skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a huge loss for privacy. Hopefully individuals will still be able to request their address be removed from the street view index.
> beaten up by culture warriors

The article you linked quoted the President of the Association of Science Educators, a couple of prominent figures from the New Zealand Institute of Physics Education Council, also the Secondary Chemistry Educators New Zealand etc. Where are these “culture warriors” you speak of? The criticism is coming from educators and scientists.
From the article

Like in other countries, it will be possible to opt out of Street View coverage with the option to pixelate your home or business. Google is starting with a blank slate, so anyone who obfuscated their house a decade ago will have to request it once more.
I would argue this is not as much an e-commerce victory but a greed issue by large property owners (large insurance companies etc.).

We see a similar thing here in Switzerland (although less) in city centers like Zürich. There have been too many large multinationals willing to pay insane premiums to have a store on the "Bahnhofstrasse" pushing out all the little stores except the ones that own their own properties. When one of those multinationals leaves or goes under the property is left empty in hopes of finding a new sucker to pay overpriced premiums.

Other areas and even the second largest city in Kanton Zürich don't have these issues.
It's brave to announce this over the summer, a classic time for minor topics dominating public discussion. So far, however, there has been no hysteria, so I guess their communication department knows what they are doing, or got lucky.
Wow, it’s like if Ken Rockwell was a prepper running an electronics e-commerce site. What a wild website.
It mentions in the article they will.
Not only that, the $8 might not be much, but what you get isn't either.

If everyone felt entitled to charge $8 for not much in return that can add up and mean real money even to US-centric people, once they're paying it to 50 different services every month that deliver (and ask) for "nothing".
No, the politicians and the state have just isolated themselves effectively enough from the riots. The riots are the only thing people can do to protest a number of measures, most seriously the changes to the pensions. These riots (and "riots", not all are violent, and I haven't heard at all of these rioters damaging people) don't affect the state much, but they affect regular people plenty. Torched cars. Destroyed shops. Nonfunctioning services.

Police stations are now fortresses, as are most of the government departments. The state has made a definite choice: the hard hand, no help, and absolute priority to their own protection. Normal crime, like theft from stores, what people want the state to work on, is not even prosecuted anymore. You'd have to steal from a big store, in the city center, while an agent is there to have any chance of getting arrested (only youngsters, whom they can arrest indefinitely without evidence and convict even when innocent, ever get persecuted. Of course, the lack of evidence standards in cases against minors raise the question exactly how often these convictions (sorry "protection measures", not convictions) are fabricated. Let's just say the relation between police and youngsters is strained for some reason).

People want this to stop, and so they want more protection of the state. The French state, of course, could be said to have been less than effective in stopping these riots and the destruction. People, including representatives, are just point blank assuming this will help the police to be effective.

That the police is the cause of the riots does not seem to make a big impression. "Do not shoot people moving away from you in the face" is clearly to much for the police to handle. When you ask people "what else would you want people to do?" there are no answers, because especially nobody wants the obvious option: another long-term national strike.

Ironically the state has done nothing but grow. This is the fundamental conflict: everyone has to "save" (especially people who can't), but not the state. With inflation people have to spend ~11% less, effectively. The state has decided their absolutely necessary expenses will not even have to return to pre-pandemic levels.

People want protection, that's why this gets approved. But the state, where they believe to get this protection, is the direct cause of most of the problems people face.
Why are we still adopting small steps that makes our authorities like those in China?
Celebrities get a lot out of these platforms without having to be paid. They get everything that us normies do (because, ultimately, celebrities are people too) PLUS they get all the promotional advantages, a direct feedback loop (which many crave, despite claims to the contrary), etc.

Most celebrities didn't need to be paid to get an email address.
I'll take downvote as a sign you have nothing to say :) Just one warning, bad karma will be hard to fix.
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> If it’s a VPS, you’ve gotta wire it up with Dokku/k3s/etc. If it’s a server, it’s $6-10 per service.

Really? Am I the only one who uses docker swarm and puts multiple services onto a single vps as resources allow?

Anyway, I’m glad to see the free tier go away. It attracts the wrong crowd.
I use GPUs for FP64 (64-bit floating point) compute, and the best AMD GPU right now is still Radeon VII, which was released in 2019. Since then AMD split the GPU business into two lines, CDNA and RDNA, the point being to be able to charge much higher prices for the GPUs that provide good compute (i.e. CDNA).

The RDNA line is targeted at gamers. The reasoning apparently being "let's be careful that these RDNA GPUs are bad enough so they can't really be used for anything else but games; if the user is into compute, they should pay the big money for CDNA GPUs".

This is also reflected into the ROCm situation. ROCm has good support for CDNA GPUs, which is the hardware that is deployed in the huge national-lab GPU projects, where money is not an issue. The problem with that approach? normal people do not have access to CDNA GPUs that cost a multiple of 10000 USD apiece.
OpenWorm – A computational model of C. elegans worm
> Specially when microSDXC cards already come in 256GB sizes.

