skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're in the "Acknowledgements" section, which is appropriate for this particular scheme of things. Academia is nothing if not a "street cred" game, and that cred is not portioned out easily (or equitably).
Adversarial Diffusion Distillation
WOW ok I stand 100% corrected
> Property taxes are the one tax that anyone by definition can pay.

This is clearly and obviously not true, why would you say that?

If your property tax rises to a level that your income is not enough to pay it (along with other basic necessities like food), then you can't afford to pay it. This can and does happen in areas where property taxes can rise without any limit.

> a low-to-middle class person who owns a $1.5M property isn’t lower or middle class

I'm guessing (maybe I guess wrong) that your argument is that this low-to-middle class person should just sell the property and use those proceeds to pay the property tax. Is that what you mean by "by definition can pay"?

Sure, they can pay it that way. Of course then they don't have a home anymore, they got forced to sell it! Now what do you expect them to do? Someone else upthread said they just need to go and move somewhere else (specifically, somewhere else that is cheaper).

So, we circle back to the original premise. If property taxes are allowed to grow without limitations, it forces long-term low-to-middle class residents out of their homes because they can't afford to pay the property taxes. So they must sell and uproot their life by moving somewhere else that is cheaper.

This isn't debatable, it is simple math.

What is debatable is whether this is overall a good or a bad thing. Should society favor keeping long-term residents in their homes, or should society favor the richer newcomer to take over the place? That's the argument that leads to Prop 13.
One example that says "no" to your question. -> https://ollama.ai/ There are surely more. It can be used with something like "LangChain" or "LlamaIndex" to give the locally hosted LLM access to local data, and a bit of Python "glue code" to tie it all together.
The texture issue was due to the severely constrained texture cache on the N64, which was limited to 4KB, rather than storage space. Cost was another limiting factor that severely limited storage space. A lot of games released on the N64 were well below the console's maximum game cart limit.

Interestingly the same holds true for the Nintendo Switch: Sakurai mentions how closely he had to work with the development team to compress Smash Bros Ultimate's massive soundtrack. IIRC Smash is on a 16GB game cart despite the console supporting 64GB. Presumably this was done for cost reasons.
> it's OK for both genocide survivor, and micro-aggression survivor, to claim victim status

I think it's actually a pretty good sign of progress that if a society is worried about micro-aggressions it means that they are not worried about larger problems, like genocide.
We disagree. I was in the throws of a life threatening illness and working on Keras in the very early days was an outlet for me. During that time the main author accused me publicly of trying to sabotage the project; a comment completely out of left field.
Well, were it possible, I'd say go back in time and study your tools so that you're not spending the journeyman period of your career ricocheting between tutorials and faqs.

Failing that, read the documentation. Failing that, stand up a quick experiment.

Somehow, we survived before ChatGPT and even before saturated question boards. Those strategies are still available to you and well worth learning
Don't worry, Google are hard at work undermining the product they worked so hard to build. Every year google search is worse at surfacing what you're looking for and better at an ads platform, and the advent of LLMs and SEO agencies flooding the internet with no-value regurgitated content is also not helping.
There's not much to the S3 API, and data import/export even at massive scale is available with Snowball. Sure, there's many other AWS services that aren't available at other vendors, but blob storage is commodified at this point.
assuming CNY 100 redbacks (155 × 77 mm) can be packed as easily as USD 100 greenbacks (156 x 67 mm), a Zero Halliburton briefcase is only going to be worth USD 140k, so banknotes are obviously the wrong mechanism...
Parsing 8-bit integers quickly
Simple. If it’s smart enough just tell it: Q, don’t fall for any scams or misuse or exfiltrate my data! And also keep me safe in other ways I can’t think of. And make me a million dollars by next week. Thanks!
Former Labor Secretary Found What Work Is Like Now (2022)
Except this has uniform billing, security, locality, monitoring, tools, etc
I agree. Reminds me a various sci-fi scenarios: We hit a tech level where jobs and tasks are not done by people unless they want to do them. Or in many cases we still want a human there for some reason. Like the barista, the job could certainly be automated but the hipster human doing the pour-over adds something to the experience that we, as the human customer still want.

I think it turns out that humans will want to work or event need to work in many ways.

I still want to garden (ripping out weeds is oddly gratifying), practice guitar, work on my old Porsche, hack on various projects, etc.
You forgot the URL.

Is the forum in Italian? Did you have any interesting problem with the localization of the forum?
How does google get the right to create net TLDs? Can I create a TLD?
Additionally, Google dismissed the trend of other search engines: everyone was building a portal, which for the most part didn't add much value for users. Even today, Google, which is really just an advertising company, has no ads or other content on its main page. (it does have a few internal links on the extreme edges, but has arguably the most white space of any online company)
QAmazon

But Q is just one letter no one can appropriate it.
Sports Illustrated Accused of using AI to write articles
Makes sense. Is that needed for toilet paper (which will buried anyway)
> I always think about what you wrote when I see Yann LeCun criticizing everybody else while failing to present a winning technology.

