skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah and I don’t use that except where it’s unavoidable (wifi passwords) because apple cannot be trusted any more than any other public company.
It wouldn't be surprising if it was a Microsoft camera.
i'm using a 400-gram gpd micropc; they ship with windows but support ubuntu, which is what i'm running. big problem is that the keyboard is too small for touch-typing, but they have three usb-a ports, a usb-c port, hdmi, ethernet, headphone jack, and 9-pin rs-232
So basically they saved money on streaming bills, reduced "ghost" numbers from the bottom line, and maintained probably about the same level of equity.

What's the problem here?
Back when O'Reilly was still hosting events (sigh), at one of their AI conferences, someone from Google gave a talk about differences between research/academic AI and applied AI. I think she had a PhD in the field herself but basically she made the argument that someone who is just looking to more or less apply existing tools to business or other problems mostly doesn't need a lot of the math-heavy theory you'll get in a PhD program. You do need to understand limitations etc. of tools and techniques. But that's different from the kind of novel investigation that's needed to get a PhD.
Been using netflix for 12 years now. If they roll this out for me i will instantly stop using it.

I pay for 4 screens not because i use it but because i set it up for my parents and wifes parents who just don’t understand how that all works. Additionally i have a house in two countries and if they make that a pain in the butt for me I’m done as well. I’m paying for convenience I already know how to pirate all of this for free if they want to push me back that way.

Netflix knew this was happening and it’s why they introduced number of active screens. Now they aren’t happy with revenue and need to move the goal posts and paint people using the platform as intended previously as lazy or freeloaders.
Google has very good LLMs. It just let OpenAI beat them to the punch by releasing them earlier.

As an established business, Google felt it had a lot to lose by releasing "unsafe" AI into the world. But OpenAI doesn't have a money printing machine, and it's sink-or-swim for them.
There's a rule that when at scale every edge case is a real problem.

There's likely a whole org working on integrations with some oddball apps and devices. They likely make millions from this edge use case since Spotify operates at such scale. There's likely an org that makes small 0.1% improvements to server infra that saves millions. Every possible edge case bug is being hit at their scale. It's worth having extra engineers to tackle those.

Not to mention the shear business complexity of what they do. Billing, paying royalties, advertisers, legal compliance etc.

10k employees. For a huge company that operates across the globe. That seems small.
Because "OAuth" is not a thing, it's a label you can glue on any wild-and-wacky authentication mechanism someone hacks together. It is structurally impossible for OAuth to ever become "easy".
Journalism has also become a sort of "status" job post-watergate for a lot of Ivy leaguers. The steps from journalism to "media consultant" are pretty small and there's a huge network effect of 'who you know' coming into play. Going to the same school as a judge or politician can open doors.

This is the same way in pretty much all creative fields, though. Museums and galleries are a particularly egregious example. You can start working there for peanuts as a student and find out your fellow student colleagues regularly go to the French Riviera to "recharge" for a weekend.
> People will still write without copyright

Yes. Way less of them do cause very few people could afford to write.

> Maybe the quality will even go up as there are fewer incentives for quantity over quality

Maybe people who write/etc. time on average produce better quality than those who can only dedicate a few hours per day for it. Also you want to eradicate entire creative industries like cinema and television for no apparent reason.

> If your argument for copyright relies on protecting speicific jobs then you have no argument

No my argument is that copyright protection (including patents) was one of the main driving forces behind the progress of human progress over the last 300-500 years. Obviously the current system is not perfect, I'm not saying it is... Overall it still made the world a much better place than it would have been without it.
Nope, Pytorch was inspired by the Lua version of Torch which well predates Tensor flow. To be fair, basically every other DL framework made the same mistake though.

