skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
99% of people publishing at top conferences are not particularly technically skilled and do not want to waste time adopting a new platform, because the competition is to publish papers and nobody cares if you do that on an AMD machine instead of an NVIDIA machine.

The best funded labs have research developers whose only job is to optimize implementations. However these same labs will have the latest NVIDIA hardware.
Playing Starcraft 2 (RTS) was incredibly stressful for me. I don't recall if I got any joy from it.

Warcraft 3 was similarly stressful.

The RTS I play now is Age of Empires 2 DE. And only campaigns. And it's not any more stressful than other games for me.
What do you consider good pizza? American chain pizza style?

You mention Neapolitan pizza, but that's typically a very wet pizza from oil and fresh mozzarella as well.
Structure-Aware Fuzzing with Libfuzzer
No, I agree: there was definite precedent, but to land those 4 specifics: time, type, place, and even consequence/motive is insane. People sometimes say "The Simpson's" predicted X (erm, not the social network can't believe have to say that now, heh), but the time's I've looked into it it's been a bit of a stretch (they may have some hits tho). But this just nails it. And the weird things is: it's a conspiracy-focused spin-off of a conspiracy focused show. It's just so weird. What are the odds, man? So fucking low. Anyway...

I do remember that flap about dirty bombs. It was pretty scary for a while. Thankfully it never eventuated. It's weird how Byzantine the "successful" attack scenario ended up being, versus the techno-sophistication of our imagined ones. Sad and a tragedy nonetheless.

Maybe there was an attempt but it was thwarted in one of those stories that will never make the news because it's all classified.
I don't understand this...

If I open Photoshop then via my inputs it indirectly generates pixels using various tools/brushes/automations, it is copyrightable.

If I open an LLM, enter a bespoke prompt, then the tool generates pixels using that prompt, it isn't copyrightable.

Things can be copyrightable even if there isn't a 1:1 between human input and copyright output. Where is the cut-off exactly? What about Photoshop's Content-Aware Fill, is that copyright or not?

What if I take LLM output then color correct it, is that now my copyright? Since it effectively has no authorship before I color shifted it.
> The papers written by whom and for how long?

There are dozens of references to be found [1] if you're interested in reading more. But I'm not sure what you mean by "for how long."

> Did this research of a multi-million year old world and evidence exist prior to the 18th century?

Yes, people located multi-million year old dinosaur fossils prior to the 18th century. They didn't have enough evidence at the time to recognize the implications of what they were finding, nor the extensive chronological dating technologies[2] that we have today.

But I think you're mistaking my point about the 18th century: if the authors of the Bible did not believe it to be the literal truth, why should anybody else?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldowan

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronological_dating
That "study" doesn't even have a control but, then again, I wouldn't expect much from research around long covid.
I listen to a podcast called This Week in Virology that's run by some prominent virologists and I hear this term used often, so I don't think that it's fallen out of fashion. Laypersons probably never much used the term to begin with.
Thanks for the book recommendation. Added to reading list.
Christian Nationalism is the greatest threat to the continuity of the United States
"Google gives lobbying firms $20M to make boogeymen out of the independent development of AI models"
Are you willing to living without food?
>My third anecdata observation is that some issues occur when cultures change - i.e. if parents invested a lot of energy into kids somewhere else, then they all move to North America where culturally we're less well setup to support our parents; this may occur in a "one-time" generational glitch with parents possibly left hanging.

I invest everything I can into my kids, but I have zero expectations of them sacrificing their goals to help me. What people may have expected is kids will live nearby and help out, which is a perfectly reasonable thing to expect from nearby family, but things start getting dicey when kids have better economic opportunities in other places or simply want to live somewhere different or unaffordable for the parents.