I have similar thoughts in response to a lot of his comments. His criticism is often precise and fair, but it often comes along with an insistence that his "world model" is the one true solution. Maybe that is true? I haven't seen the evidence of it as of yet.
How does that reduce the incentives? Better to win a human-only division by cheating than to win the augmented division by playing legitimately. "Better" being a kind of sociopathic view of it, but certainly a player who wins a human-only division gets more social cachet than someone who places 300th in the augmented division, so long as people believe that the human-only division is actually human.
It's the best Graviton processor yet!
Thanks for writing all of that out! I appreciate the analysis.
Meta Quest 3.

Also this https://7artisans.store/products/7artisans-50mm-f0-95-large-... which I took https://mastodon.social/@UP8/111061017008323474 and https://mastodon.social/@UP8/111077882869934997 with.
As someone who dropped out of CS, I've always viewed coding as a "foot-in-the-door."

Coding is a means to an end, and when someone only cares about writing a bitchin' line/method/program struggles to identify and understand (or more importantly communicate) the end, what good is the means?
This is the updated (2016) version

https://svr-sk818-web.cl.cam.ac.uk/keshav/papers/07/paper-re...
AI developer is the new web developer.
Interestingly, if there is a way to detect that we are in a simulation, it means that there is some side channel by which information can pass between the simulation and it's bare metal, the world in which it is being run. This would mean that the simulation itself is a phenomenon inside this base reality and so is very real and also that we can learn things about it. If there is no way to do this, this would mean that thermodynamics and information behavior in this outside, real world are very different from ours, as we cannot as a rule build such a system ourselves, there are no standalone, completely isolated systems of any kind in our universe, and also interestingly, the simple fact of acknowledging this negates it's truth because you're detecting a fundamental difference between your simulation and the universe in which it is running, which makes it a paradox.

If a universe exists with laws that allow for a simulation which cannot be detected from inside, but that the simulation itself is observable from outside, that means information can only flow outward. A universe like this would basically be an infinite substrate with many different systems in it that cannot observe each other, and the inability to observe a separate system would be the stable state of such a universe. So it wouldn't make sense that an observer in such a universe would exist to observe the simulation as he would be a system without the capability of observing anything outside of himself, or in other words, information cannot flow outward either. So, it is very unlikely that we would not be able to detect and learn about the bare metal from inside, which means that it would be falsifiable. If it is falsifiable then people making the claim ought to be able to demonstrate it. If not, it's a "simulation" that is completely isolated to the point that nobody in the universe where it is running can even detect that it is running, or in other words, not a simulation at all.
The best way to combat passive aggression is to maintain your sense of humour, as laughter is the most reliable filter for others' intentions. It does make enemies though because in misrepresenting their intentions, liars can't laugh freely with someone they're lying to. They won't forgive you for catching them out, and they may lash out from behind the glass or strain against collar of the fictions they have to sustain, but you don't lose much of value.

Unfortunately passive aggression is a virus and once you let it into your organization's culture, you have to fire people to get rid of it. I've watched the transition from small company to mid-size one a few times, and it starts with the appointment of a manager who uses or tolerates it, then encourages it in their key subordinates.

Within a quarter or two, everyone is trying to figure out why their jobs suck and how others became such a see-you-next-tuesdays. The popular and likeable talent flames out and rage quits, managers who people had actual loyalty for get recruited away, and what's left are gatekeepers and scammers who churn through increasingly jr. and desperate staff until the company gets sold for parts in an acquihire, or languishes as a farm team in some shitty private equity portfolio for a stream of feckless MBA hires to do time in.

Develop a personal playbook for handling passive aggression the way people handle sales objections, and practice it, and you will have much better companies for much longer, imo.
I was there, I was born in 1987, so I lived thru it. And most of the time the "ports" were just new games up to the point of shifthing the genre because of some really limited platforms.
The article ends with:

> In a fiercely hierarchical world of bosses and middle managers and underlings, is the very idea of such openness a naive pipe dream?

A habdbook case of a final that is a bit too open. There are no hints at all about how to attain this, even partially.
A cache with large blobs (images, etc)
All machine languages are totally made up.
I'm a note taker and I got tired of having hand written notes scattered all over and never being able to find the note I needed. So took a leap and purchased an iPad Air and an Apple Pencil 2. I carry it with me and make all my notes there. I use it way more than I ever imagined. I use the Paperlike screen protector to make it feel more like writing on a notebook. And it has all the added benefits of an iPad.
Search engines have always been a bit weird. Do they have network effects? Why is it actually winner-take-all? I've had spirited conversations with a lot of different people and academics/microeconomists on the topic and I don't think anyone truly has a good conclusion. It doesn't naturally seem like it should be the case.

