skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I doubt you can do it in 8K at that speed

All inference of Stable Diffusion is done in FP16 at best, with multi-step models, and models themselves are highly inefficient. I would be surprised if in May 2024 4090 isn't capable of generating 8k(8192x8192) Stable Diffusion quality image in less than 1 second. And also you wouldn't realistically need to

> also why not just compress it? Any quality degradation from compression will be less than the artifacts produced by an AI image generator

Because it allows for much more variance in content. I'm a bit sick of seeing tiled textures everywhere TBH. Also virtually all textures would be AI generated in less than 5 years.
Someone on the internet is saying they are French, making claims that aren't backed up with sources or data.
Have not seen Victoria! Seems like they don't have a cloud offering though?
kids are excellent at picking information because their brains by default will attempt "wild" interpretations of the same information. Their brains are the perfect startup in a way, in that they fail quick, they fail often , and they learn immediately.

This is also why its hard to do magic tricks with young kids. They will tend to be looking at all the wrong spots. Their brain doesn't pick up on attempted misdirection, it just decide to make a new test happen from a different vantage point.
I'm sorry, have you ever been involved in the process of publishing a scientific paper as an author or editor? Because it clearly doesn't sound like it from your description in that linked comment. The numbers you write are just nonsense. The assistant editors also don't interact with submitters - that's typically handled by the online platform. They interact with authors when it's time for reviewing proofs, signing documents, etc. But all that only occurs after papers are already accepted.
That's exactly what it is - which is why the comment above is so profoundly dishonest.

You can buy tritium on Amazon - it's harmless.
And of course all risks should be weighed against the known risks and downsides of the alternatives.
> No real copyright case is going to hinge on what a single range check function looks like.

you realise this exact extremely famous function was the focus of a billion dollar supreme court copyright battle that went on for years?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_LLC_v._Oracle_America,_...

(the entire basis of GPs joke)
I guess you think the Koreans and Chinese are just fundamentally different from everyone else then because they're pumping out reactors just fine, today.

The French, Americans, Russians, and Japanese have all had periods of time where they built them quickly and cost effectively too. But then various institutional rot sets in. We're going to have to keep building big things anyways so it's not like having that capability is wasted.
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Haven't heard of it unfortunately. What kind of time series data are you thinking of storing? If you're building an application on top of it, you're better off using an OLAP DB like ClickHouse, InfluxDB, etc. to have access to lower-level constructs.
A new study released this week found 1 in 4 students reported misusing PR (cont)
You misrepresent tritium coming from a plant as a "radioactive leak". That's just dishonest nonsense.
Ok, so are you saying that “never” is the answer to both?
>The usual solution in big companies for the overengineering problem is that people who don't want to fight the org self-select, drink lattes all day long, and let the few people who are needed to solve the engineering problems do the work

Nicely put indeed
Points #2 and #3 are particularly important to me. Also, I just like having the physical copy. Each Blu-Ray - especially my Criterions - are like mini works of art.

Also, by virtue of having the disc, I’ve the ability to get a digital version whenever. Portability just isn’t an issue.
The question isn't what is the license but rather the location that the code was used as part of a data set.

I could just as easily point to https://stackoverflow.com/a/13910492 which is on a page that is CC licensed.
Except that's not how LLM works. LLM has no idea about "ideas", only probabilities of how certain words string together.

So you literally can't make it produce functionally identical but not verbatim identical code. It doesn't understand that the two are equivalent.

Also, such "functionally identical but not violating copyright" transformation is not possible to do, both given the complexity of the problem and the sheer volume of the data.

And training it on some simplistically obfuscated code wouldn't help - all it would learn would be production of obfuscated code. Not useful for the intended use.
Only increasing housing density will decrease housing prices substantially.
They have clean room implementation for just this problem.

The _only_ escape clause is some random function that says how arbitrary a code block is. Or nontrivial.

