skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"His" "rabbit hole" went mainstream since Lessig released his book "code is law" while everyone was partying like it was 1999.
Massive amounts of both amateur and academic discourse followed, got picked up by civil society world wide, all with their own take. Think pirate parties, NGOs like EFF, the Free software movement, and so on.
Yet here we are today, a ever growing need for these questions and a equally rising unlikeliness for universally workable answers.
I for one don't care much about open source if i can't have a free and informed vote for a legislator.
Just Weta FX - those were the guys and gals that used Weta tooling for producing films and such. Not Weta Tools - those are the guys and gals building and maintaining the Weta tools
It is a clear cut situation though: at Alamo drafthouse you order just like a restaurant, and a server will even greet you and get drink orders before the movie begins. It is full table service throughout the movie, where you order by writing on slips of paper. You get a bill at the end for your meal.

But, in general, this shouldn't even be the point. You should always assume that leaving a tip for someone in a position to receive it is a worthwhile gesture that means a significant amount!

I don't even know how this is so contentious to people honestly. Why make such a point about not doing something nice and relatively small? Your gonna spend $15 bucks on an IPA anyway, why not just help someone out too? Are you worried the bartender is going to get paid too much?
Can’t they get a better technical writer? Regardless of the bad grammar (I’m not perfect, and that’s why I don’t write for a major publication) the question is still at what level do they turn color? If it’s at a 100 mR above background then good. If it’s at 100 MR then not as useful.
I've repeatedly noticed an even worse practice on anything news-related on Reddit: Top-rated comments saying "the title is misleading" when it actually isn't. I don't know if they skimmed the article way too quickly or were just trying to call it fake news because they didn't like it.

Anyway, deleted my account there and haven't gone back in a few months.
> Assad finally freed the city from the terrorists

And Assad is not a terrorist? "We want democracy; here, have a bullet in the head instead".

That Wikipedia page says pretty clearly it supported the Free Syrian Army, and that some arms may have accidentally ended up with IS extremists. That is not the same thing as "helped arm, fund, and train" at all.

Nour al-Din al-Zenki seems to have gotten some support around 2014/2015. It's not entirely clear to me what the entire story on that is, and the LA Times article doesn't explain it either.

You are spectacularly misrepresenting your own links to the point it's exceedingly hard to take this in good faith.
And don't forget the usefulness of the UK for USA is now hovering just above nil. From an Establishment point of view David Cameron has got to be the Biggest Donkey in years! And what do the Tories do, they reward him.
Fantastic blog! In your post, you highlighted the use of Cloud TPU v5e with GKE for AI inference. How does this setup maintain high performance while managing costs, especially in high-demand scenarios like real-time data processing or live interactions?
I think they were not easily commercialized. I was a VFX software developer and internal tools are both very advanced and also fragile foot guns if you try to do anything that isn’t exactly down the golden path. VFX devs are not the usual product guys, they are usually either R&D/math guys or hackers, with little in between.

The way to commercialize WETA stuff would be to make new product teams and basically redo much of the work with professional software devs and figure out where the original VFX R&D had gaps - and it always has massive gaps.

Unity just went nuts with wacky acquisitions the last couple years and this was one of them.
Yes, a Labrador requires a lot of daily exercise and is more similar to a working dog. A Great Dane, though — which is much larger, but not a working dog — requires very minimal exercise. But Great Danes have very short lifespans; on average they die between 7-10 years old.

I'm hopeful that LOY-001 works (the article even specifically calls put Great Danes as a research target); I'd love to have a Great Dane since they're so easy-going, but the thought of losing one after such a short time has put me off.
This past June when I went to renew my Virginia driver's license, which I initially obtained in 1983 after moving from California with my California license, I was told I needed to bring my birth certificate. But I previously renewed it in 1988/93/98/03/08/13/18 — 7 times! — without any paperwork being required.
So we should make every person work 12 hours, then. This 8 hour workday is for the birds, the company has a mission!
This poster's theories sound like creative legal interpretations (not recognized by courts) from the "sovereign citizen" movement:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_citizen_movement
What spokesperson? When was it said? What was the context?

Given that Hamas is also a political and social organization, which at least once had broad support from Gazan citizens in free elections, I think stating that "Hamas cares nothing about "its" citizens." sounds suspect. Would citizens vote for organization that doesn't care about them at all?
>and end an agreement with a digital video effects company [Weta Digital]

Man, what did I even get laid off for if they were gonna cut off their billion dollar acquisition anyway? Thought they'd at least leverage that talent and tech to properly compete with Unreal in the Film space. But alas. More unfulfilled dreams.
Can you provide a citation on your claim of "an order of magnitude" or retract it please?

At present it's not clear Israel is being held to any standard. What is the lower standard you would like them to be held to?

