skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first AI-style program I ever wrote (about 25 years ago. Yes, I'm old) played 20 questions, but it would "learn" from prior games, so the more you played, the better it performed.

It got extremely good after a few hundred games.
The topic's biggest cop-out. Intellectual property doesn't exist in a vacuum. I have limited-to-zero sympathy for corporate entities like Getty images that hoard IP, but our society's social contract says labor isn't free unless people donate it. We need to implement some sort of alternate compensation system before entirely disregarding IP so we don't pull the rug out from under perfectly honest independent creatives with kids and mortgages and medical bills plying their craft in an established system. Until then, taking the fruits of creative labor without permission is theft that is much more consequential and much less morally defensible than what you describe.

I'll bet if someone outside of our IP jurisdiction figured out a way to reliably and thoroughly reverse engineer the most complex commercial software from binaries so people could spit out a working, fully-customized copy of a commercial application from a prompt, and the entirety of the software development market would soon collapse, the tenor of this conversation would be very different.

Maybe the people with the very ethically defensible stance that private property is theft would be totally fine with OpenAI knocking down your home to build their new headquarters without compensating you? Imagine the progress! (hint: they probably wouldn't be ok with it)

None of this stuff exists in a vacuum. None of it.
I want my CPU-load locale switcher back.
It died because the first generation of Optane devices failed to take the market by storm and instead of advancing the technology they simply exited the market, eating all of the prior investment.

Why they failed to take the market seems to be both a combination of lousy marketing (is it a drive, or are they RAM replacements?), selling only enterprise-class products, high prices, and competition technology that is both "good enough" and beats it in all of the other areas.

Spec-wise, a Samsung 2TB 990 Pro, is about as fast (sustained, IOPS, etc.), a 10th the price, and is coming from a manufacturer with a reputation of sustaining development and releasing newer, better products in that product-line. If the part fails, you're likely to not only replace it, but upgrade it for the same cost.
> Why not hire Americans?

If they pass the interview then we obviously gladly hire them. But competition is hard.

We do have quite competitive wages. But we need more people than the American-only portion of the market has to offer. Competent foreigners make up a sizeable part of the applicants, and those who don't already have visa or green card we just can't hire. It's as simple as that.
Tech salaries in Canada are in line with other highly paid professionals - I make as much up here as a lawyer... it is true that I'm not looking at the 600k+options job postings you'd see in the SF bubble but I certainly make enough that daily costs aren't a stressor.

Canada is probably about due for a major wage correction though - the PSAC strikes are a pretty good indicator that it's time to either seriously consider 32/hr weeks or starting to claw back corporate excess... that's sort of an international issue though.
They need to update the minimum salary for H1B. There is no reason to bring in a QA engineer making 50k per year who tolerates poor working conditions due to lack of better options. I think that 100k would make more sense, and it arguably should be higher if the country wants to keep fulfilling the original goals of H1B.
It's a dual intent visa.
> Traditional greenhouses (which the one at that landing site appears to be) are extremely energy intensive.

Uhh, I am not seeing anything in that article that supports that claim, other than the first sentence, which does not cite any sources.

That article appears to be discussing ways to maximize greenhouse performance in winter, on the premise that glass is a poor insulator. But no where does it discuss energy consumption of modern greenhouses. My understanding is that they do not use climate control at all, except maybe some fans for air circulation. So sure, put some walls on your greenhouse for better heat retention. But making something more efficient, that already uses nearly zero energy might not be the best use of resources.
Np, I just thought it was very funny. I've had a similar thing here where I ordered 500 ziplock backs and the guy on the other side goes '5 gram or 25 gram'? So I asked why the bags are so heavy and hilarity ensued. I needed them as parts bags for Lego... but it turns out they almost exclusively sell to gardeners.
2023 International Workshop on Plan 9: Proceedings [pdf]
ah I didnt realize you linked your fork! ty again :)
Free open source libraries.

