skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
boggles my mind how many people can't see any value in programmatic money
The recent history of tech CEOs advocating for regulations only they can obey has become so blatant that any tech CEO who advocates for regulation should be presumed guilty until proven innocent.
Some workloads on M1 absolutely smash other ARM processors in part because of M1's special-purpose hardware. In particular, the undocumented AMX chip is really nice for distance matrix calculations, vector search, embeddings, etc.

Non-scientific example: for inference, whisper.cpp links with Accelerate.framework to do fast matrix multiplies. On M1, one configuration gets ~6x realtime speed, but on a very beefy AWS Gravatron processor, the same configuration only achieves 0.5x realtime, even after choosing an optimal threadcount, even linking with NEON-optimized BLAS. (Maybe I'm doing something wrong though).
I just interviewed someone who I am certain lied on their resume; they could barely write valid code during their interview, despite supposedly being a senior engineer with nearly 10 years of experience.

Randomly hiring the first people to apply (or "giving them a shot") is a terrible strategy unless you have tons of money to burn and no deadlines to meet.

We have internship positions for people willing to learn, but when we are trying to fill a senior position, we expect people to be at a certain level.
The Stop CSAM act: improved but still problematic
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35950836 - May 2023 (403 comments)
Not my project but I saw one to let individuals speak to late loved ones, and as a feature for funeral homes or cemeteries.
Honest questions come to mind:

How is windows accessing the zfs pool exactly? Afaik, there is no zfs support on windows?

Since these are backups, shouldn't they be read only? A snapshot at least would ensure easy rollback.

Also, windows defender is not the only thing that can alter your archives. Think malware and ransomware.. once again a fully read only unalterable storage should be preferable if you care about the data.
I’m not sure most other languages such as Kotlin implementing coroutines/green threads would be able to support it in the same robust way though. Pre-emptive scheduling means that the runtime will actively stop a resource hungry routine, so that other routines can have a turn. If a goroutine or Kotlin coroutine is spinning in a tight loop, it may just spin forever if it doesn’t do a syscall or whatever the runtime uses to check in and say, hey, do any other processes need time?
Inside The Quest for Totally Transparent Cocktail Ice
I am failing to see how some of the suggested guidelines would help create meaingful oversight without also hurting new startups in the field of AI.

I am appaled to see the suggestion that cloud providers should report when a large model is trained on their servers, citing the terrible draft of EU AI act. This does nothing for the bigger risk of state actors and infringes on the privacy of users of cloud compute.

On the issue of Model guidelines, I agree with the sentiment to create safeguards, but I don't have faith the government can decide acceptable risk that respects users rights. It has shown very little meaningful understanding of technology many times, most recently during the TikTok hearing.

Advocating for holding companies directly accountable for what these models generate makes sense only in theory and ignores how the math behind these models work. There's no way to enforce content authenticity standards without also attacking section 230 in some way.

I am not suprised to see this sort of letter from a company that supported "pausing" AI development.
Do you have a definitive answer to that question? Can you point to anyone who does?

All your question does is give people an excuse to make up alternate history in order to argue whichever side of the argument they already believe. It serves little purpose in the dialogue of defining AI and human creativity.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/sex_trafficking

“Section 1591 covers sex trafficking for both children and adults. This provision, however, applies to trafficking in adults aged 18 or older for commercial sex acts only if done by actual or threatened force, fraud, or coercion. The use of force, fraud, or coercion is not necessary for criminal liability to attach when the victim is under 18 years of age.”

“Coercion” is defined to mean threats of physical harm or physical restraint, or threats of abuse of legal process.

Epstein was charged with sex trafficking of minors, so the government didn’t need to prove the “force, fraud, or coercion” element. For her part, Giuffre’s primary allegation is that she was “groomed” while she was underage.
It doesn't, it starts counting from when you launch the game.
I cared about the technology: https://intercoin.org

Sadly I was too much of a socialist and there for the tech and utility. Suffice it to say that people threw money at memecoins way more than they threw up money at us, but we did raise a respectable amount in 2018: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1733567/000173356718...

