skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't take any of the benchmarks seriously when he is using very different hardware across the tests. I can somewhat understand comparing Orange Pi NVMe to the RPi 4 SATA because that's what ships out-of-the-box (but there's an NVMe hat available), even though it'll be rate-limited to USB 3.0 speeds. But I can't understand comparisons to the u59 micro that are actually run on an Intel machine and then not using an NVMe in the Intel for comparison.

This abounds across all tests, from the very first I/O tests that show the Orange Pi 5+ beating both Intel configurations to the OnnxStream test that shows Intel beating the Orange Pi 5+ even though the Intel unit has to load/stream the model from its paltry SATA disk while the Orange Pi 5+ is outfit with an NVMe drive.
The tools the article discusses are *general* AI-detection, meant to be fed any image and determine whether it was AI-generated.

I'm talking about a detection model that only detects images produced by one generator/source model, so rather than a one-to-many process of having one tool check an image for many potential source generators' artifacts, you'd have many individually-trained detection models, each being run against a single image/text block.
Curious how this compares to obsidian
Under promise, over deliver… that’s the smart engineering way.
Upvoted because while the reconstruction is not too convincing, it is hilarious that he's discovered the banks are cheating tourists by selling them under-weighted bank note sets & making up the difference with random pebbles & concrete parts.

You'd think they'd have no problem being honest about the count since they must shred a huge number of bills daily due to normal bill lifecycles, or that people would've shaken the containers and noticed, but apparently not!
The fact that you don't see the problems in labeling expressive content/speech by the group that is hosting the content shows we have markedly different world views and/or priorities. Which isn't a problem, but it does indicate we probably won't have a useful conversation on the topic.

I will just say that the problem lies in what you think is "clear" vs. what the person/group doing the labeling thinks is "clear". That determination is usually anything but "clear".
I found this lengthy, point-by-point takedown of the Ancient Apocalypse thing both entertaining and informative.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-iCIZQX9i1A
Quantity and speed are qualities.

Getting hit with a snowball could hurt you but is most apt to annoy you. Getting hit with an avalanche is apt to kill you. But hey, they are both snow, right?
It's using Flutter though, which isn't that much better.
It's not just possible, it's very, very likely.
My main point was thst it is a non issue.

while social responsibility is one of the main reasons why this does not happen there are several: we have a central people registry of all people eligible to pension. so if a dead person is registered at a hospital, it automatically propagates to all systems (without the issues mentioned in the article).

the amount of registration and control happening to Danish people (with their consent) is inconceivable to the US mentality.

your can not probate an estate without registering a person as deceased.

But I am actually curious on how people steal deceased people's pensions? what happens when it is realized that the person is dead? (eg. by turning 180 years old).

in Denmark all pensions would have been paid out to the pensioners bank account. if somebody withdraw or transferred from that account, they would be caught an prosecuted.

because of this, I guess most people doing this would get caught.
> A tradeable carbon rationing is indeed equivalent to a UBI

On the contrary -- I was saying it was not equivalent, because it also works towards the goal of reducing CO2 consumption, whereas I can't imagine how a UBI would do so.

> if the market is efficient then the consumption of CO2 credits will exactly equal production

The carbon credits I am imagining would not be "produced" per se -- they would, in total, represent the total amount of carbon we as a country want to emit, to reduce climate disaster, allocated equally to each individual, who all collectively "own" that natural limit. Those individuals can then sell their "contribution ration" to companies which wish to emit more than the CO2 allocated individually to their CEO, or whatever. So ideally credits will be available for purchase by the CEO, at whatever rate the CEO's fellow people are willing to charge the CEO. Mitigations will need to be done by humanity regardless, or else.
Hardly the point. The same can be said for road rules between vehicles and pedestrians, for example in major Indian cities, it's pretty much a free-for-all.
The bane of my corporate existence during a decade. It turns any Outlook hater into an advocate.
Is it running on an OrangePi perhaps?
Companies don’t do “this all the time”. In your hypothetical example, you”d have to essentially forge the quarterly 941 reports to shift the salary R&D expenses. Also ‘gaming’ which quarter revenue occurred is technically tax fraud, certainly if one is on an accrual basis. And it doesn’t mean one is ‘caught up’ by year five. Any time a company increases R&D expenditures, it will have an impact.
I'm not removing it. with all due respect, without a working URL the article is kind of useless to me. ultimately I want to buy or see the official pages on the hardware, which currently doesn't seem possible.
> modern .NET does all kinds of insane runtime optimization techniques to make sure things go fast

Not as much of this applies to LINQ as we'd all wish. If you've got LINQ in a performance hotspot, the first thing to do is remove the LINQ. I love LINQ but plainly written loops are faster every time, and removing LINQ from profiled hotspots has always been a successful optimization for me in practice. Avoid it in performance hotspots. Once you've removed the LINQ, eliminate any inner-loop heap allocations and you're probably done optimizing. LINQ and heap allocation are the two major killers of performance in typical C# code.
Definitely a substantial portion of it, but we should be far more scandalized by the damage your typical runaway hype machine does to otherwise brilliant achievements than by NASA's successful efforts to wrangle expectations.
It's not overperforming per se. NASA spacecraft/probes have primary, secondary, and auxiliary missions. Everything on the probe is designed and built with an eye to being able to complete secondary and auxiliary missions but the guarantee (insofar as anything can be) is the probe can accomplish its primary mission.

