skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TBF they did a "decent" job filtering, Zhao has youtube videos with 100,000s of views where she labels Xinjiang "genocide", Kuang graduated from Georgetown School of Foreign Policy, aka her credentials make her potential US propaganda mouthpiece. If local committee eventually got involved in censorship, they would have removed those two from nomination list. PRC nationalist (which I imagine have high overlap with scifi) love trolling PRC diasphora, especially female (especially reporters/media), who carries water for US narratives. These two are basically PRC version of sad/rabid puppies, I feel like they would have been made ineligbile at some point in the filtering process. There was no way anyone involved who did basic due diligence would have allowed either on the slate.
The model they use (BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5) produces embeddings 384 wide, at float32 that equals 1536 bytes each. The size of all the vectors for 100 items is 153kb. Calculating the dot product of that against a query will be under measured in nano seconds, even with a naive implementation.
This guys lost me when equating 7 trillion dollars as unsafe.
Kant's Schema
I live in one of the cities mentioned, and we were among the very first in our state to make zoning changes. It's certainly not a bad thing, but it has done very little to alleviate housing issues. I am monitoring about ten or so housing related bills working through our legislature at the moment, and while they might make improvements, most of them feel like the sponsors are just trying to do something without actually understanding the causes of the housing "crisis." There are also a lot of potential tax increases without a clear picture of how the money will be spent related to housing, which feels disingenuous.

I'm getting tired of politicians using the phrase "affordable housing." Look, if they want government to build and manage housing, just say so and stop being euphemistic. It still won't solve the problem for all segments of housing.

Too often I see well-intentioned governments, specifically legislatures, unwilling to do the politically hard things. We do need to build more, but that will require softening to regulation - which is something my state seems unwilling to do. We're also willing to look at one of the main problems: people simply don't make enough money to afford the houses we have. It's relatively easy to say "let's go build more houses" but much harder to say "let's figure out why not enough people are making a living wage."
a couple of cycles? q=2 isn't much of a resonance
I completely understand your point, but what you're missing is that your fundamental premise is wrong. Your premise, as stated, is you want to continue to exercise control over your work after your work has been consumed by another. Now you kind of want to weasel around and make a claim like it's about protecting of your IP as if it's a piracy problem. That was not your original claim. I don't think the current copyright laws are just or beneficial but piracy isn't any part of what I advocated.

You're the one who has actively avoided addressing my core issue that has been clear from the beginning. Why do you believe that you can exercise orwellian thought control over the consumers of your content? Because your original premise is saying how do I prevent my content from being used by my consumers in a way that I don't agree with. Unless you would like to redefine your original premise. Because as stated that's what I will disagree with and there is no compromise or middle ground in this point. You do not get to dictate the thoughts of others as a content creator. The fact that you state that you're losing sleep over this is quite serious. I don't say this lightly you might need to seek help for this thought process about an obsessive need to control. You say you don't want an echo chamber but you stamp your feet and plug your ears to everything that I've said.
Kill MRR
Season 2 already started (episode 3 aired this week). I'm with you, though, thinking it's getting stretched out.
It is different because this way all possible results and failures are known as type information. How to handle erroneous state is the responsibility of the result consumer, given the availability of rich API to unwrap, bind or transform error variants.
> Sounds like they were scared into actually overdoing the censorship.

They were scared into doing the censorship. Saying they overdid the censorship implies there is an acceptable level of censorship that they could have done.

And why does anyone have to have a plan for rectifying China's authoritarianism? It's up to China to do that. In the meantime, we can incentivize China by refusing to whitewash their behavior with prestigioius cultural awards. You don't get to have cultural prestige while you destroy culture with authoritarianism.
"Just prior to welding the plutonium surfaces are cleaned in the inert atmosphere of the welding box to remove oxide and foreign material. If the oxide film is light, it can be removed by wire brushing. If this is not satisfactory, sanding or an abrasive wheel can be used."

In case you are wondering what you'd do with tools, consumables, entire workspaces and ductwork contaminated by that kind of dust, well, these folks buried it in a trench on a mesa overlooking the Rio Grande [1]. The dump is large enough to contain the Empire State Building and, by one account, whole machines like forklifts were just pushed right in [2]. No "highly esteemed deed" was commemorated there, indeed.

1: https://n3b-la.com/area-g-tru/

2: Los Alamos, Hidden Colony, Secret Truths by Chuck Montaño (2015)
> Is there another reason for this design?

