skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might depend on what you mean by "full training" and "fine tuning". They're not proposing to train a brand new foundational model from scratch, like a brand new LLaMa. But they want to do something considerably more intensive than just building a LORA.

The article contains this:

We are currently seeking GPU compute sponsors for training OpenOrca on the following platforms:
* Falcon 7b, 40b
* LLaMA 7b, 13b, 33b, 65b
* MPT-7b, 30b
* Any other targets that get a sponsor. (RWKV, OpenLLaMA)

As I understand, a full round of training on the OpenOrca dataset would be comparable to going from LLaMa to Vicuna, but hopefully with more dramatic effects, if the techniques proposed in the "Textbooks is all you need" paper work as well as advertised.
> lift underrepresented communities out

There already is, though - study hard!
interesting questions but all seem to have a negative tone. good to check urself but not to the point of being self deprecating
From my experience the best gift to yourself right now is to do a lot of exercises, tick off a few smaller things you would like to achieve, and find help through parents and parents-in law.

Also, find some remote gigs if not already, and figure out how to apply for parental leave and state financial assistance.

Last but not least, ask friends with kids if they have things to donate or sell.
There's a gulf between "fuel tax drops 50% leading to budget shortfalls" and "drops 99% to insignificant revenue" and states still need to pay for roads during that window.
> The "radiofrequency electromagnetic fields" associated with using mobile phones are "possibly cancer-causing"

Wow. Easier to list out what doesn't cause cancer
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But the identity and diversity stuff was a thing long before that time.

Don't get me wrong, politicians and elites are absolutely using identity to play the populace against each other. But this is less part of a grand conspiracy and more the oldest trick in the book of politics, there's evidence of it going back all the way to classic antiquity.
Sure, if I were to want a shitty, hacked together unstable system, where not even the few linux program could run on a different distro, as has been the case before systemd.
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Why do you think the country is richer because of slavery?

I'd argue that slavery made a small % of influential plantation owners very rich at the expense of the suffering of a large number of people, and less importantly the economy.

Places in the U.S. that didn't have slaves are richer today than places that did.
Why would it? If it's a carcinogen for Coke then it's a carcinogen for Pepsi or everyone else.
The german term you want to look for is "mittelbare Drittwirkung". On this particular topic there is an interesting case from the Bundesgerichtshof about facebook accounts that were banned. German press release: https://juris.bundesgerichtshof.de/cgi-bin/rechtsprechung/do...
Lottery? Seems to be the foundation of the immigration system.
Well, this is a bit underwhelming, especially in light of the rumors that 5.6 would include official support for consumer grade Radeon cards. At first blush, I don't see any mention of that in what they've announced (to be fair, maybe I just overlooked it?). Anyway, if that stuff didn't make it into 5.6.0, my guess is that it's still coming and will just be delayed until a future forthcoming release.

Would be nice if they'd say something official on that point though.

Edit:

Wait here it is:

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-More-RDNA3-ROCm

https://community.amd.com/t5/rocm/new-rocm-5-6-release-bring...
Can be. Smaller hail (~3mm) will leave marks on your skin (depending on density/velocity). A baseball (72mm) of ice (~195g) at 11m/s to the head could kill. Very unlikely.

Do not play in hail or thunderstorms.
DEI?

Does this impact internal corporate DEI programs?
One thing I never understood is why colleges themselves fight so hard for affirmative action? Wouldn't admitting the most qualified students, regardless of race, be in their own interest? If they are afraid of the political pushback for having too few Black and Hispanics, doesn't this decision give them cover?
> At this time, we are declining to distribute your game since it’s unclear if the underlying AI tech used to create the assets has sufficient rights to the training data.

This seems like a completely fair response from Valve. On top of that, they gave them notice and an opportunity to remove the offending content (with that content explicitly called out) and offered to refund if that was not a viable option.

If this was an iOS/Android app, they would have just been told to pound sand and swallow the dev fee. Good on Valve for not lapsing communication here.
I just posted another PBS Spacetime video answering another question.

I feel like a quasi-expert on these subjects because of it. lol
Hybrid embedding vectors with Pinecone and Haystack
We don't know for sure yet why the sub imploded. Its still possible that it was due to some design or manufacturing defect no one foresaw, in which case recklessness would not apply. But I agree it most likely imploded due to one of the design defects that Oceangate was warned about and recklessly ignored.
It doesn’t need to, you could put yourself on a risky-behavior list which would result in skipping the search.
For many in America, the race issue is more about who we are as a nation than it is about practical results. We want to identify as abolitionists, who defeated the slaveholders and moved toward "a more perfect union" (a line from the Constitution which Lincoln echoed in relation to the war).

The disagreement is essentially about the best way to achieve equality, which though a nebulous term is accepted as a goal without debate, even though the definition of the term can be widely different, as in this case. The conversatives argue that we can only achieve equality by being colorblind. The progressives argue that we can only achieve equality by consciously addressing inequality.

