skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The human brain is also three-dimensional, heavily interconnected, and has built-in thermal management at every scale. Chips are much faster, but still operate on the essentially linear memory cells, and this limits how many matmuls you can do per second. If we can figure out true connectivity without doing tons of matmuls, then we should be able to massively cut computational demands of models.
Sounds pretty toxic
A subset won’t have more solutions than its containing set; but it may have fewer.

Many problems are easier to solve in the reals (due to being complete), and you can then restrict that solution to your (sub)set of interest — in this case, the integers.

You see the same thing with Pythagorean triples being simpler to solve by doing the math over the complex numbers and then restricting your answers.
some victims were not using lastpass or cloud, though
Every single one of them since both windows and mac use the GPU for window management

I miss Aero, that shit was so cool...
Aren’t there AI targeting systems now? Have none of them actually killed anyone yet? I guess technically they wouldn’t have gone rogue unless they were killing not who was intended. To be fair though humans play with the “who was intended metric” (eg Obama counting all military age males in the vicinity of a drone strike as combatants tautologically).
In my browser, the content is mostly not present. Every now and then it renders in a region extending a little ways above and below my viewport, but if I scroll past that region, it’s gone again. And the cutoff isn’t even on a line boundary.

Never seen anything like this.
Rather than a retirement age, you could just appoint a judge for a fixed tenure. How long that is could be based on the current age of the appointee, or could be less to best avoid clusters of appointments. Tenure of course needs to be long, probably with a minimum in decades to cover multiple election cycles.
What?
The more I listen to the same song, the more it excites me. This is a reliable effect that is even more pronounced with my favorite music.
Not sure if it's a good thing in the sense that it will lead us straight into the Matrix and trap us in it
Also, I guess it's worth pointing out, that the sums of money involved are in a relative sense very small.

The James Webb telescope cost 10 billion, but that was spent over 17 years, and it should work for 20 years or so.

Compared to the budget as a whole, it is insignificant.

And the pretty pictures do serve a wider purpose. They will be part of the space inspiration for the next generation. Out there are kids dreaming of space, and the opportunities there etc.

Who knows, maybe the first asteroid miner is already with us, inspired by some James Webb picture on his bedroom wall.
Agreed. The focal range is something like 90KM to 1400KM based on this image and other off nadir images that have been shared by DigitalGlobe/Maxar, and it really makes you wonder what the focusing mechanism is fully capable of.
It’s still just a renaming. In fact you might even perform the renaming and thus form the bijection without even realizing it, if you talked about “the first square number,” “the second square number,” etc.
While this could be solved by judges choosing to retire early while under a 'friendly' administration, recent experience tells us this is not going to happen every time.
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yeh, this is my argument against people who say "LLM are dumb because x", er.. lets look at humans.. so maybe this is bottom 1% intelligence currently .. it's improving. What's the difference between a lot of personality and "hallucinating AI"?
Was the engineering byte easy to set/change?
we've been in the matrix since at least the time of the ancient Egyptians/Mesopotamia
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Perhaps a better way to handle things would be to ensure that the number of judges is balanced. For example, the law could require the ratios of federal judges to match the ratio of the popular vote in the most recent election. Or new administrations could be allowed to appoint new judges.

Otherwise we still have the problems of judicial rulings primarily depending on what administration happens to be in power when it is time to replace a judge.
Haha! Got me there. Yes I did like those :) good to know the favorites are public!
As noted, take it apart and remove a screw. I think some newer ones can be switched to developer mode in other ways. Then install seabios or the like and then neverware cloudready (or whatever its named now) to get a generic but supported chromeos.

The arm chromebooks are pretty sad for support, the x86 ones are the way to go.
It's interesting - I cannot wrap my head around how anybody could think that idea is amazing, but I don't really want to pass any judgement on it, I just wonder if we fundamentally have different relationships to music.
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> Where's the young citizen who voted for the Federal Reserve chairman

What do you mean? That older people could vote but young voters could not?
They said they didn’t want people stumbling on NSFW content. Then I clicked on the explanation on their TOS and stumbled upon NSFW content.
Sure, but they are. I don't think we can do better than account for the fact that they are partisan.
How is the song a violation of copyright?

Someone's vocal characteristics are not meaningfully creative; it's the intellectual content of a work and specific instance of a performance of an artist's skill in singing or writing or drawing or fabricating that content, that makes the result copyrightable. Therefore, it seems like it's a stretch to think voice-mimicking AI works might be copyrightable by the mimicked artists.

You can't sue someone for mimicking someone else's voice well enough to be confused for the mimicked creator's voice. Some people can do some voices quite well. AI can just do it better, faster.