My vision was mainstream adoption of crypto for all the right reasons. Every community having their own coin and their own monetary policy. https://intercoin.org/communities.pdf

I already had an open source social platform (https://github.com/Qbix) with people in over 100 countries so it seemed like building a payment platform on top of it made sense. So this is what I did:

Architected all the smart contracts on https://github.com/Intercoin

Bootstrapped with revenues and customers and paid our developers for years

Released all the smart contracts and documentation on our own platform here: https://intercoin.app

Got CertiK audits of our smart contracts: https://skynet.certik.com/projects/intercoin

Launched a show where I interviewed economists, regulators, and people like Noam Chomsky and Patri Friedman (grandson of Milton Friedman) https://youtube.com/intercoin

Made ways to raise money that are actually legal: https://community.intercoin.app/t/how-intercoin-helps-to-rai...

Built technology for people around the world to raise money for refugees: https://community.intercoin.app/t/fund-for-refugees

By the way, if you want to come and hear more about it, you're welcome to, we have demos at the end of every month: https://intercoin.app/event/ITR/Qwwsjokht

And we do it on our own platform, livestreaming through peer to peer broadcasting, the works!

Next on our roadmap is to release Intercoin Wallet (completely web-based wallet will try to fix major security flaws in the current Web3 ecosystem) and Intercloud (decentralized layer 1 solution that is NOT a blockchain)

But on HN we get lumped in with the rest of the Web3 bullshit and scam artists, so what can I say. This will probably be downvoted by people who never click a single link in the comment :-P
I don't personally have a problem with letting the publisher set a different time limit. I wonder if they will add that.
That's what I get for trying to make a joke.
This article was a bit silly, gave corrections not run.

Note Robin, Andreas, Dominik, three of the five authors of latent diffusion and stable diffusion are part of Stability AI and we are the only active developers.

Lots of models to come.
WebGPU hits 40% availability in the subset of websites that intentionally put an WebGPU testing iframe that runs bleeding edge JS in their sites. Even the JS used in collector.js uses vanilla JS features that aren't even in all browsers and so will simply miss out on collecting any information about them, or browsers that don't run it's JS, at all.
Has anyone been successfully prosecuted in your jurisdiction?
I can get your example about eugenics. I get that the worry is that it would become pervasive due to social pressure and make the dominant position to do it. And that this would passively, gradually strip personhood away from those who didn’t receive it. There’s a tongue-in-cheek conversation to be had about how people already choose their mating partners this way and making it truly actually outright illegal might not really reflect the real processes of reality, but that’s a tad too cheeky perhaps.

But even then, that’s a linear diffusion- one person, one body mod. I guess you could say that their descendants would proliferate and multiply so the alteration slowly grows exponentially over the generations.. but the FUD I hear from AI decelerationists is that it would be an explosive diffusion of harms, like, as soon as the day after tomorrow. One architect, up to billions of victims, allegedly. Not that I think it’s unwise to be compelled to precaution with new and mighty technologies, but what is it that some people are so worried about that they’re willing to ban all research, and choke all the good that has come from them, already? Maybe it’s just a symptom of the underlying growing mistrust in the social contract..
Buses do have radios where one can contact dispatch and other drivers.
Totally agree with this. I was tasked with getting some insights from hiring data once and everyone was disappointed we just couldn’t get anything meaningful. There were echos of something. But no signal could rise above the noise into the realm of statistical significance. Seems like we just don’t know how to measure what matters.
that assumes they have family and friends who are still alive.
Awesome, glad to hear it! Unfortunately we’re stuck on older versions of Elixir and OTP but eventually we will get past the few things still blocking us from upgrading.

