skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When drawing, if I only use the mental imagery then I tend to draw blobs of value and symbolic shapes without respecting the true proportions of the object. What I fill in the details with instead are learned contours: motion patterns are easy to train with repetition, and when they are combined with an arrangement of primitive forms, more complex stuff can be described without visualizing it completely at any step.

If you do some contour drawing exercises, you'll notice right away how much you can fill in just by getting a decent silhouette: a lot of systems of figure drawing simply go into more detail with that and aim to codify rules for what lines are necessary.
That’s not true for the New York Times, which makes more money from subscribers than it does from advertisers.
Right but a Turing computer assumes infinite storage space which is itself impossible. You cannot have infinite precision without infinite storage, and all real computers that we colloquially say are Turing complete have finite everything.
It’s funny that “This was as much fun as it looked like,” could be interpreted accurately in either direction, depending on your personal predilections.
Grandboys, an AI Story
Everyone at the conference commented on how much they loved
the taste of the donuts. By lunch, there wasn't a donut to
be found. The test was a success.

The executives at Pinnacle Corporation couldn't believe the
sales figures for their subsidiary Corner Donuts. The pitch
deck by this geeky individual sounded much too technical but
the claimed results left them in awe.

Tim tried his best to make the pitch as non-technical as possible.
He was doing research on animal pheromones trying to understand
how smell could attract mates with certain qualities. The executives
couldn't help but make certain slightly off-color puns but their
intense HR training kept them quite tame.

Tim pointed out that smell and taste were essentially the same
pathway. He had used an AI to optimize molecules for taste. These
new molecules could reproduce in any cell and had succeeded well
in yeast. When added to donuts they were irresistible.

The pitch was horribly technical and essentially worthless but the
executives could clearly see that the donuts, (oh, the donuts!) rather
conclusively proved the point. So Pinnacle authorized a pilot program
for their Patrick's Bread product.

A week later you couldn't find Patrick's Bread anywhere. It was
more popular than toilet paper in a pandemic.

Pinnacle rolled the additive out across their massive product line,
the additive was in hundreds of their product ranging from candy to
deodorent because, oddly enough, the pheromone effect made people
seem to smell good so why not. Their worldwide sales grew so much
they gave away large amount of product to charities just to try to
claim they wanted everyone to enjoy their first taste. It even made
it into the River's Best water.

Within a year the birth rate climbed rather dramatically.

This caused something of a demographic concern so the additive was
also included in Pinnacle's birth control and erectile pills. It
seems nobody "forgot" to take them.

The pheromone effect was very specific. Either you smelled good or
you didn't. The social pressure was immense.

Humanity was getting along with life as usual. The next generation
caused an increase in schools, a huge clothing demand, enormous
amounts of food including donuts.

A couple decades later a new demographic concern arose. It appeared
that the new generation seemed to consist only of boys. There were
some small anomolies but it was soon traced to births by older women
of the previous generation.

Within a year panic ensued. A research report concluded that the new
additive affected the sperm cell. Sperm with a X chromosome had a
cell surface change that kept them from fertilizing the egg. Thus
all resulting children would be male.

It seems AI won.

Tim Daly, public domain license.
The article is pretty light on describing the Cerebrus chips other than saying that they're large and fast. How does being so large make them faster or better?
It’s actually not. I lived in a country that filled out the forms.

I actually had to dig up pay statements, etc to confirm the information. I’m glad I did because my employer made a mistake on a retirement contribution.

So what did it save me? Maybe typing in some numbers, which is probably 5% of the total effort.

The issue is the complexity of the tax code. It would be great if the IRS pre-filled forms, but the forms aren’t going away.

Many people won’t review the dozen or so pages of forms to make sure they’re correct. No doubt that will favor the IRS, not the tax payer.
Did they not do due diligence on the new CEO or what?
In any case Dyson seems to like Bethe quite a bit, and Bethe seems to have rated Oppenheimer highly as a leader at Los Alamos and suggested that was the general opinion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIlNSgAHv5c
"G42, the Abu Dhabi company, started working with Cerebras in 2021. It used a Cerebras system in April to train an Arabic version of ChatGPT."

According to Crunchbase the Abu Dhabi Growth Fund participated in the most recent funding round (2021) [0]. It wouldn't surprise me if they're related.

[0] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/cerebras-systems/com...
> If Debian's principles are free software then obviously their values are incompatible with this license due to the restrictions it imposes.

Restrictions which he clearly has no willingness to actually enforce. So they only serve to make life hard for the decent folks.

> It's not a hard choice for Debian to make - they just put it in non-free with thousands of other packages.

Sure, but that then has other consequences - they can't use it as a dependency in their build system, they have to move downstream stuff into contrib or look for replacement dependencies, ....
There's the argument that usage of drugs like alcohol increase government costs with health and law enforcement. Gaming may make your life more miserable and more sedentary but as you stay at home it generally is a win for government.
Parent and GP are using different definitions of "dollar."

