skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tesla purposefully programs its FSD to drive "human-like" rather than strictly following the laws. For example, it will go with the flow of traffic rather than strictly following the speed limit.
Is said teacher "giving up their own thinking" or just lazy/desperate?

Based on a reddit comment from the post: "It was allegedly 3 different essays about agricultural science occurring in the last few months of classes. The professor elected not to grade them until today, (graduation was yesterday) so now the university is withholding an entire class’s diplomas after they walked the stage."

So this teacher is both a) blind as to the capabilities of ChatGPT and b) didn't do his work until it was almost too late.

If he had used some non-BS method of "detecting" plagiarism and applied it evenly through out the course, that's something else. Nope.
Such material is already criminalised in the UK.
Really nice! I'm also currently playing around a lot with automatically generated videos and I can see this having a lot of potential! Some questions that come to my mind:
1. Do you plan including AWS Polly in the speech generation? There is also a free tier, the API is nice so it might be also a good choice for people using AWS SDK already in their projects.
2. How do you approach aligning the words with animations? Is it possible to align it for a specific word? I was wondering how one might approach this. Did you already describe it somewhere?
I’m not an expert but have you considered GLSL shaders?

I have used them to apply real-time effects on high resolution videos and it worked well and with almost no performance impact using modern GPUs. It wasn’t through a ffmpeg pipeline but it looks to be possible.
Ugh, let's unpack this. Trying to maintain a stable ecology is nativist. Those seeds are just looking for a better home with more biological opportunity. All the lifeforms currently in the Sonoran desert blew in, too. And destroyed all the First Species, I might add.

The replacement of native species by globe chamomile (don't use st*nknet--it's a slur) is just a conspiracy theory by failing plant hegemons to maintain their own ecological privilege. Future globe chamomile sub-species might be the next Willow or Redwood. Plant diversity is our strength.

And let's be clear. There's no proven relationship between wildfires and globe chamomile. All evidence comes from systemically nativist orgs like the National Park Service and Ivy-League ecology departments. And even if globe chamomile did cause wildfires, that's just their biological role and it enriches the soil and we should applaud it. They capture sunlight where other plants don't. What else is going to build nutrient density? Creosote? It's so NIMBY that it creates dead zones around itself by stealing all the water for itself. It's not globe chamomile's fault that creosote and pinyon can't seed enough to compete. Learn to grow. It's 2023.

Next, you'll be claiming the arrival of eucalyptus in the 19th century in California was an ecological mistake. I've been all around the Bay Area and NorCal and never got hit by an exploding tree. It's a myth and a stereotype. And even if they did, it would purely be because of climactic factors.

Y'all need to adapt. We live in a Global Ecology. Ecologies are biological constructs that change over time. What used to be considered "invasive species" (although we strongly prefer the term "novel trophic worker" to avoid using speciestic and nativist terminology) are now the backbones of rich and diverse biomes in not only California but all over North America. In fact, novel trophic workers and their progeny are on track to be the majority of plant species in North America. What's wrong with novel trophic workers becoming the dominant natives? Are ecological niches treated poorly, or something?
There is also growing speculation that the current level of AI may have peaked in a bang for buck sense.

If this is so, and given the concrete examples of cheap derived models learning from the first movers and rapidly (and did I mention cheaply) closing the gap to this peak, the optimal self-serving corporate play is to invite regulation.

After the legislative moats go up, it is once again about who has the biggest legal team ...
That rock must be heavy on top of you. Pushhhhhh! I mean if China invaded right away they would have lost money, so clearly the know something that the public does not. If I had that kind of intel, I would pull out also (that is what she said)
In my state, the law says the Tesla's action here is fine, since the pedestrian wasn't close to the car's lane.

> Vehicles are required to stop when you are crossing their lane or when you are close to entering their lane.[1]

For California, I couldn't find an independent reference for the situation here but did find one saying a stopped driver doesn't have to wait until the pedestrian fully exits the crosswalk.[2]

[1] https://leddylaw.com/what-are-my-rights-as-a-pedestrian-in-s...

