skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lol. There is an entire field dedicated to this question. It's called Automatic Control. Yes, you can do all of the above. You need to model it with a multivariable system. Google control systems and systems theory.

Usually in a physical control system (that is driven by a PID controller) your limiting factors are the execution element (how fast can you change the input) and your sensors (the resolution of the transducers/sensors dictate the resolution of what you can achieve). A lot of times the PID controller will have a way that it can autotune itself as it's extremely rare to be able to measure the properties of the physical system precisely and for those properties to not vary with temperature and with wear and tear.
> abuse the language a bit

I see what you did here
If this is the case, then an acquisition to prevent a competitor from going bankrupt should generally not be anti-competitive? Since, they would no longer be your competition anyways?
I still have an imaginary bet running with myself that we will eventually discover that Terra preta was the result of some form of pit roasting technique. Dig a hole in a different spot for each celebration.
How else would you do it? First, get the technology to work at all before doing the harder things it can't handle yet. Crawl, walk, then run. Or in this case, drive in snow. Even if it never gets there in my lifetime (which I doubt), it's already working.
> they don't kill all the other bugs, plants and fungus to do it either

Not for lack of trying though. Almost all life tries their best to dominate their niche, humans are just too good at it.
Not get married, not have kids, job hop, take a high paying job in a high cost area to later switch to a low cost area, focus more on healthy living. That's probably most of it.
Apple lost a court case, but they refuse to comply in good faith
I declined IBEW foreman status, simply because +10% pay (effectively +15%, with benefits) wasn't worth the hassle of managing us idiots -VS- just being well-paid worker-bee.

I have nevered envied "Bossman."
> There is no fundamental difference between the two.

Are the input devices the same? The screens sizes? The situations you use them? The means of network connectivity? The social conventions around them?

There are tremendous differences between phones and desktop computers. Really the only way that they’re not different is that they’re both Von Neumann machines. But that describes so many things around us these days that it’s a distinction without a difference. By the same virtue a modern television is no different.
> The Xcel Energy-established Pueblo Innovative Energy Solutions Advisory Committee (PIESAC) recently released their proposed recommendations for energy generation in Pueblo. Most committee members have no expertise in the electric utility field. They recommend building a nuclear or natural gas plant with carbon capture. The main requirement was to generate a significant tax base and jobs. Neither of these projects is likely to be approved by the Colorado Public Utility Commission (PUC).
A few things trip me up at the grocery store

- bringing my own bag and a bag blows over triggers a theft check

- purchasing alcohol distributor or many medicines in my state requires an id check

- multiple upcs on an item requires a void

- large item like dog food and you don't get to "skip bagging" quickly enough
I hope these people never find jobs. I've never met a MBA who has added real value to a company. Its always some BS process to generate some metric so they can present on a chart.
I don't think there are victims per-se, just people that have willingly enabled a mechanism to come into being that they profit from at the expense of general freedom in computing. That Apple and Google would throw their weight around was a foregone conclusion and if MS manages to make it so that installing software on PCs can only happen through their app store (which is a fair chance, all the indicators are pointing towards them shooting for this at some point) they definitely will not shrink away from that.

Also note that through their control of GitHub they could shut down 90%+ of of the FOSS movement out there with the click of a mouse.
They ingested the entirety of the internet. Everyone who has ever written anything, including our (implicitly copyrighted) HN comments and letters written 400 years ago, which is online was used to train GPT-4.
I think a better analogy would be something like installing aftermarket parts for for your vehicle.
That's also how it worked on the commodore 64 in the 80s.
I use Stable Diffusion family models for innovative art products.

On a small scale, you have to professionalize ComfyUI’s development. My PR to make it installable and to make a plugin ecosystem that makes sense should not be sitting unmerged (https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI/pull/298).

On a medium scale, CLIP is holding you back. I would eagerly buy a 48GB card to accommodate a batch size 1, gradient checkpointed LoRA-trainable model with T5 for conditioning. I want PixArt-a or DeepFloyd/IF with the SDXL dataset and training. I get I can achieve so much with SDXL on 24GB, including just barely a fine tuning, I understand the engineering decisions here, but it’s too weak on prompts.

On a large scale, I’m willing to spend a little money up front. In those conditions you can be far more innovative, you don’t have to make everything for $0. Shane Carruth didn’t make Primer for $0. I’m sure you’ve seen this movie, you get how astoundingly good it is. But he still spent something. He spent only slightly more than an RTX 6000 Ada.

Innovators have budgets. It’s still worth releasing the most powerful possible model for expensive hardware, this is why everyone is talking about Mixtral, but it’s especially true of visual art.
I believe the rule you're talking about only applies to literal in-game transactions - i.e. the binary you put on steam cannot itself implement a non-steam wallet. But there's no business rule against selling in-game content elsewhere, like apple is doing.
Coming to an AI near you.
“I’m capable of so much more than I realize.”