Ah, but if Sony uses the disc drive to install the game then they might have to pay royalties to whichever soul-sucking, rent-seeking company owns the rights to the blu-ray format, whoever they are.
The title is very irritating considering this is about a T-Shirt.
Article itself is a pure puff piece
I don’t most consider these things anymore. How many signed up for copilot without a second thought?
> use Word as a remote spellchecker over COM

That's not how COM works. You can load Word's spellchecker into your process.

Windows added a spellchecking API in Windows 8. I've not dug into the API in detail, but don't see any indication that spellchecker providers run in a separate process (you can probably build one that works that way, but it's not intrinsic to the provider model).
Nginx-file-browser: a simple file browser for Nginx autoindex module
I can't see the article on a quick scroll of the wordpress and I'm not sure where the LessWrong posts go. I really doubt it's AI. He just writes like that.
And by anyone who buys a “supporting membership”. Which also gives you the rights to vote on the Hugos in the year your membership is for.

If you have a pile of money and the desire to do so it is thus trivial to fix the Hugos for any given year and put a future worldcon anywhere you want.
Maybe you are right, but these changes represent the cutting edge if you will on what's happening in urban planning and improved access to housing. In that regard, while it represents a small number of cities, it's also the trend and thus news / discussion worthy.
Having played palworld, it’s just too different from Pokemon. I feel like Nintendo would have a really hard time going after them for anything other than ‘this looks to much like pokemon in general’. And most people would respond to that with “sucks to be you”.
There was an uptick in this behavior during covid in American restaurants, but everyone I know expressed dislike for it. I agree it's more practical, but I thought my suggestion was a nice way to hedge engrained customer expectations against a desire for digital advancements.
This question of who gets to see your company data is I think a lot more thorny these days than ever before.

You're joking about email, but that's of course the reason why companies will pay a lot to host email on premise instead of relying on cheaper offsite solutions. I think Exchange Server is Microsoft's biggest foot in the door to access conpanies tbat otherwise wouldn't care much about the other Microsoft services.

Having a third party look at every email you're sending around is just a non starter for many businesses.

Getting the same setting in an editor where your code is shared with the editor company everytime you want to show it to a colleague is not trivial at all.
Context from Charlie Stross: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2024/01/worldcon...

> SF fandom is a growing community thing in China. And even a small regional SF convention in China is quite gigantic by most western (trivially, US/UK) standards.

> My understanding is that a bunch of Chinese fans who ran a successful regional convention in Chengdu (population 21 million; slightly more than the New York metropolitan area, about 30% more than London and suburbs) heard about the worldcon and thought "wouldn't it be great if we could call ourselves the world science fiction convention?"

> They put together a bid, then got a bunch of their regulars to cough up $50 each to buy a supporting membership in the 2021 worldcon and vote in site selection. It doesn't take that many people to "buy" a worldcon—I seem to recall it's on the order of 500-700 votes—so they bought themselves the right to run the worldcon in 2023. And that's when the fun and games started.

...

> It needs a WSFS constitutional amendment at least (so pay attention to the motions and voting in Glasgow, and then next year, in Seattle) just to stop it happening again. And nobody has ever tried to retroactively invalidate the Hugo awards. While there's a mechanism for running Hugo voting and handing out awards for a year in which there was no worldcon (the Retrospective Hugo awards—for example, the 1945 Hugo Awards were voted on in 2020—nobody considered the need to re-run the Hugos for a year in which the vote was rigged. So there's no mechanism.
To me this sounds just like human written code that mostly works but has a couple of issues. I don't see why we couldn't apply the same techniques to deal with it - unit testing, review, qa.
Most of these bizarre properties can be traced to the mixed valent character of plutonium - that is the electrons in the partially filled 5f shell of the plutonium atom hybridize in the solid phase with the valence electrons, and thus for some properties they are valence like and others they are core like. This is quite similar to some lanthanide (4f) elements like cerium, which also show strange variety of allotropes. The mixed valent character causes plutonium to have a variety of exotic physics effects, completely unrelated to it's most notorious use in nuclear weapons. Examples of these include heavy fermion metals, novel superconductivity, etc..
A surprisingly progressive proposal coming from Berkeley, but of course they are still playing games with parking minimums maximums, setback requirements, and income segregation. Seems like it would be a step forward at least.
Yeah they pass those cost saving right onto record corporate profits for the last 20 years...
Sam's supposed to be an AI doomer, only pressing ahead to take up "overhang" created by GPUs. That's clearly not what's going on if he wants to build custom hardware.
That's not currently possible because all of the best devices come out of the border between that part and the rest (Taiwan).

So we can't leave the devices. We need them.

I think this ties into the $7 trillion Altman quest a bit.