I hope the courts put a swift end to this, but maybe they'll try to uphold the status quo—entertainment megacorps get what they want—and only reverse course after a few years when it becomes clear that everyone's mimicking everyone else's voices and pictures for fun and profit and any attempt to maintain copyright or any other IP protection on such mimicry is absurd.
What changes would you recommend making so that the food supply could be secured without subsidies?
Makes sense. Not exactly advertising friendly content for them to monetize.
I don't find slippery slope fallacies convincing either.
Is this their tumblr moment?
That you don't own your identity and history, it can be deleted on a whim of a local instance administrator. Basically that it's not Nostr, but Nostr even less popular than Mastodon.
I'm not sure what can happen except maybe a country balkanized internet with all actions online tied to a real id. When the internet is all bots maybe Facebook can keep it's relevancy by garunteeing real human presences behind accounts
A definition like "F and G are the same size if there is a one-to-one correspondence, except when F is a proper subset of G, then F is smaller" wouldn't work, because that isn't an equivalence relation. While "is the same size" seems in fact to be such an equivalence relation. For example, there might be a set H, such that H would be "the same size as" F and as G (due to one-to-one correspondence), but F would be smaller than G (due to proper subsethood). This would violate transitivity.
If I recall correctly the follow-on to that interesting episode in Soviet history was Gorbachev. Who more or less brought about the end of the Soviet Union.
That just isn’t true, you clearly haven’t used GTK. FLTK has never done core redesigns like GTK.
I would recommend a related paper, "Building an Efficient Key-Value Store in a Flexible Address Space", which focused on the interaction problem between extent-based filesystem and key-value store.

However, in scenarios that really care about performance, memory-mapped files seem to be able to bypass the I/O stack and optimize performance. RocksDB also has corresponding optimizations: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki/PlainTable-Format
Yes, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Lufthansa a380 in BKK. (Though not 100% sure)
Indian here, a few years back I was in USA for some work. It was Ramadan, so somebody from my extended family stays in Philadelphia, so decided to celebrate Eid with their family. I went to their home a few days earlier. And my uncle drove me around Philly, like around famous tourist attractions etc. When it was end of day he asked me if I wanted to get something special for Iftar(breaking fast). I was like lets have some local delicacies.

He takes me to this place where they were selling Philly Cheasesteakes, sold by Pakistanis(because 'halal'). It kind of blew me away when I learned nearly most of the halal PCs sold there were by Pakistanis. I guess the diaspora that returned to their country might have taken the delicacy to Lahore?

The Philly Cheasesteak itself was super delicious though. Couldn't stop eating and I went back to that place the next two evenings as well.
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> My fav example is automatic sql table and column typo checking. The macro introspects the db and you get syntax errors if the table/column isn’t found. Same idea can also be used for csv and json. Or api spec file on different server-the compiler can make http requests to show you syntax errors

But the problem in all these cases isn't "I want syntax errors if this table/column doesn't exist or my http request doesn't fit spec", it's "I want to make sure my table/column exists and my http requests are in spec". Unit tests can do that. What unit tests can't do is go into the code under test and modify it so that it breaks in production. The macros you're describing can do that.

The macros you're describing are cool, but they don't do anything that can't be done with unit tests, and they're not without risks. You're essentially running test code in production.
If you invoke a report, how about actually providing the report? Because I think this wasn't a report about reliability at all. Paint defects have nothing to do with reliability for example.

If its the report I'm thinking about, the difference between Tesla and their competitors isn't actually all that great. Not to mention this report is already a few years on.

Also, this report only evaluated Model Y from California, China, Berlin and Austin have better reputation for quality.

Model Y is the most sold car in the world both by volume and revenue in Q1 2023. I don't know about you but if I can choose between some 'report' and being car that makes the most money of any car on the planet, I know what I would choice.

Its a bit ridiculous to say 'haha you loser your 27 in some random report' and ignore that Tesla is both growing very fast an is highly profitable. Call me crazy but I thought those things were important.

Musk really is the only person where people have to make up these ridiculous arguments to somehow justify that he is an insane madman, despite his companies being incredibly successful.

> not the best leader for anything that requires long term care??

He is the longest serving CEO in the car and the space industry. He is literally known for having a long term view and both of his major companies have seen incredibly growth for 20+ years. Like 2 decades isn't long term enough for you?

I get that people dislike Musk, he isn't very likeable, but some basic logic needs to be applied when criticizing.
> If you asked someone if they wanted $1billion to go to health research or space research the answer would be obvious.

Honestly this depends. If we have 1000 billion going into health research, but 1 billion doing into space research, I think there's an open question on how much good an extra 0.1% of health research will do compared to doubling space research.

In absolute terms instead of relative, I would prefer a billion on most space based research than a billion going to study male pattern baldness.
> If mRNA is better, then why didn't the Chinese ever use it or produce a version of it?

You made two mistakes in one sentence.

