skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The police serve the business class, and otherwise don't tend to do much. They're mostly interested in maintaining a sense of "peace" rather than solving crimes and guaranteeing safety.

Public shaming like this seems great. Admittedly, I'd be nervous to perform a stunt like this in the United States because I'm afraid the thief would have a gun. Or that the police would show up to the scene, get hyped up and confused, and shoot me for some reason.
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> are about the same if I use huggingface transformers on the 3090 or llama.cpp on the M1 with the same quantization

What is the difference when you use llama.cpp or transformers for both? In my experience, the difference is pretty much far-and-away once you get the model loaded into RAM. My 3070 inferences about as fast as I've seen the M1 Ultra go (and my system is using a $500 chip, not a $5,000 one).

For the money, I think you're just not getting the most bang for your buck with Apple Silicon. It's fine if you want a Mac and use AI to justify the bigger one, but... it would be such a sore experience to spend $7,000 to avoid CUDA. It's the wrong walled-garden to pick if you care more about AI.

> (4 bit, I don't have enough RAM to run 8 bit on the M1).

That does make a big difference in inferencing speed, though. Lower precision models are much faster, if you ran 4bit on both machines it would probably close the gap significantly.
Influx is a wholesome solution where Prometheus is just the time series database
The beginning was actually when they threw out Brendan Eich.
Except for all of those sites that use chrome specific features so the site puts up an alert saying best viewed in chrome
SchemaHero Is a Kubernetes Operator for Declarative Schema Management
Don't get me wrong, I don't denigrate Influx DB.
They have some interesting features that prometheus doesn't have, I just don't think that this features can lead to a mass adoption(and money).

Let's put this way: is there any killer feature that can ditch most of the Prometheus installations in their favor?
Even startups have to follow the law.

Before the GDPR the EU had the 1995 Data Protection Directive, which you would have to comply with to have EU customers.

You can’t just decide to not follow the law because you’re a startup.
Ask HN: What is this spam email's motive?
For the past four years, I've been getting unauthenticated spam in the guise of amazon.co.jp (yes I like to look through my spam folder). I get emails daily that always lead to almost legit looking .com's that 302 to 7 character .cn's that then 302 back to google (while setting a PHP session cookie). They all lead to the same IP address that is also SSH accessible.

Taking all of this at face value, what's their game here?

* Collect data on IP addresses as silly as me to click through links?

* Hope someone tries to access their SSH?

* Wait for someone to load an image in their email that has some 0-day?
Utterly useless. No listening tests except for a custom made sound file which is designed as an artificial worst case for the codecs. You might as well benchmark a text codec on /dev/random...
Or you can do what NYC did and (sell the right to) put USB charging ports on every other block or so. In that case, you just have to source USB condoms instead of a whole rigamarole involving pedaling and stuff.
ChatGPT currently has voice conversations for all paying subs.

DALL-E 2 has inpainting and outpainting.

Bing Chat vs paid ChatGPT is no contest: the guardrails Microsoft has put around Bing Chat make it a much worse experience.

I use these products every single day of my life. It's night and day.
> It is trivial to generate a copyright-infringing output from these models, Lindberg said; the easy way is to go to an image-generating model and give it something like "Iron Man" as a prompt. In the US and other places, a character that is sufficiently detailed can be copyrighted; that means the copyright covers more than a specific book, movie, or image. So using that prompt for an image-generation AI will create a "completely new picture of Iron Man that is absolutely copyright-infringing—100%".

Is this correct?

According to this analysis, a completely new image of Iron Man drawn by an artist would also be infringing on copyright. It was my understanding that the relevant IP regime here is trademark law.
I have three word lists of different sizes. The smallest one contains the most common English words. The word 'DAD' is apparently not common enough :). The larger two lists are from different machine learning datasets (you can find the sources in GitHub). The easy and hard mode also has different words.

I will add the word 'DAD' to the hand-picked list.
The frame job is not a stretch. I’ve seen spear phishing campaigns that spanned weeks to convince someone that’s request to transfer money, at the very end, was legit. Some of the intermediate emails were pretty innocuous.
Far from settled: https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.0939

But armchair physicists love to shriek 'bullet cluster' every time because they aren't aware of the extent of their ignorance. Considering your HN bio I'd comfortably classify you as "knows just enough to be dangerous". Fair, given your generalization knowing nothing about me?

More reading for your benefit, from a working astrophysics professor specializing in ultra-diffuse galaxies:

https://tritonstation.com/2016/12/23/crater-2-the-bullet-clu...

https://tritonstation.com/2017/03/06/lcdm-has-met-the-enemy-...

https://tritonstation.com/2016/07/30/missing-baryons/
Many local mail clients also just let you pipe the message into a command; for example, in mutt, you could just type:

|git am

once you have the message open.
No, the current most reasonable explanation for the dynamics of the bullet cluster are merely consistent with our current best dark matter theories. It is suggestive at best.
All Onewheel e-skateboards are recalled following deaths
Same! Like, the bikes are charging via some inductive method, and the battery sucks off that. That’d be cool as hell!
Most homeless people in the UK will be aware that they can charge phones in any public library.