[2] https://www.karlaw.com/blog/do-drivers-have-to-wait-for-pede...
I use a machine for the initial kneading but then do manual stretch and fold a couple of times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene_Park seems like a good option
Oh sure, yeah, the distinction between text and speech is trivial, which is why text to speech and speech to text are indistinguishable algorithims ;)
There was a good Oxford style debate on NPR about whether resurrecting the mammoth is a good idea. The most interesting point I heard _against_ doing something like this was along these lines:

If we were to use an elephant mother host to grow the fetus, once the mammoth is born, it is possible the herd will immediately recognize the baby as an anomaly and abandon it. Thus, this child is born into a world of suffering, not just for the herd that rejects it, but for the individual who is raised alone with no family, possibly by humans only. What will we do when the next one is born? Just put the two individuals in a space together and hope for the best?

De-extincting such a creature carries additional costs we don't know how to quantify. Once that first, lonely, individual is sexually mature, will it even want to mate? Will it have the social skills to accept other future artificially-born mammoths as part of its herd? We have no way of "recreating" the social environment a mammoth would need to thrive in order to bring a self-sustaining herd of the species into balanced existence.
I empathize with that issue, especially the underpaid part, but superficially that work is still a type of value exchange based on consent: you do the labeling, you get paid (poorly).

Yet for the issue I discussed, there's no value exchange at all. There's no permission or compensation for the people that have done the actual work of producing the training material.
Has anyone tried if the model is capable of giving a structured output?
Perhaps this could be combined with Durable Objects to achieve this
THANK YOU.
You've stated the difference perfectly. Humans have a concept of truth or grounding, LLMs do not.
I don't use Elixir much anymore due to the lack of static types, but what initially got me into it was watching this talk by the Elixir programmer Saša Jurić, called The Soul of Erlang and Elixir: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvBT4XBdoUE
Did you watch the hearing? He specifically said that licensing wouldn’t be for the smaller places and didn’t want to impede their progress. The pitfalls of consolidation and regulatory capture also came up.
You have to hype to raise funds and hire. It also helps build a moat against competitors - it signals that the limited dollars are probably allocated and that competitors would have to expend energy working against you.

The hustle is real because often 100% research in a vacuum won't attain the activation energy it needs. Another possibility is that another team watching you might quickly follow and duplicate everything you've done and scale it faster than you.

Downside: if you fail, it can salt the earth for some years before a new team can start again.

We all see a lot of hucksters hyping themselves up and a lot of failures that never delivered. It's why we develop a callus against hype. But if you ever need it yourself, you shouldn't shy away from it. It's useful and serves a purpose.
Surely there was some buildup to it :)
Plus, I don't think a traditionalist court has looked at radio, encryption, and computer code as bearable arms yet.
Oh man ~180mb to build a _book_. It's 2023, why hasn't someone figured out a good way to check in photos and other binary objects into a git repo? I'd expect someone in the latex or ML community to have build a pre-commit hook to, I don't know, link & upload to S3 or something, right?

I think git (and vcs in general) could be revolutionary to the way experts in all fields including law, medicine, book editing & publishing, etc can collaborate and track changes on shared documents, but yeah, we really haven't figured out how to handle necessary accoutrements like images without blowing up the repo size.

Otherwise, definitely enjoyed seeing a project layout using directories for chapters. Might crib (with attribution!) the project layout next time I feel like writing something.
Same to me. I was just wondering. To me the weird part is justified with the expressiveness and the clarity Erlang brings to the table.
Plants ‘Mark’ DNA for Offspring Giving Them Increased Resilience
My point was mostly that the 200W TDP you quote is for the whole package (CPU, GPU, RAM, plus the Neural network thingy and the whole IO stuff). A 120W figure for the GPU is more realistic.

