skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was referring to the comment that said it would take 2500 years to grow "that kind of forest".

What I am saying is that it is possible to grow "that kind of forest" if you have money in much shorter time. Tree farming is one way to make the whole thing profitable (and hence sustainable) but it can be designed to resemble a natural forest with sufficient biodiversity and so on.

For example we can take a deforested region in Haiti or India or Zimbabwe, grow tree farms on say 10K acres of land and reserve another 10K to grow a more traditional forest. We don't have to wait 2500 years to grow sufficiently large trees which can host wide variety of species of fauna. Even for smaller shrubs and such we can do enough research to grow them faster with help of better irrigantion, enriched soil etc.

One of the reason why this does not happen already is because we have reduced the entire topic to zero sum between normal people and tree people.

> sustainable housing must be walkable and integrated, not car-centric like American suburbia always is.

I am not sure why such statement should be made. Large homes with huge backyard offers great quality of life in ways the densely packed animal like city human farms can't.
https://github.com/infiniflow/ragflow/blob/main/rag/llm/chat...
Maps exist to define ownership. Everything else is tertiary to that. Lewis and Clarke weren't "blazing a trail" for the pioneers. They were measuring the land that the US government had just purchased.
By calling it a war you already took a side. Maybe you are just ignorant, but that's hardly a good excuse.
Agree.

As long as you apply the same standards to what seems to be everyones darling: Javascript.

Javascript has the same amount of footguns as PHP and Bash but has gotten away with it by being cute (and having a whole menagerie if support tools around it to make it possible for ordinary people to write workable code in it).

(Yes, I am qualified to rant about Javascript BTW. I wrote a working map rendering system with pan and zoom and automatic panning based on GPS location using ECMAScript and SVG back in the spring of 2005. I think roughly half a year before Google Maps became public. Back before all the modern JS tooling existed. All I had was JEdit with syntax highlighting. Perl at least let me put breakpoints in my code even back then.

And yes, I have written more JS since then.)
The ~400,000 figure is WITHOUT targeted technology, obviously.

Why do you rush to attack?
Corporations have all sorts of special legal protections, on top of being the very thing (centers of capital) that the entire structure of government is meant to protect.

Individuals do not (unless backed by a corporation).
I would hope the jpegs compress better than png does.
It's less of an indication of bookies' predictions and more of an indicator of bettors' predictions.

A bookie isn't trying to gamble on the outcome; they're trying to get the bets to all balance out so that no matter what the outcome they take in enough money from the losers to pay the winners with some profit leftover.

As more people bet on a specific outcome, they will lower the odds to make sure that the pool of money taken in is still big enough to pay out if that outcome happens.
I think there are a lot of web devs here who never do anything more complicated than process data in a loop, and complexity analysis can be accomplished by counting indentation levels. When this viewpoint is applied with a wide brush to all programmers or the whole practice of programming, it results in some pretty spicy takes.

On the other hand, recursion extremely expensive in some languages and Python has a notorious limit that forces library writers to roll their own stack. So despite the above, I'm actually in the anti-recursion camp.
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Exploring error mitigation with the Mthree Qiskit extension
As an aside, jpeg is lossless on decode -- once encoded, all decoders will render the same pixels. Since this library produces a valid jpeg file, it should be possible to directly compare the two jpegs.
Which war crime was committed?

https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/war-crimes.shtml
> Only those that dwell in darkness fear the light.

Yeah this has worked out so well historically.

The whole point of privacy laws is to allow for the idea of bad actors on the other side of the equation. I'm all for tightening up loopholes but off hand sayings like this are thrown around all the time and they're terrible logic that isn't at all backed up by evidence.
> As much as the wealthy rightly get shit on for various things, they are still entitled to the same rights as everyone else.

We're not talking about individual assets though here – we're talking about the distribution of resources in our society and the people who own these resources have power over lots of other people.

Essentially - have US$1bn is structurally different to owning US$1 million.
Just link them to https://github.com/infiniflow/ragflow/blob/main/rag/llm/chat... :)
The people who are running this trial have similar plans with mini-kidneys and mini-pancreases, yes. It is mentioned at the end of the article.

Personally, I would like to see mini-brains. "This idea comes from my ass" could become literally true.
I do the same thing at Miami airport without AI. I look at when my flight landed, and then add an hour. How about that for 1 bit quantization. ;)
> hm, and how do you feel about Qatar sponsoring higher education in the US?

