skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the situation was already dire for the open web. Most people are on social networks and consume content there directly or snippets/screenshots of open web content.

Engagement on individual websites has been tanking for over a decade, it's truly starving, a few exceptions aside.

The open web might as well cease to exist mostly, which might be compensated for with private spaces. That trend was already ongoing.
Simpler cartooning styles like classical Disney/Warner are actually some of the weakest ones in AI models right now. Prompted diffusion models are poorly suited to the task and tend to capture excess detail in the contour, because they don't have a mechanism for calculating out the geometry of a constructed form, so they don't arrive at the same clarity and simplicity.

What the model can do best is to convert a basic contour sketch into an elaborate rendering, which means that it's the top end of the market that was doing those renderings that's most at risk.
So fees don't matter if you offer no services.
It wasn't directly about increasing birthrate, it was about dealing with decreasing birthrate.

If we have fewer people to operate society, we may need to conscript ourselves into being useful to the rest of our community.
temporary residence or work permit is enough. and you can have that in multiple countries at once.
Yeah regarding those appliances 100% I see the inelegant solution.

Imagine all new equipment below x watt would be required to have a 12v input in addition to 120/230
What do you mean that isn't definite? I'm very in favor of open firmware, but there have been multiple examples of clones popping up whenever firmware is public and open source.
There's plenty of room for models to continue to grow once efficiency is improved. The basic premise of the Google ML pathways project is sound, you don't have to use all the model all the time. By moving to sparse activations or sparse architectures you can do a lot more with the same compute. The effective model size might be 10x or 100x GPT-4 (speculated at 1T params) but require comparable or less compute.

While not a perfect analogy it's useful to remember that the human brain has far more "parameters", requires several orders of magnitude less energy to train and run, is highly sparse, and does a decent job at thinking.
That's a fair point. Not at all like training on Wikipedia in which nearly every sentence has novelty to it.

Then again it would give you data on every accent in the country, so the holy grail for modelling human speech.
Right were very much in the same boat. I'm good at pattern recognition I guess. I learn things quickly. What else? I don't have magic powers really. I still get headaches and eat junk food.
I first saw this technique used in the late 80's, with the Amiga operating system. Most of the APIs were built on this sort of pattern.
The first 3 numbers show the origin country for a product. Good if you want to prefer some and avoid others.
I tend to use the definition of liberty from the Declaration of the Rights of Man[1], which was contemporary to the Declaration of Independence:

> 4. Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else; hence the exercise of the natural rights of each man has no limits except those which assure to the other members of the society the enjoyment of the same rights. These limits can only be determined by law.

From here it follows that the only legitimate infringement of liberty is in direct defence of existential threats to liberty itself. Therefore taxing people to pay for police, courts, rights of way, etc. is fine. Even drafting people into the military to defend from an attack is acceptable despite the enormous infringement of liberty that being conscripted represents. Liberty is a right to be free from outside interference, not entitled to public services.

The only clause you listed that may be interpreted more broadly is "the general Welfare". The re-interpretation of this clause in 1936 gave the government much more broad authority to tax and spend. It was previously interpreted very narrowly by the supreme court. This is the exact ruling (US v. Butler) that opened the door to the erosion of fundamental liberty, and it's one I would like to see reversed. The vagueness of "general welfare" has been the subject of debate since the 1800s.

> How on Earth do we respect their liberty while preserving the right of every citizen to operate as a citizen?

Simply by acknowledging that your rights to "operate as a citizen" are nowhere enumerated, and don't generally include dining in private establishments anymore than they do dining in private homes. People should be allowed to choose who goes into their business on their property just like they choose who goes into their house. The civil rights movement had legitimate grievances that needed to be addressed. Segregation in publicly funded institutions (so far as these are themselves legitimate) is unacceptable. We actually have never seen a world with fully integrated public schools, universities, police forces, military, etc, but no opinion on private business. I'm not nearly as sure as you are that it would be a markedly more violent one.

> But it is entirely possible that being a citizen obligates such relationships

It is exactly implicit obligation that I'm against. Obligation should as much as possible be explicit. You're no more entitled to get laid than to eat or work at a restaurant, but in only one of these cases do we recognize the importance of explicit consent.

> Goodness is that ever untrue

It's quite true. Mothers don't (usually) abandon newborns because they have a strong instinct to care for them. Newborns are very endearing. This is the very first relationship negotiation you do - you convince your parent(s) to love you. Everything our parents give us follows from that. We are born with no possessions.

> your skin, whether or not it will provide you some net advantages

Right, but these advantages and disadvantages are your own to exploit/bear just as much as your skin is.

