skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He makes many good points and knows what he's talking about, but we're not trying to defeat Russia. We're trying to defeat Putin. Russia doesn't want this war.
No snark interpreted at all. Yes I am well aware of org mode and love it! I think it is fantastic. There are some key differences that I think make notebooks a bit more interesting - however it sounds like you've made a system you are happy with? I would love to see what you have! Mind sharing it?
We could fight about the actual value of the CPU, HDD, network, etc is. Not literally zero. The manpower to keep it running is a stronger argument, but I still think it's missing the point. The real value is the community generated content, and yeah, that's a commons.
> the training data provides value

I wish it was easier to build on someone else's copyrighted value. Geforce Now shouldn't have to get permission from game makers to rent out server time for users to play games they already own. Aereo shouldn't have been legally obliterated for the way they rented out DVRs with antennas. Using a sample in a song shouldn't be automatic infringement.
Here is how hard it is to serve and use LLMs: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp
It ruins the surprise. If they wanted people to see it they wouldn’t put up facades to block the construction.
If I compress an artist's painting into a jpeg and rehost part of it for individual t-shirt designs I am committing a crime.

If I compress an artist's painting into a model & rehost what's essentially a highly flexible complete version of their painting for infinite, perpetual use of any kind ... I'm not committing a crime?
Can you give some sense of what your wiki looks like? Like what kinds of categories do you have in there
Show HN: Nevertwenty – Play along with any song using real-time chords
Hey there, Hacker News community! I've just brought my dream app to life, and I'm eager to share it with you all. At a glance, it might seem like a search engine, but it's really so much more. It's an intuitive tool specifically designed for practicing musicians.

What's the magic ingredient, you ask? The app shows users critical musical details about any song of their choice - but that's not even the best part. The real showstopper is that it can unveil the underlying chord structure of the song, which enables musicians to play along, learn the song, and anticipate the upcoming chord sequence in real time.

I'm continually looking to enhance the player features, so your feedback is more than welcome! I've recently incorporated a feature allowing users to adjust the beats per minute (BPM), and now I'm in the process of adding a tuner as well.

Let's hit the right notes together on this one, folks! Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.

Only works on desktop. Working on getting mobile working and compatibility for Safari.

Built with the latest nextjs. react, node. Am pretty satisfied with the software stack I used. I wasn't familiar with nextjs but as an experience full stack developer, I didn't find it too difficult learn and actually quite pleasant to use as my feature set grew.

The biggest application limitation right now is the not perfect timing of the chord preview and bpm speed. Ideally the animation of these components should be perfectly correlated with the beat. I'm working on a betting timing implementation.

Cheers!
-brandon
I hate these articles. First, there are plenty of employers in the United States that offer 6 weeks vacation. My last employer had unlimited vacation and you can bet I used at least 6 weeks spread over the course of a year.

Second, you can't just "move" to Europe and get a job without a work visa unless you want to work a crappy cash under the table job. This chicks "partner" was the one who got sponsored because he has a real job and she was able to mooch off of his visa as a partner. The fact is, she wouldn't have been able to move to Sweden without him.

The reality is, without her partner who does the real work she would never be able to relocate abroad.

But yet she's happy.

Honestly, she just sounds like someone who is happier living abroad. I get that but the level of hamstering she does in the article is just cringeworthy and partly the reason I loathe and avoid American expats when I'm abroad.
Boosteroid, the cloud gaming service, is partly in Kiev, Ukraine.
I like shaders as much as the next guy, but this page is almost content-free. If you're looking to learn more about shaders and like interactive demos, I'd recommend:

https://thebookofshaders.com/
I'm saying `A => B` (something should be illegal if it's primarily for crime) and you're saying `-A` (LLMs are not primarily for crime), which is not really a disagreement. My point is disagreeing with the GGP who argued that `-B regardless of A` (LLMs should not be a crime regardless of whether they facilitate crime, because it is the end-user who is committing the crime).

I happen to mostly believe the conclusion (`-B`) but not the particular argument.
>compress an artist's painting into a model

That's not how image models work.
Which I find bizarre given how backwards Japan is in the adoption of other technologies. Eg their continued reliance on paper records and fax machines.
In new zealand there's a log in service used by the government across all services called realme, you can't link a pgp key etc but you do verify yourself in person with license or passport. it works quite well
>I am arguing that the absence of knowledge makes the absence of control irrelevant.

But it doesn't lol. Just because we don't know any better doesn't mean the current way isn't any less potentially dangerous.

>Your own link would have been impossible without Lesswrong tradition, it's literally written by lesswrongers on a sister community largely hijacked by lesswrongers.

This is the point I'm making lol. You knew this, I didn't. I came across something I found interesting and I shared it. That's it. I know alignmentforum even less than I know lesswrong

>Attempting to abandon it as a low-status association is just nasty.

