops through their neighbors. (And using the Black sea is just a huge detour ...)

- China would use its land border.
Many small things with which to disagree, but they're trivial and it's all-in-all a good piece. Let's not get stuck in the weeds here. More importantly, don't get stuck in the mud. Contentment is hard, but aim for it in a sensible way.
This is like saying tractors won't steal agricultural hand-ploughing jobs, the people building the tractors will. Technically true. But... stupid.
Back in the 70's it was the population bomb and the coming ice age. I just wish they'd leave AI alone. I like it.
With the cost of living in the US being completely out of control, and the potential for AI to gut wages in a number of high paid areas, why are we not expecting a new luddite movement?

Or is this another case of not understanding why the luddites broke the machines in the first place?
3. Virtual people. AI pretending to be human to prevent humans from taking their job.
Storming the trenches implies they're actually there to fight and win.

In most cases they're there to get shot at enough while drones watch and tag enemy positions for artillery strikes.

In peer- or near-peer conflicts arty accounts for a high, often monumentally high, number of casualties -- easily 75% or more. The prisoners aren't expected to win, that would require lots of training, trust, gear, and planning; they're expected to draw fire, and the VDV or main-line regulars will clean up the rest.
Depends on the calculator. Floating point imprecision is well documented.
I think by "smartest people" the article is referring to the top 1-3 percent smartest people, not the actual 1-3 smartest people in the world...
I'm with you. It's a serious snoozefest. It is not cinema so I disagree about generational shift*. The problem is foundational. It's a novel, not a film. Interior space of man is not very cinematic from the outside. (Yes, I know few giants of film disagree.)

* p.s.: Take The Andromeda Strain (1971)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066769/

imho, an absolute gem of Sci-Fi that still works. This is also a 'slow pace' film, there is also a great deal of matter happening inside the characters' heads, but it still works as film. (hn bonus: CalTech and JPL are in the credits.)
Has been publishing sometimes every 5 days, it seems mostly, by being listed as co-author. I like my genius with some effort and sweat. Even Terence Tao talks about his challenges...

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4190-1916
What I'd like is a Mullvad container in regular Firefox so I can choose what sites to open in it, or rather make it the default and move a site to another container if I want permanent cookies. I use temporary containers now but the extra fingerprinting features appeal to me.
Pricing is the most critical requirement in this industry since the price calculation could be very surprising for newbies.
So if a Human Artist did this on an "industrial scale" you would sue them for having similar a style, how do you think that lawsuit would turn out for you? You are actually mad at the moral implications of Capitalism and not the legality of AI art?
How often are people?
Related hack: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxbVxaScZQ4

dosdude1 upgrading the soldered on memory in a macbook air.
For porn, it's enough that people jerk off to it.

Being sexy was never a major goal.

Most porn is even decidely unsexy. Just plumbing.
Just because we cannot determine something doesn't mean it's non-deterministic. The question of the existence of free will is very similar – if not equivalent – to the existence of real randomness.
I.e. a dice roll may be deterministic if you just know the right set of complicated equations for gravity, air resistance, turbulence etc.
Middle class got hollowed out a long time before this came along.

Automation was always picked as a good scapegoat for the declining fortunes of the middle class because the inevitable forward march of progress is immune from pitchforks while oligarchs, landlords and bought politicians are not.
If trained correctly the model could easily reproduce any arbitrary image if you know its coordinate in the latent space (and you use deterministic sampler), regardless of whether the image is present in the dataset or not, it's also easy to imagine as the coordinates are as big as the samples generated by the diffusion model. You can take an image and use DDIM inversion to find the coordinates.
> they have spent an immense amount of money and time on fcc filings for spectrum.

Well, sure. It has a multiplicative effect with number of satellites on throughput. Not to mention the proxy warfare they've endured from other constellation vendors through the FCC.

The big point which I responded to was there was a claim that adding more satellites doesn't add throughput ("Do cheap launches help")-- that one could be purely spectrum limited and not benefit from additional satellites. Directional antennas make this not true for any reasonable number of satellites.
There’s user friendly variants like Manjaro.

Also you don’t technically have to know what you are doing. Their guide is very helpful at guiding you, but it’s all commands you have to type out on the command line until you get to a more GUI environment.
They've been my go to VPN service for years, since PIA was bought out, so this is a welcomed surprise. Hope it's as good as their service.
If you read the whole article, that's not because Rafael Luque was using ChatGPT to churn out papers, but because he was lending his name to research papers done in Saudi Arabia and Chinese universities.
> IP

This is a surprisingly effective one when combined with other users of your network. A couple of years ago, I started getting Facebook ads for things I'd never looked at, but that I knew my wife had looked at. We don't share any devices, and she doesn't even have a Facebook account.

