skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does it? I have tried to read the README and I still can't figure out what it does. There's also so much random stuff smashed into the README that just trying to figure out where to get started...reading...is an exercise in frustration.

The Title:

> "Video-LLaVA: Learning United Visual Representation by Alignment Before Projection"

I know all of those words, but I don't understand what they mean in that order or context. Let's move on.

Next up is a bunch of links to other pages, other projects, and news about the project. Let's skip all that.

Finally we get to something called " Highlights":

> "Video-LLaVA exhibits remarkable interactive capabilities between images and videos, despite the absence of image-video pairs in the dataset."

OK, so now I know that it does something with images and videos, although I am not sure what that something is. I still don't know what it IS though. Is it an application? A LLM?

Continuing on...

> Simple baseline, learning united visual representation by alignment before projection

> 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.

> High performance, complementary learning with video and image

> Extensive experiments demonstrate the complementarity of modalities, showcasing significant superiority when compared to models specifically designed for either images or videos.

Seriously...what? Did a (bad) LLM write those sentences or am I just an idiot?

Then there's a picture, demo video, some installation and basic CLI usage commands (hey, now I finally know it's a python tool!), API info, and more random stuff.

Honestly I have attempted to read through this README several times and I still don't really know what I'm looking at.
Not a lawyer, but I doubt it – otherwise you might have a case against Intel and AMD regarding Spectre and Meltdown?

It might be a different story if the spec was intentionally violated, though (rather than incidentally, i.e. due to an idea that should have been transparent/indistinguishable externally but didn't work out).
Is this a sheepskin comment or a genuinely naïve one? I can't tell.

Moving to MSFT means they cannot do anything that goes against MSFT's interests.

Everything they ever did, they ever will do belongs to MSFT.

MSFT brings with it all the bloat and risk aversion it needs as a big org, killing the "cutting egde" move-fast, make-it-work nature of OAI that got it to this point in the first place.

Only thing you can be sure of is this thing will now be "closed" forever, with no hope of others benefiting off the hard work of the real people who make it happen.
Analysis of the lawsuit: https://www.aol.com/legal-critics-blast-elon-musk-202350508....

Key paragraph: “X does not appear to dispute the fact that X has monetized extremist content or that the brands’ ads ran beside it.”
What is the best way to deduplicate a corpus of documents
Damn, spam is dead now.
It’s good to be to be cautious regarding incomplete information, but at the same time, considered the larger context of what is at stake. Shaping the future of AI might make it likely that powerful interests and an uncommon desire for power, that goes beyond personal agency that everyone wants, is involved.
Yeah that sounds toxic, this was done with everyones knowledge
Vbscript - deprecated, started 28!! Years ago

ActiveX - same, but 27! Years ago

Those were not failures. But have replacements.

Those are terrible examples tbh. A lot of businesses would sign immediately if they knew something was going to be supported for > 20 years. Additionally, vbscript owners should have long migrated to eg. Powershell
https://youtu.be/ICnFtfN-sUc?si=D3jQcm04-zEhCpl2

1h 45m
There's nothing lovely about it. Whenever I go to kafana, I get smoked so bad. That's why I usually go there only during the summer. Being outside makes the smoking situation somewhat bearable.
I believe she left Google only after some controversy
Show HN: I made a Chrome extension for LeetCode 1v1s to make DSA practice fun
hey HN,

i think a lot of people would agree that grinding leetcode sucks. i've always wanted a more engaging form of dsa practice, so i made LeetBattle. i started off just 1v1ing my roommates, we realized it was really fun, discussing the problem together was beneficial, so i made it public.

you can make a custom room to play with a friend, or find a match online. first to finish wins. after the problem you'll be directed to a chatroom to discuss the problem. no signups, completely free.

i'd love to hear what everyone thinks of the project. thanks!
Baidu joins Tencent in downplaying impact of US chip bans on AI ambitions
Now - if I needed more to support my point (which any honest reading would make clear that I don't), you can have a look at the influence the Federalist Society had on the Heller case:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_Society#District_of...

Note the 2 members of the society who voted on Heller, and the extra ones which currently sit on the court. And also note the 2 additional members who have some sympathetic relationship to the group although are not explicitly mentioned as members. That gets you 4/5 of the 5 votes on Heller. 5 sitting SCOTUS as of this writing.

QED, Heller was highly partisan and a break from hundreds of years of precedent. You'd be hard pressed to make an honest case otherwise.
> You should tell that to this site which has been doing exactly that for 20 years: https://csszengarden.com/

Easy to do when you don't actually have to update the content or functionality. And even with those advantages, most versions of it look bad.
This is why I think the personal Jarvis for everyday use won’t eventually be in the cloud. It can already be done on local hw as you are demonstrating and cloud has big downsides around privacy and latency and reliability.

