skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pro: cobalt-60 is really effective at getting rid of those pesky slugs and aphids.

Con: organ liquification and agonizing death.

A toss up really.
The US was historically built on the idea that slavery was fantastic. The colonists rebelled against the UK because the UK was freeing slaves. They fought the civil war over states rights - the rights to own slaves - and proceeded to have the largest prison population on the planet, for-profit prisons with forced manufacturing labour. Along with historic megaprojects like railways and dams which killed a lot of immigrant labourers. And poor employee protection, unions, minimum wages, social safety nets, social health care. And is currently forcing women back to being mothers by blocking alternatives, and lowering the ages children can be sent to work.

The USA doesn't think free enterprise is great, it thinks 'free' enterprise is great for the elite.

> "The US doesn't have a history of oppressive governments"

Unless you're black. Or a woman. Or poor. Or Mexican. Or disabled. Or smoking the wrong plant. Or a criminal. Or prescribed opioids by a doctor bribed by the pharmaceutical reps and it went wrong for you.
Google is already there, others are starting to look at it. And one of them might sell to the others if it becomes profitable enough.
Am I wrong, but isn’t the CUDA bigger reason than hardware itself?
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Hi,

It's marked in the thread you referenced that Marcus only excepts US based customers.

I assume it is best to close your account with them and let them transfer the remaining balance to your European bank.

Not sure how you can achieve that now, since you probably lied/faked to them before that you were still living in the USA, and your account is flagged now.

I also don't believe filing will complaints will help, since you seem to be at fault here, and they have to lock your account for compliance and security reasons.

When you unlock your account, I strongly also suggest that you use your local bank to exchange the currency (or Marcus and make a € transfer). IB currency exchange is meant for trading purposes, not for exchanging currencies:

See here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/interactivebrokers/comments/ywj5hw/...

What do you think will happen when a transfer in $ comes into a newly opened account, you convert it to €, and then cash out to a European € account. All alarm flags will probably go off, as this is classic money laundering. I would definitely ask their ok in advance and provide them documentation on where the money comes from, before trying to exchange money through their platform.

Depending on how large your transfer is, any european bank will flag the transfer and you have to provide proof of the source of wealth. It's best to provide that documentation beforehand, because otherwise your funds will be blocked for a few days too before you can access them.

Also, in case you have signed a "compromis de vente" without a suspension clause (e.g. that the contract is void if the bank doesn't finance the acquisition, or something similar), then yes you are on the hook for the 10% in case you don't go to the notary in time to buy the house/appartment.

Good luck!
I've known Dug Song for 25 years and in that time no one has done more for startups in Michigan than him. I am just glad that the leaders of our state are finally listening to him.

Michigan has badly needed to diversify the state beyond the automobile industry for fifty years but its leaders from either party have not done so. I personally believe it is because you cannot see success in a startup during a single four year election cycle.
Similar thing happened to me on my GTI, the Xenon bulb replacements weren’t too expensive but replacing it literally required disassembling a large portion of the front end of the car. I couldn’t believe it.
> The US doesn't have a history of oppressive government

largest prison population in the world, slavery, Manzanar, Jim Crow laws, McCarthyism, police brutality…
Is this also true for PRK?
Fairly sure I understand the public details about this situation. We have at least one newspaper that has reviewed recordings or footage from the voice actor and confirmed that the OpenAI voice is a direct match for her actual regular speaking voice. We also have records illustrating that the CEO had no direct involvement in the hiring of the voice talent, and that there was no direction given for her to "sound like 'Her'".

Without any evidence that OpenAI set out to intentionally find someone who sounded like a fictional character, why should this individual be prevented from seeking work as a voice actor in any capacity?
Apply to healthcare companies, but as a software developer. Your healthcare background will help you understand the background for the programs you write. It will give you a leg up on other applicants.
In theory, sure.

In practice, Meta's entire business model is to waste everyone's time by inserting advertising in the middle of what would otherwise be friendly conversation, so if they did switch Europe off, then everyone in Europe would have a more pleasant life and Meta would get less money — nobody would clamour for the stuff to be switched back on.

I suspect Meta knows this.