Also, tensorflow was a total nightmare to install while Pytorch was pretty straightforward, which definitely shouldn't be discounted.
As far as some people quickly understanding the point the article is making while others not getting it I recall a quote approximately saying “It’s very difficult to convince a man of something when his livelihood depends on not understanding it”.
Problem is that there are no fossils. The only evidence of the first cells are similarities between eukaryotes and prokaryotes.
I've always hated how the operations on semaphores are named, guess I'm too English language oriented.
We've banned this account for breaking the site guidelines extremely badly and often. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35717990.
Sounds like a good opportunity for ChatGPT if it’s log based.
Could be a huge improvement. And still between hilarious and horrific.
How often have you bought something from Amazon, had it drop-shipped from China, and found that it's counterfeit? It affects large US distributors, too.

It takes actual time to investigate these things, and there's often not enough evidence to convict; Enough fake assurances and "Gee, this is a great deal, I'm so naive and won't ask any questions" e-mails to give plausible deniability.

This doesn't make it any more acceptable that Fraud is America's fastest-growing sector.
Reddit auto-moderator are powerful, this platform so powerful in terms of controlling spamming
For the 30 years I have walked this Earth, I have never been able to find a "healthy" way to manage stress.

In fact, I have had such bad problems with stress that it basically assisted in the emergence and continuation of an autoimmune disorder. So, I am quite aware of the damage stress can cause.

I have used plenty of unhealthy methods of managing stress, but the sad fact of the matter is that -- unlike yoga, warm baths, etc. -- the unhealthy methods actually work, and they tend to work really well.
The county should not get to keep the excess. The mortgage should not be zeroed out, the bank should get the excess, then the owner. Right?
Are they though? Netflix in particular is famously bad at actually promoting their hot new stuff. I suppose they may do it more on-platform and just assume it's enough, but it seems like (and this is just from my memory, which is maybe wrong) that the ads for streaming services generally fall into the "look at all this stuff we have and maybe I won't even tell you what show I'm giving you a clip of right now" kinds of commercials.

I practically never see an ad for a particular new show -- tho in addition to memory faults there is also of course selection bias here.
> free market competition

Ah yes, free market competition funded by insane amounts of quantitative easing pumping equity into NFLX which took that money and lowballed customers to pick them up early. And of course, this is all somehow "worse" than the universe before Netflix existed, when you'd have to physically go rent movies and return them.
> Also not surprised at the immediate down votes for questioning Googles new AI lead!

That's because you are wrong to pretend he did anything wrong by firing T.G. And also, because you added this weird lie/mudslinging/whatever on top of it:

> while she was on vacation
Seems more than a nitpick to me. I find the essay interesting but this line raised some distrust in me. How can someone have these deep insights into Google's ML strategy and the evolution of the field and simultaneously think LSTMs were invented by Google in 2014?
Good article. By describing the workarounds, the article highlights the need for a SQL declarative table statement, something akin to `DECLARE TABLE`.

The DECLARE TABLE statement could list the expected fields, then the SQL engine could create as needed, or alter as needed.
It is indeed explained through eight steps in the second half of the article
I don't like this analogy for a number of reasons beginning with the difference between a free software that I know is internet connected and a purchased device that doesn't even need access to the internet.

Let me ask this: Would you be surprised to learn that Google Chrome sends data to Google when you enter something in the task bar to give you auto complete predictions? I wouldn't. The same is also true for Microsoft Edge sending data to Microsoft Bing to enable a feature of the Webbrowser.
even = ->(x) { x % 2 == 0 }

even === 4 # true
even === 5 # false

That's cool. No need for a is_even or is_odd gem.

I really do like that ability to do a case statement though. I cannot think of a situation where I need it now but I could definitely see it being handy instead of having to do if..else if
> maple/octave/mathematica/python

I’m no mathematician, but I’d be very surprised if the overlap these tools have with mathematical research is very large.
Some folks run businesses that succeed, other ran (past tense) start-ups that failed.

Unfortunately, the lasting affect will be a net positive, because sometimes you have to just be the adult and say loosing money isn't an option. I would like to call this shedding the college weight, and firing 80% of the work force, because the business will die otherwise in the case of Twitter.

