skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
buy the reels and channels waveform sells, solder them together and connect a power supply.
I haven't double checked the following statement, so YMMV:
"Universal health care is such a complex beast that only 32 of the world's 33 developed nations have been able to make it work."

(In my country, it is illegal to be uninsured. The flip side of this is that it is therefore illegal for an insurance company to refuse coverage. Another corollary is that insurance is personal, without employers as unneeded middlemen.)
You and I are in agreement that the surveillance needs to stop, but I think we differ on how to explain the problem. My explanation follows, but note that its not directed at you.

At its peak, the KGB employed ~500,000 people directly, with untold more employed as informants.

The FBI currently employs ~35,000 people. What if I told you that the FBI could reach the KGB's peak level of reach, without meaningfully increasing its headcount? Would that make a difference?

The technology takes away the cost of the surveillance, which used to be the guardrail. That fundamentally changes the "political" calculus.

The fact that computers in 1945 were prohibitively expensive and required industrial logistics has literally zero bearing on the fact that today most of us have several on our person at all times. Nobody denies that changes to computer manufacturing technologies fundamentally changed the role the computer has in our daily lives. Certainly, it was theoretically possible to put a computer in every household in 1945, but we lacked the "political" will to do so. It does not follow that because historically computers were not a thing in society, we should not adjust our habits, morals, policies, etc today to account for the new landscape.

So why is there always somebody saying "it was always technically possible to [insert dystopian nightmare], and we didn't need special considerations then, so we don't need them now!"?
There will probably be a time where most proofs are just done in Lean or some similar system and nobody bothers writing a "human readable" paper. Math will just become a kind of programming.
I think they realized that a large portion of their community would have just gone elsewhere if they didn't. I was not impressed with how they handled the initial criticism--after they backpedaled after realizing that deprecating basically the entire current api wasn't popular (surprising... lol), they then started saying they never intended to deprecate it. It was strange.

I'm still not a huge fan of the composition api. It's like a weird version of React function components with different quirks. Maybe I just need to use them more and I'll eventually get it.
Fernando already replied to this thread acting like he has no connections. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38530381
This is a replay of the Messenger Wars. Yahoo IM, AIM, ICQ, etc played a game of cat and mouse with clients that wanted to get all of the messengers in one spot.
The scaling laws (the original Kaplan paper, Chinchilla, and OpenAI's very opaque scaling graphs for GPT-4) suggest indefinite improvement for the current style of transformers with additional pre-training data and parameters.

No one has hit a model/dataset size where the curves break down, and they're fairly smooth. Usually simple models that accurately predict performance work pretty well nearby existing performance, so I expect trillion or 10-trillion parameter models to be on the same curve.

What we haven't seen yet (that I'm aware of) is whether the specializations to existing models (LoRa, RLHF, different attention methods, etc.) follow similar scaling laws, since most of the efforts have been focused on achieving similar performance on smaller/sparser models and not investing the large amounts of money into huge experiments. It will be interesting to see what Deepmind Gemini reveals.
i created an AI Modell (have like 20+ very similar face photos of my dream model) created with "Fooocus" Juggernaut XL SDXL)...

what is the best way to creat myself an "Modell" or "checkpoint" of my wished modell face?

i find tutorials but they seem complicated and outdated. thanks for any small tipp what things to research for actually method. Thanks
History is full of examples showing that you're wrong. That is not the best case scenario at all. Is it a possible scenario? Sure, but not the best case or only case by any means. The country itself is founded on examples of you being incorrect.
I am a capsicum true believer who wants to use file descriptors for everything, and hardlink directories all day.
It's extremely rare but the data paths can be asymmetrical too. Eg satellite with a ground based uplink.
Lately I've been using Firefox as a primary browser again, mostly to get used to it before ad blockers stop working in Chrome. Mostly it's good, though some things I'm still adjusting to: Firefox wants to claim the ESC key to get out of full-screen, resulting in a number of sites with different behavior (namely, many sites use ESC to close modals)
It’s not that AI will enable mass spying, mass spying is already there.

