skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a Mechanical/Aerospace engineer.... I wish my scariest stories 'only' involved a potential bricking of a main computer on an unmanned $500M rover.

No... I was the senior safety-crit signoff on things carrying human lives. I had to look over pictures of parts broken from a crash and have the potential feeling of 'what-if that's my calculation gone wrong'. My joint that slipped. My inappropriate test procedure involving accelerated fatigue life prediction, or stress corrosion cracking. My rushing of putting parts into production processes that didn't catch something before it went out the door.

It's interesting to read people's failure stories from similar fields but, to me, the ones that people so openly write about and get shared here on HN always come across as... well, workplace induced PTSD is not a competition. It's just therapy bills for some of us more than for others.
So in particular at a quantum level, simply observing something interferes with the outcome. Ignoring that, any system you set up will affect and be affected by the external world, such as heat transfer, light bouncing off of the system or it's components, electrical noise on a circuit, and it inherits the natural laws by which it's environment, the universe, is governed, such as the speed of light. You don't need to interfere, the system will be affected by it's environment, and stopping that from happening entirely is impossible.
Update: the latest version of Xenia for Windows runs nicely for me in proton (installed as a non-steam game in steam as that's the easiest way for me to run it with proton) and the Goldeneye XBLA remaster ran just fine! I plugged in an xbox controller over USB and it ran wonderfully. That was fun! I played through a few levels and it all went smoothly. It seems theres a couple different versions of the goldeneye leaked remaster out there so make sure to try a couple different ones if you have any issue.
Have you tried actually reading the proponents arguments instead of relying on arrogance? That might be a better way to find out why the consensus is what it is.
Um. History? Yes we could control autonomous robots with 8bit cpus in 1993 and we were engineers so we did it with acceptable risk, aka some testing.
Finnish 5th and 6th graders' Misconceptions about Artificial Intelligence
I think these studies should be replicated with adults too. Though, like with d-/misinformation, we should be very careful with labels such as "misconception".
Certainly for some things (credit line increases) they make it very clear in the app that you "are being sent to our partners at Goldman" in the support messages.
The vast majority of tech layoffs this year had nothing to do preserving the business as an ongoing concern.
What gets me is that this wasn't even your worst living arrangement. I hope things have been moving up for you since.
Yes! But most likely no.
I like the site layout, theme, and functionality. Can some please tell me which system it is? Thanks!
Congress can create courts, I'm not sure what point you're making. The president can veto also and congress can impeach, they each have a power over the other branch but that doesn't mean they can delegate the duties of each branch how they please.
Simple Q Service was already taken :/
I sustained serious injuries (deep lacerations, multiple fractures) last May when a driver on a suspended learner's permit abruptly turned in front of me when I had the right of way through an intersection. He and the cop never showed up for the trial which the traffic court prosecutor only notified me of three days days in advance.

I received the redacted body camera video a month after the trial and had the displeasure of watching the asshole cop being chummy and apologetic to the driver because he had to write a single ticket for the existing suspension. No tickets at all for the multiple traffic violations despite having talked to a witness who saw everything happen (conveniently redacted from the video). Instead the driver got the absolute bare minimum wrist slap of another suspension which I have no confidence will actually be processed consecutively.
This isn't the US.
You're right.

What I'm trying to get at though is that minimum wages won't help poor people - it only helps them feel supported. The only real help is to improve their power in the market.
In 2021, Google Play allegedly made 79 cents per every app download
> the paint codes and finishes for every room, trim, ceilings

Paint codes alone are so worthwhile. My current house has three light greys in it that are all subtly different and when I moved in there was just one grey paint can in the basement with no indication which one of them it was.
For the same reasons writers write or painters paint until they die. They love what they do.
On an error of process or because the outcome is wrong? An "appeal" can mean either of those things. If it's the former, that's a substantial limitation.
Anyone can bring a lawsuit and appeal to SCOTUS, with its panel deciding which cases to take. You're living in an illusion if you genuinely think the Supreme Court is not political in nature.
Yes -

https://www.reuters.com/legal/ai-generated-art-cannot-receiv...
Not yet! This is something we're thinking about, but couldn't afford to offer for free since there's some amount of pre-processing/caching with GPUs required. Maybe we could instead have users somehow pre-process/host that themselves and provide hooks
Americans Are Pulling Cash from Their Retirement Savings to Pay Bills
Why would you use AWS for that? That seems like an extremely strange external dependency for a house running on rainwater.
Says everybody who has ever tried to talk their way out of a traffic ticket with the strategy from the beginning of Good Will Hunting.
While burnout is a real thing that should definitely be addressed, I would like to mention that if you're feeling constantly burnt out, you might want to get checked for sleep apnea.