Focusing on international interference by one state does not reduce the blame that can be thrown at another. There's no limited reserve of blame that requires to be cleverly distributed. The undemocratic influence over public institutions by lobbies, like Qatar's (see Qatargate in Europe) or Israeli-linked ones alike and many more, are the death of our societies.
I like this point, and I do think you're rightly pointing out that the issue is that selection of targets may be done badly, not that AI specifically is in the loop. With that said, I think an important detail you're overlooking is the frictionless-ness of this process. That quote people are throwing around about something like "efficiently producing the largest volume of human targets" gets to this point pretty directly I think. The problem is not just that the evidence might be flimsy, it's also that it's extremely easy to generate massive lists of targets.

Instead of the Milosevic example I'd say it's analagous to Dehomag machines during the Holocaust. The Nazis didn't need advanced database systems to attempt a genocide, but having access to them made it far far easier to turn the whole process into a factory line: something predictable and constant that allowed it to achieve a pace and scope far beyond what they would have been able to do otherwise. Similar here, or in other cases where advanced technology is brought to bear in war. Anything that makes human death more automated is, IMO, abhorrent and worth of criticism in it's own right.
As I always say, downdetector has successfully predicted 20 of the last 3 outages. It really is the perfect website for the ad-supported revenue model.
Yes, which only makes it more fun to make jokes that get upvoted despite the frowning.
I think you're missing the point. The question isn't whether concepts refer to existing things or not, but whether they are valid and useful.

Nothing general ever exists - only the particular. The number two doesn't exist, although you can find twos in nature. Basic Aristotle. Similarly, race doesn't exist, but you can find instances of races in nature.

That's why arguing that a concept is invalid because it is "only" a social construct is disingenuous. Concepts are always constructs; they are never "natural" in themselves. What determines their validity is their usefulness, which is related to how closely they mirror the structure of human experience.
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You like opt-outs? I prefer good privacy laws – GDPR FTW!
The "could" and the "might" in the headline is very underwhelming.

Trust the science

Its always 30 years too late.

I was in the market for some solar some 30 odd years ago.

Now I live on state pension and freeze my nuts off every winter.

If only!

Oh well!
As an example, it’s extremely common for financial companies of all sorts to create a company to hold an asset or group of assets. This can be done for all manner of reasons, including difference in beneficial ownership.

A VC fund, PE fund, etc will often have a “manager” (the possibly big-name company that operates it) and a bunch of limited partners for that specific fund. If you own a piece of a BlackRock fund, for example, you don’t own BlackRock itself. And the corporate structure reflects this.
I'm more used to seeing the other Terraform on HN so I would have perhaps titled this "Terraform Industries..."
> I've never been very fond of nature to begin with

> [0] - Specifically at human/humane, live in and breathe in and admire it scale. I'm very fond of nature at population scale, and at molecular scale, both of which present interesting puzzles and applications.

I can relate to this a lot. I feel the same way about nature as I do about a tiger or a volcano; I think they're cool and I respect them, but I don't care to spend time up close with them.
All over the bathroom counter?
Yeah, once you have someone's name, as well as some other identifying info such as approximate location and age finding out where the live is rather trivial.
Spent a lot of time on the I-35 corridor between Austin and Dallas in the last 15 years

There's still a ton of farmland/open/rural space, but you pass a number of smaller cities along the highway (Waco, Temple, West, etc), and some of them have been exploding economically. Some are unrecognizable from how they used to look
Mostly that Unions went hard on endorsing Biden, but their members (at least in the industrial Midwest) dutifully lined up to pull the lever for Trump in 2020.
There are “people who improperly use data that’s being given to them, like Plaid,” Dimon told analysts. [0]

Amazing how openly CEO's like Dimon will fear-monger about start-ups, when in reality they're just not satisfied with their own team's progress in doing the same exact thing. But of course it's OK when they eventually launch the product.

[0]https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/37293/dimon-scared-shit...
Not only am I holding out too, but I'm just swerving hard back to physical media for music and buying new MDs while Sony is still selling them.

Be the future you want to see.
You just described eminent domain. What, you thought the government took land with no compensation? Saying it should be 2-10x market value is quibbling over execution, not ideology.
But they still suffer the same core problem: housing is out of reach, jobs don't pay enough to live, everything is getting more expensive, wages remain stagnant. Just striking out on your own as a young person is getting more or more unrealistic, and if you're still living with your parents, rightly or wrongly, that amounts to a huge amount of stigma and makes you feel like a failure.
Large publicly traded companies sometimes already have pseudo-secret/anonymous ownership, with most of the shares held by a giant mutual funds etc.
Meta is experiencing downtime / routing issues in general. Reels on IG is broken atm.
Sure, but that's left for the hosted service providers to figure out. No one can sue you for using AWSs offering.
laughs in CCPA

Seriously though, the opt out mechanism for this will probably be required under CA law.
$11M in revenue on $153M in cloud spend + salaries...

