skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean it literally does have in-game vending machines that spit out little pods with items in them! But you pay with items you collect in the game. And it's not like a collecting thing, the items are just portable fans and platforms and wheels and whatnot for building.
Over the past few months, we have been building Fondant, an open-source framework to help you create high-quality datasets to fine-tune foundation models. Think of Stable Diffusion, GPT-like Large Language Models, Segment Anything, etc.

These foundation models simplify inference by solving multiple tasks across modalities with a simple prompt-based interface. But what they've gained in the front, they've lost in the back. These models require enormous amounts of data, moving complexity towards data preparation, and leaving few parties able to train their own models.

With Fondant, we want to create a framework to build and share data preparation workflows, so it becomes easier for people to fine-tune their own foundation models. It allows you to build composable data preparation pipelines with reusable components, optimized to handle massive datasets:

- Extend your data with public datasets

- Generate new modalities using captioning, segmentation, image generation, ...

- Distill knowledge from existing foundation models

- Filter out low-quality data and duplicate data

Check out our github repo to see the first examples.
Isn't that throwing out the baby with the bathwater? There seem to be non-neglible risks of installing malware from PyPI according to various headlines recently. But instead of improving security measures that don't work well they just remove them?
Nice excuse for behaving like a jerk. "I was just testing you"
Black Wolf [0] has been all over the news lately, and seems to be doing this.

[0] https://blackwolfapp.com/
In this insightful article, Elad Ben-Israel, the mind behind the CDK, shares his love for the cloud, but also his frustrations with the complexity of building cloud applications. The challenges he identifies include:
1. Focus on non-functional mechanics: The need to understand and manage cloud platform mechanics instead of focusing on building valuable features for users.
2. Lack of independence: Developers often need to rely on others to handle parts of the deployment process or to resolve issues, interrupting their work flow.
3. Delayed feedback: The current iteration cycle in cloud development can take minutes or even longer, significantly slowing down the development process and making it harder for developers to stay in their flow state.

## It's not just a rant

Elad is not just ranting about cloud development. He proposes a solution in the form of a programming language for the cloud. This language would treat the entire cloud as its computer. The language compiler will be able to see the complete cloud application, unbound by the limits of individual machines. Such a compiler would be able to handle a significant portion of the application's non-functional aspects, enabling developers to operate at a more abstract level, thus reducing complexity and promoting autonomy. Moreover, it could expedite iteration cycles by allowing to compile applications to quick local simulators during the development process.

## The Winglang Project

Elad reveals that he's in the process of developing such an open-source, “cloud-oriented” language, dubbed Winglang (https://github.com/winglang/wing). Wing aims to improve the developer experience of cloud applications by enabling developers to build distributed systems that leverage cloud services as first-class citizens. This is achieved by integrating infrastructure and application code in a secure, unified programming model. Wing programs can be executed locally via a fully-functional simulator or deployed to any cloud provider.

## My Interest in Winglang

I, together with a group of dedicated contributors, joined forces with Elad to develop Winglang.
While still in Alpha and not yet ready for production use, it's already possible to build some real applications (https://github.com/winglang/research/tree/main/dogfooding).

Check out https://github.com/winglang/wing for more details.
That’s not what an average home cook can do regarding knife skills. These services and recipes should be written for their audiences which are likely typical home chefs that don’t handle knifes that well. I’ve been cooking 40 years and have certainly tried to use a knife that way and it always feels unsafe to me. Also, typically requires a very sharp set of knifes which I do keep but I don’t think the average house does.
wouldn't that push the work more underground?
Apple's WWDC, Monday in 2 weeks.
In theory at least the EU could arrest company representatives should they ever visit the EU and they can confiscate funds or equipment destined for your company if it should transit trought the EU. Whether they would go that far for the GDPR is another question. Usually its a lot easier to just comply which is why most companies consider GDPR to some extend or at least pretend to.