A person or AI can absolutely be violating copyright via your example.
I think it's interesting that the headline doesn't even bother to mention the company because nobody has heard of it.
The problem is that in government, you are rarely if ever punished for being top strict with your regulation. You are only ever chastised if you are too lenient (or the appearance of it). People like scapegoats and will use lax regulations anytime they can.

The problem is, a regulator never gets in trouble for being top strict. The incentives are totally wrong here and lead to bad regulations.

I trust this guy more than the bureaucrat covering their butt.
Austin is Texas's fastest growing city (and in the USA), and the metro is known as one of its richest. UTA has some role in fostering a tech scene that isn't as nice in Dallas or Houston (and doesn't really exist yet in San Antonio).

Seattle definitely benefits a lot from UW and its computer science department, but there is some cycle going on (Intel and Microsoft were heavy backers of UW CSE in the earlier years, and also took many of its graduates).

People do care about sticking around if they can. If the school is somewhere nice; e.g. in the Bay Area, Seattle, or Austin.
I felt the same at first for the one for today (4/21), thinking "surely this is SMB 2" but then I remembered light guns and realized the suggestions eliminate ones that it can't be.
It depends on the product range. G0s and G4s seems to be available on mouser.
This feels like it would make the situation much worse from a legal perspective.

If you know your AI produces code that is "tainted" by license violations, adding code to hide it after the fact suggests that you're intentionally violating the license terms.
Pretty cool, apart from the fact that it's Windows you're booting.

But what's up with UWP apps not working?
You don't need AI for that, just fuzzy search.
While I agree we probably aren't getting exponentially increasing parameter counts (GPT4 is by all accounts 1T paramaters and of course, it is significantly better than GPT3) we are still seeing lots of improvements - 3.5 is much better than 3, based "just" on InstructGPT/RLHF training. Models are getting better as well - LLaMA 30B beats/matches GPT-3 on raw eval benchmarks at 1/6 the parameter count.

We're also seeing lots of optimizations with new models (RoPE/RoPER embedding, Swish/GeLU activation, Flash Attention, etc) but I think some the most interesting gains we'll be seeing soon is with inference-optimized training (-70% parameters for +100% compute) [1] combined with sparsity pruning (-50% size w/ almost no loss in accuracy) [2] and quantization [3] which will lead to significantly smaller models performing well.

[1] https://www.harmdevries.com/post/model-size-vs-compute-overh...

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00774

[3] https://openreview.net/forum?id=tcbBPnfwxS
Treat them as equal humans, not just a type of resources.
We know exactly how to store nuclear waste: bury it underground in impermeable bedrock. We already have several of these [1]. Furthermore, the figures for the costs of nuclear power already include waste disposal [2].

Also, since most countries don't reprocess nuclear waste, it's actually good to hold onto it since it's a future source of fissile material.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_geological_repository

2. https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/economic-aspec...
I'd prefer a world without copyright tbqh.
CAISO penned a series of increasingly urgent press releases on how catastrophic closing diablo canyon would be for grid stability when it's closure was imminent.
That isn't much of an issue unless the river is extremely small. The huge amount of water traveling on most rivers with nuclear plants is orders of magnitude more than what's used in to do the heat transfer in the reactor.
This is really cool and speaks to the modularity of the Windows file system stack. I love projects that customize Windows (working against its closed-source nature).

There’s an OpenZFS port to Windows[0]. I wonder if my hopes of having ZFS on Windows (including the boot drive, because I would love to be able to snapshot and rollback) would actually be possible.

[0] https://github.com/openzfsonwindows/openzfs
One of my colleagues, Randy Pausch, used to quip that "academia is the best. You can work any 70 hours per week you want!"

There's truth in that, for better or worse.
It reminds me of the day phone/night phone thing.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/03/dave-...
I think what matters is the interface. A clean interface to read structured logs in table view than throw raw text at the user like many products do and nice way to filter them.