Paid LLM hosting. 50% cheaper than OpenAI, pay per compute needed to run & create the LLM. Export the weights anytime you want.

Enterprise VPC deployments.
Ask HN: What are you curious about these days?
I am having a ton of fun livecoding my way through the rudiments of music and music production, with Sonic Pi.

Endless possibilities for creativity, learning, and just plain tomfoolery... I'm ten all over again!

Shout out to Sam Aaron and co. for creating such a wonderful piece of tech. I am working through Sam's book "Code Music with Sonic Pi" and loving every minute.

What's captured your imagination lately?
It’s not easy to do radial stuff right now; you can upvote this issue: https://github.com/observablehq/plot/issues/133

One bizarre workaround right now is to abuse the geographic projections: https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/pie-to-donut-chart

In general, you can do a lot of customization, including plugins (though that’s not well-documented yet), so you could make it work… see https://observablehq.com/@fil/radial-transform, https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/plot-radial-line for other approaches to hacking radial stuff into Plot.

You can do Cartesian tree diagrams in Plot, e.g. https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/plot-tree-flare, https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/plot-custom-tree-layo...

If you want to make a chord diagram like that “Müsli Ingredient Network” example, you could try one of these D3 examples: https://observablehq.com/@d3/chord-diagram, https://observablehq.com/@d3/hierarchical-edge-bundling/2
When I first heard of the concept of things like vertical farming, or shipping container farming, or even farm bots. I thought those were a great ideas. That tech like this will solve for food problems, such as urban blight.

Back then, I was still optimistic about the role of tech, and that more tech will solve things like this.

It was also before I really deep dived into permaculture design, and many of the related ideas.

What I came to realize is that we already have the solution for many of our food scarcity issues in permaculture design, and have been for long time. And that more tech in this adds bunch of unnecessary, fragile, non-regenerative, non-self-healing technology.

With permaculture design, most of the efforts goes into the design, but the technological palette is no-tech to low-tech. There is capital, but it’s largely going into design and can be deployed by humans with hand tools.

Take vertical farming. One of the key ideas in vertical farming that maps to permaculture design is the use of canopy layers, understanding that plants compete for light, and not root space. Different species of plants will live at different canopy layers. As such, you can construct a perennial plant “guild” which occupies all the ecological functions, at different canopy layers, that also yields something useful for humans.

You don’t need to maximize yields; and instead, when designed well, get something that is resilient against environmental changes while also restoring soil health. The indoor vertical farming using hydroponics doesn’t give us that.
You could represent each octet as an ASCII char reducing it to 4 characters.
AI has kickstarted a new GPU craze. Hope they catch this one.
An electric lighter does this to my mouse when I zap specific objects with it, such as a screwdriver. I tried distances up to about 1.5 meters away from the mouse. The only reason I initially noticed is because I saw the red light turn off that was coming faintly through the holes I drilled in the top to let a heating element that I had built in heat my hand better. (Spoiler: the holes didn't do anything, but I did notice that 5W below an exposed extremity go a long way when given 30+ minutes!)

I also enjoyed the two random occasions where I shot lightning from my hands through the plastic cover of a keyboard and got the electronics into some error state, requiring it to be replugged before it would work again. It was a... power...ful feeling.

This and screaming routers are some of my favorite oddities. An old cisco router that was sitting next to my desk would occasionally "scream" at me. I couldn't describe it any other way, though it was rather faint and you wouldn't hear it with music on. It took some time for ~15-year-old me to figure out that it happened with high rates of small network packets. Could be reproduced with some ping command (I would say with sudo and either a low -i or even -f, but I was a Windows user back then and forgot the relevant flags, or maybe I used hping3.)
It already is illegal, and people keep doing it. Trying to make addictive behaviour stop by making it illegal doesn't work for drugs and it doesn't work for using phones while driving.
Older than 2020 but another indispensable feature SQLite added was window functions in 2018.
Right, I'm aware of the Imagen architecture, just curious to see further research determining which aspect of it is responsible for the improved text rendering.

