skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unintentional collateral death in the pursuit of preventing much bigger tragedies is in no way comparable to an intentional conquest and indiscriminate bombing of civilian targets. Not to mention the direct molestations and mutilations that the author has extensively documented. And of course the many attempted cover ups (culminating in the attempted assassination).

The moral equivocating is absolutely despicable.

Has the US killed children? yes! Was that ever the stated or unstated goal? Never.
Could anyone explain how this can be constructed as a private solution?

I'm not familiar with Azure platform.

Is the inference processed on private instance ?
I can't imagine how it could be feasible given the hardware required to run gpt3.5/4.

So the best case scenario is:

1. A web ui runs on a private instances. So any user input (chat or files) are only seen by these instances
2. Any chat historisation or RAG is also done on these instances too.
3. Embeddings compuation may possibly be done on the private instance
4. The embeddings are then sent to the Microsoft GPU farm for inference.

So at one point my data has to leave my private network.

The problem is that the data can easily be retro-engineered from the embeddings.

How can this be presented as a private LLM ?
Perhaps respect.

e.g. I very much prefer to remember him for Debian.
> isn't necessarily irrational

I used to say this to justify buying 20 tickets twice a week.

It's not irrational I can afford it, right? And the purchase gives me the psychological reward of dreaming about a big win.

But then after every draw I'd check my numbers and suffer a twinge of buyer's remorse. For me, that (small) regret more than offset any positive psychological benefit. It was a minor addiction that did more harm than good.

So now I've cured my addiction by turning Buyers Remorse into whatever the opposite of that is.

I have a cron job that generates 20 picks twice a week before each Mega Millions (US) draw.

I never buy these numbers -- the script just saves them in a Google Doc so there's evidence of the numbers and the timestamp when they were chosen.

Then after the draw, it checks them against the winning numbers, and emails me the results.

Now twice a week I get the (small) psychological benefit of realizing I didn't waste $40.

Maybe the opposite of Buyers Remorse is "Decliners Delight".
I'm the author. What a weird surprise to see it at 4 am on Hacker News.

If you play bridge on BBO you might be interested in my BBO Helper browser extension. It's popular with strong players and streamers (yes, there are bridge streamers!), but there is functionality to benefit players of all levels.

https://lajollabridge.com/Software/BBO-Helper/

The last evening bridge game at the Soledad Club was held April 7, 2016 about a year after I wrote the referenced article, when it hit the five table break even point.

The pandemic was hard on bridge. About half of the ACBL members made the transition to online play, primarily BBO. This looks like a sea change. Players are returning to f2f play but the ACBL lists only 1,855 bridge clubs today; there were 2,721 in 2019, a decline of 32%. Players are also returning to the tournaments but table counts are only 50–80% of pre-pandemic. Matt Baylow has been carefully tracking the situation:

https://medcitybridge.com/R_other%20pages/work/F2F%20VACB%20...
https://medcitybridge.com/R_other%20pages/work/F2F%20Updates...

I've run many of the smaller (sectional) tournaments and thus know the many fixed expenses. Even a 20% decline in table count will affect the viability, choice of venue, or card fees. The bigger tournaments (regionals and nationals) depend on room night guarantees made to the host hotel in exchange for using their convention space; I'm not sure how that is shaking out.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230816143054/https://wiki.debi...
GitHub Paid Out $1.5M for 364 Bug Bounties in 2022
>Although the cameras use AI to detect potential offences, all images are reviewed by a person, said Devon and Cornwall Police.

if this is true I really don't see a problem necessarily. AI is just being used as a tool not a decision maker, so long as humans are good about filtering out false positives. which for something as dangerous as driving I'm all for
Reading this could make people believe it is computed from the probability distribution of the model alone.

To be clearer, it is the exponent of the average negative log probability that the model gives to the real tokens of a sample text[0]. Roughly, it relates to how strongly the model can predict the sample text. A perfect model would have perplexity one; a random model has a perplexity equal to the number of possible tokens; the worst model has infinite perplexity.

[0]: https://github.com/pytorch/torcheval/blob/3faf19c060b8a7c074...
Important:

"Critics said the results of the pay study could give a false impression. Company officials acknowledged that it did not address whether women were hired at a lower pay grade than men with similar qualifications."
Anything that goes in my body I am hesitant to buy from Amazon. Hopeful cautiousness is my take.
I know the whole ‘break the law and you might get caught’ type thing but this is dystopian.
Chocolate (Theobromine), Coffee (caffeine) and Candies (Xylitol) can kill a dog [0]. That doesn't indicate that they are bad for humans, so I would be careful to draw conclusions. It is called "canary in the coal mine" because birds are extremely sensitive to gases, luckily we aren't.