Would you rather run a business with much higher ROI with a small user base and run a lean business, or a fat business with super scale data but bleeding out money? I'm not sure I get the argument against this.
> If we don't regulate streaming services to have exactly one really good service that I prefer, then we will go back to company towns.

What are you talking about?
Check this out https://youtu.be/73gTEub2e3I
We have a joke about this at Zapier -- don't be an oauth butt!

"We support standard oauth butttt..."
Ryzen 8000 Strix Point / Strix Halo APU Leak
If you don't have apple stuff it's pretty obvious choice.
Clever Clickbait - Of course at the end of the article they offer a solution - their product (and of course it’s AI enhanced) to the problem they have overhyped.
Solar has gotten so cheap that to write a "balanced" article you need to complain that it's not solved caste-based discrimination and sexism.
I'm new at this. Why is C++ an obstacle to bootstrapping?
That does not say they do not grant copyrights to such things, and they explicitly list mixtures of things they did grant copyrights to. The only place they did not grant copyright was the example with no human inputs. In the case I claimed, with human creative input to direct a tool, to quote:

"In the case of works containing AI-generated material, the Office will consider whether the AI contributions are the result of “mechanical reproduction” or instead of an author’s “own original mental conception, to which [the author] gave visible form.” The answer will depend on the circumstances, particularly how the AI tool operates and how it was used to create the final work. This is necessarily a case-by-case inquiry."

As I put it, prompt engineering, which is often iterative, directed by a human desiring a goal, will easily surpass the statement. The simple "all AI generated content is not copyrightable" simply isn't true as the OP claimed.
Are they still hacking on it? Maybe get it running with Hurd when it's done.
Basic services being held hostage for porkbarrel projects is a tale as old as time. It's not just an overspending problem, it's a corruption and grift problem.
Agree. But covered cards because it is the most complex form of payment with a lot of intermediaries. So understanding the longest path, will help to prepare as developer for payments industry
Look Out, Tesla, There’s a Tiny Competitor in Your Rearview Mirror
Should we trust Apple with mental health data?
Poco me parece https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8-0XZXaJDQ
Oh in that case, there's actually a very simple way to upgrade: get a job somewhere else.
> Take any Writing 101 course, and if you want to write for Hollywood, completely throw it out the window because they do not care in the slightest about any of that.

I don't think it's that. Historically, you'd have a strong cast and crew on board for the first ~2-3 seasons.

Any show attracts its critical mass of viewers early on, so the first way to keep production of later seasons profitable is by eliminating expensive gimmicks (helicopters, SFX, on-location, etc.).

Firing the writers and replacing them with Writing 101 interns is usually the next step. It's not that nobody cares, but the replacement labor is new to the game; they're not writing award-winning scripts at that stage in their lives. It's a step above mining fanfiction.net for scripts.
Trust me, you don't want to get stuck running a business during school. Build cool stuff during the summer but don't worry about making a sustainable business yet.
Being somewhat involved in one bad thing doesn’t justify cancelling someone.

To my knowledge Dean was essentially doing post-hoc damage control for what one of the middle managers in his org did. Even if they did want Timnit gone (as others mention, you are getting only one side of the story in media) they did it in a bad way, for sure. At the same time I don’t think one botched firing diminishes decades of achievements from a legitimately kind person.
Well, the Netflix content is not going to get any less palatable because their business model works.
Then the future of computing will be in the hands of mega-corporations. Have an innovative app idea that goes against corporate policy? Too bad, won't happen.

Strict sandboxing and a robust permissions model can still give you security with these kinds of apps.
Poco me parece https://youtu.be/R8-0XZXaJDQ
Hachyderm.io is operated by an Ukrainian Faschist who censors any truthful comments and bans people because of that on 1st occurrence.

