skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not about liberal vs conservative sorting, there are bad faith argument being raised by all political side.

They are equally bad, no matter where they come from, and they do not deserve anyone's attention, especially when it comes from grifters who live from the the confirmation bias of their followers/patrons.

(I don't even fit in the American political segmentation anyway)
Also, don't do it with your head bent over the pan, it will singe your eyebrows off and give you what looks like mild sunburn.
Inevitable. Gotta love HN.
Wow that was unexpected. I checked online and it does say production encoders are faster and the result is somewhat smaller (for same quality). What a time to be alive.
Where is this idea that copyrighted material should be excluded from training data coming from?

My understanding is that people want to be compensated when their intellectual property is used as training data for a machine. That strikes me as an entirely reasonable expectation.

One person memorizing Harry Potter for their own amusement, even if they make money doing public appearances where they recite sections of the work verbatim for the amusement of the audience is not in any way similar to the process of training an LLM or of that LLM's output. The scale alone is so vastly different that it renders the comparison useless and misleading.
A lot of people simply don't care about "having your privacy invaded". I've yet to be convinced, and I'm even a technical person.

Even the words words "privacy" and "invaded" are such loaded and ambiguous language, I don't see how smart tech people are playing along with it as if it's some sort of innate human right in the electronic sense. You have to convince us, you don't get to just skip a few steps and tell us we're all crazy plebs that don't understand the implications of this thing you decided has to be the case. Hence the comment about this attitude being privileged (elitist).
The man in that video spent 30 years in prison for kidnap, torture, rape and attempted murder, and is threatening violence to women now he's been released.

He's says he's a woman. Would you find it acceptable for him to use a women's refuge, be incarcerated in a women's prison, undress himself in a women's changing room, and so on, based on his self-declaration of womanhood? If yes, then you'd be indulging in a luxury belief.
"It's my property."

When you publish it, you lose some property rights. While under copyright, there is a short list of things that others are prohibited from doing (reproduce, distributed, etc.). And you lose all your rights once the copyright expires.
that's not the exact opposite though, is it? what you want is what the parent commenter wants with an addendum
I've found treating mentors the same as friends can work. Keep in contact via whatever means you used during your internship (email/chat/voice). It can be a balancing act where you don't want to be a leech, only taking and no giving. But it is a professional friendship. You have to like and trust your mentor to give you sound, unfiltered advice, without compromising their own integrity. Being a mentor can be a real challenge too!
That does look fun
Oh, no; it's absolutely part of it. Cultural appropriation involves the dominant culture taking practices (including things like clothing, music, dance, etc, especially if it's part of a religious practice) of a colonized or marginalized culture, removing them from their cultural context, and using them for their own purposes.

That's absolutely subjugating the identity of the colonized: it takes these parts of their identity and says "these are not yours; like everything else, they are ours, and we can do with them as we please."
Twitch doesn’t need the same aggressive latency as Google Meet, but WebRTC is hard-coded to compromise on quality.

In general, it’s quite difficult to customize WebRTC outside of a few configurable modes. It’s a black box that you turn on, and if it works it works. And if it doesn’t work, then you have to deal with the pain that is forking libwebrtc… or just hope Google fixes it for you.

Solving this was indeed quite a challenge, but what we did was marry WebRTC data channels with compressed video frames that were unencoded. This meant we could drop frames all day long with zero artefacts and seamlessly adapt to the changing bandwidth conditions you find in the real world.

The reason glitch-avoidance was so crucial was the same reason we wanted fine-grained control over the quality: the text and interface heavy use case would not permit frequent low quality frames.

Our ack-based protocol is simple and effective.

In fact, many companies use WebRTC data channels to avoid the WebRTC media stack (ex. Zoom).

So, in a sense we use an approach similar to Zoom. The post author says this didn't work for them because their datagrams were not efficiently chunked. Somehow, we don't worry about this, likely because we don't need to retransmit frames avoiding head-of-line blocking, and our frames are compressed with JPEG, making them smaller by default.

