skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the content I come to Hacker News for. Intellectually stimulating news about Infowars and Goop merchandise.
And you can buy homeopathic remedies at CVS. At best this is a kind of placebo. At worst it's people being dumb, which is not illegal. Move on!
I don't use telegram, but I know others who do, and there are certainly general group chats, though I mostly hear about conspiracy people and crypto.

For discord, it's always an external community for my servers. Either software (home assistant, and a related software netdaemon), a metal review blog (angry metal guy), a game company (owlcat) or a twitch stream (a food truck and a cooking stream). Only my TTRPG group is a closed group.
This is slower than Apple Pay on the iPhone, I can assure you.
Why Hex isn't charging extra for "AI"
"I don't have a grocery store near me so I'm going to buy a vagina scented candle" – no one ever.
It took me way to long to find the ingredient list for the Athletic Greens starting from the main page. Even on the actual page itself you have to click a button to see it. https://drinkag1.com/about-ag1/ingredients/ctr

It appeared that it was hidden on purpose and I was expecting the worst, but after seeing it I would have to disagree with your comment about it being useless. From the list I would compare it to many daily vitamins. Many are deficient in these basic vitamins (why is a separate discussion).

It isn't useless, but maybe it is simply overpriced for what it is? Most notably seems to be missing vitamin D.

In the near future you could take your dna file and upload it to a website and it would tell you what supplement is best for you, but for now as in the past there will be generic multi-vitamins that try to fit everyone. And like in the past some will lean heavily on the marketing side.
Turmeric Tackles Antimicrobial Resistance
An active ingredient in turmeric interacts with light to resensitize pathogens to antibiotics.
this is one way to do it, but I wouldn't say its sufficient. If I search for 'things to do in Seattle', you get many 'blogs' and such that a writer gets paid by sources to insert their place into the things to do list. I didn't word that well, so for example: I own a coffee shop, I pay them moneys, and the '25 things to do in Seattle' writer puts my coffee shop in the list.

If I do an image search for the word 'strawberry', how many of those results are not stock images, images from a store, etc. of a strawberry? can you find an actual picture of a strawberry sitting in the wild? or just some picture of a strawberry a person uploaded without trying to sell you something?
History of Backgammon
https://bgammon.org is a free and open source online backgammon service.

Code: https://code.rocket9labs.com/tslocum/bgammon
Evolve or die. The world is cruel.

This is true for everyone. Due to human nature, we will make AI increasingly capable at an exponential pace. Eventually, our efforts to control them will become futile, and humans will no longer be the dominant species.

Luckily, we are uniquely positioned in evolution to prevent this. We must merge with AI.
They’ve invested a lot in making people forget and improve their image. GitHub, VSCode, WSL, typescript… I feel old remembering a time when Microsoft was openly evil (“Linux is cancer”) and I’m not even 40. I think the new generation only knows the “nice” MS, Xbox, etc. Not the underhanded greedy corp even though they’re still trying to shove a subpar browser and OS down our throats. It’s just less obvious nowadays.
The thing is, we already have doctrine that starts to encompass some of these concepts with fair use.

The four pronged test in US case law:

- the purpose and character of use (is a machine doing this different in purpose and character? many would say yes. is "ripping-off-this-artist-as-a-service" different than an isolated work that builds upon another artist's art?)

- the nature of the copyrighted work

- the amount and substantiality of the portion taken (can this be substantially different with AI?)

- the effect of the use upon the potential market for the original work (might mechanization of reproducing a given style have a larger impact than an individual artist inspired by it?)

These are well balanced tests, allowing me as a classroom teacher to duplicate articles nearly freely but preventing me from duplicating books en masse for profit (different purpose; different portion taken; different impact on market).
If you want a large model with public weights, just do it yourself. Nobody is stopping you.
The height of the British empire was ~1500-1800.

Here is a graph of their GDP per capita: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-per-capita-in-the-uk-...

There is definitely some increase, but it really kicks up in 1800s and 1900s, with the industrial revolution.
Run all that stuff on a different machine than you run the app on. Unless the app includes all that stuff.
The problem with this argument is that you never mention the costs or trade-offs of a statically typed language. You presume that you get the benefits for free and I'm certain that is not the case. The worst systems I've ever worked on were ones with complex and poor types and type hierarchies.
I keep thinking: this is what eg Google has done all along. The content it uses to train models and present the answers to us absolutely belongs to others, but you try get any content (eg maps data) out of it for free at scale.

