skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But is publishing a model which can generate images of Mickey a copyright violation?

Is selling colored pencils that can draw images of Mickey a copyright violation?

The way I see it, the tool can't ever be at fault for its use, unless its sole use (or something close enough to its sole use) is to infringe in copyright.

Besides, the safeguarding of copyright isn't the single variable we as a society should be solving for. General global productivity is way more valuable than guaranteeing Disney's bottom line.
Is Tesla's design here actually innovative or really just they're the first ones to put together a bunch of stuff that everyone knew and hasn't had the wherewithal to implement?
Placenta Plays a Key Role in Brain Development
I say both take-out & carry-out. At least, I can't determine which I say more. Pizza seems to be "for pickup".

Kari-Out [1] makes a lot of the food containers, so maybe that's why I say "carry-out" (or think I say it). Something something, inception.

[1] https://kariout.com/products/
Excellent analysis and fix of the problem! I've found Chinese clones are always subtly different than the parts they supposedly replace.
It’ll be static with cpi max, flat membership for all core models

Just released video, sdxl turbo and 3d, code and more coming

Very positive reaction so far and we will still do our grants for OSS and do OSS collaborations, done over 10m A100 hours over last year

Launches next few days https://x.com/emostaque/status/1732197072290353455?s=46
Lichess is an incredible project and a true gem of open source, but an accurate source of ELO rating it is not.

As we speak I am rated 2227. I am unspeakably horrendous at chess. Online chess is more like a video game; my competitive mindset and nerdy minimax tendencies are single-handedly carrying me.
>By the time we left there was probably 8 lbs of rice on the tray… can’t believe they weren’t kicked out.

Why should they be? It's likely that the restaurant still charged them for the full price of the plates that were removed from the belt, regardless of whether or not they ate everything that was on said plate.

If they're otherwise quiet, respectful and paying customers, what about picking apart their food warrants kicking them out? As another user suggested, what happens if you don't eat the crust at a pizza joint?

Edit: Since I'm getting a lot of similar replies here, I'll point out that OP has since clarified that the conveyor belt sushi joint that they went to, contrary to how they are usually run, did in fact charge a "flat fee" for access to the sushi train. Hence my confusion - this is a deviation from the norm.

Edit 2: Kinda interesting watching the up/downvote progression in this thread. My initial post, despite being incorrect, was decently upvoted. Now that I've clarified that I was wrong and tried to correct myself, I'm getting downvoted. Neat!
The digital surveillance apparatus, of which this car business is only a small corner, spans industries and sectors and is valued at many tens of billions of dollars per year. There's no chance that a senator sending a letter makes more than a tiny and transient blip. There's a reason we have an EPA and not just the occasional sternly worded letter about too-flammable rivers.
1. Always sad for me to know how much popular are wireless chargers, wasting 47% more energy aprox for charging the same as a wired charger. https://debugger.medium.com/wireless-charging-is-a-disaster-... (too much catastrophic conclusions in this article but that percentage is real, you could check it in another tests, articles, whatever ..)

2. Totally agree with that, if camera is fundamental for you maybe not the right choice.

3. They also take compromises to have an ethical production, try to guarantee there is no exploitation as much as they could, from the extraction of mineral, manufacturing ... (they didn't do it for all, but they are advancing as far as they could, also with all existing certifications for that, so it's normal that is expensive. So our choice to value that things, if we could afford it, or not.
Yes, it's not only more expensive, but there are other considerations, such as power draw, heat generation, etc. that may be an issue.
Which is why these comparisons should be errors, rather than producing gibberish results. Trinary logic stuffed into Boolean operations is just psychotic
The world of video games can't be compared with anything else — except sports — in terms of competitiveness. If you're in the top 32 you're in the A-list of celebrities in that niche, and if you're top 64 you're a second-tier celebrity. Anything after that and it's hard to get paid.