I see some merit on both sides. I tend to lean toward the conservative view, but I recognize moments in our history where active intervention was both noble and necessary (desegregating schools, for example). The question is whether those actions were special cases or are examples for us to follow going forward.
>*Gravitational waves cause space itself to stretch*

Please ELI5 specifically and empiracally what "Space Itself" actually is.

Would it be possible to build a 'galactic clock & Compass' - a "clock" to the regular pulses of a pulsar and the galactic direction the pulsar is in relation to the terrestrial compass (magnetic) on earth...?

What is the pulsar with the most reliable timings?
> I know I've always wondered if being Hispanic helped me get into college or into jobs, but the flip side is that other people must wonder the same...

What I find amusing is that black college students tend to have a MASSIVE chip on their shoulder about people assuming that affirmative action helped them get in or get a job, but suggest that affirmative action should be eliminated and here comes the rhetoric about how black people will be banned from ever attending college or getting a good job. Affirmative action helps everyone else, but not me! No sir, I was 100% merit-based!
I've seen this chart being passed around, but I'd like to see the numbers comparing 2019 to 2023. I have a feeling the revenue would still be 25%+ higher today than just 4 years ago. They even mention how much more people are spending on vacations compared to 2019.
If it was easier to use, manouver and maintain a horse, your claim would be true.
Thanks for mentioning this. I don't get to do much writing in my time off work, since that time is devoted to (more) coding to try and make my side project into a business. So what I do to compensate is I make an effort and write all commit messages, descriptions, code review comments and documentation as if I were writing for an audience of top engineers auditing my work. I find this approach makes me enjoy the process more, be more deliberate about my actions, and how I communicate them. Even a dull runbook can be beautifully written.
I find it pretty nice for writing simple preprocessors. For example I have one which takes anything between two marker lines and pipes it through a command (one invocation per block). Awk has an amazing pipe operator which lets you do something like this:

... {
print $0 | "command"
}

"command" is executed once, and the pipe is kept open until closed explicitly by close("command"), at which point the next invocation will execute it again. The command string itself acts as a key for the pipe file descriptor.

And of course, no mention of awk is complete without the "uniq" implementation, which beats the coreutils uniq in every way possible (by supporting arbitrary expressions as keys and not requiring sorted input):

!a[$0]++
No it wasn’t. You had a constitutional right to privacy, not to abortion. It was obviously tenuous reasoning at the time, and its shaky footing hasn’t exactly been a secret ever since. Roe should have been codified into law if we really wanted to keep it around long term.
Probably not. Chat GPT is so fucking smart and also so fucking stupid. It just makes the weirdest mistakes and these mistakes are often hard to see or understand. You'll spend far more time debugging ChapGPTs code than it would have been to write it yourself.
Is that true even with a chiplet or north bridge approach? I feel like we’ve seen plenty of examples of CPUs laid out this way. Yeah with a performance penalty but that 192GB of L4 with direct GPU access would go a long way to making that better.
I'd wait for more information before making any assumptions about what Valve is doing here. So often these stories here are lacking context due to only one side trying to paint the situation in a very one-sided light.
How exactly has equality of outcome been "proven to be doomed"? At the aggregate level, at least?
I don't know, I hate them, it was just the only video I actually found when searching for the flight name on YouTube. Personally I actively avoid that feature, closing the "Shorts" shelf on YouTube at any opportunity I see.

I really, really dislike short looping videos, when it starts looping I get irrationally angry and close the window. Instagram Reels is another feature I fucking detest.

I might be showing my age, I don't understand the appeal of TikTok, it just makes me stressed, haha.
Dumb question but why can a gravity wave escape a black hole but not a light wave?
This just creates a moral hazard to not disclose the use of any AI-generated assets, which is something other creative industries have already learnt the hard way.

Recent text-to-image models have improved enough such that it's possible to get realistic, not-Midjourney-dreaminess in the generations with a modicium of effort, so banning obviously-AI-generated images is shortsighted and unsustainable.
> it's been debunked countless times

Change my mind then, and debunk it. Refuting isn't debunking.
It is very much a US thing. I've stayed in AirBNBs in India and the US, and a majority of the AirBNBs I've stayed in the US have a cleaning fee, while none of the ones I stayed in India did.
Organic only content -- here we come.

Not that it bothers me, but I feel oddly validated that appears to be the path taken. It makes sense, even from just purely 'we can't review it all' perspective.
How are you paying for it? Can’t they trace your searches back to you via your payment method?
Exactly, it’s a gig-career injected with a high level of entitlement and disdain for customer.
VRBO is just as bad as AirBNB if not worse. We had a miserable host who showed up with her dog and stayed in the house until we all left, it was absolutely weird. VRBO removed all of our reviews about it.