Turns out I'm capable of less than I realized.
I heard this a few years ago and haven’t heard much. Care to share why you think it’ll grow?
FWIW, my “jk” mapping is also global, as is my C-[ mapping. Karabiner FTW. In all seriousness I haven’t found a way to manage a “jk” mapping that so correctly and quickly handles all cases of input in anything else, on any platform. (Except of course built into the keyboard) Autohotkey can kinda sorta do it, but it takes a lot more code for an inferior result sadly.
If you're learning about PID controllers, do yourself a favor and watch Brian Douglas's video series on the topic:

https://youtu.be/wkfEZmsQqiA?si=50WWz4kuber56JIU

Brian has great videos on other control theory topics as well.
Yup. https://community.openai.com/t/are-custom-gpts-replacing-plu...
How do you guys make money ?
The modern machines have nice big pictures to help identify produce that doesn’t have a barcode on it, helpfully sorted with the most popular items first. Failing than you can search with the first few letters of the produce name. Haven’t seen one where you need to enter a numerical code for many years.
I am willing to make a bet that even when side-loading becomes available, it does change much.

You can side-load on Android, and the Play Store's commissions are on par with Apple's.

The mistake here is believing that either Store is competing for developers. They are not. The stores compete for users, and they charge developers a fee for access to those users. Most users prefer the safety and convience of Play, or Steam, or Apple's iOS store.

So long as user's are primarily using Apple's store, either through defaults, habits or choice, Apple won't have to change much.
I don't think insulting the BSD folks is very nice. They probably had good reasons for their decisions.
And before that FORTRAN, COBOL and Assembly.
Latency is the important thing for VR, not bandwidth.
They're going to use ChatGPT, and guess what, Bing hosts that too, so yes, they are gonna Google on Bing. Bada bing, bada boom.
>Expansion greatly dilutes the fixed costs

Where is the actual evidence of this, though? I'm not trying to be snide -- genuinely curious.

Waymo is expanding -- their service areas (and operating times) have expanded in SF and Phoenix. There's a waitlist in LA and Austin. Yet Waymo's financials are still buried in Alphabet's "Other Bets" line, which lost $1.2 billion in Q3 2023.

You think Google, which has been catching heat endlessly for falling behind in AI, has not only won the self-driving race from a technical standpoint (the claim by many in this thread), but has also found a way to make it both profitable and scalable to arbitrary locations, and they're hiding this reality in their earnings statements? Seems unlikely to me. Why bother with waitlists and slow rollouts in favorable climates? Why not blitzscale this thing to all markets and disclose the numbers to investors and send the stock to the moon?
> Peoples who were ethnically cleansed at scale to facilitate settler or US commercial expansion or currently suffer under US-backed dictatorships will tend to have a negative view of the US as an empire.

Obviously. But would they have been happier if it was a different country doing it?

I can think of a few countries that would probably have been better, but none of them are in a position to actually do so. I can think of many countries that would have been worse, some of which could have, but didn’t do so.

> It would be like arguing to a Polish person whose entire family was executed in stalinist trials of the 1940s that the Soviet Union was in aggregate benign because of all the aid they gave out to peoples fighting wars of liberation from european colonial dictatorships, which in aggregate killed far more people than Stalin did.

While it would be a boneheaded thing to do if you had any social grace, would it make it any less true (assuming it were true)?

On the whole I’m just less likely to trust the good intentions of a (near) dictatorship than that of a democracy.

That may be because I grew up in one, but I can’t exactly change that.
Hard to say why it was downvoted but I can say it’s a highly unlikely scenario. You typically need a security clearance to view classified info.

Further, many employees at OpenAI may not even be US citizens, and even if they are, many others aren’t super enthusiastic about giving the Pentagon new toys to use.
It is illegal for YouTube to have ads in albania
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Yeah it's insane how downplayed windows is in some tech circles. I personally don't even like it, but that's mainly because of a skill issue on my part (I don't know how to use it well). Yet it is very clearly not a toy, and in some ways it's way more powerful than Linux due to things like active directory and everything. I wouldn't run a random server on it but that's completely irrelevant to it being a toy or not.

In reality as you said tons of effort are spent exactly trying to make Linux good at the things windows has been good at for 30 years. But there's that weird dissonance that makes people think that windows is inferior to Linux on a technical level just because it's inferior on a software license/freedom level. The two are completely unrelated. The funniest thing is people who argue that the Linux kernel is just the future compared to the "antiquated" NT kernel (lol, lmao)
Why don't you refer GP to a suicide hotline while you're at it? Your attitude in this thread has been repulsive.
Buying an alternative device at a fraction of the cost and using open source apps?
That's odd. I would have presumed that there are non-negligible costs involved with hosting and pushing binaries and updates of hundreds of apps per phone, times 1.5 billion active iPhones.
Not OP, but sticking with your store analogies, I would use the following:

Apple represents the town government, and the App Store is the only general store in the entire town; other stores have been banned. Don't like it? You're free to pack up and move to another city!