GP is using a strict definition (only dollar-denominated liability of the Fed is a "true" dollar), parent is using a looser definition (a dollar-denominated liability of any bank is a dollar).

If you have a fractional reserve (e.g., a bank has $100M cash backing $100M deposits one day, then loans out $30M the next day), with the strict definition you still have $100M dollars ($70M controlled by the bank, $30M that was loaned out and used to purchase stuff). But with the loose definition you have $130M ($30M is still loaned out, depositors are $70M).

Essentially the depositors have made $100M of (debt) investments in the bank, and those investments are now 70% backed by cash and 30% backed by paper (mortgages or other kinds of IOU's from whoever they loaned the $30M to).
They are entirely different concerns.

What is the false advertising when James Bond uses a Sony?
> While we check the forum regularly, sometimes topics get missed. Unfortunately this thread one slipped by us until today, when someone saw it and flagged it internally.

If it really got missed, then I don't understand how the thread was made private to only logged-in users?
Hipgnosis is probably the archetype for this style. I'm also quite partial to Roger Dean's work from the same period. Most people know him for working with Yes but he also did artwork for a few Budgie albums including "Never Turn Your Back On A Friend" [1] as well as other artists. I also remember thinking that Avatar (2009) had an aesthetic similar to his art for "Fragile" only to discover later that he sued the production [2]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NeverTurnYourBackonaFri...

[2] http://copyright.nova.edu/avatar-lawsuit/
I love this. One of the ideas I've been noodling around in my head is that we can brute force our way through really difficult problems. There are a lot of fricking people on earth. The biggest companies doing research have what, a couple hundred thousand people?

Imagine a 10 million people attempting to solve a single problem. Or a 100 million. Or half a billion people! The one that pops into my mind is climate change. Imagine if we had millions of different experiments going on in parallel and millions of people tinkering on stuff to fix the world.
I think it’s likely the IRS uses some kind of database of US vital statistics (including marriages) as part of efforts to detect tax fraud. Other federal agencies do, eg the State Department’s passport office uses a proprietary database called EVVE of birth and death data. [0]

[0]. https://www.naphsis.org/evve
Laws that are at least somewhat enforced can be good. Laws that are never enforced are counterproductive.
Not everything is a conspiracy. And what is “computation data”?
Leica MPi: a Pi Zero retrofit camera
I'd refer you to the term "lawful evil", but I suspect Wizards of the Coast would sue me.
well good, it is not like IBM was ever involved in the holocaust or something
You know it’s bad when they email you to come back
Southwest Airlines has more flights in a day than Aeroflot but 0 fatalities. I don't think many airlines can compete with Aeroflot when it comes to deaths caused by inebriated pilots
> The craft is not the code, but the product.

These two are not disjoint, but instead quite related.

> Your job is to deliver good product, not good code.

If your job is software engineering, then "good code" is what facilitates "good product." It boils down to maximizing the "abilities":

- Understandability

- Applicability

- Testability

- Maintainability

- Flexibility

- Durability
Also "How to Draw an Owl":

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/how-to-draw-an-owl
> Is 95% an accurate number? What percentage are not native speakers, but have near native fluency?

You are right to wonder about that, but even when we assume every ESL speaker to be fluent enough the proportion only drops to 80%.
Something many people don't know about instant noodles: You don't need to cook them. You can just soak them in cold water until they are done. They just take a little longer (15 minutes). This is great for power outages or for homeless people without ability to cook. It also saves energy.
https://www.siliconmechanics.com/system/rackform-a235.v8.1/2...

This is pretty darn close to the "Gimlet" Compute Sleds

One 225W TDP 64-core AMD Milan CPU
1 TiB of DRAM across 16 DIMMs
12 front-facing hot-swappable PCIe Gen 4 U.2 storage devices
2 internal M.2 devices
2 ports of 100 GbE networking

Point for point, the same hardware as specified.
Technically I don't think that there are any laws that prevent repairs.
Tension Is Rising Around Remote Work
As far as I know, journalists don't have any special protections or rights for taking pictures that raise above the General Public.
You’ve completely side-stepped the question on pedantic word choices - what has the FBI done that could be characterized as “overzealous”? Aside from hypotheticals/slippery slopes that have no basis in reality.

Aside, too, of course, from the obvious answer that any investigation of “my team” is inherently bad and unjust.

It further seems reasonable that “the left” could applaud an investigation into an attempt to overturn a legal, fair election with a coup, while simultaneously not supporting other acts by the same body. I’m unclear why nuance is suddenly impossible, or why motives of people you don’t like are apparently perpetually impure.
How I Use Memory Systems
Is it possible to save the model to an external drive or network path?
Can we use this technology to find a recognizable pattern in any complex blob of data? Is that how this works?