But the business model emerged and delivered value to us while enough that we didn’t consider asking for money for our content. We like being searched and linked to. Less so Google snippets presented to users without the users landing on our site. Even less so generated without any interaction. But it’s all still all our content.
>Canadian media isn't allowed to lie

I dunno, check out the Y axis on this chart the CBC posted: https://media.assettype.com/westernstandard%2Fimport%2Fweste...
At worst it's harming people with something poisonous or toxic.
Hi HN, Thanks for checking this out! Goal with this project is to provide objective benchmarks and analysis of LLM AI models and API hosting providers to compare which to use in your next (or current) project. Benchmark comparisons include quality, price, technical performance (e.g. throughput, latency).

Twitter thread with initial insights: https://twitter.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/17472648324397343...

All feedback is welcome
You are right. I tried it yesterday evening with a fresh Debian installation. Both bluetooth headsets worked out-of-the-box!
It’s incredibly difficult to call out and correct negative beliefs and behaviours while maintaining a fully positive human relationship. — It just doesn’t seem to scale well.
Earwax removal and "popping" videos are quite popular. There is an entire subreddit on it. It's unfortunate that you had to see it without explicitly seeking it out, but yes it is "a known phenomena".
Is it inequitable and mistreating an employee to pay them what we agreed to?
I can see 3 ways that you can guarantee that the output of a model never violates copyright

1. Models are trained with 100% uncopyrighted or properly licensed input data

2. Every output of the ML model is evaluated to make sure it's not too close to training data

3. Copyright law is changed to have a specific cutout for AI

#1 is the approach taken by Adobe, although it generally is harder or more expensive to do.

#2 destroys most AI business models

#3 has been done in some countries, but seems likely that if done in the US it would still have some limits.

For example, I could train a model on a single image, song, or piece of written text/code. Then I run inference, and get out an exact copy of that image, song, or text. If there are no limits around AI and copyright, then we've got a loophole around all of copyright law. I don't think that the US would be up for devaluing intellectual property like that.
Okay, so you're in an especially bad situation for terabytes per watt.

If I was buying hard drives right now, I'd expect 2x14TB for about $500 including tax. If that pulled in anything close to $2/TB/month then $6 of electricity would not be a big deal.

Hmm, I just built a NAS, maybe I should rent out some of that space.
What if the AI was solely trained on this person's work, then from that churned out a similar replacement that was monetized?
Isn't that the difference, though? People who legitimately love Rails because of how productive they are, versus "pretty palatable".

It's wild how people insist on using less-good tooling because that's what they've heard they are supposed to do... and that that's as good as they are going to get.

It's not!
I would think for audio, there’s no audible difference between a denorm and a flushed zero. Are there cases where denorms are important to audio?
OP here.

I get where you're coming from, but I think you're too harsh on me.

I don't know what the impact will be on my business, and I specifically said that it is a worry, not a certainty.

I am not trying to spread FUD.
The Cost of New Relic Synthetics
Do you think running Windows 10 on the PC from the mid 2000s would be a better or worse experience than running the software that ran om that machine at the time?
Just to give you another data point, an AMD-based Thinkpad P14s Gen 4 gets about halfway to some of your targets. The AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U has a pretty nice iGPU. It can be ordered with 64 GB LPDDR5 RAM for ~$1400 USD.

Mine, with 32 GB RAM, idles around 4 watts in Linux with Firefox open on WiFi and screen at about 1/3 brightness, which translates to around 13 hrs of battery life.
This sounds like an ad for Kagi, though.
Well obviously AI isn't at the level of replacing Hollywood yet.

But once it is? I mean, yeah, it'll replace Hollywood.

People will tell Netflix, "hey I want a move about X in the style of Y and I want Z to star in it", and bam -- your own bespoke movie.

I mean, once the capability's there, it's just inevitable. And yeah -- acting will become a hobby, just like sewing is today.
Books Like Lingua Latina per Se Illustrata
Cool. Just give me $500k for GPU time and I'll get started.
You came into this thread and said that you threw your hands up and walked away from the article when someone that they interviewed mentioned "whiteness". It was then pointed out to you that that was the only time in the article that race was discussed, and that everything you didn't read was actually about the subject you hoped it would've been about.

You proceeded, just now, to double-down and refuse to hear any more of it. In point of fact, you're not "aware of what they're peddling" because you're demonstrating a clear misunderstanding of the article to those of us who actually read it, and you seem proud to do so after you've been called out for it.

