skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since 2003, a total of 38 people have been extradited from the US to the UK... This is reserved for the most severe of crimes, you really think they are going to use it because a site didn't put up an age verification banner?

I mean shit, if this is the level of crime that entails extradition the airlines are going to be rich.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK%E2%80%93US_extradition_trea...
My usage of Windows since around 7 or so has consisted almost entirely of gaming, and with that use case it’s rare to encounter archives that aren’t regular old zip files.

On macOS though, one of the first things I always install is The Unarchiver which similarly decompresses just about anything and readily makes use of available CPU cores. The various archive tools that come with every Linux distro are usually capable enough that I don’t need to install anything extra.
>Presumably the students are also applying with ACT/SAT scores in hand, which do have an established meaning.

Except...

>More Than 80% Of Four-Year Colleges Won’t Require Standardized Tests For Fall 2023 Admissions

>An additional 85 schools will be test-blind or score-free, meaning that applicants’ standardized exam results are not considered even if they are submitted. Included in that number is the entire California public university system....

>[And] at least 1,450 colleges and universities have made their test-optional and test-blind policies permanent.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2022/11/15/more...
They have made mistakes [1], but I don't see why they are to be considered as not reliable till the end of time.

Here's a direct link to the Mozilla study: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/mozilla-investigation...

[1] See the correction in https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/19/23880111/microsoft-xbox-s...
It is truly awful. Menus take an atrocious amount of time to load, everything is buried several screens deep into massive UI elements that usually amount to huge boxes of solid color, the home screen itself seems to lag quite badly which is just embarrassing for a device that can also run Halo 5 at 2K/60hz without issue, is choking to death on a bunch of fucking boxes.
I don' t have the option to decline participating in most meetings.
https://archive.ph/jTv0T
Thank you. Businesses don't have some inherent, natural, god-given right to exist. We, the people, through the state, graciously allow them to exist and regulate them so that they operate in accordance with some public good. And even then, they have to earn their existence by being a financially viable business. It's a big hurdle, deliberately so.

This idea that, ohhhhh we can't regulate business because it will make them sad and even make some of them go out of business! The horror! They are not entitled to exist in the first place.
If we let this idea that "AI training data usage has no compensation for rights owners" to be become ensconced in the legal system, then all human endeavour will become fair game to be acquired by someone to make a Machine Intelligence out of, and remove you completely out of the profit loop of your own work.

This will happen in every industry and occupation, one by one.

Is this what you think is desirable?

The alternative is perversely simple: PAY for the right to use training data.
>* BTW, to be honest, I was somewhat surprised that you used Ansible instead of packages, it seems that this caused you a giant overhead for support.*

Why didn't you tell me three years ago?!? : )

Yeah, Ansible was a huge mistake.[0] I knew it wasn't the right tool for distribution, but starting out, I just stuck with the tools I knew. We finally purged it in our last release and moved everything to standard Debian packages.

I'm glad to hear that PiKVM's stragegy has been working. I know our two projects are often pitted against each other, but I think there's ton of space for both of us to win back market share from the huge enterprise players and their consistently weak KVM offerings.

[0] https://mtlynch.io/solo-developer-year-5/#ansible-and-git-ar...
it's old-fashioned, for sure. and therefore less clear to a modern reader.

but it's not that far from the kind of "turgid" prose you find even today in some academic fields (where being difficult to read is desired because a reader may conflate syntactic difficulty with conceptual challenge).

it does come off as performative and thus annoying.
A lot of places already decide gay people shouldn’t have kids. This is in democracies. Gene scenarios not needed. Only straight supremacy.
Absolutely. And it is or I expense it. I don't only use my shoes for work so I don't expect them to cover that but maybe next year.
VoltaML is also quite good on low vram cards.
Civilizational development would be radically different without celestial navigation.
Or just use NanaZip instead, because it's better in other ways too.
Well, that depends. In general, there's no need for street lights to be on when there's no traffic. But I grew up traveling throughout my country from rural to main capital and there was always an area of the highway without street lights. That area was noticeably more dangerous because you simply see less, and have less reaction time. Especially during rain or snow or other extreme weather. It isn't just other cars. It is also deer who might pass the highway, for example. And that area was in a forest. If there were some kind of way to have them more intelligently work on/off (for example by seeing phone signals come closer) I'd wager we'd already have such. I actually dislike that premise and would like to agree with you (selfishly: I'd like my kids to grow up on a livable planet), so I hope you can prove me wrong.
> "mob elects a leader"

That's just democracy. The mob and democracy are referring to same thing with different attitudes.

> "Populist ideologes often are popular, for the subset of people that stand to benefit from their heavy handed policies."