It's pretty troubling how invasive shadow profiles are.
Israel's GDP is like a fortieth of the US, but they have had a really solid economy over the past ten years, which helps their currency.
Godot is amazing, though it only supports C++ through GDNative bindings. It only has first-class support for GDScript and C#.
Meh. Sophistry. Changing definitions to get unexpected results is boring.

The simple truth is that the original proposition "all mazes being two pieces" is just false.

Obviously false when you have multiple exists, or when there is only one exit/entrance and the goal is to reach the middle of the maze. But even if we stick to one entrance one exit mazes you can have multiple paths from exit to entrance which cut the maze into multiple pieces.

But even if we constrain ourselves to one entrance, one exit mazes with a single solution path you can trivially construct a maze inside a large room without connecting it to the walls. Thus creating a third piece to the maze.

It is just simply false.
Maybe it will be true for niche creative work, but I really doubt people care if your k8s custom resource definition yaml files have the “human touch” or not
Scale – The Forgotten Operator by Bryan Cantrill [video]
Nobody is suggesting anything of the sort.

In a given area (say a full city block, including all roads and alleys within and bordering that block), you might want...

- Pedestrian lane

- Bike+scooter lane (any transport that's ~20mph and <500lbs loaded). That may or may not include gas scooters (50cc Vespa type).

- Auto lane

- parking lane (could be a mix of bike/car parking)

- possibly a transit lane (bus, light rail, etc)

And you don't need every one of these on every block/street - you can alternate. Or use one-way auto lanes on alternating streets to make room for the other modes of transport.
I think I might be referring to that? Mainly referring to the separate “Other Updates” section of downloads, but I didn’t know those are still tied to OS updates for Safari.
If companies are laying off 6% of their staff they probably aren't buying tons of new machines either.
AI/ML and LLMs definitely attract a certain cadre of very smart people. I think they enjoy the way that AI/ML sort of inverts the normal programming mindset and the strategies of handling lots of data.

But I also agree that for many other smart people, what these things do is sort of an "obvious" result of doing bulk statistics on lots of data. The particulars can sometimes be surprising, but the aggregate result "thing that confidently generates false data" isn't.

In between, there seems to be a very passionate, and very excited group of people who don't get it and think the AI magic is "thinking". Some of these people may also be smart, but they sure don't have a strong complete vertical understanding of the topic. These people are numerous, and provide lots of conflicting and confusing information at about the level of through of the latest popular science breakthrough article -- setting wrong expectations all along the way.
Personally this has happened to me once. I was visiting my parents and the town I grew up in. I went for a walk by my old elementary school and walked onto the grounds. It was late in the afternoon, well after classes were done and most of the students and teachers would have left. A hundred yards away, some children were playing soccer. I stopped to watch for a bit. It was only a few seconds before a woman came up to me and very curtly asked, "what do you think you're doing here?" I said I used to go to school here, and I was on a walk. She said, "you need to leave." I asked her why and she repeated that I needed to leave. Just super hostile. I didn't want a big confrontation, so I left.
Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining.
I’ve been waiting for a guide to come and take me by the hand…
Apple is using the Porsche model of, "An entry level <Porsche|Apple> is a used one".
Hmm interesting indeed. He also shows that you can use the "bucket fill" paint tool on any part of the maze to automatically highlight and visually "separate" that half from the other half of the maze.

Now can we use THIS property to automatically solve a maze? make the WALLS of the MAZE themselves out of transparent TUBES and fill THEM with dyed water? An then the solved maze is simply the path that always has dyed walls on one side and transparent walls on the other. Not sure what the mathematical proof for this will look like but sounds nearly as good as the original "water can solve a maze" proof?
Just had to report a bug on the alsa-lib... and it has to be done on github.

Ok, we have a situation here. Critical/significant open source components going on sites which should be avoided. There are noscript/basic (x)html alternatives.

Why those are not chosen??
Mostly is publishing by being co-author: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4190-1916
In all fairness, Sweden isn't exactly doing remarkably well either. It's fertility rate is still well below replacement level. It's still in terminal decline. Just a tad slower than its peers.
> the 2009 recession for the US, and our anemic response to it

From dictionary.com:

anemic: a lack of power, vigor, vitality, or colorfulness

Interesting that you'd characterize the response to 2008 financial crisis as 'lack(ing) power'. The response was unprecedented in scale and scope, at least in terms of intervention from the Federal Reserve. The bail-out of the automakers was also controversial due to its size and lack of precendent.

Or, are you referring to a lack of regulatory response?
Project management (IMO) has two major aspects - co-ordination and risk management.

For co-ordination it is waaaay better to have some overarching vision clearly articulated (maybe a blog to keep it simple) and then an awful lot of integration early and often.