I ran my own instance and deleted it after 3 months.
No one wants to accept you as a relay.
The only one who did accept was Beckmeyer, good guy.
But it had week long outages.
Searching Mastodon posts is impossible.
There's a very strong cancel culture on Mastodon instances.
The main players control who can and can speak freely.

It's all even more fucked up than Facebook and Twitter.

Add to that PITA upgrade procedures, and a 500 char limit per post, which includes hashtags.

Absolutely ridiculous how this pos software made it so far.
How affordable are such changes for the average person? It seems like a carnivorous diet would be significantly more expensive than alternatives.
There's always doas[1] if you want a simpler, safer version.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doas
> processed foods

> whole ingredients

These are utterly meaningless terms. You "process" food by cutting and cooking it. Everything is processed. Everything is GMO -- have you seen what corn looked like before humans bred it? Everything is organic. Everything is "whole". Nutrition is too complicated and too individualized for these nonsense labels.

> I'm getting the maximum amount of nutrients from my food

This is utter nonsense. Some processing steps remove some nutrients from some foods. Other processing steps add nutrients that you need. Plenty of foods have nutrients that are completely unavailable for your body until you cook it (many veggies) -- PROCESSING! Other nutrients are destroyed by too much cooking (Vitamin C, I believe). You better be glad the salt you eat is "processed" by adding iodine to it. The water you drink is "processed" by adding fluoride to it. Those last 2 are some of the biggest public health successes in human history.

I'm glad you're feeling better, but it's 100% from paying attention to what you're eating, and 0% from this bullshit about "whole" or "unprocessed" foods with "maximum nutrients". Stop spreading this bullshit.
Controvery of what? Did you read Gebru's paper? For instance, her calculation of carbon footprint of training BERT assumes that companies will train BERT 24x7. Gebru is a disgrace to the community because she always, I mean literally always, attacks her critics by motives. You think bias is a data problem? You're a bigot (See her dispute with LeCun). You disagree with my assessment on an ML model? You are white male oppressor (her attacking a Google's SVP).

Gebru is not a researcher. She is a modern-age Trofim Lysenko, who politicizes everything and weaponizes political correctness.

And yeah, she deserves to be fired. Many times.
My theory is that broadly, tech learned not to act like Microsoft in the 90s -- closed off, anti-competitive, unpopular -- but swung too far in the opposite direction.

Google has been basically giving away technology for free, which was easy because of all the easy money. It's good for reputation and attracting the best talent. That is, until a competitor starts to threaten to overtake you with the technology you gave them (ChatGPT based on LLM research, Edge based on Chromium, etc.).
Companies used to invest in their workers, but after MBAs convinced themselves that workers are just replaceable cogs, nobody wanted to front that expense, so they've spent the past fifty years crying that colleges don't prepare people for jobs, as if jobs have completely transferable requirements, or as if the point of college is to get a job.
There you are producing something, which is a worthy endeavor.

I think a closer analogy would be spreading a corn disease.
If you're throwing them in the trash, why not give them out whenever you're expected to tip?
I lived for a bunch of years in Lakeview and hung around in Lincoln Park, Lincoln Square, and Rogers Park, and my experience trying to reliably get cabs in those neighborhoods was not great. I live in Oak Park. Cab to Oak Park? Fucking forget it.
I don't think there is an agenda, but design by committee has gotten to the point where it does look like there is one. If you are hell bent on checking the same set of was-well-received-before boxes in every piece of schlock you pump out, people reasonably start to believe that checking boxes is the point. From there any checkbox that doesn't align with viewer's world view is perceived as propaganda.
https://www.w3.org/TR/payment-request/

On paper it looks kinda nice. I've seen some discussion about implementing it from the payment method perspective.

Problem is that Google would be massively privileged, as browser orchestrates the process and payment methods aren't necessarily looking for the fair compromise either.
This is a good overview but its high level, are there any other resources to understand payment flows for individual payment methods better?
Musk in 2020:
"Aspiring to have no flame diverter in Boca, but this could turn out to be a mistake" [0]

[0] "https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1313952039869788173
That would be a payments switch like https://hyperswitch.io/
You seem to have missed the key line:

>I actually “pirate” some of stuff I pay for.

