skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it worth playing? I've picked it up several times and tried to play it for a couple hours, but the skills and spells systems seem so limited and console-like, kinda like how simple Skyrim is compared to Morrowind.

Does it get more involved and customizable later on?
IIRC there was a post here a while ago about I think Canon or Nikon working on that. But unless there's a chain of trust or journalists upload RAW files, they'd basically be untrustable.
This has already been a thing for quite a while and all the major camera manufacturers have or are working on some solution for cryptographic provenance.

https://www.dpreview.com/news/9855773515/sony-associated-pre...
At current rates the best Pi you can get for $35 is a Pi4 with just 1GB of RAM, which isn't in the same league as the OP5+ 4GB.
> What this means, is these systems will fall into different categories of law around copyright and free-use.

No they won't.

A human who uses a computer as a tool (under all the previous qualifications of fair use) is still a human doing something in fair use.

Adding a computer to the workflow of a human doesn't make fair use disappear.

A human can use photoshop, in fair use. They can use a camera. They can use all sorts of machines.

The fact that photoshop is not the same as a human brain is simply a completely unrelated non sequitur. Same applies to AI.

And all the legal protections that are offered to someone who uses a regular computer, to use photoshop in fair use, are also extended to someone who uses AI in fair use.
Nice whataboutism. What does that have to do with the topic at hand?
I wrote CUDA kernels and bind them to torch so if you are doing some computer vision and want to detect quadrilaterals(4 corners instead of 2) then I think this library might be useful for evaluation purposes(calculating mAP for example)
Unauthorized copies? If the images are published on the internet how is it downloading them "unauthorized"?
Yeah because their wage is inflated. Photographers were mad about digital cameras too. Womp womp.
> The idea for this paper was discussed with the staff during my visit to the Hong Kong Monetary Authority visitor center. The paperweight souvenir is currently no longer available.

I was hoping the author managed to buy the last 100 of them and is selling them at HKD 5000 each to people who read this paper and want to try their luck.
Is it possible that rather than cheating customers, they are simply trying to increase the density of the paperweight to make it more effective?
Our most recent gains in AI come in terms of programming and informational retrieval efficiency.

We’re accelerating.
"Come and take it! Please, take it! I wish you would take it" .. but if you don't, I'll keep it
It’s an interesting experiment but knowing the behaviour in an evolving collision situation would be more valuable I think.

My VW Caravelle (van) is quite aggressive when e.g. a car is braking to turn left and I start to run close. It applies the brakes hard, displays a crash warning and chimes. The chime is almost irrelevant because the ABS braking shudders the whole car.

The rental I am driving today (a Kia) responded to emergency braking traffic in front of me. I was already braking but the car decided to apply more aggressive brakes, switch on the hazards, sound an alarm and cut the audio entertainment.
Note that The 74 is an anti-union, pro-privatization, conservative advocacy (disguised as news) site funded by groups like The Dick & Betsy DeVos Family Foundation.

https://truthout.org/articles/campbell-brown-the-new-leader-...
If it is not economically viable for you to be ethical, then you do not deserve economic success.

Anyone arguing against this technology following the line of reasoning you present is operating in adverse to the good of society. Especially if their only motive is economic viability.
I guess the disagreement you have with doomers is the probablility you assign to us being able to create human level AI. For the record most "doomers" don't pull a pascal's wager here. Standard EA doctrine is that if we stagnate technologically at our current level for too long (read centuries) then we will inevitably be wiped out. So they want technological advance, they just want caution.
Handheld card readers are price competitive, or at least marginally more expensive. I’d attribute it more to the time investment of switching POS systems.
Buy a used laptop from a year or two ago. Save tons of money and put whatever you want on it.
Yeah I’m sure state actors that are capable of creating exploits using undocumented registers on Apple silicon [1] won’t be able to break camera sensor DRM..