I'm not pretending the Apple chips are the be-all-end-all of performance. They certainly have limitations and are not able to compete with proper high end chips. However I can confidently say that on mobile devices and laptops, competition is largely behind. Sure a 1000+$ standalone GPU will be faster, but it doesn't fit in my jeans. It's the same as comparing a Hasselblad camera with the iPhone 14 pro...
Ah, a businessman seeking rents.
Every elliptic curve signature, used in nearly all cryptocurrencies to transfer funds, is a ZK proof of knowledge of a private key, so most blockchains do use some ZK cryptography.
Is there a practical functional model for GUIs?

If something doesn't exist, maybe the reason is "it's a poor fit".

If you're going to assert that FP is a better fit for GUIs, you need some demonstration of that, especially since it's been decades since this meme started.
Hahaha, yeah,

Even though Oblivus doesn't have a specific meaning, we initially didn't make the connection with "oblivious". When we attended Cloudfest recently, many people also pronounced it as "oblivous," so you're not alone in that regard, I suppose. :)
> All of my current experience with Siri tells me there is a 50-50 chance of the result coming back as “Sorry, I have having trouble connecting to the network” or playing a random song from Apple Music.

Meanwhile, Google and Amazon have decided that the data center costs of their approach just aren't worth it.

>Google Assistant has never made money. The hardware is sold at cost, it doesn't have ads, and nobody pays a monthly fee to use the Assistant. There's also the significant server cost to process all those voice commands, though some newer devices have moved to on-device processing in a stealthy cost-cutting move. The Assistant's biggest competitor, Amazon Alexa, is in the same boat and loses $10 billion a year.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/03/google-assistant-mig...

Both companies made big cuts to the teams running their voice assistant tech.
Wait… Did we stop reading docs at some point?
There are finite-life businesses. Venture capital funds are finite-life, usually about ten years. Then they return the profits to the investors. VC firms, if successful, create new funds and have them overlap. Sometimes a VC firm just runs down, and the remaining funds eventually mature and are dissolved.

Single-film production companies are finite-life investment vehicles. They put up the money to make a movie, and, after the movie has been released, pay off the investors and dissolve. But that's more of a financial construct than an operating company.

A construction consortium is a true finite-life operating company. These are companies established to build some big project, and shut down when it's finished. The first big one was Six Companies, created to build Hoover Dam.

So ephemeral businesses are already a normal concept.
Your example assumes a nested, hierarchical structure while the former example is strictly linear. IMHO that's the key difference there, as the former can (and AFAIK is) be directly encoded and passed to the LLM, which inherently receives only a flat list of tokens.

Your example might be nicer to edit, but then it would still have to be translated to the actual 'guidance language' which would have to look (and be) flat.
I wish I could say empirically. Simply trial the framework and see if you end up making better choices, better predictions about the world.

Unfortunately, if rationalism has so far done anything to help people in any sort of measurable empiric way, it's been too slight for anyone to statistically notice.
Anything for my friends, the law for my competitors.
At least with my HL-1112 (bottom-barrel model in 2015) and MFC-L2700DW (entry level all-in-one with decent, albeit aftermarket, multiplatform support) it's trivial to manually reset the levels once you know the button sequence - don't even need a retail cartridge with the mechanical "unused toner" spinner!

That said... yeah, who knows what they're up to, 5 years later?
The video didn't look unsafe to me. The pedestrian was walking in from the left side of the road and never got close to the car. In my state that's perfectly legal.
>The mainstream media cartel is pumping Sam Altman hard for some reason.

The media likes to personalize stories. Altman is a face for AI and apparently knows to give an interview, that's worth something to them. (Lobbying may well be an influence, but the most important thing to them is to have a face, just like Zuckerman was a face for social networks. If it wasn't Altman it would have eventually been someone else).
Starting in Siberia, Pleistocene Park.