It would also be worth explaining why you think any country is due "a free pass" when it comes to killing. And what that "free pass" entitles you to.
Well be prepared to spend $600k more next month for the next “training” session.
> can be a gateway to the illegal content

I hear mara-ju-ana is also a gateway to illegal content.

What a nothingburger of an article. Most people consume pornography (notice the article is also targeted towards men) without issues.

> Many feminists, including myself

Oh. She just hates men.
~16% of 25-35 year olds life at home with parents.

I imagine a much smaller percent prefer that if not for financial reasons.
It's OK to Never 'Get over' Your Grief
Tangential - I used to go to a film club where they would show you a movie and you would have no idea at all what it was going to be. That added a lot to the experience.
https://archive.ph/tGVa3
But isn't being a patron of one these companies precisely the thing that does put you in this kind of obligation?

Isn't the whole thing about human shields that we don't want to hurt the humans in question?
Why Your City Is Still Struggling to Build 'Missing Middle' Housing [video]
Best thing I ever did when our house was built was go through the entire house the day before the drywall went up, and take many pictures of everything I could see. So now, when I want to do something, I know exactly what the framing looks like, where the water lines run, drains, electric, everything. It's very handy.
You might like William Stringfellow's "Impostors of God:Inquiries into Favorite Idols". It's part of a long intellectual tradition that is absolutely wrenching.
Which corporation: most of the things people worry about with AI are indistinguishable from a group of humans who’ve been told that they’ll be rewarded for making a number go up each quarter. I’ve had some impressively fluent-but-nonsensical conversations with people who were under strict orders not to say they couldn’t do the obvious right thing.
$500M? Pocket change...

THE LITTLE VAX THAT COULD
https://userpages.umbc.edu/~rostamia/misc/vax.html
Counterpoint: living alone isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. A good roommate is as hard to find as a romantic partner, but living with people you like is one of the greatest joys of life.
...where do you think there are the highest suicide rates? In the rich neighborhoods? Which neighbors do you think the accumulation of capital and power is hurting the most and will continue to hurt? You are not damaging the comunities by paying them to have less children, unless you value life but not the lack of suffering by such lives.

Our carbon footprint would be an eight fraction of what it is if there was only 1 billion people in the world, current state of climate change would still be decades away giving us a bit more time to gradually change course, and consentration of wealth and power would be less dramatic as the workforce will be more limited (supply and demand for money itself).
so much envy and jealousy over someone's wealth that you must find ONE disagreeable/controversial thing from that person (Charlie munger was probably hard to do so for) and do some character assassination. maybe you should improve your way of thinking, you might live a healthier live.
XBRL filings have the information needed to screen with value investing criteria. GFinance's old stock screener's UI was great.

https://github.com/openlink/Virtuoso-RDFIzer-Mapper-Scripts/...

/? query XBRL
https://www.google.com/search?q=query+xbrl

https://github.com/topics/xbrl

But then also a fund or an index fund or an Index ETF wouldn't be complete without ethical review for the sustainable competitive advantage given e.g. GRI+#GlobalGoal sustainability reports.

When you own enough of a company to bring in a new team.
Android 14 – Detect when users take device screenshots
Spoiler alert. In /The Three-Body Problem/, by Cixin Liu, a planet in the Alpha Centauri system is inhabited by an advanced alien civilization that evolved to survive the hardships related to the unpredictable effects of the three stars on the planet. Though able to survive, it comes at a great cost to their civilization (requiring them to “dehydrate” and hibernate for, sometimes, hundreds if not thousands of years) and eventually they hatch a plan to move to another habitable planet. Fortuitously they receive a message from Earth, from an astrophysicist who detests humanity and invites aliens to invade.

I found the rest of the book (and the two volumes that follow it in the series) to be very entertaining!
New treatment may restore sense of smell in patients with long Covid
Just like a competent developer can use LLMs to bootstrap workflows, a competent model will soon have tools like this as part of their normal workflow. A casual user would be able to do things that they otherwise wouldnt have been able to. But an expert in the ML model's knowledge domain can really make it shine.

I really believe that the more experienced you are in a particular use case, the more use you can get out of an ML model.

Unfortunately, it's those very same people that seem to be the most resistant to adopting this without really giving it the practice required to get somewhere useful with it. I suppose part of the problem is we expect it to be a magic wand. But it's really just the new PhotoShop, or Blender, or Microsoft Word, or PowerPoint ...

Most people open those apps, click mindleslly for a bit, promptly leave never to return. And so it is with "AI".
Careful with them. They keep you at a high APY for a period of time, then they silently drop your interest rate and create a new "type" of savings account for new customers which offers the proper high rate -- you have to notice they did this, since they deliberately don't alert you. They do this over and over again.

When I saw what they were doing, I withdrew all my money, and they even built a little popup into their mobile app... "Stay and we'll give you the rate we promised you all this time!"

