skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Davinci Resolve is actually the first thing that came to mind on the subject of, okay it's free, that's nice, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to do anything in it. I suppose it's not necessarily their fault that the search results for how to do basic things are garbage, but I guess an advantage of CLI apps is how-to results for them don't seem to attract nearly as much SEOified clickbait.
> Or did you mean the quote from last year that was

That was quite literally, translated from weaseltongue, "we will pull out of the EU because we don't like the law"

There's nothing in the law they can't comply with.

> so many people have taken the worst possible interpretation of him saying "we won't break the law".

People are smarter than you give them credit for. Altman is good at grandstanding about safety, regulation, oversight etc. What he lacks is delivering on that grandstanding.

"Oh the law demands the exact things I'm grandstanding about? Oops, we might pull out because somehow we can break the law".

Same goes for literally everything else. Open? In name only. Safety? Trust us our best people are on it, can't verify or audit their work though. Government regulation? Oh, we might not comply. And so on.
> If memory serves, JPI did a Modula2 compiler that looked quite a bit like Turbo Pascal.

There was. I bought (and used) it twice back in the day.

It was fast, simple, clean, modular (as you'd expect), and the IDE was the best IDE ever - in relation to its power/performance vs the machines it ran on at the time, obviously, not in absolute terms.

For the Pascal influence you only need to look at the career of Anders Hejlsberg of C# and TypeScript fame. Plus Free Pascal and Lazarus are (arguably) the best modern-day cross platform native desktop software development tools (like an open source cross-platform Delphi).
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> USSR was also once told in ~1990 “no NATO expansion to your doorstep”.

No, they weren’t, as even Gorbachev admitted, and even if they had been given private assurance not memorialized in a treaty or even a formal executive agreement, there would be no reasonable expectation of a binding commitment that survived the administrations on each side then in power, much less an actual collapse of the Soviet Union.

It’s not like the Soviet Union didn’t understand the mechanics of how binding international commitments are formed.
No, Google is telling me with authority. The UI calls it a "knowledge panel", and the "About this result" descriptor tells me that "This content comes from the Knowledge Graph, Google's collection of information about people, places, and things". Some of it has links to other sites embedded, but multiple displayed components, such as the lifespan and gestation period, have no non-Google source whatsoever associated with them.
Just wash off the chemical soon as possible. It will turn red. And then it will go away. If it bubbles up, then wrap something around it to absorb the liquid that explodes from the rash.
Is this HN-quality commentary?
Isn't the answer to that question ISO/Object Pascal? Modulas 2 and 3 had too little inertia along pretty much the same path as OP to outcompete it.
Oh yes, introducing expressions on types means defining a new, specific syntax for each construct.

However, I strongly believe well-known symbols should keep their properties independently of whether they are used in type expression or in value expressions. So, for example, [] is already a postfix operator: it would be confusing if it was sometimes a postfix sometimes a prefix. And the unary * is already used to dereference, it would be weird if sometimes it was used to take a reference instead (for that there's already the unary &).

And don't forget the precedence: you shouldn't redefine it. So &int[] would mean &(int[]) not (&int)[].

And since we're talking of a hypothetical new language, for function types I'd choose to re-use an existing operator although for a completely different meaning: ->
That does not happen in other countries, though, even though murder is just as illegal there.

Our government in general and our law enforcement specifically are very much out of control in many ways, but that is not an inherent state of affairs.
Practically every Unix workstation had a different solution.

Part of their performance lead was a proprietary bus that was much faster than ISA.

Technically they weren't graphics busses but since scsi and networking were built in graphics cards were the only things that mattered when it came to the higher bandwidth. A typical Sun Sparcstation would have a graphics card and maybe a serial port card or something that didn't care about the bandwidth of SBUS.

People completely forget this but from the late 80s to the mid-90s (when PCI started becoming widely available) if didn't want to shell out for a Unix workstation and you stuck a fast Radius or Supermac video card in your Macintosh II, your desktop publishing/graphics editing/visualization workflow experience was astronominfinitely better than on PC even if its 486 was faster than the 68020/68030 in your Mac. When PCI came out Apple immediately switched.

Intel probably looked at NUBUS, SBUS, and all of the others and went "well shit if we don't do something about this the pentium won't matter because video cards will be stuck on either ISA or the jank-ass VLB".
Probably true, but ffmpeg seems to have a ton of features too. It seems to me that CLI apps are inherently better at not distracting you with things you don't need. A CLI flag that you don't use is invisible outside of the man pages, not so for a menu or toolbar of a zillion options with names and icons you don't understand.
Urushiol soup is actually a common East-Asian folk remedy and you can order it in some restaurants -- I've actually had it.

It's not exactly a _toxin_, just sometimes trigger allergic reactions.
It lives on in nim.
> On a different note, I find the hypocrisy from some folks in this topic frustrating. They advance exploitative approaches to commercializing SaaS while decrying landlords doing the same. I don’t see a difference.