Loki + Grafana isn't really good for log viewing at all. I use Metabase to read logs sent to ClickHouse which gives far nicer interface.
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Nuclear isn’t the only type of power that has low marginal costs. Curtailing wind for nuclear is just as much an economic loss as curtailing nuclear for wind.
Not the parent, but I have always given long notice periods in the US. Typically 3-4 weeks.

In all cases, they have been appreciated, and it gave me the opportunity to wrap up projects.

In several cases(the previous three jobs), I have been retained in a 1099 capacity at rates that far exceed my salary(3-5x) for consulting on projects and ongoing expertise of archaic systems. Typically that arrangement winds down to very little work after the first year.

In all of these scenarios, my manager was aware I was looking for months before I put in my notice. My reason for moving is a combination of environment(outgrown the scale of the company, or looking to relocate) and pay.
> Most places aren't subject to magnitude 9.1 earthquakes, so no such plans are needed.

I've seen this argument repeated a lot lately, and it's annoying, because it focuses entirely on the wrong thing. What went wrong with Fukushima was not the earthquake itself, but the flooding caused by it. A lot more places in the world are vulnerable to flooding than they are to earthquakes (I myself live in one of these: zero noticeable earthquakes, a lot of rain-caused flooding and landslides, and next to a nuclear power complex). And AFAIK, all or nearly all nuclear power plants in the world reviewed their backup power systems after Fukushima, to make sure their generators and power switches are not in an area of the plant which could be flooded.
Can it really fail to do something that it isn't designed to do? Like does cruise control "fail" when it doesn't stop at a stop sign?
What a bunch of absolute horse shit.

MP3 isn't slow. I was playing MP3s on a 100 Mhz 486 DX4 in 1996. Certainly a system in 2014 can handle decompressing MP3s on the fly.

Even if you didn't want to do it on the fly during game play, they easily could have been decompressed at load time and it would have taken only a couple seconds. It's not like ENTIRE 35 GB of audio needed to be loaded all at once, nobody had that RAM back then, and very few people (especially gamers) have that much now.
Just added an issue: https://github.com/highlight/highlight/issues/5082

We don't have pointed plans for supporting Elixir, but hopefully this opens the floor for anyone interested.
So it got worse in the last couple of years just as the whole world was on pause. So maybe it’s not caused by humans then?
Or the pro nuclear egos who knows nothing about the poor state of almost every nuclear waste disposal plan
Well I'd say they're full of shit, haha. Most people have something they care about; them refuting a specific case doesn't refute the general concept. They're either arguing in bad faith or are not very good at thinking logically.

If they truly have no ethical or moral boundaries, then they are probably deviant enough that they won't be able to get into a position to set much policy, anyways, by definition of their lack of fitness to represent the majority of any population.
Just to avoid any misunderstandings, the schedule to close all nuclear reactors in Germany by the end of 2022 was set by CDU/CSU together with the FDP. Which then went on to curb the buildup of renewables.
We'll see. China has been just about to invade Taiwan for 40 years, or longer.

That being said: Russia was relatively little intertwined with our (= European and American) economies. That's a different situation with the PRC. I think it is not unlikely that there will be less unity in a "Case Taiwan".
There's a ZFS port for Windows but I don't think using it on the boot volume is supported. You could definitely try it, though!
Less Microsoft-centric stuff on your computer.

btrfs is pretty comfortable to manage, too.

On that point: I wonder how the subvolume experience is.
Contrary to some opinions here, I think this is very good advice.

I am always giving as much notice as I can. And also try to finish my projects and accommodate my employer/client as much as I can at the end of the project.

Regardless how unprofessionally they may act, I resolve to always act professionally myself.

I think it is more about the attitude rather than simple cost/benefit calculation.

But even if you are just looking at cost/benefit, after two decades of doing this I am finally seeing people noticing and coming back to me. I have my past bosses bringing new work to me, I have my colleagues spreading information about me by word of mouth. I have CEOs of unknown companies reach out to me because they learned about me from somebody who worked with me in the past.