[0] https://www.webmd.com/pets/dogs/ss/slideshow-foods-your-dog-...
Sometimes just visibility works. A very senior engineer once told me "screw up enough to get noticed but not kill anybody."
Ouch!

What I find funny about it is that Breath of the Wild is a story-based game and competes with a movie or a book in a certain respect, but that DDG has no plot (though you could apply the "scene analysis" from the Meisner school to a situation like that.)

For a game like "Breath of the Wild" one is left wondering if you could patent a trope in a movie, as opposed to depending on this kind of IP law

https://theipcenter.com/2019/03/copyright-cartoon-images/

but DDR is something entirely different.
Now that you mention it, aren't there superconductors that work at only liquid nitrogen temperatures?
Web components are a decade old, what do you think has changed or will change to make them more popular than frameworks?

I think unless there are massive improvements to the developer experience the best hope for web components is as an implementation detail for a higher-level framework.
In your friend's case he increased his odds by 0. New ticket means a new game probably, so any prior winnings does not factor in the next game. He did increase his odds of losing everything significantly!

The rational thing to do is not play again. I'm sure someone can model this with game theory or probability math for us.
Ask HN: If we train an LLM with “data” instead of “language” tokens
Is it just traditional ML?

Traditional ML would do a lot of feature extraction and engineering -- from a very specific problem space --before throwing the training compute at it. I think there are good pattern detection, prediction, and anomaly detection models that come out of this.

What happens if we just scrape all data (say metrics like weather, flights, population stats, gps locations, web pages clicks, deep space network observations, and kindergarten grades) and if it were possible to build a model with enough weights for all this diverse data ...

What kind of use case might such a ... Large DATA model ...open up?
At this point it has gotten bad enough that I won't even view twitter links. It is ethically corrupt to give them views/money, and dangerous. Threads is a reasonable replacement if you need the fix.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

― C. S. Lewis

[My own thoughts, I feel are less effective and eloquent than Lewis'. I often feel that the expectations and rules of society don't make a lot of sense. Except for the extremely obvious, which frequently don't have explicitly stated expectations or rules due to being so obvious. My conclusion is that nobody else really gets it either; it's just that everyone else adjusts to this better than me. As we find ways to encode these nonsense rules into silicon and then aim it at everyone all the time, the end result will not be good for anyone.]
It makes alot less sense now with SSD's being as fast as they are largely llimiting how long a loading screen will be.
When should the education system have taught me visibility and self-promotion?

My elementary, middle, and high schools did not teach me visibility and self-promotion. My university did not either.
If they pay market value for the land, then how is it stealing?

If I am going through a divorce and I dump my stock in a company to raise cash to pay my ex, is the buyer stealing from me? Even in the loose sense of the word?

Should we paternalistically prevent people from selling because they are desperate and we view the sale price as not enough, despite them wanting to sell?
Stupid title, but the article is a modestly interesting look at two most common neutral colours used in Disney theme parks.
Entirely dependent on the company. The best people at the places I’ve worked have also become the people who everyone goes to for answers.

It becomes clear that everyone understands their impact. If a non-technical person gets something that works they don’t have any way to know if it’s better or worse than anybody else’s work though.
Assigning an ID to every single element means never encountering a problem? I imagine that results in everything being a special case, much of the point of CSS missed, and in this special case Tailwind might even work as it's consistent with everything being a mess.
Great games, maybe. Repetitive use of same IP over 30+ years, 100%. Its like Fast N Furious or other movie franchises that just publish a slightly different version on some cadence. If you really like it, then yes those would be great games for you.

I recently fired up the original NES Zelda game and it was fun. I also got a switch and BoTW and the original is more fun. There is so much filler and repetitive game mechanics that don't add to the game at all in BoTW. Game companies keep adding stuff to lengthen game play loops and this ends up in tedious, repetitive gaming sessions which after some point I don't find enjoyable.

Its art though so to each their own and in my opinion you shouldn't be allowed to patent art.
It can do a lot more than just changing the value written in a button.
I'd say that the hype is more centered around the fact that it helps you to do much more interactive and SPA-like websites without needing a full JS framework and on your favourite server stack, which is honestly really cool.
No need for that, they will just prosecute when it's politically convenient
One definition of a dystopian society is a society where you cannot make mistakes. The good news is that every time one of these automated systems is implemented, too many politicians get caught and the laws get changed.
And of course politics as well ...
"should" is often the enemy of "speed" even when it's the _correct_ way to build a system. I think most of us here have experienced that at businesses of varying sizes.
> but there is no path to success for conservative ideology on this issue (either through votes or economics).

This is perhaps why there has been a big motivation for conservative politicians to use (or look the other way from) anti-democratic means to maintain power.