You really don't see the difference? I'll help you out: one is a basic (and at the moment, scarce) necessity, the other is a unnecessary luxury.
regarding this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40406419 ( > AI and “God’s point of view” ?! - what can go right ? )
> especially at scale

The marginal costs go down a bit if your scale is truly immense. Google can afford to design/manufacture/deploy hyper-efficient custom silicon ASICs for encoding. Also because their critical mass of users provide valuable network effects, they can get away with particularly poor quality encoding (IMHO) and the vast majority of users still won't switch to other platforms with higher visual quality - but other (non-pornographic) video platforms generally don't have that luxury.
This went off the front page immediately.
Nowadays available as a standard GCC fronted, since GCC 13.

Now we only need a good VSCode plugin for it to be rediscovered by younger generations.
Realistically that probably won't happen until there is a regime change in Russia. So, the best option for now is to keep giving Ukraine all of the weapons they ask for in order to maintain a stalemate and inflict as many casualties on Russia as possible. Russia has a large population but it's not unlimited; kill enough and eventually the civilians will march on the Kremlin. This may take years.

Ultimately it's up to the Ukrainians what terms they want to negotiate. But it would seem foolish to give up the option of joining NATO and the EU just to gain a temporary peace. If they're going to survive as an independent country rather than a Russian vassal state then they will need alliances with nuclear powers.
Well your argument is admonishing tech bros as if they don't get it, but generally they do get it completely in this context. The goal here is not replacing great art. It's replacing art assets.

Comes off as naive and distracting to me.
But you're using the word 'perusing'....!! Who's swallowed the dictionary now, huh?
I am sure that there is a way to teach this without alienating parents.
The simple answer is that a big symmetric register set has always been a hallmark of RISC ISAs, because having lots of symmetric registers increases throughput by reducing compiler-generated spill/fill overhead and permits more permissive ABIs for leaf functions that need the extra space.

The complicated answer is that, no, it's not especially "reduced" and you could implement all those other RISCy ideas in a much smaller set of GPRs without otherwise effecting the "RISCiness" of the design. But that answer is a little specious, since it's true of all the other RISCy traits too. Most of them stand alone, which is why the whole debate tends to be a little silly.
The spending comparison may be inaccurate. The western military is grossly overcharged for their toys.

Also:

"Superiority" is a science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1951. It depicts an arms race during an interstellar war. It shows the side which is more technologically advanced being defeated, despite its apparent superiority, because of its willingness to discard old technology without having fully perfected the new. Meanwhile, the enemy steadily built up a far larger arsenal of weapons that while more primitive were also more reliable. The story was at one point required reading for an industrial design course at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superiority_(short_story)
Are you the repo author or reposting something cool? I am curious because I want to talk to the repo author about a collaboration project.
It's rumoured that they _did_ build some sort of pontoon out of barrels, to transport the elephants captured by Lucius Caecilius Metellus after the Battle of Panormus. The story's widely attributed to Strabo or Pliny the Elder but I can't find the original source, whether or not we'd believe it. Tip of the galea to whoever tracks it down.
This is important enough that I think https://www.paulgraham.com/bel.html (1) should be the main link we're discussing. For one, https://sep.turbifycdn.com/ty/cdn/paulgraham/bellanguage.txt (2) refers extensively to the Bel sources which are at https://sep.turbifycdn.com/ty/cdn/paulgraham/bel.bel?t=16882... (3). But you won't get 3 from 2.
I don't think you can avoid cronyism so long as you have capitalism, but you can at least keep the size of those businesses in check such that the ability to affect politics is limited for any single one (or even a few together).
Not individually, no. Though it's often done simultaneously.

That said you're right about lots of RAM in that I wouldn't bother using the 8GB M1 Air for Docker or running LLMs (it can run SD for images though, but very slowly). Partly that's why I have the Lenovo. You need to pick the right machine for the job at hand.
Russia isn’t bleeding its economy and military to death in order to win a few patches of land in Eastern Ukraine, and if they are they’re idiots. The only way this war makes sense is if they see these worthless chunks of land as a jumping off point for a larger war of conquest, which is why peace deals aren’t happening.
Encoding is largely super-linear for a single stream, so you just need enough cores for the intake * formats. Streaming is mostly chunking and a smart player that loads the right chunks at the right time. Storage is bottom dollar, use whatever the cheapest disks you've got that you can attach to fiber, then cache the hell out of everything.

So in short, the only "on-demand" component is encoding, and if you don't have an 'available in an instant' promise, you can do it on spot instances on the cheapest cloud you can find; The rest is just storage and distribution - if you own a world-wide network of datacenters for your successful advertising service, that's kinda an already solved problem for you - just allocate a few racks to a new service.

