skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You must have gas stations conveniently placed on your route. I can't even imagine going to Vegas from LA without a horse and buggy currently

The last part felt a little mean-spirited in retrospect. But my intention was to point out that you're just describing a lack of infrastructure yet

Once we build this stuff it's *there for use* and just has the usual burdens of maintenance. Arguably less since we don't need to transport big trucks full of oil to it regularly
Will it tell you to cancel itself? Seems counterintuitive...
I don't understand why you putting the blame on the board, instead of the CEO, who:
1. is way more responsible for the direction the company deviated to
2. was in fight against the board, who did not like his direction
3. will be in the new company leading everything.

So all the bad that you criticize OpenAI for would leave to MS, and yet people are still cheering for it.

I am truly baffled.
IGBT's changed power conversion as we know it!
But there is no proof whatsoever that they did this to uphold the nonprofit charter.

And until that proof surfaces I'm going on the assumption that it doesn't exist because if it does exist they would have certainly used it to bolster their case.

Note Ilya's statement of regret and that none of the board members have said a word and that the current CEO is nowhere to be seen. That does not look like a group of people that are acting boldly in the defense of their corporate charter to me.

It looks like a bunch of weasels that thought they could get away with murdering the chicken while they were unattended for five minutes and they're now all covered with blood and pretending to be innocent.
Show me one company not checking at least one of the boxes...
I don't think so, I think it just happens to be that common lisp is more oriented around lists and not vectors.

Since we're in lisp, you can imagine some macros that make working with matrices easier!
The rumour about Binance indictment by DoJ has been going around for 1-2 years now. Its one of the last remaining pieces of major news that could have potentially negatively affected the industry. After two years of prosecutions, regulatory uncertainty and general poor market conditions, its only now starting to feel like there's light at the end of the tunnel.
It looks like the huggingface page links their github that seems to have python scripts to run these: https://github.com/Stability-AI/generative-models
I’m guessing that’s why I had the association. Thanks for reminding me!
> But they already get my user data

You know, I'm curious, I've never asked, and never actually gave it a true, real, hard thought.

You, rando internet person, is making a claim:

"they already get my user data"

So you are completely aware of what this data is?

You are completely aware of its true, real, actual value?

Maybe user data is less valuable than we all perceive?

It could explain the increase in ads.

It could explain why paying for YouTube Premium is an overall much better solution to the problem.

I imagine a future where you don't use YouTube Premium simply because you're checking something quickly somewhere where you're not logged in.

Remember, most videos are 1 time watch. Maybe YouTube should consider a pay-as-you-use system?
Being done. https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/cooling-the-tube-engine... (from 2017, 59 HN comments from 2022 at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31694445) says

> Elsewhere, they’ve been using cool groundwater to cool some of the stations. An experiment at Victoria station was the first, as water from the River Tyburn was used to cool the air in the station. This was only an experiment, but at Green Park, a permanent version was installed in 2012.

> There, five boreholes were drilled deep down into the ground, and here cool water is sucked up to the surface, used to cool a separate water supply which is pumped down to cool the platforms, and the warmed groundwater is also pumped back into the ground.
To provide some clarity on this, it's not specifically coded into the system to prefer one particular browser over another, but rather, it's independent of all browsers and using the useragent as a string as part of a group.

Chrome could equally be as effected by this as any other browser.
The rate of progress in ML this past year has been breath taking.

I can’t wait to see what people do with this once controlnet is properly adapted to video. Generating videos from scratch is cool, but the real utility of this will be the temporal consistency. Getting stable video out of stable diffusion typically involves lots of manual post processing to remove flicker.
I'm still puzzled as to how these "non-commercial" model licenses are supposed to be enforceable. Software licenses govern the redistribution of the software, not products produced with it. An image isn't GPL'd because it was produced with GIMP.
More like the logs are vulnerable to the hydrofoils. Those vertical wings look like they can slice anything in half.
In addition, Google is still run disorganized-bag-of-cats management style and YouTube is so indpendent from the mothership they're almost their own company.

Conspiracy is unlikely purely because Neal Mohan is empowered to tell the Chrome team to pound sand and will do so if he thinks they'd make a call that would damage YouTube's numbers.
I'm not one to mind the guardrails - but what i hate is something you mentioned, fighting the tool.

Eg "Do an X-like thing" where X is something it may not be allowed to do, gets rejected. But then i say "Well, of course - that's why i said X-like. Do what you can do in that direction, so that it is still okay".

Why do i even have to say that? I get why, but still - just expressing my frustration. I'm not trying to push boundaries, and i'm usually happy to ignore the off limits stuff. But when it so easily collides with "actually okay but just near the off limits stuff" then that makes a whole bunch of other -- actually okay -- stuff randomly off limits as well.
The problem with hydrofoils is that they don't scale up very well. Practically all larger designs were always gas turbine powered to even be able to supply enough power for initial liftoff and guzzled kerosene at laughably unprofitable rates. Much like ekranoplans and hovercrafts they didn't really prove to be economical in the long run.