EDIT: According to the figure in the Imagen paper FL33TW00D's response referred me to, it looks like the text encoder size is the biggest factor in the improved model performance all-around.
If you have competitors, You are not original.
So, there is nothing to protect.
I think you’ll find the companies abusing the process are almost entirely staffing agencies or worse. Very few, if any, are venture funded startups. At every company I’ve worked at and hired for an H1-B is more work to hire and is treated no differently from a compensation perspective as compared to their US citizen peers.

The theory that HN is part of a vast conspiracy in the startup world related to H1-Bs is misguided.
> I had absolutely no idea this was even a thing in the US before reading about it.

Yeah, it's absurd, but it's highly impactful because of the prevalence of Indians in high-paying careers in the US. Indians make up nearly 2% of the US population, and the Indian diaspora is heavily concentrated in just a few coastal tech hub cities, so they make up a sizeable proportion of both the population and the workforce in the tech industry. Caste-based discrimination is therefore highly impactful, and it makes sense that it's now getting the attention from US authorities.
Why does the free market and comfortable clothing options make you furious?
No, I'm a game developer. The app I'm making is a web app that I don't have much experience with. I'm using ChatGPT as a tool to cut down coding time and it is working great so far. I should have worded my comment better.
I know a guy who worked at the local Saturn dealership here in Phx in the late 90s/early 00s. He said whenever they had more than one EV1 in for service, they would have EV1 races at night. People would FIGHT over who would be the drivers.
This is something I need to look into further but it's currently under construction and being tested. I'm pretty sure they have issued "down for maintenance" notices that I need to take into consideration and supersede any reported generation.
> For example, Stability is gearing up to release Stable Diffusion XL right now, a larger version of the original SD that does higher fidelity and higher resolution generations. I wouldn't be surprised if it takes the crown back from DeepFloyd when it releases, but I guess we'll have to see.

SDXL is available on StabilityAI’s hosted services already, so they can be compared head to head.
How does a PE manager expect to make money if their asset stripping decreases the value of the businesses? I’m assuming the value of the business plummets, but they use the sale of assets to pay themselves/their investors? Could someone please explain how this asset stripping is profitable on a portfolio level? - No sarcasm in this question, I’m genuinely interested.
I would be more interested in image-to-text models. Does someone know of any decent model? I saw the GPT4 demo, and they showed that they do image-to-text... but then that was actually a fake (i.e., the model was interpreting the image filename).
I tried the HF Space and it generates images of 64x64 resolution, which are basically useless.
neodypsis reached out and we got to the bottom of this.

When a user visits a Flux project without being signed in we create a temporary anonymous user record for them so that they can interact with the document. These user records are populated with human-like names (which is partially to blame for the confusion here. We'll fix that.)

When a user signs up their anonymous record is updated with the details they provide but the record id remains the same so we can keep the user's interaction history.

In this case when the Github sign up failed the process stopped half way. The anonymous account was never updated with the username neodypsis provided but appeared to be someone else's account (a human name followed by several numbers).

We've verified that the account was indeed linked to neodypsis' Github profile and no-one else had ever had access to it.

We've started some work to improve the OAuth sign up process.
"Easy to say but what would that future be?"

I thought figuring this out is why the big shots get their 50,000,000 dollar paychecks :-)
There are times when it makes sense to invest in so-called "turds." Just like there are times when it's economically rational to "invest" in lottery tickets:

https://economics.stackexchange.com/questions/4998/is-there-...
Legally and literally: yes.