I've had an issue with severe burnout and depression extending for years, and only recently did I discover that I have obstructive sleep apnea. A combination of a mouthpiece and weight loss has greatly improved my mood and motivation.
Rabbi Tarfon said, “Where there is no bread, there is no Torah; where there is no Torah, there is no bread.”

it’s an interesting book that tells you to put the book down and go out and check in on your neighbor. So don’t let your backlog get in the way of that virtuous cycle.
> Exactly what wealth are cities draining from rural America?

Obviously it's not the cities themselves draining the wealth, but rather a spiral of excess capital accumulation. It just so happens that many of the people perpetuating this cycle live in cities. Generally, increasing one's capital is done by taking money that was being funneled one place, and funneling it to yourself instead. For example, CVS can open a pharmacy and undercut local competition. Once the local pharmacies close, cash flows that were once destined for local pharmacies go to CVS instead. Local pharmacies would have kept the profits locally, but CVS siphons them from the community into the pockets of shareholders, most of whom happen to live in cities. These city-dwelling shareholders can they pay others to perpetuate this cycle.

> Is it possible there's a simpler explanation? That the economy of the twenty-first century is dominated by information and technology.

Is it, though? Consumer spending is about 70% of GDP. What is your personal spending on tech vs. non-tech items? Personally, I spend vastly more money on non-tech items compared to tech items. The margins are obviously much lower, so they don't have splashy stock tickers.
> be part of the justice department

Still no separation of power, they're all the executive branch.
MasterCard and Visa openly publish this information. I can't easily find a similar reference for AmEx, but this isn't secret.

https://www.mastercard.us/content/dam/public/mastercardcom/n...

https://usa.visa.com/content/dam/VCOM/download/merchants/vis...
Agreed, my friend group hosts a private Matrix server specifically for the E2EE (with encrypted history) chatrooms. Makes us all way more comfortable sharing or discussing anything involving PII because we aren't having to trust Discord's systems and employees.
What do you mean? Obviously, yes, they have for more than a decade. I don't have many opinions about the former, but how does OpenAI change the relevance of SO?
this stuff about how unit tests aren't tests for units but rather tests that are units is nonsense. the term has been used to mean 'tests for units' for about a century

it is certainly true that the optimal amount and kind of testing depends on your development environment. if for some reason you find yourself writing 6809 assembly, here are some ways you can make testing cheaper

- don't write the tests in assembly. there are c compilers. forth is also a fine option. or you can test manually from a debugger or monitor program

- forth makes a decent monitor program and macro assembler and is scriptable for testing. it's maybe a lot better at that than it is at being a programming language. there are reportedly very good forths for the 6809

- don't do the development self-hosted. you can simulate a 6809 on a laptop or cellphone hundreds of times faster than real time, and the author is in fact doing that. if you have a big computer with either a 6809 simulator or a debugging umbilical to your 6809, you can run the test scripts on the big computer instead of the 6809, while running the code under test on the 6809, real or emulated. then you don't have to write your tests in c or forth; you can write them in tcl, python, js, lua, squirrel, or whatever you prefer. they can control the 6809 like a marionette, and you can use property testing frameworks like hypothesis, which would be very ambitious to implement on the 6809

- maybe non-time-critical parts of your logic can be written in a language that can be compiled to either the 6809 or the big computer, such as c, so you can test it compiled natively on the big computer. cross-compiled to the 6809, this will generate bloated code that uses more memory, so it depends on how tight you are on space, though the 6809 isn't quite as unfriendly to c as something like a 6502 or pdp-10

- the exception is that if you write the non-time-critical parts in an itc forth instead of c or something, it won't use an unreasonable amount of memory, but it will be a lot slower and more bug prone

disclaimer, I haven't programmed a 6809 since 01985, and then it was in basic, and my forth isn't all that hot either
Nothing prevents users from switching search engines. I switched mine! Advertisers on the other hand want as many eyeballs that fit their target profile as possible.
Fascinating! Thanks I’ll have to read up on this mysterious Q figure and why it’s believed to be a ghost writer of sorts (is that accurate? Or is possibly just information lost to time?)
Automatic vectorization > Techniques: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_vectorization#Techni...

SIMD: Single instruction, multiple data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_instruction,_multiple_d...