Any group of management that thinks it can do-ordinate better than actually integrating against working software needs a reality check. If the organisation finds what is integrating is not what it wants (pretty much all projects) then early delivery finds the answer quickly

I mean this is totally what Agile Methods means. It's just the higher up / programme management process does not recognise this chnage - they think things can be planned - they can't they can only be predicted and predictions chnaged based on up to date information.

And it cannot be that they understand it because their salaries depend on it.

And maybe I am being mercenary- but paying people almost always gains their compliance for a while. and either you take that short while as a given or you only hire people whose personal vision aligns to the desired company vision - sadly i think we will see far more "political companies" - not for example democrat / republican but climate change / social justice aware - and your personal views will be meaningful at higher levels. but that is probably true anyhow, it's just implicit
I don’t know what games you throw at it, but my desktop regularly needs to be updated to keep up with current titles.
Not millions. That number is probably closer to 800k.

Still a lot, esp. you consider the primary draftable age groups (e.g. 18-30), and that not all males in that group would be military worthy, i.e. medical or mental disabilities, etc.

Also a big deal if you consider that most of them are the wealthier, smarter, more mobile parts of the population, which will exacerbate the brain-drain and impact the economy. A lot of those guys aren't gonna go back anytime soon, or at all.
I would happily rather that neither of these happen. For safari not to be a buggy mess/work without extra development efforts and for chrome to have real competition enough to prevent them setting a standard.

I will however, take chrome and user choice every single day over Safari's monopolistic crap.

The mere fact it's largely successful by it's nature of being bundled should scream to you how bad it really is.
Those are all horrible proprietary licenses that nobody should ever use for anything.
My guess is that it came from the Amiga and the dos port(?) had to do some pretty unusual magic to make that work on PC?
It's a matter of rendering a bunch of transposed points as a path and then applying a fill.

Not particularly different, other than that I assume OP's challenge was to see how tiny they could make this and that might expand the code size.
The end of the ability to run deficits. Social Security and medicare financial problems become exponentially more urgent and dire.
This may work for creative roles, but it won't work for data entry, number crunching, task automation, etc. No one cares if a human is doing a mundane task. The thing is...creative roles are limited.
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35416552
Yep, that was my point... even the desktop...
They can't. They can make it easier to sue the creator of a work for infringing on existing art or characters ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_protection_for_ficti... ) used in the work.
That sounds similar to companies in the 1960's refusing to use "soulless" computing machines aka computers. Not sure it worked out well for them...
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. Many companies ignore open source licenses because and it's difficult to prove they aren't following them.
Me. It leaks.
I don’t think anyone who understands market share thinks that a drop in market share means fewer users. But it does mean that your product has stagnated and commercial interests are going to be focusing their energy elsewhere where it can have a more outsized ROI.

A constant market share as the pie grows is great - it means your attractiveness as a platform is keeping up with overall growth. If someone needs a 2% growth to edge out competition, targeting Linux could be valuable. A shrinking market share means I should invest elsewhere. Linux has remained niche because you need to get about 5-10% to warrant commercial interests because there’s a non 0 cost porting to Linux and providing some level of support. Also your potential customers have to spend money which is less clear from these numbers who the Linux community fares vs others. For example iOS customers tend to be more valuable than android because they are typically higher income, there’s a lot of them in terms of market share and absolute numbers and spend more money on the App Store / in app than the typical android user.
I started with a Plus.
That's a version of the main problem, which is lack of a proper feedback mechanism. Money provides feedback for how what we do gets valued, and lets us establish a complex dynamical system that otherwise is not controllable. There is no feedback like this in socialism, so at best you get shortages, at worst you end up violently enforcing some particular version of a system on people and a substitute for the communication channel that money provides.
Most of us are self-aware that I'm not that important to be specifically targeted.

At the end of the day, where there is attention, there will be ads. All you are fighting for should they show you relevant ads or irrelevant ads.

People who live a privileged life and have nothing else important going on in their life choose this hill to die on.
There's a class of statements that can be either interpreted precisely, at which point the claim they make is clearly true but trivial, or interpreted expansively, at which point the claim is significant but no longer clearly true.

This is one of those: yes, technically LLMs are token predictors, but technically any nondeterministic Turing machine is a token predictor. The human brain could be viewed as a token predictor [1]. The interesting question is how it comes up with its predictions, and on this the phrase offers no insight at all.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive_coding
Burying high voltage transmission cables is extremely expensive [1] and usually only done when there is no other choice (such as being in an urban environment, near airports and the likes) as the loss due to capacitance is far greater than on poles.

