skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the natural consequence of Citizen United (such a dishonest name). When those with money is allowed to leverage their wealth to disproportionately affect legal proceedings and lawmaking, it is just a step towards dystopia.
Buy an e-GMP vehicle (Hyundai Ioniq 5/6, Kia EV6, or Genesis GV-60) and disable telematics from the hidden engineering menu. If you choose an EV6 and buy the car new in Massachusetts, this will already have been done for you, because Kia is throwing a tantrum over the state's right-to-repair law.
The data extracted is both reliable and probative. This is a copy and paste.

Debatable.

https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-vulnerabilities/
Australia’s internet providers are ditching free email accounts
> Military use involves completely different economics, but for related reasons the anticipated greater fuel efficiency is rarely a big deal for the military.

Utterly false. Greater fuel efficiency means greater range or less fuel needed for the same range and payload, and you'd better believe that is not nothing to military planners. I can say that because I used to be one. Every drop of fuel burned in theater in a war has to get there somehow. And until it's loaded on a jet and used, it's vulnerable to being targeted either in transit or at rest, and has to be protected. And pre-war, the more gas you're going to burn to accomplish a given task, the more facilities and infrastructure have to be in place at your potential bases to hold it, meaning more access agreements with foreign countries and/or construction contracts having to be paid for in those countries to build said facilities. And you have less ability to use smaller or more austere facilities, limiting your ability to disperse the force and complicate enemy targeting.
I used to enjoy LOGO when I was a kid. Used Microworlds EX to make games. Shame it has fallen out of favor as an educational tool. Taught me a lot about scripting and paying attention to syntax.
Even if this was about the OP finding a man acting an offensive caricature of women to be rather distasteful, rather than commentary on a terrible marketing campaign, it isn't "hate toward someone for simply existing". Less hyperbole, please.
How is ballistics forensics unreliable? Genuinely curious, I’ve never heard that.
It’s clearly about both. Don’t forget people post under different circumstances and may not have enough time or focus for quality highlights. Also, demanding curation barely motivates anyone. Just add what you think is missing.
> UB is inevitable

There's a huge difference between UB (as in C/C++) and nondeterminism, so I don't accept this assertion. UB in C gives no semantics to executions containing it; it is neither spatially nor temporally contained. No other programming language has such a ridiculous and program- and programmer-hostile concept. And for good reason. It makes reasoning about buggy programs a non-starter. And all programs have bugs. We debug them by analyzing their runtime behavior! Crashing immediately upon a bug, exactly the same way on every machine, is the absolute best way to find and fix bugs that cannot be caught statically.
That looks cool, but wouldn't such an airplane have huge drag due to the wing having to be so thick to accommodate the passengers?
OMG. I have crohn's disease and walking into a library gives me the urge to go, consistently.
You can buy it, but you can't afford it.
This was brought up in an old thread about windy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15095654
Have you seen the adult version? It's called NetLOGO and comes in both 2D and 3D forms. It is used for multi-agent modeling, which makes it ideal for things like the flocking algorithm that has multiple points all doing their own things based on a small set of rules.

https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/index.shtml
Ask any software tester: “if I can’t get to that screen element, how is a screen reader supposed to?”
Surely You’re a Creep, Mr. Feynman (2019)
Interesting! I’ve been here 15 yrs and never knew that!
Shows how subjective it is - from my Boston/DC perspective, CA drivers are ridiculously diffident
Envs are not process secure. Files are. Ram disks exists.
IME, SD 1.5 base model, IIRC (I don’t use the base model much) works tolerably well with the larger dimension at 512 and the smaller dimension between 384-512, and quite a lot of SD 1.5 based checkpoints work pretty well up to a larger dimension of 768 (some with smaller dimension up to that, too.)