The reason I'd characterize it this way is that changing phone platforms is nontrivial. It's not as simple as just going to another store that day.
I’ll ignore the ethics and wisdom of a major retailer showing different customers different pricing, especially a retailer that operates physical stores with price tags on the shelves. Instead I’ll point out that, if you run a successful business (physical retail) and you want to add a secondary business (online sales of the same goods plus some other stuff), then getting the simplest model working well should be a much higher priority than adding fancy complications (bespoke pricing, for example).
i know plenty of folks who wish the opposite ;)
Interesting because I've been under the assumption that this kind of "keyword stuffing" was cause issues with ranking so I've always wondered what some of these sites were doing "right"
No, it's bs. Because of the double conversion you're never going to outperform solar here on earth and the cost of deployment undoes any advantage you might have had anyway. But: cool project and nice of them to get it bankrolled.

> To achieve the energy transition, you need SO MANY solar panels and they will take up a lot of land.

This isn't true.

> According to Jesse Jenkins, to power America, "the solar farms are an area the size of Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts.

The estimates are that it's anywhere from 10000 to 30000 square miles which is compared to the 3.8 million square miles of the continental USA an absolute pittance. Doing this by tightbeaming the output of an equivalent solar installation in space is ridiculous.
Absolutely love orchids, they're pretty abundant where I live and even within the region the variety is huge! They make fantastic house plants, very low maintenance assuming your climate is appropriate, but please source them ethically.
Use your nitrogen rich grass clippings to compost some of your carbon and load charcoal to make biochar.
> I knew I was buying the Mini system when I bought the car, and I accepted it.

"Knowing that you're buying into a monopoly" is generally not a valid defense for a monopolist. The idea is that there can be a disadvantage/harmful impact to market participants even despite their full knowledge of the market structure (which isn't even a given for retail consumers).

But generally, I agree: There are definitely many closed ecosystems/non-competitive "markets" like the ones you describe, and more often than not, regulators don't step in. Who knows, maybe regulators will address that market at some point! The EU DMA doesn't seem to obviously not apply in this scenario, for example.

Several factors for why I'd consider that case to be a bit different though:

- Many car entertainment systems now offer you to connect an iPhone or Android phone and use CarPlay or Android Auto for navigation. You can reasonably use the car's navigation functionality (GPS antenna, voice output, built-in screen that won't hit your head in an accident) without paying the car manufacturer!

- If your car doesn't allow that, or you don't want to use Apple's or Google's solutions, you can stick a physical aftermarket navigation system to your windshield/ventilation grill.

- There isn't a single car maker that controls roughly half of the US market.
How does this lead to something that will convince a random third party, outside of Alice and Bob, in a way that can be uniquely identified as 'Bayesian math'?
Jesus guys
Are there any details of how Apple actually collects that money? Self reporting? Only Apple Pay? What’s the process like?
What vibe replaced it? I could see social networks shattering into a million vibes, but the music and art tells some of the story.
"that they're still fermenting actively when served"

That was true of beer brewed hundreds of years ago so it would have some carbonation and its sourness would be tolerable but it is not true of any modern brewery. Unless they want exploding cans.

Even though hazies are best drank fresh they go through all the normal fermentation as any other ale. Otherwise they would be rough, estery, butter bombs from not giving the yeast time to clean themselves up. Many breweries just screw them up as it's one of the harder styles of beers to do properly.

If the hazy your drinking has yeast sediment in the bottom of the glass/can it was done wrong.
>most people play Fortnite from iOS

There is no current iOS version of Fortnite. The only way to do it is with Amazon Luna or Xbox Cloud Gaming, which is only "playing Fortnite from iOS" on the very surface.
Do you have room for a small compost pile? Or even a rotating compost bin? Grass clippings are a great add to a bin and they generate a good amount of heat to help the process get going.
As long as Pinterest keeps coming up on my search results, the answer is yes!
My college GF was a childhood immigrant to NYC, and by education lottery was accepted to one of their most-prestigious/science public schools (for HS).

This giant act of fate set her up with an education that eventually led to full-tuition scholarship and then (full-circle) she donates her talents to the foundation which made all her miracles possible.

