skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In order to present a book to a ML algorithm you need to copy it, either using a camera, or using other means

Almost all modern books are available as ebooks for the Kindle or otherwise. You aren't doing anything to the content itself that could be a violation.
We could have 80 high-speed trains between Bakersfield and Merced!
I'm starting to feel like the Rodney Dangerfield of Rails, goddamit.
The point I was trying to illustrate is that we're applying an antiquated system of justice to a new world. That antiquated system focuses on blame and punishment, instead of solutions.

If we focus on solutions, it doesn't matter who is responsible for reproducing copyrighted material. If we stop thinking about blaming and focus on solutions, those solutions could include (a) giving fair credit or payment to the creator of material (b) continued training of the algorithm to be more creative and not spit out copyrighted material verbatim.

If a high school student plaigarizes, do you: (a) spank them and put them under detention, or (b) give them pathways to discover their own form of creativity and preferred form of expression so that they have no interest in plaigarizing? Most people of the past do (a) but I'd say (b) is much more constructive, effective, and beneficial to society.

Now with that in mind, and getting off the blaming psychology of the past, how do you implement (b) with an AI? You add loss functions that are specifically discourage plaigarism, loss functions that reward creativity, etc. and retrain. Now we're talking.
> This sounds like "I don't know what a wheel is, but if I chisel this square to be more efficient it might work". Sometimes, it's better to not reinvent the wheel, but just use the wheel.

I'm not sure I can follow. This isn't specific to MP4 as far as I can tell. MP4 is what I cared about, because it's specific to my use case, but it wasn't the source of my woes. If my target had been a more adaptive or streaming friendly format, the problem would have still been to get there at all. Getting raw, code-generated bitmaps into the pipeline was the tricky part I did not find a straightforward solution for. As far as I am able to tell, settling on a different format would have left me in the exact same problem space in that regard.

The need to convert my raw bitmap from rgba to yuv420 among other things (and figuring that out first) was an implementation detail that came with the stack I chose. My surprise lies only in the fact that this was the best option I could come up with, and a simpler solution like I described (that isn't using ffmpeg-cli, manually or via spawning a process from code) wasn't readily available.

> You don't need to know this any more.

To get to the point where an encoder could take over, pick a profile, and take care of the rest was the tricky part that required me to learn what these terms meant in the first place. If you have any suggestions of how I could have gone about this in a simpler way, I would be more than happy to learn more.
This was a real talk? I would have lost my mind attending this. I am adding the Naval Observatory to my travel destination wish list.
I’ve used this library fairly extensively and it’s very enjoyable and productive. A hearty thanks to Emil and all the contributors
I like the styling of the app. It is quite different than default egui styling. If someone is reading that is familiar with the source can you point me to the parts most responsible for the look? (custom components, styling code, etc.) It will just save me a bunch of research. Thx
I once wrote a lava lamp thingy back in school when we were toying with 16bit C++ and 32bit assembly to get some nice demos on an mcga screen. It looks a bit like this but it was not a simulation we used three different buffers with pictures containing balls that we xor-ed over each other while the layers were moving in different directions using sin/cos functions.
Also the build quality of Lenovo laptops have gone down so much it's appalling.
> People here were joking about putting time on the blockchain, and, well, NIST is already doing it.

It's not a blockchain, but a single writer Merkle DAG. No consensus necessary. Much like a git repository with a single author.
In the early days of Wifi, it was pretty common to have your connection drop out whenever someone used the microwave. Both systems use the same frequency band.

I assume modern Wifi has gotten better at chugging through the interference (and perhaps microwave-makers better at shielding).
Add in all the wars since WWII — the US has been living with a negative ROI the whole time, & has somehow managed to this point to kick the can down the road on paying it off. Had the foreign adventurism of McKinley and Roosevelt, as well as Wilson's crazed forcing the US into WWI not gotten into the nation's blood, imagine how well-off its people could be.
Yes!!! As a wealthy progressive who votes blue no matter who I too support the military industrial complex and think not being russia should be the only requirement to join NATO.
Most complaints revolve around mobile service, which IIRC, was never subject to NN in the first place.
Show HN: An app store just for installable web apps
I think they mean embedded like SQLite, eg, "without an RDBMS," not that the vectors are necessarily embeddings (though presumably that's the case much of the time).
Wifi has an "interference robustness" option which is designed with microwave ovens in mind. The power output of a microwave is a sine wave, because it's powered from your AC line power, and doesn't emit energy during the zero crossings. "Interference robustness" times packet sends (and lengths) to be when the microwave is producing the least amount of power. Thus, you spend half of every 60th of a second irradiating your food, and the other half downloading videos. (Needless to say, having this on and your microwave going in the background reduces throughput. But, dropped packets are worse than small packets that always get through, and this aims to eliminate completely stomped-on packets.)