Unfortunately this leads to uninformed reporters to make stupid claims like "a probe only designed to last 90 days...". There's no self destruct or planned obsolescence in NASA probes. They don't have an egg timer set to 90 days and then explode.

The probes are designed to last at least as long as the ability for their consumables/power supply lasts. Consider the stresses of launch, transit through space, and insertion/landing are way worse than day to day conditions for a lot of probes. If they can survive all of that rolling around a desert is relatively easy (in comparison). If Ingenuity made one successful flight there was little reason it couldn't make more so long as it had the appropriate power available and the Martian Space Defense didn't shoot it down.

Ingenuity didn't overperform, it performed according to its actual design and construction. It only overperformed misinformed media expectations.
The number of people who are going to be able to produce high fidelity art with off the shelf tools in the near future is unbelievable.

It’s pretty exciting.

Being able to find a mix of styles you like and apply them to new subjects to make your own unique, personalized, artwork sounds like a wickedly cool power to give to billions of people.
UK parcel firm disables AI after poetic bot goes rogue
> The best comparison today is not Outlook/Exchange, but the whole Web itself

Data had bidirectional replication with the server. Apps ran from local NoSQL databases on your machine which you synced it up with the server including the App code. The Web runs apps on servers, Notes not so much.
Yeah, I've wondered that too. I've triggered the audible alarm many times, but I'm still not sure what happens if it actually needs to emergency brake and cut engine power.

How does it handle steering/skidding? Is it gonna cause the person behind me rear end me? I hope I never have to find out, but it'd be nice to know ahead of time...
It's easy to dismiss economic impact in conflicts. Even the phrasing "economic factors alone have rarely prevented conflicts" is a little glib. US administrations (and all others) have to remember how the Cold War ended; The Oil Shock; the effect of fracking on the viability of action in the middle east (thrown together in one salad :-); the whole point of much conflict in the middle east; the Houthis firing at ships passing by; etc, etc.

So not all conflict is tied-in with economics sure but wouldn't loosing most TSMC production and china-based supply chains be a major shock? For all sides? And as such would be taken into account?
I would say we passed the tipping point quite some time ago, where they were seen as a cheap salve for numerous problems, rather than actually tackling the growth in reasons for people needing them. “My life is getting me down Doctor”/“Here, take some of these”.
> Think I am going to pay you in my house when you pay me money for said house? Ha! By this law, I can simply give you your money back.

No. That would be a violation of your sales agreement. That is a contract to transfer ownership of a property.

Likewise after six months on a waiting list a surgeon cannot then say to their patient "Haha! No actually here's a cash payment instead. It's cash and you are obligated to accept according to Swiss law!". There would be legal consequences. It's not a contract to exchange a monetary value. It's a contractual obligation to provide a service and it is regulated.
You get an AI to write your new features (free). And your developers can fix the bugs and change the UI.
i use an orange pi 5+ as a read replica for all of my home logs, open telemetry, system metrics (gathered via snmp), and environmental data.

i have it configured at 16gb of ram, a 2tb nvme, connected to my network at 1gbit, and to my nas to run iscsi at 2.5gbit.

it is a very nice little system, and has been rock steady running ubuntu 22.04. i plan on making it my primary database server, but that's a later project.

it's been in service for 8 months now, and has been quite impressive. highly recommended for those into small compute home databases.
Sounds risky if you're taking pictures of stuff the government doesn't want you to.
Tool improvements only apply a constant factor to the effectiveness of learning. Creating a generative model applies an unbounded factor to the effectiveness of learning because, as I said, the only limit is how much computing resources are available to humanity. If a single person was able to copy themselves at practically no cost and the copy retained all the knowledge of the original then the two situations would be equivalent, but that's impossible. Having n people with the same skill multiplies the cost of learning by n. Having n instances of an AI with the same skill multiplies the cost of learning by 1.
Delivery firm chatbot disabled after swearing at customers
The perils of "just plugging in" ChatGPT to your chat API without properly knowing what you're doing...
> Even when this fix is passed, it will be voted for unanimously by Democrats and only a small fraction of Republicans will vote for it.