Knowingly using a private API without authorization can fall under CFAA, contract law, copyright law, trespass to chattel, etc -- and you can issue a C&D and/or sue for whatever is relevant.
Yes, 300hp on paper. I owned a Z NA 2+2 that I converted to a TT, maybe ~600hp. The RX7, 300ZX, Supra generation were all fun and great competition, but that was probably also the order in terms of reliability. The rotary engine is super tunable, but very finicky. The Z was a V6, and much less stable than the Supra’s in-line 6. That’s usually why all the monster builds were Supras. You could get a Z there with a lot of cash and free time, but it would require a fairly decent amount of upkeep and tuning to make sure you didn’t blow up your engine every time you tried to race. Supras might appear just as unstable, but those were usually 1000+hp builds having issues versus 600-700hp Z builds. A 600hp Supra would probably be more resilient due to the engine.
A University education is not the only valid signal, but it is one of the best signals that is widely accessible. Going through public K-12 and then a State University is a very paved path.

There's a lot of ways to begin lowering the cost of University education. Some of it relays on students being able to make good decisions. Students in general have been preferring schools with lots of expensive services and facilities, and schools have been increasing their tuition to pay for it. Other aspects would be to fight administrative overhead creep that is well documented.

There's more radical ways of handling it. Price limits tied to state/federal funding. Restructuring student loans so that the Federal Government is the buyer instead of the student, and using larger buyer status to negotiation with schools.

I think the free market will force schools to lower prices, and the number of students fall. This fall of students has been expected for awhile, and covid seems to have accelerated it.
Ah, yes, this seems to be pretty strong evidence. Thanks for pointing that figure out to me!
Their usual profits are due to unpriced externalities, but these specific profits are probably windfall profits due to the War in Ukraine.

edit: one of the related stories goes in depth on this:

"Why are BP, Shell, and other oil giants making so much money right now?”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64583982
This is nothing new, I solved this and a bunch of other things by wearing a tinfoil hat.
I'm a little confused by the docs - is there a way to host the Deno KV datastore locally, or is the "run locally" option only for accessing a store hosted by Deno Land Inc on self-hosted hardware?
Well, it is the law enforcement ppl who sell that data. Sometimes personally
I don't think it's realistic for you to expect your jeans to last a lifetime.

I buy decent jeans once a year. The new pair is for daily wear. The old pair is retired for manual labor. The old-old pair is retired to when I crawl under the house.
It’s not always about efficiency. Sometimes, it is about resilience, anti-fragility, and food source locality. And maximizing efficiency tends to lead to trade off in those other areas.
If you trick the butler into letting you in by lying when you are aware that the home owner doesn't want you there then probably
I'm trying to help you here. If you can't agree that you've been posting flamewar comments, past the point of trolling in many cases, and just keep blaming others (including the mods) for the entire problem, it's hard to see how this is going to work. Ironically, it's your right-wing counterparts that I most often have to tell this to.

You're not just "simply saying well-founded things" and "keeping [your] cool" - you're inundating the threads with provocation and snark. The effect of this is predictable and we have no choice but to moderate it. HN's survival depends on not burning to a crisp, and you're starting and feeding flames all over the place. I'm not saying it's arson, but it's negligence, and the flames are just as damaging either way. The fact that other people lose their shit in response is not only not an excuse, it's an effect you're co-producing and are therefore co-responsible for. That doesn't make what they're doing ok, and we'll moderate it whenever we see it, as usual.

There's an extra burden on people arguing for minority or contrarian views. You can't just drop them like bombs in the threads without deranging people and destroying the environment. No doubt the majority is wrong, but it's your job to know who you're dealing with and to persuade them, not troll them. Otherwise you end up discrediting your own views and re-entrenching others in their errors (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).

If you want to keep posting on HN, you have a responsibility to protect it for its intended purpose. It's only because most of the community does so, and moderators work hard to mitigate the rest, that HN has any value at all. You're benefiting from that, since you find it valuable enough to spend your time here. Trashing the place in return is a poor way to give back—and I'm sure you wouldn't do the equivalent in other cases (such as littering in a city park, or starting fires and leaving them to others to put out).

