skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mandatory Palestine was an artificial creation of the British, which existed less than 30 years. For the 400 years before that, it was part of a single Ottoman province along with what is now Syria and Jordan (except for Jerusalem which was split off into a separate distinct in 1872).

Talking about “how much of Mandatory Palestine the Arabs got” is contrived, when it was just a part of a much larger Arab territory under the Ottomans, and was planned to be part of a much larger Arab territory after the Ottomans.
You could easily make a broad spectrum omnidirectional RF jammer worthy of a big FCC fine. Battery full, need to shunt power? Time to spread a little free wireless power for the homies!

Another option is to have it pump a couple of CO2 lasers you have aimed at a disco ball rotating on top of the car. If you ever get chased by the cops you can turn on the disco laser so they can't stand to look at you.

A somewhat less sociopathic option in the style of your first thought might be to have the regenerative braking power an electric air raid siren so when you slow down you have that nice descending whoop noise :)
Exactly what I see. I know a few cases of CTOs influencing the curriculum of CS courses, pushing it to be more “market ready”. Which was effectively turning it into a 4 year bootcamp.

Which is a big shame, because it’s very common to see developers who would have benefited from a proper CS curriculum, and have to learn it later in life.
https://archive.vn/jKSCO
But probably a much better drag coefficient
I do think the USA could make Israel stop on a dime, but has no interest in the politics of doing so. I think Israel is optimizing for getting rid of Palestine - a lot of careful decisions of making it unlivable in Gaza, and calling it Hamas’ fault, and pushing over and over until they can finally get international support for pushing all the surviving residents over a border, then setting up a DMZ like Korea.
> Using that which belongs to others without their consent is theft

Are text snippets, thumbnnails and site caches shown by search engines (on an opt-out basis) "theft"? If you draw a car, which you can do due to having seen many individually-copyrighted car designs, are you stealing from auto manufacturers? Have I just committed theft by using a portion of your comment above as a quote?

I don't claim here that statistical model fitting inherently needs to be treated the same as the above examples, but rather use examples to show that the bar of "using" is far too broad.

Legally, copyright infringement in the US requires that the works are substantially similar and not covered by Fair Use. Morally, I believe that artificial scarcity, such as evergreening of medical patents, is detrimental and needs to be prevented wherever feasible - and wouldn't call any kind of copying/sharing/piracy "theft". The digital equivalent of theft is, for example, account theft where you're actually removing the object from the owner's possession.
> will be able to be cheaper than rail.

Elon has a history of making fake, bold claims just as the state tried to take on more responsibility.

Starlink instead of municipal Internet

Hyper loop instead of cal train

Now “train mode trucks” which is literally just insane if you’ve driven cross country.
My recommendation is:

- Exui with exl2 files on good GPUs.

- Koboldcpp with gguf files for small GPUs and Apple silicon.

There are many reasons, but in a nutshell they are the fastest and most VRAM efficient.

I can fit 34Bs with about 75K context on a single 24GB 3090 before the quality drop from quantization really starts to get dramatic.
Gaza did not elect Hamas. Hamas got 43% of the vote (their opposition was notoriously corrupt) and then they fought a civil war against the Palestinian Authority to assume control of Gaza.
not sure what Congress has to do with a case in the UK

fair use is mostly a US concept, there is no such thing in the UK or most other countries
Bloomberg solves genuinely big & interesting data challenges
No. Hacker spirit is owning your machine to its full extent. For fun, for profit or just for mayhem.

Apple using instant messaging, where no meaningful innovation happened for decades to build their moat is pathetic and disgusting.
You entirely missed the point of the example. The point is not that you are supposed to embrace their beliefs. The point is that object that are all alike in one system can be very different in another, and if you assume they are all alike, you will misunderstand what is going on. Such as, if you assume that empty string is just "nothing", you will misunderstand how strings - and in general, typed sequences - work in most programming languages.

It's like a bad student that when the teacher says "assume the train departs from the station at 9 am", to formulate a math problem, objects "but the train actually departs from our station at 10am!". Way to miss the point!
Israel has allowed civilian aid in, does "knocking" to reduce deaths from their bombing, supplied the water Palestine was using to begin with, etc. so when Hamas fighters have literally been robbing the civilians of the food aid, it rings a bit hollow.

It's weird that you want to ignore how we ended up with the current borders to begin with (let's just ignore the war that was started, then lost), ignore the peace deals they signed and reneged on, the intifadas, etc. in this analysis.
https://www.npr.org/2023/11/14/1212737005/cars-trucks-pedest...