I of course downplay everything and simplify massively - but at a high level, it's just a lot of ffmpeg -> S3 -> html5 player. The harder problems are in the long tail - high latency, content licensing & geo fencing, etc.

Source: used to SRE for a video streaming provider (not YT), also former GG
No doubt leadership at OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft are in favor of any regulations that would cement their lead.

For the rest of us, the relevant question is: are the costs worth the benefits?

> The risk [...] is that radically new products and approaches in the arena never get a chance to be developed and benefit consumers.

Totally. And the opposite risk is that these companies deploy technologies that cause massive harm to people, without adequate testing, because they're caught up in a race.

I think some regulations would be helpful on balance -- like reporting of large training runs, as in SB 1047 -- and some wouldn't -- like (hypothetically) requiring a license to train small models.
Wait, are you saying SoTA NN research hasnt evolved from hardcoding a bunch of layer structures and sizes?

I'm kind of shocked. I thought there would be more dynamism by now and I stopped dabbling in like 2018.
Fever happened and doctor thought it was virus. Fever hit 106. As I didnt take Tylenol. Fever turned out to be sepsis salmonella. Should have taken Tylenol.
Not if they come with same restrictions as other us weapons.
That's just objectivity, and I don't think consciousness is synonymous with objectivity at all!

Cogitoist propaganda. The appearance of thought is not necessarily the same as thought, so you don't actually know you think just because you believe you think. The cogito (I think therefor I am), like your statement, is incoherent.

LLMs will swear up and down (with a prompt) that they are thinking beings, therefor "they are". They are not ontological actors because of their appearance of doubting their own existence. That's not thought!
I wouldn't diss those functions on the basis of modern filesystems. I would diss them because you could write a shorter bel.bel with rdc/wrc instead and, IMHO, without making the language less self-specified (since 'chars contains opaque character values from the host system).
lol this is flagged by YC
That's a part of the problem though: governments made paying taxes so seamless that many people simply are not aware that they are paying them. I mean: they know that something like social security, or VAT exists, but they have not a slightest idea how much money it really costs them. Raising awareness leads to better choices in the next elections.
Maybe someone should collect all those commands and create a website or a gist that list them with search possible. They are gems !
You might be able to reach the repo author on X: https://x.com/naklecha
When governments make decisions in a rush, the decisions are generally not very well thought out.

I therefore think it's a good idea to have a plan for AI induced unemployment before people take to the streets because they have no job, no hope of a job, and no money left to pay the bills.

I have no idea how far away economic mass unemployment is, and I'm not convinced the current indicators in specific fields (much as it affects those fields) is "it", but I have seen a lot of news stories about governments getting surprised by things everyone was warning them about and they ignored.
> Also, I question the explosion claim. Without confinement, the energy drops below the threshold necessary for fusion and the reaction stops

I am not a physicist

I expect the sudden failure of magnetic confinement would lead to a chemical explosion because of super heated plasma
Right now Enceladus is the most likely target for extant life in the solar system, and is one of four moons with a subsurface water ocean. We know almost nothing about them.
Deriving the Mortgage Payment Formula
If you mean it in a sense of "what about Skynet?", then you regulate specific uses of AI which carry such danger rather than AI itself. I don't think this even needs to be AI-specific; if we, say, required formal verification of decision making algorithms to match the spec, that would already cover it.

If you mean it in a sense of "what about all the lost jobs?", then we should start seriously talking about UBI, and how to fund it by taxing automation.
CodeAid: A classroom deployment of an LLM-based programming assistant
Video streaming is expensive for you. Google is incredible at making things cheap that we all thought were expensive.
And here implicitly, "make several organs age faster" so... very bad thing.
Starlink gets that latency by orbiting close to the Earth. At 525km, a Starlink bird completes one orbit in 95 minutes. For a twelve hour demand response orbit they'd have to be around 20000km high, more than one Earth diameter away, giving a far worse speed of light delay than just talking to a server one continent away.
I recommend you check out https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineConflict/new/ ... but only if you're ready to see some fried Buryat...
Curious whether likely is indeed correct. Certainly the textbook my numerical analysis course had wasn't because remember playing with indices to get clean Julia code.
That article had weird statement about PCI-X: "It did not see wide use with PCs, likely because Intel chose not to give the technology its blessing, but was briefly utilized by the Power Macintosh G5 line of computers."

I don't know, what they meant with blessing, but Intel server motherboards had PCI-X slots and this was common bus for servers/workstations. Mostly used by SCSI and RAID controllers, high-end network adapters.
God Inc.–Church Startups Launch Franchise Model Across the U.S.
Please don't synthesize my consciousness from Hacker News posts.
Thank you for these recommendations.
The next phase of email should be for Federal and state governments to host it. We need to move it off of private infrastructure for essential services like payments and recordkeeping. There should be better penalties for misuse of email services and scams now that it handles so many important things, including authentication to many sites everyone uses. I wrote a whole rant on this a while back on my blog, despite objections, email can well replace the outdated physical mail delivery systems currently in place around the world, vital communication in the age of corporate surveillance and scams needs to be regulated if not run, regulated, and secured by more accountable government resources.