How about, "Given 100000 readings from a person's body/brain, determine whether they are lying". Can we do that?
Similar... I lose about 10%/day when the laptop is asleep. Some flavors of Linux easily transition to hibernate (which has much lower drain) if the laptop is asleep for a while, but I haven't gotten that to work in Fedora.
It’s effectively a branch. It determines some things you can do and can’t so.
That kind of magnitude of compute is more datacenter level. But either way, you're probably better off buying one of the all-in-one tightly integrated solutions from Nvidia or Intel.
You must really hate GPL then
Most Americans came here after slavery ended, so no they’re not. If you can trace the “proceeds” of slavery anywhere, it’s not the pocket of some Polish guy whose parents got here in 1920, or some German American from the Midwest or some Appalachian. It’s to places like Harvard and the banks, insurance companies, etc., that Harvard graduates end up working at.
That's not what they said at all. Most people are not changing marital status or starting businesses every year.

The IRS could send a tax bill for what they do know, with an option to agree that is all you owe and pay, or an option that you will need to file the taxes yourself because they are missing information.

For the vast majority of Americans, option 1 will cover them.
It says it does, but in at least one lawsuit courts have outright said that this language does not apply to copyright holders. Which is explicitly opposed to the FSF's own intent drafting the license, which was to prohibit copyright owners from calling their license "GPL plus (insert nonfree clause here)"
I think it's pretty funny that the lawyer suspects some of their clients are probably evil and his response is just to try to fix the clause so that evil is allowed.

Rather than trying to find a job that doesn't involve evil.
For what it’s worth, I left Fly because of this crap. At first my Fly machine web app had intermittent connection issues to a new production PG machine. Then my PG machine died. Hard. I lost all data. A restart didn’t work - it could not recover. I restored an older backup over at RDS and couldn’t be happier I left.
Researchers unveil advancement in multilingual text generation
FedNow is a push-only system. It cannot be used to pull a debit, only to push a credit.
Without meaningful discussion of energy saving (flops per watt compared to Nvidia), this article is just an ad.
There's nobody to talk to. People used to write long letters to each other, consider them deeply, and reply thoroughly.

If you could find a small band of people to talk to, and force all communication to be through hand written notes, I think you'd have something.

As it is, nobody wants to think deeply about anyone else's problem - they want a quick answer that aligns with the correct one that's in the book.

Finding the exact group of people who are amateurs at a similar level who can grow in some subject together sounds great, but I think we'll find this when we get an AI that you can get good answers out of and can send it clippings from a book or newspaper and it will correctly understand the same way a good teacher would.
That isn't what the FTC is saying, at all.

It isn't saying that they can't do that, just that if they do they most disclose that they received compensation.

Sounds immanently reasonable to me.
By that I mean to use the now-20-year-old 'ssh-add -c' flag. It'd seem practically no one is aware that an ssh agent does NOT have to silently and automatically sign just any and every auth request, given just how frequently I see people decrying "No! If you forward your agent that means a remote host has full access to everything in your agent! Never forward your agent ever! No buts!"

With the '-c' flag, if a remote host tries to use my agent, I get a graphical dialog on my local machine asking me if I want to let my agent do it. If I'm not expecting the dialog, I can just say no, and now I know the remote is compromised.

Actually, I go a step further. Because it is possible to accidentally accept a signing request by pressing the enter key that I meant to press for sth else, I make my agent require a passphrase on every use, not just a yes/no dialog.

In checking my machines for this CVE, I discovered my agent has yet another layer of security built-in. I use gpg-agent, relying on its famed security posture. Turns out, when forwarded, gpg-agent supports nothing except signing. It does not support adding keys from a remote, let alone fancy operations like loading a PKCS11 provider chosen by a remote.

----

Securing a forwarded agent has nothing to do with whether there are openly exposed services on a remote system. The remote system could have malicious code that entered it not necessarily through an exposed service. A compromised npm package in the supply chain, for instance, is sufficient. It doesn't matter how it got there. What matters is: when it does, can it abuse a forwarded agent. Hence the '-c' flag to ssh-add.
Just like my German grandmother.
Cuneiform signs can be employed in three functions: syllabograms, Akkadograms or Sumerograms. Syllabograms are characters that represent a syllable. Akkadograms and Sumerograms are ideograms originally from the earlier Akkadian or Sumerian orthography respectively, but not intended to be pronounced as in the original language; Sumerograms are mostly ideograms and determiners. ... Thus, the sign GI 𒄀 can be used (and transcribed) in three ways, as the Hittite syllable gi (also ge); in the Akkadian spelling QÈ-RU-UB of the preposition "near" as QÈ, and as the Sumerian ideogram GI for "tube" also in superscript, GI, when used as a determiner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hittite_cuneiform
@dang - flamebait alert.
This is a non-sequitur because the governments resolve millions to billions of disputes every day without violence as well.
AI is fundamentally about redistributing the content it trains on.
I've heard it said that "English is an easy language to speak badly and still be understood". Most Europe, even the French, muddle through in a sort of ESL because it's the most common intermediate language.