And they are only useful on some computers and phones.
Cars and measuring equipment are usually limited.
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Of course that's possible, if only to calm the nerves of the public (I don't think there is a legal obligation). However, hardly anyone requested it for Apple's equivalent product.
> Payments

There's really no complexity there. The right to be forgotten doesn't superseed other laws, and it is required by law in most countries, that transaction data be stored for 5 years plus running year, so in case you request to be forgotten, that can only happen once the mandatory data retainment has expired, which can easily be handled by a "transaction date", and simply run a batch job that matches each user to their transactions (and desire to be forgotten), and once transaction are expired and the user has requested to be forgotten, you simply delete.

> Local data cache for offline mode in mobile apps

The right to be forgotten has a "grace period", so set your cache expiration to less than that amount of time and you're pretty much home safe, or better yet, don't cache GDPR sensitive data and you can pretty much cache for as long as you like.
Code was just part of its pretraining. All other GPT-3.5 models are fine-tuned versions of code-davinci-002.

Quote:

1 code-davinci-002 is a base model, so good for pure code-completion tasks

2 text-davinci-002 is an InstructGPT model based on code-davinci-002

3 text-davinci-003 is an improvement on text-davinci-002

4 gpt-3.5-turbo-0301 is an improvement on text-davinci-003, optimized for chat

Quote end.

https://platform.openai.com/docs/model-index-for-researchers

The reason you want a base model for code completion has nothing to do with code itself, it has to do with the fact that it completes text unlike all the instruction tuned models, which expect instructions. When you have code, there aren't necessarily any instructions present. You basically want autocomplete. That's what a base model does. But that doesn't mean it doesn't work with other things apart from code. After all, all other GPT-3.5 models are just code-davinci-002 with additional instruction and RLHF fine-tuning added, and they know countless other subject areas apart from code.

I don't get why this is so hard to understand.
Please, did network effects help Google+ ?
Do you mean that thing that blurs a specific building? I’ve always thought that was a great example of the Streisand effect. It’s not like someone can’t walk/drive there and see it anyway.
What about subscribing to OPML files hosted on URLs ? That way one can follow OPML list "hosts" (like the one on OPs repository) and discover new RSS feeds. I'm quite surprised that this feature do not exists in RSS reader I tried.
Looking at how many "https://url.com//feed.xml" there are in the list, I have a feeling that the scraping logic needs some work. Is it just concatenating "https://url.com/" and "/feed.xml"?
Sounds like they might have overplayed their hand. If it's seriously as bad as not even having a feed, surely people are going to get bored and dump it - that first impression is pretty important right? Signing up is one thing, the migration actively needs usage, though.
I would not be surprised if some of the leaving execs flip to get immunity from wrongdoing.
I don't think so. I think in almost all cases, there's a big difference of going through an entire advanced course on youtube and actually taking the class.

And most of that difference is fighting through the problem sets yourself (in STEM) and actually writing the essays (in the humanities). And feedback loop provided by grading in both cases.

When I learned quantum field theory for the first time, the course had 4 hours of lectures a week. But the problem set for the week took between 8 and 12 hours to solve - as a team (for me, it would have been close to impossible to solve solo, the discussions with peers while working the problem where vital).

I also ended up TA-ing that course the following year, and only after doing that I actually understood the material.

Would it be theoretically possible to learn the material from a youtube lecture and a pirated copy of the textbook? Of course. But I think even the majority of people who already have some formal education in the field would fail to do so.
makes one wonder what the cost of needing bigger / more machines to make up for the slow runtime is though.
https://www.bfoliver.com

Over 1000 posts since 2014, loooaods of movie reviews (mostly pithy short takes to remind me that I actually watched the movie) but some techy stuff which is what people actually seem to read.

I am currently doing a tour of Sheffield via its pork sandwiches.

https://www.bfoliver.com/articles/food

Probably do a pub crawl next.
Endless OS’s privacy-preserving metrics system
Could you back that up? The irony of anyone accepting that Namecheap fell for a "trust me bro" with a source of "trust me bro" is funny, but I'd also like to read more
So their business model is... exactly like twitter blue?
How does a Mouse know when you move it? [video]
Copy Url Generator for Google Sheets
I don’t know about it’s market success, but it’s a great product. We use it for as the frontend for all of the streaming platforms and PLEX as well as running some stuff directly from a NAS and IPTV.

I use them everywhere and have a big pile of chromecasts, satellite boxes, remote controls and Apple tvs now ready for eBay!
I don't get what that means. You mean configuring a shader to render pixels?