Also, lots of hotels have rooms with kitchens in them.
How about Firmament?
You have to complete a “chore list” for Airbnb stays now? I thought this was a meme or joke.

Why do people put up with this shit, especially on vacation? Why go on vacation to do chores afterwards? May as well stay home and not have to pay for the experience.
I don't see the logic in singling out the cleaning fee. I guess it's because AirBnB gives us the opportunity by calling it out as a seperate fee. I always look at the total, including fees. That's the only number I care about and that's what I compare to hotels. I think AirBnB would do themselves a favor by incorporating the cleaning fee into the base price and not calling it out separately.

As for the chore list, I may recall a couple annoying ones from years past, but usually it's a non-issue. Though unfortunately I don't think this is something you know until after you book.
Where the center is everywhere and the perimeter nowhere. Or positronium.
The lesson here is that skin in the game isn't really enough. You almost have to be delusional to start a company, so seeing the CEO take on a risk means very little.
Some notes:

- The Forerunner 55 doesn't do SpO2 measurements.

- The 55's battery lasts me about a week, with 4-5 30 minute runs per week.

- The 55 goes on sale occasionally.

- The 55's screen could be much brighter. It's often hard to read the time and date.
> Harvard, and many other colleges, has a big base of "legacy" admissions, as well as a certain amount of generational knowledge and connections - you're more likely to get into Harvard if your parents went to Harvard, over and above mere class status.

Let's explicitly look at how this affected race (instead of leaving it to readers imaginations), since that was the issue the court was asked to consider. The student body of the US Ivy League looked as follows, circa 2019 (international students excluded):

Ivy League US Ratio Mean nationwide SAT score [1]
Jewish 17.2% 2.4% 7.16
Asian 19.6% 5.3% 3.71 1216
White (incl. Jewish) 50.3% 61.5% 0.82 1148
Hispanic 11.4% 17.6% 0.65 1043
Black 7.8% 12.7% 0.61 966
White (non-Jewish) 33.1% 59.1% 0.56 ~1141 (lower bound estimate)

SAT score seems to offer no benefit, up until the magic cutoff somewhere between 1142 and 1216.

The numbers don't sum to 100% because multi-ethnic students, a few minor ethnicities (American-Indian, Pacific Islander..), and students categorized as "unknown" or "other" by the universities were excluded from analysis. Data on university undergraduate demographics was taken from the universities own diversity reports. Jewish representation was gathered from http://hillel.org/college-guide/list/, https://forward.com/jewish-college-guide/, and https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/how-many-jewish-undergraduat..., taking the lowest estimate when sources conflicted. ejewishphilanthropy.com (eJP) points out flaws in Hillel's data gathering (e.g. showing Harvard as 30% Jewish, when eJP found it only 16%) Hillel seems to have since fixed these flaws, as the estimates they now give are in-line with those of eJP.

No correction has been made to look at only the college-age population of the US, or only at the Northeastern US where all the Ivy League universities are located, so that may be a source of some bias.

[1] https://www.ednc.org/eraceing-inequities-the-influence-of-ra...

Edit: Clarified that the SAT scores are nationwide, and not just of the Ivy League students. Thank you to stanford_labrat for bringing it up.
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Not only that, I'm sure most customers PREFER sellers that use Amazon's logistics. I sure do. It's more trustworthy, you know the product exists at an amazon warehouse, faster shipping, etc.
Conversely I wonder what the world would look like if it was illegal for people and businesses to rent out housing.

Imagine a world where every family was allowed to own a single house or apartment only.

All rental properties were owned by the city or whatever other local government, and housing for rental was built to be sustainable and non-profit.

I wonder if more people would be able to buy a house/apartment for themselves and their family in such a world.
There aren't many localities in which AirBnBs are a significant fraction of the real estate market. For example, San Francisco sees 40k tourists/day vs. a population of 800k. That's just 5%, and bear in mind SF is the cultural/tourism center of the SFBA with a population of 8000k. Prohibit short term rentals and convert all the hotels to housing while you're at it and you still won't move the needle much on housing prices.
And it turns out Google can't survive (hardly) without Reddit and Wikipedia, both depending on volunteers.
The cynic in me says it's because this way they can say "we tried" and not actually do anything.

Antitrust lawsuits died the day MS got a slap on the wrist, and we've been paying for it as a society ever since. I really doubt the authenticity of this effort, but I also lack the expertise to judge properly so maybe I shouldn't be so pessimistic.
Valve is quite clear about their reasoning. Since AI models use all kind of sources for their training, they don't want those assets on their platform because they are afraid of copyright claims.
It really is amazing how resilient planes are, I'm pretty hooked on this YouTube series in which a guy gets given a plane that's been sitting in the open for 15 years or so on the condition he can make the thing run again. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5IMg7-HLL1Y4K06HdsDB...
This seems utterly impossible to enforce. You really going to guarantee that your design firm didn't use AI to generate the assets?
Does anyone know of an out-of-the-box solution for measuring regional latency? If not, please somebody make and productize it.

