skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google keeps coming up with new ways to statistically infer training set data from models. So it's not entirely lossless. At the very least, models that have been trained on a particular work are unusually good at compressing[0] those works, relative to other valid text.

In terms of fair use, one of the larger factors is the 'market substitution' factor, which basically means "does this use compete with otherwise licensed uses that people would ordinarily pay for?" AI absolutely does compete with human artists for the same market. In fact, it's winning handily[1], because you don't have to pay human artists. AI art models absolutely shouldn't be trained on anything with copyright on it.

The other factors don't fare much better. Nature of the original work will differ based on the plaintiff, but the purpose and character of the AI's use of that work is very much commercial. And the amount and substantiality of the use is complete and total. I don't see AI being fair use - at least, not in every one of the many, many training lawsuits currently ongoing against OpenAI and Stability.

[0] Starting with any body of text, an LLM, and an empty context window, compute the next-token probabilities and take the highest one. If it matches the source text, output a 1 bit. If it doesn't, output 0 followed by the ID of the correct next token. Add the correct token to the context window and repeat until the text has been fully compressed. This produces a list of perplexities (wrong words) for the given text which can be used to guide the LLM to output the original work.

[1] Hey, remember when both WotC (biggest art commissioner on the planet) and Wacom (hardware vendor that sells art tools and payment terminals[2]) both got caught using AI art after making very loud and public pledges to not do that? They both wound up buying stock photography on marketplaces that are absolutely flooded with AI trash.

[2] All the credit card readers in Japan are built by Wacom, which is really funny as an artist
I'd recommend moving to development that interfaces with ML instead of moving to being an ML practitioner. You have much faster feedback cycles, your work is predictable (engineering, not science), and you don't feel the pressure of never reading enough papers.

To do that you only need to understand the fundamentals of tensors, some basic knowledge on what the big no-nos are within ML development so you can course correct your peers if they break them, and either focus on the operations side of things or deployment. In both cases, having a knack for optimizing bottlenecks will be very helpful since they will be present during both training and inference.
They may not provide direct R&D details but they will provide direct information about offers price, negotiation status etc. This is part of the Snowden leaks that people seems to have completely forgotten.

https://wikileaks.org/nsa-france/spyorder/#spyorder2
Or maybe people just agree with this politics. Clearly, you and your source of information don't.
My comment was in response to the need to squeeze out every last bit of performance you possibly can. You're talking about ignoring performance altogether which is not what I'm talking about.
The market can, of course, stay irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

Arguably, this looks a bit like a bigger version of the dot-com bubble (bigger only makes sense; tech is just a much larger part of the economy now) though not, perhaps, like just before it burst; we’re not seeing the truly silly multiples just yet, mostly.
Is there any chance that there were bigger news but something went horribly wrong and the CEO tried to save face last minute?
This was not a move out of a playbook. It's an incredibly thought out decision that comes from incrementally trying new things, seeing if they work, and constantly adjusting and making decisions that keep PlanetScale running.

At the end of the day, it's not cheap (and certainly not free) to maintain databases and infrastructure, especially with the additional features PlanetScale has.
I blogged my adventure of implementing cosine from scratch and how others have done it:

https://austinhenley.com/blog/cosine.html
Arabic software pioneer Mohammed Al-Sharekh dies
> it's been in many, many wars or performing larger military maneuvers for the past 70+ years.

Heh, which of these was Grenada ?

Cynical take: Probably a military maneuver. When the world is quiet, the USA has to pick a fight somewhere to run a shakedown of its newest toys.
The vast majority also doesn't do POSIX stuff, rather Objective-C and Swift framework calls.

The UNIX compatibility on NeXTSTEP, and follow up culture on OS X, was that BSD layer was to bring UNIX stuff into the system and get those DoD contracts, not much so for the software born on the platform.

Even NeXTSTEP drivers were Objective-C.
It's actually worse than described. One of the details of this never really made it into the lawsuit, but in my computer support business I encountered customers who were victims of this scam at the time.

They didn't just upload gay porn in torrents, they intentionally infected those downloads with ransomware that would hold your whole computer hostage with legal threats demanding that you call the lawfirm and pay anywhere between $150,000 and $400,000. With the threatened alternative of releasing your name in public.

I personally witnessed this about three times. They were absolute bastards.
Dynamic Printf Debugging with GDB
Lets be real... Chat GPT 4 has been out for an entire year now. Even Sora has been in their pipeline as well, it's now a year later that competitors are catching up or slightly surpassing them. But OpenAI has access to huge cash reserves, and an unmatched compute cluster with Microsoft servers.

Sooner or later they're gonna release their mind-blowing next release, and we will be back to square one.
You are uploading 5 billion examples of <something>. You cannot filter it manually, of course, because there are five billion of it. Given that it is the year 2024, how hard is it to be positive that a well-resourced team at Stanford in 2029 will not have better methods of identifying and filtering your data, or a better reference dataset to filter it against, than you do presently?

