skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for the answer. It is super interesting stuff and I wished I had another lifetime (or two...) to spend on these subjects, all I can do now is read the layman oriented publications and hope to at least stay current with the discoveries and what experiments are being run (and sometimes the odd unexpected result). Floating point is nasty in that even if you are really careful if you run something for long enough it tends to trend towards nonsense due to accumulation of errors. Might it be possible to use very large fixed point numbers for that algorithm or would that reduce the runtime to something unusable? Or is the magnitude of the numbers such that this would be impractical from a memory point of view?

In Dutch we have a proverb that says that one crazy person can ask more questions than 10 wise people can answer so if these are off-base feel free to ignore :)
GPU? I was writing this stuff _30 years ago_. You were lucky to have a soundblaster. Everyone I knew who worked on this is long retired or passed away.

AFAIK the code isn't available, that just wasn't how things worked back then, there were some ftp sites but open source was still nascent (Linux didn't exist yet). The architecture I was writing for was a Parsytec Supercluster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsytec which doesn't exist as a thing any more, it was mostly straight K&R C tho with a harness written in Occam, controlled from a workstation running SunOS (not even Solaris).

If you happened to find the code it'd be completely worthless. Like I said above, we weren't able to use off the shelf, optimised matrix libraries because of the way we were generating coefficients on the fly, for what was a very sparse matrix. It's just not how you'd do it on modern hardware.
Work remotely with micromanagement and inflexible time is "worse experience" than in-office.

You're stressful by alert, notification, taggings, meeting,... and a bunch of other artifical things.
Do you think that there might be hot springs on the Moon? Why not... our volcanoes on Earth bring water to the surface. That sounds like the kind of discovery that this mission is all about.
I was expecting/hoping to learn something new, and instead only came to this same realization. The most I could say is that interfaces/etc can sometimes give a false sense of (type) safety. On finding the cause of such a fault, I don't shake my fist at interfaces, I say "Doh! I should know better."

> Some responders seemed surprised by this idea, and I thought this was common knowledge but could not find any blog posts about it either. I figured maybe it was worth writing out, and some people agreed, so here we are:

The idea is both surprising and common knowledge. Surprising to think that it's a special kind of type weakness, rather than a common one where actual cases are not surprising at all. Nice writing, more substantial content would be great!

If we take away all the big words, use Java instead of Haskell/Rust and start with the example that breaks, it would be a much shorter post that no one would care to read. I don't know that the great writing and build-up is worthwhile, other than a pleasant if somewhat disappointing read.
I havent thought of that and it’s quite ingenious and hard to prove legally who’s behind it.
Interesting to see that total grocery sales jumped by more than 10% in 2020 (probably due to COVID?). Did people just start buying more grocery? Or is this because of inflation and the dip in dollar value was not accounted for ?
Weird, I perceive these the opposite of how you do.

"Why didn't you do it this way?" I trust that you considered many alternatives. Can you tell me your thoughts about the decision you arrived at?

“have you thought about this approach?” You probably couldn’t imagine this possibility, let me do it for you. Checkmate!

I can also see how they could each be interpreted in the opposite directions.

I’m betting it’s more about the contextual body language and tone they’re delivered with than the words/sentences themselves that matters, which I just don’t see being that different once you look behind them to see the gist of the message.

That’s the double edged sword of text-only communication: you can choose to interpret everything charitably, but you can also infer a condescending tone even if it wasn’t intended.

Expecting people to wordsmith to your individual taste is just asking for otherwise fine coworkers to be mind readers.
Tiny Dream – Header Only, Embedded Stable Diffusion C++ Library
Welcome to City 17 whrrrrrr SNAP
Coming soon to your area too
Ah Gotcha, I'm already doing that in that case, I throw everything in /media/

Don't ask me why /media, I think I read a guide about 10 years ago for something in Linux that used /media and now I just default to that
This is why I use my distro package manager and get annoyed when someone wants me to use something else...
Yeah you have to be careful with this AI landscape. It is fraught with a lot of the same issues as the crypto landscape, with many of the same players.
HEMA. Historical European Martial Arts.

I started when I was writing a novel with swordsmen and want to research historical moves, ended up getting addicted and now am trying to grow the sport in Asia. Guess it is how things start anyway.
When they meet they produce photons traveling in opposite directions, so there is no net momentum. If there was incoming momentum from the particle (they they move both forward and toward each other) then the two emitted photons will also be traveling forward (i.e. at an angle toward each other).