Wifi also has a listen-before-talk model. If it "hears" a microwave running, it thinks it's another station transmitting, and backs off. This feature of the protocol is why long-range networks worked so poorly in the past. If station A can't hear station B, but the AP can hear both of them, then A and B are going to step on each other and the AP won't be able to communicate with either station. This is why the "enterprise" way of deploying networks was to have a ton of access points running at low power; that works well with the listen-before-talk model since the AP likely can't talk to or hear stations that are too far away for the stations in its range to hear.

I don't know if interference robustness still exists in modern standards, as I haven't seen it in a control panel for decades, but it was definitely in 802.11b. I have never tested Bluetooth (or read the standard), but basically... the industry knows this is a problem, and handled it a long time ago. Bluetooth might ignore the problem because it plans on frequency-hopping (away from the microwave) anyway, but like all software, that can easily be bugged.
I would like to get in touch with you related to books4. Do you happen to have discord? or would twitter be ok?

There's currently multiple attempts at creating what you describe as books4.
Given all the ads builtin to the site about using generative AI, I'm inclined to think so too.
I suspect in cases like this the dog is hearing something you don't in the environment and has associated it with treat time, creating the expectation. If you reconfigure NTP to use her intuition, you risk biasing whatever the source is, creating a feedback loop that will create drift.
KSR's novel "The Ministry For the Future" starts with a graphic account of a 35C wet bulb event in India. The heat initially raises the demand for air conditioning, the demand for air conditioning over-stresses the electrical grid, the electrical grid fails so no one has air conditioning, millions die. I don't remember exactly when it's set; in the 2030s?
A robot can post comments, or make a song out of an algorithm that a human designed, however the robot did not infringe copyright because what it is communicating is of its own source.

If a robot was tasked to download images and re-post them, then it would infringe copyright. No matter if the robot did it or the human did it. Since this robot does not have autonomy, we refer to the human who instructed it.
I had to resort to my own Invidious instance plus Sponsorblock.

Its looks is very much like OG Youtube and it is unusually fast: no overdone JS. You can also sync it up to Clipious on the phone and get a clean, bloat free Youtube experience without ads or slow page loads.
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Definitely something to think about as we have to reign in the federal spending which is currently keeping our economy afloat.

There is some low-hanging fruit, given that a significant portion of our military will likely be replaced by drones over the next couple decades, but we still have significant entitlement programs that need to be paid for.

My advice to folks is go heavy into your Roth IRA. Taxes are only going up, and, assuming no one in government figures out a way to claw back the tax-free returns on a Roth, you're going to need the tax relief.
You are missing that the AI is the one creating the output.

If I sell you a hammer and nails, I'm not liable if you create a dangerous building.

If you ask me to build you a dangerous building and I do it, I am liable if people get hurt.

OpenAI wants to pretend that its users are creating the output because they write the prompt, but this is just plainly false, and OpenAI's own limits they put on output shows they know this. Otherwise they'd let the models output information about how to write exploits, how to kill people, etc, which they don't.
Elon spontaneously rebranded Twitter over a weekend. Yaccarino is CEO in name only.
The Hickory DNS project supports DNSSEC, DoT, DoH, and DoQ.

DoQ? It's DNS over QUIC.

QUIC? Quick UDP Internet Connections (pronounced quick) is an experimental transport layer network protocol designed by Google.

Google? Is QUIC like AMP and Manifest v3, something Google created to maximize Google wealth & internet crappiness? I don't know.

Do you know if QUIC is awful or helpful? Ever play with DoQ?
Not chx, but note that none of the linked articles mention Thinkpads.
What is worse is then once you have done your job. You have no left over energy for your own projects anymore. As you have basically consumed the energy you would for your own projects into the job. The only way it works is if you have a passion for something AND for doing it for someone else.
Marvelous work! I'm just starting to familiarize myself with CFD/OpenFOAM in a CAD/CAM context,and it's sometimes remarkable how compact and elegant the math can occasionally be.

I'm reminded of the occasional notion in cosmology that many mysteries of existence go away if you regard spatial dimensions as emergent phenomenon arising from deeper quantum "degrees of freedom". It makes me think of ancient assumptions - atomos, Arunic kana - that there is a thing - a space, a volume - too small to cut into. But doesn't that seem a little contrived? How can something be too small to divide? I'd propose they're coming at it from the wrong way. It's not the space, it's the fact that it can't be cut any more. The system's freedom of action restricted to a single vector - the future can be constrained no further - and subsequent knife cuts do nothing. The sum of these qualities in maco systems thus, in our minds, resolve into width, depth, length.

