skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Counterpoint: "What if you looked at it this way?" communicates both your suggestion AND your sensitivity to the person's social status whatever. Given that humans are not robots, but social, psychological, animals, such communication is entirely justified and efficient.
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Let me start by saying I despise generative AI and I think most AI companies are basically crooked.

I thought about your comment for a while, and I agree that there is a fine line between "realistic parody" and "intentional deception" that makes deepfake AI almost impossible to defend. In particular I agree with your distinction:

- In matters involving human actors, human-created animations, etc, there should be great deference to the human impersonators, particularly when it involves notable public figures. One major difference is that, since it's virtually impossible for humans to precisely impersonate or draw one another, there is an element of caricature and artistic choice with highly "realistic" impersonations.

- AI should be held to a higher standard because it involves almost no human expression, and it can easily create mathematically-perfect impersonations which are engineered to fool people. The point of my comment is that fair use is a thin sliver of what you can do with the tech, but it shouldn't be stamped out entirely.

I am really thinking of, say, the Joe Rogan / Donald Trump comedic deepfakes. It might be fine under American constitutional law to say that those things must be made so that AI Rogan / AI Trump always refer to each other in those ways, to make it very clear to listeners. It is a distinctly non-libertarian solution, but it could be "necessary and proper" because of the threat to our social and political knowledge. But as a general principle, those comedic deepkfakes are works of human political expression, aided by a fairly simple computer program that any CS graduate can understand, assuming they earned their degree honestly and are willing to do some math. It is constitutionally icky (legal term) to go after those people too harshly.
Only 2000 lines! There's a few reasons this is really, really nice.

1. CPU inferencing can be surprisingly practical for a lot of long-tail use cases where there isn't a lot of load. As you can see from the animation, you get a decent rate of tok/sec and that's not really optimized beyond using the vector API. Think about things where you don't need to generate a lot of tokens to be useful, just comprehension or a yes/no type answer is sufficient. For example using it as a fallback to faster but less general NLP libraries for things like date parsing.

2. Most LLM inferencing systems are set up as servers and require custom APIs or API clients. Being able to just copy/paste a file into a Java/Kotlin/Scala/Clojure project and go means no additional deployment complexity beyond ensuring the model weights can be found on disk.

3. It's a lot easier to read and well commented compared to quite a few LLM impls, which are unfortunately often "hacker output" not really written for comprehensibility.

4. Because it's such a small and comprehensible code base it makes it much easier to experiment with tweaks to the inferencing algorithm that are very use case specific, like forced decoding strategies. These often require a lot of rummaging around in barely typed Python codebases that are littered with the remnants of many prior experiments if you want to do it on the regular LLM stacks.
So glad to discover this, thanks!
Oh yeah, since there is a built in feedback loop with the person I am interacting with, I was able to start recognizing patterns of how to shift ways that I inherently think/phrase something to be better received by others.
The fundamental problem is that wealthy people have their wealth in assets and their cash comes in loans.

The best I can come up with is a tax on loans larger than X with assets that meet the points ABC used as collateral.

On the other hand though, I can make a case that they shouldn't be taxed anymore as it is. The assets they hold generate the majority of the taxes collected anyway. Bezos might not pay a lot in taxes, but amazon does and the amount it generates in sales taxes and income taxes is enormous.

It's a difficult problem and it's why progress has been stagnant in this area for decades.
I think I'll go with the numbers. It's a smaller set of things to memorize and it's kinda like a fun game that I can quiz myself on when seeing license plates when driving (I find driving horribly boring). My dad used to factorize numbers on license plates when I was a kid :P
The Genesis of Technoscientific Revolutions by Narayanamurti and Tsao is worth reading for a better understanding of how research works and how to nurture it. It has a very clear explanation of how engineering and technology mirror science and how both work together.
For the vast majority of people, the mobile bank app is far more useful than a desktop oriented web bank. Many (maybe most by now) don't even own a computer.
Depends on the position. Donating in favor of gay marriage was once seen as a very bad thing with many negative personal consequences. My parents gave money to stop Proposition 8, but I don't think they would have if they knew their names (at the time) would be made public.

It's only wrong to those who disagree with the opinion being shaped.
TFA definitely needs editing. Nowadays though there are no editors. There's no more code review for prose. It's just not economical. And if you're going to write that much, you're going to make mistakes. It's ok, though I admit it grates a bit. I'm sure I cause others to feel that way about my writing sometimes.
I stand corrected! I installed the latest AntennaPod build from f-droid in order to give specific examples but had no idea that AntennaPod had gotten so much better. The last contact I had with it was an indescribably miserable experience
Using solar energy to generate heat at high temperatures
Having never heard of AltTab, I looked it up. I'm still not sure what it does that Cmd+Tab doesn't do.
No, that makes Musk one of two series A investors.