Interesting question. I know the'll IVF an elephant (this is speculation) which I assume will raise it to an extent (though they could bottle feed I guess... thats a lot of milk). Mammoths are pack animals so I guess they'll need a bunch of them before they're released.

https://colossal.com/pleistocene-park-return-of-the-mammoths...
My biggest concern with AI is that it could be controlled by a group of oligarchs who care about nothing more than enriching themselves. A "Linux" version of AI that anyone can use, experiment with, and build off of freely would be incredible. A heavily restricted, policed and surveilled system controlled by ruthlessly greedy companies like OpenAI and Microsoft sounds dystopian.
Wasn't it proven that the US does this since a long time and whistleblowers lives ruined? Obama even has given an apologetic speech for it?

I'm not supporting this but if it will happen I would prefer it happening openly within a legal framework.

I don't get the appeal for it being done by secret services instead of civil services. I guess it's about different relationship with the governments.

Yesterday I saw a tweet from Paul Graham calling European AI startups to pre-emptively move to the US because of some EU regulation draft, today top topics here are about OpenAI speaking with the US government trying to scare them into requiring licensing to work on AI.

Maybe the contrast between US/EU is not as stark as the narrative makes it appear.
> Hello! If you're heard of directional freezing, learned to make clear ice in a cooler or in a thermos, or purchased clear ice cube trays, that information all came from me, Camper English, writing here on Alcademics.

> My big discovery of what became known as directional freezing was in 2009, and now it's used all over the world in smaller cocktail bars, in homes, and in the form of many commercial ice cube trays (none of which are owned by me, sadly).

Interesting…
If it is anything like an elephant, it would live in a herd. Just bringing a single one into this world seems somewhat cruel.
My "in my copious free time" ML project is a classifier for cat pictures to reddit cat subs.

For example: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cat_August_2010-4.jp... would get classified as /r/standardissuecat

https://stock.adobe.com/fi/images/angry-black-cat/158440149 would get classified as /r/blackcats and /r/stealthbombers

Anyways... that's my hobbyist ML project.
> I am not making shit up.

You are.

"The students will riot but I cannot point to meaningful numbers of examples but trust me it's totally a liberal conspiracy" is not a focus on factual discourse.

Conservatives speak at universities all the time.
How do u unexpectedly go to jail for 10 years?
Canadian here. No chance we have a globally competitive horse in this race. We have completed the transition to middling non-Germany European country culturally. People aspire to work 30 hours a week and have interesting hobbies, tech is scary. I say this in a value neutral way as someone based in Waterloo which appears to have almost no startups left.
Awesome, thanks. So it's almost like there's a rules engine needed, because "independent" plays a role.
Seattle area is blessed with a wealth of all ages and 21+ barcades. There's a great one less than 5 miles from my house. I've been a pinball fan for years and still play weekly, playing in a local league pre-COVID. About 2 years ago, I saw a machine with my childhood hero that I couldn't pass up buying. A year ago it finally got delivered. I play at home a few times a week. No big issues with the machine other than one dead "flashy" servo that doesn't work and a stuck target that doesn't impact gameplay. I'll get around to fixing them at some point. FWIW - Here's some info on my big toy:

https://www.thisweekinpinball.com/spooky-announces-ultraman-...
> while arcade pinball, at least historically, was designed to eat your money.

It is a nuanced tradeoff. You need to make it entertaining enough so that players will continue to play, but also difficult enough that they regularly lose and put in more quarters. Getting that balance right is hard.
We really need to start thinking of how to reduce magical thinking in the field. It’s not pretty. They literally quote biblical guidance for the models and pray that this would work.

And start their prompts with “You”. Who is “You”?
Care to elaborate? I’ve read about 5 different explanations for ‘woke’ the last couple of months.
Bill Gates is a billionaire, guarded by assistants, PR consultants, and crisis management consultants. RMS is an awkward nerd, one step up from couch surfing. Easy targets are easy targets.
Very interesting. Does this apply to the Dutch "dragnet" surveillance law too?

https://aboutintel.eu/update-dutch-dragnet-act/
The is is amazing. I have a non speaking person in my life and the idea of them being able to create their own unique voice is so powerful. Stephen Hawkins kept his voice synth years after better tech was available because he wanted to keep his voice.

