skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They have email, internet, social media and video chat in jail. It costs a lot of money but they have the ability to access the internet. The library has free or reduced cost internet but the tablet in the cell is the big bucks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_prisons

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPay
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Are you judging that from the one photo of a 10,000 year old preserved carcass that looks like a baby elephant?

I don't know what features elephants use to tell their calves apart, but in an alternate universe I would bet that elephants would say the same about a 10,000 old preserved carcass of a baby Homo Habilis and us.
While KDE certainly has a lot in its favor (as listed in the post, "batteries included" factor, configurability, dev team responsiveness), I've never been able to make it work for me. Even after pouring hours into customizing it, it still feels "off" somehow, and I don't think I could fix that without getting waist-deep in a custom fork.

It would be nice if there were more DEs that shared those positive traits with KDE, but reality isn't so kind.
Tom Scott made a video on exactly this topic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPhJbKBuNnA
Is this similar in spirit to Noria?

https://github.com/mit-pdos/noria
> Why rent when you can own.

This is a very silly question... the answer is the same as with virtually anything else: real estate, transportation, wedding dresses...

I mean, you need to compare the price that will ultimately depend on the kind of thing you are doing... that's all. Sometimes it makes sense to rent, other times it makes sense to buy. There's no one right answer.
... I'm about to explode.

I have a very old youtube account which I can't recover, in fact there's 2 of them.
They have content on them that I will never be able to reproduce, but I watch it from time to time for nostalgia.

This post means that Alphabet will delete old legacy content on a huge scale.
The world will be poorer for their culture. It will lose the ability to watch very old youtube videos.
All this shows is how ignorant Sam Altman is about Canada. Montréal is already the AI hub of Canada. Yoshua Bengio has done so much there for the local scene with MILA and Element AI. Tons of other companies have their Canadian AI teams in Montréal and not Toronto, including Microsoft, Alphabet, and Meta.
Those are "late career" salaries for normal jobs outside of expensive major cities.
If everyone is on the same base image, then you aren't really dealing with 500mb images, but much smaller layers on top.
We have some technology that others don't yet, please government make it so that this would be the case as long as possible, for reasons totally having nothing to do with us having the technology, we swear.
Seriously, I work in ops with a side of coding and in order of "most pleasant" to "most annoying":

- Go and similar "one binary". Bonus points if static files are also embedded

- "Just a JAR with few parameters"

- Anything that comes pre-packaged in OS. Perl with OS-provided libs.

- Enterprise Java with code-as-xml for config. More pleasant if we're not the ones managing the XMLS

- C/C++ apps with reasonable deps that don't need re-compiling half of OS

- Bare containers. Shit visibility without a lot of tooling but at least we don't have fight deps

- k8s. Complexity of system rarely pays off with the relatively simple apps our devs are deploying and need even more tooling for good visibility

- Ruby outside of container - just fucking kill me. A bunch of requirements for libs in system just to compile "gems" (why those cunts can't call it libs like everyone else), long startup, leaks memory, took them 10+ years to make a web server that's not completely shit...

- Python - if I see something is in Python I try to find alternative solutions. I swear half of the install instructions either just don't work or shit all over home/system dirs. The absolute clusterfuck of py2-3 migration didn't help either, thankfully it appears its finally over. Bonus demerit if instructions mention setup.py. Tho to be fair I didn't tried recently, maybe it is better
> I can say that each government requiring AI to locally adhere to national mythology, will create self-reinforcing cognitive blind spots, because that already happens at the current smaller scale of manual creation and creators being told not to "talk the country down".

This is a key point. Every culture and agency and state will want (deserve) their own homespun AGI. But can we all learn how to accommodate to or accept a cultural multiverse when money and resources are zero-sum in many dimensions.

Hanno Rajaniemi’s Quantum Thief trilogy gives you a foretaste of where we could end up.
Is there a reason windturbine effects on bird decline are not used in this study?
The fantastic documentary “We Are As Gods” about Stewart Brand spends a considerable amount of time on this topic as he is involved in many of these efforts.

https://www.weareasgods.film/
companies are not publishing anything because they have nothing to publish. not because they are inventing anything relevant.

The article is spot on. It is just a better-mechanical-turk that spew things that were already written but screwing some words on happy little accidents. The image generation are more impressive because it is harder to judge how those things fall into place. but it's mostly a perception thing versus text/code.

Nobody publishes anything because the only edges now are access to better training data (which would be better monetized making a better google at this point) or tweaking the constraints (the new version of big-data-analyst pool of jobs, now titled as prompt-engineer or "scientist" where all you do is add more layers to the opponent model)
I'm more interested in hearing how someone who expects that AGI is not going to go badly thinks.