Imagine a country where only the top 64 surgeons get paid.
See also: https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic

> Consent-O-Matic is a browser extension that recognizes CMP (Consent Management Provider) pop-ups. Since you've told it your cookie preferences, it will autofill those forms when it encounters them—and let you know that it did so. [Edited for brevity]
Been doing it for a year or so. I grind for espresso and can see a clear difference in how clumpy my grinds are and how much is left retained in the grinder.
Sergey Brin played a key role in creating Gemini
We looked at that, will be self service for commercial with flat pricing including all base models, weights are all downloadable by anyone.

Models are very interesting
Coming from an eastern culture, I’m happy to judge. Luckily it’s a self-correcting problem. Hyper individualism makes having children both burdensome (lack of community support) and socially undesirable, and so these cultures are being replaced by less individualistic ones.
this page crashed my brower (android Chrome) lol
Well, sunsets in Malaysia are beautiful but look quite different.

First time seeing a sunset in the U.K. And I only just woke up so I was surprised and thought something was wrong with my eyes
That is very true, I can't count that time as cost, it was pure enjoyment.
Doesn't USB-C cap at 20V?
Google Details Steps to Recover Missing Drive Files
> “takeaway” is predominantly British and the other two American–although Lynne Murphy’s blog post on the subject notes that “take-out” is used in parts of northern England

I’m approaching 50 and have lived in England my entire life, either in south London or further south (university years notwithstanding). For food, takeaway and takeout have been interchangeable in my circles for as long as I can recall. Takeout has also been used for “alcohol […] bought in a pub for consumption off the premises” since … well, forever.

Meanwhile my partner, who is from the north, says she never used or heard takeout when growing up.
> French knock-off

Don't joke, they exist.
I guess a much better next step is to compare how GPT4V performs when asked similar prompts. Even if mostly staged this is very impressive to me, not much on the current tech but more on how much leverage Google has to win this race on the long run because of its hardware presence.

The more these models improve the more we will want less friction and faster interactions, this means that in the long term having to open an app and ask a question is not gonna fly compared to just pointing your phone camera to something, asking a question and getting an answer that's tailored to everything Google knows about you in real time.

Apple will most likely also roll their own in house solution for Siri instead of relying on an external company. This leaves OpenAI and the other small companies not just competing for the best models but also on how to put them in front of people in the first place and how to get access to their personal information.
I don't imply they have it. I imply that their deal with MS has a definition that we would not call "AGI". One that has implications that may make cutting them (MS) off impossible.

From: https://openai.com/our-structure ...

"While our partnership with Microsoft includes a multibillion dollar investment, OpenAI remains an entirely independent company governed by the OpenAI Nonprofit. Microsoft has no board seat and no control. And, as explained above, AGI is explicitly carved out of all commercial and IP licensing agreements."
Charles Mingus was onstage with his band when he was told that Lester Young had died. He called a short minute break and while his band went and got themselves a drink, wrote and arranged (for an 8-piece band) "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat"[1] in tribute. They came back on stage and played it immediately.

Keith Jarrett wrote all the music for a tour of Japan on the plane there. That became the album "Personal Mountains"[2]. Apparently he literally had all the meal trays around him open with scores on them and was scribbling away the whole way.

[1] One of the all-time classic jazz ballads. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWWO_VcdnHY

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8rokRx3lnY
There is nothing theoretical that stops anyone from trying that. It is just a matter of engineering and architecture. It is (in principle) possible to define "spiking transformers" and there is more than one way to do so, but this will not mean necessarily that you will immediately get good performance. Also current generation hardware doesn't as efficiently simulate SNN, so this is another constraint.
That's the required supply I am talking about though
> I prefer Embassy Suites though, where I can see them crack eggs.

As I understand it, it's somewhat of an open secret that many of the eggs are powdered. I don't know if that's true. They may well also be "boil in a bag", which somewhat makes more sense when you see the texture and the somewhat strange "shapes" that they come out in, if they don't stir and break them.

Heck, maybe they're boil in a bag powdered eggs.