Even more than the claimed small-government ideology, there is such an incredibly strong allegiance with the fossil fuel extraction industries [1] that artificially propping those industries is worth the subversion of democracy. There are models of this elsewhere in the world, after all.

1. Liberals once had that too, but lost the fossil fuel geography after the 60s. Manchin is the last of his kind.
Show HN: Meme Creator – Create Memes with AI
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Often with Gify and other meme creation apps they have thousands of memes but none of them work for conveying what you actually want to say.

This is where Meme Creator shines using generative text to provide a meme that always makes sense, with added prompting as an example: "Create a best I can do meme about Californians moving to Texas" you can create a meme that depicts exactly what you are trying to say, and with some of the newest and freshest memes out there.

Click the copy button and easily use this on Twitter (X), discord, or your preferred chatting app.

Implemented with function calling for structured JSON objects, Gpt-4-0613 for intelligent meme creation and gpt-3.5-turbo-0613 for fast response text.

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Sure, but perhaps there need to be more regulations on who gets that cheap water.

I'm fine with American taxpayers subsidizing water so that American food is cheaper for Americans.

I'm less fine with American taxpayers subsidizing Saudi Arabian food.

Perhaps any water used to grow something that is exported could be priced at market value, while water pricing for products consumed domestically can remain the same.
30 days of re-education for you comrade!
From the article:

> The force, which is trialling the system, said if an offence has been correctly identified, the driver would either be sent a warning letter or a notice of intended prosecution, depending on the severity of the offence.

This is after human review.
What the Heck Happened in 2012?
> You can use Stable Diffusion.

Yes, and as I've already told you, it doesn't work in Stable Diffusion, or at least I haven't seen any examples. Don't repeat this point again, show me an example.

> The body will be similar to petite people or similar to lolicon content traslated into "real life", it's not a far guess by the model.

Really? Show me an example. Don't just claim it, show me some place where this worked. You've mentioned fine-tuning a model with your face. Fine-tune a child model with your face and show me that it outputs something roughly adult-like. Or do the opposite and fine-tune an adult model with a child face and show me the model generates a small person. Show me that it's true, don't just claim it to be.
Well obviously you should know better than to listen to what people say on Twitter, since it's dead.
>The logic here really doesn’t follow. Like even remotely. If the topic isn’t interesting then your comment is even less so.

Not pointing out a problem means I implicitly accept them as not problems. I find the aforementioned to be problems, so I will point them out whether nicely or otherwise.
They just finished constructing a brand new office building in Redwood City - with big glass windows, fitness center, all the bells and whistles.

It’s been almost entirely empty. I know it’s empty because those big glass windows stare directly into my living room.

I believe CZI also leases a lot of space in the other shiny new(ish) office building in downtown RWC.

Regardless of employee productivity they’re spending a lot on real estate at least.
Oh I thought this was a quick guide to host it on any server (AWS / other clouds) of our choosing.
You're misinterpreting the comment, almost certainly. The claim is more specifically: "Per given amount of energy generation, renewables are requiring employing more people, likely causing higher energy costs than other methods might"

I'm just observing here. Obviously, there's tradeoffs to consider. I don't personally have a stance that this is a problem or that there's currently a better way to make our energy production green.
“Maybe you do not care much about the future of the Republican Party. You should. Conservatives will always be with us. If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. The will reject democracy." ― David Frum

Liberals ("neolibs") fucked up bad by taking the working class for granted and letting globalization erode them [1] [2] [3], very similar to what is happening with conservative fossil fuel electorate today. Maybe things have gotten bad enough for that cohort to be catered to again [4], maybe things need to get worse first.

[1] https://kof.ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/kof-bulletin/kof-bull...

[2] https://www.npr.org/2017/07/05/535626109/the-end-of-loyalty-...

[3] https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/12/09/459087477...

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCyZHB7NdPE
IMHO the current bottleneck is driven by the partial overlap between the gaming GPU market and machine learning needs. The expensive things that are needed by both (i.e. parallel calculations) are included in all cards, but expensive things that aren't needed by games (i.e. memory bandwidth) become a bottleneck unless you use expensive ML-specific niche hardware instead of consumer (gamer) GPUs.
Isn’t this capitalism working as expected?
‘A boss, a laborer, and a loud laborer are sitting at a table with 20 cookies.