[1] https://securelist.com/operation-triangulation-the-last-hard...
No, I don't want a gold star, I want a robot that can draw for me when I want something done.

I'm not trying to pretend AI image generation is art. I have no interest in that question right now.

What I'm saying is that it's completely unreasonable to ban a tool that ordinary people find massively useful and empowering to protect people who have training and talent.

Billions can't make the images in their heads real to protect the class privilege of a few hundred thousand professional artists worldwide?

No.
I don't know. People said the same thing about the invasion to begin with. That it would cause significant economic harm to Russia, cause civil unrest, and so on. Yet they did it and pulled through somehow.

I don't they'll hesitate to do it if they see the need to. Putin wants the Soviet times back at any cost. He has many strings he can pull if he feels threatened.
> ou'd need to prove that the AI is itself morally (or, depending on the nature of the dispute, legally) equivalent to a human and therefore deserving of

No you don't.

A human using a computer to make art doesn't automatically lose their fair use rights as a human.

> indisputably the case that software is not currently legally equivalent to a human

Fortunately it is the human who uses the computer who has the legal rights to use computers in their existing process of fair use.

Human brains or giving rights to computers has absolutely nothing to do with the rights of human to use a camera, use photoshop, or even use AI, on a computer.
So, just what _is_ "the accounting argument"?

I don't know enough accounting to figure it out for myself.
Yeah, QR codes should come at a minimum with a WiFi password written on them exactly because of this. Even better would be not to even bother with all of that but it's easy for owners to fall for grifters selling "the future" to them.
Like the other commenter I’m amused that they included rocks in the shredded notes to make up weight.

I think something like this is unfortunately doomed to fail, as whilst there might ideally be approximately 138 banknotes worth of mass in there, it seems likely that the shreds are from thousands of different banknotes, and the container holds only a fraction of each whole note. Therefore no matter how good your reconstruction is, you simply won’t have the right pieces to work with.
Over the past year or so various projects have made it possible to run LLMs on just about anything. Some GPUs are still better than others like Nvidia GPUs are still the best for token throughput (via TensorRT-LLM), but AMD GPUs are competitive (via vLLM) and even CPUs can run LLMs at decent speeds (via Llama.cpp).
Ask HN: Do you still shop at Newegg now that they have blocked VPN?
I found myself moving back to shop at Amazon after Newegg went out of their way to block ExpressVPN and Nord. I have too many people using VPN at my office to disable it, even temporarily. Do you guys know any other solutions?
That has no bearing at all on the issue at hand. The same can be said of the original argument that started this thread.
Well, the ones I tried that would fit into 4GB RAM have trouble following directions and inconsistent output. I can't really tell you (yet) which would fit into, say, 16GB RAM and work consistently (and fast enough to, say, turn a light off faster than it would take you to get up and reach for the switch), but I'll eventually get to it...
>There's a pretty decent chance nobody else is actually trying. The only other OS getting installed is Windows, and that's probably coming straight from a disk image or a recovery partition.

From TFA: "Note: At this point, I checked that Windows and various other UEFI tools are able to read the variables just fine, so Linux’ output is confirmed to be incorrect."
You're not thinking about the consequences of your position. What I said stands.
It’s written on their website: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm...
Really enjoy the irony that an article complaining about how technology ruined dining shoves a full-page popup in your face while you're halfway through the article.
It’s not so easy to attack secure hardware. It won’t be an option for the vast majority of deep fake producers.
Would Singapore be a genuinely worse place to live if its GDP per capita would be "just" $35,000 instead of $70,000?

It would probably have slighly smaller population, less economic regulation and more sustainability. So the difference between Yew and "number two" is the difference between "Excellent" and "Great".

Come on, is that so important? I'd rather read on about a leader who turned "mediocre" into "pretty good".

Because most countries are not Singapore, they don't have what it takes to be even Taiwan.

