skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that it annihilated their investment comes to mind.

The only defense the board would have is that they absolutely needed to fire the CEO to protect their precious non-profit charter. But for that to be the case they would need to show their homework. I don't see that happening and so they may well be exposed. At least two of the remaining board members are not positioned at all to take on Microsoft in a fight like that, they'll fold like chopsticks. Microsoft can keep this up for a decade if they want and not lose money on it.
Sam might not have been candid with the board about the implications of the deal.
No OpenAI without Microsoft's involvement
Yeah agreed, it seems clear the author started with the conclusion and worked backwards to figure out how to use data to get them there.

I don't even have a strong opinion about the best city but when you see that style of writing a few times you kind of learn to spot it.
I wonder if internet access and instant-entry is /necessarily/ a distraction or impediment to deep thought, or it could be stomached to the effect of great productivity with an especially sharpened mind.

It saddens me that the most accessible repositories of information are those that, allegedly, dumb me down.
"if they were mostly written by his secretary then Stanford wouldn't have paid to have them archived." - that is straight-up incorrect. Archiving emails is very cheap. And the redactions look to have been done programmatically.
If someone takes a sledgehammer to a load bearing wall, does it matter if the building is under construction? The problem is still not construction quality.

The point I was trying to make is that someone destroying a well executed implementation is fundamentally different from a poorly executed implementation.
In other words, the list is usually only useful to insiders.
Hilarious to state that Seattle wins over Austin in the weather and politics categories. And completely ignores crime rates.
Yeah, but it’s cheaper to administer cash outflows. Maybe the state can buy the books for $200 but they have to manage inventory, hire staff, etc etc.

So it’s probably cheaper to just cut checks to people for $300 even though the cost per unit is higher.
Money itself does not do anything. Required is a human’s ego and desire to compete, possibly to improve probabilities of landing a specific mate? Or maybe just securing certain resources?
Like they have a choice. They're in completely over their heads.
How is that not the first question to ask? Porn has proven to be a fantastic litmus test of fast market penetration when it comes to new technologies.
Has New York finally found a solution to its rat problem?
"continue the innovation" doesn't really mean anything concrete.
When I lived in the Bay Area, it was a ball of stress to "keep up" the salary to be able to enjoy anything, as I wasn't being paid those "top salaries" everyone uses in their data summaries. I couldn't ever purchase a home, and these were important things to my lifestyle. I moved to Seattle and now I'm seeing these obscene pricing trends happening here (and with the worse weather, too, sigh).

I think the best city is the one where you find a sense of belonging and contentness. Data doesn't cover all the nuances of happiness.
In which case the post I responded to is a red herring because they claim (without evidence) that the transfer pricing is happening in the case of YouTube Music and Apple Music.
Not exactly what you're asking for, but AnimateDiff has introduced creating gifs to SD. Still takes quite a bit of tweaking IME.
I am pretty sure most people who work for Google and live in the south bay could tell you stories of having their car windows smashed in, and I do mean most. I think it is about 100% of the googlers and ex-googlers I know have had that experience.

Also as of two years ago, the chances that your Catalytic converter was stolen unless you parked your car in your garage was getting near 50% as well.

I suppose if you limit crime to just "dangerous" maybe it comes out on top, but I would prefer to be somewhere that I don't have to worry about 50,000 of my neighbors OD'ing on the street every year.
Microsoft seem to be pushing Linux in Azure quite heavily nowadays. Surprised about the Windows thing. Especially for game servers where Linux is in it's element.
CZ was not accused of theft, he was accused of violating U.S. anti-money-laundering requirements.
These are the sorts of "research" which severely undermines trust in research in general. Anyone who has children or who works with children knows that screen time adversely affects ability to focus, attention spans etc.
Fox didn't think the lawsuits were stupid. https://apnews.com/article/fox-news-dominion-lawsuit-trial-t...

Given the way other defamation lawsuits are going, there's a good chance the lawyers for the other parties Dominion is suing don't think the lawsuits are stupid either. https://abcnews.go.com/US/giuliani-sanctioned-judge-defamati...
Yes, its called a negative prompt. Idk if txt2video has it, but both llms and stable-diffusion have it so I'd assume its good to go.
If you already have riches, it’s a good way to lose them unless you’re really careful.

Musk is a poster child on this front.

Lying about a material fact in a way that would be trivial to prosecute you on, especially when you have a well funded adversary it impacts, and that would be more than happy to destroy you with such a lie, is a good way to lose riches.

This is more like Ukraine announcing Putin’s pending invasion in advance.
Yes, if only one of a 2 of 3 account was lost. A person having a single seed phrase on a single cold wallet would lose coins and would probably benefit from using a service to educate them.
Tell it to Mike Brown.

Tell it to George Floyd.