It is a pretty hard problem.
The Apple Wiki
Opinion devoid of evidence.
What I like to do, when not under time pressure, is to read such a book cover-to-cover, as a first pass. I get an idea which parts will be difficult for me, and which are probably not.

In this stage, I don't sweat the parts I don't get, I just note for later, that, if these turn out to be important, will require some care, patience and time. I also build some sort of "map" in my mind about the elements that exist, to get an overview.

After doing so, I feel a lot more confident to tackle the topic of the book "properly", doing exercises, etc.
I mean, you could argue that the angst around job disruption is mostly due to the generative AI people being better at marketing; generally, it appears most intense amongst people who don’t actually know all that much about generative AI.
The 80bit float? Not as far as I'm aware. However, it's fairly trivial to represent a 127bit float with 2 64bit floats. And with the nature of AVX/SSE, you don't really take much of a performance hit for doing that as you are often operating on both parts of the double with the same instruction.
This is 4 years old. Why the top of HN now?
Filtering full-color images down to a halftone suitable for book publishing is a mature technology, setting up an ImageMagick pipeline to do so would not be among the hard parts of preparing a book like this. Picking the right still frame out of gifs and video is a bit trickier, but not by much.
https://www.semianalysis.com/

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For more understanding of this difference in Russian mindset, see this thread from Kamil Galeev, a Russian independent researcher: https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1761855753290191129
And now US LNG exports to Germany are booming: ~30x (!!!) from 2022 to 2023 [1].

Seems like there wasn't a better other option anyway, was there?

Before invading Ukraine, Putin was arguably banking on the fact that he had Europe on his hands, not only for economic activity, but for survival during winter. He clearly didn't expect the way Europe responded.

Maybe the invasion wouldn't have happened in the first place if Europe would have already demonstrated strength and energy independence in the first place?

[1] https://www.eia.gov/dnav/ng/NG_MOVE_POE2_DCU_NUS-NGM_A.htm
More on Handwriting and Cursive
Not sure if signal should interopt with data mining software. Keep that stuff isolated
Second this book recommendation. He is a very engaging author (and his music is amazing too).
There's money to be had. I mean, all in all the F-35 has come to what, something like a trillion dollars ? That'd be $1,000,000,000,000.
Are there any simple text editors or wysiwyg that have local LLMs and can tidy up and auto-suggest whole paras of slick verbage as you type?
The counterparties on related legal action are sufficiently litigious that it is probably smarter to DM the magnet link.
I've done this for two decades now with mythtv. The fact that you don't even know that this has existed for so long suggests it will never be mainstream.
Before NYC Snow Day Debacle, IBM Had Warned of Tech Limitations
Idk why this gets downvoted.

LSD is not controllable.
If you're in a bad mood or don't feel well, it can lead to a very bad trip.

Just don't do it.
I haven't cut my hair in 13 years. It's an act of defiance
In 1951, when Turkey joined NATO, the country was not actually all that dictator-like.
I think many AI safety advocates, me included, would readily take these odds.

We just think it currently looks more the other way around.
It also works great with almost but not-quite HiDPI screens such as commonly available and cheap 4K 27" monitors. You can scale them at 150% and with ClearType it looks as good as super expensive 6K Mac screen.

In fact since cleartype effectively triples resolution I guess you get quality of 12K display?
I’ve actually bought a recording of these talks something like 20 years ago. It was either on DVD or maybe even VHS.
The US population doesn't need to be convinced. Only the stakeholders of the MIC need convincing that their NW will go up.
The hashtags and the question asked in the Pew poll are also meaningfully different. Thinking that Hamas bears a lot of responsibility for the current conflict but still not approving of Israel's response is not an uncommon view.
They achieved the dominant position thanks for their work. They maintained it by buying DoubleClick.
There is a "Removed watched videos" option in the three-dot-menu for the playlist itself on desktop at least. I have to do this every so often, and this is a very welcome feature as I used to do it as you describe.
>Why is it terrifying? Because it's "artificial"?

Nope, that's not the issue, and I'll happily take every vaccine going or even a plastic artificial heart if needs be.

It's terrifying because it doesn't break down. The calcium at least is more understandable.
The problem with that stance is that it really is "until we succeed", which might never come.