This smaller bus-sized version might genuinely be at the limit of what makes sense with current battery and motor tech.
Thats not always true, they keep some stuff that is a success for a long time, but they are also not afraid to drop there failures like ActiveX, SilverLight, VBScript, ...

And i am afraid blazer may be next.
Can this be used for porn?
IP addresses might vary depending on geo location or time. Here is what I get from DNS currently, that you can put in your /etc/hosts

51.38.69.52 archive.is archive.today

41.77.143.21 archive.ph archive.li archive.vn archive.fo archive.md

And if all else fails, install Tor and access their site at archiveiya74codqgiixo33q62qlrqtkgmcitqx5u2oeqnmn5bpcbiyd.onion
Show HN: Neum AI – Open-source large-scale RAG framework
Over the last couple months we have been supporting developers in building large-scale RAG pipelines to process millions of pieces of data.

We documented our approach in an HN post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37824547) a couple weeks ago. Today, we are open sourcing the framework we have developed.

The framework focuses on RAG data pipelines and provides scale, reliability, and data synchronization capabilities out of the box.

For those newer to RAG, it is a technique to provide context to Large Language Models. It consists of grabbing pieces of information (i.e. pieces of news articles, papers, descriptions, etc.) and incorporating them into prompts to help contextualize the responses. The technique goes one level deeper in finding the right pieces of information to incorporate. The search for relevant information is done through the use of vector embeddings and vector databases.

Those pieces of news articles, papers, etc. are transformed into a vector embedding that represents the semantic meaning of the information. These vector representations are organized into indexes where we can quickly search for the pieces of information that most closely resembles (from a semantic perspective) a given question or query. For example, if I take news articles from this year, vectorize them, and add them to an index, I can quickly search for pieces of information about the US elections.

To help achieve this, the Neum AI framework features:

Starting with built-in data connectors for common data sources, embedding services and vector stores, the framework provides modularity to build data pipelines to your specification.

The connectors support pre-processing capabilities to define loading, chunking and selecting strategies to optimize content to be embedded. This also includes extracting metadata that is going to be associated to a given vector.

The generated pipelines support large scale jobs through a high throughput distributed architecture. The connectors allow you to parallelize tasks like downloading documents, processing them, generating embedding and ingesting data into the vector DB.

For data sources that might be continuously changing, the framework supports data scheduling and synchronization. This includes delta syncs where only new data is pulled.

Once data is transformed into a vector database, the framework supports querying of the data including hybrid search using the available metadata added during pre-processing. As part of the querying process, the framework provides capabilities to capture feedback on retrieved data as well as run evaluations against different pipeline configurations.

Try it out and if interested in chatting more about this shoot us an email founders@tryneum.com
I believe it was a fig leaf all along and I believe that that fig leaf was abused for personal gain or to settle a score with disregards to the consequences.

That's based on a long time in business, I can't recall the last time I saw someone blow up an 80 billion dollar company based on ethics alone.
It works great on Android Firefox, but... no zoom?
it absolutely makes sense.

The company I work for owns several hotels, which are managed by another company entirely owned by the parent company.

When I stay at the company's hotel for a business trip, they pay the same fee everybody else pay.

It would be both unfair competition and tax fraud to do otherwise.
His secretary may have typed them, but if they were mostly written by his secretary then Stanford wouldn't have paid to have them archived. Even though the messages are mostly redacted, actually going through and doing those redactions is still hundreds of hours of work.
I regularly have video calls from the UK to NZ with no issues at all. Might be your provider.
Looks good, though a bit two dimensional. Is it possible to use displacement or normal mapping versus bump mapping in a browser?
For whom did you consult? What collection did you sell? What trades did you make, with what starting capital?

If you can't answer those questions -- questions the tax man at least will expect you to answer, and probably other people as well -- you might as well say "I found money in the street."
You don't need exchanges for cryptocurrencies to work, they just make onboarding easier.
This is not the case. WhatsApp is only prevalent outside the United States and doesn't compare to iMessage in terms of features, privacy, security, long-term storage of messages and media, etc.
Seems like a feel-good idea but one which would be better implemented by just giving people the money instead and letting them do what they will with it
Whether they need to or not, they do the same. https://nitter.net/TechEmails/status/1444367219509637123
I think they added those links later, IIRC the comment was just the first line of text when I replied but that's interesting for sure.
Open source question answering over videos:

> With the binding of unified visual representations to the language feature space, we enable an LLM to perform visual reasoning capabilities on both images and videos simultaneously.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman - I've been meaning to look it up for a while.
That went out the window the day they made the deal with MS and that's precisely when they took off. With a few billion in your pocket you are able to execute faster and better on your vision than when you are doing it for glory and fame.
The dashboard looks clean in this loom, and I don't think the pictures you have on https://www.catalystmonitor.com/ do the same justice that this loom does. The pics look a little blurry, and it's hard to see how the screenshots fit in. While the loom shows off the entire dashboard and looks great!