But SD also has hard requirement that the output dimensions be divisible by 8 (I believe as a consequence of the pixel space to latent space ratio being 8:1 in each dimension) so its not surprising that 544x544 fails hard.
I'm surprised the issue seems to be training on copyrighted material, that seems perfectly legal. I'm more interested in the ability of these models to violate copyright by reproducing it. How much of a book is Llama2 allowed to generate before it's an issue?
It's your expert witnesses versus the state's, and the state can always outspend you. Judges and juries are going to default to trusting them, as well.
I will need to check it out
That’s not what I was asking.
Your algorithm is dependent on both n and the existence of a solution so as do right now it isn’t guaranteed to actually have some constant c that works for all n.

More pedantically, it’s possible for a polynomial solution to P=NP to exist without it running in polynomial time in python. So no there’s doesn’t necessarily exist a c that works for all n even if there exists a polynomial solution to P=NP.
This online survey from UWMadison came up the other day, which estimates where you sit on the bell curve in terms of internal verbalisation.

https://uwmadison.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3NMm9yyFsNio...
Thank-you. The more complete story was linked at the bottom:

https://archive.md/0m1rq

Both excerpted from Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall by Zeke Faux.
So what is the value of the "proof of universality"? I'm a bit confused as to what the value pitch is when compared to xxhash3, for example, which runs ~twice as fast and has a large user base (it's used when hashing in dotnet now).

From a dev perspective though, it seems very nice. Short and clean code with decent comments. Although I'm struggling to understand what `polymur_hash_poly611` is doing.
For a contrary view, Google for Edmund Wilson's essay, "Oh, Those Awful Orcs".
Defense attorney here. Client of Cellebrite. Look, it’s the gold standard in smartphone processing. What would anyone want to taint something that works well. For BOTH sides. Don’t assume a tool always favors one side. The data is the data. A tool reveals it. Don’t want it found? Don’t use an easily processable app…
It’s not better. It costs 30 minutes. $1 is a way better value.
What I like about this approach is that it maps well to different teams. The ops team can own the bottom 3 and product teams can own the top 3.
Awesome concept and game idea Matt. Would be interesting to maybe add a simple 'stroke count' idea and add to scoring. I know -0zero- about painting but it might drive players to be closer to how IRL painters paint.

Anyone know many strokes it takes an average artist to get to completion? [sorry joke had to be made but really curious about answer as well].

This already gave me a better feel about what painters do, and I'm blind in the mind.

Comments about trolling the scoring algorithm seemed a little silly to me, if you folks want max score just run some sort of soft-ICE, scan the sandboxed mem and change it ;) This is a really cool idea and I love it.
Chain of custody matters and if there's an untrustworthy link in that chain it calls into question the validity of the evidence itself.
Are you Matt Round of Amazon fame? If yes, I have to thank you for my career building on Matt Rounds Tool (MRT)
I don’t want to reject your experience because no one knows what anyone else experienced within their mind. But I know my experience is very much a conversation replete with proper grammar, inflection, etc to the point I could recite it out loud right after verbatim, so subjectively it’s very similar to hearing through my ears. Others experiences sounded more abstract so I wanted to share mine. But I suppose we may never really know :)
For the record, emergency vehicles are highly predictable and tractable: they have sirens and lights and will predictably not follow traffic laws when those indicators are on. It beggars belief that self driving cars are unable to correctly respond to such conspicuous signals.
H.L. Mencken said that Baltimore was a lot quieter in his maturity than it had been in his childhood. For one thing, the earlier Baltimore had been supplied by carts with steel tires rolling over cobblestones.

Have a look at Babbage's quarrels with and over street musicians in London.
So the government should serve the interests of those that aren’t residents to the detriment of those that do?
I could agree with Paul Graham only in one - current AI systems use too much energy when doing really interest tasks, and make too little value.

For others his words, they are against Capitalism, because this is it's typical way - Pareto's principle, use new tool on 20% cases, where you could make 80% profit, and don't wait, until tool will handle 100% cases.