Signal might care enough about the principle, but even then the services are too easily substituted to matter to anyone else.
It's been a while since I read the source to pgvector but at the time it was a straightforward HNSW implementation that implicitly assumes your index fits in page cache. Once that's not true, your search performance will fall off a cliff. Which in turn means your insert performance also hits a wall since each new vector requires a search.

I haven't seen any news that indicates this has changed, but by all means give it a try!
Speeding up prompt iteration with a CMS (tips for prompt management)
I don't necessarily expect it to get better attention. I did intentionally caveat that with "If you seriously believe there's a threat".

That said, I heard a line in the fantastic Kurzgesagt video[1] that said something along the lines of "A nuclear detonation is the worst parts of an earthquake, tornado, and wildfire all at the same time"

It stands to reason, then, that being prepared for each of those disasters will leave you significantly more well off in the unlikely event of "the big one".

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iPH-br_eJQ
And the California Genocide ...

And the confiscation of indigenous land and forced expulsion of those people ...

And state constitutions which prohibited Blacks from moving in ...

Institutionalized Jim Crow-era race-based restrictions, including Sundown Towns and redlining...

The forced expulsion of Chinese-Americans from Tacoma, by white supremacists including the mayor, judge and city councilors, which became the method used to further Chinese expulsion in the US West.

Oh, and the Japanese detainment camps in WWII ...

Nope, no history of oppressive governments in the US.
I am an MS SQL user and didn't touch postgres but can I assume analyse is a tool for displaying the chosen query plan for a query?

If so it is in all DBs I would think but it is a bit too manual for my taste, still a big hurdle and opt-in...vs just writing code (including SQL code) and tests like normal and opt-out on getting errors if you get poor plans.

But...probably some tooling could be made to do such analysis automatically and throw similar errors...

Does statistics ever cause query plans to suddenly change on postgres? In MS SQL you would also need to pin the plan / disable statistics on tables...
Such extensions would be trivially easy for Google to break with Chrome updates. You also cannot distribute an extension like that through any of the usual extension stores.

Better to just use a browser that actually respects its users.
It was self interest (against a threatened harm, not for additional money); she went into it at the time:

> “He was trying to claim that it would be illegal for us not to resign immediately, because if the company fell apart we would be in breach of our fiduciary duties,” Toner said. “But OpenAI is a very unusual organization, and the nonprofit mission — to ensure [artificial general intelligence] benefits all of humanity — comes first.”

> Toner said she viewed the lawyer’s words as an “intimidation tactic” — and replied that Altman’s removal would “actually be consistent with the mission” of the nonprofit to ensure AI safety above an individual company’s success.

https://nypost.com/2023/12/08/business/ex-openai-board-membe...
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/helen-toner-openai-board-2e4031e...
Worth watching the British film Threads. That shows the aftermath quite realistically.
Apple AppStore revenue at a cursory glance looks to be double that annually with a far smaller user base globally.
Depends on the seller.

If you're already knowledgable, experience, and well-networked, there is less value.

If you're not...well, have you ever sold a business?
The challenge isn't just to generate revenue, but to generate a TON of revenue that justifies the massive investments these companies are making. It's not obvious to me that any of these products are going to be as successful as the market needs them to be.
You're not wrong, but unfortunately many teams don't.

Probably my favourite "ya'll don't understand how databases work" was where they "reserved" space for MySQL enums; for example for the "active" column it would be something like:

enum(
'active',
'deleted',
'_futureval1',
'_futureval2',
'_futureval3',
'_futureval4',
'_futureval5',
'_futureval6',
'_futureval7',
'_futureval8',
'_futureval9'
)

Enums don't work like that at all; it's just a mapping of int to a string value for readability, and you don't need to "reserve" space to add future values just like you don't need to for ints. Adding a new enum value is easy and cheap. Removing them is not as it requires a full scan of all rows to verify they're used. Even worse, you couldn't easily rename enum labels (at the time, don't know if you can now), making it all worse than useless.

Since this was all on large tables and the effort to fix it was relatively large, but without adding much business value, we never fixed it. We were basically stuck with it. It sure as hell annoyed me every time I looked at it.