Category:SIMD computing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:SIMD_computing

Vectorization: Introduction:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36159017 :

> GPGPU > Vectorization, Stream Processing > Compute kernels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General-purpose_computing_on_g...
Car Dealers to Biden: EVs Aren't Selling
This is how I explain senior execs to junior engineers: their job is not to write code or give speeches, it’s almost entirely about making decisions in the absence of perfect information.

That’s an important skill. But it also provides the perfect cover for bad decisions, because “we didn’t know then what we do now.”

So I have little sympathy for the c-level exec who ends up on the wrong side of events as they unfold, because…that’s the gig. If they don’t want unfair blame they can get a different job.
I would have thought it is RTO mandated when you need to reduce payroll and want to incentivize workers to resign, and then back to WFH once that target is met and expenses need to be cut further.
The only truly successful commercial use of SDXL I know of is by NovelAI. Said company appears to have used an 256xH100 cluster to finetune it to produce anime art.

Open source efforts to produce a similar model seem to have failed due to the extreme compute requirements for finetuning. For example, Waifu Diffusion using 8XA40[0] have not managed to bend SDXL to their will after potentially months of training.

If you need 256xH100 to even finetune the model for your use case, what's stopping you from just training your own base model? Not much, as it turns out. Developers of NovelAI have stated they'll train from scratch for the next version of their model a few weeks ago.

So I agree, even with the licensing changes things might be looking somewhat dire for SAI.

https://gist.github.com/harubaru/f727cedacae336d1f7877c4bbe2...
Depends on the state. Most states allow some subset of 501(c)(3) organza to forgo property taxes.

So if you’re running things, the Mark Twain society gets to operate tax free, but the Jesus society doesn’t? Sounds dangerous to me.
Just search it.
Because it takes up space and is mostly pointless vs a portable propane or electric one.
Good, so next time people learn not to use and/or reject any service that tries to ask you to register in these “identity verification” services.
It started up fine. The multimeter was connecting up the telemetry, so they weren't getting any information from it until they restored that circuit.

The power absolutely did feed into that circuit, they were trying to decide if it would have damaged it (but a motor driver is going to be able to handle power coming from the motor, so they decided that it probably didn't damage it).
Oh fucking hell. This was a repeat of one of the first non private uses of the Internet. If glad you learned something, but nothing novel or new here.
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Both DE3 and MJ are essentially toys for single random pictures, unusable in a professional setting. DALL-E in particular has really bad issues with quality, and while it follows the prompt well it also rewrites it so it's barely controllable. Midjourney is RLHF'd to death.

What you want for asset creation is not photorealism, but style and concept transfer, multimodal controllability (text alone is terrible at expressing artistic intent), and tooling. And tooling isn't something that is developed quickly (although there were several rapid breakthroughs in the past, for example ZBrush).

Most of the fancy demos you hear about sound good on paper, but don't really go anywhere. Academia is throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks, this is its purpose, especially when practice is running ahead of theory. It's similar to building airplanes before figuring out aerodynamics (which happened long ago): watching a heavier-than-air thing fly is amazing, until you realize it's not very practical in the current form, or might even kill its brave inventor who tried to fly it.

If you look at the field closely, most of the progress in visual generative tooling happens in the open source community; people are trying to figure out what works in real use and what doesn't. Little is being done in big houses, at least publicly and for now, as they're more interested in a DC-3 than a Caproni Ca.60. The change is really incremental and gradual, similarly to the current mature state of 3D. Paradigms are different but they are both highly technical and depend on academic progress. Once it matures, it's going to become another skill-demanding field.
Personally I see showing dead corpses in general as a likely immoral idea due to the fact that it might "commodify" real tragedy.

Or at the very least open up Pandora's box.
Yes. It is a post by the head of a small investment firm simply trying to align themselves with the halo of Charlie Munger.

Also this in particular is particularly ridiculous:

"It’s a fair bet that your present troubles pale in comparison.
Whatever it is, get over it. Start over. He did it. You can, too."

First that's quite a bit of an assumption. After all divorce and a medical problem (like Charlie had) as well as a child dying IS something you can get over. There are people that for sure have much worse situations than that. But even if that was not the case it's never a good idea to frame someone's problems by comparing to something worse that someone got through.

You are upset that you have let's say diabetes? Oh get over it 'it's not cancer'.

You have cancer? Oh get over it it could be pancreatic cancer.

And so on.

Many problems you can't just 'get over'. (Addiction and mental health issues holding you back are just 2 examples)
You say that as if MS buying GitHub, and the Copilot training data stuff hasn't driven all sorts of people to alternatives like Gitlab or self-hosted solutions like forgejo.
This article is about a human changing his mind multiple times over the course of his life. And then, seeing a machine do it too. Sadly, I doubt that important idea will be considered on the Internet very well.
Yeah, agreed on both counts.