> two guys, a name, an office, and an idea

Add in the paperwork they filled out and we call those things companies. The entire point of incubators like Ycombinator is getting companies to a point where someone would make a significant investment, Martin Eberhard, Marc Tarpenning and Ian Wright who joined a few months later pulled that first major hurdle off on their own.

If Musk had walked away they would’ve just kept looking because it was a very compelling investment as made clear by finding funding within a month of looking and the 1 million put up from a 3rd party.
> The Reddit user who reported the issue has deleted the original post, casting significant doubt on the veracity of the claim
This is why Microsoft used to have multiple office suites, there was microsoft office which was everything and the kitchen sink, then you had Microsoft Works which was a stripped down simpler office suite, then you had wordpad for when you need something more than note pad but not a full office suite.
Interestingly, my experience is quite dissimilar at times. I've been using it for foreign language vocabulary acquisition (not multiple languages, just focusing on one language at the moment). I find that certain words just 'go in' easily, and I never have a problem remembering them as long as I review my Anki deck daily. For other words, they don't ever get substantially easier. I can still use Anki to help memorise them, but re-learning them is sometimes necessary.

A concrete example from my deck: word added 2024-02-24, three reviews, now with an interval of 3.03 months. No 'again' answers; nice and easy! Another word, added 2024-02-29, not so good: 14 reviews and an interval of 15 days.

I think there are several factors contributing to forgetfulness with Anki for me, some of which might overlap with your experience:

A: not properly 'learning' the word in the first place. For me, 'learning' means using the word in context, studying its etymology (even if I do not intend to memorise that) and saying it out aloud. If I don't do that at the beginning, it won't really stick until I effectively start all over again.

B: 'learning' words on a bad day, or too late in the day. Even if I 'learn' the words properly, I need to have learnt them in Anki when I'm feeling moderately energetic. If I'm exhausted mentally or physically, my rigorous learning strategy doesn't seem to translate into memory. When I notice myself doing Anki reviews much slower than usual due to tiredness, I generally limit the review count and try to catch up when I'm fresh another day.

C: not being consistent enough with reviews. Both the time spent on each individual review and the time spent in total are important - 4 seconds per word is a good sign for me, and strictly 20 minutes a day in total. That allows me to keep up a pace of 12 new words a day very consistently.

Would love to hear which parts of this sound familiar to you, or what other things you've noticed for yourself!
I suspect that's a bug because if you connect Xt to Ht twice... it succeeds.

Edit: This no longer repros and only the correct solution works now from what I can tell.
I reject your truth and replace it with my own.
I don't do game dev, but FWIW those $400-$800 mini gaming PCs on Amazon are surprisingly decent, with extremely low power consumption, and many of which have eGPU support if necessary. I've become extremely conscious about power usage in the last few months and so I've been replacing my servers with them.

I started using one as a home theater PC about a week ago, and even the internal GPU has been pretty solid. I was able to do 4k video editing with Lightworks Pro with no trouble; I had trouble getting Stable Diffusion working but that was more of a software-support-on-NixOS thing than "crappy hardware" thing.

I don't play a ton of new games but I did PS3 and Xbox 360 emulation on there and for the most part the frame rate was pretty stable, and I've read that a lot of people are having decent luck with even relatively modern games like Elden Ring.
Yes, but this doesn't sound like her, it's merely similar to her, and there is no contract between her and OpenAI.
Cross-Attention Makes Inference Cumbersome in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
Right, it's not doing anything between prompts, but each prompt is fed through each of the transformer layers (I think it was 96 layers for GPT-3) in turn, so we can think of this as a fixed N-steps of "thought" (analyzing prompt in hierarchical fashion) to generate each token.
This is also largely the answer to why your weekend garage project doesn't need 1000+ developers that an actual in production project needs. At scale every edge case is a bug that someone has to deal with.

Not just the hard crash software/hardware edge cases either. Regulatory edge cases, abuse vector edge cases, localization and accessibility edge cases will all need to be dealt with.

I remember people exclaiming 'musk is right, Twitter doesn't need 1000s of developers' only for Twitter to start failing a lot of regulatory and abuse vector edge cases shortly after their layoffs. It's no good judging business needs based on a basic garage implementation of Twitter. The real world and a few billion users makes for an entirely different set of problems.
> Uses VMs, mega and tor, but no full disk encryption

> Talked to the police

I think this is a lesson in what not to do in the future. And that equipment they took? Consider it all 100% compromised.
It is, but on the plus side we will get cheap NPUs to do stupid shit with them.
MS is asking for 40 TOPS for certification as Cortana+.

That's 4X what anything has today, even the M4, which is as next gen as it gets barely reaches 38 TOPS, there's nothing close to that on AMD or Intel.

This will probably cause a race to the bottom in cost of NPUs.