Tell it to Breonna Taylor.

Oh, that's right: you can't. The very best of police can't either.

Belligerence is escalating the situation of someone recording you. Belligerence is escalating the situation of someone yelling at you. Belligerence is threatening to assault and kidnap any person who doesn't behave precisely as you command. I expect every police officer to be the change they swore an oath to be. No less.
After many lawsuits I've learned to not pre-empt what I think a judge will think of anything. It's actionable. Whether they will prevail (or whether the counterparty will fold) is up for grabs.

Note this key quote by Nadella:

"“As a partner, I think it does deserve you to be consulted on the big decisions.”"

That's one way to look at what might be grounds for a suit. He could be wrong, but that won't stop them from suing to establish that fact and they have very little to lose.
FTA, quotes from council members:

Encrypting police radios “is a crime in itself,” Councilmember Robert Holden testified on Monday.

“There should never be a blackout of the press,” Councilmember Vickie Paladino added.

Radio encryption technology is more than 20 years old. In the UK this technology has been in place since 2000. Criminals monitor open frequencies and use this information in their crimes. I fail to understand the logic of why one would have a police department and then hinder the tools that they use to effectively enforce the law. It's not like they can't just use a cell phone anyway and not have their comms heard by the public.
Ask HN: How do you keep track of all of the things that you have to do?
I currently work as a senior information security analyst and primary software engineer covering absolutely every aspect of design and development, and it's, a lot of work.

I used to work adjacent to product managers, know how all of that works, but, I'm not sure how to put it all together, and particularly, and the one person designing all of this.

Should I just create a set of Excel workbooks containing the different things that I need to do, for example, requirements, use cases, current issues, etc., and then write a script to turn everything in that spreadsheet into a set of JIRA tickets?

Staff engineers, principal engineers, founders, etc., how do you do it?
> It would perhaps be too cynical to say that AGI existential risk rhetoric has become a cynical hustle, intended to redirect the attentions of regulators toward possibly imaginary future risks in the future, and away from problematic but profitable activities that are happening right now.

Perhaps, but perhaps not. As the author notes, the ones who want to slow down AI are more worried about the hypotheticals arising from their AI fanfic, not the real risks of the transformer architecture models and ML that exist now. It's reasonable to ask if the grifters lean on the existential risk as a diversion while they build the next Big Tech monoploy.
To fix this in Firefox

Settings | Privacy & Security | DNS over HTTPS | Increased Protection | Choose Provider | NextDNS
They just stop late (and early) for the more mundane reason of 'because they can', the service is less frequent at off-peak times so there's enough time to stop at Turnham Green before the train behind catches up.
A seemingly off topic question, but with enough compute and optimization, could you eventually simulate “reality”?

Like, at this point, what are the technical counters to the assertion that our world is a simulation?
The related paper is here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.10122.pdf

I think the TL;DR is "it can tell what's in the video and 'reason' about it"
> Why else would the US allow the largest counterfeit money printer to continue for long?

Are you taking about tether or the fed?
> we have multiple sitting Supreme Court justices accepting bribes

When you use the word “bribe” to describe something that isn’t, it dilutes your point significantly.

This is a thread about ethics, you can use precise words and still talk about how they are unethical.
OK thanks, that makes sense. Who at Open AI would you say was most responsible for perfecting that training?
The auto learning black box is an idiotic idea.
No large crypto orgs left? Tether has a market cap of $88bn alone.
FBI director admits they rarely have probable cause for using NSA collections
Software Managers' Guide to Operational Excellence
Excite Truck on the Wii also had that feature. You could load mp3s onto the SD card. It was a launch title, so I was expecting most Wii games to support that feature, but I think only a couple ended up with it.
There's a good contingent of YC folks in Capitol Hill. I'm very interested in improving the Seattle startup scene and would love to grab a coffee or chat.

Contact info in bio.
What are your main sources of tech news? Bun has been quite a darling here for a while..
Show HN: I built local copilot alternative using Codellama
Hey, HN!

I was trying to find a good Copilot alternative since my experience with copilot degraded a lot and recent OpenAI drama leaves me no hope for improvement and i decided to take a look at self-hosting options. At the same time Copilot net is a small one - just 12b parameters and 2k of context. You can run much bigger networks locally in 2023.

I have figured out that there are no good local options: most of the VS Code plugins simply connect neural networks to the code while copilot has extensive post and pre processing steps. Some of them still work with original copilot plugin (ie sends data to MS), some require complicated setup to make it work.

I implemented very basic ones to check if this would work and in my experience it works really good and i wanted to share it on HN. Feedback is appreciated!

Sources are here: https://github.com/ex3ndr/llama-coder
I was banned from the second site (like many other commenters), and got a chuckle from how switching the first from FR to EN did not, in fact, translate the actual content.