1. https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/rightsof.asp
The Mechanical Hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live in its gently humming, gently vibrating, softly illuminated kennel back in a dark corner of the fire house. The dim light of one in the morning, the moonlight from the open sky framed through the great window, touched here and there on the brass and copper and the steel of the faintly trembling beast. Light flickered on bits of ruby glass and on sensitive capillary hairs in the nylon-brushed nostrils of the creature that quivered gently, its eight legs spidered under it on rubber padded paws.
Why wouldn't they? Do you think the CIA today is really materially different from the CIA 50 years ago? Nothing related to CIA accountability has changed, so why would their behavior have changed?
To nitpick, the number of actual truck drivers is likely much lower. My guess is 2.5% includes mechanics, loaders, dispatchers, etc.
Because we all know that banning photo books that include that statue of David protects your children.
Not in how you're going to be treated. During Covid permanent residents were kept out because they're foreigners while citizens were able to travel to Japan[1]. Anyone who expects a western immigrant experience in Japan would be sorely mistaken.

[1]: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/05/19/national/social...
You are displaying your ignorance. I ran an AOSP build customized by volunteer enthusiasts on a smartphone that originally shipped with Windows Mobile on it. With zero issues. For _years_. The HTC Vogue lasted me from Windows Mobile through Android Cupcake, Doughnut, and Eclair, working perfectly all the while. It's completely possible if the manufacturers aren't sheer jerks. That enthusiast work combined with Open Source code kept me from creating at least 3-4 smartphones worth of ewaste by extending the life of my device, and it functioned better for most of that time that it originally had out of the box.

There is also decent enthusiast/volunteer support for things like routers and other gadgets out there.

The only reasons this isn't common are paranoia and desire for profit over all other customer and environmental welfare concerns.
if you look at the code, i did do that, it still fairly reliably ignored it and sent me lengthy explanations with the yaml
Hmmm… the values in the 7B model seem feasible. An order of magnitude lower GPU hours, plus presumably the lower parameter count means it probably could fit on a 24GB Radeon RX 7900 XTX, which has higher single precision flops than the A100 and costs $1000 instead of $15,000.

An order of magnitude lower GPU-hour time, plus if you train it for 210 days instead of 21 days, means you could do a 7B model with 20 consumer GPUs which are $1000 apiece. $20k, not counting mainboard, etc. Really not bad. Might even be doable as a volunteer project.
FYI: Ishkur’s guide was a great resource in the 90s when it went well beyond anything else available on the internet at the time, but it shouldn’t be taken as anything approaching canonical. It’s not clear what his qualifications are to pontificate aside from that he was around in Detroit when some of this was going on, and he was the first to make a website about it.
Thank for sharing, almost 2 ton in weight. But I believe that can work.
This tweet is misunderstanding the papers.
Just pay cash. If you're serious about avoiding having your purchases tracked and analyzed, you're already doing that anyway.
I don't get it, you don't know anything about critical theory?

"Who are these postmodern neo-Marxists?"

Herbert Marcuse, Paulo Freiri, Erich Fromm, Max Horkheimer, Robin DiAngelo, Patrisse Cullors, etc. I'm not so interested in the origins of critical theory though, but in its implementation, like the last two people I listed.

And what do they have to do with Marxism? They believe that applying Marxist economic theory to cultural issues provides a more effective means of hijacking political discourse and enforcing their moralistic ideologies. They're using Soviet and Maoist strategies to do it, not because they're Marxists, but because they're cultists and ideologues and those strategies work.

Where are they? In nearly every institution. In every organization that has a Diversity and Inclusion officer, and most universities. Everywhere you see the rainbow flag, basically.

I know old school Marxists hate being associated with these people, but that's not really my problem... Zizek is cool, but he hasn't said anything interesting in like 10 years.
I've been watching the progress of this Australian, who with his Japanese wife bought an abandoned farmhouse. His work ethic is way better than mine - in the past four years he's made tremendous progress in getting the place fixed up.

I really like the wood beam construction with ceramic tile roof that makes up the style of the home. They bought the house at auction for ¥3mm (about $23,000 USD today). No idea what they've spent to date, but I would guess 3-4 times that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgw_8fTkqNk
> So was the horse drawn carriage. Where is that industry now?

Less profitable is not the same thing as impossible, no matter how much it enriches your bottom line.
In some whole-house solar systems, there is a DC component.

I find this interesting:

https://www.generac.com/generaccorporate/media/library/conte... [PDF]

Generac has a whole-house power system with a DC generator as part of the system.

I don't see why there can't be a "DC power panel" for dc-only compoents where it makes sense.

also, there are POE lighting systems (although when I looked they were expensive):

https://www.axislighting.com/innovations/poe-lighting
Yeah, i'm working on that for another project, i might port it into this, but that would risk turning this into a real thing and less a possibly fun way to destroy your cluster.
Interestingly enough this is getting another layer on top of it. Google is working on something called "HIBA" (https://github.com/google/hiba) which is an extension to OpenSSH SSH Certificates.