But here we explicitly placed the photons to be traveling in the same direction, so there is some net momentum that can not be carried by the particles.

i.e. particle anti-particle annihilation will never produce two photons that are both traveling straight forward. So the event is not reversible.
You can always dump your licenses from the web interface, pull down the books with the Adobe fulfillment software and then strip the DRM using calibre.
An inside look at the beauty and benefits of mangroves
>But as the technology proliferates, privacy advocates say regulations have not kept up, opening the door to intrusive surveillance that would be illegal if conducted by a human police officer.

Since these drones don't fly themselves and there is a trained officer somewhere at the controls then this surveillance is in fact conducted by a human police officer and should be an illegal violation of privacy.

Frankly if one of these things shows up over my backyard while I'm smoking a brisket for my family I'm gonna moon it and make lewd hand gestures.
Transformative collage.
I am disgusted by this and think all levers of society, legal and social, should be used to protest and fight against this panopticon evil.

I also think it's absurd to think, just yet, that NYPD is going to be using kamikaze drone bombs to take out backyard pits. Where's the fun in that? Cops don't get to crack any heads.
Slashdot was a dumpster fire by 1998.
Proton decay is predicted by many models -- it's the reason the first huge water-Cherenkov detectors were built. The surprising thing is that, for some reason, they've never been observed to decay.
Repeatedly learned lesson: keep FS metadata as close to where you need the data as possible. Sharing or remoting metadata kept a last resort for when it's actually needed by the use case, as doing so always costs orders of magnitude in performance at scale.
wow https://fedidb.org/ is great!
Ah, greetings fellow person of culture.
Time to buy some green lasers, and elect city leaders who will make this more illegal than it already is under the 4th amendment.
Would we know already if water was coming up from the lunar depths?
Wow, and I considered myself to be extremely cynical, as evidenced by my previous comment, but you take the cake. Nobody in politics is ethical, nobody in business is ethical, no market is competitive. I'm afraid that we live in different realities and cannot usefully communicate any further with such disagreement about basic facts.

> I've seen no evidence whatsoever that politicians were "holding back" in their level of "type 1" corruption before Citizens United

> Have you looked? It's not hard to find. e.g.

> https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/06/opinion/citizens-united-c...

I think you're missing my point. To take the first example, Paul Ryan was not somehow magically transformed in the year 2010 from a principled saint into a unprincipled villain by Citizens United. The ruling of course allowed much mischief to take place, but mischief requires the mischievous. It merely provided an opportunity to those who were already inclined to take advantage of it, like a kid in a candy store.
> - Make kids show their work (outlines, revision histories)

I don't like this. It seems to me that this would lead to teachers forcing formulaic approaches to writing on children (even more than they already do). No uniform process is going to work on everyone and having students write using a process like that produces bland, uninspired and unmotivated essays.

Furthermore, outlines and revision histories also seem easy enough to fake with a GPT-like AI: you can just ask the AI to write an outline and then have it iterate on that.
You will end up in Federal Prison with no chance of parole. It is a felony to shoot down aircraft. Do not do it, it’s not cool.
> Mathematics is unique in that, mostly, the field can achieve consensus on results, which we then call "proofs".

No. See Brouwer–Hilbert controversy.

They can't even agree on what makes mathematical logics.
If 9/10ths of your population is living in doomed regions isn’t that a state of near-extinction?
But am I taking it much further than they're going to? We've seen how anti-consumer, anti-privacy, anti-freedom technology becomes when left to its own devices. I'd rather not make it illegal to sell an ethical product when the "standard" set by other firms is abuse.
This fills me with warm fuzzy feelings. MUDs were my jam growing up. So much so that I became a programmer because of it (among others) and like you, have written a few myself. I still maintain old C codebases for modern gcc. Diku, Merc, Smaug, and a few of my own, SWR, exospace.

Evennia was always this kind of weird alternative though. The web client was “just enough” and, honestly, was one of the first things people would customize and expand upon.

That said, writing multi-threaded socket code isn’t for the faint of heart. Abstractions and libraries exist now - but back then it was a labyrinthine mess of segfaults and kernel dumps. BSD had some of the best tcp socket support and so a lot of muds were built upon BSD.
Thats nice and all. But it has nothing to do with whether something is copyrightable or not.

Instead, something is copyrightable based on the amount of human input into the process.

And it is very clear that there can be a lot of human input into AI image generation.

Even though I will concede that going into midjourney and just typing in "Hot anime girl" isn't a lot of input and likely doesn't deserve copyright protection.