Bumper height plays a far bigger role in pedestrian fatality than hardness of the vehicle shell. Cybertruck's bumper is significantly lower than pretty much every other pickup truck out there.
can't edit last comment anymore, but also, re: discovered- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKV3lXv958w
The Hague exists because the civilized response to war crimes is not more war crimes.
> Also the Nazis killed civilians as a goal not by happenstance.

the actual numbers in casualty count don't convince me that the IDF is acting any different.

PS: I know I'll be downvoted for this. look at the numbers of KIDS killed. hamas are not the only babykillers here.
> Is it safer to floss or not?

You shouldn't be making your gums bleed. Flossing doesn't mean sawing at the gums, it means cleaning the enamel.
https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(21)00754-6.pdf

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...
Covering leisure use cases helps reduce need for cars.

It’s very smart, and allows the west coast to grow its population.
> If Israel could remove Hamas without injuring any non-combatants I think they would.

Surely you jest. How is this attack supposed to remove Hamas? It seems designed to strengthen Hamas, just as Israel has been supporting Hamas since their formation.

The existence of Hamas prevents a united Palestinian people while simultaneously giving Israel the excuse to reject a 2-state solution. If Hamas didn't exist, Israel would have to create a Hamas from scratch.
Who is talking about SMS? Not I.
> There’s a level of maturity, reasonableness, and respect that is expected of the students.

Given that the general teaching style of colleges isn't unique to the US, and based on my experience throughout my degree at a similar institution, I somehow doubt that statement.

> It’s clearly not too hard which is what you’re implying.

It sounded like the students received literally no guidance, in the way the course is described. These types of assignments usually result in those with previous programming experience showing off their skills, while the actual rookie students are left in the mud. I.e. an assignment that targets the top 20% of the class.

Regardless, to my knowledge I never cheated during my college degree, but I can't hold it against people that do. Criticism such as yours disregards the reality that students face, pressure to graduate with good marks and whatnot. Not cheating will put you at an disadvantage, because your competition is actively doing so and they are already skewing the marks that way. If the intention of the assignment was to identify honest work, it was certainly structured wrong (as a required submission would have eliminated the cheaters).
If you don’t know what Hamas did you are totally out of your depth.
Israel argues that Hamas are the elected leaders of Gaza and that’s why residents there are at fault. I completely agree that Hamas do not represent Palestinians and think Israel should also admit this.
Yet you cannot set a new default messaging app...
LLMs don't lie.

LLMs don't tell the truth, either.

They are models, not actors. Pretending otherwise is one of the most significant (and profitable) lies ever told.
At least motorcycles have ABS and decent stopping power, though usually less than a car.
Yeah that’s true. I think it needs to progressively degrade gracefully.

I think in this case, I might add on the front end a way to copy the subject line. Something like:

> or send the subject line below to <address>
> `<subject>`
> Funny how so many otherwise clever people get confused about this.

Nobody gets confused about what is what:

https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/
> But it requires a special TLD available exclusively to courts, which would make the TLD registry a centralized authority.

The .gov domain already exists: https://beta.get.gov/domains/before/
Perhaps they should allow Palestinians to move there.
A better polling company would use more objective language, such as :

"Millions of Jews were targeted for persecution, imprisonment and extermination by Nazi Germany"

It's fine for people to use the word 'Holocaust' to reference that history if they want to but it's also a word that carries some baggage and some assumption of 'specialness'. A polling company shouldn't use it, in my view. I think they would have got a (much) higher degree of agreement if they had used my suggested phrasing (or something like it). People have become increasingly wary of the way that the persecution and genocide of the Jews in the 1930s and 1940s has been elevated (e.g. by Hollywood) above the many other great persecutions and genocides that also occurred during the 20th century.

(Also, getting young people to respond to a statement such as "the Holocaust is a myth" is unnecessarily provocative and will incentivise a certain proportion to agree to it, just 'for the lolz').
World EV Sales Now Equal 17% of World Auto Sales
If you're under 60, have a healthy heart valve, a healthy immune system, and relatively healthy teeth (no gingivitis or periodontal disease), the risk of endocarditis from flossing is very small.
I saw a video on this recently. It's super sad that such a magnificent tree (along with the American Elm) have been completely destroyed. So much majesty gone.
Elon asks for an infinite torque mode and shoots a video of the cyber truck pulling a tiller followed by dual anhydrous ammonia tanks, turns to the camera and says "America Needs Farmers" to make sure the pandering is effective. Now it's definitely a tractor, no argument possible lol
Actual title: "I Made a Link-Sharing Website at the End of 2023"
And the penalty for getting caught wasn't merely having your connection turned off, it was a trial.

Selling a device that transgressed the boundaries doesn't mean they thought that no boundaries should exist, it just means they knew it was possible to do something technically interesting and would allow them to make money.