I'd love to know how my sites behave in Frankfurt, Mumbai, SF, Sydney, etc.
I've had the exact opposite experience. I always book from well reviewed hosts and have never had a bad stay.

We always travel with our kids, so multiple attached bedrooms is important, and something you pretty much cannot find in hotels without spending obscene amounts. Most hotels won't even guarantee consecutive rooms, let alone attached.
From the source of the source you quoted:

> Our model of admissions shows that roughly three-quarters of white ALDC admits would have been rejected absent their ALDC status.

So, three-quarters of those individuals didn't earn their place academically.

> Removing preferences for athletes and legacies would significantly alter the racial distribution of admitted students away from whites.

So, the mechanisms in place for academics currently favor white people.

Yes, 70% vs 75% is about the same, but it was helped that way in part because of legacies, and would be much lower otherwise.

Which supports the original comment:

> [legacy admissions] overwhelmingly favor rich and white students.

Maybe the paper itself has more details. I'm only going by the abstract. But unless the abstract is lying, I think it makes sense.
Can the link please be changed to the news source, Reuters? Having to jump through Twitter is getting increasingly annoying.
One question I have is: did it work?

These types of policies have been in place for decades. We have data on inequality between different demographics over time. So can we detect a measurable improvement attributable to the policy?
> After reviewing, we have identified intellectual property in [Game Name Here] which appears to belongs to one or more third parties. In particular, [Game Name Here] contains art assets generated by artificial intelligence that appears to be relying on copyrighted material owned by third parties. As the legal ownership of such AI-generated art is unclear, we cannot ship your game while it contains these AI-generated assets, unless you can affirmatively confirm that you own the rights to all of the IP used in the data set that trained the AI to create the assets in your game.

Valve's worried that AI-generated art is in a murky copyright state, and don't want to open themselves up to being sued.
Interesting. So products that use AI generation as pet of an API, say using a diffusion model to generate different stylings for the walls and textures for a level creator, would fall under this?

Guess it’s time to ask for forgiveness rather than ask for permission and not let Valve know where my art assets are coming from in my web-based API.

If I were making a game I’d just lie and lie at this point.
Its a good question and I don't know if I can answer fully as I am not in your situation.

But I would say Debian is the ideal choice. Yes its a lot of work to switch over, but I'd think they work would be too bad, and its a one time cost. Debian won't do what RedHat did, and you can be sure you'll be able to run it for years.
It avoids having companies (mastercard / visa) as digital currency middleman, taking a cut for every money you move.
This comment section is a frightening wake-up call to how peoples' mindsets are nowadays. I choose to believe that it's over-represented on HN because most people that exercise interest in the topics HN is made for, are the stereotypical liberal types.
Well, it's not like they're The App Store and controlling everything you can install. You can still put AI-assisted software on any machine that can install Steam, they just don't want to deal with the legal implications of hosting the dubiously-generated content themselves.
> it would be a natural conclusion

The counterfactual to that claim is nursing. Nursing is a very good job that has a relatively low barrier of entry yet the field is 88% female. The reason for that might be cultural but the reason is certainly self-selection, not discrimination. However, the difference may, in fact, be genetic (hormonal, more likely).

Nursing is the mirror image of programming. If the gender compositions were reversed, the campaigns for STEM would, instead, be for healthcare.

It may not be useful to look at outcomes to determine if opportunities are equal. It may be harder, but looking at opportunities to determine if opportunities are equal is really the only option.
No, I say you won't get too much by learning LISP.
I was attracted to LISP-related topic by similar arguments;
looking back now, I found those argument at least not true for me.

You WILL get very interesting ideas and concepts, it's fun, basically, that's it.

+ You won't solve problem faster than your colleges with solid competitive programming background;

+ you won't be able to optimize the code and cut 30% of your company's server cost,

+ you won't feel comfortable to read real-world complex project code,

+ you won't get some domain-specific knowledge to solve problems you previously can't solve.

+ .....

It won't make you a better problem solver; at least its impact is way smaller than pick up go/rust/cpp/java and carefully try implement challenge like:
https://github.com/codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x
> space moves faster than light

I think this simply refers to the metric expansion of the universe [1]. While nothing actually travels FTL, the distance between some objects really expands faster than FTL and is not an illusion.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_of_the_universe
I wonder if any of the customers made that a condition of the trip. I wouldn’t trust a guy who won’t ride it with me.
Isn't it mostly Xylitol in chewing gum?
Where do they draw the line? What about DLSS? Doesn't any game using that have "AI generated graphics"? I guess their email wording focused specifically on assets. Does that mean if you don't pre-bake assets in as artifacts, you're fine?