But there can be so much more to AI art than the boring case of low effort mid journey prompts.
Copyright is, like all regulation, freedom restriction for the benefit of society. Producing movies and books takes a lot of investment, and people would not do it to the extent they do without copyright. If we think there is more than enough creative content, we should reduce copyright protections, and if we think there is not enough, we should increase it. Generative AI will move the needle very far in the direction of overabundance and should result in correspondingly reduced copyright protections.
> I still don't see how China's IP violations lead to a "sadder world state".

…when compared to Nintendo vigerously defending their IP through legal channels.
> That would require massive, state-directed housing construction on a scale that has only occurred in command economies and possibly pre-war Vienna.

The main thing it would take is to eliminate zoning density restrictions. Then someone could buy a single family home near a city, replace it with a 10-story condo, and make a lot of money. Repeat for as long as housing prices are high. There are a lot of people who want to make a lot of money over and over again.

It would also help significantly to streamline the permitting process and reform various NIMBY laws that can hold up construction.

The state doesn't need to "direct" anything -- all they have to do is stop prohibiting it. Building housing when housing prices are high is profitable. You don't need a law to coerce people to do something that makes them money.

> Things like Builders Remedy in California are just intended to shuffle millennials into the perpetually-fleeced asset class I mentioned before.

The Builders Remedy isn't the most well-tailored rule in the world (classic "put arbitrary numbers in something to make it sound managerial" vibe), but it pretty effectively prevents localities from prohibiting new construction. (You might also need something that prevents them from making it prohibitively expensive.)

> This is obvious from the blatant, algorithmic price-fixing by landlords that was recently exposed and which is much easier to do in the context of large property investment firms, without risking similar backlash.

That kind of thing is a joke. It immediately disintegrates as soon as the vacancy rate is above zero because every single landlord has the incentive to defect to fill their empty unit, because a paying tenant at 80% as much rent is 80% more than an empty unit.

Landlords don't have any kind of market power. There are too many of them and anyone with a moderate amount of capital can enter the market. The long-term high prices are entirely from the legal restrictions on creating more supply.

And one of the reason prices are so high right now, even though interest rates are up (which should tend to lower prices), is the gridlock thing. But that's inherently temporary, though it could last for more than a year (during which time it makes new construction even more profitable).
Docker CLI without a daemon is useless hence it's far from just a command.
Are you being intentionally difficult or have you just never bought and set up a router?
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I would say, treat the AI like a human viewing said data/material, but unlike the majority of humans, most dont have Kim Peek levels of observation and recall, so should there be some sort of expiration of data built into AI's and if so, should it be a blanket cut off date for all data an AI has been exposed to, or allow for some specialisation like a human might have in order to fulfil their occupation?

I'm also aware that search engines have access to data, most humans do not, which gives the search engines an advantage, think accessing ft.com for example, so should AI's have access to data in the context of a search engine or as a human?

Its tough, I want to give AI's full access to see what the tech is truly capable of, but I'm aware this will lead to more global monopolies over and above the existing search engine monopolies allowed to dominate in a country or territory, which will harm smaller AI entities.
The FAA needs to stop regulating them as manned aircraft so it's not a felony to down them intentionally
I spent a year reading on my 10.5in amoled tablet, it worked really well for night time reading at low brightness with the night filter on and KOReader in dark mode. In some ways that setup actually worked better for me than KOReader on an eink device because dark mode amoled contrast is much better than the front light on my actual eink reader.

That said, I wouldn't want to read anything except PDFs on a laptop and I'd much rather read them on a large high-refresh-rate amoled tablet.
The thing you're authoring is just your prompt. Apply for a copyright for it. The image or text generated in reply is generated by a computer with no more input from you than someone commissioning work using very precise words, and lacks human authorship.
I believe we first need to answer the question of whether the copyright of the AI model’s source text or images affects the output.

My opinion — and note I’m a software engineer, not a lawyer — is that an AI, being a statistical model and not generally intelligent, should not be allowed to disregard the copyright of its source material. This would, I think, require the AI’s creator to secure a license for all of its sources that allows this sort of transformation and presentation. And further, a user of the AI would themselves require a license to use the output.

The alternative seems to be “anything goes”.
There was a timeout. If you had touch tone it was faster to dial the whole thing because then the call would connect straight away.
But have humans ever been able to pillage without the r**?
Okay, well that wasn't in the article, I wasn't aware.