As for the original question, I don't see how deleting your reddit account would require an external archive based on publicly available data to follow that deletion. If there is personal data then you might have a basis for requesting it be removed but surely you'd need to make that request to whoever hosts the archive directly.
Didn't pressure sensitive touch get removed from iDevices? Velocity sensing is a big deal with percussion pads.
The fancy: RTX 3090

The not-so-fancy: it's a 10 year old Xeon...

The benchmarks for the other GPUs were across a pretty wide range of hardware. The GTX 1060, for example, is in a REALLY old Xeon that doesn't even support AVX...

I have hardware arriving this week that I purchased from eBay for $320 with shipping and tax - Dell Precision with i7-7700, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD[0] and GTX 1070[1]. Seems to be the current "best bang for the buck" if you don't have any of this stuff just sitting around.

The idea is because Willow devices are so cost-effective you can buy this hardware to host WIS, HA, other homelab stuff, etc and still come out ahead (even with power) compared to Raspberry Pi:

Qty 5 Willows - $270 with power supplies (support wake word, far-field audio, LCD display, speaker, mics, etc)

WIS hardware - $320 (or less - it's up to you!)

Total cost: $590

Six Raspberry Pis (no wake word, poor audio quality, unusably slow, cumbersome, very DIY):

$720 (retail kit with board, SD, LCD display, mic array, speaker, enclosure). MSRP - can't actually be purchased for that.

I expect this hardware to do well (returning well below 500ms for Willow speech locally with excellent quality) and I'll be documenting the power consumption optimization work I'm doing over the weekend.

[0] - https://www.ebay.com/itm/234908676168

[1] - https://www.ebay.com/itm/115536328587
Ask HN: Why is OpenAI pushing for regulation so much?
The achievements of Google and OpenAI over the past few years, especially with transformers, were truly remarkable. However, I feel that dangers of AI are ridiculously overstated. Can anyone give an example, or the sequence of actions, that would lead to something going horribly wrong? AI could destroy humanity, Sam Altman mentioned that. Doesn't that seem completely wacky? Or I just lack imagination?

Lets say you give access to the internet to it and say "hack into a pentagon". Well, surely, if it succeeded it means that Chinese and Russian hackers did this a long time ago. If you told it "destroy humanity", well, again, surely, it would not be able to do that even without imposed restrictions by OpenAI.

So, how exactly AI would lead to something horrible? That is the first question.

And the second one is: why is OpenAI pushing for regulation so much? Do you think they are honest? What could be alternative motives for pushing this agenda?

Could it be that Microsoft and Google are doing something that top corporations always have tried to do? Make deals with governments and impose restrictions so competition is unlikely to emerge?
It would be a shame if mighty elephants were evolved to the size of piglets that people keep as pets.
This headline annoys me. Sorry for nitpicking but Europe != EU. The biggest country in Europe is Russia. I doubt the numbers in the article fits Russia's climate target.
> I didn't assert anything except for what was in the comment.

That seems to be the case. I take that assert back.

p.s. just checked out the wiki for Donald Hoffman. Thank you for the reference, TIL. Have to listen to that podcast, but have some idea what are the problematic open Qs that you mention. [I'm not apparently not allowed to vote on hn so take my +1 in spirit ..]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36043188
A gif sharing service could provide code to the big embedders (ie. twitter, facebook, whatsapp) which scans for bad words and phrases and decides if a particular gif is to be suggested for posting in that particular conversation. If the conversation isn't advertiser suitable, the user just gets to choose from mundane non-branded gifs.