If Jobs and Woz thought there should be now penalties for using blue boxes, my guess is that they thought the telco should merely implement a better system, not that everybody should get free access to it.
Stable Diffusion isn't a human being. It's not even sentient. It's a system designed to synthesize images, and it was trained using images authored by human beings - without the rightsholders' consent. This has nothing to do with lobotomies. You have rights as a human that a piece of software does not have.

I don't understand why I keep seeing people roll stuff out like 'should I be lobotomized' as some sort of attempt to distract from this just being a dispute over copyright minimalism/maximalism.
There's a solution for this, which is relatively easy to implement, if we dare to. Recognize data privacy as a right. Enable the victim to sue the leaking party, with easy recovery and costs, for any bad subpoena accepted, and pay substantial fine for violating the rights. Very heavily substantial if it leads to subsequent other damage (such as stalking or violence). Miraculously, the data hoarders would find ways to verify subpoenas (and design protocols and pay for development of necessary tools) very quickly, I think.

Of course, this would require such law to actually survive the lobbying block of the data hoarders in the first place, and that's not likely to happen, alas.
What do you enjoy most about it?
So you prefer news that lies to you to maintain a positive angle?
> A mistake on our part that didn’t help was people treated the site like a product. We put our vision etc on the site, which misled about expectations. We definitely did not view it as a product! It was a base model demo.

they still didn't get it... People treated site as product, and criticized according to product's standards, because it was specifically designed to look as product. The output was well formatted, it looked like real thing, and more importantly it was presented as as a finished product. Go to https://galactica.org/ today, and try to find "four disclaimers about hallucinations on the demo". You can find some but you'll have to specifically look for them.

Had it been default font on unstyled background, with huge watermark across every paragraph saying "Base model demo, output might be incorrect, don't believe any advise without verification", the public's reaction would likely be completely different.
I don’t know about you, but I’ve worked with plenty of “engineers” who can’t even properly read a stack trace. Not meaning to offend, most software developers are unable to reason about a system even as straightforward as a messaging client with accuracy, especially a closed source one.
Because weight is surprisingly meaningless. It's all about drag.
Sort of like a barium meal!
They aren’t a monolith. Levant Arabs have a hard time understanding people from the Maghreb (North Africans). North Africans think differently than Iraqis, and everyone despises Gulf Arabs and their easy oil money and the Wahhabist tendencies of the Saudis.

The one thing they have in common is they don’t like the way Palestinians have been treated but have ceased viewing it as “their” fight long ago.
Their last AI marketing flop from January had a larger drop of 9%: https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-ai-chatbot-bard-of...

It's weird that they had two such marketing flops in a single year, and both for AI products, and even weirder that such flops happen to the king of the online advertisement market.
Why is there so much military interest in the moon?
Very useful library. Representing large networks with graphs is super useful.
It came up in my feed a few days ago too
They at least used to have mountains of tech debt from the days when the cloud was far less standardized.
Sibling commenter tvararu is correct. 2023 Apple Macbook with 128GiB RAM, all available to the GPU. No quantisation required :)

Other sibling commenter refulgentis is correct too. The Apple M{1-3} Max chips have up to 400GB/s memory bandwidth. I think that's noticably faster than every other consumer CPU out there. But it's slower than a top Nvidia GPU. If the entire 96GB model has to be read by the GPU for each token, that will limit unquantised performance to 4 tokens/s at best. However, as the "Mixtral" model under discussion is a mixture-of-experts, it doesn't have to read the whole model for each token, so it might go faster. Perhaps still single-digit tokens/s though, for unquantised.
> Congress specifically doesn’t want grandmas getting sued for copying the recipe on the box.

Recipes don't have a specific exception within the the copyright law that Congress has carved out.

It is also not cut and dry. It basically boils down to facts not being copyrightable. So a list of ingredients and basic instructions (e.g. cooking time and temperature) won't be granted copyright protection.

But, the prose in the instructions can be copyrighted. So copying a whole recipe verbatim can be copyright infringement, but copying the list of ingredients and writing out the basic instructions is not.
i'm a diehard Windows fan, but Linux is so awesome these days i'm almost ready to have Linux be my default GRUB entry
Is this actually still possible without (or even with) a foreground notification? I thought Google clamped down on that practice a while ago, since it increases power, data, and memory usage.
Inflation expectations plunge in closely watched University of Michigan survey
There's so much semantic discussion on anti semitic, pro Israel, etc. What I see is two groups of people fighting for a long time, one with orders of magnitude more fire power who does not hesitate to drop it on civilians willy as a show of force.

I just don't want my tax money to fund these weapons
By most standards, what the US did to the civilian population of Japan was an atrocity.