If anyone here is interested-in or working-on open-source tech for the non speaking please reach out. I’m building tech that uses LLMs and Whisper.cpp to greatly reduce the amount of typing needed. What apple has here is great, it still requires typing in real-time to communicate. Many of the diseases that take your voice also impact fine motor control, so tools to be expressive with minimal typing are super important. Details (and link to GitHub projects) here: https://scosman.net/blog/introducing_voicebox
Isn't that how a fab gets built? Equipment is moved to the site and assembled? Seems it would be more expensive due to needing to disassemble plus you'd be offline a fab.
Tesla's Full Self-Driving Beta on the Spot
Ideas:

(1) sign up for Google Workspace subscription and then log a support ticket saying you want to migrate your old account to Workspace

(2) hire a lawyer and get them to write a letter to Google asking nicely. If that doesn’t work, you could have the lawyer escalate to threatening a lawsuit, filing a lawsuit, subpoenaing the account contents, asking for a court order that Google give you access to the account, etc - even if it turns out the law is on Google’s side not yours, they may decide to fold just to make the issue go away

(3) contact a journalist. Since you are a former prisoner, you’d need to find one with appropriate sympathies (pro-criminal justice reform, etc). If they make enough bad PR for Google, they may give you back your account in response. Probably depends also on what your conviction was, since some offenders the public finds it easier to sympathise with than others

None of those methods is guaranteed to work, but they all have potential. It really depends on how much you want that account back, and how much time and money are you willing to spend on it
The Simulation Theory doesn't break any known physics and still abides by the same framworks as to why the universe or life etc. came to be. It's not about explaining why we are here like Creatonism, but a probabilistic argument as to why (if you acccept the argument) most humans who end up existing, exist within a simulation after humanity has arisen naturally.
The visionary part is having a computer with 64GB RAM that can be used either for ML or for traditional desktop purposes. It means fewer HW SKUs, which improve scale economy. And it means the same HW can be repurposed for different users, versus PCs where you have to replace CPU and/or GPU.

For raw ML performance in a hyper-optimized system, UMA is not a big deal. For a company that needs to ship millions of units and estimate demand quarters in advance, it seems like a pretty big deal.
The problem is that about 20% of the phones in the study had the passcode disabled, and another 5% had easy-to-guess passcodes.
Marketing can increase the size of the market. Making deals with other businesses can too (they pay a fixed monthly fee and get unlimited washes for all their cars, etc.). I used to wash my car myself but the automated car wash is so convenient I just go there instead. There's also a customer service aspect. I used to go to a more expensive car wash because the employees there were really friendly and at the other one they weren't.

Then there's the business aspect of starting this sort of business: deciding on what location is best, whether it's even a good business to start, etc. This is one area where people who want to be tech entrepreneurs are handicapping themselves and people who just go into business to make money do better. Lots of people think, "I need to start an AI startup" or devops, or whatever, instead of asking what opportunity is best for them.
This sounds intriguing, but the images are oddly cropped so that it's really hard to tell what's going on. More images and bigger images please!
Ah yes, but that's under the control of the driver. I can set it to obey the speed limit easily.

Where's the option for "stop for pedestrians at crosswalks"?
Anyone know of the equivalent PropertyRoom.com for Canada?
Thank you very much!

We are currently working on developing a feature that will allow users to create snapshots of their system disks and use those images to create multiple instances. We expect this feature to be available to everyone in a few weeks.

If you don't mind, could you please send an email to doruk@oblivus.com so that we can discuss this further?
Catfishing on an Industrial Scale
RedMonk Top Languages over Time: January 2023
Sam just wants to secure a monopoly position. The dude is a businessman, there's no way he buys his own bullshit.
A voice changer for unknown or blocked caller id's is actually a great idea. Just looked in F-Droid and the Play Store, where there seems to be no such app. Preventing callers from sampling my voice is a concern I did not know I have.
we needed crypto to crash so that gamers and AI enthusiast could get GPUs