It will be fun and a lot of crappy apps will be built (and a lot of money will be wasted), but many things will get better once we figure out what these are good for.

Object selection, image editing, audio editing, audio isolation, summarization, etc. all those used to be extremely hard, and will get a lot better.
gifcap.dev compiles it into WebAssembly to get you an in-browser GIF screen recorder.

https://gifcap.dev/
I think about this quite often when creating new applications.

Four hypotheses why standard users are often the primary target of design:

(1) Power Users are louder but mostly ignored due statistically being not relevant.

(2) During design sessions the teams empathize with a standard user, not the power user. I've seen this pattern over and over again.

(3) Current web technology makes it difficult to build high density UIs that work well.

(4) Mobile UI first. If it works on mobile, we can just use the same UI for the web.

All this leads to another problem: Your standard users never become high power users on your platform. In the end platforms become interchangeable.
There is an article from Popular Mechanics[1] which backlinks to this one and has a much more descriptive title, "A Quartz Thermal Trap Harnessed the Sun—and Is About to Change Smelting Forever".

[1] - https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/green-tech/a6082940...
Why do we need one or the other?

There's an accessibility element here as well. It's not possible for everyone to use a touch screen.
> If you want to do both paradigms justice, you need two separate designs altogether.

How do you reconcile this with the fact that you need almost double the effort for 2 separate designs? I'd say you need at least 2x of Designer work and at least 1.5x of front-end Dev work to achieve this.

Where will additional resources to support this come from?
> probably hard to work with, arrogant, rambling and terrible at public speaking.

This current moment of intense cultural fact-free ressentiment around anything tech-related is getting exhausting. How much longer until it ebbs?
Please do Xcode next!
Your comment seemed to convey that employees are powerless over their own actions in the context of a large corporation when given unethical tasks, such as fulfilling the requirement of "the user is not allowed to say no".

People should not do things they believe to be unethical. You do, as an employee, have the autonomy to say no to unethical tasks. You are therefore not blameless when you perform unethical tasks, because you chose not to say no.
Gonna need some sources for that, boss
i mean, as a long-time user who's experienced a ton of ups and downs in the the macOS world, defected to linux briefly, and returned... it is still the best OOTB experience of any computer i've ever owned.

the windows experience of 2024 is very similar to the experience of buying a gateway 2000 in the 90s to me. there's tons of bloatware, ads all over the OS, you're constantly being prompted to buy Onedrive and Office (what the hell?) a lot of the Things i've gotten used to on macOS that windows doesn't have, I miss a lot (consistent shortcut keys across apps fro all vendors, the speed and reliability of spotlight as an app launcher/switcher, the ease of previewing files in the OS without launching separate applications, the fact that for all intents and purposes you're in a *nixlike environment and have basically the full suite of tools available to you first class.) every time I go back to my windows 11 desktop after an upgrade I'm baffled by some other weird addition to the OS that I didn't ask for and don't want. In a way, I kind of appreciate that macOS tends to evolve slowly and doesn't do a lot of experimentation. When there's multiple valid ways of solving a problem, they'll leave it to utilities to provide those options. I kinda am okay with that. I used to think apple was extremely opinionated but it seems more and more like their philosophy with macOS is "leave it to the users to solve this problem." i'd also argue there's a ton of windows features missing, which extremely confusingly i have to add manually by installing powertoys (which means microsoft actively builds the solutions to these problems and then just chooses to distribute them in this bizarre, out-of-band way? it makes no sense.)

I won't deny there's a bunch of obvious stuff that i cannot understand - window snapping being a key thing, they've gone all in on their weird full-screen approach, which I don't vibe with. The fact that I need to buy an app (bartender) to hide icons in my menu bar in the year 2024 is pretty bonkers to me, and I cannot understand what motivates the complete lack of management tools for this, especially given how out of control it can get on a company-managed machine. finder is in need of a lot of love across the board. i'm also baffled by some of the stuff they choose to include - mission control is one of the single most confusing features they've ever added to the OS and i still have zero understanding of what the intent behind it was.

i guess all this to say i feel like having a lot of experience with macOS, i much prefer opening a clean mac to opening a clean windows machine (linux obviously is its own can of worms where it can't really be evaluated by these standards) and i can't at all agree that UX-wise it's a letdown.
super cool. I love to think of the spectrogram as a blank canvas, where you mix spectral masks to produce interesting synth sounds.

This approach takes the "canvas" part more literally producing recognizable objects where we more often see fuzzy or geometric data.

like the article mentions,
It is highly constrained by the overlap of likeliness of the subject to have a sound that can be reproduced with a spectrogram with features like the object's timbre.

It works on the dog very well because a dog's bark is already closer to "noise" than "instrument" or "voice", and you can fit that noise to any octave that is convenient to the image.