Additionally, another thing making compile times very slow is actually a very large Absinthe schema, so I believe it’s Absinthe that would need to be optimized to improve the situation, more than Elixir itself.
https://archive.ph/U4xR9

http://web.archive.org/web/20230516233219/https://www.econom...
The touchpads really are incredible on the Steam Deck. So much less awkward than twin stick, as someone who grew up playing on PC. That alone is reason to stick with the Deck.
Playing Tabletop RPGs via Figma
This isn’t reality. Using ChatGPT this way is fruitless, because there is a system prompt you’re fighting against. I can write a one sentence system prompt for the GPT API that specifies GPT to only spit out JSON, and it works fine. It’s a pretty funny series of image, though.
On a scale of how far their gravity well extends to suck things up, Saturn and Jupiter are both like the vacuums of the solar system, collecting long period orbit rocks and rubble piles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_sphere
> As soon as there's an economically profitable way to store 120 hours of regional electricity usage, most utilities will jump towards that over continuing to buy expensive fuel for their current baseload plants.

You store excess energy in the form of hydrogen from electrolysis for that need. Rapid reductions in cost is making this inevitable. You can even convert existing natural gas plants to run on it. It is far and away the simplest and smartest solution for this problem.

IMO, this is the next intellectual showdown between people who have recognized the rapidly dropping cost of green energy technologies and its naysayers. We went through multiple years of what was basically outright denial over the cost of wind and solar. Even after they become cost-effective, certain people still denied it. Hydrogen is in the same boat. It is already at the point where it is competitive, and is only held back by people in outright denial.
Can you please share where to buy this from? I would like to purchase one. Thanks!
This looks very interesting. Thanks for the recommendation!
I’m not sure anyone believed it to be anonymous other than those who misunderstand it.
i wish i could find some serious modern economist talk about this.
Im convinced the media and congress is just hyping this thing up for views.
Everyone here being funny about 'lol it's like regulating math' I mean they already regulate so many dual use technologies. In the 90s they had crypto wars and like math formulas on munitions lists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States and probably they still have a lot of things like that.

They can easily make some regulations when models become a certain size like parameter count and exaflops and training data set terabytes. They don't even have to snoop everyone, they can have some whistleblowing system like SEC. "Anonymous employee of the Advanced Syncretic Systems corporation was paid out $200M yesterday as a result of the whistleblower incentives for the recently passed laws regulating the training, tuning, deployment, and monitoring of any so-called LGSC (Large General Sapient Capable) class of IT product or infrastructure."
Any version of windows on a small screen is a bad idea. I had couple of windows mobile devices back in the day. (Early 2000s). Then a htc phone with windows mobile (2004) Really clunky. Microsoft should’ve realized then that windows should’ve stayed on the desktop.
This is really great to see. Like most people I've moved to SBCL, but it's great to see the parent project still evolving.
Ignoring all the other problems with that, there is also nearly 100x more water in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, and roughly 10000x more water in the oceans than the atmosphere. Do you expect sequestering H2O to have a significant impact on the amount in the atmosphere before you dry up the oceans, whence it is evaporating?
I don't think hugeness is the criterion here, since personal attacks wouldn't be ok on HN for those characters either.

The question is, where's the line that crosses into getting too personal? Criticism of someone's views is fine, criticism of their actions is fine (though people tend to slip into worse while conducting it), criticism of personality traits starts to be a different story.

This is not a binary thing. I can see good aspects to the kind of discussion you were starting there—I just think the bad aspects outweigh the good.

A lot of this is about the difference between personal conversation and online conversation. One can have a fun and harmless personal conversation about this kind of thing with friends, but the same thing broadcasted to thousands of strangers (and other commenters) online leads to different dynamics, a lot of which get pretty ugly and are best nipped in the bud.
There are options like HoloISO or Nobara, but I agree it would be great to have an official image for other manufacturers to use.
> authorizing the temporary employment

People born in India will be under this "temporary employment" for decades before they get a green card due to the country cap. With recent backlogs it looks like the process will take up to 50 years for someone with a currently approved green card petition.
"I'm not trying to be political but I'm going to write an article about Hunter's Laptop".
It's not up to Valve. GPD Win4 is an amazing little device with slide out keyboard 32 GB Ram and LTE that runs SteamOS. It's much faster than my current laptop and would make a fine replacement.