‘The boss takes 19 cookies and warns the laborer: “Watch out, the loud laborer is going to take your cookie away.”’
From my experience (mostly startups), real time analytics is generally overkill, esp. from a BI perspective. Unless your business is very focused on real time data and transactional processing, you can generally get away with ETL/batch jobs. Show executives, product, and downstream teams some metrics that update a few times per day saves a ton of money over things like Snowflake/Databricks/Redshift stuff. While cloud services can be pricey, tools like dbt are really useful and can be administered by savvy business people or analyst types. Those candidates are way easier to hire compared to data engineers, sql experts, etc.
SM Study Reveals 52 Doctors Spread Covid-19 Misinformation to Millions in US
I find your idea attractive, but centrally planning agriculture has a hideous track record. Market forces have made a mess too, but in the form of destroying public resources like aquifers, soil, and the climate. Both lead to famine, just on different timelines. "We can do better" makes me think of the weight loss new years resolutions people make. We won't do better, because we haven't changed. The failure isn't a lack of knowledge, but human nature.

I agree that if we are to centrally plan it, we'd want to have things like roots, leaves, and the most sustainable animal proteins we can find. Eggs are great, but allergies are relatively common. Milk is the same. Farmed fish can be done well, but that also has allergies among those who also have shellfish allergies. Plant proteins work well for people who don't have legume allergies, but they aren't that sustainable for rice or soy. Pea is ok... maybe just egg chickens and the old hens go to those allergic to eggs?
I'm not too worried about this kind of surveillance.

What we're seeing here is surveillance of a public area, used for a clear goal, which is proportional (because texting while driving is insane) and is reviewed by humans, and has clear avenues for escalation when it makes a mistake.

The scary parts are the parts that such a system is capable of, but which are not made public. For one the article doesn't mention whether the data is used for anything else or if it is ever deleted. It's also not clear if there are plans to use it for less serious offences, or if the human review is going to be removed at some point.
Yknow… I’ve never been thankful for my congressperson’s DUIs before.
> Tangentially, the correct way to present nifty tips like this is NOT in a "tour of new features" wizard spammed at the user when they're opening your app to try and get something important done.

My favorite is when this happens in a tool I’ve used for years just because I have a new account flag, like signing into Slack at a new job.

Bonus points if it’s completely unskippable or keeps happening as you touch each part of the app during use.
If it's just used for prosecuting things like the photo in the article and there's human review, I don't think I have a problem. This is a long way from instant Demolition Man-style tickets.
Current LLMs seem to struggle with tabular data but there's got to be some answer.

I worked for a startup a while ago that was working on foundation models for tabular data but it was looking at the header and the cell of a csv file to assign some semantics to an individual cell. It competed with more traditional profiling tools that looked at columns as a whole. With that system we'd sometimes treat tabular data using ordinary ML algorithms from scikit-learn.
I read the other day something that made a lot of sense, which was along the lines that "people making the real decisions about salaries and promotions are managers, so it explains why highly aligned 'managerial' types get the best benefits".

It's huge flaw in the system, but not sure how to fix.
I'm surprised by the early reactions here. Looking at the picture in the article, of a driver texting while the passenger holds the wheel (!!!), my first reaction is "OH YES PLEASE GET THESE INCREDIBLY IRRESPONSIBLE PEOPLE OFF THE STREETS ASAP".

I don't want to die because some idiot is texting while driving. Whether these idiots are caught by a human looking attentively 24/7 or by a high-speed camera with an AI flagging possible violations and being reviewed by a human makes zero difference to me.

What exactly is wrong or dystopian here? AI bad? Cameras bad?
I wouldn't call "requiring drivers to not be using mobile phones" a "tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims". It's for the good of everyone else on the road, and, in the case of seatbelts, for the good of the rest of society that needs to deal with the burden of caring for unnecessary injuries due to failing to take such a basic precaution.
Needless pedanticism.
Hopefully this catches up. It's scary how normalized traffic violence and risking other's life is in our society. If there is one place where AI based automatic enforcement could instantly make life better it's traffic laws enforcement. I am looking for the day I can drive at a speed limit and not be a target of aggressive maniacs tailgating and dangerously overataking me or one I can go for a bike ride and not be game for speeding reckless drivers.

All this talk about scary surveillance and what not coming from people who offer no solutions for a huge problem at hand. Let's use the technology so the laws put there to protect lives are actually respected.
This is an awesome manager style imo. Figure out how to promote your employees within the system that exists and make them aware of what they need to do as well politically. Many managers dont even do that. They just kind of let the employees flounder.
So we have "quiet quitters", and "loud laborers". But how would we call a boss who pays each month exactly the salary that is agreed upon in the working contract and nothing extra?

A "cheap chief" :)
No color codes are shared, as the colors are obviously proprietary

#9eaa8c and #b2d6f1
> It's like these morons think people live to work.

Because they do. So many of these anti-antiwork advocates lead shallow and unfulfilling lives that they have to defend the institution of working and grinding as much as one can to give their lives some meaning. At least, that's what I choose to believe, because the alternative is they know this is all complete bullshit and still peddle it, in which case my opinion on them is rather NSFL.