Maybe you will not get noticed when you are junior level but when you get a bit more exposed position it starts becoming more and more important.
> Nuclear is not really suitable for load-following, at least not the installed capacity.

That's not quite the case. You can load-follow with nuclear, but it requires reactors to be designed for that. France does this, for example.

You also can simply keep reactors working at a constant level and just dump excess power into their cooling system. This is not as bad as it sounds, because fuel is just about ~5% of the total cost of the produced nuclear energy.

Most nuclear power plants do not do this because they don't need to do it.
Because of the license the code is under?
Does it work well to store logs?
I thought it's great for metrics.
That one perhaps? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbKGw8MQ0i8

I don't recall it particularly ranty, though.
Everybody, without exception, can be conned. Smart people are no more resistant to it than anyone else.
And it doesn't even have to be an organization. How often do you hear of cops or civil employees poking around in records they have no business to poke around in?
Actually I have been looking for just this for several years, even as recently as a few weeks ago I was looking, but only found some commercial btrfs driver. The idea of unified storage is really nice, you don't have to decide how much each OS gets, and with btrfs you can just plop in another drive and extend onto it to transparently increase storage capacity. On top of that, tings like duplicating steam game assets would probably be a big win.
https://archive.is/xkM5H
There definitely are fundamental differences in our capabilities here, and you seem to believe the same too.

Look, for example, at the challenges that are being experienced as we try to build chip fabs in the US.

Instintutional knowledge and capability are real things. And I definitely think that construction capability is an important thing to build.

But let's improve our construction capability on building real things that get built and improve our capabilities, such as battery factories or solar panel factories or transmission lines or other things that get build closer to on-time, and then use those contractors that succeed to try more ambitious projects.

Let's not piss away billions of dollars with no sustained knowledge growth or construction capacity improvement. Trying to build even, say, 10GW of new nuclear right now would be posing away 90% of the capital. We don't even know who we would really hire for this!

Until we have a track record that's strong enough to attract investment, I don't see the rush to burn money on nuclear builds. It won't help the climate, and it doesn't even help the nuclear industry.
To be more specific, the tsunami caused by it. And without the massive 9.1 earthquake there would have been no tsunami. Flooding from rain or snowmelt is far more gradual.
Given that universities already select which professors get tenure, how would removing tenure help or hurt any groups, relative to the present system?
Better headline:

1 in 4 students are extremely concerned about societal expectations of their academic performance

Frankly, I'm surprised it's only 25%.
Any intellectually honest person should be able to spot the flaws in your reasoning here.
If having any faith in humanity was justified we wouldn't be in this climate mess in the first place.
You’re missing my point. Universities that also do research cannot be sustained completely by adjuncts and teaching professors.

Also, a portion of adjunct and contract-based positions are filled by those seeking a tenure track position. Removing tenure will affect this side as well.
For VMs and containers isn't it pretty common to use a subvol where CoW is disabled for their disk images? Same thing for ZFS with datasets that disabled CoW for things like that.
> Linux running on NTFS with the new kernel driver.

As the root file system? Does that work?
E2EE and blockchain/btc/alt are all, indeed, “just math”.

You’ve noted the status quo that is rapidly becoming cemented, albeit in an hn echo chamber presumptuous of a supermajority consensus on E2EE as it may or may not correlate to libertarian ideals vs. state surveillance (i.e. most don’t even have the technical proficiency to vote, thus this assertion is flawed from the start).

This issue is more complex and dynamic, given proliferation of ubiquitous technical surv not monopolized by nation states. Cooperation is the social lubricant of a functioning government, which is often lost on libertarians. Technical libertarians are often the worst offenders of provincial groupthink.
She has a learning disability from a TBI she sustained as a kid and has a hard time writing long documents. Most of her work doesn’t involve doing this, but when she does, she can now draft an outline and have ChatGPT help her flesh things out.
again, you think it is stupid and I think it is stupid.