I think it would be nice if humanity continued, is all. And I don't want to have my family suffer through a catastrophic event if it turns out that this is going to go south fast.
Please don't, I quite like not going hungry every night
> [T]he Mir titles seem to have been converted into various downloadable formats as well, in addition to what I'm guessing is the native PDF.

You don’t have to guess—the IA metadata tells you which formats were originally provided by the uploader and which ones were derived by IA. The “download original” link on the website uses that, or you can pass --source=origial to the CLI[1].

[1] https://archive.org/developers/internetarchive/cli.html#down...
Thank you. Corrected.
> A business is an operation meant to make money for investors.

please stop repeating Friedmannite vacuities as if they are laws of nature. What exactly is a business is defined by contractual arrangements that have nothing inevitable about them. Nothing.

Money did not exist before it was invented. Its a social construct and actually idiotically simple. "Investors" did not exist before the invention of the corporation and the countless legalities, contracts, incentives and behaviors that shape it.

A business is fundamentally a group of (non-related) people building something together (a service, a product, something desirable by others). Obviously some quid-pro-quo is required for them to be incentivized. Everything else in how the business is structured is up for grabs. The employees can be owners. The business can be non-profit. The extent of liability of members varies. The expected lifespan may be "eternal" or "ephemeral". Etc.

I think if/when we start looking at our organizational arrangements with a critical eye instead of being dazed and confused we'll enter a better period of social and economic development. The prime objective is to have as many people be as happy, as productive, as creative as possible, for the longest periods of their lives. We are very far from that.
Yeah my mobile network is less than 99% reliable.

No signal for more than fifteen minutes every day? That must be frustrating.

But there are other factors such as battery dying or just dropping the phone.

Neither of these has happened to me. If they did, the uptime of my personal blog would be a much lower priority than fixing that problem. It's a blog, not a business.
If the past decade hadn't been dedicated to largely destroying productivity for in-office knowledge workers, maybe people wouldn't be so vehemently averse to returning.
> For example, if next month you developed a model that could produce extremely high quality video clips from text and reference images, you did a small, gated beta release with no PR, and one of your beta testers immediately uses it to make e.g. highly realistic revenge porn.

You make a great point here. This is why we need as much open source and as much wide adoption as possible. Wide adoption = public education in the most effective way.

The reason we are having this discussion at all is precisely because OpenAI, Stability.ai, FAIR/Llama, and Midjourney have had their products widely adopted and their capabilities have shocked and educated the whole world, technologists and laymen alike.

The benefit of adoption is education. The world is already adapting.

Doing anything that limits adoption or encourages the underground development of AI tech is a mistake. Regulating it in this way will push it underground and make it harder to track and harder for the public to understand and prepare for.
You can shrink transmitted sizes even further by using minification on top of transport compression. That nets me ~25% reduction in size compared to compression without minification, in practice, and those kinds of gains add up, especially at the tail end of page load times.
I know videos aren't everyone's favorite format, but Zack (voidstarlab) has a great video on Hextraction and is just a fun person to watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iqz7ZDdP25A
I would argue that it isn't better than crediting the game to the studio. People can look into the game's credits to see who actually worked on it. However when everyone keeps going "Bob made this game", nobody bothers looking into who else. They just become a deity of creation.
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Legislative.

In the office I worked at we'd compile notes but unless we were seeing a coordinated through the roof amount of calls nothing would come of it, and realistically this most likely falls under that category.

That said, the Congressperson I worked with had DNC executive ambitions (and looks like they will succeed with those ambitions).
While I agree that people generally want these things, not everybody values them equally, and aren't willing or able to expend the same amount of resources and effort to get them. Most people value local stores which sell damn near everything they need and are staffed by their neighbors... but for many, the resource and effort savings afforded by Amazon are more valuable to some extent. I think that these things, to some extent, have become a luxury.
There are observed cases of mammals raising a different species of mammal, including wet-nursing them, so it does not seem to be the problem it's purported to be.
Even if all progress in AI stopped today, the impact on society will still be profound as the tech proliferates to every sector of the economy. Which it's already doing at a rate we've never seen before. Just mixing and matching what's already out there - speech, text, image, code and video generation, object recognition, translation, complex plain language instructions, internet access, etc. - will result in tons of new innovations and wholesale destruction of certain job categories. Just look at AutoGPT - take what's nominally an AI for text generation and use it to complete multiple real world tasks.

But we're just getting started in terms of how good the AI, specifically LLMs, will be. We don't need AGI - simply being able to accurately process language is enough. Language is everything - anything humans can do is described using language, from driving a vehicle to medicine to physics. It's how we understand and communicate the world around us and is the basis of intelligence itself. By predicting the best words to use, you predict the best information to give and best actions to take. Whether a computer "understands" the words it's using is secondary.