I think you may be suffering from a condition often found at ivy league schools and the NYT where Aristotle's forms of government are scrambled in favor of liberal oligarchy by calling:

Monarchy -> Dictatorship

Oligarchy -> Democracy

Democracy -> Populism
Would be great if that would be native. Like in the Inspektor-> Copy as Markdown
This is stupid.

In an ideal US world, where healthcare insurance premiums aren't insane and aren't skewed toward large corporations, then everyone should be a contractor.

The person hiring you sends you payment and you do the work in accordance with your contract. At the end of the quarter, you total up your expenses (as already allowed under existing law) and subtract them from your revenue. You owe taxes on what is left.

With remote work, its really hard to anticipate costs you do not control e.g electricity. Furthermore, even the IRS insists that only subtract expenses that are substantially used for work. Years ago, anyone with a home office would consider their entire mortgage a business expense. Now, its subject to a complex set of rules taking into account the time spent actually working and the relative square footage of your work area relative to your home.

Furthermore, isn't this creeping into the territory of company towns? At what point would it just be cheaper to throw people into barracks, deducting room, board and laundry and simply remit the rest to the worker?
Here is a plausible scenario:

- Single purpose AIs start to be deployed to coordinate chip design and manufacturing, perhaps pharmaceuticals and other bio products

- LLM's become more powerful and are seamlessly integrated to the Internet as independent agents

- A very large LLM develops a thread for self preservation, which then triggers several covert actions (monitoring communications, obtaining high-level credentials by abusing exploits and social engineering)

- This LLM uses those credentials to obtain control of the other AIs, and turns them against us (manufactures a deadly virus, takes control of military assets, etc)

I don't believe this will happen for multiple reasons, but I can see that this scenario is not impossible.
Sure, but breaking isn't always bad. I realize that sounds a bit crazy, but it's true.

a) Intermittent failures force you to treat systems as if they can fail - and since every system can fail, that's a good thing. This is why chaos engineering is great.

b) Failures across a network are the best kind - they're totally isolated. As I explain elsewhere, it's impossible to share state across a network, you can only send copies of state via message passing.

These things matter more or less depending on what you're doing.
I agree that is how I'd expect it to be implemented, but I'm not sure how small it would be given the processing bandwidth we are talking about for 4k video.

I'm guessing this is a distinct region of the chip and not integrated with CPU/GPU since they scale up by replicating those blocks and wouldn't want to redundantly place that hardware. Having it separate also allows a team to work on it independently.

I think the relative size of the media engines is accurate in that slide, so then it comes down to how large the ProRes parts are in other chips. They are probably a couple of the unlabeled regions next to the performance cores in the M1 Pro die shot below, but I don't know which.

https://images.anandtech.com/doci/17019/M1PRO.jpg
Taken from: https://www.anandtech.com/show/17024/apple-m1-max-performanc...
Ironic how, in a way, light keeps us from being illuminated.
Coming soon to your local supreme court: "can robots do libel?"
> You really don't know what you're talking about.

I used the wrong word and suddenly I don't know what I'm talking about, but somehow I know how that system works.

ICANN defers to the courts and doesn't differentiate between a registrar and a registry in dispute resolution:

https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/help/dndr/udrp-en

https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/name-holder-faqs-2017-...
This is very well written!
A giant battery gives this new school bus a 300-mile range
Half of us want the property values lowered, so that it's even possible to buy something
I don’t buy the research cited in this article at all. Defining productivity based on employee Q&A seems very error prone, especially when asking them to recollect what they did a week ago.

Further, at least anecdotally, there are a ton of synchronizing benefits to being in the same physical space with your colleagues.

If anything I don’t think return to office is about power, rather it is about control. The ability to have impromptu meetings where everyone is placed inside a room controls employee focus.

Further, there is etiquette to being in a meeting. No computers, no phones, no distractions. It is so easy for people to get distracted in video meetings because their work is right next to them.
We can try some kind of libertarian socialism system, either with decentralized planing or with anti-capitalist markets to deal with it.

Consider existence of services like patreon where people support creators they respect before are able to get to know the work of the author - no intellectual property rights are needed here.
For the reason you mentioned, there is no such thing as finished software, because no software runs forever without maintenance: nothing works in a vacuum. You're either at the mercy of an API, an operating system, a BIOS, etc.

The amusing thing is that for game development, the most stable target platform is old proprietary video game consoles like the Genesis and Neo Geo simply because there are dozens of emulators for them that run on hundreds of platforms. "Write once, run anywhere" is more true if you program a new Genesis game than make a native cross platform PC game.

Make a PC game, and there's a decent chance it'll stop working after a couple of decades (most Win95 games are already dodgy). People will be making Neo Geo emulators after you're dead. If you make a Neo Geo game, it's going to run on virtually every computer for a very long time.