I was at a hotel in/near Miami, FL, and they opened their morning buffet to the local first responder community. I thought that was rather generous of them.
This is so crazy. Google invented transformers which is the bases for all these models. How do they keep fumbling like this over and over. Google Docs created in 2006! Microsoft is eating their lunch. Google creates the ability to change VM's in place and makes a fully automated datacenter. Amazon and Microsoft are killing them in the cloud. Google has been working on self driving longer than anyone. Tesla is catching up and will most likely beat them.

The amount of fumbles is monumental.
This isnt the board though. This is the against the board side.
If I had to guess, it's probably the NAT hole-punching or use of tailscale servers as an intermediary.

If you signed up for a $5 VPS to forward packets you probably would have been fine.
So, if these don't meet the standard someone's looking for, buying direct from manufacturer is likely the only way.

Note that in some cases like with TI, this is viable, even if making small orders.
I personally don’t. Pick-Up has shifted over the years not many people do it the old school way. If you Google up Red Quest, he moved to Substack you can probably find the article. “Most guys just don’t care” or something like that.

And it’s true. People would rather get baited into online nonsensical outrage and neuter themselves by playing video games.
We included full training details for the base model on 4 trillion tokens including wandb etc

https://stability.wandb.io/stability-llm/stable-lm/reports/S...
I saw that. The WandB report is here [0]. The losses are quite close, but in my mind we'd need to see parameter counts at least 1 and 2 params more to make conclusions (with the dataset scaling proportionally). If the training performance can be investigated, there may be some wins in this area!

[0] https://api.wandb.ai/links/lucidrains/lgz368mf
Sure. It's also not like there are many ready made devices that are already available for PoE that could be useful in automotive industry.

I guess my main thought was that going to 48V and in the world of low power LED lights and such, combining power and comms into same wires/cables is something that might be appealing.
You have presumed that this sort of DNA-targeting bioweapon could exist. We have lots of pie-in-the-sky weapon ideas that haven't been developed, like the Supersonic Low Altitude Missile. Why are you so sure that this bioweapon isn't yet another one of those?

Setting that aside, the hydrogen bomb has not been used as a weapon, only a deterrent.

Same for the neutron bomb (an "enhanced radiation weapon").

And nuclear depth bombs ("All nuclear anti-submarine weapons were withdrawn from service by China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States in or around 1990.[citation needed] They were replaced by conventional weapons such as the Mk 54 Torpedo that provided ever-increasing accuracy and range as anti-submarine warfare technology improved." says https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_depth_bomb ).

"The United States Army Biological Warfare Laboratories weaponized anthrax, tularemia, brucellosis, Q-fever and others.[51] ... In 1969, US President Richard Nixon decided to unilaterally terminate the offensive biological weapons program of the US, allowing only scientific research for defensive measures." says https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_warfare .

Have all those weaponized organism really been used as a weapon? Not to my knowledge.

These all sound like exceptions.
I'm not the one trying to dictate who does and doesn't use it.
The oldest webpage I have found decent archives of was from 1998-1999. It was "Works Best in IE" and all sorts of TABLE layout and weird magpie bits of JS madness. I based my current blog look in part based on what that 1998/1999 version of me thought would look cool for a webpage and couldn't quite pull off with TABLEs and GIFs.

I know I was building them years before that, but I'm not sure if I could tell you exactly which year I started. I do remember that a lot of my first web pages were hosted on the 1MB (then 2MB) AOL "MyPlace" (which was before AOL Hometown and before the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive). I remember at one point using up all of the AOL account's profiles just to have web pages on them. It was supposed to be a family account, but I was the one most (ab)using it.