Maybe if you build enough reactors and chip fabs then the world becomes safer?
I don’t know enough about Japan’s legal system. Both companies are based there
This is way over complicated for querying a single menu. This article seems like a solution in search of a problem. You don't need a search engine when a menu is only going to have a handful of dishes.

Just use an picture of the menu as part of the prompt and you will make everyone's lives easier. I'm skeptical that asking questions about the menu has much real utility.
> why would i care to learn about the laws of some other dude's country

The website you're attempting to police other people's behavior on is hosted in the country you're complaining about. Lol.

Maybe there is a website local to your country where your ideas would be better received?
So, Sony.

People have already forgotten the Blu Ray vs HDDVD format roles huh...
Does anyone know where it stores GGUFs on macOS?
Which means most of these servers limit themselves to the capabilities exposed by the OpenAI API.
This I never understood. I have 3 different RPis running since they were available to buy. A 2, a 3 and a 4. All with the OS on microSD and no optimisation like writing log files to tmpfs or similar. It’s plain Ubuntu Server for ARM.

And in all these years, I had maybe one microSD going read-only on me. Cloned that to a fresh one, did an fsck and the Pi was up and running again. That’s it. No other issues despite various sudden power losses etc.

I don’t understand where these rumours about bad reliability of SD cards in Pis come from.
I mean GitHub in general has been pretty reliable minus the two outages they had last year and is usually pretty performant or I wouldn’t use their keyboard shortcuts.

There are some complaints here from a former dev about gitlab that might provide insight into its culture and lack of regard for performance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39303323

Ps: I do not use gitlab enough to notice performance issues but thought you might appreciate the article
Collisions with cyclists may be just as likely per mile, but they are far less deadly.
New study finds 'sweet spot' for length of yarn-shaped supercapacitors
I think it's worth remembering that all of these AI's work by having an unbelievably large number of weights. So many weights that it's all an uncontrollable black box. On the other hand, your work is all about having control, and I don't personally expect your work to lose value for this reason.

Another thing to think about is what the AI is designed to do. Without knowing the details, I would expect it to be trained to produce the 'most likely' output given the prompt. Consequently, I would think being inventive is against its design, and 'most likely' is effectively that same as 'average'.
Has this story even been vetted? Kind of looks like classic Reddit bs. Further, a _fan-made_ _shirt_ is the subject of the takedown? What?
the article talks about the pollution of “aerosolized” aluminum particles in the atmosphere, not about the kinetic hazard.
Wouldn’t the residents revolt as it could bring their house prices down
> In the 1970s, left-wing activists opposed the construction of dingbat apartments and allied with liberal homeowners to pass the Neighborhood Preservation Ordinance (NPO), which effectively finished off housing construction in the city

I am not surprised.
I know. That movie is kinda wholesome in comparison.
I thought the link was broken since he went on for pages and pages about random AI news
Houses have certainly gotten bigger since the heyday of the "American Dream," but I'm middle aged and even my (blue collar, working class) grandparents were able to afford more than 400sqft; my (also blue collar, working class) parents were able to afford a 2000sqft house in an inner-ring suburb. I'm all for putting an end to the era of massive suburban McMansions, but forcing tiny houses on everyone in the delusion that that's how previous generations lived is not the solution.
I honestly don’t understand how teams in large companies operate without pms. In the initial 5 man design phase sure skip them but when it need 10 groups to deliver some small change that they give zero fucks about the pm is there to keep everyone annoyed enough to do their job.
let not mention the general recommendation of nutritional organizations... basically you start having a health population and saves billions of USD on health services
two what? did you say Utes?
Russia's military technology playbook is to exaggerate and disinform claims about capabilities. I'm left wondering if this just DC Russophobia hype being parroted by mainstream media lacking credible intelligence that problematic military space weaponry will be deployed. Congrats CNN, you're doing the work of the Kremlin for them.
It looks to me like he neatly addressed all concerns that were brought up, even if one does not agree with the solutions he proposes. I don't see any lack of acknowledgment on OP's part.
It's mildly interesting to know the bot/low paid worker Nintendo uses to search for bootleg merch thinks the character was Pikachu, but I doubt this was a meaningful move.
This is not an LLM, so it doesn't make much sense to compare it with one. A more appropriate comparison would be something along the lines of GPT-4 OS-Copilot vs. GPT-4 CoT or vs. GPT-4 zero-shot.
I really don’t meant to be a hater, but when your blog post has a 26 item TOC, it might be time to take a brief break from typing to do some editing.

Substack really has pioneered the “write-only” blog format.
>>He wants to build new chip factories in the decidedly unsafe and unfriendly UAE.

Great. just what we need.