Like you said it’s difficult to keep up with and to me it feels very much like open source stuff might win for inference.
I'm not sure one exists. You can't force a life form to care about others of its kind, so our potential will be limited by that nature.

Society never cares about the damage it inflicts until it's time to start talking about outcomes and results, usually after a mass killing or some other major meltdown that ends in murder.

99% of those would be avoided if mankind practiced what it preached.
LinkedIn started using placeholder pages for common questions to get content
Today I searched "ghidra compare two binaries" on DuckDuckGo.

This was the first page:

https://www.linkedin.com/advice/0/how-do-you-compare-diff-binaries-ghidra-skills-reverse-engineering

Title & description in DuckDuckGo:

How to Compare and Diff Binaries with Ghidra - LinkedIn
Ghidra's Version Tracking is a tool that allows you to compare two binaries in the same project and track the changes between them. It can show you the added, removed or modified functions, data ...

When you click this link you can see it is essentially all empty content asking you, the Linked-in user to fill in the blanks.

Am I the only one distraught by this? First we had companies hiring people to write endless pages of text to get more traffic, and now LinkedIn is not even doing that?

Worse, it makes my search experience (even) worse...
https://archive.is/20231122033417/https://www.wsj.com/tech/a...
Related:

Greg Robinson fixed NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, reluctantly - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32109760 - July 2022 (199 comments)
>The board's mandate to act as a check and balance on OpenAI seems to be working as intended in this case

I'd argue it's not. If the board isn't able to steer the wheel without destroying OpenAI, they failed.

The premise of something like OpenAI is that they would be able to develop a competitive AI that can be useful for the masses, in a way that can be moderated by benevolent forces. If you do believe the safety of the entire human race is at stake here, then there's no space for naivete. Blowing things up is childish and taking an easy escape from the heavy responsibilities of navigating a difficult situation.

After this fiasco you should expect that much, much fewer resources will be spent on safe AI as opposed to maximizing profit. The dynamics between the board and the ex-CEO will make it much more difficult to establish an organization that can convince investors to pursue a less profitable path for the sake of humanity.

Anthropic doesn't even have a competitive product, and it will probably be much less attractive to investors after this.
so usa is claiming that they are responsible for the deal. big news i suppose.

wasn't the US claiming self defense when israel started their assault on gaza and started commiting a genocide in hopes of "storming the night" and what people called "hannibal directive"..

i suppose that too failed causing damages of men and machinery to israel which is directly hurting american taxpayers so they scale back and then claim victory in defeat. nice
AI NotKillEveryoneism benefits everybody, even shareholders.

( This is the punny name that OpenAI employees use to refer to what's officially known as AI Existential Safety, explained here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38374739#38375199 )
> I felt it flew in the face of the entire premise of CSS and the high-ideal of separating form and content.

I mean, you were right about that one. It's just that the entire premise of CSS is wrong and its ideal doesn't work.
The current default is data=ordered, which should prevent this problem if the hardware doesn't lie. The data doesn't go in the journal, but it has to be written before the journal is committed.

There was a point where ext3 defaulted to data=writeback, which can definitely give you files full of null bytes.

And data=journal exists but is overkill for this situation.
> Skilled journalists (and this piece was written by skilled journalists) would not use the three members of the board as their only three sources.

Depends on whether their goal is to inform or to convince.
The file isn't stored contiguously on disk, so that would depend on the implementation of the filesystem. Perhaps the size of the file can be changed, without extents necessarily being allocated to cover the new size?

I seem to vaguely recall an issue like that, for ext4 in particular. Of course it's possible in general for any filesystem that supports holes, but I don't think we can necessarily assume that the data is always written, and all the pointers to it also written, before the file-size gets updated.
I’m wondering how they deal with unseen logs and kelp patches which one will invariably encounter. As a frequent kitefoiler these two things can ruin your day. Not only can debris damage your mast and foil but kelp and seaweed tend to aggregate and pretty quickly one can have tens of pounds wrapped around ones foil resulting compounding drag. Even with the momentum of the vessel I don’t see how it will be able to get on foil again after encountering floating patches of kelp.
Merchantability and implied fitness? You absolutely could try sue the in small claims court for damages.

For extra fun: if the box carries a trademark from a standards group, you could try adding them into the suit; use of their trademarked logo could be argued to be implied fitness, if there are standards the drive is supposed to meet to use it.

At the very least they might get tired of the expense of the expense of sending someone to defend the claim, and it would cease to be profitable to engage in this scammery.
In this case an early version of the AFP newswire article appears to be at fault; it's just that the claim of "proofread" (in "Editor's notes", top left above headline on phys.org) is perhaps somewhat exaggerated.