We have already seen how our personal information can be harvested and weaponized. Leaving important email services to strategically opportunistic companies like Google will not be wise into the future.
For streaming, google have caches in like every ISP network. Also majority of the people watches the latest and same type of content that is mainly served from the homepage, which is easier to cache and serve.

If you have the ipvfoo extension, you can see it in action. (its easier to see with IPv6)

https://github.com/pmarks-net/ipvfoo
Not this. It's a pretty crazy policy. As far as I know no other major tech company (Google, Microsoft, Amazon, etc.) uses their customers' private data to train public AI because that would be suicidal.
In 1996 Yamaha was all about TwinVQ (which was far better than mp3 at low bitrates) anyway, so it'd have been that rather than mp3, had they gone that route.
True, very thin but very hot

Yes It would initially collapse, but still a lot of heat to dissipate, and I would expect an explosion
No, unfortunately, this is goalpost shifting. We’ve gone from “cruelty” to “excessive cruelty,” nor are there any laws that prevent the common sense understanding of either thing from happening to the median pig. One can here also point out that we in fact engage in such extreme cruelty that they have to make it illegal to document it:

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/1/11/18176551/ag-gag...
>> Initial boost is modulated so the tail of the string catches up with the head (“time on target”). Exploiting drag imparted by the interstellar medium (“velocity on target”) over the 20-year cruise keeps the group together once assembled.

That is the actual, literal, impossible part. If the head is launched at speed x and the tail at speed y when they catch up they cannot stay assembled, unless "drag" is code for "magic".

>Irrelevant since that's not the power source.

What is the power source for the device, which weighs "GRAMS"? 1 gram is several dozen grains of rice. So what is the power source, expected to last decades, power data acquisition, processing, and transmission, and inter-swarm communications and station-keeping that weighs several dozen grains of rice?

More quantum-quantum-quantum antimatter nonsense?

I was trying to be generous by assuming energy harvesting, and not delving into fantasy.

The lens direction is VERY RELEVANT because the idea of getting signals back to earth is a broad array of devices all signaling simultaneously so the lens would ideally be perpendicular to earth. For example if the lens was pointed at the target it would present a smaller profile to observers on earth (maybe even a thin line) which would be more difficult to detect than a 100k km wide circle. The same rules apply to observations: any synthetic apertures created would be useless unless grossly pointed in the general direction of the target.
My other comment will link you to plenty of resources: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40378842
Perhaps to make it a real programming language that you could use to do stuff?
It probably costs them a ton of money, but they probably make a ton more so that’s OK.

Also: bandwidth gets a lot cheaper when you own the pipes.

And one that is less obvious: despite having hundreds of millions of videos available, a large contingent of people are watching the same ultra-popular ones. There are some economies of scale to be had there.
«We are urgently calling for a mass demonstration outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London on Monday 20th of May as the monumental decision is handed down. A decision is expected on the day and should extradition be allowed moves to initiate his transfer the US could be taken immediately.»
The innovation is that everything is just one standardized structure now (transformer models) and you make it bigger if you feel like you need that.

There's still some room for experimenting if you care about memory/power efficiency, like MoE models, but they're not as well understood yet.
Erm, capture.

Get your mind out of the sewer, dred...
I'm sorry, but this makes me cringe. When we learn science, there's always some level of rigor with the ideas. Maybe there's some kind of justification with math, or some kind of experiment we can perform to remove doubt. The important features are reductionism and verifiability. It's not a weird introspection riddle.

I'm sure Bruno is brilliant. But I still don't know what consciousness is. And I think that "definition" doesn't meet the modern scientific standard. And I strongly oppose the idea that in order to learn science I should have to spend time introspecting.
Just because you hired artists to copy someone else's work doesn't mean your model isn't the result of copyright infringement, indeed it makes it somewhat more obvious imo.

Maybe that would be Fair Use, but things like purpose, weak transformation (in the hired artists copies), competition against the original, and business motive would all suggest it relies on non-Fair Use copying.

I don't know why you think something that involves direct copying shouldn't be a 'hill to die on' for a copyright infringement claim?
So what learnings do we have that inform whether it is a good idea to regulate e.g. whether a business can use AI to take customer orders?
Is there a variant that encodes ProRes lossless?

I usually open them up in a new project just to create a lossless input video to work with in After Effects, and use that (if I use image sequence directly, DaVinci Resolve acts in weird ways).

ffmpeg might ease that AE part.
How often is the wife taller than the husband?