Like the unanimous democrat vote to repeal the SALT limits that overwhelming impacts people in California and NY?
Not sure how dangerous it has to get. Just having some basic motors that counteract the force you exert with a fast response time probably couldn’t do much damage. An intelligent system to also check that you maintain your balance (or only doing this seated) probably takes away a bunch of risk.
>When a talented person tries to ban the tools that make an average person able to do the same stuff the talented person can do, this is intentionally disabling people to preserve a class privilege.

And now we're back to denigrating merit again. No denominator. No distinction. Everybody gets the same gold star.
I wish my country was so good that this is what counts as major corruption..
For another anecdote, someone I know teaching private with 0 years experience in the Bay Area / Silicon Valley makes $80k.
Potentially, but I don't think in practice, because most image generation is not trying to be photorealistic. Most models are trying to stylize their outputs, either by default (e.g. a Miyazaki-anime-like model), or in response to the prompt.

Using AI image generation for misinformation is by far the vast minority of its use.

And if the output is stylized, it's going to be much more obvious if it has come from an AI model, because a human is going to have a much harder time reproducing a specific ML model's style on-demand (e.g. if their art teacher asks them to sketch a face in the same style, to prove their homework wasn't faked).
I’d just like restaurants, cafes, etc to have an easier time operating here in the states. There is so much overhead to just serve people food, the most foundational service to offer a person. Do I have specific examples? No, but industry friends, anecdotal stories, etc…
Music Journalism Can't Afford a Hollowed Out Pitchfork
Two issues with that:

I) There will be a "danger window" where the fact that audio-visual evidence is meaningless has not yet fully registered with too many people.

II) It's perfectly possible that audio-visual lies are just inherently more convincing to the human psyche than written or spoken lies. We know instinctively that we can not trust what others say blindly, but we do instinctively trust our own eyes and ears. Note the etymology there: Blind trust is trust without seeing. When you see you don't need trust anymore.
Hi, author here. I tested with what I have, and with what I currently use to work and test with that is in the general price/performance range. If that isn't obvious, then I have to apologize and make an explicit note of that.

My u59 ships with SATA SSDs, as it happens.

I do have an Intel i7 13th Gen with PCIe 4.0 NVMes (and several modern Macs), but that would be so far off base (and so expensive) that it isn't even comparable. The i7-6700 is much closer in "value", if you will.

However, you are mis-reading the way the OnnxStream test works. It is still CPU-bound for the most part.
Further, R&D is at best a bet, as any of us who has ran a technology business well know. It’s not at all clear one will be able to take the research to market and monetize the R&D investment. Doing that is called founding a successful company.
This keeps popping up, but a sufficiently large neural network can approximate any continuous function. They can't approximate any discontinuous function. So, there is no absolute certainty that they must be able to approximate human cognition, since there is no reason to believe cognition is continuous.

Also, there is no proof and no reason to believe that any current architecture and, more importantly, that the currently known training algorithms can achieve anything close to cognition. After all, animals and humans seem to learn much much much faster (much smaller training sets) than any algorithm we have so far.
What does it mean that next to nobody is saying this?
Are the ones who know, voting with their feet? And where is that?
> And yet, some people don't even want their artwork studied in schools.

You can either make it for yourself and keep it for yourself or you can put it out into the world for all to see, criticize, study, imitate, and admire.
> I know Amazon monitors Hacker News PR closely, since they took down those ChatGPT generated listings within minutes of us posting them here.

Like other engineers at Big Tech, Amazon Engineers also read HN and the post in question happened to be on the HN front page around the lunch break of a work day, IIRC.

It’s easy to imagine one or more Amazon engineers internally pinging the team responsible for Amazon listings hence the appearance that Amazon was able to take down/hide those ChatGPT generated listings in less than an hour of it landing here.
At the same time, you would think by now there would be better planning - preserving useful farming soil for farming. But yeah, the difference is too high for most places to bother. In any country I know of.

It's fair also that some farming activity is not very compatible with high human density nearby, such as spraying and dust. So it's hard to intersperse high rises with production farmland.
See also DEC’s All-In-1. These combined apps were for a while a pleasure to use.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALL-IN-1
For any headline that ends in a question mark the answer is always “no”.

I’m not Japanese, and don’t claim to be an expert, but from the outside Japan’s problem seems to be a deeply engrained and very strange gender dynamic. There appears to be no expectation of care and affection in marriage. No sense of two complete people embarking on a journey together. Japanese men seem weirdly incapable of connecting with women. Japanese women seem weirdly alienated and starved for affection. (Just look at the prevalence of host and hostess bars).