So, if someone pays for HBO Max and watches the latest episode of Barry at home via the app, but, as I do, feel that HBO's UI/UX is dogshit, and they then download a copy of it and slap it on their phone or laptop in a way that's more comfortable to them for their flight tomorrow, what's the difference? OP continues to pay HBO, but that next view is just on a local device.

Edit: HBO Max downloads "expire" after 30 days, and you have 48 hours to finish it once you've started[1]. You're also limited to 30 downloads at once. This is hardly 'convenient' for some people.

[1]https://help.hbomax.com/us/Answer/Detail/000001242
Is it really illegal that for a discounted fee you get access to a hotel room during the next year? If that's the agreement you make? If I could pay $100 now to get my whole family into Disney land any weekday in 2024, I'd pay for that.

That's not the same as putting $100 on a hotel gift card which you can use anywhere anytime at the hotels many properties, maybe to cover a pet fee or cleaning fee or parking, or to reduce the cost of a room during a peak cost period like 4th of july.
sorry, I had a mind fart. I was thinking of seq2seq https://research.google/pubs/pub43155/

Pushing the fix now...
I think the intention is to eliminate the prompt component entirely. This would shift AI from "generative autofill" to a "repository of truth". The former is useless for most business applications. The latter is the holy grail of product.
Serious question: what should a business owner do? Track down every gift card buyer and refund their money?
There’s an element of critical mass involved - a streaming platform can only afford to create so much of their own content if they have the revenue to back up those costs. Less users means less revenue means less content, and at some point things might break down.
Seems the server went down real fast.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230426182003/https://www.eetim...
It's identical in design to any number for Makita, Dewalt, or other nicer brands (1k$ from Festool). The point was that it's not a 15K$ tool. It's a 200$ tool for a Dewalt. SMH my head. Yes of course you could buy a bench mount industrial one or something for lots of money.
> Arguably you don't own land, ...

Keeping X requires constant resources to defend X that scale with the value of X due to competition for X. Governments (among other things) are for collective security and efficient defence of your X.

Thus by ongoing support of your ownership of X a government grants you an ongoing service which you pay for via taxes.

Without a state you must directly pay costs / use resources to prevent someone else who wants your X from taking it.

In nature ownership does not exist. Any being that is able to can consume what they are able from another. In nature energy is constantly spent on this for yourself and trying to prevent this happening to yourself.

Governments evolve for mutual benefit of their constituents much like multicellular organisms evolve for mutual benefit of their constituent cells .

> No wonder our society is dividing into people who own nothing and pay nothing and people who own everything and do everything they can to pay nothing.

Notice in your body certain cells seem to get a better deal than others? Why is that? Could it be objective proof that collectives that treat members equally are by evolutionary competition not as viable and those that do not? Yes! The evolutionary stable strategy seems to be to grant benefits to constituents just better than their next best viable option. This of course is only necessary but not sufficient.
>I can get really boring on applications of acoustic design

I found that fascinating. TIL about the car tire noise.

I think you've got the right kind of audience here.
Timnit and the other ex-ML ethics crowd who got fired from Google seem like some of the most ignorant people around. I don't defend Dean reflexively, it just seems like he is on the right side of the issue. For example, here is Emma Strubell accusing Dean of creating a "toxic workplace culture" after he and David Patterson had to refute her paper in print.

https://twitter.com/strubell/status/1634164078691098625?lang...

The thing is if David Patterson and Jeff Dean think your numbers for the energy cost of machine learning might be wrong, then you are probably wrong. These ML meta-researchers are not practitioners and appear to have no idea what they are talking about. Keeping a person like Timnit or Strubell on staff seems like it costs more than its worth.