I run testing on my desktop, and stable-with-some-exceptions on my servers and router.

For the past couple of decades, I've been periodically looking for other equally-no-surprises distros so that I can stop burning so much power on building from source, and, man, I don't think I'm ever going to find one.
Because the author didn't write it? You're welcome.
Wow that looks like a bad one. I'm glad I access my home stuff via VPN because worrying about things like this would be stressful!
Tim O'Reilly on algorithmic tuning for exploitation
The best solution would be to prohibit the executive branch from making up new laws and return that power to the legislative branch where it belongs.
I really liked Charlie. His stance on China was wrong. People aren’t black and white. It’s a tragically small and uninteresting world if you can only learn from and admire people who never make a wrong step and who only ever agree with you.
Article I courts are courts that aren't run by the Judiciary Branch.
Are people this desperate for clicks that they link to twitter when the article link is far more detailed?!
> Dealers have a 103-day supply of EVs compared to 56 days for all cars...EV sales are slowing though manufacturers have slashed prices and increased discounts...

The reason, as the dealers explain, is that “early adopters formed an initial line and were ready to buy these vehicles as soon as we had them to sell.” But most consumers aren’t “ready to make the change,” in part because EVs are still too expensive.

I was looking at some PHEVs recently, to replace our current PHEV. The price premium was $12,000 over the ICE version. Given how little we drive, we'd never make up the difference. This is especially true with interest rates where they are (the discount rate for future savings is high), and with the fact that our insurance would be higher for a vehicle that costs $12k more. There are nice savings to be had with EVs, like lower maintenance costs. But the price premium can't be this high if you want people to buy them.
Understanding the Process of Data Labeling in Cybersecurity
A much needed study; I've had my own concerns particularly in this context for a long time. Serves also as a good warning against the hype.
All legal stuff is expensive. Source: was an expert witness, and made a nice sum.

SEC type stuff is guaranteed to be pricy because it's bound to be complicated, and require specialists.
> Porn. It's always porn.

I've been surprised at the explosion of porn. Well, not actually. Automatic1111 made that easy and anyone that CivitAI knows all too well what those models are being used for. I mean when you give teenagers the ability to undress their crushes[0] what do you think is going to happen (do laws adequately protect people (kids)? Can they? Will this force a shift towards actually chasing producers, distributors, and diddlers?)?

Porn is clearly an in demand market. But what does surprise me is that there's been a lot of work in depth maps and 3D rendering from 2D images in the past few years so I'm a bit surprised that given how popular VR headsets are (according to today's LTT episode, half as many Meta Quest 2s as PS5s have been sold?!). I mean if VR headsets are actually that prolific it seems like there'd be a good market for even just turning a bunch of videos into VR videos, not to mention porn (I don't have a VR headset, but I hear a lot of porn is watched. No Linus, I'm not going to buy second hand...). I think all it takes is for some group to optimize these models like they have for LLaMA and SD (because as a researcher I can sure tell you, we're not the optimizers. Use our work as ballpark figures (e.g. GANs 10x Diffusion) but there's a lot of performance on the table). You could definitely convert video frames to 3D on prosumer grade hardware (say a 90 minute movie in <8hrs? Aka: while you sleep).

There are a lot of wild things that I think AI is going to change that I'm not sure people are really considering (average people anyways or at least stuff that's not making it into popular conversation). ResNet-50 is still probably the most used model btw. Not sure why, but just about every project I see that's not diffusion of an LLM is using this as a backbone despite research models that are smaller, faster, and better (at least on ImageNet-22k and COCO).

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66877718
i am so confused.

"you are given a string and it's length".. i dont understand.

is the string like "1,1,22,2,189,3,12,2,120,3" ???
Nobody was arguing the Supreme Court isn't political.

The argument is that it's ridiculous to say "it's not a real controversy" when the Supreme Court has agreed to take the case, and a federal appeals court has already ruled against the government.
I remember reading Ender's Game and being blown away by it when I was younger. Years later I picked up a new edition of it in a bookstore and read the back cover. The spoiler is right there. IMO that ruins the entire book if you know. I still can't believe the publishing house did that.
They were suggesting moving the other half, not the half you quoted that about.
100%

If the Government decides you are a threat, they will take you down. Some overweight Sunday warrior with an assault rifle is not going to save us from tyranny. The way you protect the country against that is to promote democracy and vote for people who aren't trying to overthrow the Government if they lose an election.
That's before git was created. Do you have details about this?