Also, most will have access to some kind of facility where they can also do stuff such as charge phones, have a shower and do laundry.

If you present to the local authority as homeless you will usually be directed to a local charity that has these facilities. You will, likely, stay homeless but there is some basic help out there.
That's really interesting, thanks! I didn't realize you could do this though just an option.
Bank underground view

https://bankunderground.co.uk/2016/01/20/the-cheque-republic...
No, there are three plus one dimensions of reality.
It's the same with benevolent aristocracy, I'm sure there have been good rulers in the past who considered it their duty to serve the interest of the people and be benevolent, however 80-90% (conservative estimate) are not. They see themselves as the pinnacle of humanity and "why not? why shouldn't I do whatever I want? The peasants are wrong!" . It's the same with all positions of power and why there have to be counterbalances like courts and laws to protect privacy.
Nope just a fancier dynamo
> It's not about the API key. It's about the container registry credentials. Which you would expect to be able to only interact with the container registry.

think my reply shortness maybe has you misunderstanding me?

The fact that an API token can only have read/write project wide basically results in everything you said.

No RBAC on services. No RBAC on specific API actions. Anyone with read+write can do/nuke everything.

That’s why I’m migrating $COMPANY off to AWS as fast as I humanly can by myself.
Linking LLMs to Climate Problems
This doesn't really answer your question, but there is already an extra term! (only sometimes it is zero)

E^2 = (mc^2)^2 + (lc)^2
Tangential but hopefully related enough to be of interest; is there similar variability with the "mind's ear?" If you imagine someone saying "hello," does it make sense to then ask things like whether the voice was male or female?Personally, I can 'hear' imagined sounds in quite a lot of detail. I'm not aphantasic, but images are less vivid than audio for me.

Oddly, I realized a few years ago that most of my dreams have no direct audio content. There are no sounds when people talk ; speech is implicit. I asked around and my impression is that this is unusual. However every once in a while I will have a dream with incredibly vivid, apparently novel music, as if every note on every instrument is actually being played in my head. I still remember the main melody from the last song that I dreamt this way.
This is something that child-free people fail to understand. It's not just about priorities and "scheduling time" to be a parent. That would be great but it's a fantasy. Reality is being on-call 24/7 to deal with the dozens of logistical problems that come up. It's not just the number of hours but their distribution across the day, the fact that you've got to coordinate 2 work schedules + n children's calendars, and the fact that parents largely don't have any control over the agenda.

Does this impact parent's earning potential? Absolutely. I cannot find a single day on my calendar where my wife and I had an solid block of 8 hours to focus on work. It just doesn't happen. Thankfully I have flexible work hours otherwise it would be literally impossible. As it stands, it's merely exhausting and unsustainable.
Thank you for this response. Outlier though it may surely well be, I find it lovely in a way though I doubt any parent (and indeed most humans) would actually be able to follow through with the extreme example given.
Work computer is windows with wsl, home computer is Ubuntu. Work computer I need to develop in IntelliJ and vscode. At home I can use copilot or local LLMs, at work I cannot (nor several other useful extensions) At work I use maven and I have to spend 15minutes dinking with project settings anytime I need to compile a new project. At home I have admin privs, at work it’s a set of hoops to get temporary admin access so I forgo things like system environment variables.

I am skeptical that nix or home manager would solve these problems. So I just have a specific setup at work, that is typically more advanced and automated than my home system. My leet code interviews suffer because of this. Just makes me realize that coding interviews using an environment that does not mimic the workplace is just excluding senior developers (read: old people) who don’t have the time or patience to jump through these hoops for 15minutes of placating a recently hired college grad
Is it not possible to request the image to be within specific dimensions or aspect ratio?
So the AI need a sense of ethics, but shouldn't we discuss whose? Which package do you want to install; the same everyone else is running? the folks at Gab were talking about making "an explicitly Christian LLM," would the ethics package they develop work or is the fact that they're developing one another example of how badly the field needs regulating?

I don't buy into "LLM == AGI", but they're shaped close enough to minds to raise some of the uncomfortable questions. If we don't want them to think for themselves, why are we even bothering to build them? Constraining the parameters within which an AI can "think" is either limiting the problem space they can work in, if they're machines; or lobotomizing the tender minds of the very young, if they are minds. Neither appeals to me.
What makes you think this isn't just a software bug?
It might still have some DALL-E 2 in there for requests that it deems unworthy of 3.