That should be enough to satisfy most brand advertisers.
TSLA going to the moon so that I can FIRE.
Exactly. Tech unemployment is still extremely low, practically nonexistent. All the tech professionals I know with hard skills that have sought jobs in the last 6 months find them most of the time in less than a month. It's not a struggle for anyone except recruiters and maybe the tech-managerial class that lacks hard skills or a long track record. Gone probably are the days of 400k TC PM's with a degree in communications.
How about calling it “Gish” since it’s dynamic and can shape shift and do basically anything? Gish for reference is an old mobile game I used to play back in Symbian days, where the tar(?) blob -called Gish- can shape shift dynamically and move around to reach the goal (1)

(1) https://phoneky.com/games/?id=j3j123894
Fly GPUs
Sometimes... programmers are worse users than general users.
https://www.rme-audio.de/
Boo hoo your political opinions are not popular with the youth.
This broke it https://www.justonecookbook.com/pressure-cooker-japanese-cur...
Phrases like `Start Free Trial` and `Book a Demo` with no page called `Pricing` does not engender trust.
With n=1, for me there is a groove or three that are just muscle memory and I'd need a longer while to sit down and think if asked write them down. They came out from noodling around and coming to "huh, that sounds cool" and I imagine that's not something particularly uncommon for other people too.
English (or any human language with the possible exception of Pirahã) is not a formal grammar, but if it was, it would behave like a recursively enumerable one, at the top of the Chomsky hierarchy. Given enough time and enough text, you can express anything computable.

Think about it this way, I give you instructions in english, and you have to follow them:

You are acting as a turing machine. Your symbols are s1, s2, ..., sn. Here are your processing rules: ... Here is your tape: ... Begin!

You could follow that process to the letter, given enough time, focus, and tape (insert xkcd reference about rocks in the desert).
Agreed—I think the economics just don’t justify production of good MIDI controllers. Outside of one or two models, they’re mostly bad. You have to try keyboards out in the store to find one you like. They won’t be a good replica of a piano, but they may be something you like.
I wanted to make a similar comment. Anti-aging for oneself is seen as gauche or elitist, but when you think about anti-aging treatments affordable enough for all your loved ones, friends, and neighbours to use it's a lot more sympathetic. A few obsessed rich people might pave the way for the average grandparents to stay in their own home months or years longer.

Aside from anything else it's also pretty cool that he's 45 and has a VO2 max above 50 along with lifting reasonably heavy weights, regardless of how old he looks. I get the feeling from looking at his website that he cares as much about the numbers as his appearance, if not more.
> has evolved to be compatible with our brain's language mechanism.

Under the hypothesis that there actually is such a "language mechanism": There would be a host of other mechanisms a language needs to compatible with - such as spoken and written word - that might have contributed adversarial constraints along the way (from the perspective of optimal adjustment of a language with respect to this mechanism).
I don't believe the context of the Wine related comment was Win 3.1. OpenOffice wasn't around to compare launch times. Internet Explorer was around, a bit, but was competing with Netscape, not Mozilla.
Okay, interesting. For such a small system I can imagine the jit compilation helps a lot.

Using Numba to jit compile the rhs might speed things up in the non-diffrax version.

Does the LSODA solver not take a minimum time step parameter?
Setting that to your small fixed step might also help.
For now wasm does not have any more risk than obfuscated JS.

It is possible that there are a lot of tool to examine JS code for "suspicious code" and that those tools might not work well on WASM.

In practice the WASM interpreter in the browser is a functionality that can be (almost) completely polyfilled.

Personally I would be way more worries about hardware exploits via WebGL.
I believe it. I've surveyed friends and friends of friends about chem and bio because one of my kids is a biochemist, and that's where most of my telemetry comes from; lab STEM in general has a bad rap, but chem and bio might be distinctively awful.
So they're removing PGP signatures, which certainly have some issues, and replacing them with ... nothing?
"Many of the commonest assumptions, it seems to me, are arbitrary ones: that the new is better than the old, the untried superior to the tried, the complex more advantageous than the simple, the fast quicker than the slow, the big greater than the small, and the world is remodeled by 'Man the Architect' functionally sounder and more agreeable than the world as it was before he changed everything to suit his vogues and his conniptions." — E. B. White, in an essay called Coon Tree (1956)

I didn't quote the surrounding context from the essay, which itself is quite fun; do read the full essay if you can.
They are sensationalist for sure. They are also one of the last sites that will publish stories that TNI tells other publishers to avoid so I am conflicted. In a morbidly funny way the joke scene [1] about tabloids in the movie MIB has in a way become somewhat true.