First of all, Chinese companies have multiple mRNA vaccines in development and at least one of them has been approved. I can get it today in my neighbourhood clinic if I want. See link below.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-65036474

Secondly, when there is something that is not produced or produced in China, it doesn't mean it is useless or fancy. China doesn't make 3nm chips not because it is not cool, it is because the advanced tech is simply not available in China. China does make high end LCD panels which the US doesn't build on its own, it is not because the tech is fancy and the US couldn't do it, it is simply because the industry is not considered economically viable in the US but a good money making business in China.
It’s important to remember that the music business is one of the first places where corporations used technology to replace human workers.

Back in my day (not really) you could get a job as a live musician, performing at restaurants, cafes, and and lots of other places. Then, suddenly, people started to install record machines and buy music from record companies! So, you know, AI-generated music is just a progression of a centuries-old trend.

Quite ironically, this might be the disaster that causes the labels to license their libraries on more flexible terms to a larger variety of players, thus liberating the world from the current streaming service oligopoly.
Well that and the fact that the judge could just rule such evaluations unconstitutional.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35634120 (LlamaAcademy: Teach GPTs to understand API documentation with LoRA) ?

https://github.com/danielgross/LlamaAcademy
Tumblr 2.0 incoming?

It's a not-so-unspoken fact that a lot of social media platforms are popular because they have tons of pornography. Reddit, Twitter, OnlyFans (more openly) and (until now) Imgur all have massive communities around explicit content. Even Twitch and YouTube are hugely successful as ways for OnlyFans creators to drive users to their explicit content.

Going to be very interesting to see if imgur drops off the face of the earth as tinypic, imageshack, photobucket and many others before it did. Certainly this was the longest-lasting image host I can think of.
the “find out” phase, for imgur
Wouldn't that likely result in there being no neurodivergent judges? It would undermine the whole idea of "trial by peers" if neurodivergent people are being tried purely by neurotypical people.
> (I believe) that's not true for the reals (someone correct me if I'm wrong about that).

It is also true for the reals. R^2 can be trivially mapped to R.

Here's one mapping from R to R^2:

Let b_{n} b_{n-1} .. b_0 . b_{-1} b_{-2} ...

Be the binary representation of the real 'x'. For example, if x = 2.5, then:

b_1 = 1

b_0 = 0

b_{-1} = 1

Have x map to the following value in R^2 (y, z) where

y = b_{n} b_{n-2} ... b_{0} . b_{-2} b_{-4} ..

z = b_{n-1} b_{n-3} .. b_{1} . b_{-1} b_{-3} ..

So 2.5 -> (0, 1.5)

1 -> (1, 0)

1.75 -> (1.5, 0.5)

etc.
The core issue is the content these models get trained on. If you train your model on copyrighted work are you guilty of copyright infringement when the output is used commercially? We are going to see a lot of these cases over the next few years.
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> the unrepeatable song, like AI riffing never to be heard again

The Grateful D-AI-d?

I think I know some people who might enjoy that.
The blog title says "distinct positive integer" which excludes that. The HN title is missing the word distinct for some reason.
Another possibility is that all new judges have limited appointment. It would be several presidential terms before this had any effect, and be staggered over multiple presidents.
>still respecting the duration from other countries

I don't see why. Why should other countries laws apply in my country?
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> Your favorite song loses its ability to trigger your dopamine when you listen to it 100 times in a row. Being able to generate unlimited music in the style of your favorite song sounds amazing.

One thing that would be innovative / creative:

Imagine if an artist writes a song, then trains an AI on their own new song.

After doing that, they could have the AI produce a hundred variations of the song, and crowdsource which one is the best.

I understand they do something with commercials, but in a manual way. They basically publish multiple commercials and then measure the response to gauge which commercial resonates the most.
Why not pray to the AI to bring it back? /s
Take the log base n of both sides, giving:

m = n log_n(m)

Because m and n are distinct (ie: m!=n), let's say that m>n.

The log term will always be greater than one. Imagining the shape of the log function (with base>1), it isn't hard to see that there is one solution.

Not a rigorous proof, but neither was the article.
> GPT 3.5 is probably a 13B Curie finetuned on the output of full size GPT-3 175B

What is the basis for this assessment?
That's been true for the past 10 years. What's changed?

edit: They sold to Medialab in 2021. That's what's changed.
In theory, I could imagine an AI which learns the exact type of music you like and generates songs precisely tuned for your brain.

If the result is too same-y and you get bored of it, no problem, just hit the big red button. The AI also knows how to make a new song which is just different enough to excite you again, but still familiar enough to grab you in all the right ways.
Not exactly related to the content of the article, but rather the technology that displays it to me: the year is 2023, and the font face "popped in" a full second after the unstyled text was showing. If you can't use a custom font on your web page in an elegant, high-quality way, just use default system fonts.
just my 5 cents. it should be easier to train small custom model which works off a big pre-trained one. getting latent state as an input. while big model does all the hard work. but, getting latent means it should be accessible. that's why open source models are so valuable, even if they are not that good in general. more over, open source models can be used in other projects in various setups.
Agreed, AI will indeed shine in situations where mistakes are tolerable and entertainment is a huge area like this.