But from their perspective (and their perspective guides their actions) they are the only ones gaining territory in the world, restoring what they think is historically just for them.

Again, projecting “common sense” values on putin’s government failed so many Western politicians.
The unique geography of the Isthmus of Perekop into Crimea actually makes it so that 31 tanks really could turn the war. At it's narrowest, it's ~4 miles wide (~120 yards per side of each tank), flat as a pancake, no cover or so much as a molehill. It's really the only way into Crimea for Ukraine too (it gets a bit complicated). Two and a half football field lengths between each tank is a bit crowded, if anything.

Yeah, yeah, defenses, and I agree. The last time the Nazis and Soviets fought over it, ~250k casualties resulted (I think).

It's a hell of a choke-point.

But 31 Abrams is just about enough to do it, right order of magnitude in the least.
For a similar reason that camera surveillance can be forbidden in places where people are still allowed to keep their eyes open.

Or sending millions of messages in an automated way can be illegal but millions of people sending a message is not.
That's (4) I think -- extending benefits, rather than being needed to get your vacation time. It falls into where I said "you're better off going on vacation, and then handing in notice". Handing in notice pre-vacation gives them the opportunity to say "well you're resigning anyway so today is your last day" in many jurisdictions, or simply inviting pettiness: a boss just refuses to approve your vacation request after you hand in notice - it doesn't save them money to refuse it, it's just being petty.

The whole point of the article is that you benefit from giving lots of notice, but that's just not true. Say you want to quit in 8 weeks, you could give 8 weeks notice today, or you could give 2 weeks notice in 6 weeks. In both cases you get employee benefits for the same amount of time, you have the same opportunity to use vacation time, etc. But in the former case you also have the option in many places for them to just say "ok, today is your last day" - I _think_ in less anti-worker areas such a dismissal would not be valid (e.g. the company can stop you entering the premises, but would have to consider you still employed, _or_ they would have to report you as being terminated rather than resigning which has legal implications for them), but even then you aren't getting any real benefit from the early notice.

Honestly the only people who gain anything from you giving advanced notice is your employer, and these are the same employers who can (and do) fire you essentially without notice.
The concepts of potential energy and kinetic energy make the "wind charging" idea ... difficult.

The extra weight and structural challenges imposed by solar panels on aircraft don't seem worth it. The math on (174 sqft) * ideal theoretical power (250 W /m2) yields an optimistic ideal 4000 Watts. A conservative 75% power usage of a 172 engine is around 100kW. 4% under ideal circumstances.
Playing a movie for a few friends who visits is fine, but start to demand tickets and suddenly it will look like a cinema which is not fine.

The reason is always the same. Courts and judges will look at the situation and make a decision about what seems fair and what does not. It is them that need to be convinced that a specific use of a copyrighted work is permitted either through fair use or by a license.
Probably better to just cut that whole bit. I've done so now.
I've come back to say that I'm truly in awe at what you're doing. Given your examples (both in the tutorial and other articles), I think we might be thinking very similar things, but you're way ahead. You're amazing!
Everyone is assuming/hoping that a majority renewables national energy system is possible/economical. I don't think it is, but even if you do it's a gamble. No one is sure because it's not been done before. At a minimum you'll have to build several thousands of miles of new transmission and millions of panels/turbines. Those panels/turbines will last maybe 30 years. Batteries aren't going to cut it, you'll need underground hydrogen storage. That's never been done for energy storage before. And hydrogen is a lousy battery, you'll get half your energy back out at best. There's too much uncertainty.

Nuclear fits our existing grid paradigm, and it can be built quickly if we let ourselves. Japan's median reactor build time was under 4 years. France built out their nuclear fleet in 15 to 20 years. It's literally been done before.
It’s something like 33% are deadheading.
The National Interest had a Russian spy write for it. Go figure.
yup lots of companies do agree https://github.com/kokizzu/list-of-tech-migrations