Best of luck with everything
Yes and no. No doubt the medical profession requires talent and rigor, but I think to some extent the hurdles which are placed in front of students who want to become doctors are artificially high to help justify the small number of graduates medical schools put out, which protects the artificially high salaries.

For instance, if you read up on the frankly cruel residency process which doctors are forced to clear in the US, the insane hours are in large part because one of the doctors who was influential in shaping the current practice was an abuser of stimulants.

So I think it's a bit of a "just so" story to assume that the version of the medical profession we have is the best possible version.

And indeed Cuba is a good counter-example to your argument. Unless Cubans are just a lot more clever and resilient on average than Americans for example.
Looks like I'm still good for my bet with some friends that before 2028 a team of 5-10 people will create a blockbuster style movie that today costs 100+ million USD on a shoestring budget and we won't be able to tell.
So, small Android developers pay all the Google t̶a̶x̶e̶s̶ fees, but big Spotify doesn't.
I think that argument fares even worse. The board only needs to prove to a judge they believed firing Sam would benefit the charter, and the leaks from their camp have stated as much. The board has deliberately stayed silent to avoid legal exposure, not a surprise.
I wouldn't like it either, but that doesn't make it "slavery". Presumably you have the option to work in your country of citizenship. A slave does not.
Zero. And if it was done without board approval then that would have been the moment to can him.
FTX and Binance are exchanges, not cryptos. It's like confusing NYSE and NASDAQ with the stocks that they exchange.
Designing an App for Audio Journalism – From the Ground Up – NYT Open
> I think instead you'd send a timestamp (unix or NTFS or TAI or other) annotated with "Norway"

This is what I attempted to write with "2023-10-29T02:15NO" (NO being Norway's country code).

> Am I that bad at explaining this?

Could be I'm dense, and it's not my field of expertise.

Let's say Norway has decided to change it's offset from +01:00 to +01:15 at 2024-01-01T01:00:00Z. I have a process that records timestamps, and lets imagine it records them with the suggested named offsets instead of numerical offsets, in the format shown above.

Later next year, you look in the logs and see 2024-01-01T02:07:00NO. How do you know which time this is in UTC?

With numerical offsets this is simple, because it would either be recorded as 2024-01-01T02:07:00+01:00 or 2024-01-01T02:07:00+01:15. But when you just have NO, how to you convert the timestamp to UTC?
Or repeated roles that are used as "nets" to catch as many applicants as possible.
I'm not so much in the "constantly rebuilding my site" territory, but as a general rule the stuff on my blog is pretty high-effort (and, I like to think, pretty high quality). I need to get in the habit of writing short quick updates every now and then.

As much as stuff like X / Twitter is annoying / harmful / bad for society / $negative_words , one thing about blogging is that the return on effort has been somewhat low for me, whereas Twitter can really increase your reach.

I recently did a pretty huge post as an extension of a comment I wrote on the /r/guitarlessons subreddit, and also made a video demo of the concept. My analytics suggest that about 10% of the people who watched the video clicked the link to my site. That netted out to about 10-15 views of the article.

I don't care necessarily, in the sense that there's not really an incentive for me to "get views" - I'm not advertising or expecting to make any money or anything - but I do, you know, want people to read my stuff after putting so much effort to make it.

That said, though, there has been a benefit to me, at least, in that I frequently reference at least one of the articles I wrote when I need a refresher in SVG. So I guess in some sense, that effort was well spent to create a high quality reference resource for myself.
If we're going to list the signs that could apply to OpenAI, let's list them all:

3. Young ‘uns and a bigger-than-life CEO

6. Innovation like no other company

7. Goodness in some areas atones for evil in others
Father of two. Can confirm. Also consider the dozens of kids I have had to deal with in my home over the years.

Screens are poison.
I said 'sufficiently coercive', because the equivalence is in the limit. Even just one corporation that you can opt out of is a step up from government in many regards. But it can also be a step down in other regards if there are fewer ways to influence that corporation, and the consequences of opting out are significant.

There are of course differences in the ways you can "address, rebuke, curtail, and prevent that control" based on the specific details of the entity - just as there are stark differences between democracies versus dictatorships, and publicly traded corporations versus privately held. And when we're talking about pushing back, those details should certainly be mentioned.