How do you think OpenGL/Vulkan works under the hood? It's been a very long time since fixed function pipelines.
Very few people, even in the west, are so privileged that they can spend years of time on full time education with no chance of economic gain.

If the perverse incentives of employers demanding significant amounts of ultimately meaningless education, people wouldn't go to universities. They would just go directly into training for a job (which has been the human norm up until a few decades ago).
As an inexperienced and anxious driver (from a tiny suburban / village area / town), Street View (and its alternatives) are god sent to me.

I up front plan my trip, every twist and turn, especially in densely populated areas. I'm not used to driving in dense urban environments with multi-lane streets, so knowing what's gonna happen, when, and how it's going to look is immensely important to me to keep my anxiety under control.
How would you write a bill to make it hard against this kind of attack?
Ask HN: How did you migrate off Evernote?
After hearing the news I think it’s finally time to move on, or at least backup my data.

There’s a few export options and 3rd party tools. Any have any recommendations?
> what specific efficiencies do you think are causing this

Depends of the place... Improvements in computers & electronics (new TV uses less than half what the old one used 10 y ago), new transportation technologies, better building insulation, diminishing meat consumption... The high energy prices and regulations are two good pushers on that.

> Efficiencies will trigger Jevons' paradox and result in energy use rising

Only when the prices follow the efficiency. Also, this statement has not applied for electricity in the EU for the last 20 years despite plenty of growth https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

Overall, how do you propose to fight climate change in the coming 5 to 10 years?
OpenGL isn't really a 'high abstraction level' API though, that would be a lot more 'declarative'.

Instead it's originally modelled after some mid-80s(?) fixed-function 3D rendering hardware from SGI, which then got incrementally extended in the following decades to support new GPU hardware features, but without any thought put into the overall API design.
This is the current hot button issue in the New Zealand Press.

There's a wealth of hot takes across NZ media - see for yourself.

Journalists are taking quotes out of context, inject all manner of spin for various pre existiing PoV's.

The core material is a leaked DRAFT outlining notions of breaking down pure silos in favor of broader intergrated approaches in PRIMARY school education.

It's not final form, it's not seeking to reject physic | chemisrty, etc.

The most level headed quote on the actual source material would be:

"What we are pushing towards with the current fast draft is more of a holistic approach to how the different science concepts interact with each other rather than a purist, siloed approach."

Buntting said the draft was very high-level, as were curriculum documents for other subjects but it was clear it needed more clarity about where teachers should expect to teach various science concepts.

Education Minister Jan Tinetti said there was no question the final curriculum would include chemistry, physics and biology and other core science topics.

( source: the link I provided above as an example of a relatively sane balanced take )

which should be compared against the various discussions in NZ media and online forums, there is no shortage of extreme takes far removed from the mundane reality.
I hope they also permit restoring addresses to street view as well. Apparently it's permanently removed in the US which is a bane for some who are trying to sell their house or have bought a house that was blurred and want it shown.

https://support.google.com/maps/thread/5010142/i-want-to-unb...

It's a bit of a chilling effect for people who want to blur their house and not affect its value and could even be used nefariously.
The dark side of the H1B visa program [video]
We need to stop doing these pointless studies. Everything is linked to everything, showing it is is a waste of money because (1) we already know and (2) we can't use this info because we don't know what causes what. But people would rather click on these pieces and feel good having their assumptions confirmed that learn and actually improve our society.
For me it depends on the advertising. A brand that sells say bags? It’s fine, I love a cool bag.

And then there is the “Play this one stupid game that has everyone hooked!!!” With an unrelated picture. Or “This guy became a millionaire in ONE day!1!” type of advertising.
I just gave you some.. who knows.
Which are a decade old?
It's also not a good idea. On https://andinfinity.eu/ I have a header for that and it clearly indicates that the rss feed lives at index.html. Standard hugo thing I guess.
> So in a real way AMD is keeping Nvidia at #1.

huh :o) what are your thoughts about intel on this ? it was (and still is ?) the market leader in cpu's and decided to push fpga's for machine learning !

in the hindsight, it seems like a serious misstep.
I agree, so I think Khronos expected the open source community to fill in the gaps
Where's the loss?

Also, what if my neighbor removes my apartment building, but I want it to be on street view?
And who has access to MI300 and MI250 GPUs? I would program for them, but I can't ever get one, or anyone I know can.

How much does one MI300 cost, BTW? Is there a price published? are they available to buy anywhere?
> a lot of these business models don't actually work

It depends on how you define "work". They may not work in the way that the users were led to believe, but often enough someone got rich, and in that sense they do work.
I'm confused by what you mean here by "software-rasterizer" when you are compiling it to run on the GPU. What do you think the graphics driver is doing when you program it with OpenGL? It's doing more or less the same thing under the hood.