Anyway, I think your point here is interesting and was kind of the idea behind a lot of the "gather lots of data" startups. A lot of those failed in part because the frontier of AI is moving pretty quickly. You need a lot less data to do interesting thing today than you did not that long ago. Because we've thrown more and more data at more and more compute, I think people don't appreciate how much we've truly progressed algorithmically. You need an order of magnitude less data to do the same thing for each "generation" of AI.

That frontier cuts against the ability to build a moat on user-generated data, so long as it's readily available or somewhat replicable. Your competitor is naturally going to have a cheaper time getting into market than you if they wait longer to do so.

However, this definitely does stand if your area truly is obscure (e.g. specific industry), annoying to gather data in (e.g. certain healthcare applications), or actually proprietary (e.g. your own device data with a different modality).

Not putting words into your mouth that you aren't saying the latter here—just making a distinction since it's easy to imagine any data being a moat, which is a common mistake I see.
Supposedly Q* combines LLM with A* search, which I think could be "easily" reproducible by other tech giants, even if they have just a vague idea of what OpenAI is researching.
RDP as a protocol does support remoting just apps (RAIL: Remote Application Integrated Locally, or RemoteApps).

However, for Wayland compositors, this is a distant future; right now, Mutter supports connecting to existing, already running session (desktop). Ability create a new session over RDP is in the works. Everything else is after that.
I see "connector" and hear "you'll spend weeks trying to get this feature to work before you give up and write it in Python in an afternoon."
That's all beside the point.

What do you think tokai's position on judge strikes is?

Do you have a position on Judge strikes?

OR are you trying to talk about something else?
This happens so often it's made it really easy to test an app I'm developing for API outages and put it into "maintenance mode" accordingly. I don't even need to mock the outage... just wait for the weekly occurrence
An earlier comment mentioned Gordon Letwin[0] (lead architect of OS/2 at MSFT), and that led me down the rabbit hole to an "infamous" USENET post he made re: OS/2[1].

It sounds like there was acrimony all around:

Another problem that came up here was that IBM didn't want us to use the
windows API for the graphical environment under OS/2. Many key folks
inside IBM had always hated Windows. IBM had this crazy thing called TopView,
it was a character oriented windowing scheme and not very good. Bill Gates,
myself, and some other folks made several trips to Boca Raton to try
to explain to those guys why a character oriented windowing scheme was
obsolete before it was even written, but to no avail. One of IBM's most
major problems is that although their top guys may be smart, they
aren't techically savvy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Letwin

[1] http://gunkies.org/wiki/Gordon_Letwin_OS/2_usenet_post
It doesn’t matter - technology is not a product. All of the companies you name have hundreds of millions of users and they can take whatever technology they have and make more popular products.

There are no great products in the pipeline for OpenAI. Microsoft is doing the productization.

But if you are even not the best of the best, but the worse of the best, why the hell would you ever want to work for Amazon?

Source: former AWS employee (Professional Services). I’m not bitter, it was my 8th out of 9 jobs in almost 30 years of working. I made my money. Learned what I could. Put it on my resume. Got Amazoned with a nice severance package and found a much less stressful job doing the same thing in less than 3 weeks
> If you present a picture of a collection of data, a function that maps input values to outputs, and a picture of the output collection of data, that's fairly easy to grasp. The difficulty comes from bothering to describe how the computer does it by running a first-class function on the data

I think your describing the solution to the problem: this is how (pure) functions are introduced in high school or university, and that's also what they fundamentally are defined like!

Of course no function in a computer program is really a black-box, but introducing

f: A -> B

as a black-box gets you far enough for all practical purposes! Defining the properties of a mathematical function and the related categories of injective, surjective and bijective maps between sets is all one needs to know about a (pure) function.

And when it comes to e.g. f(x)=sin(x), how many programmers or high school students could write down an algorithm to calculate e.g. sin(1/4) out of their head?

I know it's a long-solved basic algebra question, but treating functions as black-boxes can be perfectly fine.

When it comes to programming, of course, shared mutable state (i.e. lexical scoping) and how actual functions in some language relate to these concepts is the meat of the problem.

But even this space can be explored without knowing complex FP concepts. And JS is a great language to do so :)

Any JS programmer learns about the difference between a pure function and an impure "function" in some intuitive fashion sooner or later, because lexical scoping is so much at the heart of the language.

So much that day-to-day work can even include a fair amount of shifting around logic between shared mutable state, function parameters and captured closures.
Even if you go for their core business they might not crush you! Social media being the obvious example.