"When a Rhino looks at the moon, he wastes the flowers of his spleen", as neither Japanese nor Chinese say.
Ever since humans started seeing competition to their abilities.
A few months ago I made a proof-of-concept on how finetuning Stable Diffusion XL on known bad/incoherent images can actually allow it to output "better" images if those images are used as a negative prompt, i.e. specifying a high-dimensional area of the latent space that model generation should stay away from: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37211519

There's a nonzero chance that encouraging the creation of a large dataset of known tampered data can ironically improve generative AI art models by allowing the model to recognize tampered data and allow the training process to work around it.
Rewarding hyper-realistic manipulative behavior sounds like an exceptionally unethical way to apply LLMs... this isn't like shooting or driving in games where it has basically zero correspondence to how those things work irl. Same with current dialogue tree systems.
A huge amount of DRM effort has been spent in the watermarking area, which is similar, but not exactly the same.
Ollama will (nearly always) work provided you have enough RAM. I was actually pretty surprised that it didn't work on my N5105 (which has 16GB) because it relies on AVX instructions...
You've never gotten a paper menu with stickers over the prices? Or those places that re-print the menus every week.
I love the fact that whatever song radio station I choose on spotify it always recommends me the same 30 songs. I'm starting to think they only have 50 songs in their whole library...
“I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that,” https://www.acmi.net.au/stories-and-ideas/2001-a-space-odyss...
Because it’s not a button. Afaict Apple attests iPhones so captcha is skipped. You can start chatting right away.
I'm not sure I've ever seen anyone forced to use a QR code restaurant menu. As other comments have said, the wait staff is usually more than happy to grab a physical menu for you.

For me, though, I use it as an opportunity to ask the wait staff what they recommend.
It’s designed to restrict the purposes for which the consumer can use the work. It is exactly like DRM in this way.
Carefully checking every request costs money. Giving away data to unauthorized parties pretending to have such authorization costs nothing. Follow the incentives.
North America has standard plugs for 240V too. They’re different from the 120V plug for the obvious reason, but it’s not a particularly special setup.
It’s more complex than that. A major reason artists don’t like Spotify because Spotify shows the number of track streams and regular listeners. This has a huge negative effect on many artists mental health.

Artists signed to Major label’s might get <20% of Spotify’s payment (often substantially less than that after the various spurious desuctions). Indie labels frequently pay 50% of net profits though.

Spotify’s rate per stream is certainly low. And they are in no way artist friendly.

(I manage artists).
Yes, but it seems like clever people would not have trouble bypassing this. Just take a picture of a picture.
As an often writer, what I find LLMs useful for is creating an editable basis for subtopics/intro/explanatory text for something I'm reasonably familiar with and could write certainly with the help of some Googling around but might take me an hour between various distractions. It doesn't really work to structure an article for me or to create novel explanations/insights from e.g. data. But it does a decent job a lot of the time with respect to various necessary fleshing out.
He probably means AI.
East Germany Stasi documents.

https://www.stasi-unterlagen-archiv.de/archiv/rekonstruktion...
So if we're only ever presented with simple models like the article, isn't that infantilizing?
That's a funny argument because artists lost their shit over photography too. Now anyone can make a portrait! Photography will kill art!

Art is the biggest gate kept industry there is and I detest artists who believe only they are the chosen one.

Art is human expression. We all have a right to create what we want with whatever tools we want. They can adapt or be left behind. No sympathy from me.
Many early stage SBIR companies, especially those in the life sciences which are always very R&D heavy, will be forced to close up shop.
when I saw the term "horizontal joins", I immediately went to, what? what's a "vertical join?" must be a UNION, scrolled down and sure enough.

Is there some reason to use non-standard terminology for posts that are trying to be in-depth, authoritative tutorials ?
Thank you, that makes sense. I think I'll stick with my google hub for now haha
Over 10 years ago, in 2011, there was a DARPA shredder challenge: https://techcrunch.com/2011/12/02/all-your-shreds-are-belong...