Is the AI bubble going to pop hard soon?
haha, I took a running leap off a staircase and fell over and was permanently embedded in the floor. 3rd person camera could still explore, though!

this is an amazing tech demo. not consistently playable on my 1st gen m1 mac, but still impressive as hell.
>> Where does it say they will sell the data? I missed that in my reading. My interpretation is companies will say "show my product to users with this criteria" and it will. This is the same as fb and Google ads, right?

This is IMHO an important distinction. AFAICT Google doesn't sell data to advertisers, they target the ads for the advertisers. It's still annoying, but it's way less offensive than all the data sharing/selling that goes on.
The 3rd edition of Velleman's book has an online supplement that uses Lean to work through the book so you can get feedback about your proofs.
But you know soldiers are in a tank, and you know a pilot is in a plane. Who's in an apartment?
> As the only bank-led media platform of its kind, Chase Media Solutions combines the scale and audience of a retail media network with the exclusive advantages of Chase’s first-party financial data, institutional credibility and precise targeting capabilities.

This seems to be a first, though a lot of transaction data is already leaked to wallet providers (Google, Apple, Samsung) when you add your cards to those digital wallets in exchange for added convenience or offers. Note that these wallets get access to ALL card transactions, including physical card swipes, and not just those conducted via their platform.
https://twitter.com/jyzg/status/1622890389068718080

Some earlier results. Perhaps these were with XYB color space, I don't remember ...
How would Chase 'show their product' to anybody? They are not a media platform. They do not display ads. Would they start displaying targeted ads when I log on to pay my credit card or check my bank account balance? Or do they set some kind of profile id in a cookie that other sites would read and track once I have logged off
Is it a case of survival when a startup is bought by a multinational? Is the buyer a competitor?
It's over-engineered unless done properly, it which case it becomes a detail. I wouldn't be surprised to see some automatic conversion of server-side code to front-end by LiveView in the future for events where this behaviour is applicable, actually!
That does not explain how the IDF know that the victims are at home. You'd more or less need security cameras for that.

I guess you can do some sort of common principal component analysis (CPCA) from known Hamas persons to create some sort of cluster based on cell phone location data or call data, somewhat like Spotify does with recommendation from "common songs".

I wonder if this might explain why so many journalists are killed, since they probably call Hamas leaders and meet them a lot more than most people in the data set.
"Democratic" is pushing it a tad too far—none of the Islamic world follows a rule of law that would be something akin to a democracy; they're monarchies, theocracies, or in many cases autocracies. The only actual democracy in the middle east is—well, Israel.
AniPortrait: Audio-Driven Synthesis of Photorealistic Portrait Animations
And now they know they were wrong?
Whatever are you referring to? JPEG XL had already been merged into Chromium, prior to being removed again (without a proper reason ever given). As far as I know, the JPEG XL developers have offered to do whatever work was necessary for Chromium specifically, but were never taken up on the offer.

Same thing with Firefox, which has had basic support merged into Nightly, and a couple more patches gathering dust due to lack of involvement from the side of Firefox. Mozilla has since decided to take a neutral stance on JPEG XL, seemingly without doing any kind of proper evaluation. Many other programs (like GIMP, Krita, Safari, Affinity, darktable) already support JPEG XL.

People are not getting upset because projects don’t invest their resources into supporting JPEG XL. People are getting upset because Google (most notably), which has a decisive say in format interoperability, is flat out refusing to give JPEG XL a fair consideration. If they came up with a list of fair conditions JPEG XL has to meet to earn their support, people could work towards that goal, and if JPEG XL failed to meet them, people would easily come to terms with it. Instead, Google has chosen to apply double standards, present vague requirements, and refuse to elaborate. If anyone is ‘preventing even foundational elements of a successful effort’, it’s Google, or more specifically, the part that’s responsible for Chromium.
perhaps apocryphal quote from IBM:

"A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE

THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION"

it's sort of irrelevant if some shitty computer system is killing people - the people who need to be arrested are the people who allowed the shitty computer system to do that. we obviously cannot allow "oh, not my fault I chose to allow a computer to kill people" to be an excuse or a defence for murder or manslaughter or ... anything.
The CLOUD act has provisions that allow a company to challenge a warrant if the target is not a US person and obtaining the data would violate local laws.
> Jpegli can be encoded with 10+ bits per component.

How are the extra bits encoded?

Is this the JPEG_R/"Ultra HDR" format, or has Google come up with yet another metadata solution? Something else altogether?

Ultra HDR: https://developer.android.com/media/platform/hdr-image-forma...
Abstract Algebra: A Student Friendly Approach by Dos Reis and Dos Reis [0] is like The Little Schemer but if it was a first course in abstract algebra.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1539436071?psc=1
I basically agree, I dont think you understood my comment.

If you look at transformers in llm, you have a input matrix, some math in the middle (all linear), and an output matrix. If you take a single value of the output matrix, and write the algebraic expression for it, you will get something that looks like a linear layer transformation on the input.