I'm not a lesswronger. I'm not trying to avoid anything, I'm just not. I think you have issues you need have to deal with. Good day
Yes, please! We need alternatives to the social media giants that are now obviously bent on monetization and other, shadier motives.

Moves like this are what caused the huge Digg -> Reddit exodus that significantly boosted Reddit's popularity. People need other places to go when their favorite platform takes this seemingly inevitable path.
Crash Bark Boom the USC Sound Effects Library
When are we getting the same for suggary stuff?
so in other words, not actually forget... a pov with which i agree
Subtract the fact that at least the serfs got to keep some of the net product of their labor while Reddit users get less than nothing and I think it all evens out.
@sthuck I'm working on an alternative in this space called Fern. Like gRPC, you define your schema and use it to generate client libraries + server code. Fern integrates with FastAPI/Express/Spring and generates clients in Python, Typescript, and Java.

Checkout out this demo: https://www.loom.com/share/42de542022de4e55a1349383c7a465eb. Feel free to join our discord as well: https://discord.com/invite/JkkXumPzcG.
Project blue beam
I find the code gen less valuable than having a machine-readable spec that I can test against.
It's perfect in that there's no way for them to differentiate from normal browser traffic. This is adversarial interoperability which is exactly how we're supposed to deal with corporations and their idiotic "terms". Nobody is forced to accept their "take it or leave it" BS.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interopera...

If it's important enough, someone somewhere will care enough to fix it when it inevitably breaks. Look at youtube-dl and its variations, there's even a youtube.js now.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31021611
Painting features => back propagation => weights.

Yes it is.
Linux power saving settings, compatible with systemd
I would note there is a difference between untrue and fraudulent.

"Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects..."

Neither these are inherently the result of malfeasance or fraud, or even poor statistical practice.

Sample size is a compromise between a number of things - statistical power, yes, but also trying to minimize the number of human or animal subjects involved, and to be frank, budget (as I've noted elsewhere, the NIH R01 non-modular budget hasn't changed since the 90's). Before there's a body of work done, statistical power is often speculative. What do we think the effect estimate will be. If we're lucky, maybe we have a mathematical model suggesting at least something. In that arena, it's likely that we may undershoot the needed sample size - though I'll note underpowered findings are null findings, and far less likely to get published (and likely hopeless in say...The Lancet). There are also some questions that we may still want answers to where the sample size is inherently small. There are a finite number of Ebola outbreaks, or veterinary clinics in the U.S. (both real examples).

Similarly, tiny effects are hard to estimate, but that doesn't mean they're bad to estimate. Something that increased the risk of death in American citizens by 1% for example, would have a relative risk of 1.01, which is as small as many medical and epidemiology journals are apt to report. Yet this would impact thousands of people. Measuring that may be very hard, and very noisy, producing a number of wrong answers, but it's not self-evidently a bad idea. Especially if we don't know if the effect is tiny ahead of time.
A unique identifier is hardly "government information".

In any case, Germany does not have one, yet Schufa (the German credit scoring agency) still exists and still is able to build profiles on everybody living in Germany. So what's the gain?

Data mining operations like them will be able to perform good-enough matching based on fuzzy data like current and previous address; it just makes it more likely for errors to happen due to non-unique names and incorrectly merged or split credit profiles, and makes legitimate requests for your own data more difficult than necessary.
It depends on what you do professionally. Are you a software developer? If so, you're golden to pretty much move anywhere you want.

Anything else and you're SOL
This whole subthread is both silly and sad. So suddenly Yudkowsky is the Thought Leader and a punching bag when people need to dismiss the entire AI risk perspective. A week or two ago, during previous round of statement letters and signatures, Yudkowsky was apparently a Complete Nobody. Anyway.

> Yud is a doomsday cult leader (https://archive.is/YTqlI)

Are you really using that link to support your argument in the earnest? You know this was posted on April Fool's day? The text itself mentions it near the end, and it's also explicitly tagged as such directly below the headline/byline. At least warn people who're going to skim this.

> who has publicly advocated using mass murder in the form of nuclear weapons to forestall his predicted apocalypse.

You mean that bit from his article in Time Magazine? Where he talked about airstrikes against GPU farms might be necessary in case some country/group is violating the international moratorium he's proposing? I don't recall him advocating mass murder there, or ever. Of course, since he is insisting on a strong international agreement, military intervention - yes, including nuclear weapons - is part of the picture, because that's literally how international agreements are ultimately enforced.

As for the rest - the guy has been saying the same thing for way over a decade now. The mainstream interest only really picked up in the last half a year. But somehow he's in on it.
Very slow but I think that’s a feature. Makes Reddit less addicting
> Sampling evidence shows that Salmonella prevalence varies substantially across the pork industries. On average, 30.3 percent of comminuted pork samples were Salmonella-positive. For pork cuts samples, an average of 9.3 percent were Salmonella-positive.