If mankind lived against Capitalism, we would not have cars and planes, we would still use steam engines.
> Or are we going to continue with time consuming and costly case by case, human judged comparisons?

That will absolutely always be required, because no matter how much we pretend, copyright is not a natural right, any more than capitalism is the natural economic system. You can extrapolate this to the concept of property, and by extension, ownership. The cans of Campbell's Soup don't care that Warhol copied their likeness any more than the trees we felled to build your house care if a squatter takes it over.
Raid 1 does not work with heterogenous disk arrays.
You computer is yours …and you are not forced to use maker's app. Well sources are opened, so you can change things to suit your needs instead of considering makers as your slaves can't you? :)
His face at the end of the first run is very funny. But with 100 miles range I think I would like the 911 a lot more. Not that I have that kind of money.
> On the other hand, this is nice for anyone who wants to play with these networks locally and does not have a nvidia GPU with 6+ gigabytes of VRAM. I

SD 1.x works in stable-diffusion-web-ui (aka, A1111, one of the more popular frontends) with (reportedly) as little as 2GB of VRAM (I’ve personally used 1.5 and 2.1 without any problems with a 4GB card.)
Pre-industrial flocks of birds would darken the sky at noon.
> majority of our towing industry in Toronto is just organized crime

All industries who's generous profits depend on monopolizing a fixed pie, they need to tightly control the amount of competition in order to maintain their profits, so they eventually devolve into a maifa-like organization, regardless if they're blue collar or white collar.

The only difference is the blue-collar mafia is way more visible as they solve their difference with valence, while the white-collar mafia doesn't need to resort to barbaric acts but simply lobbies their political friends in power to put enough laws and regulations in place to stop any newcomers entering their turf.

If only the towing industry could have taken a page out of Canada's telcos' book and lobby their way.
[dupe]

Seen this multiple times already, it's getting uninteresting.
I can’t help but feel that fighting for residuals for digital extras is a losing cause. Regardless of what you negotiate, the studios will probably eliminate the “scanning actual humans” step sooner rather than later and replace the entire thing with something like Unreal’s Metahumans.
Much kinder than the interjection from his fellow literary club member Prof Hugo Dyson to a reading by Tolkien of a draft of LOR:

"Oh no. Not another fucking elf."
I would agree with just about all of this. Personally, I was ok with it being deleted because of how much time I truthfully wasted on Apollo.

I also deleted all of my post data on impulse one day, and I definitely regret doing that, at least a little. My comment history was 10+ years of my own often detailed thoughts on the world. It was a mini-timeline of who I was, digitally and anonymously.

Now that I’m a little older, I’m a fair bit less interested in engaging with most internet content. I write a few comments here, but I’m not sure there will ever be a platform I really comment on as consistently again.

I don’t know that I fully am into the principles opposing the 3rd party app shutdown, but it all seemed sort of sad how it played out. There, in broad daylight we had this massively democratic venue, or at least many of its members thought of it that way. It had it’s golden moment to band together and show the power of their collective voices. And they were just… unceremoniously and unquestionably crushed. Principled moderators humiliated and forced to publicly recant or be silently shuffled out.

I get why Reddit the company felt entitled to do what they did. It was just sad to see the illusion of free, self-forming digital communities be swept away and replaced by a more sober reality. One in which almost all of the internet as we know it is really just a series of corporate and well tended gardens, with public passage at the sole behest of our faceless corporate overlords.
Bingo. This seems to be the central issue. In fact, it’s not even copyright violation to distribute a model, since models aren’t copyrightable. They’re a collection of facts, like a phone book, produced by a purely automated process. It’s the outout that counts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36691050

And even the output has been ruled not copyrightable in recent court proceedings.
So you think training should be legal, but actually using the trained model to generate copyrighted text should be illegal?