My recollection of it, and that recollection is probably all sorts of wrong at this point, that 1MB version of "MyPlace" was one of the launch features around the time of Eternal September (in 1993 or 1994), so it is very possible I was "hosting" web pages as early as 1993. As I recall it, I was building web pages even before that AOL hosting, and mostly "hosting" them just on floppy disks I'd take to school. (Which is the reason I can't rely on my recollection too well here: I was a very precocious 9 in 1993.)
I dunno, the company had already demonstrated its ability to drastically affect its value to the downside.
Lithium is not a rare earth mineral. Typical weight fraction in ore is 0.5-8%.
Libertarians are just people who thought they could learn everything they needed from studying economics without learning any history or sociology.

Everything has a simple solution until humans get complicated.
Yeah got a way to beat 3.5 but it beats most of the first generation llama tunes even guacano 65b

Lots of improvements to go
In addition to this (and this is a huge part of what makes it hard to emulate) is that parts of the chip works in the analogue domain, that combined with the added outputs/noise/etc is what makes for the richness to be so hard to emulate.
Another thing about these chords ligatures is that they are “zero-width”. When you type /a/ it will get replaced with a the ligature for the A chords, which is a the shape of “A”, above the line (translateY: -150%), and report “advanceWidth: 0”, so the next character shares the same X position.
Now, if you want to add m6 to it, I technically cannot support rendering it “to the right of the A”, since its width was set to 0.
So I need to pack the font itself with both the A and the Am6 ligatures…

I think a more “advanced” use case like the one you described can be addressed by something like https://lilypond.org
I'm super interested in their choice of features here; I never expected they'd be using the image of the spectrogram fed into a vision model like a CNN rather than the audio signal itself. My hazy memory from school was that speech recognition typically used MFCCs (Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients), which were some sort of manipulation of the frequencies. I don't remember how that really works but it seems more straightforward than turning an audio problem into a visual problem.

I'm not critiquing, as I've used the app and it's excellent, just wondering if anyone could explain more about how feature engineering works in audio and whether this approach by the Merlin team is a standard one or not.
It really reminds me of the Black Mirror episode Smithereens with the tech CEO talking with the shooter. Tech people really struggle with empathy, not just 1 on 1 but with the rest of the outside world which is predominantly low income relatively, with no college education. Paraphrased, Black Mirror ep was like:

[Tech CEO read instructions to "show empathy" from his assistant via Slack]

CEO: I hear you. It must be very hard for you.

Shooter: Of course you fucking hear me, we're on the phone! Talk like a normal person!
I've heard that in Japan, it's common to use phones while showering. My N=1 observation is that this would be unusual in the US.
> also OpenAI Inc. for profit doesnt exist, a wholly owned LLC subsidiary does.

The for-profit "OpenAI" (OpenAI Global LLC) is not a wholly-owned subsidiary of anything, it is majority owned by a holding company (OpenAI, LP), which in turn is majority owned by the OpenAI charity (OpenAI, Inc.)

There is a wholly owned LLC subsidiary of the charity (OpenAI GP, LLC), but that is the entity through which OpenAI, Inc., exercises control of OpenAI, LP and OpenAI Global, LLC (why it doesn't do so directly for OpenAI, LP, and either directly or via OpenAI, LP, for OpenAI Global, LLC, don't ask me), it is not the for-profit.

Both OpenAI, LP, and OpenAI Global, LLC have other investors (Microsoft being a big one for OpenAI Globla, LLC) already.
Your link is so cool it's worth a submission of its own. Thanks for sharing!
>I do not understand the tribalism argument very well.

The Hollywood actors' union did not stop selling to a specific entity, they stopped work across the board. Also, I think their most recent strike was because their contract ended.

Another difference is also negotiating a pure luxury good (entertainment), versus negotiating access to legally required license plates.
Unhealthy stuff like viruses and bacteria and wood smoke are very old.

Even if nano plastics did exist for the last billion years, it wouldn't mean they're safe, just that they don't kill people faster than they can reproduce.