AI enables extracting all sorts of behavioral data across decades timespan for everyone.

The devils argument is in a world where the data is not used for nefarious purposes and only to prosecute crime as passed by governments, it leads to a society where no one is above the law and equal treatment for all.

However that seldom goes well since humans who control the system definitely want an upper edge.
Instead of "censorship", I'd say "moderation". To pick a random example, suppose you're on an instance run by, and dedicated to, right-wing politics. It may block connections from servers meant for and run by devout communists. The reverse would probably also be true. No one's saying fascists or communists can't run their own server. They're saying "I don't want to hear this stuff".

It's legal to be an anti-Semite, but a Jewish instance doesn't want any of that nonsense. It's legal to be a white supremacist, but a server for black people doesn't want to deal with that trash. On the fediverse, instead of having a one-size-fits-all policy like "all legal speech is allowed" or "no anti-trans content is allowed", each group of users can choose for themselves who they want to talk to.

That's the opposite of censorship. I own a Mastodon instance and I've disconnected quite a few despicable servers, because that's what my users ask me to do. Users who thing I'm too strict or too lenient can move to another server more aligned with their own desires. I'm not denying those other groups the right to publish whatever disagreeable content they wish to. I'm just saying we don't want it here on our server.
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Tolerance in these terms are like "I would never let my kid to be gay, but others, fine whatever". And that still comes in a range from "get thrown stones at for holding hands with another dude" to "allowed to give a goodbye kiss to your partner in public". Everyone's limits are obviously different, and one can perceive either of those as "trying to force personal views on others". Reading those norms isn't easy until you get accustomed to the locals and have bar chats with them.
This is a limitation that dates back to NT 3.1 where SOCK_RAW was callable by standard User accounts. Only starting with Windows 2000 [0] does creating a RAW socket require local administrator rights.

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winsock/tcp-...
Software had infinitely less demands on its usability and non-technicalness. Maybe it would be cheaper to have IT and have'm maintain this; but I doubt it.
My own take on [0] is that is way too focused on the technical aspects of the problems

but most of these problems aren't technical in nature.

no amount of 'tech hacking' can solve what are ultimately political (socioeconomic) issues.

these are matters of government policy and such. the law is not about the words used to write it down with, but about the principlies behind, about the intents of the people who wrote it; regardless of who is reading.

but I also consider that "law making" and computing are ultimately solving a very similar problem so do feel free to dismiss what I say
This also works in Chrome (My version is: 119.0.6045.199)

FF has 8611 voices, chrome has 19.
i use the same. Any ideas where to find actually (not outdated) guides on how to create your own "modell" out of the most similiar picutures of my dream modell? want to use it further with the same face on it.

thanks for any tipp guys :)
Revenue per employee is $1.6M before the cuts. Thats efficient.

https://markets.ft.com/data/equities/tearsheet/profile?s=SPO...
Welcome to Hackernews, where the strong hand of government is the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.
I wonder if retailers are considering the impact of people checking themselves out? Most stores I've been to only have 1 human on a register so most people are now checking themselves out and making honest mistakes.

I've accidentally forgot to pay for things on numerous occasions, the self checkouts don't give you enough room for all your items so your cart ends up being a mix of paid and unpaid items. Multiple times I've went back in the store to pay for it. Sometimes I don't get home until I realize, the last time it happened I was already at my car and too busy and said screw it...

The other day the register kept ringing up my bananas for 0.03, it just wouldn't weigh them, again I said screw it and kept going.

They can continue locking up every item on the shelf too, countless times I've been deterred from buying things because I don't want to wait for someone to get me a screwdriver or whatever, I might as well buy it from Amazon if I have to wait.

