skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A woman carrying an unviable fetus will die if she is forced to continue the pregnancy. The pro-life crowd overwhelmingly puts in place policy that doesn't take anything into consideration about the impact of the pregnancy on the mother. This means that they want her to die to punish her for her decision to have sex.

I'm not in favor of abortion personally but I will always be staunchly pro-choice. It's the only ethical, moral, and logical position one can have. Anything else is punitive and regressive.

See also preventing folks from getting medical care, access to support services, children having food at school, or any other conservative position on anything that drives the welfare of disadvantaged people. It's immoral, unethical, and illogical. You can safely cut those people out of your life without being petty or other vapid argumentative nonsense.
At least the first home computer was actually useful.
That’s really the big one for me: can my server easily do something to cause e.g. curl to fail with a non-zero status or a JavaScript fetch to hit the error path? Satisfying that would make this approach easier to use safely.
I've been hearing a few apparently earnest mentions of using quantum computers for actual application in the last bit. I think that's BS, correct? There is no demonstrated thing that current quantum computers are better at, save for possibly a contrived problem? Am I missing some advance?
How cool! Free of jargon and loads of intuition
The benchmark says the fastest model takes 0.3s for 20 tokens. Does this mean it would take 30 seconds for 2000 tokens?
I look at it like this: it’s exceedingly hard to hire strong technical people. It’s extremely hard to create cutting edge research. It’s as true here as in any research institution, especially (sorry to say it) when it’s not a top tier research institution. And so in those cases, yeah, you will find a lot of not-great research.

And someone else mentioned, here they are paying one or two orders of magnitude less than Google and other top companies for AI/ML researchers. Should we be surprised that they don’t have technical heavy hitters on their staff, or leadership?
"Guns and abortion and corporate speech" aren't even the cool cases. These are. You just don't hear about cases like this because you're supposed to be angry at the world, instead of appreciate how cool it is.
You didn't read the post you're responding to, and shouldn't be responding.

In fact, you didn't read the part of the post you quoted, where I said it should be a surprise to no one.

But, unsurprisingly, the sort of people who stop reading at the first chance they see to correct something, are easily surprised, since actually understanding LLMs would require actually doing some nuanced reading.
It's been a little frustrating watching iOS rip out literally all file management at launch and then slowly reintroduce it all feature by feature one at a time on iPad. Recently you can even mount network shares and use USB drives again.
I've used it to quickly auth XP VMs that were needed to run ancient Navision clients. It works as advertised.

I had to whitelist the directory in Windows Security because it makes MSAV grumpy and then uploads it's grumpiness home.
Spaniard here, on my last bill I paid 0.120268 €/kWh, admittedly I'm on the free market but even on the regulated market the average price for March was 0.158719 €/kWh.

Is electricity really that cheap in the US? This chart shows that the average electricity price is 0.165 $/kWh, so I'm not sure what I'm missing: https://www.bls.gov/regions/midwest/data/averageenergyprices...
Those systems must be new. The classic solution is to install drain pipes before pouring the slab, so one can imagine how difficult it would be using 1980's construction techniques to retroactively add piping below a finished house.

We also had to dig trenches to lay natural gas lines, but we have a way to do those with horizontal boring techniques (of course then people who didn't know what they were doing put them straight through sewer lines, causing backups, visits from the Roto Rooter man, and subsequent explosions due to dumping natural gas straight into the sewer main).

Is it safe to assume they're using something like that with perforated pipes to exhaust radon?
Thanks, I was hoping someone would comment as to why the article might be wrong. I also wonder what the trends look like in terms of performance per watt?
Corrective action != Punishment. The US really doesn't seem to do as much of that stuff these days. It's very unpopular and not doing these things any longer is in bipartisan political discourse. Do you disagree?
I would love an example of this.
I don't think lower FPS is a problem, but an unstable FPS which keeps going between 20-40 FPS is pretty annoying.
Thanks for the link I guess... I'm not sure why this data is anymore useful alone, like I said, in a discussion about cost of living without cost of health care, taxes, etc. Your response perfectly illustrates my previous point, that having a discussion about an incredibly nuanced and specific comparison for cost of living (look at the post title) is made difficult by people who just say "Look at this thing here, it means I'm right! All I need to prove my point about cost of living is X". Man, I love throw away accounts.
A different position at the same company? That's a job.
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My feeling is that Andy Warhol's creation entailed greater effort, and certainly greater artistic expression, than Goldsmith's act of snapping a photograph of Prince. I guess what I really take issue with is that taking a photograph entitles one to copyright protection, when the image is directly created by a machine (the camera), while all the photographer does is point the camera and click.