Our congestion control involves:

- per N frames ack (or ACK is worth N frames, more efficient than per-frame-ack)

- measuring frame-ack RTT over a short window and decreasing quality in 20% increments when alerts are tripped. As soon as RTT returns to normal we jump back to max quality.

- if quality hits minimum, we increase Q, where we normally send every Qth-frame.

Additionally we also maintain two channels: WebSocket and WebRTC, and we actually switch frames to the fastest one. It's usually WebRTC but sometimes it's WebSocket. This switching further eases congestion.

Overall, it's a pretty smoothly working machine, developed from scratch through thousands of iterations and experiments.

This system allows us to essentially side step most congestion.

We trade frame rate for latency, as staying in "sync" with real time is the most important metric for application usability and responsiveness. This is because in resource constrained scenarios it's more important for people to feel that their actions are still having immediate effects, than it is to receive high frequency visual updates about those effects.
In context of format war, winning means that they earn patent fee from every device. I don't think it's Apple's intension, but possibly Qualcomm's.
A few things:

You're a bit apostrophe happy. Sure, as a matter of style and preference you can use apostrophes to pluralize short words / acronyms, but "it's" is a contraction for "it is".

An AMD Ryzen 2700X system for $1500? That might've been a reasonable price in 2018, but you couldn't reasonably spend that kind of money nowadays if you tried.

I'd love to see some more numbers showing implementations that specifically target certain platforms. For instance, you can run LLaMa on a Raspberry Pi, if you really wanted, with certain compromises. How would a fleet of small, inexpensive systems compare with a CPU-based and GPU-based systems?

It's interesting, all the same :)
Probably no one will go to court as this decisions are state sponsored.
Intel to pay Israel employees NIS 5k war grant
> immediately submit and cede control if I encounter someone significantly more competent than myself in the situation of the moment

I have the same tendency and it almost stopped me from earning Eagle Scout. My project was building a cabinet for my school and we were able to use on of the other scout's father's woodshop to do the work. Once there, I, without thinking, basically stepped aside and let him direct. I knew basically nothing about woodworking, and certainly nothing about his shop. Unfortunately for me a big point of an eagle project is to demonstrate leadership, which is hard to do from the sidelines. Fortunately I managed to make the case that I demonstrated enough over the course of the project, but it was definitely an obstacle to have deferred to the competent authority in that case.
null island is a tourist hotspot!!
just because the ISA is free doesn't mean the chips will become supper cheap

RISK-V is currently not really that competitive on the lower end marked as there are just too cheap ARM chips

but it is e.g. very competitive for companies needing large quantities of simple but slightly customized chips where existing cheap ARM chips aren't an option and customized arm chips are too expensive

and there are currently no competitive RISK-V chips in the high end marked

it can somewhat compete on the mid marked, if it wouldn't be for too low quantities driving the price up

it also could be interesting if e.g. Intel or AMD decides to enter the non x86 market as they could cut out license cost to ARM

but all in all I wouldn't be worried about ARM support being reduced in the ecosystem for many many years to come
Just like in real life, it's not about body language OR audio, it's about the combination of both.

Apart from scientific reasons...I also just like to talk and see my colleagues from time to time when we are already not in the same office, but I know that varies from person to person.
That unironically sounds like a minimum requirement for being a good lawyer.
And yet humans plagiarize all the time. And how do you measure genuine creativity? See the Chinese Room thought experiment. Also we generally don't make our tools able to "set off to their own devices" because that's silly. I agree with the substance of software operating differently from humans and that we should currently maintain a distinction between software and human rights. Of which I do not believe copyright is a fundamental one, merely a legislative one(and one I might add has been stolen from current living humans- I'm in midlife and I can't creatively revamp works that are twice as old as I am, how is that fair that I can't use nostalgia from my childhood commercially as an adult?).
Existing codecs are good enough in most cases.
OP Here. Exactly. We have a rate limit imposed by our data provider that's too low for this traffic atm. Hopefully you guys still "get" the concept and awesome to see such feedback. Try and come back when things calm down. Thanks. I'm working on ways to increase the rate limit/find alternative data providers.
> improve upon HEVC on every metrics