If you're Dutch, you're not going to learn Italian just to holiday in Rome.
I don’t know anything about shaders, so forgive the question.

My understanding from looking at the worksheet is the person who created the target image has created three separate formulas (depending on the area of the image), that when you feed in the X and the Y coordinates, it spits out the correct RGB value for that pixel. Is that correct? That’s wild.
1040EZ did not allow claiming dependents, and had an income limit of 100k. So many people were ineligible to use it.
> I'm ESL and it's no big deal.

Not everyone would be learning English as a second language. In many parts of the world you may need to know some regional language in addition to your native one, so English would be your third, not second language.
There isn't even a law preventing direct military usage of that library as far as I understand, because they're not violating copyright law by just downloading something, which by the way is hosted using federal funds. But the absurdity of high energy physics / national nuclear research labs saying you can't use the software for military applications, and then this mainly comes up in civilian applications with nervous lawyers? Yeah it's missing the point more than you seem to be implying.
Upcharging banks aren't the only option, you can use a non-profit credit union.
If you do this with dry pasta and then add it to hot sauce to warm it, it tastes a lot better than boiling. Usually takes about 2 hours but it’s worth it.
Federated.

User friendly.

Pick one.

Federation is mistake. IRC is dead, Usenet is dead, email SHOULD be dead.

Federation sucks and causes no end of issues.
Why people love sharing their locations, despite the risks
That is not how things work in the US with banks and loans, they (banks) do actually create "money out of thin air" when they make loans:

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/022416/why-b...

Read the section under the heading: "How Banks Make Loans in the Real World".
> Your post is content-free, and it says much about the value of your thoughts.

It's hard for me to get behind the logic of someone who opens their response with a direct personal attack. I stopped reading as soon as you started making abusive comments (the very first sentence). I didn't deserve to be told that my thoughts are without merit, and when you resorted to saying so it really did tell more about you than it ever could me.
With something like this, the apparent motive is more likely to signal to other people his views on the military, more so than actually preventing them from using the software.
It'll also silently send all your credit card information to the mafia if you compile it with the wrong version of GCC.

How do you know which is the wrong version of GCC? That's the neat part, you don't.
It's already too late.
Artic and seabed methane, slowing global heat exchanges, and growing populations in areas of the world where electrification is structurally more difficult to implement due to geography and weather (both current and projected) mean we're headed "over the cliff" regardless.

Contemporary geopolitics makes a lot more sense when you realize that we're fighting about which groups dies from climate change, not IF some are going to.

The major threat as outlined by the UN is "de-complexification" (IE, society collapse) as a result of mass climate migration and conflict over limited/reduced resources.

There are no realistic pathways to prevent this situation now. It is already kicking off and will be fully underway within 20 short years.

The worst case scenario is we stretch ourselves too thin trying to manage everyone that we don't have enough excess to embark on emergency geo-engineering projects.

There was a disgraced Finnish MP who let the mask slip and suggested that the richer nations conduct a "Climate Abortion" on equatorial populations to prevent this scenario.
Ghoulish, but understandable in the face of existential threat.

Personally I'm foolishly hoping fusion becomes viable and changes some of the structural calculations underlying the projections. The difference it would make in desalination alone would go a long way.
Doesn't this seem a bit "low stakes" to want more disclosures about? I view it in the same light as say someone who posts makeup reviews or video game reviews on YouTube- often it isn't their primary source of income, and the item value (<$100) seems notional. Maybe it can be treated as more of a deal if a company were to attach stipulations or keywords for the reviewer to mention, at which point it should be treated as a partnership rather than a less-than-impartial review. I subscribe to independent creators on Patreon because bias is nearly impossible to avoid when there's a quid pro quo of getting a stream of free things from companies.
Here's one thing I don't get.

Why all the rigamarole of hoping you get a valid response, adding last-mile validators to detect invalid responses, trying to beg the model to pretty please give me the syntax I'm asking for...

...when you can guarantee a valid JSON syntax by only sampling tokens that are valid? Instead of greedily picking the highest-scoring token every time, you select the highest-scoring token that conforms to the requested format.

This is what Guidance does already, also from Microsoft: https://github.com/microsoft/guidance

But OpenAI apparently does not expose the full scores of all tokens, it only exposes the highest-scoring token. Which is so odd, because if you run models locally, using Guidance is trivial, and you can guarantee your json is correct every time. It's faster to generate, too!