Wow. I followed the link assuming you were grossly exaggerating, but it really is rampant.
>I've tried running a wiki for my self, but it doesn't work offline.

Why not use a tool that is specifically made for that?

TiddlyWiki works both online and offline, and is both a note-taking tool and a wiki.

As a showcase: I turned the notes I was taking for myself in preparation for my ADHD diagnosis by uploading the single HTML file to my website, and many people found it useful:

https://romankogan.net/adhd
A Brief History of Warehouse-Scale Computing (2021) [pdf]
IIRC California prohibits raising rates by more than 5.9 percent per year.
Nay, they're the same and I will threat them the same.
I agree, and I honestly think that a big part of the issue with AI image generation is people just really have a hard time conceiving of a technology that can make such accurate images from a relatively small model like this.

"It must have a copy" - but van Gogh didn't make paintings of hot rods or whatever, and you can't copyright style or technique.
Won’t they just get rate limited or hit with captchas
Ok - fair comment. So I found a copy of Superintelligence. The argument is pulp sci-fi at best:
"The final phase begins when the AI has gained sufficient strength to obviate the need for secrecy. The AI can now directly implement its objectives on a full scale. The overt implementation phase might start with a “strike” in which the AI eliminates the human species and any automatic systems humans have created that
could offer intelligent opposition to the execution of the AI’s plans. This could be achieved through the activation of some advanced weapons system that the AI has
perfected using its technology research superpower and covertly deployed in the covert preparation phase. If the weapon uses self-replicating biotechnology or nano-technology, the initial stockpile needed for global coverage could be microscopic: a single replicating entity would be enough to start the process. In order to ensure a sudden and uniform effect, the initial stock of the replicator might have been deployed or allowed to diffuse worldwide at an extremely low, undetectable con-centration. At a pre-set time, nanofactories producing nerve gas or target- seeking mosquito-like robots might then burgeon forth simultaneously from every square meter of the globe (although more effective ways of killing could probably be devised by a machine with the technology research superpower)."

Look - nothing's impossible, but I agree with the counter argument that an advanced AI still starts as a "brain in a vat", with no experience of agency in the physical world. In order to successfully take over you have to assume it can develop all the physical world capability it needs, in secret and get it right first time. That seems implausible.
Unless Reddit rectifies, that sounds like the end of Apollo. I feel like old.reddit.com is next in the chopping board. Perhaps we need to go back to the browser and reskin the heck out of Reddit.
I forgot about Digg and just went to look at it. Not a single thing is recognizable about it.
This is using huggingface. It's python. There's no reason it wouldn't run on arm.

https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/falcon-40b

I'll also add that the fact something is in C++ doesn't mean it will run on arm or that it can be compiled in it.
Climate Change Is Escalating California’s Wildfires
> During this period of time, O'Keefe was still on Project Veritas payroll, according to the lawsuit. He was kept on the board until April 24 and removed from the company entirely on May 15, the lawsuit said.

I.e. keep him neutralized until his ouster blows over, to deprive him of publicity when he tries to set up a competitor.
I think it's more about the fact that the users are paying for the service. The % of reddit's userbase that has enough disposable income to subscribe is a very very very high value slice for advertisers.
Excellent comment and question. Re: commercializing nbdev, this path didn't seem to make sense to me personally (for reasons I outlined), but they very well could make sense for others.

But I'm with you, I really like many of the ideas presented in nbdev and feel like they have legs. I don't think those ideas should be abandoned or thrown away. Posit (https://posit.co) is developing products that draw from many of the ideas in nbdev - infact we are working with them - and I think the directions they are pursuing are very promising.

However, if you have ideas on how to make tools in the space that draw on these ideas, I encourage you to do so. I will even support you to the best of my ability if you decide to.
"All you gotta do is push a button", eh?

See https://youtu.be/ld-AKg9-xpM?t=30 for a counterpoint.
Can’t they just fingerprint the incoming requests based on a litany of variables such as headers ip etc to prevent this “scraping”?

Sorry I don’t follow
Everest 2023: An End to a Tough Season
>Libreddit is themed around Reddit's redesign whereas Teddit appears to stick much closer to Reddit's old design. This may suit some users better as design is always subjective.
1 in 4 American Homeowners Is ‘House Poor’
FAA seeks public input on drone operations
Excavating the Atari E.T. Video Game Burial Site (2014)
They just really want their Cop City.

They'll keep throwing a tantrum until they get it. At which point they'll be happy for a few days before demanding a bigger Cop City.
Isn’t that very expensive to run at scale especially mixing in residential IPs to avoid blocking
A verification pipeline for ad placement would be a whole new can of worms.