It's amazing how accepting people are of dangerous substances...
Is the 6502 a RISC or CISC processor? (2005)
The hype really is drowning out the simple fact that basically no one really knows what these models are doing. Why does it matter so much that we include auto-correlation of embedding vectors as the "attention" mechanism in these models? And that we do this sufficiently many times across all the layers? And that we blindly smoosh values together with addition and call it a "skip" connection? Yes, you can tell me a bunch of stuff about gradients and residual information, but tell me why any of this stuff is or isn't a good model of causality.
The view has been taken at sufficient zoom levels to have multiple specific guidelines and dozens of moderator comments. It's just not the case that nobody has thought about this much or discussed it on HN repeatedly.

As to 'valuable service', what the HN moderators ask in their own guidelines regarding feedback is very likely a better indication of value than 'IYO'.
Weaviate did something similar recently with Verba[1], which feels like it still needs some time in the oven. Will definitely check this out, if only to see how people in this space are approaching some of the fundamentals.

https://github.com/weaviate/Verba
The only time that 3x trade would be a good deal is if you think that's the best you're going to do. IF you think your gonna be the next amazon/Facebook/google then selling is foolish. The MS deal may limit or wreck that possibility.
However there is a lot of leeway on the "48V is the highest safe voltage" statement too. 48V has a special place in regulations because of its use in telco, but 60V DC is still very safe.
"Computer says no" is not a meme for no reason.
Red Lobster decided to make its "All you can eat Shrimp" a permanent menu item. Turns out it cost them dearly. It was designed as a promotional loss leader, which doesn't work full time. They eventually had to creep the price up from $20 to $25.
Obviously MS does some great things but I wonder what do you think about their culture?

MS is trying to make me use Edge Browser by randomly refusing to let me use Bing chat in any other browser. This makes me think that MS is still evil and will force me to do things the moment they can. I gave up Bing Chat because of this and was using Perplexity.ai instead, until Bing got integrated into ChatGPT.

Another thing is the feel of the MS products is very different than OpenAI. For example, Bing chat again, would have a strange UX where it counts down my message allowance on the topic as I keep asking follow up questions as if it was designed for their convenience and not mine. OpenAI products on the other hand feel much more pleasant to use and don't stress me out even when things don't work as expected, which makes me think that the approach of product design is very different than MS.

Same tech running on the Azure servers, completely different product experiences. IMHO this points to completely different mindsets.
>I'm unsure where this expectation of 100% absolute correctness comes from. I'm sure there are use cases, but I assume it's the vast minority and most can tolerate larger than expected inaccuracies.

As others hinted at, there's some bias because it's coming from a computer, but I think it's far more nuanced than that.

I've worked with many experts and professionals through my career ranging across medicine, various types of engineers, scientists, academics, researchers and so on and the pattern I often see is the level of certainty presented that always bothers me and the same is often embedded in LLM responses.

While humans don't typically quantify the certainty of their statements, the best SMEs I've ever worked with make it very clear what level of certainty they have when making professional statements. The SMEs who seem to be more often wrong than not speak in certainty quite often (some of this is due to cultural pressures and expectations surrounding being an "expert").

In this case, I would expect a seasoned scientist to say something in response to the duck question that: "many rubber ducks exist and are designed to float, this one very well might, we'd really need to test it or have far more information about the composition of the duck, the design, the medium we want it in (Water? Mecury? Helium?)" and so on. It's not an exact answer but you understand there's uncertainty there and we need to better clarify our question and the information surrounding that question. The fact is, it's really complex to know if it'll float or not from visual information alone.

It could have an osmimum ball inside that overcomes most the assumed buoyancy the material contains, including the air demonstrated to make it squeak. It's not transparent. You don't know for sure and the easiest way to alleviate uncertainty in this case is simply to test it.

There's so much uncertainty in the world, around what seem like the most certain and obvious things. LLMs seem to have grabbed some of this bad behavior from human language and culture where projecting confidence is often better (for humans) than being correct.
How those licenses work for generated content?
If it's non-commercial does it mean I can still use it for work to generate stuff?
In other words - is it similar to ie. using GIMP, which is open source, but I can still use created content in commercial product without attribution?