One can see the same "never before detected before" error on numerous other aggregators: <https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22never+before+detected+before%22...>.
Thankfully you can opt out of most of those and pick the one that works for you. Sadly there's no alternative to CSS.
As someone who was using darcs in that era: it wasn't just slow in the sense of "it takes 10 seconds rather than 1". It was possible to get into situations where it would take hours to merge changes.

Apart from that it was the best developer experience I've had with a VCS.
Which is a commentary on the UX of the feature, not on the users.
Now try Las Vegas. I can beat it on a bicycle by myself over any distance under 200 miles and if you have to return to the Luxor pyramid, I could beat it myself over any distance.
Always wondered if the human brain could do an offsite backup somewhere else, redundant in the brain or perhaps in the gut.
What about news? Like, current event news. Most major newspapers are moving towards a paywall mode and the rest will follow soon.
I did this as an exercise just now, and I noticed I answered mostly in networking terms. Sockets, ports, explaining what an autonomous system is and how DNS requests flow between them, explaining a TLS handshake, and HTTP and HTML and what a server is, and how it works, there's always more to cover.

I realized I know very little of what happens _inside_ the computer during the typing, what libraries are involved? How does data flow _inside_ the computer? I like to think I know enough about my hardware, but this has been humbling.

Thank you for bringing this up.
you are being very agressive T.T
What’s the point of eating collagen when you’re already eating protein powder? Why do you think your gut would process it differently from any other protein?
Somewhere between 3-5 grams.
>Those may be expensive houses in the first image, but I guarantee cost per square foot is an order of magnitude cheaper.

I guarantee they're not. Portland average house price is $500k [0]. Your example of Katy, TX is $365k [1]. Not even close to an order of magnitude.

>If waves of folks want the first image, more power to them. I'm not gonna stop them. But I also don't want to pay for it.

If waves of folks want this image [2], more power to them. I'm not gonna stop them. But I also don't want to pay for it.

[0] https://www.redfin.com/city/30772/OR/Portland/housing-market

[1] https://www.redfin.com/city/9764/TX/Katy/housing-market

[2] https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/portla... https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...
The board is being pressured by greedy investors who want to subvert OpenAI's mission in pursuit of profit. Meanwhile, there a conspicious lack of rightous indignation by Altman on how he was treated. There is non-stop manipulation behind the scenes to get Altman back, which seems to validate the board's original reason for his firing. He is the puppet master.
Question for anyone more familiar with this space: are there any high-quality tools which take an image and make it into a short video? For example, an image of a tree becomes a video of a tree swaying in the wind.

I have googled for it but mostly just get low quality web tools.
I’ve recently moved to a meat heavy diet, and that pretty much fixed my ibs completely. I still get flare ups if I eat too many oranges or bananas, but eating meat on every meal is absolutely essential.
Yeah, the almonds, cinnamon, and vanilla in the protein powder really even out all the weird stuff.
More tools to manipulate scroll targeting, scroll bars, and better access to more parameters around scrolling. Also better tools around display: clip. I spent maybe 6 hours trying to recreate instagram on iOS’s appbar scrolling to hide/reveal and even with some JavaScript, I don’t think it’s actually possible to coax a browser into doing it perfectly. Particularly to have it be completely smooth without scrolling artifacts, and on mobile.

Also, if anybody can figure it out, I would absolutely love to see and discuss.
There is a reason this has never been done before. When the trailer pushes harder than the cab, you get a nasty wreck.

I hope there's a remove cutoff that puts the trailer into freewheeling mode!

Maybe they've figured out a way to implement a fool-proof strain gauge, but if it goes out of control once every 1,000,000 miles they will have problems.
This was my experience getting into programming as a kid. I just wanted to make things and the games I made in Scratch were cooler than printing to the console in C++ (especially as a slow typer).

I eventually learned html/css which let me build real websites and see them in my browser. At some point you hit a wall with what you can make and are forced to learn js/php/python/etc.
If they lack money they could always scale back operations.

Also running the for-profit arm the way Altman did isn’t the only way.

A more reasonable CEO would do what he/she can to make money without running afoul of the charter. Yes, it will be less profit - and sometimes no profit at all - but that’s the way it should be in a non-profit organization.

OpenAI used to be an organization that dabbled with various AI technologies. Anyone remember their DOTA2 bot? Before Altman turned it into all about commercializing their LLM - going so far as to try to lobby congress to create laws, in the name of safety of course, to hobble any upstart competition.
Fascinating implications on search engines. An army of SEO professionals, publishers and all manner of companies that rely on Google for traffic will be interested in pushing for a process review of Google's AI systems.
this is a perceptive comment.

There's a lot of conversation around this, one term used is "Egregore"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ2h7FYLTwg&t=8m30s

https://youtu.be/FY4Fil_nB_c?t=4592
You probably can fix this by registering your event handler for the DOMContentLoaded before the dynamic one and just calling stopPropagation() on subsequent events after the main DOMContentLoaded.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Event/stopP...
> It is designed for SaaS companies that value both user freedom and developer sustainability.