I wonder how much the state of the art in reassembling shredded documents has advanced since then...
How do we catch the criminals, or prove liability during a crash, then?
Usually the waiter take back the menu right after you ordered so I doubt it.
What are LLMs that was trained with public domain content only?

I would believe there is enough content out there to get reasonably good results.
How do you even get a 2Mb/s connection in 2024?
"tax avoidance" Otherwise known as what every sensible and smart person does because that's not the "governments money".

AKA: "How dare people want to keep their own money and not freely give up larger and larger percentages to ever larger government programs that are inefficient cesspools of mismanagement and corruption".

I'll match people saying "fuck you for wanting to keep your own money" with a fuck you for supporting the destruction of businesses on the notion that it's the governments money in the first place.
It feels like I'm missing something important. Even if you could reassemble them using computer vision, how are you going to spend them?
Yeah, that's what I'm guessing many smaller companies will do. Does the developer talk to customers or do customer success/support? Great, they are now "Sales Engineers" for tax purposes.

(Note: not recommending to do that, but guessing that is a natural byproduct of an unfair tax code).
More like 3k for dual 4090
Aren't most modern fabs re-using over 90% of their water?
Tell HN: Play Store encourages fake features
I just received notice from Google that I need to upload a new version of an app. My developer acount has an active app, I have active users. I do not need any other features and I don't have anything to update to app for. Google insists that they will close the account replying to my message. That makes me mindlessly change one string of text and recompile the app. This is silly right?
A different point of view from a particular experience. In a country with rampant accelerating inflation, QR codes brought on by pandemic protocols were an unexpected saviour to the problem of having to mark up prices every week or month. The experience itself sucks in most places as you might have seen due to terrible tech stacks to host the menu, but the benefit of not having to print or markup so many menus have made QR a must.

Funnily, I have an unfounded hunch that making price hikes so easy have in fact helped speed up inflation by a small bit.
You got challenged, as if we have all the answers there are. Thing is, path to AGI and beyond inevitably leads to those hard questions from the beginning which we have zero idea about how to even define, or at least some proxy definition exists, such as what is and what isn't, what is consciousness, interplay between layers of psyche and how it translates to intelligence and everything else, biological ship of theseus, etc.. it becomes philosophical quite fast and there are more questions there than answers.
The long and the short of it is only the well-heeled are allowed exploit tax loopholes.
I read that headline to ask about a cat's emergency stopping at first and that sounded like a much funnier article.
Bread and circuses. It's weird to say, but I do believe that banning circuses (the internet) would cause more problems than a conscription.
You should reflect on the possibility that you might be tailgating.
I don't know what "most" do, but I see that form of argument all the time -- particularly from the highest profile doomers.

Personally, I think this line of argument is driven by the hype cycle more than reality. Use chatGPT or midjourney or whatever for a while, and it's pretty easy to see that we're dramatically overweighting theories of AGI risk, and dramatically underweighting stuff like "disemploying the bottom 80% of the intelligence bell curve" with technologies that automate away lots of formerly white-collar labor.

If I had to put my money on an "existential risk" attributable to AI, it would be economic strife.
The confusion is using the same namespace for argument slots and variables. It might have been clearer if, for example, Leibniz would have used Greek letters alpha and beta instead of x and y.
How does it stop you from using an image however you want?
Indie publisher here. Sorry to hear about this. Among the numerous frustrations that publishers and sellers report when dealing with Amazon, automated lockouts are near the top of the list. Inability to get a clear explanation or knowledgeable human support are close behind.

I always tell other publishers that Amazon's seller tech is like a rickety roller coaster with lots of kludged together components - built to go fast, but with lots of loose bits that rattle and sometimes cause the system to fail. Technology glitches, bad UI design, poor communication, and complex policy requirements lead to a huge support burden. Even if you can get a good Amazon support agent, they are not always able to diagnose certain problems, let alone provide a fix.