Color me the skeptic here, but which benchmark(s) are we talking about? Even h264 vs h265 is not a settled matter - if we truly consider every possible metric, including e.g. SW encoding.
The author addresses this in the text. He claims the wealthy have the time (And I will add access to resources like the internet and books) to spend on learning esoteric knowledge. From my N=1 experience, that seems to be true. I don't really get why that offends you. Is it really hard to believe that people in different social classes prioritize learning different things?
To add:

If you buy a game and receive only a client without a server, you only bought half a game. Expect to rent the other half.
The title is editorialized. There was no reason to change "Thunderbird 115 and Signatures Using The Obsolete SHA-1 Algorithm" into something that implies the new version will be less secure.
I think you missed a word or few in there.
I wonder when Microsoft start selling ad pop-ins on Windows and Xbox. You know, for better and enhanced user experience.
You seemed to miss the part where the judge said that the only things that can be claimed as copyrighted are those things that were submitted to the USPTO for specific narrow coptright

"The other problem for plaintiffs is that it is simply not plausible that every Training Image used to train Stable Diffusion was copyrighted (as opposed to copyrightable), or that all DeviantArt users’ Output Images rely upon (theoretically) copyrighted Training Images, and therefore all Output images are derivative images"

This displays either ignorance as to how artists work and the extent to which they are involved or can be involved in the legal copyright system, or reflects incoherence around the copyright system.

In this case the Judge chose to say, in effect: unless you have explicitly copyrighted it, it's fair use

That is now a new precedent that negatively impacts individual artists who have no power in the market, and protects giant corporate interests which have tons of power in the market
Private whole genome sequencing is <$1k these days.

https://www.illumina.com/techniques/sequencing/dna-sequencin...

https://nebula.org/whole-genome-sequencing-dna-test/
Yes, you should. Especially if you want to scale up without tons of extra work.

The model of "every function should be a separate Lambda" is just moronic - I've seen people run into hard limits on AWS going all-in on this model.

Instead Build a single executable/library and deploy it as a Lambda function.

Now you have automatic versioning, just push and it's a new version. You can label versions and call them based on labels.

Deploying to prod is just swapping the prod label to a new function. Want to roll back? Swap it back.

Credentials: ran a top10 mobile game backend on AWS Lambda with zero issues using a C# monolith.
but maybe you will buy a RISC-V with it being preinstalled before removing it ;=)
It's turtles all the way down :P
This is such a company/team specific thing that I always find it odd if people come up with blanket "meetings are toxic!" statements.
This is a matter of scale, though. There is a big difference between

- Someone wants to know if your DNA matches the killer's... so they get a hold of your DNA and test it

- The companies you interact with all have easy access to everyone's DNA and can make decisions based on things like who is the most likely to get addicted to gambling.

We've been fighting tooth and nail to prevent things like "people with hispanic surnames have a harder time getting a loan for a house". It's illegal to do so, and we still have problems with it. Now talking about adding in all kinds of "this person is more likely to have this condition" into those calculations. And they WILL be included if they're available; even if it's not obvious.
We are talking lambdas here, not 1TB ram workers.

I had to run a authenticated webhook forwarder outside of the out firewall. Yes, I could have made a real machine, but I've made a lambda instead. It's costing us less than $2/month and I spend zero energy on maintenance, security checks, etc. And all config is in a single git repo that anyone can read and understand - there is zero chance of someone ssh'ing into server for a quick fix, then forgetting to record what they did.