I don't have the time or patience for Comcast-style tactics with my savings account. I moved it into Robinhood Gold and am getting 5%, fully insured, with no stress about them trying to screw me over with an account shell game.
YMMV with this approach. For some people (myself included) and for some reason or the other, anxiety can increase with repeated exposure. Talking or perhaps writing about the experience after it happens might help combat this effect.
It still seems too early to declare Bitcoin a success. It’s still primarily a tool for speculation. Buffett and Munger aren’t/weren’t fans of non-productive assets that fell into the realm of the greater fool theory.
Anecdote:

At my first real job as a web dev after school, I crashed the production website on my very first day. Tens of thousands of visitors were affected, and all our sales leads stopped.

Thankfully, we were able to bring it back up within a few minutes, but it was still a harrowing ordeal. The entire team (and the CEO in the next room) was watching. It ended up fine and we laughed about it after some minor hazing :)

But by the time I left that job a couple years later, we had turned that fragile, unstable website into something with automatic testing, multiple levels of backups and failover systems across multiple data centers, along with detailed training and on-boarding for new devs. (This was in the early days of AWS, and production websites weren't just a one click deploy yet.)

That one experience led to me learning proper version control, dev environments, redis, sharding and clustering, VMs, Postgres and MySQL replication, wiki, monit, DNS, load balancers, reverse proxies, etc. All because I was so scared of ever crashing the website again.

That small company took a chance on me, a high school dropout with some WordPress experience, and paid me $15/hour to run their production website, lol. But they didn't fire me after I screwed up, and gave me the freedom and trust to learn on the job and improve their systems. I'm forever grateful to them!
It’s literally a copy & paste
So, i sold a house i had in north Seattle after a divorce in 2018. We had bought it in 04, i was working at Microsoft at the time. We raised our son there.
I even built a 8’x8’x8’ brick oven for baking pizza and bread (plans from Ovencrafters).
I rented an excavator for a week and dug around the entire house and put in 12’ deep footing drains, with clean-out pipes every 20’ down the 100’ to the road. A new 2” pex water main. 1” pvc sprinkler lines buried 3’ deep.
I completely gutted and remodeled the basement.
I kept a 3” binder with everything in it. Every sprinkler line, footing drain, how my gravity fed recirc system worked, electrical wire, even the pictures of every stage of the six month long brick oven project, including how to move it if needed (10k lbs, but doable with a forklift)
When i sold the house, i flew back there just to hand it to the new owner, some nuevo amazon guy. I went through everything with him, and although he listened, there was no interest or appreciation in what i had handed him. Fine. Whatever.

I moved back to Seattle a few months ago, and my 17 yo son, who was literally born in that house (on a Murphy Bed i built, also included in the manual (the plans, not that my son was born on it, how weird do you think i am?) went and knocked on the door, and he asked if he could look around (outside). They apparently looked at him as if he was deranged, but said sure.

He reported back that they had razed the brick oven, the one thing i thought would out last me in my life. I hoped that one day, maybe some kids would be eating pizza from this oven 100 years from now and no one would know where the oven came from.

Yeah, I haven’t had a house since then, but i will do it again, document everything. I will just be pickier about who i sell it to.
> But there is no such thing as a pure fact

Yes there is. People who say otherwise just want to push their partizan viewpoint.

You can present non-biased facts, it's just that it's hard and not financially rewarding because when you're non-biased you loose the polarized audience. Sticking to a single world view gives you a loyal audience.
It is completely dependent on the model. Civit dot ai has model showcases as well as fine-tune showcases, and you can click any image or press the (i) to see the generation info.

Some models like natural language prompts - "draw me a pterodactyl tanning at a beach", some prefer shorthand (danbooru style clip) - "1man, professor, classroom, chalkboard, white_hair, suit", and some work with a mixture of the above as well as the syntactical sugar -"masterpiece, 8k, trending on artstation, space image, a man floating next to a spaceship in space, bokeh, rim lighting, cinematic lighting, Nikon D60, f / 2"

Fine-tuning models - LoRA, etc, allow one to convert prompts from one style to another if they wish, but usually it's to compress an idea, style, person, object, etc in to a single "token", so you can work on other aspects of the image.

Check out civit AI and you can sort of get an idea of the cargo cultism as well as what sort of keywords actually make a difference.
30 years ago. I wonder what will happen in the next 30.
What? This sounds like it waz a company that ran a loyalty program for retailers. How is that anything like a tulip mania? Sounds like jist a normal, legit business
Grindr. That might sound pithy but it absolutely highlighted how much my own anxiety and insecurity was in my own head. Turns out getting a job when I'm "fuck it, the worst be can do is say no" attitude also is enabling for that working past that anxiety. I think the nature of the app and environment makes it feel like the stakes are lower. For a default-insecure person, it has really helped me grow.
I really don't have enough information to argue either way, but I suspect a locally modulated Radix™ 3D printed pedestal cartridge could operate in a similar manner at around 5.8GHz.