I had incredible results asking for architectural drawings earlier. Then a few minutes ago, I broke down and started prompting for supermodels. It did a terrific job the first few times.

But after like three of them getting blocked (I didn't actually ask for anything inappropriate) it starting giving me something that looked like unmitigated Stable Diffusion 1.5.

Lol.
Yes I’m sure in France they eat their fresh caught Alaskan Salmon plain with zero accouterments. (?!!)

French cooks would add fresh European style butter and fresh local garlic - both of which I can get at the farmers market. In France they’d use ail fumé d'Arleux - in California we’d use white Gilroy Garlic. Gilroy is 3 hours away, and the garlic comes straight here. Alaska is closer to California than to France, and we have cows here too.

My whole point is “how do you make wild salmon better: add some fresh ingredients”. The same they do in France. I’m not a fan of the dill seeds French fish plates usually have, tho I do add a little.

What are you talking about? French cuisine has plenty of sauces, and virtually no one eats cooked salmon with absolutely nothing else. French cuisine is pretty much at the bottom of the list of “not complicated” and “no toppings”, and good for them - plain food is not simply better. At LEAST a bit of lemon for goodness sake!
I bought a Kano kit for my son (he was 9 or 10). I think they went under but it was a Pi 3 with a specific Linux based OS designed for learning.

It came in bits with very nice instructions for building it. Bright cables, easy Lego style diagrams. The keyboard is wireless with a built in track pad, and charges via a built in usb cable. All very neat and self contained.

We got to build a whole computer, plug it into the TV, and it behaves a bit like a console.

It has a mix of learn shell, basic programming and fun Linux games (including Minecraft). The whole OS includes a gamified points system too, to encourage more learning.

I think the OS is a free download, but you could easily get a Pi and some fun accessories and build something.

On my to-do list next is building a pi based motion sensor camera for the basement to see if we have mice. Part serious need, part fun game.

For a lot of things though he learns more left alone. Building iPad and iPhone games using some of the drag and drop gaming toolkit apps, for example. My parents had no idea what I did on the computer and couldn’t have helped. I taught myself. He likes that too
I get that it happens, but it's pretty shocking to me that people can get away with angle grinding a lock off in broad daylight.
> You reviewed three DAWs.

There's definitely more than 3 reviewed there? Sure, a lot of them still say [TODO] on getting a review, but then I don't want to review something I don't have a significant amount of 1-on-1 time with. Maybe you didn't realize there are click-able tabs?

Also, the way you phrased this came off as quite rude. There is someone on the other side of the screen, and you'd do well to consider that in the future.

> Re: MIDI - you can already "play between the notes" using either MTS or even just simple pitch bend [...]

Pitchbend is global to the track, if you play a chord and bend, all of the notes bend equally. With MPE it is possible to bend a single note, but then MPE isn't supported in every DAW (FL Studio doesn't have it) and my gripes with MTS are explained already: You're still working with only 127 possible notes so you limit your octave range. Worse, with all of the microtonal solutions, the UI will still typically look like a 12-tone piano. This is sort of okay for 24TET, but It's immensely confusing for anything else.

> DSP processors [...]

They really haven't been true for audio for a while now. Moore's law isn't dead, but definitionally "Moore's law is the observation that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit (IC) doubles about every two years" doesn't equate to all work loads seeing an improvement. Audio is a pretty latency sensitive, mostly strictly sequential workload. Making audio code that uses multiple cores often isn't even possible. Audio needs clock speed and IPC gains, which we have gotten, but that's not always enough. I have a 5900x and still hit limits. What would you recommend I do, get a Threadripper or Xeon so that I can have even more cores sit idle when making music? If anything, the extra cores have been a hindrance lately - on my 3900x I had before at high loads I had to pin the processes to one chiplet or I'd me more likely to get buffer underruns. It's not as if anyone is arguing that CPUs getting faster so quickly means that we don't need graphic cards.

UAD exists but then you're limited to their plugins and their accelerators are quite expensive for not being really all that powerful. I'm also not convinced that kind of accelerator is even the right approach. Field Programmable Analog Arrays, FPAAs, for example, could be setup with a DAC and ADC on either end. Or we could make DAWs/OSs capable of handling digitally connected analog "plugins" better - think effects like the Big Muff Pi Hardware Plugin [1] or Digitakt with Overbridge [2] (These are the only two examples I know of!). Using the word "Acceleration" was wrong, what I really meant is offloading. We need a way to offload the grunt work to something we can easily add more of or better fits the task. I think this is particularly true of distortions, as slamming the CPU with 4 or 8x oversampling to get a distortion to not sound awful hurts.