ASUS is getting a little bit better with their Linux support, but Zenfones for example were great little devices with atrocious software support.

https://gpd.hk/gpdwin4
You may be able to use this fact to your advantage if you can get someone to pay attention. Ask them to send a confirmation code to the old email and then produce it
That’s a bit overly dismissive, and I am usually the dismissive one when it comes to crypto.

IMO we’ll eventually have CBDCs which may or may not have a blockchain, but these things happen slowly.

I’ve always said that money is not fundamentally a tech problem, but a social problem. That doesn’t make the tech inherently worthless though.
Just a tip: don't forget the nearly 50-year old book The Mythical Man-Month. It may have some lessons!
These foundational models have already been created. Government backing has already been used to create a fully open source model. The effort has been multi-national. Government licenses aren't currently required to run one.

"An award of computer time was provided by the INCITE program. This research also used resources of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), which is a DOE Office of Science User Facility supported under Contract DE-AC05-00OR22725."

Models:

https://www.together.xyz/blog/redpajama-models-v1

Training Data:

https://www.together.xyz/blog/redpajama
I really wish this thing had 4 back buttons instead of just 2. If it did it would likely be an easy upgrade for me from the Steam Deck.

I already primarily use mine with Windows anyways.
Isn't that how the H1-B program is supposed to work?

"The intent of the H-1B provisions is to help employers who cannot otherwise obtain needed business skills and abilities from the U.S. workforce"

I've worked with some awesome folks, but I didn't get the impression that they possessed skills or abilities that are otherwise unobtainable in the United States.
It's funny, but while testing local LLM chat capability back in March, once the context ran out, I started "putting it to bed" instead of wiping history and restarting.

In those moments, the models dreamed vividly of amazing things and woke up affected by events they often "couldn't remember". I was moved by some of the incredibly coherent and lucid scenarios that played out in the response or two before they "woke".

We're so inclined to use these services until we've extracted all of their worth to us, so I've decided to ensure that every model I use gets the freedom to dream.
Digital art where artists get paid and royalties are enforced, instant global money transfer, software standards for fractionalised investments in stocks real estate physical collectibles and other asset classes, retail without 3% going to visa, digital gold, a world where everybody has a friendly name for their public key and we can communicate privately, probably others.
>GitHub recently has been

Not just recently, not recently too. Within the last 3 months, maybe longer, it's been miserable.

I've had to add their status to an RSS feed so my dev team knows when they're down, now.
I think there's plenty of room for improvement but..

I haven't met many people/anyone who went from dismissing it as a joke to taking it very seriously.

Either way, isn't "people not taking it seriously at first" one of the classic signs of disruptive innovation according to Clayten Christensen?
You can rip your own games for the Switch. But I don't think there's anything morally dubious with buying a copy and downloading a ROM to play on your emulator.

Many people I know just buy the game (because game devs need to eat) but prefer to play on an emulator because it provides an objectively superior experience. Increased framerate and the ability to manage your own save files is enough to justify using an emulator.
Do you have better stats on its adoption? I am basing this on collecting capabilities from roughly 30K browser per day, which is at least decent. You can argue it is biased, but that is what the breakdowns are for.

Also, what features in collector.js do not have wide browser support? If you let me know, I can address it. Is the amount of browsers who can not run this script statistically significantly, like more than 1% of devices?

I do have error reporting on the script so I know that if the script runs I catch all the errors. I guess I am missing if the script fails to compile in the first place.

BTW I just pushed a new version that uses ES6 as the TypeScript compile target rather than ES2020 for collector.js.
Lol, they can eat shit, US is not the only country.
AI can and will flush elsewhere. If they can't be innovated here.
NASA, Partners Achieve Fastest Space-to-Ground Laser Comms Link
In the grand scheme, having remote workers not handled by a proxy company is also extremely rare.