Also, I know lots of immigrant cultures that have an expectation of daughters in law being expected to be full time chefs/nurses/maids, so one generation of women that had to be a chef/nurse/maid will get shafted, while they will not receive the same from their daughter in law.
People have been predicting companies like Intel and AMD overtaking Nvidia for a very long time now, and it's never panned out. This isn't to say that there can't be competition that can match or exceed Nvidia, but I don't think it's going to be any of the other old guard companies at this point. Especially not Intel. Every year I see articles trotted out claiming that Intel is making a comeback in general, and it never happens. Intel might buy some company in thinking they can harvest the talent to compete with the likes of Nvidia or Arm, but their corporatism will ruin any talent they buy.
Hmm, I would hope that you want to read books that challenge your way of thinking to strengthen your beliefs and help you examine them through a lens you haven't considered before.

I wish I could agree in good conscience that we are currently in a perfectly meritocratic system, but alas (sorry to drop another reference on you, I guess I just enjoy having evidence to point to for justifying my beliefs), there's many cases where minorities are being unfairly passed up on [0].

Regarding pulse oximeters... maybe, maybe not. Seems like it would be an interesting field of study, the research of the different levels of light absorption between skin with different melanin pigments, and whether tanning or genetics plays a bigger role. If only there was more funding for something like that, huh? :)

[0] https://www.nber.org/digest/sep03/employers-replies-racial-n...
I agree, if by "long" you mean 5 years. The author seems to have a longer time horizon in mind than do most Wall Street analysts though.

Sun Microsystems did great through the 1990s. But by the time the LAMP stack was fully mature, web servers had been commoditized.
Because they hit "unknown error" and when that happens on safety critical systems you have to assume that all your system's invariants are compromised and you're in undefined behavior -- so all you can do is stop.

Saying this should have been handled as a known error is totally reasonable but that's broadly the same as saying they should have just written bug free code. Even if they had parsed it into some structure this would be the equivalent of a KeyError popping out of nowhere because the code assumed an optional key existed.

For these kinds of things the post mortem and remediation have to kinda take as given that eventually a not predictable in advance unhandled unknown error will occur and then work on how it could be handled better. Because of course the solution to a bug is to fix the bug, but the issue and the reason for the meltdown is a DR plan that couldn't be implemented in a reasonable timeframe. I don't care what programming practices, what style, what language, what tooling. Something of a similar caliber will happen again eventually with probability 1 even with the best coders.
Good question! Convoscope already has an Android app. While its primary use-case is displaying live results on smart glasses, it can also be used standalone with results displaying on-screen, or read aloud with TTS. This is also the premise of our web frontend.
For horror short stories - I'm a fan of the "Horrorbabble" podcast - https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=horrorb...
Due to the nature of the discussion, if I mentioned their names here, I would get flagged into oblivion for daring to mention them — I'm not being hyperbolic either (I wish I was!). I neither believe it's safe nor fruitful to discuss that freely here.

I will say, I encourage anyone interested in understanding this better to spend some time researching: to who known billionaire individuals (and families) are donating funds to, or investing heavily into, whether that be corporate/legacy media companies, video game publishers, farms, as a few examples — you name it. Follow the money, and you will find power and influence causing rapid changes to policy, hiring, and public relations that all closely align to known political agendas.

I'll leave it at that. :)

>Also remember that he also has his own self-interests and will toss you under the bus if it furthers his interests, too.

Yes, precisely. It's human nature, but even easier as someone with nearly unlimited funds and quite likely, power.
It is almost like intention in the method and process of those tools matters. Rather than bulk exploitation of other people's work.
Oh wow, that's fascinating. Good thing I've never been interested in diving, especially free-diving!
While I applaud your effort and thinking of privacy issues, I will continue to do these in a terminal and Python REPL for all the reasons you bring up.

It would certainly be nice to get something ala F-droid for free software extensions like yours (which guarantees source code matches built package IIRC), as a response to your question 3.

I am sure one can create an alternative extensions store in FF and change some config in about:config to use it, though it's likely non-trivial.
It has to do with the fact that most of the code in the project is not async but having to call async functions often propagates all the way to your main function. It's infectious and many people don't like it, myself included, that's why I'm working with Elixir and Golang where async is transparent and 99% automatic, or explicit but non-infectious, respectively.