Similarly, stack up the CFD stuff fine enough and dense enough, and you get FEA emerging. Now, I'm . . ok, keep in mind I am a layman in absolutely everything . . but it seems like a not-horrible metaphor.
Markets' whims affect a non profit foundation with more than $1 billion in cash, cash equivalents, and investments less than most cooperatives. Mozilla's actions are not consistent with concern to please the main funder. And people called leaders in Silicon Valley seem very little interested in cooperatives.
What Happens When Nurses Are Hired Like Ubers
I mean, obviously.

"America can't solve any of the world's problems" isn't the only possible logical conclusion from that fact, though.
after perusing, https://drewdevault.com/2023/09/29/The-forbidden-topics.html

i can see yellow.

and i feel like i agree with, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37780903.

i would rather not allow code execution, from anything touching, https://fosstodon.org/@drewdevault/111149166582486132
Hyundai, Kia to adopt Tesla EV-charging standard from 2024 in US
Somehow the blow back against the Russian people for the war crimes Putin is committing seems way out of proportion if you compare it with the non existing blow back the US suffered.

There was no boycott of US products or banning of US athletes. In fact the US itself "boycotted" the use of the word "French fryes" (in certain government buildings) because the French didn't want to play along renaming them to "freedom fryes".
it's happening:

https://jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/1627555/Pri...
I would say its this year.

I decided to take blogging a little serious

Plus i enjoy it as well and I love people learn something new from my content

You can check it out here:

http://muhammadraza.me
In the book Pandora's Star (see comment above), the Dyson sphere wasn't physical, it was some sort of energy-type shield.
True theoretically, but in practice, nonsense.
Oh, it gets better. I used to get reminders in the mail to take my luxury car into the dealership for "service" to adjust the clock twice a year. Or I could ... you know, just press a few buttons for free.

The trouble with all the modern cars that have synchronized clocks is that, well, you've already put in an LTE SIM card, so why not send up some telemetry at the same time? And here we are, with cars that are surveillance devices with four wheels.
Have you ever heard of "CMPXCHG8B"?
Not even one mention of the 1 million Iraqis

My favorite memory was being on a college campus against the war and reading all the right wing shitheads talk about how great it was gonna be.

Meanwhile all the ghouls from the bush administration are walking free.

As an athiest i often think about if i'm wrong about there being a hell.

It's nice to think Bush and everyone involved will be there for eternity.
This stuff isn't even ancient history. During the withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021 the military blew up a random vehicle from a drone in the middle of Kabul, killing 10 civilians (including 7 children), and then immediately branded them terrorists.
> Wrong. We have precise records from antarctic core samples that can say with near absolute certainty what our climate looked like for hundreds of thousands of years.

Cool story, bro.

The antarctic ice cores contain valuable information, but they do definitely not tell a complete story of neither temperatures, nor anything else across the whole globe on a granular time scale.

> ...which was a catastrophic event for humanity, and led to the winnowing of our population to less than 100,000 individuals. So yeah, point taken.

Yes, it wasn't fun. But then again people seemed to die when temperatures went very quickly down, and thrive very well when they shortly after increased again.

Anyway, you just wrote that such temperature shifts had never happened before. And now you say that it did naturally, not so long ago.

What I've got to gain on calling out bad apocalyptic propaganda? I might just be able to avoid the cure for 2C temperature increase, which looks like it may very well make life completely miserable for almost everyone.

As they say, the cure for climate change is the disease it claims it's fighting.
The title seems a bit misleading, since this includes things such as estimates for increased veterans costs until 2050 and homeland security counterterrorism efforts.
> The use of "we" feels so unfair when a very large majority of the people were against it the entire time.

No they were not.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/8038/seventytwo-percent-america...

Iraq was a popular war.
Is your complaint fundamentally that it's harder to tell the difference between games/voip and browser activity if you can't just sort TCP versus UDP?

That's true, but it's not that big of a deal and definitely doesn't make QUIC "junk". Looking at the port will do 90% of the job, and from what I can tell it's easy to look at a few bytes of a new UDP stream to see if it's QUIC.
Is the plussest.
That’s simply not true. A very large majority were in favor.

Some were opposed, yes.

Using “we” is a proper generalization. Everybody is offended by generalizations today. (See what I did there?) but you can’t talk coherently without them.
TURN is only one piece of WebRTC, and for the product we're building we want to be in control of our destiny on the AV side. Building on a fairly mature open source implementation of WebRTC was an early choice we made. We've already used this to build an international mesh architecture and few-to-many over WebRTC theater experience that can support thousands of viewers with very low latency.