The parts of the company facing small publishers and third-party sellers is extremely siloed, which makes things even worse for sellers trying to get through complex issues touching multiple services. Reporting something like "I can't get Amazon Advertising to connect with my KDP account" can lead to runarounds that require multiple tickets or are never solved.

Regarding distribution: I don't use a distributor owing to the lead time required and the huge commissions involved, but a few I know work with IPG (https://www.ipgbook.com/). If you have a track record of sales, that can open the door to distribution and potentially help get through the Amazon problems you are experiencing as they have direct contacts with back-end Amazon staff.
All examples that I have seen require the download of a PDF.

If the restaurant isn't smart enough to compose an HTML menu which is very friendly with mobile devices, then they should not be using QR codes.
Some apps, like Ok Cupid, have this. Others like Tinder give you the option to set “intention” such as short-term or casual, but that doesn’t necessarily equate to non-monogamy. Apps like Hinge allow you to specify that you’re non-monogamous, but don’t allow you to filter by it.

The apps are, by and large, very aware of these audiences and simultaneously averse to catering to them. Which is odd - the major shift to subscription-based Boosts, Super Likes, etc, is all geared towards keeping people using your dating app. The people most likely to want to come back are either A) those not finding a lasting monogamous relationship, or B) those who are open to finding more than one partner.
It's cheap ... but not the Boeing kinda cheap.
There aren’t 138 bank notes in any of them. Even the ones that had no stones had only about 82 pieces (the ones with stones had about 20). I don’t think that’s a convincing explanation considering the inconsistency in terms of whether or not there are stones and the complete mismatch between the amount of notes advertised vs how much there actually is.

It would be pretty funny if there was some kind of scam going on here where the notes were actually being reconstructed and a small portion of each paperweight was siphoned off to support the crime (perhaps by diverting whole notes early in the shredding process). That could explain why some weights had fewer notes with rocks to make up the difference. Seems unlikely obviously in reality but there should probably be an investigation to figure out why the Hong Kong Monetary Authority visitor center is participating in fraudulent behavior.
How is that better than.. just paying with the device you already have, without having to bother the waiter?
For one, companies will be encouraged to classify R&D as operational expenses where they can. This distorts the overall picture of the business’s fundamentals.
I'm a longtime Pi fan but I'm really dubious of the single board computer market .

At $5-$10 (pi-zero / W) and $35 (pi3 / pi 4) these little boards made a ton of sense.

Pushing into ~ $120-$150 to me doesn't make any sense. You can get 8gb/16gb N100 at that price point complete with a case.

I saw his point on the per-watt performance which is valid, but are people running a room full of these things? Why spend so much to save 10 watts ?

Someone please enlighten me on how this segment still remains viable.
My vw has a setting to for how aggressive it breaks in those situations.
I imagine a lot of things tested at the USAF base aren't the "most advanced in the world"—and frankly the assumption that they would be is somewhat odd. There's only so much throwing wads of cash at contractors can solve.
Maybe you are referring to Stasi documents: https://www.stasi-unterlagen-archiv.de/en/archives/the-recon...

Edit: link to the English version.
That part is easy.

1. store the oldest full board you care about

2. for each turn, record either:

2A. two 6-bit coordinates

2B. 1-8 bits to say which move they picked out of the full list of legal options
It’s a level of difficulty that will rule out most producers of fake content.

The point is that tracking the provenance of digital items is certainly going to be more important in the future. A signature by Apple silicon is one piece of evidence. It could also be signed by the photographer’s identity. The account who uploads it gives another piece of evidence.

Unfortunately, we should probably not trust anonymous content in the future.
You would be average if you actually thought this site doesn't have a selection bias out of the world population. If you think HN averages out to a middle of the pack student, people who spend their free time reading text, you have quite the social bubble around you. There's also like 25 $1b+ founder/ceo's out of 50k.