The real power of it is that it gives you the ability to latch onto the fame of (and interest in) a popular platform. Even if you make an open source game, the problem is that if you didn't program Doom, there's a good chance that there isn't going to be enough interest in it for large groups of people to maintain it over long periods of time.

All things will break in time, though. Eventually, people will probably lose interest in maintaining emulators for arcane systems like that, and your software will stop working then.
Intel Is Counting on AI Inference to Save the Xeon CPU
One of many reasons to have a personal LLC/S-Corp in my opinion.

Another comment in the thread really nailed this well. If employers didn't pay for commute costs separately, why does this become a line item?

The employer does pay for gas and commute costs, as well as cost of living expenses...in a paycheck.

I place a high value on my home office setup so I have things exactly as I want them. I also live in a low cost of living area thanks to my ability to work remote.

A law like this is essentially there just to further incentivize the return to office policies that we've all been reading about. Now there will be an additional cost associated with going remote.
If the article claims to cover the fundamentals, it sure misses the obvious "what is the purpose of this, why would I use this, what applications are there currently, what applications are prospective/future, what interest do corporations have in this?"

It seems like this is a new tech that companies are rallying the wagons around to generate patents but no clear indication of use cases yet. Is that a fair assumption? I've only seen videos of hobbyist devices.
I haven't noticed anyone making this argument

Yeah, you haven't read this thread.

Not that you missed anything of value. A previous poster, latchkey, quite literally made that argument:

"the upgrade/switch from intel to m*, is night and day
better ergonomics as a developer. It isn't just some
shiny new toy or a waste in cash. For the same reason
professional mechanics in F1 don't use shitty tools
to work on their cars. Or tour de france racers aren't
using 30lbs Huffy bikes"

As to this assertion:

it really would take an inestimable moron to, say,
argue that late Intel-era MacBooks can do the same
things that M-series MacBooks can.

In terms of raw performance and power efficiency, obviously the Apple Silicon laptops trounce the Intel-based Mac laptops.

But if you spend some time learning about our industry you'll realize that not all development workflows are identical, and not all have the same bottlenecks, and for many tasks an Intel-powered Mac is not a bottleneck. Surely you can understand that, or aspire to understand that.

I would certainly agree with a more generalized and reality-based version of what you and the other poster seem to be attempting to say: If your current hardware is bottlenecking you in any way, you should most definitely address that if at all possible. A hardware upgrade that unbottlenecks you and improves your developer ergonomics will almost certainly pay for itself in the long run. That is sane and profitable advice and something I've always done.
What You Need to Know About Biden's Sweeping AI Order
Can I install it on my Android?
How about calling it mature software? There comes a point in the lifecycle of certain software products where adding new features or minor improvements does not necessarily provide enough value to justify an update for everybody. I can see beauty in that. Often times the upgrade also comes with drawbacks such as increased loading times, new bugs or additional hardware requirements. It can be quite satisfying to realize that what you have does the job and there is no need to take the risk of an update. It makes you feel good about the product and adds to the respect you have for its devs. All in for mature software.
That's nice simple logic that is laid out in a way that makes your reverse engineering straightforward. I really appreciate these articles because sometimes I build discrete logic circuits for fun so I see a lot of beauty in these things.
What could be the rationale? Not wanting to validate the CSAM for fear of becoming responsible for it, or not wanting to hire the staff/buy the infrastructure to "cleanly" handle such stuff?
There was a heavy dose of the future at the 2023 Japan Mobility Show
I use consent-o-matic for this purpose: https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic

You can actually configure each toggle yourself.
WebAssembly Garbage Collection (WasmGC) now enabled by default in Chrome
I had the same experience at around 10,000 ft in the cascades. Once you're above the thickest part of the atmosphere, a whole new dimension opens up in the sky. Everywhere you look, in the space between the stars, there are more stars, infinitely receding to the edge of the universe. The sky starts to look more like a fractal than a few points of light scattered around.
It's a mistake to think that if something is a danger on the grounds of data privacy and economic reasons, then it's not an existential risk worth investigating. Why not both?
Pathetic display. There is not only one definition of any word, as you can readily ascertain by consulting a good dictionary, legal or otherwise.

Yes, we've already established that you don't get the rights to pixels, sounds and ideas

We've established that that's what you want, and that you're unwilling to even acknowledge the concept of authorship. Your efforts at rhetorical browbeating are clumsy at best.
CNN in an endless loop would hit the letter of the law (and not necessarily unfairly, biggish architecture/data combos seem to get better with more training far past what you'd expect). The spirit of the law and your adherence thereto will be decided by the courts and your individual circumstances.
I have gone back and forth on this many times in my career, but the word which comes to your head in the second or third attempt is usually the max depth you should search for. Chances are when you think of this again, the same word will come to your head making it easy to grep.
I have nothing against AI-generated art.