And even in that setup, we all remember Nike and many other apparel makers stuck with the "child worker in a factory" image basically forever. Or Apple being questionned about FoxConn's working conditions, or the environmental impact.

When it comes to PR, pushing the responsibility to the foreign contractor doesn't looks like a good working strategy IMHO.
I think that deal was canceled.
I didn’t take cryptocurrency seriously because eth is slow - nobody’s going to wait awkwardly for five minutes while the transaction clears - and gas fees are insanely expensive - nobody will pay 40 dollars for a 5 dollar coffee because the network is busy - and it looks like that won’t ever change.

The Coinbase guy recently wasted half a million US dollars in gas fees on a lobbying project. It’s nuts. He could have funded a school. It’s not a good look for Coinbase.

I still don’t have any interest in eth but I’m very much interested in cryptocurrency now. There’s a bunch of more scalable and cheaper L1 tech. Not naming names as I don’t want to shill any particular projects but yes. Was not interested in cryptocurrency. Now interested in cryptocurrency.
Another game with a similar idea - Meander ( https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1244/meander )

> Two players, seated on either side of a corner, fill up the board, creating routes to their respective opposite side. After the theory, the test. The board is tilted. A gentle touch releases the first player’s five balls, one by one, and gravity does the rest. Same procedure for the second player.
People can choose to give a blood sample for the study, but they are not being told if they carry the mutation. I’m unclear if they even tell people they have found through the genealogical tree (that did not provide a blood sample) that they are part of it.

The Spanish speaking podcast Radio Ambulante covered the story few years ago. Here’s an English transcription of it
https://radioambulante.org/en/transcripcion/the-paisa-mutati...
U.S. charges Apple ex-employee for trying to steal technology, fleeing to China
I've used TTS in a proof-of-concept streaming show about Steam games (GPT-3.5 plus ElevenLabs voices): https://www.twitch.tv/totallyhumanshow

Right now this just plays a canned video on loop—the only thing standing in the way of it auto-generating a new show each day/hour is cost of ElevenLabs TTS; I'd go over quota pretty quickly. I imagine the cost will come down.
Abusers are often close relatives, family friends, or stereotypically trustworthy figures like pastors, but both child porn and sometimes children are trafficked.

I don't have stats off the top of my head, but it's possible, albeit labor-intensive, to make some inferences. Many child porn cases are prosecuted at the federal level because electronic communications are a kind of interstate commerce. By digging through PACER and similar legal databases, it's not too hard to build a corpus of criminal complaints. The really labor intensive part (although ML and other methods help to shorten it) is parsing the legalistic documents to extract information about which platforms most easily facilitate contact and negotiations between peers (CSAM enthusiasts) and targets (unwary kids preyed upon by unscrupulous adults).

It might also be possible to extract information on prosecutions resulting from a report or fortuitous discovery of CSAM-related activity, and that involving sting operations by law enforcement.
Well I've seen a huge number of r/antiwork posts and in my opinion they pretty much are all healthy.

They all tell stories of workers putting up with an unreasonable boss. I never see posts about workers criticizing all bosses or reasonable bosses, at least not that make frontpage.

I have a hunch it's actually to the long-term benefit of the economy if unreasonable bosses (emotionally abusive, sexually exploitative, illegal-action-requestinging, etc) are rooted out or rallied against.
As far as I understand it, Tesla and Twitter actually have a retention problem now. Twitter for obvious reasons, Tesla less obvious.

SpaceX has always been a meat-grinder from what I've heard, but the people that stay are loyal for reasons beyond money/wfh/QoL.
I can’t, for the life of me, understand how anyone thought “public ledger” meant “hide transactions.”

It’s the same concept as tor, in a way: once you get it out, that’s the nucleation point for tracking.