A lot of their loss is self inflicted.
Make it a crime for a business to have the wrong opinion when it comes to who they want to serve

FWIW, businesses who refuse to do business with people generally win their legal cases [0], [1], [2], and I'm not sure if they are ever criminal...

0 - https://www.npr.org/2023/06/30/1182121291/colorado-supreme-c...

1 - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/04/us/politics/supreme-court...

2 - https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/11/06/christian-wedding-pho...
I'd love to be very similar to a fruit fly.
Oh, I see, that's unfortunate! Hopefully, we can remedy that though as soon as possible.
Why do you assume it's apathy and not a conscious choice?
We make software for the regulated cannabis space; we work with government agencies. Despite years of folks indside and outside the industry telling these government regulators to NOT use expensive single-use RFID tags -- they've been plowing forwared with it since 2014. The lobbiest and industry had their ear and the indivudual voices of reason couldn't effect change. How can government make good choices for the citizen when their is money in their ear? How can the citizens become a louder voice than the money-in-the-ear?

In one case; we spent like a year with an agency working on design goals for a track-and-trace system. At the end, they had only one conclusive finding -- use algorithimic IDs for a distrubted/federated type system; they even stated in the findings to use 128bit IDs (eg: ULID/UUID). Then when they implemented their system; that wasn't indidcated as a requirement and the other soft-findings from their year long study were completely ignored.
It does sound negative because it wrote a bunch of bs but it sure look like a lobby group, but the competition is great to challenge closed AI models
Study pinpoints Trump's role in surge of negativity in U.S. political discourse
> 90% of these "solutions" are that the government will save the day with decisions that benefit its citizens and it's own bottom line. That doesn't represent reality and I don't see how you could get there from here.

This attitude is poisonous. It's not constructive.

Edit: It's not constructive to dismiss government out of hand with vague hand-wavy arguments. Government may or may not be the solution. If you don't think it's the solution, you should be able to produce concrete arguments to support your thinking.
I think a lot of people might be missing this part:

"Modular inputs - it’s also modular in the sense that we can add inputs (via cartridges we call 'pods') to add all old and new and future display inputs: RGB, composite, SCART, S-Video, RF, HDMI and everything else. Either we have a solution now or there’s one in the pipe for later."
IMO there would be absolutely nothing wrong with going back to a pre-streaming world. I use Qobuz and Bandcamp to buy albums with no DRM already, it's great. It's more expensive than using Spotify, sure, but that makes sense, as the article makes clear. Bandcamp is proof that more equitable business models are possible.
I saw an article on the topic where the reporter spoke with Beeper's CEO, Eric Migicovsky. He seems to believe that blocking Beeper might cause problems for legitimate Apple user's.

Obviously that outcome is something he wants, but I still think its interesting.

[0]: https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/5/23987817/beeper-mini-imes...
Thats the exact issue with gpt. You don't know how its making the summary. It could very well be wrong in parts. It could be oversummarized to a bla bla state like you say. There's no telling whether you have outputted garbage or not, at least not without secondary forms of evidence that you might as well use anyway and drop the unreliable language model. You can summarize everything with traditional statistical methods too. On top of that people understand what tradeoffs are being made exactly with every statistical methods, and you can calculate error rates and statistical power to see if your model is even worth a damn or not. Even just doing some ML modelling yourself you can decide what tradeoffs to make or how to set up the model to best fit your use cases. You can bootstrap all these and optimize.
Right. These Checkmate folks seem to be doing it the right way, IMO. The housing matches the look of old CRTs while adding new capabilities, and the pricing is practical.

I spent the better half of my youth trying to make CRTs look as crisp as what we take for granted with LCDs. I have no desire to go back to those days (and no desire to lug my 32" CRT up and down stair cases). So to all retro enthusiasts: let's celebrate those older systems but let's also appreciate what we have. Old systems have never looked better than they do on modern screens.
This is too high profile. Apple is absolutely, 100% going to kill this and it’s gonna screw this over for those of us who leverage iMessage in Hackintosh environments.
They're not, but all-digital 17" 4:3 displays with input lag and a need for external A/D converters to hook up retro systems are still being made.