But the randomness of such a system just baffled my public-education-in-Texas brains, where you go to the school where your residence is zoned [or private school].
I've done character controllers and AI with rigid bodies and I just tune damping values and naive functions until it's good enough and I achieve great results. Ie: players doing backflips with torque, AI steering and slowing to a stop within a small radius of a destination.

It's just a game!
China's population decline accelerated last year
Sampling for Text Generation
Produce is not a loss-leader. Pretty solid margins if you compare market prices on produce with what the supermarkets sell them for.

And if you’ve been in any UK supermarket near closing time on a busy weekend day, you’ll see that they routinely sell out of many/most items before restocking overnight. Stuff that hits its best-before date gets marked down to sell. Generally speaking, there isn’t a huge amount being wasted.
Well, there is the thing where the US has a massive army even without a draft. They’d need to fight some near equal opponent to ever get to the point where their professional army needs to be supplemented.

Though I don’t disagree with the premise that we’re still far away from purely AI warfare.
Vision-only is stupid. I can't see through fog and have a tough time with glare and can't see in the dark. Other technologies aren't subject to the same limitations. Don't we want these things to be better at driving than humans?
I ended up hand rolling a custom micropython module for the S3 to do a proof of concept handwriting detection demo on an ESP32, might be interesting to some.

https://luvsheth.com/p/running-a-pytorch-machine-learning
In cases where AI x-risk is real, wouldn't that only apply to situations in which an AI is embodied in a system that gives it autonomy? For example, in ChatGPT, we have a next token predictor that solely produces text output in response to my input. I have about as much control over the system as possible: I can wipe its mind, change my responses, and so on - and the AI is none the wiser. Even if ChatGPT-n is superhumanly intelligent[0], there is nothing it can do to autonomously escape the servers and do bad things. I have to specifically choose to hand it access to outside input through the plugin APIs. So we could argue that the models themselves are fine, but using them in certain ways that take control away from humans is risky. We could say "you can use AI to write your spicy fanfiction but not put it in a robot that has access to motors and sensors".

I think what's really throwing people off about AI safety - including myself - is that people are arguing that the models themselves hold the x-risk. Problem is, there's no plausible way for a superhuman intelligence to 'bust out of its cage' using text output to a human reader alone[1]. Someone has to decide to hook it up to stuff, and that's where the regulation should be.

But that's also usually where the AI safety people stop talking, and the AI ethics people start.

[0] GPT is, at the very least, superhuman at generating text that is statistically identical to, if not copied outright from, existing publicly-available text.

[1] If there is, STOP, call the SCP Foundation immediately.
hmailserver needs openssl version bumps from time to time.
My bananas don't have plastics, adhesive or ink and regardless, adding another chip to them won't make it any better.
How does zig handle this? Does it just have its own slice representation that gets compiled away? Or does it disallow zero length slices?
Barcoding Bees (2020)
The authors did not do any work to establish it as a reasonable proxy. We know that's the case, because they don't describe any of that work in the paper. they just state that they're using this proxy measure, and then seem to be using Startpage and Google interchangably for the rest of the paper. Sure, if they'd actually done the searches on Google, the title would not be outright dishonest. But they didn't, so this defense of yours is just absurd.

It's pretty obvious why the results won't be the same: the feature sets of the search engines are different despite being based on the same index. Startpage's own documentation even has a page on how and why the results are different!

(Personalization is a part of the Google feature set, and has to be taken into account when considering the results. It's also a part of the Bing feature set. This didn't stop them from reporting the results of their testing on Bing in detail.)
Kind of wild to think that all these uncontacted tribes could actually be more like post-apocalyptic survivors rather than a glimpse at our distant neolithic past.

Definitely more fun to speculate about.
I agree, but I also don't know what actually would be a fair price for either of these specific services.

The advantage of mandating alternative distribution channels (i.e. sideloading or alternative app stores, both with their own payments infrastructure) would be that it wouldn't be up to a regulator to figure that out – the market could decide.
OpenAI had/has 57 Chinese talent [1], they're probably getting the boot if OpenAI picks up Pentagon contracts.

https://macropolo2.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/20...
> Apple has had the same 30% ever since it launched the App Store, back when it was much less dominant. They presumably picked it as a level that would make revenue but also not deter developers.

They picked 30% because that was the iTunes Music Store cut. The iOS App Store was a direct clone of the iTunes Music Store in almost every way. It even existed inside iTunes for years. As a developer, I can still see "iTunes Connect" in some obscure areas of App Store Connect.

The documents from the Epic trial showed that the App Store was thrown together very quickly. Initially, Steve Jobs didn't even want third-party apps on iPhone and had to be convinced to add them.
Biochar is charcoal that has been loaded with nutrients. The immense surface area of charcoal provides a concentration of nutrients and refuge for bacteria. I use it to reduce nutrient leaching over winter when we get several feet of rain.