Edit: As a secondary point, it's not like Meta bought all those books. They downloaded unlicensed copies.
Backblaze works well enough.
I'm reminded of the home left standing in Mexico Beach, FL after Hurricane Michael. It had been built from concrete to withstand the wind:

https://www.icfmag.com/2019/09/mexico-beach-survivor/
Some of it (e.g. what bullet type) is real, but angles and distances are largely impossible to reliably.
I saw your tweet asking what version I am using; it is 8.61 and it does support Spaces (which maybe you don't want for some reason ;P).
Are you looking for open source only option? If not and willing to pay then JMP is probably the best.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JMP_(statistical_software)

Orange is another one which is based on Python instead of R and free. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(software)

Personally, I find it best to use R with VS code for all my statistical need.
I think there is a lot more nuance between these two polarities. People are more important than machines, even when machines reproduce the exact steps of how people learn.
Church bells are still a thing, but churches are not nearly as thick on the ground. Someplace like Venice, which was never fought through or bombed, seems to have parishes about five American blocks square. I know in Washington where to go to hear church bells, but it's a lot farther between them. I suspect that four of five Roman Catholic parishes do not have bells to sound, or anyway don't sound them. Are the Baptists big on church bells? I have no idea.
Watch us get the worst of all world policy, keep restrictive zoning so the housing supply remains low but eliminate rent control so the demand translates directly to higher landlord profits.
> "Oh those awful Orcs," they bleat, flocking after Edmund Wilson. They know if they acknowledge Tolkien they'll have to admit that fantasy can be literature, and that therefore they'll have to redefine what literature is. And they're too damned lazy to do it.

- Ursula Le Guin

https://books.google.com/books?id=asYXBgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA266&ots...
Reposting my comment:

warmer air holds more moisture, pulling it from the ground and holding it longer. Explains drier conditions and more extreme rainfalls when they do finally occur
Here is the CEO of Palantir calling for a Manhattan Project for superintelligent weapons systems:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/25/opinion/karp-palantir-art...

https://archive.ph/G7Fr
> Remove planning rights from local/city government entirely

> You must use the government to essentially take land and repurpose it.

Which government? In your first sentence we removed land planning from the local government.
My personal snafu was plugging a 9 pin CGA cable into 9 pin serial port. White smoke started billowing out of the power supply. Turned it off, fixed the provision, and the computer still worked after that.
You know why the local government is the best government? It's the government I can fire through voting. If the state had more power my votes would also have more power to change my community.

I don't mean to imply abolishing the federal government in favor of local government. Just a redistribution of power that favors the local government more than the current status quo.
Rent control is a bad policy no matter how you slice it. In general most price controls are counterproductive
Ditto. Libraries and bookstores can be an issue.
I've seen several varieties of this idea several times, and it always seems pretty straw-mannish to me.

No one is asserting that computers themselves should have rights. But their users certainly do. If it is legal for me, a human person, to do something inside my own brain, why would it not also be legal for me to do a rough approximation of the same thing inside my computer?
Landlords -> lobbyists of large real estate investment corporations. One of the biggest social crimes is enabling housing ownership companies to become large investment vehicles.
I’m not sure what your point is.
For many people, price gouging is conceptually palatable when it doesn't apply to them.

A revision would make more sense, but treating it like a black and white issue is disingenuous.
Nice work! Excited to use this!
Not as long as you can't build.
Yes, if you want to address the issue. Whether you should is another question. That is what the higher levels of government do. When the majority of citizens need something, you essentially use threat of violence to take it by force. You will never fix the "nimby problem" any other way.
California basically did this[1]. Sadly though the desirable coastal areas are literally full and all spoken for and even without any real zoning anymore there’s nowhere to actually build. So you’re gonna need to eminent domain some Malibu mansions to make room for the non stop line of 1+5s from LA to SF.

It’s also interesting to me how many people propose increasing supply when there is nowhere to build, but can’t even think about reducing demand, say by reducing the all time record in migration. But that’s literally crimethink.