For example, currently playing a golf simulator is a little like the movie 28 days later. The simulation is amazing, but the vibe is an empty barren world. AI could generate crowd chatter and interaction, just as if one was playing in front of a real crowd of opiniated, semi-informed and possible semi-drunk patrons.
At 2MB in size, I guarantee you beyond a shadow of a doubt that it does not satisfy the test I gave in my other message, nor does it pass the test that if you ask a designer to design you a form, the toolkit will be able to do what the designer wants.

At that size you've got a programmer GUI toolkit, that as long as it is used by a programmer who is willing to live within its constraints, it will work fine, but it won't satisfy anyone else.

To put it another way, Window's Wordpad is an OK document editor, if you're happy to live within its constraints... but it's no replacement for a Word document being shared over Sharepoint with change tracking between multiple people before finally going out to 1,000 people via a mail merge. There's a ton of Wordpad-class GUI toolkits. There's not very many Word-class GUI toolkits.

I mean, I'm sure Tk is much more featureful than can be fit into 2MB and it's honestly barely in the "works for programmers" class. It's really nice for programmers, too, but it isn't going to replace QT anytime soon.
> How long before we get back to some modern version of "key signing parties," in which you check how many layers of "Humans you reasonably trust to verify that other people are humans" are between you and some chunk of content?

And crypto finds a real-world application!
I like cover songs. If I could shuffle a playlist and it takes the artists and songs and just infinitely mashes them.. I would be so happy.
>if the city is over 75k people

My moral hazard alarm is ringing.
You could probably make it kosher by using dairy-free "American slices."
"Dead-naming" is hateful conduct?

I get that it's unkind, but hate speech?

I feel for transsexual people, I do - they have very hard lives and have often been subjected to genuine and horrific violence (due to a hormonal disorder over which they have no control).

But maybe, it's not hate speech to say that trans activists (and the left in general) are weaponising the notion of hate speech, and that it's not actually hateful to acknowledge that they're better at sport than women, and that it's not hateful to refuse to conflate them with the people who have carried every generation of humanity into existence (and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future, or until we go extinct).
You must be fun on road trips haha.

I’ve never heard of someone enjoying a song more after the 100th time. I’d say there’s a sweet spot around the 3rd or 4th play for me, after that I enjoy the song less on each play.
m=n. I guess need to say m != n
Pretty much all serious science spending is actually military spending. People don't always like to admit that, though, even when it's obvious.

More so when it's not obvious.
until nvidia drops support for your card, then you are toast. I'm sure the 1xxx series is going to be axed very soon.
It effectively is for large Reddit communities, as most of them rely on Imgur to upload NSFW content. There aren't many free image hosting sites as "generous" as Imgur (unlimited bandwidth, large sizes, no visible compression, "permanent") so it'll be interesting to see where they move to.
One can imagine key signing parties falling out of favor once AGI become clever enough to recruit meatspace humans to do their precise bidding.

(I didn't make this up, Gibson did with Neuromancer in the 80s)
It's actually worse, they try to force you to download the app when trying to upload from any IOS browser even if you request the desktop site.
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One think I'd love to be able to do is revive dead MMOs locally. Imagine running a server for Ultima Online or Everquest or something locally, and having a bunch of AI players that act like humans, can group up for group content, make their own guilds etc.

You can rope friends in too, but it would be amazing to only need a couple of friends to play with but still feel like the whole world was populated.
> Or if you’re a musician who has a career?

If you are a genuine new talent, the next Hendrix, then you'll have unique content to offer, and maybe things will be even brighter for you sa you stand out above a soup of algorthmic sameness.

But if you're a cookie cutter muso who mainly derives from other people's stuff then yeah, might be time to find a new gig (to make money at anyway).
Yeah I guess Spotify is okay if you don't mind half of the back catalogue of your favorite artists either never being present on the platform, or just magically disappearing at some arbitrary time. It's hilarious, I canceled my Spotify service a year ago or something, and I hopped back on recently to check a playlist as I couldn't remember a song. So many tracks in my playlists are no longer available on the service. Had me feeling pretty good about my colossal archive of purchased mp3s/FLACs from Bandcamp.
Why do you assume the content will be mediocre?

What if AI consumes the masterpieces of history, and then generates something even better, like how chess AI surpassed human chess masters?
The layout has a sort of vaguely unhinged quality to it, which I think adds to the effect here
And it's funny as heck that Carter gets the blame for the entire 70s when it was economically troublesome before he was ever elected.