Another "tech genius" who is entirely forking clueless about geopolitics and the need to avoid helping authoritarians who are globally warring on democracy.

It's all ultimately about what helps them, today, nevermind anyone else or the future.

I'm using his product right now in the other window, and want it to get better, but this kind of inanity is discouraging.
If we've fixed the 24/7 'free' internet with zero latency issue, 24/7 electricity, and cheap mobile devices – in short, ZERO FRICTION – then this kind of tech could all work. Otherwise, we're just adding new problems instead of fixing them.
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My pleasure!
I have no idea of the efficacy of the tools, but hopefully they help. Unfortunately, I changed my name to EchoChamberMan after reading responses that make it rather clear many people are here to share their opinion, rather than engage in critical analysis, and filling gaps in knowledge. I also find people's name selection fascinating; Elmer Fud was a hunter who devoted his existence to (unsuccessfully) hunting a rabbit.

"Where there is an echo chamber (on HN), EchoChamberMan is there!" ;)

[Edit]
One can add an entry to one's robots.txt telling chatgpt not to scan your site, but it's up to them to respect it.
I have mixed feelings about it. While I'm not opposed to Nintendo a known ligation bully getting a bloody nose. I also think back and probably 95% of the game companies I liked have shut their doors except Nintendo. Seems like the games business is rather tough to stick it out long term. Not only are they still out their making their IP content but also keeping the quality up. Its a pretty rare thing and I don't think the world would be a better place if Nintendo went out of business. They are pretty much the only company making video game content that is accessible and enjoyable across all ages groups. Not only that but they are the only company I can think of (I'm sure there are a couple others) that has resisted the overall pressure to succumb to sex and violence content to make more money. (mostly)

I mean look at palworld its basically pokemon with violence.

No I don't count Disney as wholesome content creators.
I describe this idea of an executable feature spec in my roadmap blog post from earlier this year. I agree it’s a great way to think about it.

https://fireproof.storage/posts/roadmap-to-1.0/

We’d define 1.0 in exactly the way you describe, where we can add tests for 1.1 but not remove them without triggering 2.0
This is like Finlandization, but more farcical than tragic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finlandization#Censorship
You can't solve the world's problems at a sci-fi conference, but an easy first step is not to pre-emptively censor on behalf of anyone.
We take those $50bn aid packages requests, and invest it into a state side semiconductor supply chain instead and then we can ignore the idea of China invading China forever. Literally 180+ countries operating with that specific level of empathy right this moment, let’s meet parity with them.

Given the clamoring for semiconductors right now, a more expensive state side will sell like hotcakes.

I guarantee you this won’t be seen as controversial in the world that exists after we did that. We’re going to look back at this time and think “lol what”
Now I want to read the books that were excluded especially “Kuang’s ‘Babel’ — which won the 2023 British Book Award for Fiction”
I did tell you. Everything you said is fantasy.

The withdrawal is already complete. It went pretty well.
Looking for Defense Startup Insights, Communities, Funding, etc.
Hi all,

I’m currently working within the defense technology space focusing on SIGINT & RF Spectrum Management solutions, researching and gathering market intelligence.

I am wanting to focus on the defense startup community to better understand where they may be correlated market opportunities between my lab and new defense startups coming online.

My question is; are there defense startup community boards or listing sites that are accessible and specific to defense?

Apologies ahead of time if I’m not clear on this but this is the best community I’ve discovered and followed over the past year and I’d value any feedback or guidance to help with my research.

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There's only one way to know for sure.
Everything is easy, if you ignore or don't understand any of the nuance of it.
Netflix started posting DVDs to people in 1998, and apparently launched their Cinematch recommendation algorithm in 2000. So yeah, sounds plausible to me.
There was nothing tragic about Finlandization! Finland did a superb job navigating a tricky situation in the Cold War.
It's nice to keep it separated. Working vacations never really go that well.
> what's the point to change the platform

Money. From https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/i10p4m/surv..., Substack gave him a "very very generous offer in terms of how the monetization would work".
Weight loss is a thermodynamics problem. You eat less you lose weight,
Why would we assume network bandwidth is a fixed cost? Everyone pays for network transmissions.
Change the license?
I have a Dell Optiplex 7050 I'm using as a video streaming server and even that generation has hardware transcoding capabilities for all modern formats except AV1, and can do them fast enough for basic streaming too. Six 1080p simultaneous video streams from personal testing before any lag or stutter begins to creep in. And I know that the Intel integrated gpus of the generation after — so what would be in the 7060s I believe — got like a 4x boost in video transcoding performance as Intel kind of figured things out and optimized things, so yeah 7060 would probably be really good.