Silly me for expecting that, I guess.
The idea is people get Chromebooks, not that people get something of the value of $300.
Intro to Color Calibration: How monitor calibration works
Seattle is as expensive as NYC except everything closes at 9 and it has 1/100th vibrancy. It's basically San Jose North.
In my area there are local business organizations (chamber of commerces, etc.) that help students connect with employers. Smaller shops appreciate a motivated young person hand-delivering a resume. I got my first job that way!
CEO Reminds Everyone His Company Collects Customers' Sleep Data
I vaguely recall that '97 GTA allowed you to eject the disc after the game started and load an audio CD that would play when you selected the custom radio station.
In addition to other comments, I’ve heard/read somewhere that the skill to operate is more akin to piloting an aircraft so probably a large bit of it is retraining hurdles
I can assure you the state already has plenty staff on hand with plenty of training on giving out free stuff.

And even if they don’t: jobs program.
And diversity and culture!
That didn't stop people using PornPen for images and it wouldn't stop them using something else for video.
Yep.. .. and..... Here's yet another threat: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/21/microsoft...
Obviously has a vote of confidence. The companies using it are making money. Just like those using PHP and WordPress.

You can run .NET MVC on Linux/Docker/K8S nowadays natively very easily as a first-class customer.
University of Cambridge Exascale Computing Project Adopts SYCL
If you’re on iOS / Mac and have Apple private relay that would also use 1.1.1.1
Seattle has better sushi though.
The Perils of 'Stay in Your Lane'
I suspect there's some confusion here that it makes sense to iron out instead of jumping to conclusions. Maybe a pedagogical problem. I'm not so sure talking about logic gates or assembly is a good idea as that is an implementation detail. Programming is something you can do on pen and paper; there's a distinction between programming and automation.

What would happen if you take away the computer and speak strictly in the language of arithmetic? It seems they would have no trouble given the the eventual answer of 11. Perhaps they need to hear that that the computer can automate these operations, how it happens under the hood is a separate question that can be addressed separately. It is a valid question, of course, and perhaps its a sign of fascination. That would be good, but needs to be tempered by patience.
I don't think that the problem is that users can't find sites which aren't engagement-driven.

I think the problem is that sites that aren't driven by engagement can't find or maintain a userbase.
I like fastmail
I knew about this video but didn't notice opponent is 2400+
To solve infinite captchas or to try again later, that's the question.
There are sites that make Stable Diffusion-derived models available, along with GPU resources, and they sell the service of generating images from the models. The company isn't permitting that use, and it seems that they could find violators and shut them down.
Tyk AI Gateway – Robust AI Governance
Used Coffee Grounds Hold Potential Key to Treating Neurodegenerative Diseases
'Researchers found that Carbon Quantum Dots (CACQDs) derived from used coffee grounds could protect brain cells from damage caused by neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s."
I mean has Venezuela ever claimed it was communist? I always thought it was socialist. Also its oldest standing communist party technically sits in opposition to Maduro.
Also homeless camping everywhere and complete city government dysfunction
I don't think "Purchase or sell insider services" necessarily means a conflict of interest, insiders could be winning the bidding process honestly as well.
Then the board failed in their duty of oversight. Because they could have found this out regardless of Sam being candid or not, implications are the consequences of that which is written on the papers and those papers were presumably available for inspection by the board. Unless Altman changed the paperwork but that would be an entirely different level and based on the statements by the new CEO none of that was the case. It seemed to be mostly a reason made up by the board to make the firing look good.
The first full-length AI generated movie will be an important milestone for sure, and will probably become a "required watch" for future AI history classes. I wonder what the Rotten Tomatoes page will look like.
Considering the CEO - Board organization is (very roughly) executive-legislature system (the rest of the C suite are the cabinet), is this really such a terrible analogy to how AI and humanity could evolve together?
Emu edit should be exactly what you're looking for: https://ai.meta.com/blog/emu-text-to-video-generation-image-...
That’s true. But it also raises question about whether the marketplace should be able to advantage itself for its own applications in the first place? It’s “might is right” but is it ethical and will it create a better society? It seems consolidation is inevitable and meaningful competition impossible.

I mean, ultimately, if you run a marketplace without posted rules and only let your friends and your own self succeed, aren’t you at a minimum sort of cheating? Like a Vegas house who claims fairness but the house gets special odds?
I wasn't a huge fan of BEM but it solved a real problem. The fact that sucky BEM was better for large teams than being without it shows how bad CSS design is.

There was nothing more annoying than including a component on a page and some aspect of the component was visually broken. Like a margin inflated somewhere or a wrong color. And then time would be wasted trying to figure out what was cascading/inheriting. Worse case it was some CSS included at runtime by some JS script that was forced onto the team by marketing. But on large teams there was just a constant collision between page authors, component authors and other stakeholders.