In fact the USPTO recently opined against granting copyright for images generated by a machine (AI model) in response to someone's prompt (https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2023-05321.pdf).
I believe applying this same standard (whether the standard is right is an entirely separate question) to photography should also preclude photos from copyright, because there is more artistic expression involved in prompting than there is in pointing a camera.
And never trust an electronic system. Mechanical systems will always be more reliable. /S
>Disclaimer: this post was written jointly by Marco Tulio Ribeiro and Scott Lundberg. It strictly represents our personal opinions, and not those of our employer (Microsoft).
Avoidance of the worst impacts of climate change on agriculture.

If you're interested in hearing more about why we should be concerned about the stability of agriculture, consider looking at what happened to your grocery bill, just because a regional war broke out half a world away.
Amusing side note: South Africa's power generation crisis contributed to it beating its CO2 emissions targets because their power stations aren't working.

https://businesstech.co.za/news/energy/688215/south-africa-u...
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Reddit has grown so much in the past few years. I frequently surprised at how much local content I can find on there now. Their mobile offering is now video heavy and will be competing with TikTok pretty soon.

But it has changed - Reddit used to be amazing. I agree with /u/JimtheCoder's comment: "95% of Reddit is a cesspool...never the subs you frequent, though... "

I hope the future of the internet is not reddit.
Not uncommon as in it's building code in those areas.

Tricky bit I think is when you live in a state with small pockets of radon instead of broad regions. Then you're back into crapshoot territory.
Kind of like the early computers.
I stopped using Reddit a couple of years back because it was getting to be more of a cesspool than I was willing to put up with, so for me, anyway, it's not better than other social media.
AC3D is a 3D mesh editor that uses Tcl/Tk for the UI
Given the lag, we're already committed to 2.0C minimum. Thinking anything less is wishful thinking.

It doesn't really change anything. People will be putting up solar panels because it's cheaper than buying electricity from their utilities and run AC during sunny days when it's essentially free.
For a moment I thought it would also draw each of the circles that draw themselves
It really is tremendous for code fuzzing/optimizing. When I hit the rate limit on ChatGPT and switch to 3.5-turbo, the quality difference is immediately noticeable, so much so that I finally set up my own private ChatGPT instance with an API key for GPT-4 so I stopped running into these issues while coding.
Had HN been around when personal computing dropped, I imagine that we could have made some attempt at a steel man argument justifying such a purpose. Even if that argument was 'hobbyists', there was something to be said.

With Quantum computing, what would that be?
> The problems that AI will manifest are the result of human ambition and failings, no different as any other technology that empowers individuals. Yes, individuals and organizations will misuse AI for immoral purposes, but the popular belief that AI is inherently antihumanist launders accountability by pretending to remove human agency from the equation. How we use or misuse AI technology is entirely on us.

So what? If it kills us, we're still dead.

> I would argue there are strong complexity-theoretic bottlenecks to computational processes which limit the expressive power of neural networks

Of course there are physics/CS limits to how intelligent something can be in a given volume, but those limits are vastly higher than our own so I don't think they are particularly relevant. For instance, a system which could simulate the brains of a thousand scientists as smart as Einstein a billion times faster than realtime would not violate any rules of physics, even though it is far beyond our current capabilities.
I’ll try it, thanks!
To save time reading the content-free article, the indictment itself says:

He personally, and without approval, transferred $35M of company funds to a second company he owned jointly with another person.

He then invested that money in UST, which subsequently crashed.

So in addition to "don't put all your money in SVB", start ups need to add : "don't setup signing authority on your bank accounts such that one person can drain tens of millions".
I'm pretty sure there was and still is. Nvidia, AMD, Intel, IBM, Motorola, Qualcomm, ARM and a bunch of others I don't recall designed or still design competitive products in this area. The thing they all have in common is that they want to make money from it...

And well unfortunately the general trend is the less open and more proprietary their products are they more money they make from it (or the higher is their share price) and the more money they have to (potentially) invest into future R&D. ARM which is the most open successful company in the sector is almost literally working for peanuts (relatively to their overall impact) compared to Nvidia, AMD, Qualcomm or Intel.

I'm not sure how would you solve that?

I mean if Apple invested X into designing M1/2 because they expected that they'd earn Y from that. However it turns out they have to make this design available to everyone (well maybe not for free but for a royalty comparable to what ARM gets) erasing their competitive advantage and as a result can only make 0.2Y at most? What would they do? Would they still invest X? 0.5X? 0.1*X? Not design a new chip at all and spend their money on something else? Maybe they wouldn't even have any money to spend in the first place because they wouldn't have been able to maintained massive margins by keeping their Software and HW designs proprietary over the years?
Meta analyzes the metadata and image. I would be shocked if they aren't analyzing the audio of Live Photos since their release.
All true (except multiply all those dollar figures by a factor of 4).