The authors of this ask for a pretty hefty premium to hide all the off-the-shelf components in a custom-made case.

(And CRTs are still around aplenty on ebay and the likes.)
Hmm, but that will filter out more than half the players on the Match Wins and Trophies based leaderboards, many of them Diamond and Mythic. So I think your choice of 62% match win rate is almost certainly disproportionately selecting for people who received very good draft choices, even if it includes some actually very good players in the data set.

I mean 62% might feel like a good number, but it's arbitrary, you'd have to justify how you chose it, and just eyeballing it, it is filtering out a lot of very good players with many, many more match wins.

Perhaps you can sort by Latest Rank, and filter out people with 2 or fewer trophies. Or you will have to validate with known bad draft choices in the prompt, to see what it does. Suffice it to say, I still don't think the 17Lands data represents what you think it does.

Like without a direct discussion about measuring and accounting for luck in the draft... for all I know the data is seriously flawed. It probably isn't, but it's maybe one of many, many issues to address when dealing with strategy card game AI problems.
While it isn't impossible, I agree that it's unlikely in the current political climate. If we could ever get back to a place where government was even remotely functional, it could almost trivially address the right to repair issue via procurement policies (i.e. 'we will only buy from suppliers who...')
Oh, I'm aware it's a high bar. Like most people here, I've worked my life in tech, and I'm in the deeper weeds of it.

But I don't see an alternative unless, as you note, one just gives into the "flow" of the AI, app based, "social" media, advertising and manipulation driven ecosystem that is now the default.

I'm aware I'm proposing resisting exactly that, and that it's an uphill battle, but the tradeoff is retaining your own mind, your own ability to think, and to not be "influenced" by a wide range of things chosen by other people to cross your attention in very effective ways.

And I'm willing to work out some of what works in that space, and to share it with others.
self hosting is how much of that are you willing to put up with.

Everything is a possible point of failure. Of those there are those you can control and those you can not. Just adding in a DNS resolver ups the number of possible points of failure by 2. Mix in a proxy server with TLS rewriting. Add in a few more. Add in your docker source of containers is gone more failure. That on top of your usual 'computers are broken in weird ways' most of the time.

Outsourcing that to a 3rd party is tempting, very tempting. But you are also sacrificing other things to do so. So you have to balance those two opposing forces. Sometimes picking up the phone and saying to someone on the other end 'fix it' and they fix it is useful. Other times you digging thru hundreds of forums (or chatgpt these days) and figuring out what is wrong is interesting too and has its uses.

That most people just sign up for something and just want it to work. I totally get.
Yet.

And those kinds of things go slowly before very quickly as it has been demonstrated.
I think we're in agreement, because I'm assuming serious DoorDash drivers file Schedule C, which is the practical equivalent of dividing your life into personal and business sections but without the paperwork (or benefit) of incorporating.

My comment was motivated by OP's question asking whether it was possible to "offset these expenses against their tax" (emphasis added). No, it's not possible to offset an expense against tax. It's only possible to offset against income. I frequently see people on HN saying things like "it doesn't matter if it's a ripoff because it's a tax writeoff!!!" If they actually look at their tax returns, they are surprised that an expensed dollar saves them only 10-20 cents, so the price definitely does matter.

Tax credits, on the other hand, are a lot closer to what people are usually thinking of when they say tax expense. If you install residential solar in the US in 2023, for example, you get a 30% tax credit. That means if you spend $10,000, your federal tax bill goes down by $3,000. If it were merely 30% deductible, then you'd subtract $3,000 from your income, which at a Doordash driver's tax bracket would reduce taxes by only about $350.