I don’t have easy answers here. But I think we’ve lost an important piece of the plot here if we can’t look at one terrible human tragedy, and then another, and then ask ourselves whether the first had to beget the second.
Can someone explain why there’s so much interest in these recently?

How is it related to NeRFs?

And how is it different/better than rendering triangles/voxels/SDF?

Is it just ray-marching these 3D gaussian shapes?

Why is a gaussian used specifically?
They could just come up with a standard hologram sticker that certifies all govt orders..
> Put a dog in a dress and call it a pretty woman and I'll call you a conman.

Well if you're the TA and you're unwilling/too lazy to call out the conman, I call you an accomplice! Also, since when was the ideal scientific rigour ever build on interpersonal trust?
> There’s no question these neural networks and their output are derivative works.

In the two US cases we have any progress on so far, the established requirement for substantial similarity (opposed to "dependant on" or such) has been upheld, with Judge Vince Chhabria specifically setting out that it'd "have to mean that if you put the Llama language model next to Sarah Silverman's book, you would say they're similar". and Judge William H. Orrick agreeing with the defendants that "plaintiffs cannot plausibly allege the Output Images are substantially similar or re-present protected aspects of copyrighted Training Images, especially in light of plaintiffs’ admission that Output Images are unlikely to look like the Training Images".

The UK definition of derivative works is, to my understanding, narrower and specifically enumerated as opposed to the US's more open-ended definition.

The remaining area of doubt, assuming the above remains consistent, is over the transient copying that occurs during training.
It only supports English now. Will add support for other languages. The ASR and TTS have room to improve. Thanks for your feedback!
Decades of research have found rare, but still very mildly negative health results from aspartame, and an overwhelming flood of direct evidence for strong negative health effects from sugar.

Back up what you are saying with some studies. Because what you are claiming is going against a LOT of modern medical knowledge.
I've done various factory work in the past, maybe 3 or 4 years total. I always put in earplugs, but I have some hearing loss as a result. Never listened to loud earbuds, it hurts when it's very loud so factories are my only other possible culprit.
Also a quarter of young Americans deny The Holocaust. Hating Jews is deep in the identity and politics of young Americans

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2023/12/07/one-in-fi...
Thanks. It is actually AI-generated.
> There’s no question these neural networks and their output are derivative works.

A derivative work is an expressive creation that includes major copyrightable elements of a first, previously created original work (the underlying work).

There is absolutely no agreement that what neural networks do (as a rule) counts as such, so it is not at all correct to say "there is no question..."

If learning how to draw by watching other people draw makes everything you draw a derivative work, then perhaps you have a point.
I asked GPT4...

Locating the Sun from an unknown position in space, especially if you're many lightyears away, would be a complex task. Here are some strategies you could use:

1. *Spectral Analysis*: Every star has a unique spectrum, and the Sun's spectral signature is well-documented. If you have the capability to perform spectral analysis on nearby stars, you could compare their spectra to that of the Sun. This, however, assumes you have a database of stellar spectra, including the Sun's, for comparison.

2. *Position of Known Stars and Constellations*: By observing the position of known stars and constellations, you might be able to estimate your location. This becomes more difficult the further you are from Earth, as the relative positions of stars change with distance, and familiar constellations may become unrecognizable.

3. *Parallax Measurements*: Parallax is the apparent shift in position of an object when viewed from different perspectives. Measuring the parallax of nearby stars compared to more distant background stars could help you triangulate your position. Knowing your position relative to the Milky Way galaxy would be essential in locating the Sun.

4. *Galactic Landmarks*: Identifying key features of the Milky Way, such as the galactic core, spiral arms, or specific nebulae, could help orient you within the galaxy. The Sun is located in the Orion Arm, about 26,000 lightyears from the galactic center.

5. *Radio Signals*: If your ship can detect radio signals, it might catch broadcasts from Earth. The Sun would be in the general direction of these signals. However, depending on your distance, these signals might be very weak or non-existent.

6. *Automated Stellar Navigation Systems*: Use any advanced stellar navigation systems on board. These systems could automatically identify stars and calculate your position relative to them.

7. *Consult Star Maps and Databases*: If your ship has a database of star maps, you could use these to match up visible stars with known stars and work out your position relative to the Sun.

8. *Communication with Earth*: If communication with Earth is possible, getting assistance from ground-based observatories or space agencies would be invaluable. They could provide information based on your last known position and trajectory.
They did not complain the borders had changed - they gave you a definition that they are using. It sounds like there is a contradictory definition you would like them to use and you are being disingenuous in simply complaining about the one they use.
So your first step is destruction of the Jewish state. Why would Israel do that. If that's your opening gabit it seems like war is the only option.