I disagree that they value freedom.

"harmful free-riding" - I don't think it's true that users of Open Source software are free-riders. They're users, consuming the product of our work. Sometimes I contribute to fix my bugs and sometimes I contribute fixes for the sake of the users. And sometimes I contribute selfishly to promote my own career as a developer.

To me, two things are part of the appeal of contributing: (1) the users (more users, higher profile project), (2) mutual benefit and commitment to freedom among contributors.

I doubt your SaaS company's commitment to Open Source software if you use this license and I encourage others not to contribute code bound by this license.

Please do not refer to this license as Open Source -- I'm happy to see that this page draws a distinction between FSL and Open Source.
One of these days I'll actually try writing a React-style (well, really Wicket-style) UI framework where styling is always inline - no cascades, no stylesheets, no selectors, just style attributes. If you want to reuse styling, you do it the same way as reusing markup, by having libraries of components.

With transparent compression it shouldn't make pages any bigger on the wire, and given that the browser always has to figure out what styling to apply to each element it shouldn't use any more memory.
Fermented veggies.
And what if this system was used in the animal world for instant danger recognition etc. we as humans don't need that anymore, because we always grow up in a fast changing environment, where that kind of knowledge is almost obsolete.
At least for ext4 and actually written data (i.e. not ftruncate’d files), I believe zeroes should really not occur.

Both extents and the file size are metadata as far as I understand, which would be atomically updated through the journal.

Data can be written before metadata (in data=ordered
mode):

> All data are forced directly out to the main file system prior to its metadata being committed to the journal.
Eliezer - we're all gonna die - Y has his own problems.

People really watch too many movies. The real risk isn't AGI killing us all, the real risk is that plenty of people will think they are smart enough to create it and then to contain it whilst the ruthless faction of humanity uses it to set up shop in a way that they can never ever be dislodged again. Think global Mafia or something to that effect, or a world divided into three chunks by three major power blocs each with their own AI core. That's a much more likely outcome and one that on account of an incompetent board has just become a little bit more likely.
To what extent is a raised barrier to entry a feature? High regulatory costs demand greater investment, which in turn demands more third-party eyes from an early stage in a company's development.

The last time we had a largely unregulated cottage medical industry, it precipitated billions of dollars in fraud [1][2][3].

Given the cost of the computing resources, we weren't going to be seeing any mom-and-pop non-GMO free-range AI shops anytime soon anyway.

[1]: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/03/13/chicag...
[2]: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/20/doj-accuses-2-in-california-...
[3]: https://www.propublica.org/article/how-fraud-increases-medic...
Yep, the former are more useful to buy and it's more socially acceptable.
This is kinda how history of ideas work.
People just kind of think they think and know things independently from within themselves or something.

Historians who study the origins of idea traces them back and make connections to thoughts and ideas of the past. Often, the inheritors of those ideas knows nothing of how they get them and think themselves clever for coming up with them all by themselves.
Maybe some day it might even reach the state that photoshop had 10 years ago, who knows. Anything is possible.
Ext3 will totally let you expose yourself to those security issues. I'm not sure about ext4.
And the bandit likely is honest about their motives.
This video ignores the fact that handling cash for businesses also comes with costs such as bank fees for cash deposits, theft, and shrinkage. This study says...

>New Research from IHL Group Shows Retailers’ Cash-handling Costs Range from 4.7% to 15.3%, Depending on Retail Segment

https://www.ihlservices.com/product/the-cost-of-cash-handlin...
Yes. Deliberately. While not explicitly against the guidelines, jokes are generally considered to not contribute to the conversation.
firefox version please
You can post revisionist nonsense “interpreted” and put up by people with agendas all you like. I posted time piece quotes.

Best of all I don’t care. You can stomp your feet, it doesn’t change the law or history.
> Microsoft has given every OpenAI employee a job offer.

> All these employees losing their livelihoods for the greater good

You penned both of these statements today. Clearly you understand that OpenAI employees are a highly compensated and in-demand resource whose “livelihoods” are in no jeopardy whatsoever, so the theatrics here are really bizarre.
It sounds like your argument is "Even if OpenAI did something bad, Helen should never write about it, because she is part of OpenAI".

Or, that she should write her paper in the first person: "We, OpenAI, are doing bad things." That would probably be seen as vastly more damaging to OpenAI, and also ridiculous since she doesn't have the right to represent OpenAI as "we".

I have no idea why you think that should be a rule, aside from wanting Helen to never be able to criticize OpenAI publicly. I think it's good for the public if a board member will report what they see as potentially harmful internal problems.
Whether people turn against her or not is irrelevant to my point. She has no personal fiduciary duty to the minority shareholders in the for-profit company. Her only duty is to the charter.