Even with 10% error in tolerance, such an inexpensive apparatus should still fall squarely into the "worth-a-try" category. =)
Title editorialized ever so slightly for clarity.

For those wondering how applications detected screenshots in the past.

Previously, apps were able to detect when a screenshot had been taken by listening for file changes while they were in the foreground, but this was less than ideal.

https://www.androidpolice.com/android-14-screenshot-detected...
I completely agree. Read about Buffet’s favorite investment: See’s Candies. They bought a beloved, family-owned brand, cut costs, and jacked up prices. What does that sound like to you? It’s the typical private equity playbook that’s almost universally derided. Buffet and Munger were the original pioneers of PE. Their legacy is not positive.
I wonder what the carbon offset for that much compute looks like.
So, what actually makes Java successful despite all of these?
Not a theory, you see this all the time, people used to packet pastebin.com a lot for some reason
Yes, how sad… such a tragic ending.
Ah, the Moccamaster. Probably the coffee machine that most closely obeys the UNIX philosophy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_diaspora

Jordan 3,240,000
Syria 630,000
Lebanon 402,582
Saudi Arabia 280,245
Egypt 270,245
Qatar 100,000
Kuwait 80,000
Iraq 57,000
Yemen 55,000
Your gun isn't going to protect you from the government.
I've only had problems with the Apple Pay integration on Pizza Hut's website, of all things.
To be fair, GitHub still has vast majority of features available as public anonymous API end points other than code search. It's just that they are rate-limited a lot more aggressively. And making a GitHub account is free and not terrible intrusive. Even then, all APIs are rate-limited even if you are logged in anyway as they don't want you to kill the servers (that's why tools like https://gitstar-ranking.com/ have troubles because they are relying on free accounts to scrape all repos' GitHub stars).

As for the actual important data (source code), you can simply clone the repo anonymously using HTTPS endpoints, and do your code search there (e.g. there are third-party websites like https://grep.app/ that can do this).

The issue with say Reddit/Twitter is that the source data (posts/comments/upvotes and tweets) is no longer available via APIs, making it impossible / hard to build third-party tools. With GitHub, the source data is still easily accessible, with search (the auxiliary layer) disabled for non-logged-in users. I think they are quite different situations and mixing them together is not useful.
A bit of a stretch to say Charlie didn't practice what he preached just because he [an extremely well known value investor] did not invest in cryptocurrencies [a market driven by hype and speculation and with unclear underlying intrinsic value].
Did the King and Williams summery/letter get published anywhere? I'd like to read it.
LakeFS and Amazon S3 Express: Highly performant data version control for ML/AI
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-stuff-you-should-know-269...
"We randomly sampled 30 narrative sections from real-world UF Health clinical notes, including “past medical history”, “history of present illness”, “assessment/plan”, and “chief complaint”."

I think there might be something wrong with your so-called Turing test.
But unlike Windows we can go ahead and do this if we want as we control our own systems instead of delegating control to a corporation.

IE. I'll ditch X11 compatibility as soon as is feasible for me and it doesn't really matter if someone else keeps it around. That's on them.
This is fantastic! You can broad-strokes sketch the key strokes of the shape you want, and this will generate some "best" matches around that.

What I really appreciate about this is that they took the concept (transformers) and applied it in a quite different-from-usual domain. Thinking outside of the (triangulated) box!
I think I tend to agree with the conclusion—namely that it was predominantly a Jewish influence on Christology. Part of my opinion is shaped by changes in and around the First Century in Judaism which, ultimately, culminated in the Masoretic Text evicting certain parts of the text that could remotely suggest anything akin to polytheism. Deuteronomy 32 is particularly one of the most affected chapters, but curiously "two powers" theology was largely left intact.

This is a particularly interesting period in Christianity, because you had numerous influences (including what would later become gnosticism around the same time), the term "trinity" wouldn't appear in extant works until sometime in the Second Century, then the Council of Nicaea in or around the latter half of the Fourth Century establishing it as doctrine.

So, I think the evidence of a decidedly Jewish influence is quite strong and would date at least to the Babylonian captivity.

I believe Dr. Robert Alter leans toward an evolution from polytheism -> monotheism in Jewish thinking (I highly recommend his The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary); but I think the evidence for a sort of henotheism is a bit stronger and more sensible, which would better fit the sources you shared here, alongside the biblical texts.
What? Wouldnt comments be equally likely to be AI?

Why would comments be any less likely to be AI?
The right word would be "apathy".
Bravo to the author. I think if I had made the same mistake, and if the disaster is permanent, I would probably be scarred for life and never recover from it.