Real machines are great for heavy loads, but you just cannot beat lambdas for the lightweight stuff.
The Solar-Panel Backlash Is Here
What team do you need for your ML project? How to build AI A-Team from scratch
My dad also did this when we had christmas at his. The brandy does burn with a pale flame, but if you have the traditional sprig of holly on top of the pudding, and that spring is dry rather than fresh, that will go up like a rocket, with a bright yellow smoky flame.
Last time I opened a personal bank account with a high street branch was 25 years ago, and I think I took my birth certificate.

These days, looking at the Barclays list from the sibling comment, I'd use a letter from HMRC, which I have, but many people in regular salaried employment don't (income tax is completely automated for most).

Other than an HMRC letter, it look like I don't have anything that qualifies as an Id document in the Barclays list. So I couldn't open a high street bank account today if I wanted to.

I actually couldn't vote in the last local election, since they introduced new Id requirements for that, and by the time I learned of the new requirements I had no way to vote. I've voted for decades; that was the first time I couldn't, and hopefully the last as well.
Yes, I also read the article. But, as an English speaker, I found their link to the BBC coverage of the same incident more useful.
This is the first paragraph...

"The contentious issue of whether AI art generators violent copyright — since they are by and large trained on human artists’ work, in many cases without their direct affirmative consent, compensation, or even knowledge — has taken a step forward to being settled in the U.S. today."

Is it human-generated? Violent copyright?
My ISP connects to the greater internet in minneapolis even though I'm in iowa, and that's where the map centered on for me initially. Usually means they are just doing geo off the IP.
Nope, sorry :) -- taxes exist to destroy the supply of money to keep the economy in check.
Mouse and keyboard has more or less ruined the console version of PUBG. It's just too big of an advantage.
"class" and "classy" are different words.

"class" is a social status. "classy" is a behavioral style.
Especially when Google and AOM promise to have a hardware encoder and decoder to be given out for free by 2018, and be implemented in many SoC by 2019, wide availability support and AV2 by 2020.

Well the basic answer is that, making an efficient hardware encoder and decoder, within power budget and die space, all while conforming to standard because you wont have much of a chance to correct it, and implementing it into the SoC design cycle which is and always has been at least three years minimum, is a lot harder than most software engineer at Google and AOM would thought.
No, keep the M1 Max. M1 Max has bigger RAM & better GPU compared to M3 Pro.
I've personally avoided missing flights by breaking from the crowd in airports
> Even when I'm in a group I'm navigating as if I were alone

This ring true to me about my whole life, both in a good and bad senses.
You forgot DoD!
> Maybe mark them and force the player to explain the situation to their peers?

I imagined someone trying to explain to a bunch 12 year olds that they dont cheat, while the kids throw random insults.

Or some random trolls who mark everything as a hack.
> It does not make economic sense for a state or even a country to take costly unilateral action to reduce CO2 emissions when the cost is localized and the benefits are diffuse.

That's kind of tautological.

What about actions that aren't costly or actually save money? Or create geopolitical stability or healthier local environments. Those are obviously a good idea, right, like heat pumps and well insulated buildings and reducing subsidies on things we don't want, like leaked methane?
I take pictures all the time of inanimate objects that are not ordinarily thought of as having a soul. I see them in mirrors too.
Ask HN: Have you sold or licensed tech? Share your story
I'm interested in tech R&D.

Please share your story about selling or licensing intellectual property (in this case code-based IP). Was it a net positive? Would you do something differently if you had the chance?

Thanks (in advance) for sharing.
> For what it's worth, I own a Cronus and it's not nearly as much of an advantage as they sell it as. I bought it just to use as a fightstick adapter and it's kind of mediocre at that too.

It can be pretty scummy in games that have strong aim-assist, however to achieve true scumbaggery you need to download custom anti-recoil scripts designed for specific games/guns. They can work really well in certain games.
American Airlines Shakes Up Airport Gating with Automation
> Either things are causal, in which case, you can replay everything and arrive at the same point. That doens't fit an intuitive definition of free will.