I do wish there was a mirror site that could only archive just the story and leave out the side-pane of sensationalism.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duA5eWjHCjU
This comment thread is filled with all the things I love about Metallica posts:

- People discussing their love for the music

- Geeking out about Metallica's songwriting, and playing in general

- Trashing Lars
AI is actually useful unlike fake money cryptocurrency bs.

But I agree, cryptocurrency fans shouldn't be taxed.

They should be arrested. Their counterfeiting equipment should be ground to dust and they should be locked up.
Brilliant. Willow looks like a game-changer to me, thanks a million!
Can you elaborate on what you’re referring to? Specifically the “moral bandwagon” part.
Amazing that they can both get past the 245 million dollar lawsuit settlement over IP and trade secret theft.
"After crossing an apparent critical value (between 1010 and 1011 effective parameters), the model seems to be catapulted into a new regime in which it can complete this (fairly complicated) task with drastically increased accuracy."

"The important part about this phenomenon is that we, a priori, do not know that this will happen in advance or even at what scale it might happen. "
Bengio,Hinton and Lecun received the Turing award together. 2 of them are warning of dangers, the same 2 that are retired. One is on payroll from FB and he is being dismissive and laughing.
Does this mean that those iPhone components will be manufactured in the US, then shipped overseas to be incorporated into new iPhones, which will then be shipped back to the US?

I understand that this makes sense, but at the same time, I wonder how many tons of CO₂ will be emitted because of this kind of "onshoring".
WebAssembly running in the browser runs in an isolated environment whose only access to the outside world is by calling out to JavaScript functions exposed to it when it was initialized. So it doesn’t open up any new APIs.

It does get recompiled to bytecode that runs directly on the processor, so in theory there could be vulnerabilities that come up from that, but I think it’s a pretty well-understood surface area at this point.
So what's the point of having braces if you're going to use indentation anyway?
I would suggest looking into fedora workstation. I switched from Ubuntu around fedora 35 and have not looked back. Stock gnome, integrates into flathub easily. Dnf and apt are similar enough.
How likely is deceptive alignment?
I think the more likely here is that Uber sold self-driving group (alongside other "big bets" like flying taxi research group) because of existential threat to the business during the start of COVID-19 which made them focusing on the main business (+eats) and sell parts that have no profitability in sight.
unironically, this may be the only way.
Create a new online storage account and upload the file there. Then access it and print it on the print shop computer and then reset the password on that account so that the print shop computer can no longer access it.
However, the regulated banks also appear to be gangs of thieves run by charlatans. ... I have a lot more faith in the value of my Monero than the USD

Ah yes, Monero. Trying to replace bitcoin as the preferred dark web currency when collecting ransoms from hospitals and pensioners.

A few banks went south, so the entire system is just as bad as the ponzi crypto circus run by the Tether mafia?
> An early stage lab has a lot in common with a startup.

The problem is you also see this behavior in well established lab, where the PI has very little to lose if he quits research altogether.

In my experience, the correlation with whether the professor was an assistant professor seeking tenure vs a well established full professor and the amount of work they make PhD students do is almost nil. It's mostly purely driven by the will of the PI, not the demands of the funding situation. A lot of professors choose to have few graduate students so they don't have to stress too much about funding.

Remember: Once you get tenure, your job is not at risk if your research output is low (although it does affect compensation). If you get a $1M grant and end up with no research papers out of it, there is no accountability - except the granting agency will deprioritize you in the future (if even that).

If you're seeking an advisor, ask his/her current students what life is like. Also find people who graduated under him/her and ask them.
To head off the inevitable low quality comments, keep in mind that Broadcom != Qualcomm.