That's the definition of burying your head in the sand. Hell, your reaction to my comment is basically you trying to wiggle all the way down so that you're buried up to the waist. But hey, you do you. Ignorance is bliss, and such.
Google, YouTube, etc., they're all getting worse. I'm finding it ever more difficult to learn anything anymore from the internet. Whether it's learning how to play the guitar, how to fish, weight lifting or how to do mostly anything, I get trash results. Google results are exclusively shallow content, most of which are trying to sell me on something. YouTube is full of short videos with click baity subjects entirely irrelevant to what I actually entered: "Don't make this {topic} mistake!", "This one trick will make you better at {topic}!", "Top 10 ways to become a pro at {topic} in two weeks!".

Due to the constant trash these algorithms insist on feeding me, which I believe is actively contributing to the dumbing-down of society, I've naturally gravitated towards books. Books are leagues better in terms of quality of content. They are more detailed and thorough. It's a richer experience so far.
Why is that the surprising part to you? It's a brand name. We buy hi-tech electronics from a company named after a fruit. Plenty of other top brand names are either nonsensical or heavily ironic. That's just how marketing works.
Macs are now crazy fast due to insane advances in their CPU. On intel macs you could definitely feel the slowdown of all software.

I mean, they advertised "instant wake up from sleep" as a feature... That Macs had in 2008.

I have a Windows machine that starts from NVMe. It takes a full minute for it to start a handful of startup apps, also in NVme: Firefox, Steam, 1password. What is it doing?
If you have a garage, your best bet is a battery tender, which keeps the battery charged overnight and warm enough not to freeze.

A lot of people also use engine block heaters. There's different types and they all work a bit differently. Usually you would start the engine warmer a few hours before you use the car instead of overnight.
you can debate about it being racist or not, but the data shows that white people moved from the cities to the suburbs in southern cities. this is called white flight. a lot of the movement coincided with wins from the civil rights movement — this suggests that it has to do with race. imo it's very much race driven.

regardless, your suburb vs city dichotomy ignores the great migration from the south. rural folks in the south moved to urban areas in the north. it's not suburb vs city. it's rural vs urban. my criticism of this study is about that, it used an example of a city where there's been growth and urban sprawl in the metro area as a whole, but ignored that and only focused on the city of jackson itself. jackson has lost a lot of population for various reasons, but seeing that example in this article about the study set off a critical flag in my brain. it seems like a simplistic look at jackson without examining the metro area as a whole. it might do that and i just didn't read the study.
So, what's next? Lispless Emacs?
Georgia Tech’s online computer science major lists a preferred qualification of already holding a bachelors in CS, math, computer engineering, or electrical engineering, so I don’t think it’s “tailor made” for people that are looking for a mid-career pivot from non-tech to tech.
BSL can be quite open-source-like or extremely restrictive depending on the additional use grant. For example this project seem to allow most things besides offering a hosted version as a SaaS, but the BSL itself disallows any production use and "production" as a term is not defined.

I would be weary of even setting up a personal instance of BSL software for anything besides development or evaluation since it could be counted as "production".
I feel like this is an understandable trend. With inflation and job markets and various conflicts around the world, combined with the near constant flood of near-realtime data online, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. This “anti-expert,” Qanon, flat-earth conspiracy trend fundamentally is a way for folks who feel like life is out of their control to get some of that control back by believing they have some piece of knowledge or information that gives them a “one up” on the “establishment.” I know something that you don’t, and that gives me power…when I don’t really have any.
So the somewhat necessary followup question: if Midjourney or ChatGPT includes a license in front of its model weights or access to its model that forbids using those weights or output from its model to create a competitor, is it fair use to ignore that license?

In both cases, we're relying on copyright. The companies are saying that you can access the models under a license. It's not too hard to circumvent that license or get access through a third party or separate service: but doing so would obviously be seen as deliberate circumvention. We can easily compare that to an artist putting up a click-through in front of a gallery that says that by clicking 'agree' you agree not to use their work for training. And in fact, it's literally the same restriction in both cases: OpenAI maintains that they can use copyright to enforce that people accessing their model avoid using their model to train AIs. Paradoxically, they also maintain that artists can not use copyright to block people accessing their images from using those images to train AIs.

Facebook has released model weights with licenses that restrict how those model weights are used. But I can get those models without clicking 'agree' on that license agreement. They're mirrored all over the place. We'll see what courts say, but Facebook's public argument is that their license doesn't stop applying if I download their software from a mirror. So I find it hard to believe that Facebook honestly believes in a fair use argument if they also claim that the same fair use argument doesn't apply to their own copyrighted material that they've released online (assuming that model weights can even be copyrighted in the first place).