I do love Rust and found a number of very valid uses for it but its async story leaves a lot to be desired. I don't enjoy writing it though I do enjoy the results.
Don’t forget Twin Peaks. Another 90s classic mystery show.
they should start off with a catchy motto, like “don't be evil”
So why Dlang has not gotten as popular as rust or go?
It's self-referential and that makes it non-obvious how it's accomplished. Changing the sentence changes the hash, which also changes the sentence. So in any case it's an interesting construction.
>I know it was meant as a throw-away part to the comment, but geothermal HVAC is extremely expensive. I live in Calgary and I looked into it. $50k

I understand your point but what's interesting is many folks won't even blink when you tell them their kitchen is going to be 50k or their interlock driveway and landscaping is going to be 100k. But you tell them their Geothermal is 50k or Spray foam insulation for the entire house is 30k and they look at you like you threaten their lives.
All X has to do is make controversial content decisions the same way the other social media companies do: at the behest of our intelligence agencies and opaque government-funded "partners"!
When I read the title I thought "crawling and scraping...no problem, I can do crawling separate from scraping".

But alas, the terms actually ban crawling or scraping.
The Bat, the Ball and the Hopeless
very cool site, thank you. I didn't have TV that day, all I knew was from cnn and nytimes and fevered word-of-mouth, but years later I had a chance to dive into the various digital archives (including https://archive.org/details/911)—and what a remarkable time capsule they are. one result of that was this, a channel-browsing glimpse of America just before it happened

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMVTB2aVUg0
I wouldn't worry about it, we take cheap shots at French food and French people too ;)
No one has soul ;)
I was a senior. I grew up on the west coast, never been to New York, but my English teacher was from New York. She knew she'd lost friends that day, but not which ones. She held it together, but it really added a personal connection to what would have just been a horrifically impactful event on TV.
Rooting for Groq. They got an AI chip that can achieve 240 tokens per second for Llama-2 70B. They built a compiler that supports pytorch and have an architecture that scales using synchronous operations. They use software defined memory access - no hardware caching L1, L2,.. and same for networking, it runs directly from the Groq chip in synchronous mode having its activity planned by the compiler. Really a fresh take.

https://youtu.be/A3qbcwasEUY?t=571
What was it?? I'm curious how many people will recognize it.
Google writes a check for $20m to pay high salaries to DC swamp creatures so they can write political position papers that benefit Google in some way. Google gets positive press for what is dubious at best.
I don't really think he assumed that, only somebody without gray matter would think that war comes without cost.

>He was wrong.

And yet, he got 18% of Ukraine's land. Doesn't sound like a loss ...
Adored Fringe and yes, am sure there were X files references in the show. There were certainly Twin Peaks references in it.
I've been using joker.com for a long time. Straightforward interface, no spam, stable.
The point of copyright is to protect the rights of human creators. AI tools are not human creators.

If I go to an artist and say "make me a picture with X, Y, and Z features", they own the copyright unless they agree to transfer it to me. An AI tool never owns the copyright to its work because it's not a person, so you cannot acquire the copyright on the work since you didn't generate it.

It's an entirely different process from using Photoshop (&c), and I think conflating them requires either a significant lack of understanding of how AI-based generation tools work (the most common issue) or a deliberate desire to confuse the issue.
Throwing a loop of numbers on the end seems far more feasible. I put together a hasty Python implementation which can immediately find three hits at 5 characters. TQDM is reporting ~450k tries per second, so depending on how lucky you are, would probably want to redo in a faster language to solve for 7+

import hashlib
import itertools

import tqdm

BLOCKS_SIZE = 5
sentence_prefix = "The SHA256 for this sentence begins with:"