We're not anywhere near the trough of disillusionment, and if anything, our expectations are too low.
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I am pretty sure local game stores make money when they sell booster packs to a kid at full price, kid sells them the best cards at a 30% discount and then the store resells it for market value. Sure there is risk here but they make it very hard to lose. Running the store lets them have options to purchase cards at a discount every time the sell a booster pack.
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What about all those other species of Hominid?
You can't reach herd immunity without a highly effective vaccine. No highly effective vaccine exists. If they manage to develop one, and if enough people get vaccinated, then herd immunity is possible. It's just math. The question is really whether a highly effective universal flu vaccine is possible to develop, and nobody knows that.
In my eyes the biggest problem with GNOME's theming is the egregious padding everywhere in Adwaita. Installing a theme with cut down padding makes it much more reasonable and in my opinion puts it among the best looking DEs.

Agreed on GNOME's lack of functionality though…
> A "Linux" version of AI that anyone can use, experiment with, and build off of freely would be incredible.

That should be the goal.
There's no need to go the license way, yet. They can do some simple safety regulations – put a restriction on using AI with kinetic devices, life-critical situations, critical financial situations, and any situation where human is completely out of the loop. Also, put clear liability for harm caused in any situations where AI was involved on the AI supplier.
Also, they can put disclosure rules on any company that is spending more than $10M on AI.
Project Euler challenge involving Fractran: https://projecteuler.net/problem=308
It's more likely a perverse incentive problem. Voice activated "assistants" weren't viewed as assistance for end users. They were universally viewed as one of two things: A way of treating the consumer as a product, or a feature check-box.

That Siri went from useful to far less useful had more to do with the aim to push products at you rather than actually accomplishing the task you set for Siri. If Apple actually delivers an assistant that works locally, doesn't make me the product, and generally makes it easier to accomplish my tasks, then that's a product worth paying for.

When anyone asks "who benefits from 'AI'?" the answer is almost invariably "the people running the AI." Microsoft and OpenAI get more user data, and subscriptions. Google gets another vehicle for attention-injection. But if I run Vicuna or Alpaca (or some eventual equivalent) on my hardware, I can ensure I get what I need, and that there's much less hijacking of my intentions.

So Microsoft, if you're listening: I don't want Bing Chat search, I want Cortana Local.
It's in a way more terrible as it usually is templating language + YAML

So you need to navigate pitfalls of YAML (or bear ugliness of JSON) all while learning a templating language.

All because someone decided "Users will not want to learn Python for DSL, let's give them YAML"...

Every single tool that went that route has that problem and every single one would be better served just picking <language> (Lua is nice and embeddable, just saying) and using it as DSL.
you are right but for your case, yt-dlp.
Hiring isn’t really that bad. Definitely fewer candidates, but they tend to be higher quality.
The minute your address interacts as a counterparty to a known mixer you're automatically flagged and everything around your risk profile accelerates dramatically. That wallet is effectively burned and you'll be locked out of using any kind of reputable exchange.
Also, Datacenter GPUs only have passive cooling, presumably to allow for more Cuda cores. I get that what I have is older tech but for the cost of one H100 GPU I can have 60 of these servers (600 GPUs) plus some change to pay for CoLo fees.
Fwiw I logged in, still an error.
Then we created God(s) and rightfully should worship it to appease its unknowable and ineffable nature.

Or recognize that existing AI might be great at generating human cognitive artifacts but doesn't yet hit that logical thought.
Europe is a double whammy then for bird populations. The first thing you notice traveling around many european cities is ostensibly there are no spay and neuter programs (or they must be totally ineffective) for the thousands of stray cats that clad each and every rooftop and loiter around every park and street. For some places like Istanbul the overabundance is a point of pride or a tourist attraction in its own right. It's hard to imagine there are any birds at all in these cities with the bulk of the calories in the environment seemingly being held at the small game predator level, which is sustained at a higher level than the available prey can even support thanks to stuff like restaurant dumpsters or people feeding the cute little killing machines directly.
You're never going to be able to regulate what a person's computer can run. We've been through this song and dance with cryptography. Trying to keep it out of the hands of bad actors will be a waste of time, effort, and money.

These resources should be spent lessening the impact rather than trying to completely control it.
When I started journaling, I found that it helped immensely with my memory. By recording every action, every moment, every transaction, I ensured that nothing was ever lost. Even if something unexpected happened, I could always go back to my journal and find a way to restore order.