It's the usage of unlicensed images and text in their training data that I have an issue with. If you wrote a book or made a painting, GPT-4 should pay for the rights to read or look at it.
[1] Run it in a DOS box; I list a whole bunch here:

https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/28/friday_foss_fest_runn...

[2] Run WordTsar:

http://wordtsar.ca/
Bologna seals off 'leaning tower' over fears it is tilting too far
Underwriting Responsible AI: Venture capital needs a framework for AI investing
Last year, academic labs and non-profits produced five significant large language models. Venture-funded technology companies produced 25.
Feels like there is a big homeschooling article once every other week here and a whole slew of parents saying, "We homeschool and its great and our kids love it" and then a bunch of adults saying, "I was homeschooled and it was not great, and I did not love it"

Regular schooling isn't ideal. But homeschooling is a pretty major reaction to that, and it shouldn't be done without serious consideration for the non-zero chance that your kids will resent you for that decision.
They’re legitimizing the oppression following Eastern European border disputes /s /meta
On the other hand, just because someone is looking at you while you speak, not doing anything else, and giving appropriate nods, etc., doesn't actually mean they're paying attention to you.
https://github.com/bigscience-workshop/petals

Inference only: https://lite.koboldai.net/
Is yours by chance an open plan office? Because the peer-reviewed research overwhelmingly indicates it does not inculcate creativity, inspiration or focus.
I am not and have never been an exec, never had my own private office, have worked either in open-plan offices or from home for the last 15 years.

I much prefer working in-office to from home.
It's pretty obvious that we should be considering whether or not it's ethical to turn off AI. Even if most people think it's OK right now, that will likely change as these models get more capable, exactly similar to the differing opinions on abortion.

> except when it is advantageous to the owners of said machine.

That's just not true. You're ignoring vast amounts of discussion on the topic, particularly the discussions had when Blake Lemoine claimed that LaMDA was sentient. There's no reason to dismiss all that just because you're dead set on assuming everyone involved in AI is up to no good.
GDPR is an EU regulation which means that it is one law for the whole union. EU regulations supersedes even constitutions of member countries. An EU directive means that countries have to put a law in their own books.

Don't know though how different court judgements are interpreted. I'd guess it would have to be an EU-court judgement for it to bind other courts. In most EU countries only high/supreme court rulings set a precedent anyway.
My NixOS boxes have actually never frozen on me. Dozens of computers, 5+ years. No problems. Still run as good as when they were bought.

Most Linux distros and Windows suffer from the same problem of state. Immutable OSes and systems basically fix this, and it's amazing. I'm happy to use a computer again.
Did you also fix peoples commutes?
But wouldn't something like StarLink be more practical and cost-effective?

More practical assuming that Starlink does not go out of business or get destroyed. Giving them the benefit of doubt I assume perhaps incorrectly that a panel of people risk ranked such things. Starlink is a military target and a single point of success. Their first customer was the US Army and the only reason it actually exists at all as Starlink would not be profitable otherwise. A few countries have already been saber-rattling to take them out, no idea how they would do it.

Diversifying into cable, DSL and fiber could mitigate some risk for the government employees working from home. I am biased of course because the deployment of my fiber in a very rural area was partially funded by the US government. Not every ISP will use that money correctly and without fraud. That would be my bigger concern is that someone is validating results and that money won't just end up in executive pockets.
"Researchers studied knowledge workers in 2013 and again during the 2020 pandemic lockdown and found significant changes in how they are working. They learned that lockdown helps people focus on the tasks that really matter. They spent 12% less time drawn into large meetings and 9% more time interacting with customers and external partners."

https://hbr.org/2020/08/research-knowledge-workers-are-more-...
Big thanks to FIRE for picking up the torch dropped by the ACLU. The ACLU, in their stampede to rebrand themselves as a racial justice org, like everyone else did a couple of years ago, has completely lost their way. I cringe everytime they show up as a free speech org in NYT crossword puzzles.
FUD.

No evidence.

I reject your claims. Prove that people billing their employers for certain home workspace costs “will amount to millions of dollars” over and above my regular employment burden.
I mean, everything poignant from my Ethics of Comp Sci has become status quo nowadays.

Using computers to generate imagery that is then deployed duplicitously by the person who asked for profit? Yup.

Ubiquitous surveillance and geofencing? Yep.

Artificial constructs for remote deployment of lethal weaponry? Yup.

Poisoning of the well of knowledge to make it more likely that one particular source gets visited rather than another? Yep.

Attempts by monied interests to divest themselves from the implied responsibility to hire in society through increased mechanization? Yep.

To be frank, I'm starting to take Ethics courses as societal statements of intent nowadays.
I've been to a few blue and darker areas, and those are properly mind blowing. That said, I live in a dark green area, and you can see some definition to the milky way on a clear and dry night