The problem is that I'd be taking on a new 30-year mortgage while being about 10 years away from retirement rather than ~26 years away from retirement, which has certain implications on my ability to afford that mortgage over its full term.
Related. Others?

The Andy Warhol Copyright Case That Could Transform Generative AI - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35731856 - April 2023 (96 comments)

Why Warhol images are making museums nervous (NYT) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35054912 - March 2023 (2 comments)

The Supreme Court May Force Us to Rethink 500 Years of Art - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35018423 - March 2023 (1 comment)

Justices debate whether Warhol image is “fair use” of photograph of Prince - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33426354 - Nov 2022 (3 comments)

The case litigating Andy Warhol’s use of a photograph of Prince - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33330613 - Oct 2022 (20 comments)

A legal dispute that will test the limits of fair use - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33053286 - Oct 2022 (260 comments)

Supreme Court to Review Warhol Lawsuit Involving Prince Portrait - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30844145 - March 2022 (2 comments)

Does Andy Warhol get same copyright treatment as Google code? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26919044 - April 2021 (58 comments)
Lots of bad things[0]:

>1.5 degrees is about the level of warming that scientists say would be more likely to start setting off irreversible feedback loops, such as the disintegration of ice sheets in Greenland and the West Antarctic, the abrupt thawing of permafrost in the Arctic, or the collapse of the Atlantic Ocean’s Gulf Stream current

[0]: https://grist.org/science/el-nino-tipping-points-amazon-grea...
> Apple is positioning their tight control over the appstore, including high fees to developers and restricted choice to consumers, as providing benefits of a curated & safe experience

Let’s not pretend that it’s hurting the little developer.

It came out in the Epic trial that 80%+ of App Store revenue comes from in app purchases of play to win games.

The biggest players that aren’t games like Netflix, Spotify and other “reader apps” [sic] have forced you to do subscriptions outside of the app store for years.

Then other apps are physical goods where you don’t have to use in app purchases and they can use Apple Pay (regular credit card processing fees).
> Are we all going to permanently turn the lights off next week?

More likely we're going to be turning on a bunch of ACs and increasing our energy demands like we do every summer.
I am curious how the author of this post would define (or recognize) "thinking abstractly". And I'd ask what humans do that suggests any ability to "reason abstractly".

I'm not saying we don't, but I am saying these sorts of arguments always leave so many begging questions. "What does it mean to think abstractly? What does it mean to think? What does it mean to reason?"
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I mean what you said is right. In general though, one would be earning much less in UK in IT/Tech/SW jobs compared to US. So overall earning remain higher in US.
I've recently listened to SomaFM a lot. No idea what I'm actually listening to but it's great coding music.
Can’t read the article behind the paywall.

But recently I showed the original Zelda to my 11yo daughter. After a minute or two she lost interest and said “this game is so violent, you’re attacking these creatures and stealing their gems.”

Interesting perspective from across the generation gap!
> I wonder if part of the rationale is to set themselves up for a tuck-in acquisition by Apple.

I doubt it. I think it's just that Mac fans like the Apple aesthetic, so they're copying it for the appeal, no larger strategic explanation needed.

But then again, I've never quite understood why Apple doesn't spin off Final Cut Pro, except for inertia. Or maybe they keep it around to make sure there's at least one internal high-performance app team to make sure the macOS team doesn't do something dumb performance-wise?
Not available in my country sadly (the Netherlands).
It's a GNU thing :P
What? These notebooks and posts by the authors are extremely helpful regardless of what toolchain you're using.

It's also the case that a significant minority of HN has unfavorable views towards LangChain for being complicated and poorly documented software.
There was a story back in the 90s about a Japanese guy who didn't understand what was meant when a cop yells "Freeze!" and was shot dead by police because of it.

We really have to train new attitudes into our police, starting with the idea that as peace officers, their first priority is to keep the peace, like "first do no harm" for doctors, and not roll into every situation expecting to get a chance to be Dirty Harry.
At the same time I assume they will also be the coolest for the next hundred years?
Ah, yes, link the example that was considered a failure and had bestbuy and other big block retailers sell them for $15-20 less than 6 months after release. (Maybe 3 months?)

I bought quite a few of them when they were slashed back in 2019. $15, free shipping, quite a value. The scene is largely ran by 2 redditors now.
I don't think it is a strange thing to say, it is a strange system to have certainly.
Whisper is (highly) more accurate.
> No creation of art is infringing, you can rip other artists off in your home to your heart's content. It's the commercialization of your output that creates infringement - when you license or sell the work.