Western men in Japan report women flocking to them in part because Japanese women don’t get much at all from Japanese men.
I don’t think an app is going to dent the surface of this weird quandary.
What might make a difference? Train regular men in the tactics of host bars. “Listen, make her feel welcome, show affection, make her feel that you see and appreciate her, because that makes her feel good” sort of regular shit western people do when courting. And of course the same training could apply on the female side.
Well, when a rather dumb software like JIRA can control a million highly skilled IT workers I don't think human-level AI is near or far will make much of difference to majority of world population.
When You Capitalize Each Word of a Title it is Very Hard to Read
Front loading taxes on a new business makes little sense no matter the industry. Long term view is that more taxes are generated from a surviving, healthy business.
Flutter on the web is absurd: At least when I last checked, it's been rendering UI widgets into an HTML canvas by default, using its own low-level drawing library.

That sounds about as good of an idea as the old Java desktop GUI framework that used to (poorly) imitate native UI elements of Windows and macOS: Everything always looked three major versions behind and felt extremely janky.
I wonder, has the author ever worked on a commercial software project?
No I don’t think so, the implication was that you were comparing them and saying it was overblown. These Teslas are having issues at single digit/zero degree Fahrenheit so your anecdotal rebuttal isn’t useful.
I'm not an accountant but I did take a basic course.

I don't have a dog in this fight either. Does "maintenance" on an amortized asset have to be amortized as well? Don't know.
I wasn't asking you to, just pointing out the impact :)
> Video is also different from a photo

Third-person with a selfie stick from behind is the ultimate solution for all our memorial needs. Though that doesn't capture our facial reactions. Need two cameras. At least. :)
That is how consent works.
Artists pay those people and make their jobs needed. Same as the person above claiming Duchamp didn't negotiate with the ceramics makers - yes, they absolutely did and do pay their suppliers. Artists aren't smash and grabbing their local Blick.

AI pays no artist.
Toward an open-source 3D-printable laboratory
Many of your objections are addressed in the stackexchange post:

1. "You often deal with functions that are dependent on multiple variables. Do I want to differentiate wrt. time or position?" -- the proposed solution is to put a subscript under the function name, to clarify whether you're differentiating wrt time, position, etc

2. "How can you distinguish between f(x) and f(t) which are very different functions?" -- the answer claims (and I agree) that using f(x) and f(t) to represent different functions is bad notation. If x and t are variables, surely f(some_variable) == f(other_variable). If x and t are specified values, then f(value1) may not equal f(value2), but f still _really really_ looks like the same function, just evaluated at different points. Better is to use different function names, like 'f' and 'g'.

3. "what if the variables depend on each other? You need a notation that distinguishes between treating "x" as a variable, and "x" as something that is dependent on some other variable" -- there is a proposed way to represent composition of functions. I don't want to dive into latex editing on hn, but you can see it in the post

4. "The nice thing about Leibnitz calculus [1] is that you can do things like reduce fractions with dx'es, you can flip things around and calculate dx/df, the chain rule is not a rule that you have to memorize but just an obvious expansion etc., and it mostly just works" -- it does indeed work sometimes, but this is not rigorous. When it works, it does so because you're using it in a domain where it just happens to work. "Cancelling" dx's is not reliable, and will sometimes lead to error. I'll admit I find the chain rule mnemonic convenient though
However, it's unclear what plays the role of mass in this analogy.
The artifacts are a non-issue. It's intended images with nightshade are intended to be silently scrapped and avoid human filtering.
orange pi's are officially available on amazon or aliexpress. they do not have their own online shop: https://www.amazon.com/stores/OrangepiCreateNewFuture/page/F...

unfortunately, there are too many sellers selling them on aliexpress for me to find their store there, so you will have to wait until they recover from the hug. prices are the same on each, though if you are purchasing from the united states.

(edited for clarity)
For a classic example of this, our justice system tends to—in general—treat witness testimony as highly reliable. After all, the person was there. They saw it with their own eyes.

Of course we all know rationally that witness testimony is generally terrible. And yet we don’t actually seem to care about that when push comes to shove.
This works better in person, but - It's People! As in, potential is worthless, and no achievement that has happened in all of human history happened except by the hands of people.

Also, he's not loud, but he gets amplified because he's an award winning scientist and researcher who's dedicated his life to a field that recently became very relevant and popular, is a recognized "godfather of AI/DL", and is a VP of one of the largest companies in the world doing AI. I'd say it's okay not to wait until he's dead to talk about him.
> “Here we typically expect that the combined dataset will have the same number of rows as our original left side dataset.”

For left join this isn’t entirely true. If there are more matching cases on the right joined table then you’ll get additional rows for each match. That is unless you take steps to ensure only at most one row is matched per row on the left (eg using something like DISTINCT ON in Postgres)