I still find Valve's response to a person admitting guilt to be pretty harsh, given that they couldn't have known about unrelated crimes.
Officer Alex Murphy reporting to duty.
Your prompt (the input) should be copyrightable. The output should not.
> It had my passport

Not trying to be rude but why wouldn't you keep something so precious on your person?...
X indicates it will start collecting ‘biometric info’ and ‘employment history’
There is a shortage of workers that the companies desire to hire.

That's not necessarily the same thing as a shortage of workers who have a particular set of skills.

The difference is usually related to social conformity, particularly deference to authority. Employers prefer workers who, when asked to work late, work weekends, or work on ethically murky projects will do so with relish (or, at least, without objection).

There may be a shortage of those.
No your human input product is the inputs you authored but you're applying for copyright for something else.
Sorry, but you're wrong. And this isn't simply a question of reading slowly.

Read it again, armed with the following fact. What they claim to have been told is correct. It is exponentially hard in N.

Your theory is that they meant to say quadratic. This requires:

1. They heard exponential and understood it to be quadratic.

2. While writing down what they heard, they accidentally wrote exponential instead of quadratic.

3. While explaining their question, they failed to catch the second error.

Now consider my theory. That they are confused about the difference between exponential and quadratic. This requires:

1. Like many people I've met, that they are confused about the difference between exponential and quadratic.

2. They made no other mistakes. They remembered what they were told correctly. They repeated it correctly. And then asked a reasonable question based on their understanding.

In general a whole chain of coincidental errors is far less likely than a single error. Doubly so when it is a single error that is somewhat common. Most people will run across exponential vs quadratic in high school, forget it, then never use that information again. There's an exponent, it's exponential, right?

Therefore I think it is far more likely that they misunderstood the term, rather than that they understood the term and then made a whole series of other mistakes to produce the statement that we saw.
Smoking Is a Dying Habit. Not in Germany.
their quality went way downhill and they shipped production overseas. I would love to have a nice bialetti moka express or a stainless version. i bought one probs 8 or 9 yrs ago, and it wasn't long before the tin lining separated, and the overall quality was crap. nothing like my mothers or any others I had used when i was introduced to them in italy. so i bought an alessi stainless steel made in italy pot at like 5x the price, and never looked back. but do i think a well built bialetti would be as good or better, they just dont make them well anymore…
Sampling is an art form if properly attributed (and possibly even without; whole genres are built on the premise), especially if it elevates the original work.

That's not to say copyrighting ML derived creative works is the way forward, but that creativity has bearing wherever a 'medium' can be manipulated.
I have worn a hole in the oleophobic coating on the screen, tbh.

Also the battery typically will no longer last a full day.
To hear: "the man talks about things he has no clue about with disturbing loudness"

And turn it into: "that's actually not a criticism of the guy at all!"

Maybe when you start translating everything into what you want to hear, it's hard to turn off.
The Saturn one is a great read, what a crazy design: https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/sega-saturn/
I have personally switched my default communication style to the "have you thought about this approach?" style because I found it worked better with most people. Still, for me, I dislike it. Coming from a lot of people, I find it not what they really mean, which puts me on edge.
Firing a weapon in the air is a supremely bad idea. Especially in a city. ESPECIALLY in NYC.
I do use a case.

But I will end up wearing out the oleophobic coating on the screen and the battery will no longer last a full day
Here's Why Automaticity Is Real Actually
It's always fun to ask people how much they think the annual budget for the NYPD might be, and learn they're off by several orders of magnitude.
Someone else already said it but it beats repeating: this is wrong

> The competition is very much bound to a rather narrow ISA which is why CUDA is forward and backwards compatible whilst ROCm isn’t.

PTX isn't an ISA and it goes through another translation step before it hits the real ISA (SASS), which does change internally. Though you are right that PTX as intermediate is part of the reason for CUDA's success in that it makes the code portable across cards.
It’s been done:
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-35750816
GP of the reply chain was referring to how at a point in the past Usenet was allegedly more difficult to access. That's why some of my responses were in the past tense - I was disagreeing about how, back then, it was more difficult to access. Hence the use of the past tense. All in perfectly proper English.
Of course. The concept of authoritarianism isn't exclusive to communist and/or fascist regimes. They can and do exist in all modern forms of government all over.
Can a lawyer explain why this doesn’t violate unreasonable searches? Why is a warrant not required?
Oh, good catch. I assumed it was the median household income because it wasn't the median personal income and the former is commonly mistaken for it because it comes up if you search for "median income" in many cases.
If you're willing to shoot a firearm in the air to take out a drone in a crowded city, you have no business being within arm's reach of any firearm unsupervised, regardless of how old you are.
It can be done badly, and is more often than not, but in this case I liked it.