itos = {0x00:"zero", 0x01:"one", 0x02:"two", 0x03:"three", 0x04:"four", 0x05:"five", 0x06:"six", 0x07:"seven", 0x08:"eight", 0x09:"nine",
0x0a:"a", 0x0b:"b", 0x0c:"c", 0x0d:"d", 0x0e:"e", 0x0f:"f"}
for nums in tqdm.tqdm(itertools.product(itos.keys(), repeat=BLOCKS_SIZE)):
sentence = f"{sentence_prefix} {', '.join(itos[num] for num in nums[:-1])}, and {itos[nums[-1]]}."
hash_true = hashlib.sha256(bytes(sentence, "utf8")).hexdigest()
guessed_prefix = "".join(f"{n:x}" for n in nums)
true_prefix = hash_true[:BLOCKS_SIZE]
if guessed_prefix == true_prefix:
print("collision")
print(sentence)
print(hash_true)
There were also a lot of practical limitations on the hardware that need to be recognized. These weren't devices that could store megabytes of data for code or memory. Not only that, but the compilers were also a lot dumber (by necessity). So, optimizations you'd normally leave up to the compiler (like inlining) you instead did by hand.
Preprint by DJB on the use of computer-checked proofs, particularly for cryptography
So how do you jail a corporation when they comitted a crime?

If you don't they are not a person.

If that discrepancy doesn't feel unjust to you should do some soul searching maybe and maybe look at other places where corporation profit from their "personhood" without ever having to experience the negatives of actually being one.
Especially since many of the tools in Photoshop have been backed by machine learning for many years now.
Declutter Duck Duck Go from Msn.com
Companies are allowed to moderate their platforms under Section 230.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/21/18700605/section-230-inte...
The main problem is that for a future to be send, everything held across an await point has to be Send. Which is quite constraining and annoying, especially because this often does not play well with trait objects or `impl Trait` as people will commonly not think to add trait extra trait bounds.

And of course it's an accumulation of trait bounds on everything, which makes for a downgrade in readability.
One of of the two “disclaimers” you cite is an common attempt to reinforce one’s own an argument by painting it as a statement against bias, which is a subtle form (positive) ad hominem, not an attempt to avoid ad hominem and focus on pure rational argumentation.
Didn’t we already do this once, with OpenAI? How did that go.
> I do think there is a chronic pattern of some doctors avoiding shame at their self-perceived inadequacies caused by their medical school trivial pursuit trauma conditioning that is useless for complex problem solving and then projecting that shame onto their patients in order to minimise the cognitive dissonance surrounding their ineffective treatment plans for chronic conditions

The fact that patients consistently react in this way (or worse) I think is why we rarely discuss true causes of CFS nowadays in the medical industry. Many, many lay-people assign strong negative moral associations with having any somatic cause of their symptoms.
Verily I say unto you, that this poor commentator hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury.
How can you disagree with that statement? Training takes significantly more processing power than inference, and typically only the researchers will be doing the training, so it makes sense that training costs scale with the number of researchers, as each researcher needs access to their own system powerful enough to perform training.

Inference costs scaling with the number of users is a no-brainer.

I'm pretty dumbfounded how you can just dismiss both statements without giving any reasoning as to why.

EDIT:

> I'm most excited about a future where personalized models are continuously training on my own private data.

This won't be as common as you think.
I'm sure Cloudflare provides a great service, but putting both DNS services and domain registration under one umbrella feels like too large a single point of failure to me. Switching registrars is super annoying (I'm so glad I didn't trust Google Domains long-term for anything important)
> dishes can't be finished (put away) until the next morning

Nothing wrong with that.

> If you run it after breakfast dishes aren't available at all before lunch.

If you run your dishwasher at night, there's no reason to run it with just the breakfast dishes inside, it's a waste of water and energy.

But still, you can use the fast mode (30min/1hour). And if there's something specific you need (a pan?) just open the dishwasher and hand wash it. Or buy one more.

It doesn't require big organization skills to work around the fact an eco cycle is 4 hours honestly.
They were probably on vacation
Agree, But may be in the author's defence his conclusion is actually somewhat different to the title.