The ML work we're doing is outside of video processing for other features of our platform, although we have incorporated some tools for features like background blur.

On mobile we've built native iOS and Android apps. Our goal in general is not to chase Zoom, but make a very different experience for distributed work. That said the AV has to work.
This is going to lead us to a terrible place IMHO, where the ads are just encoded directly into the video stream so everything comes from the same origin making it very difficult for ad blockers by not giving them a different origin to block. Plus maybe rolling out widevine (DRM) for good measure. God I hate these races to the bottom.
I would love to see an in depth study of Switzerland's freight rail system. Apparently it works well for quick movements of small amounts of freight (single container).

From what I can tell, the much lauded US freight rail system only works for slow (30 mph or less average speed over distance) high latency shipments in massive quantities (coal, and raw minerals). There are frequently delays, which makes US freight rail noncompetitive with trucking.

Open to suggestions if anyone knows where I can read a good explanation of the Swiss practices that enable their system to be low latency.
Guantanamo Bay prison is still holding detainies indefinitely and Julian Assange is still facing a lifetime in prison for exposing war crimes.
Why not name and shame?
The Nobel Prize is explicitly for those scientists that "have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind". It's easy to make the case that this is true for mRNA vaccines, whether or not a committee member thought it would encourage vaccine uptake.
Is this true? As far as I am aware there are zero pixel for pixel recreations by an image generating AI of any pre-exisiting images and no written work has ever been word-for-word reproduced in full. The closest I've seen are images highly similar to the Mona Lisa which is already copied virtually everywhere without AI and brief passages from commonly copied written works that veer into hallucinations after a paragraph or two.
Notepad2 is a classic.
> will hopefully start

He is not stating that it will decline, he is implying that he wishes it's decline.

Population decline is bad for everyone. We need more human beings. The bigger the pool the more likely some "einsteins" will pop up and advance the human civilization.
Yeah, we got a Pinker Thinker here. Dangerous temperature and humidity combined with failing infrastructure will kill millions rapidly, while two simultaneous crop failures in different parts of the world will throw the global food supply into shambles and kill even more people, slowly.
LG now sells inverter microwaves under the NeoChef brand, I believe. I saw one in a second hand store recently so they've existed for a while now. I haven't tested one to see if it interferes with anything, though.
If Sinophobia is a valid justification to ignore laws, you can do just about anything.
The carefulness is also why I have said "GPT-4" there may be other models that do infringe copyright, GPT-4, however is transformative.

If AIs create music that resembles the voice of a real singer, or could recite the entire work of Harry Potter, then it is of a different design that needs different consideration.
Yes, that sort of speculative execution has long existed for NNs, and has enjoyed a recent resurgence in popularity as people speculate that OA has been using that heavily for its APIs & services. It can work very well for outputs that vary greatly in their predictability (like natural language), but can also backfire - nobody likes seeing the predictions thrash around unpredictably, but if you aren't careful, you accept bad predictions or wind up not saving latency or compute at all.
This is, perhaps, a consequence of countries like China choosing to subsidize their manufacturing sectors at the expense of domestic demand. China subsidizes, producing cheaper goods, which are gobbled up by the west, leaving China w/ excess dollars that it then needs to park in US Treasuries, depressing lending rates and making it cheaper for the USG to run deficits. https://twitter.com/michaelxpettis is a big proponent of this sort of reasoning.
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Muddles about Models
>Why it’s stretch to say that large language models represent ”literal world models”
AI tools themselves may be the infringement. Photoshop is not.
It's possible to have a single privacy policy for a collection of services and different applicability of it for each single one, and for the interactions between them.

For example, some people might not mind Maps and Search data to be combined (both for ads and for recommendations) but object strongly against adding Photos or Mail into the mix.

As long as they had different privacy policies, users could opt-in into each one individually and data sharing was a difficult mess.

The single privacy policy fixed the mess (and made it easier for users to understand what's going on, too: just one set of rules), but removed some user choice while not giving a choice at all for certain new data uses (the cross referencing parts).
When I was a kid, you could dial the operator and ask them for the time. I still don't know why anyone would do that, but I remember it was a thing you could do.

Also, dialing 0 to get a human operator. I swear I'm not that old.
Where does this 3% figure come from?
You are misquoting, they said "From an operational and strategic security POV".

This is about money being able to function with crippled infrastructure, not about someone stealing dollars stashed inside a mattress.