HTML Web Components tried to solve the problem by making the shadow dom isolated but in our experimentation the support was just too inconsistent across browsers. It was also a major pain to debug at the time (maybe this has gotten better?)

I was completely against Tailwind, absolutely hated looking at it and I even used my position as a senior engineer at a company to block its adoption. I felt it flew in the face of the entire premise of CSS and the high-ideal of separating form and content. I now believe I was wrong.
I know way more about all of this than you.
The Dream Keeper Initiative: How SF Defunded the Police for Racial Equity
NIO is joining forces with a major OEM for EV battery swapping
This is a solved problem. Google may not care but in general companies want to know if one of their businesses is actually making money or just a perceived success because of the conglomerate. Of course a company may fudge the figures to lean the calculations one way or the other but enough theoretical and practical data exists for accounting costs.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_accounting
Git stepped into a source control ecosystem that was well-served (albeit contentious). People knew (or at least thought they knew) what they wanted from bk/svn/CVS/p4/rcs/sccs.

So git essentially was the "final form" that integrated all the various workflows and topped it off with a maximally-scaled use case (linux) that proved out the tool, drove innovation in integration/scripting/gadgetry, and provided a clear beacon for everyone else to adopt it. So it won.

But in 2004, if you asked around, everyone would have told you that a tool like this was coming at some point (even if they probably wouldn't have described it as very git-like!).
This is really, really cool. A few months ago I was playing with some of the "video" generation models on Replicate, and I got some really neat results[1], but it was very clear that the resulting videos were made from prompting each "frame" with the previous one. This looks like it can actually figure out how to make something that has a higher level context to it.

It's crazy to see this level of progress in just a bit over half a year.

[1]: https://epiccoleman.com/posts/2023-03-05-deforum-stable-diff...
According to the GitHub repo this is an "image-to-video model". They tease of an upcoming "text to video" interface on the linked landing page, though. My guess is that interface will use a text-to-image model and then feed that into the image-to-video model.
Vid.me! Its pretty much a copy of youtube but no-ads and no subscription needed. Has tons of content and lots of creators have started channels there.

Oh wait, thats right, it went bankrupt in 2017. They released a statement saying "Nobody wants to watch ads, nobody wants to pay a subscription, we have no revenue stream."
They're not enforceable.
I agree. I indeed meant the non-technical complexities that (a certain kind of valuable) experience brings.
It's DNS level adblocking, so no.

E.g. If sites used a hardcoded IP address, pihole will be useless. Same applies if devices such as TVs use their own DNS/DNS over TLS.

Sort of see IP + DNS blocking catching on next once pihole becomes ineffective.
Sitting here deeply regretting my home full of Google home devices. Sand tastes bad man.
CEO of largest crypto exchange to plead guilty to money laundering violations
Chinese tech giant Baidu's shares rise 2% after revenue beat
And no sodium batteries
Likely the second or it was a gang of one who used the inexperience of the other board members to get them to act against their own long term interests. That does not absolve them, they are still board members and they should own their decisions.
Just use an Argentinian/Indian/Turkish VPN to buy it for (much) less then..
Can you elaborate more? I do not know anything about Yi and how she is a cofounder.
Is it? I must have been using it wrong during my trial, because I found using chatGPT produced better (js) code, and I can challenge it, which I don’t recall being able to do with copilot. I did receive an email today asking me to participate in some “learning journey” which I will do so if it’s now practical.
Intel Lunar Lake-MX SoC with On-Package LPDDR5X Memory Detailed
I don’t think it is. If we agree that lobbyists affect political outcomes, and we can agree that some industries have entrenched lobbyists, then we can connect the two to say that lobbyists create more political certainty. That’s not to conflate “more certainty about policy” with “good policy.” It’s only beside the point if you think policy doesn’t impact energy prices, which is fairly easy to disprove.

In other words, if you think it's hard to implement a new energy policy in part because of monied interests, those monied interests are providing certainty in policy. To ground it in more real terms, I may not want to bet on new energy tech if the have an economic advantage based on who's in the White House. By contrast, betting on fossil fuels has more certainty because those interests are protected almost regardless of who's in the White House.
It is your device playing the video. Shouldn't you be able to control what is playing on your device? You can bet I will do everything I can to not display ads.

And I understand the other side of this. It is fair game for youtube to try to insert ads one way or another and make it as difficult as possible for me to remove them.

And about supporting creators: Yes, that needs to be done. I give directly to creators through patreon or other. Youtube is a middleman that provides very little value.
Controlnet is adapted to video today, the issues are that it's very slow. Haven't you seen the insane quality of videos on civitai?
It's because there is no store or browser ballet on first use. And because Play Store had special privileges making auto updates silent.