So that's why it is similarly exclusionary: I think we should try, but also look to see if we can learn more to maybe rule it out altogether.
It's been a great many years since I've touched this stuff but two rules of thumb probably haven't changed in the meantime:

1. in general, algorithms tend to slow down on small problems in exchange for the asymptotic speedup -- so you probably don't want to use this algorithm for anything that fits in memory (or perhaps the solar system)

2. in specific, asymptotically fast matrix multiplication tend to be numerically unstable. So you probably don't want to use this algorithm unless you're working with infinite precision.
Isn't Kurdistan still currently the largest stateless state (so to speak) ?
200 billion galaxies in the observable universe, 100 billion stars just in this galaxy, and this one star among those quadrillions being the only one with intelligent life - this by you is the simplest explanation?
Strange that adjusting taxes toward energy/resources and away from labor hasn't happened naturally given that labor can vote.
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IANAL but Competitive Intel around pricing and SKUs isn't IP except in certain cases.

If they were, just about every single private sector company globally would be guilty of IP infringement, let alone Public-Private Partnerships like the ones I mentioned.
> I’d rather a language is designed to accommodate the human mind

Agreed, but is FP that?

When I write instructions to someone who does not know how to do something (like for my young kid or an aging parent on using some tech they're no familiar with) it will be strictly procedural. Step 1 do this, then step 2 do that, etc.
We just updated our RSS feed to only show the most recent 50 blogs so that it fits within the W3C validator size limits. The feed of all blogs is still available at https://www.dolthub.com/blog/rss-all.xml
You have to start somewhere. If the US wants to get the supply chain back (which it foolishly gave away for a short term boost in corporate profits) it's gonna have to do what the economies that took the supply chain away did and start making public investments in it.
Those citizens can apply for this program too.
Looks like google won't: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.google.co...
> Ex. When links.com?token=<secret> is visited, that link will be transmitted and potentially saved (search parameters included) by intermediaries like Cloud Flare.

Note: When over HTTPS, the parameter string (and path) is encrypted so the intermediaries in question need to be able to decrypt your traffic to read that secret.

Everything else is right. Just wanted to provide some nuance.
It uses multiplication by powers of two, which is a floating-point bit shift.
Interviews are inherently subjective and for _some_ people it is easy to slide through. But how easy is it to slide through those other "gates". Gates that have developed, and have been tested, over long periods of time, longer than the idea of "tech dev / coding jobs" has even existed. The question to ask IMHO is what role does the "free money printer" play in whether someone calls themselves "successful". Is borrowing money "success". It is success in borrowing money.

No doubt, software developers without degrees have been very successful in borrowing money. And burning through it.
Israel gave civilians weeks to leave areas of fighting and warns them ahead of time before attacking. This is not ethnic cleansing no matter how many times you repeat the phrase.

Presence of civilians does not render an area illegal to attack. Using civilian cover to initiate attacks is a war crime, not wearing uniforms is also a war crime - both things Hamas does. Using civilian buildings for military purposes makes attacking those areas legal and within the rules of war. You don't get to change the definition of words or invent laws of war when convenient to attack Israel.
So, _London_ is further north than anywhere in the contiguous United States. But obviously much warmer than a lot of it, particularly in winter (London rarely gets far below 0 Celsius). Latitude very much isn’t everything.
I've always wondered what is the reality of passage of Russian nuke subs thru the Skagerrak.

Tidal flows. Hull detection. Passage protocols.
> It's not unusual for authors to express a desire for their unpublished works to be destroyed. Kafka wanted all his unpublished works to be destroyed - consider these are most of his known works now, we're quite lucky his executor, Max Brod, defied his wishes.

Are we lucky, or was Kafka unlucky?

I find the lack of respect about authors' wishes very shocking.
“Security by obscurity” means using custom, unvetted cryptographic algorithms that you believe others won’t be able to attack because they’re custom (and therefore obscure). Having a key you are supposed to keep hidden isn’t security by obscurity.
The Zeigarnik Effect (2013)
I can see both sides. I did actually correspond with people using written letters up until maybe 2004 or so, and in many of those cases, especially old girlfriends and letters from my little sisters when I first went to college, reading them years later was intensely nostalgic.

On the other hand, when I left the Army I moved into a much smaller place, put most of my stuff in storage, then three years later figured anything I hadn't touched or used for three years was something I didn't actually need, and let the facility have all of it. That seems to have included both all those old letters and all of my old photographs. I can't say I actually miss those things. People in here are saying they don't want to forget the past but the reality of forgetting is you don't know you forgot it so it has no perceivable effect once it happens.

To be honest, I'm nostalgic enough as is and don't think I need even more things to hold onto. I already don't watch new television or listen to new music. I'm mentally stuck in 1999 and not sure that's healthy.
Insightful – commenting to keep a reference as I spent the last four years engineering around this very aspect.

I'm trying to wrap my head around the difference between execution models. On one hand we have real-time node systems like Unreal Blueprint, Modo or DaVinci Resolve, which depend heavily on state nodes, i.e. nodes whose sole purpose is to hold and serve information (a mesh, a transformation, an RGB matrix). These nodes act as complementary inputs to nodes in the main execution flow.