>If you believe my four predictions above, then it’s hard to escape the conclusion that Nvidia’s share of the overall AI market is going to drop. That market is going to grow massively so I wouldn’t be surprised if they continue to grow in absolute unit numbers, but I can’t see how their current margins will be sustainable.

So after all that what he really meant was that Nvidia cant keep their current margin.

I cant stress how their current margin is only because of sudden supply and demand surge, and they are pricing it as such. Of course their margin will fall. That is like saying certain product margin will fall after COVID. Yes. because people wont be crazy about it. But it has no relevance whether they will stop buying the particular brand of products after COVID.
For background, Pete was a founder of jetpac which scraped millions of images from Instagram to use as content in their company which Google bought. [1] This essay’s bold claims about nvidia are like jetpac: something shortsighted, flashy, and designed to make Pete money.

Several flags in the essay:

“Machine learning is focused on training, not inference” Nope! There are many start-ups that do large-scale inference in the cloud, and have been long before Transformers existed. Some of said companies are customers of e.g. Roboflow and Determined.ai etc. Sure it’s not Google-scale, as Pete has been in Tensorflow land for the past few years.

“Researchers have the Purchasing Power.” False! Some can afford a 2-GPU machine, but Pete’s employer and many other large companies have shifted the attention of researchers to problems that require large clusters. It’s almost impossible to publish now (e.g. reproduce results and do something new) without Google’s network (hardware money and people) having a hand in it.

The rest of the essay outlines a thesis that an inference-focused product (where Pete invests himself) will disrupt nvidia. Investors take note! Googler is almost done with his handcuffs!

There are many risks to nvidia’s moat (they failed to get Arm after all) but this piece is about Pete trying to find investors, not about Nvidia.

[1] e.g. https://petewarden.com/2018/05/28/why-you-need-to-improve-yo... Among others
> it sure creates a database that could easily be weaponized against them by a future law or unchecked executive order.

Which is clearly not "prior restraint".
There is evidence that at least some incidence of obesity are tied to adenovirus 36

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41366-021-00805-6
I think this is a really good usecase for chatGPT to generate a massive number of variations that you then feed into a validation function
ProtonDrive (Beta) support in rclone v1.64
Maybe it's nothing, or maybe it's freudian, but email existed before Google, so did calendar. Youtube was an acquisition. Maps, well, there are great alternatives now that do not require anal-probe-level surveillance to find an address or a route.

Just publicly fund the services that are useful to people. If "government" (i.e. us) can pay for a square for people to meet at, why not "digital spaces"?

And if someone's thinking "but government will use this data to surveil people!" - this ship has sailed, they have access to everything that's not e2ee, and even that's not guaranteed.

Government is practically the only body that can be expected to follow laws and act with people's best interest in mind. Some governments even do, just need a non-dystopian one...

And yes, there's commercial space in government/local authority-operated places. That's fine, just make sure to boot those that decide to install the equivalent of cameras and microphones on their storefront.
Commercially, vanilla is delicately hand-pollinated one flower at a time. The labor involved in vanilla production makes it the second most expensive spice in the world after saffron.

Vanilla flavor has been prized for thousands of years, and can be found in every ice cream shop on Earth. It’s the best-selling flavor in the world.

Vanilla’s universal appeal is why it’s the default. Is your default as good as vanilla?
Could it be that some TMJ pain has one cause and some TMJ pain has a different cause?
Aks HN: Why is the color orange such a special color?
2 decades ago my friend who studies psychology and computer science told me about this color, the color orange really is special, it keeps users on your site, and on videos if you wear an orange shirt you will even get more subscriptions, but why orange?
No our constitutional rights are not predicated on our actions or speech having no impact on society. On the contrary our rights are so that we may impact society as we see fit.

This is such a dangerous line of thought I almost don’t believe it.

Users original comment mentioned impact on society.
Intel's grip on the CPU market was similarly one-sided not long ago. They had a 3 year process lead on anyone. Giants can falter.