I can only imagine the man hours that went into Google's Adsense bot, and it only had to verify websites rather than mobile apps.
I've read parts of both linked articles, but so far the one question I have hasn't been answered.

Why are they called shaders?
> But where is the grey goo?

It's called life.

Drexler may have been off with the approach to take, but he isn't wrong about the fundamentals.
They're much higher density than other animals when farming them, and they eat anything.
The search in Google Keep is fantastic and thus I do not use my notes in this way. Before embarking upon any project I search my notes for keywords related to it and often turn up measurements, material suggestions and instructional links that I've previously collected when thinking about the project in years past.

This has changed how I make notes as well. I have learned to make them searchable. I often think, "what will future me search in order to find this note" and this sprinkle in a few extra keywords.
Have you tested this on a small scale?
What better to predict wildly unintended outcomes than another AI?
Not trying to express an opinion on the legal matter, but as a technical matter it's pretty obvious that LLMs create copies of (some of) their training data.

Here's GPT-3.5 reciting the Declaration of Independence:
https://chat.openai.com/share/eb30c373-7fec-4280-892d-479567...

Unless you're claiming that GPT-3.5 is deriving the Declaration of Independence (from information about the founding fathers?) I don't see how there's room for debate about whether information has been "copied" into the model.

I have done this test in the past with copyrighted material (harry potter) but they have since added safeguards against it, but my understanding is that the model is still capable of it.
In terms of building something that's usable (considering cost, speed, scale, etc) if comparing an OpenAI API call to these, it's difficult for me to see a current path where these have any viable application outside some niche scenario.

From what I understand, even to run locally you/your team needs to be able to afford a machine with a 4090. These are super expensive in some countries.

I played around with the smaller Llama/Alpaca models and it wasn't really viable to build anything with.

Not really seeing a use-case for fine-tuning either compared to just few-shot prompting.

Can someone fill me in on what I'm missing? It feels like I'm out of the loop
Update: The Falcon-40b LLM is now under an open Apache 2.0 license including for commercial use. See [1], and HN discussion here [2]

[1]: https://twitter.com/Thom_Wolf/status/1663986216771936263

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36145185
Facades are also for preventing passersby from seeing an eyesore. I am sure they know about this, and if they really wanted it to stop they would send one of their umptillion lawyers after them.
And also the potential, unprecedented legal issues that accompany releasing and defending a free/open model. The brownie points they'd receive aren't worth it, at least yet.
Lol I had the sane thing happen, then when I asked the mods what happened in got reported to the admins for harrasment. There's no way tho discuss, just a brick wall. Wild been on that site an embarrassingly long time without issue
Probably no different given his involvement in worldcoin

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/06/1048981/worldcoi...

and loopt

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loopt
Yes, that's a better explanation of the constitutional status, thank you! (Supreme court decision vs. an explicit clause in the constitution.)

FWIW, I think in this age of massive databases that can be effortlessly joined on fuzzy matching criteria, the lack of a unique person identifier is more of a hurdle for legitimate use cases than a safety measure against government or corporate overreach.

One good thing about it is the complete lack of the horrible "SSN as both primary key and bearer authentication token" pattern that's commonplace in the US, though – but the alternatives are pretty annoying, in my experience.
Why not use an injection molded case?
Who said anything about approval?

Go ahead and learn those words and then attempt what's in the article. Nobody was suggesting otherwise.
Using an operating system you have to tinker with to get working right, and even fix when it breaks means you learn a lot about the low level of what an operating system is, and how this one does it. That information translates to being useful writing and fixing other software. The point is this, if you're a student, consider using something unusual that is more brittle. Maybe a sweet spot is running mainstream linux on your mainstream laptop (Lenovo T-series is one of the right answers there, dell is the wrong answer) and have a project using a pine rock64 SBC running linux to drive your tv screen or similar? Something that you want to use, that breaks at random in random places that you then have to investigate to work out how to fix.

You really learn something keeping brittle systems functional. Linux laptops with nvidia gfx cards definitely used to qualify in ways a t480s really doesn't nowadays.

When fixing things that break, strace, gdb, perf, ftrace, BPF, write or fix a kernel device driver, understand what the OS and compiler don't do for you, what they often will do for you that maybe you don't want them to.
Sending a Photo with a Phone (1937)
It has been shown that image models can produce originals, or at least extremely close to the originals. If the outcome is the same, what is the difference between compression/decompression vs training/generation regarding copyright?
8. This car didn't have the self driving feature. It was built before FSD existed and uses Mobileye technology.

They are owned by Intel and have their technology in BMWs Nissan, Geely, Toyota, Nio etc etc.

Your hate boner is showing.
so what is the ink made out of lmao?

seems like an addition to the already bountiful chemicals that get inhaled