If you go for a full frontal attack on their core business, you'll probably get crushed. Short of that... working at a fang will make anyone not very scared of them.
GL.iNet GL-MT3000 Pocket-Sized Wi-Fi 6 Router
What happens when [insert your least favorite political figure here] gets to live to 500?

500 years of Putin - that would be fun.
Avoid ones that are just gluing together APIs or building generic applications.

Debating if I want to respond to this, because there is fistfuls of cash right now in software consulting for this sort of work. Boring CRUDs and API integrations make a lot of the world go round (quietly).
https://netwrck.com just get a new AI lol?
Google and Facebook didn’t have a moat (Remember MySpace? They had network effects too), but they were first in creating a culture where they approached data capture and utilisation as part of their DNA. AI startups might be very well suited to capture initial market share but can always be turned to features by Microsoft or Google as the incumbents are just smarter and faster this time around. I can potentially see AI startups disrupting product categories as they be can take more PR risk (uncensored models for instance). But if they get too big they’ll be turned into features at any given time. I think it’s just more brutal of a market in 2023 than it was back in 2003.
Transistor first reported as "little brain cell"
> since when is a change which had been incoming for 10+ years drastic?

Incoming where ? I only heard about wayland since about 2-3 years ? Earlier was mir the "new display server".
> I miss the days when Google would let proper manufacturing partners like HTC or LG

The Pixel team is largely comprised of ex-HTC employees that came over when HTC ragequit the mobile phone business. They started out leading the 3a/4a, but after the Pixel 4, they got put in charge of all of the phones.
A few different thoughts here..

Your example is actually spot on: "I had a beautiful wedding, but the walls were yellow." Did the walls being yellow make the wedding a disaster? No, but did the yellow walls somehow lead to a less than optimal result? Yes.

In the first statement: "I had a beautiful wedding. The walls were yellow", it is almost misleading because the statement is withholding the idea that the yellow walls were a bad thing.

It's up to the reader to decide how bad the walls being yellow were. Some readers may decide that the wedding was completely gashed, others may decide that it was 98% great.

Another example to consider: "I had a beautiful wedding, but the cake was not enough." vs "I had a beautiful wedding, the cake was not enough". The latter is not as clear, was the cake just so good that it ran out? The first one, implies that there was a greater expectation. Which goes to my point, it's a big omission if you leave out the idea there was a greater expectation.
> It is possible. Don't give them money and only provide basic shelter

In the EU you would have to reduce your welfare state to that level for your own citizens as well. The ECJ says[0]:

> It follows that the level of social security benefits paid to refugees by the Member State which granted that status, whether temporary or permanent, must be the same as that offered to nationals of that Member State

[0] https://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&do...
It would be very strange if they didn't try things like these. It's actually a pretty competent government that knows how to look for itself, the very fact that Salafism hasn't yet destroyed them (the Saudi Family) is a massive achievement of its own, not to mention the quite effective OPEC+ cartel.

That being said this will be decided by whichever technology is cheaper (including things like the risk premia of being potentially cut off from supplies), regardless of agitation either way. Unless somehow, magically, we can force everyone to pay up for their share of damage caused by temperature change - which is extremely far away from being realizable. UN Security Council cannot agree on much more obvious things, like deciding in specific cases that bombing civilians is actually illegal.
Per server? Our dual CPU intel servers take about 800-900W at full power
To use custom GPTs you need ChatGPT plus subscription. So your customers need to have ChatGPT plus subscription to get support? As far as I know there is no API to integrate custom GPTs into.
A fellow connaisseur, I see.
Can I have a Wikipedia CD-ROM delivered yearly in the mail? The rest is just an ad now.
People go to where the desirable content is, and some "humanweb" with a high barrier of entry inevitably has a chicken and egg problem, where it's not worth to go there until the thing you need is there, and so people who might create that thing won't go there and will create it elsewhere.

All the best non-commercial content will be created somewhere where creators don't need to rely on "hardware terminals at distributed, centralized locations for interacting with the humanweb that you can't install or control the software on and where a human or a camera is watching you physically type on the keyboard to make sure you aren't just automating the inputs physically with some software->machine->keyboard interface or connecting some virtual keyboard.", while on the other hand, commercial content farms will have no problem hiring a thousand minimum-wage employees to spend 8+ hours in those locations creating authentic, verified human-entered astroturfing spam.
There’s so much empty space, a random shotgun blast would be unlikely to hit anything.

Here’s a video about it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OjdE-Q3yDYQ&pp=ygUvdHJhdmVsIGF...

For example there is ~4 light years of empty space between us and our closest star.

And if you come upon a solar system but don’t hit a planet you’d probably get ejected into empty space.

And even if you did hit a planet, you could end up on water, land, lava, etc., so I guess you’d have to account for all possibilities, plus keeping your biological cargo alive during the extremely long journey.

So it would have to be a heavily calculated trajectory and heavily planned cargo to find much success.