I guess you can technically call that software rasterization now that GPUs are very programmable. But it's not how the word is usually used.
Mostly just China encroaching on borders.
This is a exactly a case in point why people decide to pay OpenAI instead of rolling their own. I'm non-technical but have setup an image gen app based custom SD model using diffusers, so not entirely clueless.

But for LLM I have no where idea where to start quickly. Finding a model on a leaderboard, download and setup then customising it and benchmarking is way too much time for me, I'll just pay for GPT4 if ever need to instead of chasing and troubleshooting to get some magical result. It'll be easier in the future I'm sure when an open model merges as the SD1.5 of LLM
This includes cars regurlarly charging at me (yup, with various schemes, from I pass 5 cm from you to I try to kill you outright because nobody is watching), constant harassment wherever I go, some insurance director calling me home at night to insult me, post office person destroying my parcel, townhall person insulting me while getting election pass, and on and on. The frequency of it is: if i leave home, there is 50% chance something happens. Most of the time, a "sentinel" person or two just stares at me without interuption with some various degree of hatred eyes. Sometimes it's worse - though "sentinels" are very violent psychologically actually. Note a person during a strong hatred rush has eyes turn ink black. Entirely ink black with no white.

Fun times.
Make it short and too the point. Single-sentence short.
There are other reasons to protect someones privacy. An office may be doing everything to the book but accidentally shit his pants due to what he had for lunch. Having a video of this circulate in public and being the laughing stock of the town is why we have these laws. With the internet something like this would haunt a person for their entire life.

Everyone deserves the right to privacy and misconduct should be dealt with by the appropriate superiors/agencies and not by public shaming.
Depends what you’re using it for. For many use cases, the censorship is irrelevant.
Didn't work for me and andinfinity.eu, but I'm in the other lists. Any ideas?
I just went unto Threads and I saw quite a bit the sentiment of “I can read stuff again without being limited.” and people asking if so and so had switched.
"Bluesky’s seed round was led by Neo, a community-led firm with partners like Code.org co-founder Ali Partovi and former Twitter PM Suzanne Xie, the company noted in its announcement. Joining the round were various angel investors, including Joe Beda (co-creator of Kubernetes), Bob Young of Red Hat, Amjad Masad of Replit, Amir Shevat, Heather Meeker, Jeromy Johnson, Automattic, Protocol Labs, Sarah Drasner, Katelyn Donnelly, Ali Evans, Stav Erez, Kris Nóva, Brad Fitzpatrick, Abdul Ly, and others."

https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/05/bluesky-announces-its-8m-s...
It’s an hour and 14 minute drive. It’s not unheard of to commute from there, and it’s far more beautiful than any of the closer beaches, so yes the Bay Area rental prices still apply, in addition to beach community rental prices. As far as calling it SF, some people shorten “The San Francisco Bay Area,” which includes San Jose, to “San Francisco,” and people still know what they mean, though I see why it can be confusing.
Don’t collect information and you know you’re not violating it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Seriously though, GDPR compliance isn’t that hard. You just have to get out of the habit of collecting everything.
Yeah, that's up for debate. It's not as clear as you make it out to be. As a (EU) European, Russia is not. The western most part of it maybe, yeah. Same for Turkey.
I'm trying to create a bot that joins my friends Telegram group and melds into the conversation as if it was a real person. A real person might be the most cute and fun enthusiastic person there is but sometimes it has bad days, or it tells inappropriate jokes, right? People are complicated. Not this bot! No matter what prompt I'm using (with the chat API) it won't lose the happy happy joy joy chatGPT attitude, won't tell inappropriate jokes, won't give advice on certain topics and in general won't talk like a real person, not because of technological limitations.. You can feel it when it's just nerfed.

Trying the same prompts that gave nerfed "I am just an AI I can't speculate about the future" bs on completion API gave somewhat better results, but most of the time they were flagged as breaking the guidelines which is a TOS breach if done enough times.

This can be solved other than open models. The same thing happened with stable diffusion. Good thing it's open so you can still use the pre-nerfed 1.6 models.

I know it might be edgy or unpopular but I don't think one entity should decide how we can use this powerful tool. No matter its implications and consequences.

FOS for the win.
Apple already has recent street view of Germany and nobody cared.
Indeed, doing an empty search only returns sets from 1996 and forward. Not even entering set numbers from my childhood (pre -96) return any results.
Did you test this on a Pentium 4, the processor that Linus is talking about?
This is the depressing part about people fighting corporations. The corporations just keep on trying and they always win eventually. Well done Germany for setting them back a decade, though.
> No it won't without buyers

Q: Why would the rest of the world stop making/selling/buying these products just because the US/Canada/EU/UK were to ban them?

We only need to look at the regions that are expanding use of coal .. and even still mining and using asbestos!
Massive wealth inequality bubble bursting from the bottom up?
See above comment to get an idea of what its like in 2023.