The exception to the "usually only" is, once again, our beloved "german redneck" government in Bavaria who insisted that the new North-South line Südlink got buried on Bavarian soil to quash local NIMBY resistance [2] - at the price of taking ages longer to build and costing ~8x the amount of pole-run lines.

[1] see page 64, https://www.amprion.net/Dokumente/Dialog/Downloads/Studien/E...

[2] https://www.sueddeutsche.de/bayern/energiewende-warum-erdkab...
> that extra memory is just about useless.

Same goes today, unless you're doing other things than just gaming. But top of the line cards come with 24GB VRAM, most games never come close to using that much VRAM.
The brain is actually rather active even when we think it's not. The parts that are active are called the default mode network
Its absurd that Apple decided adding a direct port for a second monitor needs a "Pro" MacBook.

My sister was given a M2 and had to use external dongles which then needed DisplayLink to be installed.

None of this is necessary.
Perfect application for this AI tool imo.

Yup - credential whoring and research fraud. It's the new frontier.
Very cool project, I'll keep an eye on this.
I presume parent is implying that war doesn't really provide any benefit to the occupants of either nation, so by expanding NATO--or otherwise encouraging 'don't start a fucking war'--we get to keep the populace out of war.

War might benefit _some_ russians, or _some_ americans, or _some_ <whatever_nation>, but I doubt that on balance 'peace' is a worse situation for most people. So, if NATO can encourage peace (even through threat of force), that's overall a benefit
It's one of the things you don't hear about in history classes in Austrian schools.
So delivery vans and service vans get a permit to drive downtown. Possibly the same for residents (could go either way here, based on housing density and alternative transport options). But personal vehicles of non-residents are banned.
To take an example: someone who used MIT licensed code but doesn't reproduce the license.

Therefore isn't following the terms of the copyright grant, ergo doesn't have a license for use, ergo is violating copyright.

Now what does that look like when I take 100 different open source licenses, including MIT, put them in a GPT blender, and then productize my output without following any of the licenses?

... makes you think there might be a legal component to why OpenAI switched to a SaaS model. Although believe they'd still be in hot water over any AGPL et al. code.
Return to the office... unless we're making layoffs, then work from home. Great.
It's not my argument. I'm just a guy on the internet trying to help another guy on the internet who asked a question because they didn't know about this and weren't informed. Now your informed and can make your own prediction.
The very premise that 'smartness' is easily quantifiable is also flawed. Attempting to rank all human minds on some hierarchical scale is going to run into the same problems as with human bodies. Is it better to be able to run the fastest, or to lift the heaviest weights, or to have the best hand-eye coordination when it comes to throwing and catching objects? Will specialization in one area of mental skill inevitably create weaknesses in other areas of mental skill (e.g. the strongest weightlifters are never the fastest runners over long distances)?

Not only that, there's the whole cult of intelligence issue, which attracts people who are very skilled at presenting themselves as uber-intelligent even if their greatest talents like in the realm of social engineering and bureaucratic manipulation (many highly successful academics fall into this category). This is a kind of 'smartness', but not necessarily the kind that helps one grasp complex maths.

What we call 'smartness', or 'actual skill' is the product of some degree of native intelligence and the amound of time and energy spent developing that intelligence in a particular area via diligent effort.
With the progression of the technology, you may find there are not so many "in-between" steps as you expect in your current list. It will quickly go from the current stage "employee being more productive" to "steam, I want to play a game where <insert prompt here>". No need to generate art assets or have anything resembling a game engine, just pure interactive "imagination".
Huh? Maybe your comment was aimed elsewhere in the thread; I never said management isn't important. I responded simply and directly to this comment:

> Needing to "manage up" is the ultimate waste of resources... why even have a manager at that point.

This kind of blanket refusal to engage meaningfully with one's manager and provide upward feedback creates a vicious cycle that compounds the problem.

(PoV based on 25y in the industry, spanning startups and enterprises, in IC and managerial roles incl VP.)
I'm doing this too on a paragraph level. It is amazing how much better my writing is getting with a tutor.

It is entirely unsurprising that a non-native writer would do this. It would be more surprising in five years that anyone is not doing this.
> So if a Human Artist did this on an "industrial scale" you would sue them for having similar a style, how do you think that lawsuit would turn out for you?

when it becomes a realistic possibility that a single human can ingest every work ever created, and then output a derived work in a second to thousands of people at a time: I'll let you know
Sure, but what's your suggestion? Load http://192.168.2.24 on your iPhone while you develop on your Windows machine? Seems unlikely this is a better workflow.
Most of that aggression was targeted at Eastern Europe, such as putting down uprisings in Czechoslovakia and Hungary.

Which is, go figure, why Poland, the Baltics, the Czechs, etc. are so eager to support Ukraine...
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