So now you have layers of:

- SSH RFC

- OpenSSH extensions to SSH

- Google extensions to OpenSSH
Any chance to contact you? Would love to ask a few questions.
Unfortunate that this rightward lurch by the Modi government (still incredibly popular in India) will be ignored by the "west" due to competition with China.

India considers unfettered social media and speech a threat to stability, just like China.
Shhhh. Tell the Ukrainians not to look too closely for Chinese components inside the US weapons we are sending them.
Microsoft Semantic Kernel for LLM App Integration
I disagree. The distinction is very valuable when it comes to how you design the system for maintenance.

Firmware is not simply software that you take for granted, its software that is designed and tested prior to release such that updates and maintenance are very rare. Its possible that updating by the user is impossible. Example: I worked on a swarm of environmental sensors that reported via bluetooth. In principle, you could send out a new firmware package over the air, but rewriting their ROM required more current the the coin cell could provide. These devices were meant to be in hard-to-reach places, so updating the firmware on a fleet of them (a few thousand in an average warehouse) was a pretty onerous task, involving recovery, disassembly, and reprogramming using specialized equipment. When we pushed out generation 2 of these devices, we addressed the issue with over-sourcing current, but it was still understood that there was some non-zero possibility that an update could brick the device, necessitating the onerous process to recover. The takeaway: if it really hurts to update, its firmware.

I do get irritated that I have to read quite a ways down a job description before they indicate something like "embedded Linux/Windows/AmigaOS/etc", because when I call myself a firmware developer, I think embedded C on a mirocontroller with at most a simple RTOS.
In addition to the problems you listed, Wikimedia spends money like it was water, and Mozilla's handling of their main product, Firefox, could be charitably described as mismanagement. Neither organization deserves trust.
Same. Sometimes my wife asks why I don't play on the computer or social media, and I tell her it's because I hate computers. She expectedly says...but you're a programmer.

I think doing anything all day every day sucks the joy out of it.
> rebooted

why would this be necessary for a desktop env?
Ok.

But what kind of magic signature do you want to know that the code you're running matches the source, if the software is closed source and you have no access to the source?

Your requirement makes no sense. Are you a product manager? :D
Better to have "the government" do it rather than a single political party like its done in the USA.
I'm not even opposed to flagging posts as “fake, false or misleading” because abusing those flags will cause them to be ignored, but removing content is a problem. State censorship is a much bigger threat to Democracy than false or misleading tweets and facebook posts.
Update:

It looks like they have filed a few patents with a ruthenium-based electrocatalyst.

https://patents.google.com/?assignee=EnerVenue&oq=EnerVenue&...
Maybe SO management figured it should be more lucrative to have those job sites/brokers bid on ads placed on SO rather than becoming a competitor to their customers.
That is one of my top worries. If the, taking Debian as an example, has a sufficient amount of patches for their rust package that have not been upstream or upstream won't accept, does Debian now need to offer Rust under a different name because the Rust Foundation may not allow them to use the "Rust" branding?
Further improvements in efficiency need not come from alternative architectures. They'll likely also come from novel training objectives, optimizers, data augmentations, etc.
Here's the full list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AVW8q-B4uSZIJ3mLqc5t...

Here is a parent reading aloud from the book (on this list) "Let's talk about it": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cd5VUhMrF4

He's reading about how, as a child, you can send sexually explicit photos to people on the internet. It seems *completely* reasonable to remove this book from libraries.

Somewhat unsurprisingly, but demonstrative of exactly the type of erosion of trust I'm talking about WRT to the discourse around this topic, Batman and X-Men comics are not the focus of these types of book bans.
Hrm I wonder if it could be used to cache sessions to prevent having call the database so much for NextAuth.js
But they're willing to make diapers and feminine products tax-exempt as well. Peak American Compromise.
Is this the real saurik? :0
My ex husband and I once argued for three days before realizing we weren't even talking about the same thing. '

Your framing of this and mine are just different. Me understanding why some people in the South see it a certain way is absolutely not bound up with a lot of the stuff you are lumping it in with.
Personally, I'm less worried about AI than I am about what people using these models can do to others. Misinformation/disinformation, more believable scams, stuff like that.
> According to Roger Lowenstein, a financial journalist and author of America’s Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve, bank regulations used to protect small lenders in particular—in the 1930s you couldn’t have more than one branch or operate across state lines.

I say we bring this back. Split up the "too big to fail" ultrabanks.
In this context compute optimal isn't quite the same as diminishing returns. If you look at the loss graphs in the Llama paper, you can see that even the curves for the smaller models were still going down at the time they stopped training and weren't anywhere near plateauing yet. LLMs are notoriously data hungry and will take a long time to reach convergence.