On the other hand we have Node Red and the likes, whose nodes rely on a single input. At first glance this approch might make sense from a UX perspective – simply connect your components and deploy. However with time I've come to see this as a major limitation to the extent that you're often better off writing code. After building a number of flows you start to notice certain patterns... Since nodes are uncapable of fetching data from other nodes ("state nodes" above), it's up to you as a developer to serve the node with the exact data structure it needs. The GUI gives you no hint as to the structure itself, so you're left reading the node's documentation: {payload, action, topic, subject} – different for every node.

At the core, this approach is the FBP version of polish notation in the sense that you first have to fetch all the operands before sending them to the operation. So what you're left with is a flow where every core node is surrounded by data shuffling nodes: "put this into 'action', put that into 'body', take 'payload' and store it away because the next node will overwrite it". As an effect of this "serial execution model", flows often stretch wide from the left to the right where two thirds of nodes are pure data transformations.

Somewhere around here the USP of FBP gets literally lost in the flow – the USP being to offload working memory. During building/debugging/revisiting flows, I often know right away what piece is broken. Nevertheless I spend a lot of time double-clicking on function, change, and switch nodes just to find that piece of code. The irony of it all is that I wanted to use FBP to _visualise_ logic. Instead the same paradigm hides it away.

So what you've accomplished is transforming code that goes from up to down into boxes that go left to right.

The thinking behind it all is that Node Red shouldn't make assumptions about the incoming data, however someone has to make those assumptions, and that someone is you, the developer.

It would be trivial to create a node that takes an arbitrary input (a sample message), analyses the message structure and exposes the appropriate output pins, however as long as Node Red persists with single input ports and the "message-based execution" it entails, it will take tolls on working memory and lag behind the Unreal model which I too consider state of the art.
> Musk has also stated that "Starlink satellites will not close the link in Russia." However, the concerns raised by Rankin and Garcia are about whether Russia used the broadband service in Ukraine.

Can SpaceX even tell whether it's Russians or Ukrainians using its devices in conflict zones around the front? If so, I'm not sure I see how.

Also, this could be a very effective psyop to get Starlink shut down around hot spots at the front.
Android's security was way worse for years. How long did they even take before having granular permissions or a Privacy Report, if they do now at all?
Ix: Autonomous GPT-4 agent platform
EU sees 'troubling surge' in sexually transmitted diseases
Then I'll give you another one: ProRes RAW. Just the same as Braw, but even worse documentation.
The article says "Misconfigured scanners". Many, many enterprise communication tools have such a scanner, and if your IT team is using the free plan of whatever url scan tool they signed up for, it's a good bet that these links may end up being public.
Virgil's Aeneid is the most famous example that I know...

"According to tradition, Virgil traveled to Greece around 19 BC to revise the Aeneid. After meeting Augustus in Athens and deciding to return home, Virgil caught a fever while visiting a town near Megara. Virgil crossed to Italy by ship, weakened with disease, and died in Brundisium harbour on 21 September 19 BC, leaving a wish that the manuscript of the Aeneid was to be burned. Augustus ordered Virgil's literary executors, Lucius Varius Rufus and Plotius Tucca, to disregard that wish, instead ordering the Aeneid to be published with as few editorial changes as possible. As a result, the existing text of the Aeneid may contain faults which Virgil was planning to correct before publication. However, the only obvious imperfections are a few lines of verse that are metrically unfinished (i.e., not a complete line of dactylic hexameter). Other alleged "imperfections" are subject to scholarly debate."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeneid#Virgil's_death,_and_edi...
> shady Russian businessmen kept buying properties that made no financial sense, but were located close to critical infrastructure or military locations.

AFAICT this topic has been mostly avoided by the Finnish media. I guess everyone just kinda trusts that the government is on top of the situation.
Yeah it was already the way of doing GUIs in 16 bit days.
The cross-over can be around 500 (https://doi.org/10.1109/SC.2016.58) for 2-level Strassen. It's not used by regular BLAS because it is less numerically stable (a concern that becomes more severe for the fancier fast MM algorithms). Whether or not the matrix can be compressed (as sparse, fast transforms, or data-sparse such as the various hierarchical low-rank representations) is more a statement about the problem domain, though it's true a sizable portion of applications that produce large matrices are producing matrices that are amenable to data-sparse representations.
imagine what tidal locking might do to the subterranean layers of a planet, compared to Earth's isotropic rotisserie
These are not authentication mechanisms, they are error detection mechanisms. This article (and these error checking algorithms) predate the time in which anyone could just throw data at a centralized API to see if you can get a 404 or 401 in response. A lot of the systems that used these numbers in the 20th century were offline and/or slow to process. e.g. the Luhn algorithm which credit cards use was invented in 1954.

Also EANs/ISBNs don't have other authentication factors available. You don't want a mis-scan for product A to accidentally charge a customer for product B. You want to detect the mistake.