Notice on the horse how the "neigh" sound wiggles up and down, and thus there are features of the horse that also have wiggling.

The castle uses "bell" tones, a great choice because these types of tones prefer non-integer values for harmonics (which comes off as horizontal brick lines in the castle walls). Extra convenient because you can gen new harmonics to get a new wall.

The garden views largely use birdsounds. Remember what we said about dog sound being translatable noise, and horse having a wiggle? The bird sound applies both of those techniques, and its sound is represented by the petals or leafs we see.

Since we perceive sound at a logarithmic scale, it is possible to show a visual representation of the object and also not being able to perceive it in the final mix! Our ears are most sensitive to the most prominent frequencies, which it looks like here are the darkest pixels. So the lighter pixels can provide some kind of shaping (like edges or boundaries) while the darker pixels provide the sound we perceive.

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Oh, hey, I recognize that style! Loved the Sunflower demos back in the day. :)
I appreciate the more thoughtful comment! I agree with some of it, and disagree with some of it -- which isn't possible when you try and boil it down into a one-liner.
Ok, but how do you lie to VCs to trick them into thinking there is limitless potential in RI?
Related: Why Japanese Websites Look So Different – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37722348
[3] is total madness. I think that highest level politicians who allow it to continue after being made aware should fucking rot in jail.
The Soviet had a lot of nice things, including consumer electronics. Doesn't seem to be tied that hard to capital accumulation as the driving force behind production.

Europe has had several 'mixed' economies that worked rather well until they decided to become more capitalistic.
I mostly was thinking of chinese apps, I’m not very familiar with japanese ones but saw others mentioning it so I put it here.

In Chinese apps, I can post photos, message my friends, order food, call an uber, pay transactions, all from the same app
Camels as well. The ancestors of camels migrated from america to asia via the bering straits thousands of years ago.
So they made a system by trying out thousands of combinations to find the one gives best result, but they don't understand what's actually going on inside.
Are they trying to mimic the mobile app, or is the web-based online banking app just the mobile app with a slightly different skin? For my bank, it's the latter.
Yeah, its just- that the professionals with money have a building across the building- meanwhile the often more qualified- not company aligned professionals (CCC advice to german parliament comes to mind) are happily ignored. Maybe we can introduce something called a bouncer to the lobby, that gives the boot to bought voices. And a veto of the people to rule changes to the business order of the parliament.
You can't always do both to the fullest truth. They often conflict. To do what you suggest, would imply my feelings perfectly align with the sympathetic view. That is not the case for a lot of humans or instances. If I am not saying exactly how I feel it is watered down.

And telling me "just do both" is enforcing your world view and that is precisely what we're talking about _not_ doing.
No longer using MacOSX, but this was definitely one of most useful and usable security tools ever created. Especially in a time, where more than half of all the anti-virus or firewalls you would get were just snake-oil.

I even got a nice bug bounty, because I discovered that a popular program pulled it's updates via HTTP and executed the downloaded executable directly thereafter.
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Same in buses, every now and then you have deadly accidents, most deaths are due to people not using the belts and getting slammed around. It's one of the most easily avoidable death

Look at that one for example, the few people who had belt will most likely be fine, on the other hand people without belts got thrown around like ragdolls and many died: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldfgEJpIgKM&rco=1
Looks nice, but it took a while to see how to connect the dots.
Vague claims of ulterior motives (what motives? to what end?) and DRM (what drm?)
Just like any other tool that can be used to plagiarize, Photoshop, Word etc.
Manufactured Landscapes was incredible.
They could just have a “quick edit” mode, a “read” mode and a “power user mode”.

But that means not having your intern pump out that single electron design so it’ll never happen
Thanks; I didn't see that debate on security and I can see it being a valid point, especially with the burden of a technically-inclined person having to fix others' (family/friends) devices.

I was trying to point to the opinion of the majority that I've seen and what I have seen from most of the community when security is mentioned is that Apple needs stronger security from a technical standpoint rather than controlling what and what is allowed on users' devices. I think both opinions hold validity, and you may be right that there is more nuance.
Phi-3 14B model with 128k context
About Converting My Personal Blog into a Personal News Site
I want to ask you this: What are your thoughts on turning my personal blog into a personal news site? Just like daringfireball, peggyktc.com...
Am I understanding that they trained their model on the real course materials, including specific assignments, exercises, and even the actual tests, without the institution's permission?

I don't see a problem with rescinding the prize and punishing the kids for dishonesty.

It's not a free-for-all no matter how much OpenAI wants it to be.
I make art but I don’t sell it.
Don’t get me wrong, if a painter makes a painting that painting is his and he can sell it, I can’t steal it. But I can’t also paint that? Not download a copy of it? Not take a picture? How do you own the idea of flowers in a vase because you drew it once? That’s insane to me