> I'd like for you to point out where I attacked anyone.

You needn't look far; you did it two sentences before your question ("self-delusion"). Here are some other places where you crossed the line:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35732710

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35676153

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35653632

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35653517

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35577262
Seems pretty spot on
From https://www.theverge.com/22787426/netflix-cdn-open-connect

> ““Not only are we placing content on all of these servers around the world, but we are pre-placing them based on what is popular. Because we predict what is popular, we’re able to put it as close as possible under the correct server,” Haspilaire says. “This pre-placement of our films and shows allows us, based on prime time viewing hours, to store 100 percent of our catalog locally."

And they have 17,000 of these boxes. Extra users in these areas will have essentially zero marginal cost. And outside of that, I don't believe the bandwidth market we see - in terms of upgrading our small servers - has any resemblance to the deals they can do.
I have an HP OMEN laptop, W11 and RTX and a 165hz refresh rate.

When I plug the machine in, the audio will get all static-y from the built in speakers. It seems to especially happen when I am moving my mouse over a video thats playing - and the playback of videos stutters when pulling the cord in or out of the machine.

Battery life on this machine sucks though... but other than that, its fantastic...
That era Miata was almost exactly 2000lbs with about 120hp. 6.5k redline. Not a ton of power under 3.5krpm. It wasn't so much the straight line speed as the cornering for them.

I miss my red 90.
> Note that the model is substantially more compute-intensive than Stable Diffusion, so it may be slower even though that space is running on an A100.

Any more specifics on this? Sampling has gotten better too. My primary concern is the amount of memory necessary for a generation (batch size = 1, or I guess "2" using classifier free guidance).

Similar to OpenAI's cascaded diffusion models and GLIDE, you can presumably run the models in sequence, unloading earlier models from memory to make room for the 2nd and 3rd stage models.

Right now, I really only need 256px resolution. So, will I be able to fit the first stage (64px) model in memory on its own with my 12 GB RTX 3060? What about the 2nd stage (64px -> 256px)? 3rd stage?
Again, "dumb" is not a great word to use here. Up until recently there were not realistic alternatives that would provide any kind of decent yield for many crops.

Yes, with modern tilling machinery there are now alternatives available in some situations (min-till, disc only etc) which can avoid some of the potential ill effects of tilling.
Well, its a better license than SDXL is available under right now (which is “you can’t have it, but you can use it on StabilityAI’s hosted services”.)
I use food (including peanut butter) in cooking. I cook in the kitchen. Therefore peanut butter is a thing I use in the kitchen. Seems correct and proper to me.

The ambiguity as I see it is that the kitchen isn't the only place I use peanut butter. I've eaten it (which I think counts as "using") in other rooms. I've even made peanut-butter sandwiches (properly "using" it) in the living room before.
Love the thought mentioned the warning section
https://github.com/MrIceman/go-uml#warning---ai-not-welcome-...
Really fun project. Whisper's ability to generalize to novel sounds - like picking up the "Woo-hoos" in Weezer's Buddy Holly - continues to impress.
And such people are ridiculed in the news.
I'm glad the MATLAB interface isn't dead haha

This this looks awfully similar to Reveal - though Reveal seems to be more composable and modular

https://github.com/vlaaad/reveal/
Ask HN: Why my post is not visible?
I was trying to post this link

https://coolainewsletter.substack.com/p/agi-is-not-chess-bots-they-will-replace

And it's not showing for people except me.
I know the last time I posted a link and the system accidentally made it double posts, which I don't know why it happened.. I really only posted one time.

Is it the reason I got banned? I mean.. at least tell me why I am banned instead of doing this. More transparency will be appreciated
I do this- I just tell my parents I have a lot of frequent flyer points (which I do), but then depending on the cost and availability of flights I book whatever is most convenient for me.

It's generous, but not cash in your face.
inet_aton is cursed:

https://linux.die.net/man/3/inet_aton