You can create infringing works in your home to your heart's content because you are unlikely to get caught. But that doesn't mean that the infringement hasn't happened. There are fair use factors that will determine whether an exception to infringement applies, but only one of those factors relates to commercialization.

This is why most photo print shops won't let you print images that they suspect to be copyrighted, even if you just plan to use it in your own home.

Perhaps this will come across as an overly-technical explanation to non-lawyers (IAAL), but I think it's worth noting in this thread because it is strictly not true that infringement hasn't happened until you license or sell a work.
A bit additional information about the quantum threat and why it matters:

- ECC is speculated to be broken somewhere between 2030-2035
- Many intelligence agencies are already warning for this, including the Dutch AIVD: https://english.aivd.nl/publications/publications/2022/01/18...
- NIST is preparing algorithms for standardisation: https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/post-quantum-cryptography/pos...
- IBM released a roadmap to reach many qubits, see: https://www.ibm.com/quantum/roadmap
- Various industries are at risk. Anything that uses encryption methods that are vulnerable to quantum computers, will be at risk. I'll name them on my website and deep dive more into it there.

Individuals and corporate needs to take action today. There is also a migration time, we need to keep in mind. If quantum computers capable enough were to exist today, we are already too late.
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"Caused by a bug"
> If there's anything that prevents regular people from joining Discord, it's that you actually have to be told to join a specific discord, for something you're interested in.

This is why I've not used Discord. I don't know anyone or anything there.
WinLinux 2000 (the first distro I ever installed) was a pretty painless experience. It installed as a Windows "app" which rebooted into Linux, and used UMSDOS to share a single filesystem.
We don't all live in London big man.
> Rupert Murdoch, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Oracle founder Larry Ellison

Sounds like Holmes deserves a medal in addition to a prison sentence.
That first audio example just blew my mind! I can't believe I've lived my whole life to learn only now that our ears essentially just pick out all the sine waves in a complicated wave. Thank you!
This is where I found the information, it might be wrong:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/263492/electricity-price...
OpenStitching: An open community around the 'stitching' package
Till now the stitching package was tied to my personal account (https://github.com/lukasalexanderweber/stitching). Since the project is big enough that it hopefully outlives my capacities to maintain it I moved it to an organization for the beginning.
And CentOS 4.5 (okay that was 2007 but we had both OS running at the same time - mostly because we weren't getting anywhere near Vista [2006]).
You cannot say that there a certain price for electricity. There are spot markets, which are quite transparent, which is why the prices from spot markets are often quoted. The spot markets indeed often use merit order.

But there are many more ways to trade electricity. And, for example, in The Netherlands only about one third of electricity is traded on the spot market.
I've been using Windows XP VMs without activation, or even a prompt to activate. I didn't know they even needed activation. Does anyone know what activation is needed for?
US electricity pricing varies a lot, it’s ~$0.14/kWh in Maryland, we were paying something like ~$0.34/kWh in California, I’ve heard of <$0.10/kWh in hydro heavy areas like Washington state.
You could simulate them in software easily.

Yes, just like you can simulate an ntsc interlaced screen in software.
Universal Translation is Coming: GPT-4 and AI voice cloning
Education vs. Justice
Mandrake was pretty easy, and even SCO UNIX (not GNU/Linux) had an release - grub worked, fat32/fat16 partitioning was possible and there was previous NTFS windows releases, NT 3.5/4 and 2000 that facilitated it.

They all had GUI interactive installers, and had floppy boot disks to boot (too!)
If you're comparing RedHat Linux 7 against Windows XP, you're thinking in terms of the release date of XP. Windows XP was not very good when it came out, and it wasn't until it got the service packs.

So if you're going to start with something like Windows XP service pack 3, meaning that you were someone who didn't jump straight to Vista (I'll be a Vista apologist, but people were being reasonable when they didn't jump from XP), at that point, you're comparing it to Linux distros of 2008. That would be something like Fedora 8, Ubuntu 8, or Debian 4. This was the GNOME 2 era and it was a pretty damn smooth experience.

If you're thinking a bit deeper in terms of user experience for the early, early 2000s, then you would probably put FreeBSD high up on your list rather than treating Linux as an assumption.
i'm not sure, other than the battery solution that you couldn't get this through nreal glasses and a raspberry pi 400.
And how is an euphemism make it different?
I would assume that there was some legal financing behind this lawsuit. It's pretty easy to get if you have a decent case, and while they do take a decent chunk of your winnings, it's a lot better than nothing.
Forget AI; this is the next big thing in technology.
3D scan of the Titanic on the sea bed reveals detail