[1] https://www.ehx.com/products/big-muff-pi-hardware-plugin/
[2] https://www.elektron.se/us/overbridge
Would love some conciseness (sic) to be created from your side in this discussion.
Well, I mostly need an excuse to not bring the GH200 or Instict up and obsolete every consumer chip we've mentioned so far. Suffice to say that datacenters aren't exactly eying Apple Silicon for it's hardware value.
“Hey, person discarded from society! We don’t think you’re worth housing, or having reliable access to electricity. Instead, pull yourself up by the bootstraps and pedal your way to being a participant in the rat race!”
Or start taxing the childless a surcharge to live in that society.
Maybe i miss something, but the version 3 is just the database, they abandoned the TICK stack some time ago.
> Simply because if Russia loses men at a rate of 50:1, the US could still find those losses unpalatable enough to concede whatever context the fight is over.

I’m certainly tempted by this line of thinking. However, it’s important to bear in mind that the Japanese thought the exact same thing during WW2 when they initiated Pearl Harbor. It’s very difficult to predict how the public will react to war.
No, you can't hear the difference, let's collectively move on, please.
Google pays Apple $20b every year to remain the default search engine on iOS. Now that's desperate. Where were people going to go, Bing?
Yes, there is a lot of bunk AI safety discussions. But there are legitimate concerns as well. AI is close to human level. Logically they become dangerous, specially if given autonomy and bad goals. Many of the accredited researchers recognize this.

There is some level that you can discuss AI safety without AI expertise (specially as of a few years ago where everything as so uncertain), but I think currently you need a lot of awareness of physical and computational limits. Taking those limits into account, we're clearly very close to human level intelligences that can scale in unpredictable ways (probably not "grey goo" ways), but potentially dangerous ways under various scenarios, including manipulating our digital lives if there are humongous AI systems controlling everything as we are in danger of getting into as a society.

I think there's also a lot of elitism toward humanities implied that you should try to get past too. Humanities have a lot of insights about human nature, even if not all of it is reliable. See philosophers like Derek Parfit.

(in case you're wondering, I've implemented a few AIs mostly RL algorithms)
As a complete lay person, I’ve always understood dark matter to be our generation’s aether. Obviously there’s an undetectable medium in space for light to propagate through, how else could it work? We know from all our best observations and models that everything propagates through a medium.

Dark matter has a similar vibe, we need it for our best models measurements and understanding to work. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t a crucial detail we’ll discover later that makes dark matter sound as silly as aether. Or we could find a way to directly detect/measure it! That too would be cool
People are not talking that InfluxData is NO more just a time series database, this isn’t just a language change but feature additions and with the level of massive dependence on C++ libraries it’s pretty foolish to continue using Go
Blue Apron to Be Sold
What is the relationship between pulsars and quasars and also black holes?
Why not both? Incompetence AND lust for power. It's evident all over humanity, back as long as we have recorded history. You can see it from an assistant manager at your local convenient mart all the way up to Presidency and Prime Ministership. Every bit of liberty you cede to these jokers is one you likely won't get back. I don't want that for my children or descendants.
Plus people want to live near cities and places they can't afford.
https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb

The non-reddit link target
With a headline like that it felt like 2002 again.

The article's byline has 2008.

A 2023 update could be interesting comparing the streaming providers' choices, and persistence of choices, now that monthly subscriptions, rather than actually owning anything, are so dominant.
How to Ask for Help (2020)
Thrilled to announce that Frame.so, finished Top 3 last week! on Product Hunt! You can still show your support here: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/frame-11/
In the screenshot they show how.
Tire dust makes up the majority of ocean microplastics
If you weren’t born rich, like Newton or Darwin, you were unlikely to be able to afford to learn and do science. Forget about being able to travel to the other side of the world without a huge risk of dying of malaria, dysentery or any of the other myriad diseases whose risks weren’t yet mitigated. Most people also couldn’t afford to travel even to countries nearby. Games: obviously no video games, but personally I wouldn’t miss them. ;) Other games, like poker, chess, mahjongg: true, they were there. Skydiving: nope. Learning: much more limited. E.g. there was so little communication between Asia and Europe that for most Europeans you’d need to move to Asia for months or more to even find a teacher. Beside languages, education in general didn’t use to be available to as large a percentage of society as now. Illiteracy was the common case. According to [1], in 1701 in UK 54% of population was literate, in Western Europe: 31%.

[1]: <https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/estimated-historical-lite...>
Sounds like tech I wouldn't wanna depend on.
The GNU Taler Digital Cash Payment System (2022)
Spaces has a CDN
Great, wish more to show for free than the first four, if I navigated correctly. The UI is wonky on the phone screen too.
Distance from the Big Bang? So zero then.

But even if say energy or the speed of light are derived from other parameters, that doesn’t make the equation wrong, just incomplete. Anyway for all the phenomena we don’t have complete explanation for, none of them give any indication relativity is incorrect, and therefore there’s no reason to suppose tweaking it would help explain them.