So a transformer is simply a more efficient simplification of n connected layers, and thus is faster to train. But its not applicable to all things.

For the following examples, lets say you hypothetically had cheap power with good infrastructure to deliver it, and A100s that cost a dollar each, and same budget as OpenAI.

First, you could train GPT models as just a shitload of fully connected, massively wide deep layers.

Secondly, you could also do 3d mapping quite easily with fully connected deep layers.

First you would train a Observer model to take an image from 2 cameras and reconstruct a virtual 3d scene with an autoencoder/decoder. Probably through generating photorealistic images with raytracing.

Then you would train a Predictor model to predict the physics in that 3d scene given a set of historical frames. Since compute is so cheap, you just have rng initialization of initial conditions with velocities and accelerations, and just run training until the huge model converges.

Then you would train a Controller model to move a robotic arm, with input being the start and final orientation, and output being the motion.

Then hook them all together. For every cycle in the robot controller, Controller sends commands to move along a path, robot moves, Observer computes the 3d scene, history of scenes is fed to Predictor that generates future position, which gets some error, and controller adjusts accordingly.

My point is, until we reach that point with power and hardware, there have to be these simplification discoveries like the transformer made along the way. One of which is how to one shot or few shot adjust parameters for a set of new data. If we can do that, we can basically fine tune shitty models on specific data quite fast to make it behave well in a very limited data set.
It is approximately correct. The rendering is standards compliant without pixel perfection and most decoders make different compromises and render slightly different pixels.
Agreed. I grew up in Dallas, went to school in Austin and College Station and now live in Austin. We frequently travel to San Antonio, Dallas, and Houston for the kids' events like dance and marching band competitions.
"Terraform stinks" seems to match both.
I'm sorry your CEO is a jackass.

If they really believe a glorified Taylor series can replace an intern, perhaps you should embrace their depravity and have Devin also do 100% the code reviews.

Just make sure you have written documentation of their brain dead decision making so you can CYA when it invariably blows up in their face.

Read up on malicious compliance and embrace it fully.
> Something useful to know that wasn't mentioned: SSDs will corrupt data if sitting for extended periods without being powered on and thus should never be used for cold storage.

I've got burnt by this the hard way. Even in the early 2000s, HDDs from the mid-90s were often still bootable after years of sitting in still contemplation. No such longevity for SSDs.
(+1, insightful)

100% agreed.
Along these same lines, the endlessly demoralizing narrative around climate change is likely another big factor.

I think many more people need to read and internalize things like Hannah Ritchie's book "Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet". Highly recommended.
I feel this way for photography, about filtering. If you take 1000 photos, only show people your 20-50 best. Now you are a good photographer.
Engines can fail after take off i.e. [1].

That said, I don't think it's immediately considered negligence when an airlines engine fails. Its premature to call Dali negligence as well; it may very well be but the investigation needs to complete.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549
>>According to the UN, civilians make up about 90% of casualties during a war

I don't know what you are trying to say though - that this is ok? Normal? Expected? All of the above?

Like I'm not going to just shrug my arms and say "well it's war, what are you going to do".
Not all dependecies are "xz" complexity.

Minimizing dependencies, probably means keeping a few libs things like crypto or compression and such.

But do you need a library to color console output? Even if colored console output is a business critical feature, you don't need a (tree of) dependencies for that.
I see so many, rather trivial software that comes with hundreds or thousands of dependencies, it's mind boggling really. Why have 124million people downloaded a rubygem that loads and parses a .env file, something I do in a bash oneliner? Why do 21k public npm packages depend on a library that does "rm -f"?

The answer, I'm afraid is mostly that people don't realize this isn't just some value added to their project but rather a liability.

Some liabilities are certainly worth it. XZ is probably one of them. But a Library that does "rm -f" certainly isn't.
Oh I always buy cars of 10+ years old and keep them until they become too expensive to maintain.

One of them blew a transmission which was the end of that obviously. Another one had an ECU error but drove normally so I kept it until I left the country anyway.

But a cat never failed on my and then I'd just switch to another car anyway. But I've never spent more than 2200 on a car anyway :) The last one was not bad though, full leather heated seats, automatic everything etc. Really nice condition too, it's just that big cars are really unpopular and thus expensive here due to the road tax.

But these days I just don't even bother with a car anymore.
In other words, "to make the math work out". That's kinda what I was poking at, trying to understand if that is some fundamental truth or if it is the result of some underlying mechanism that is more fundamental.
>Any way to opt out?

Leave your Chase cards at home
Why the downvotes? It was an honest answer from a longtime freelance web developer.
Can you link to the criteria the IDF uses, and/or the international law(s) that requires those criteria be used?