Compute optimal here means the point at which it makes sense to move from a smaller to a larger model assuming that: (a) you have a fixed compute budget of FLOPs, and (b) you want to train the best model possible. The problem is that this applies only to training and assumes nothing about the cost of inference. If you actually need to deploy these trained models and support them long-term for hundreds, thousands, even millions of people to use, would you rather deploy a 13B model or a 30B model at the same level of quality, even if the 13B model would be more costly to train?

There is going to be a point at which these models plateau and further improvement will not be possible without moving to a larger model, but Llama doesn't get there quite yet.
The problem is that most of the mainstream apps will not be in F-Droid et al. when they are the ones which should be in there.

We lose all transparency for the big players. Meta does not want us to know precisely how much it collects data.

If they can start somehow avoid Apples privacy restrictions and reduce transparency with side loading, they will do it.

There isn’t really problem with the lack of sideloading in iOS.

It is just that costly developer licence and strict requiremets of App store to increase the quality of the apps.

Sideloading just makes it easier to install lower quality software and some random oss projects where maintainers do not have either Apple’s licence or time to maintain app store releases.

Of course, there is the payment fee but that is another story.
When some EU countries arrested Iranian assasins send to kill Iranian dissidents they just politely flew the assassins back to Iran with no other punishment. In my opinion the assassins should have been jailed for planned/attempted murder.

Western countries are hilariously underprepared to deal with adversaries that are both sophisticated and brutal. Adversaries like China, Russia and Iran.
Everyone's use cases are different. But I think I'm making the right trade-offs here overall (I am management in this world).
Ken Kocienda one of the first engineers working on the iPhone disagrees with you on that https://twitter.com/kocienda/status/1529521111104299008?s=20
Could you describe a rough implementation, with the assumption that the vendor can still provide firmware updates?
I made sure to include that in my blog post - along with a note that you need 2.67TB of disk space first!
I am very familiar with MJ and know very well how SD can be used to generate images.

I am the author of submissions such as: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35181433, and I am one of the people responsible for the enthusiasm behind the performance of MJ v5.

But no, MJ is not much better if you know how to use SD, although if what you did with SD was just put a prompt in a huggingface space, I can understand why you say that.

>I never said you can't do impressive things with SD, but feel free to share these comics.

I am arguing that they are better than any comics made with MJ, not that they are simply impressive, that's really the entire point. I know some on Pixiv, you can look them up if you want; I am not linking them for obvious reasons (to say they are NSFW is putting it mildly).
That the message contents of every user of a service were indiscriminately read without doing any investigation to see which were criminals first? Imagine if the FBI just seized the Yahoo! mail database and started reading messages because some of the users were criminals.
Article is about the same person, I think? $150,000 in renovations so far.
Malfunctioning Russian Missile May Have Saved RC-135 Spy Plane
>At Europol, Lecouffe has explained that, although he was of course unsurprised to find that criminals used violence, he was shocked at “the level of violence” in Europe.

It isn't like they can settle their differences in drug court. Black markets and the associated attempts to shut them down naturally generate violence. The people involved literally have no other choice.
Mozilla Open Source Audit Tooling (Oat) Project
or like a curve of model complexity versus results or whatever showing it asymptotically approaches whatever.

actually there was a great paper from microsoft research from like 2001 on spam filtering where they demonstrated that model complexity necessary for spam filtering went down as the size of the data set went up. That paper, which i can't seem to find now, had a big impact on me as a researcher because it so clearly demonstrated that small data is usually bad data and sophisticated models are sometimes solving problems will small data sets instead of problems with data.

of course this paper came out the year friedman published his gradient boosting paper, i think random forest also was only recently published then as well (i think there is a paper from 1996 about RF and briemans two cultures paper came out this year where he discusses RF i believe), and this is a decade before gpu based neural networks. So times are different now. But actually i think the big difference is these days i probably ask chatgpt to write the boiler plate code for a gradient boosted model that takes data out of a relational database instead of writing it myself.
VSCode ticket: Require user consent before sending any telemetry
> I'm talking about the firmware on the motherboard.

Then that's what I thought, yeah.

I don't see why you're explaining how your idea would be implemented; I'm rather saying that implementing it in that way might be prohibitive if Intel or AMD still have customers that expect the CPU to act a certain way. And these customers aren't necessarily standard desktop/laptop motherboards.

In other words, changing "what mode the CPU starts in" would be a big and observable breaking change and not necessarily just an implementation detail that can be magically worked around by firmware updates like you describe.
Expensive real estate is often overpriced for no good reason. However, cheap real estate is almost always underpriced for a very good reason.
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