I think this is somewhat inaccurate. I'm not sure if I personally agree with it, but at the very least compatibilism is a serious philosophical viewpoint and shouldn't just be dismissed like this.

In any case I think the concept of "free will" is pretty much independent of randomness. If you provide me with some source of randomness (e.g. some quantum random number generator) I don't think I get more free because of it.
Enough ID-less cookies become a de facto ID pretty quickly. ID cookies are just the easiest method of fingerprinting users.
I got 42% by just tapping the digits of pi according to even/odd.
At least someone finally admits microservices are just a jobs program for software devs.
> And Apple especially I think is unlikely to use AV1 for their video recording, given their investment in other formats for that use-case.

I concur. The raison d'être for AV1 is (lack of) patent license royalties. These apply to user devices as well as services. Think Google: Android as well as YouTube cost fortunes in AVC/HEVC licenses, so here AV1 makes sense.

On the other hand, Apple sells expensive hardware and has no problem ponying those licenses. Soon after adopting HEVC they doubled down with Dolby Vision which technically adds very little on top of standard HDR features already available in HEVC and AVC but present serious interop problems for device come with shiny Dolby stickers.
.US harbors prolific malicious link shortening service
I guess so, I just didn't know when I created the swapfile and was surprised later when I tried to create a snapshot.
Alex Russell and Theo Browne on the Merits and Limitations of React and SPA [video]
As I said, the european/my german perspective does not see this - at least what I have learned. An essential motive of colonialism was the missionization and education of the "primitive, uncivilized race". The Germans saw it as their task to civilize the colonial population by introducing them to German culture and the Christian religion. Other colonial powers, such as Great Britain or France, also followed this ideological motive and tried to educate the "inferior race" in their sense.

Even if it would have been as you described: it would have nothing to do with me cooking african food because I love the taste. It's admiration, not theft.
A diffusion model can't make a copy. That's the whole point. The original Picasso isn't in the model weights.

It has learned to make pixels a particular color to mimic that style, but that's it.
It is normal in the real sense of normativity being the majority.

Automatic-Authority-Bowing individuals are the norm. And that is not a problem per-se. Even if it is unhelpful and annoying to more independent individuals.

What I consider counter-productive to non-normative more independent individuals, is labelling them with some derogatory acronym and turning independence of thought and intelligence into a disease or disability.

It may be a completely different way of approaching the world and everything in it. And it may not be the norm.

However, turning it into a disability, makes for large industries and worse, government, to try and 'screen' and 'treat' Independent Thinkers into oblivion.

All the while making blind rule-following appear to be the something desirable.
I have an XPS 15. And while I liked that I could bring my own SSD and RAM, the build quality is nowhere near a Macbook Pro... like not even in the same galaxy. I had to have it serviced multiple times within the first few weeks. It had to be sent to Texas, and when it returned, one WiFi antenna wouldn't plug into the card, and the light on the front was permanently broken. I could have demanded Dell fix it - and I'd have been even more weeks without my main work laptop. So, by pure numbers/specs? Sure. By real world quality, no way would I favor Dell.
Why does the student give 5 replies?

How does the student add the fractions? Do you have a wysiwyg editor? (I don't expect everyone to type LaTeX.)
I think C++ is a terrible language choice for an intro to CS class
Yes. I've found that with the big IPOs, while everyone is scrambling to somehow get into the stock pre-IPO, or at the first minute of the sale, the stock almost inevitably goes below the IPO price in the first weeks or months of trading. A bit of patience can yield more value.

Then, of course, is the question of whether it will ever go up again... I haven't done the study of whether they are (on average) reliable bargains or fools' gold.
I don't know, I'm most worried about law enforcement abusing access to DNA data, and courts being absolutely convinces of a 0% false positive rate. We may see a wrongful conviction based on DNA dragnet eventually.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12570198/