(I'm not a CPA, either, as any CPA can surely tell.)
What incurable disease has been cured?
There were some paid music by phone services in the early ‘90s, too, when 1-900 services were popular. The idea was you could read a review of new music in, say, Spin and call to listen to it for a small fee, presumably before you went to the record store or ordered it by mail.

The services themselves were automated but I believe humans had to do a fair amount of work to get physical CDs and load the sample tracks onto the servers.
GATO was heavily biased towards tasks in a simple simulator, but didn’t exhibit emergent behaviours
Even better are people who demonize governments and at the same time think it is somehow a good idea to vote people into government who run on not much more than claiming the government is evil and cannot function.

What do you even expect them to do? Enrich themselves? Make government even more dysfunctional to prove your point?

I don't know about you, but even if I believed governments are evil and dysfunctional I'd rather vote someone idealistic in who doesn't believe that and tries to really fix things. Unless of course you want the whole system to go down.
My favorite classic NPP simulator is SIMULA-C by Ralph Reuhl. I'm only finding this report [1] (from my comment history, hah), but both the C source code as well as MS-DOS executables were available. Back when I knew what the URL is, the Wayback Machine could fetch the .exe files but not the source archive.

Anyone remember this one? A screenshot can be found in the PDF at the end.

[1] https://inis.iaea.org/search/search.aspx?orig_q=RN:29043408
I don't know about the specifics of mikewarot's point below, but I think he's close to verbalizing a fairly-important truth: there is no reason whatsoever to think that Von Neumann machines are the best way to implement neural networks. There are lots of reasons to think they aren't, starting with the VRAM bottleneck. The impressive results that have been achieved so far have almost certainly come from using the wrong tools. That's cause for optimism IMHO.

Digital computer architecture evolved the way it did because there was no other practical way to get the job done besides enforcing a strict separation of powers between the ALU, memory, mass storage, and I/O. We are no longer held to those constraints, technically, but they still constitute a big comfort zone. Maybe someone tinkering with a bunch of FPGAs duct-taped together in their basement will be the first to break out of it in a meaningful way.
I would have loved to see videos on the blog post of completions
I don’t think that’s necessarily true. I don’t think privacy is an abstraction, but rather a very real and visceral concern.

Regardless of the outcome, I’m entitled to my privacy and my privacy is important to me simply for the sake of my autonomy.

Simply having my privacy violated is a bad outcome in and of itself.

Relinquishing privacy in order to participate in modern society in a meaningful way is one of the great frustrations of modern times… for some.
which is even more silly since he wrote about working there in another post of his 29 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38160306
By "the Mastodon API" I'm referring to the REST API used by Mastodon clients, not the activitypub "plus" API used by other servers to federate with them.

> FROM a Mastodon instance TO something like WriteFreely that isn't a Twitter clone

I understand that it may appear like that from a user perspective, but from a protocol perspective the ActivityPub representation is strictly more generic and extensible. Both directions (from mastodon and too mastodon) are very, very lossy. All mainstream servers (except maybe pleroma derivatives) do this kind of "squishing", which is a sad reality of client design and not what the ActivityPub spec was intended for
As someone who does often play retro games on a CRT TV, this monitor wouldn't cut it either. Same reason I never understood those "retro consoles", even the official ones made by Nintendo/Sony. At the end of the day it's just a plastic shell made to look like the old thing around something new.
Had a convo with a top Spotify developer getting paid really well. He was, I thought, incredibly arrogant, he talked about Spotify as if was OpenAI or something.

He was open in discussing how they only want the best candidates and how hard their interviewing process is, he explained that is why they are so successful.

I pointed out that Spotify is losing money at an unsustainable rate. The whole thing to me was comical. Spotify exists in a space that is a complete commodity at this point. I switched to YT music recently (because I didn't want to see ads) and to me YT music is as good or better.

Spotify had a sort of first mover advantage but drastically over hired like Twitter and everyone else did. I guess we'll see if they can get to profitability.