Qualcomm manufactures cellular components for mobile platforms. Broadcom is a different company.
Sally Mcrae just ran a 250 mile race and didn't feel sore afterwards. Her condition and physical state is what I'm interested in.
The BTC whitepaper was introduced what 15 years ago? There hasn't been anything useful that has come out of that space.
Yes.. didn't realize it had an H100. So I was a little bit mislead by the advertisement copy. But still could be significantly more efficient the way everything is integrated.
Imagining a bunch of elephants charging a fortified position in formation, I think they'd win most battles through shock/fear factor alone. I for one don't think I'd be disciplined enough to hold my ground against charging ~~Ultralisks~~ elephants with just a musket in hand.
Don't give your kid a smartphone or laptop without only whitelisting certain sites. If they somehow get a device without permission, it gets donated.
Article doesn't mention miniaturisation, but this is key. No-one's going to wear a kilo of tech on their head if they don't have to, no matter how shiny.
I think the comments are the most revealing. It's not that it's in a 5/8 with some odd microtiming, but that it's some kind of additive rhythm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Additive_rhythm_and_divisive_r...

This reminds me of the famous Dave Brubeck Quartet song Blue Rondo a la Turk, which has a 2+2+3 rhythm, and I always remember the rhythm by remembering, "Taco taco taco burrito."
For the people that don't see anything special here apart from the feet going kinda fast. This band is known from playing wild time signatures. Like playing riffs in 11/8 and throwing in 3/8 every couple of bars.

The drummer essentially plays two rhythms at once. His hands mostly do 4/4, but feet play a shorter phrase that only lines up with hands every couple of bars. It's like simultaneously counting to four on one hand and to three on the other hand, but using four limbs on a full drum kit, adding accents, ghost notes, changing time signates, and not skipping a freaking beat.

And their every song is like this. I also think on "Combustion" he plays 1/16 note off from the rest of the band.
It takes time to fix this stuff. It always has. I don’t know why.

Core audio is the API. You still need a driver for the audio interface. If it’s USB class compliant, then you get a driver for free. Not all devices are class compliant (for good reasons). You would be limited to the feature set provided by the USB audio class spec.
I think in the future, we should look into device-level age verification. You scan your Driver's License on your iPhone once; and after that, your iPhone tells the website that you are 16 and over without providing any other information unless the user expressly grants it. This solution would not make everyone happy, but politics is all about tradeoffs.

By keeping everything on the device-level, we would hopefully reduce the need for third-parties, ISP-level filtering, or providing too much information. The downside is that for open-source phones, in order for the system to be secure, there would likely need to be a similar Age ID check at checkout for any device that can bypass said filter. This would not be the first time that the US Government strongly "encouraged" device manufacturers to build-in rating system equipment (remember V-Chip?).

And as for "some kids might bypass it," I don't really care. Speed Limits are easily and frequently bypassed, but that doesn't mean it would be safe to get rid of them.
a quick google search suggests that this is false. Given the FDIC's perfect 100 year track record of covering depositors, the burden of proof is on naysayers.
This year's MIT Mystery Hunt had a puzzle requiring you to implement increasingly complicated image-generating formulas: https://puzzles.mit.edu/2023/puzzlefactory.place/puzzles/gra...
> The breaking point came when one of our customers was acquired by Oracle. They wanted to keep using our product, but had to move from our original contract to the one that Oracle uses. In exchange for this, they were willing to increase the price they were paying from $6,000 to $24,000 per year.

This is a cool idea, but the irony here is that Oracle probably still wouldn't use the Common Paper contract and insist on their own contracts instead. So am not sure if it is solving this particular problem.
> and jump on a moral bandwagon that appeals only to a minority of activists

Disney includes minorities because it pays off, what does not pay off is to create bad/mediocre movies. There are many movies even more progressive than the very conservative Disney that do better just because the movies are good.
I’ve achieved great preliminary results with this in https://github.com/greatest-ape/aquatic#io_uring