Additionally, journaling has provided me with a sense of consistency and reliability. By ensuring that everything is recorded and accounted for, I've minimized the risk of data corruption or loss. I know that each transaction is either entirely completed or not done at all, reducing the chances of winding up in an uncertain state.
I began my journey into functional programming a couple months back with Erlang. Interestingly this language helped me truly comprehend the functional like ways of Rust.

My only gripes would be that I've had to switch to Elixir as it's more developed for web development. I actually like the syntax of Erlang more (I don't come from Ruby) and it's a shame that they're split. Also, in Elixir, I attempted to write the fibonacci sequence using memoization and the solutions I saw online were horrendously ugly. Maybe it's because I'm still a beginner but I did see an example in Haskell and it looked so much cleaner.

I love how simple the actor model is and how it just works in Erlang. No ifs, ands, or buts.
That was a great demonstration of why this technique is so effective. Thank you, Pulcinella!
this seems like a lot of pseudo-intellectual babble that boils down to the fundamental tension between nihilism and existentialism.

I subscribe to absurdism, but after I de-converted from faith in my late teens and wrestled with these topics for a few years, I decided that my own meager contribution to humanity or the universe, even if it had meaning, was never going to amount to enough to stress myself out about it, and never really pondered it much again.

A lot of this post-rationalism stuff seems like a desperate attempt for outsized-egos to rationalize and justify their special-ness in a universe that couldn't give the slightest crap about them.
I'm not sure what you're suggesting. If you want to version control your images you can, and then they will use up size, if you don't want to, don't version control them. In github, you can also just download the master branch as a zip, instead of cloning, if you don't want the whole history.
> Let's skip over "low-latency", because virtually all programming languages and VMs are "low-latency".

Perhaps under minimal load. However, the BEAM VM's style of micro preemption allows it to retain really low latency under load, much better than traditional VM's on average.

> "distributed" and "fault-tolerant" are what's most often touted as "special".

The distributed piece is that theres not much difference between communicating to a local actor or a remote one. Also you get a lot of built in tools so you don't need a message bus, a cache, and a task manager, etc. Its convenient if you can stay below ~100 nodes.

Fault tolerance is just how the supervisors encourage structuring the application. Java and C++ land tends to blur together things and it's difficult to disentangle the errors. Also, errors recovery tends to focus less on just "restarting" and more on trying to recover the current state.
Every bug needs solving.
But also: every bug will _never_ be solved. Why would you think any system or even component should be perfect? Name one perfect system. More simple systems like traffic lights, headlights, tires, brakes,... each of them can fail. Trains can derail, so we should not trust trains?
> the URL is an imperfect proxy for the article

I find this part important but misleading. The URL is a fine way to identify the article, but it's important to separately identify and link to the multiple discussions that can be had about any given article. For example, an article URL doesn't unambiguously identify a HN discussion as the same URL is submitted and discussed multiple times.

Rather, this may be the gist of OP: Because we post URLs without top-level commentary here, the HN discussion (and HN URL) isn't a single, meaningful conversation either. Only when we get to each top-level comment (identified by the comment URL), we have conversations that it may make sense to highlight.
> To expound, this just seems like a power grab to me, to "lock in" the lead and keep AI controlled by a small number of corporations that can afford to license and operate the technologies.

If you actually watch the entire session, Altman does address that and recommend to Congress that regulations 1) not be applied to small startups, individual researchers, or open source, and 2) that they not be done in such a way as to lock in a few big vendors. Some of the Senators on the panel also expressed concern about #2.
Sure - I was just providing the link so one could see what a wooly mammoth calf might look like. Elephants are extremely bonded and very caring of their/their group's young, they take care of sick or injured elephants in their group - clearly there is no evidence for how an elephant would behave but I have my suspicion that a mammoth calf born would be readily accepted.
Is military capable AI in the hands of few militaries safer than in the hands of many? Or is it more likely to be used to bully other countries who don't have it? If it is used to oppress, would we want the oppressed have access to it? Or do we fear that it gives too much advantage to small cells of extremist to carry out their goals? I can think of pros and cons to both sides.
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Gnome sells something? Other than t-shirts? I can't imagine they have 'vast income', they're a non-profit[1]... presumably if they did, Nautilus would work better...

1: https://foundation.gnome.org/
"Ilk" definitely has a negative or dismissive connotation, at least in the US. You would never use it to express positive thoughts; you would use "stature" or similar.

The denotation may not be negative, but if you use ilk in what you see as a neutral way, people will get a different message than you're trying to send.
If you mean US by 'we', it is problematic because AI inventions are happening all over the globe, much more outside US than inside.
I wrote a small TLS package in Go, uses only standard library. Also allows to mimic devices in order to bypass fingerprinting

https://github.com/4cq2/tls