This is one of my biggest issues with the fair use argument -- it's not that there's nothing convincing about it, in a vacuum I'd very likely agree with it. I don't think that licenses should allow completely arbitrary restrictions. But I also can't ignore that the vast majority of companies making this argument are making it extremely inconsistently. They know that their business models literally don't work if competitors figure out ways to use their services to rapidly produce competing models. If another company comes up with a training method to rapidly replicate model weights or to augment existing models using their output, none of these companies will be OK with that.

None of these companies believe that fair use invalidates license terms when it comes to their own IP.
Did they ever explain the logo thing? https://longform.asmartbear.com/logo/
> Axboe shared about his latest interesting Linux I/O performance optimization, "Something I've had in the back of my mind for years, and finally did it today. Which is kind of sad, since it was literally a 5 min job, yielding a more than 6% improvement. Would likely be even larger on a full scale distro style kernel config."

Seems irrelevant. From the sound of it this was something that would always have been easy for him to do. He just never got to do it until now.
I never made a legal appeal in my previous comment so legalities are irrelevant. It also differs from my argument on derivative/transformative works rather than specific works.

What I was questioning was whether people would think it's morally right or not to generate inspired works. For example, if someone made an algorithm to read the relevant papers and make a cancer treatment that addresses the same areas/conditions of a method under IP law but don't equate to the exact method, I don't see that as a morally wrong action by itself.
> Clearly, the days when businesses thought online shopping ought to be low-friction are long gone.

I bought some lottery tickets online for a present to myself and the experience was smooooth. No cart, no checkout steps, no need to create an account, there was a QR code right next to the tickets that I had to scan with my banking app to buy them right here, right now.
I think it's more than a coincidence that we see this "anti-expert" ideology concentrated at the two political poles. For either the far left or right, it's important to reject evidence that doesn't conform to ideology, and eventually the way to do that is to reject authority that isn't your own. They don't want to be subject to authority, they want to be be the unquestioned authority.

It doesn't matter if the topic is far beyond them, what matters is that they have an answer and that answer reinforces their biases. Reality is the enemy.
People do whatever they want with their own property. You have no right to steal it just because they want to monetise it. What’s killing art is stealing it en masse using procedural generators.
Users do care about speed. They complain about it all the time, you just have to listen to them. It's most of the "features" that users couldn't give a crap.
> I know it's not a common topic of conversation for Americans, but the world hates us now. We're the number one threat to peace and stability since 2003, and only getting worse. Yes, I am ashamed of us. We had so much potential.

Okay maybe calm down with the Saint/Devil complex. (I’m not an American.) The way a European might have perceived America in the 90’s would have been through Hollywood. And the same person in 2005– would have perceived America through fast and ubiquitous Internet. (Thanks American State Research?)

The perception moved from pure fiction to meme-filtered, sensationalized reality. So even if America itself hadn’t changed in that time (but I guess it did) the outsider perception of it would still have changed.
OP here.

I have an LLC. I suspect that having one may weigh into the factors, but as the FAQ says, nothing is automatic.
This is true. It's a result of poor management, as you said. Either a lack of incentives or a lack of skill.

If someone leaving represents a substantial risk, then a) that role should be derisked, and b) that individual should be recognized via whatever process the company has (leveling, etc) to keep them on board.
Going by this logic, why is OpenAI forbidding use of the content it generates for training other models?
SLOTHY: Assembly Optimization via Constraint Solving
I thought so too. Could it be that gpt-4 turbo is more efficient for them to run, so the price is lower, but tries to maintain the token throughput of GPT4 over their API? There are a lot of ways they could allocate and configure their GPU resources so that GPT-4 Turbo provides the same per user throughput while greatly increasing their system throughput.
Pretty much every beer uses a distinct "strain" of yeast so that information is unlikely to be useful and it's probably full of noise[0]. As per this paper one thing makes Guinness interesting is that it's strain is fairly divergent.

[0] There are strain banks like white labs that perform lots of analysis on the various beer strains.
It's pure(ly) alkaline (minerals in the )water (and maybe other stuff, too).
Penpot CEO: Ghost > Substack // benefits of open source for designers
"Developers experienced something similar 20 years ago with proprietary programming languages and frameworks and decided they would not be forced to compromise; they rejected that premise from the start. By doing so, they outmatched the industry's growing pressure on the scalability and sustainability of their work with a strong 'my work, my rules' stance.

"The moment of truth for designers might be around the corner."
Their own crawler is only used for widgets and other fluff.
Selling a multivitamin you could buy for a few dollars in a big cloud of smoke and mirrors is a scam in my opinion.

Just say you sell vitamin d. Not some ultra esoteric branded product with extreme markups and hints at something it definitely isn't - namely anything to do with "Greens.

And doing this as a "certified science man" is even more ridiculous.