Sure the USA has a ton of empty space. But guess what, that’s because most people don’t want to live in those places. And the places where people do want to live like waterfront cities are geographically full.

[1] https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2021-09-17/wh...
They could, but we’re talking about some unfathomably dumb people here.
Why is there a toothbrush mustache even in there as an option? Like, even the most hipster or alternative people out there I've never seen people with one. I'm getting Hitler mustaches after every third click.
I particularly liked how he described the way the brakes work in every hybrid and electric car ever made as "clever".
Good. People think rent control helps poor and middle class people find a good place to live, and punishes those evil, evil landlords. What it does in practice is discourage building new housing, and encourages evil, evil landlords to convert existing housing into condos they can sell. It drives people out of the city.
Before West Nile Virus hit, there were an awful lot of crows in the Washington, DC, area. I saw a statement in the newspaper that a stand of trees at Rockville Pike and Randolph/Montrose Road was home to half a million crows. That seemed improbable on its face; but it you were on that stretch of Rockville Pike about dusk, and saw the stream of crows, it gained probability. But West Nile Virus more than decimated the crows, and that stand of trees is gone. The crows are making something of a comeback now, after maybe 15 years of invisibility.
Bleeding Edge Technology Is Made for Silly Art
isn't this pretty much the Either monad except that it's more "linear" and less "wrapped"? (since we are not following the monadic bind but a bind that does continuation by case)

edit: I just saw author's post note. nice. I think this actually makes a good monad intro.
I need to re-read it. I probably finished the last book 20 years ago. Then I saw the films. And in the intervening years my opinion and attitude towards it, and the genre as a whole, has shifted toward the negative. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s just from getting older.
Wouldn't call the building trades union influence on laws a conspiracy. It's their job and they do it in public.

We used to have factory-built Sears houses though. And now we don't.
> Are they not using venvs or something? It should be as simple as python -m venv venv; ./activate; pip install -r requirements.txt

In most cases, it would be possible to do close to that, but it is extremely common to run into things being distributed in the AI/ML space with install instructions that don’t include that, and instruct you to have a global install of a certain Python version, and then to pip install the dependencies (and globally install non-Python package dependencies, if there are any), so even if they’d work in a venv, you have to (1) indepently know you should be doing that, and (b) translate the instructions – which where (1) applies is usually trivial if all the dependencies are proper python packages, but can be more involved otherwise.

So, yeah, I can see that a lot of the time the path of least resistance is just to create an isolated container environment for it.
Polygraph is inadmissible in court. It’s used for interrogation as a prop.
Not quite understanding the graph. Enteric diseases are caused by micro-organisms such as viruses, bacteria and parasites that cause intestinal illness.

Seems a lot broader than just the title of the article.
It’s pretty much just complete non-replicable BS. The claim is that the rifling on gun barrels differs from gun to gun, and that they can examine grooves made in the bullets by the rifling and compare them to other rounds shot through the same barrel and find a match. It doesn’t stand up to independent scrutiny, and I would imagine that with modern machining the gun to gun differences in rifling on the same mass produced guns are minimal. Perhaps there are differences in fowling in well-used guns, but the notion that they’re gonna match a flattened bullet to a specific barrel is ridiculous. Basically a few kooks across the country wear white coats and claim that they can do this “science” and prosecutions pay them to be expert witnesses. Juries eat it up. It’s really nuts.

The only legitimate analysis they’re doing is ammo brand matching. “Hey, there was a Sellier & Bellot 380 Auto casing at the murder scene. The suspect had S&B 380 in his gun safe. We got him.”
+1 to this. Uniqlo’s checkout app is an amazing app if only for its absolute simplicity and reliability. This is a model for all these apps to aspire to. We can only hope…
This is where I wish humans would be a better species, we have absolutely no respect for other creatures IMO.

From putting baby roosters into a grinder en masse to stuff like this...we should just slow down a bit and stop being legit assholes, we can't though because we're compulsive and anxious.