But my point of emphasizing the similarities between the two large categories is to preempt this all too common pattern of people justifying corporate oppression by framing it in terms of voluntary association, while turning a blind eye to the actual coercive dynamic. I'm sure we do agree on a lot of things, but honestly your first comment is ripe with laying the groundwork for such type of justification. Corporations can certainly prevent you from speaking your mind - for example a geographic-monopoly Internet provider that censors based on content. The next step in the argument is of course "you can still speak your mind, just not using their infrastructure", but given that the sheer majority of speech is online today, that reasoning is specious - it's deliberately ignoring the power the company is actually wielding.

Or coming at it from the other direction - if it's definitionally impossible for corporations to exercise coercive power, then why is accumulating such power one of the tenets of business ("build a moat"), and why are so many people so damn interested in having certain corporations perform censorship?

An uncomfortable truth is that the main thing preventing corporations from having their own full-blown armies is the bona fide government. This circular dynamic is why I've come around to viewing freedom as a kind of logical reduction yin-yang rather as a unidirectional gradient - if the bona fide government disappeared tomorrow, the net effect would actually be the loss of much freedom, as those other aggressors would no longer be kept in check. Big-L Libertarianism sidesteps this by just asserting that having a singular military is one of the few necessary functions of government, but it's not clear why such an exception should only apply to one single topic when that same circular dynamic applies at other levels of abstraction.
But who has the power to remove the board?
That seems to vary by video. I never log in, and some videos I found had zero or few ads, while others get an ad every few minutes. I am not sure how much of that is controlled by content creators[1] and how much of that is pushed by advertiser demands[2].

[1] https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/233723152

[2] https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/12400225
Wait, so can this be used to model a card game like Magic The gathering?
> I decide how to use my tools, not the other way 'round.

This is the key.

The only sensible model of "alignment" is "model is aligned to the user", not e.g. "model is aligned to corporation" or "model is aligned to woke sensibilities".
In the video towards the bottom of the page, there are two birds (blue jays), but in the background there are two identical buildings (which look a lot like the CN Tower). CN Tower is the main landmark of Toronto, whose baseball team happens to be the Blue Jays. It's located near the main sportsball stadium downtown.

I vaguely understand how text-to-image works, and so it makes sense that the vector space for "blue jays" would be near "toronto" or "cn tower". The improvements in scale and speed (image -> now video) are impressive, but given how incredibly able the image generation models are, they simultaneously feel crippled and limited by their lack of editing / iteration ability.

Has anyone come across a solution where model can iterate (eg, with prompts like "move the bicycle to the left side of the photo")? It feels like we're close.
Do I really have to give my phone number?
I'm starting to wonder if it was a gang of four or if it was a gang of three and they used one of the cofounders (Ilya) to turn on his cofounders to get control of the company.
If it can't, someone will massage it until it can. Porn, and probably also stock video to sell to YouTubers.
> I find it weird that so many people think they should be entitled to everything for free.

Exactly: Nobody's entitled to my information without paying me. I use adblockers to keep out the freeloaders.

Subscribing doesn't stop them from collecting information or showing me ads. Quite the opposite.
>This article is just about CSS not the entire frontend web stack.

Why waste your effort to inform me something I already know? You know that I know.

>Curious though, do you consider server-side-rendered components "frontend?"

Why are you curious about vocabulary and categorization? If you know what I'm talking about by "front-end-stack" then who cares?
Seems like an oversight to disinclude Chicago, Raleigh (Research Triangle), and Salt Lake City.
I wouldn't be so sure of those things

A few years ago, I worked on a video game published by Microsoft. We ran game servers in Azure, and on Windows for obvious reasons. The project had to pay for the windows licenses from MS, despite being entirely funded by them, partially developed by an internal studio, on aMS first party IP.

I don't recall how much it cost exactly, but the cost of the per-core windows server license hourly is not far off the cost of a core on AWS these days.
You're explaining why we don't build useful rail. It seems like there's a really easy first place to look in every major city. Find the biggest interstate, discriminating also by straightness and grade, pick one direction, and start building rail. Divide the other side up into two directions. There are very few places that wouldn't be left with >2 lanes of freeway for each direction, even after halving the right of way. For the few exceptions, they'd have to think a little harder.

In reality, such a series of actions could only exist in a society that got seriously focused on moving away from private auto, and that means density would increasingly be in style. As soon as the NIMBY floodgates came down, property prices would plummet in all but the smallest cores of desirable areas, since it would be readily apparent that you can't build all expensive areas to the level of intensity that justifies insane land values seen in sprawling cities.

Again, we could, but I recognize that we don't. Let's just not say that we can't.
Epigenetics is the catch-all term. “Evolution in Four Dimensions” is an interesting if slightly dated book going into many of the ways that the expression of your genetic material can chance who you are.