I'm not an DBA either, but spending about 5 seconds on the documentation for "enum" would have prevented this. This really doesn't require a PhD in SQL.
Researchers analyze how a chemical process could help recycle PET plastic
Amazon Cloud Traffic Is Suffocating Fedora's Mirrors
Thanks for reading!

>Why wouldn't you go back to a corporation and try to make a software product there, as an employee?

Oh, boy. So many reasons!

The thing I really love about running a company of my own is that I don't have to get anyone's approval to do things. If I have an idea, I can work on it, and I don't have to convince anyone or justify the time or money.

I also really love being able to choose my own hours, tools, and schedule. At Google, I found real-time chat distracting and net negative (I get that they bring value to some people, just not me), and I found that most meetings were a waste of time. At TinyPilot, we never used real-time chat, and we were deliberate and efficient about meetings.

At Google, I often found that things that were good for the company or my team or our customers were often not aligned with incentives for me (e.g., it was easier to get promoted for launching a complex feature than for a trivial feature that solved the problem elegantly). With my own small company, it's much easier to align incentives between me, my teammates, and our customers.

I could go on and on, but I guess the underlying issue is that I place a high value on independence and autonomy, and no employer can match what I get on my own.
And you need at least two instances to start forming a pattern.
Calling tear gas a "chemical weapon" is technically accurate, but still a BS clickbait tactic. Teargas shouldn't have been anywhere near kids, but that won't get most of the press with headlines like this around.

When people say "chemical weapon" they think "weapon of mass destruction" even if they don't know names like mustard gas, vx or seran. These are clearly very different categories of things.

It sucks that this will get a pass from many people when they realize schoolkids weren't at risk of mass death, because teargas simply isn't going to kill a lot of kids. Should the cops have behaved better? Yes. Should they be in trouble for tear gassing kids? Yes. Will this be downplayed while people argue uselessly if this was or wasn't a chemical weapon attack while trying to get a better understanding of the story? Yes. Will this water down future talks of weapons of mass destruction as "Chemincal Weapons"? I think it will.
They can try to collect it from the shadow of me burned into the wall of the building…
I think you're right that demand for inference is likely to grow by orders of magnitude in the medium term, but I don't know that Nvidia's lead over their competitors is likely to remain as strong as it is today. That is, they'll probably hold their dominant position, especially for training, but I'd expect their lead on inference to shrink by a lot. Companies pretty much understand how to make inference engines. Expect AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, Apple and others to come out with products geared at fast and efficient inference. Not to mention Grok and other dedicated chips.
But a pill they also have to swallow.
I mean, if you are attempting to use multiple sampling to avoid this kind of error, just use temperature 0 sampling and do it once.

In your example you will get Pete every time.
“Obviously” isn’t really a legal argument, though.
Debian Package of the Day (static archived copy) (2009)
I’d disagree that there has to be a trade off at all. Using hardware security keys or device based passkeys, secure authentication is actually pretty convenient now.
it turns out that rising real estate costs hit everybody and now everyone is trying to optimize every last dollar to make rent.
Also, if you’re spending $5000 to compute embeddings, why are you indexing them on a laptop?
Planned for 2027. When it ships for that price I’ll believe it.

The main underdelivery of EV’s is total cost of ownership which is a shit show of complexity under a layer of marketing.

(Note: former EV owner. I don’t own a car now)
There are exercises that have worked for some people to reverse myopia.

https://www.losetheglasses.org/
https://endmyopia.org/
long exposures don't inherently mean blurring. The camera or mount can move to track a moving object, keeping it sharp. Astrophotography has been and still is done without computational photography.
Sure, but when you don't want it in bright orange and with Ac it's like 35k€
You mean ChatGPT? What's the use case that people pay for

I mean the thing you can use in IDEs, some people seem to love it. (And it's great for writing Terraform code for example.)
I just looked at two pomodoro apps on the app store, one had a one-time purchase fee, the other had a subscription only model. It's a freaking pomodoro app! I can't believe I have to pay for that in the first place (why doesn't the countdown app of Apple not have a widget =.=) but a subscription? People are greedy af.
Look at the biased way you write about the situation. This is the fundamental attribution error. If you can't read her code, it's her fault (you implied that). And if she can't read your code, it's also her fault (you implied that).
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Yeah

>100 million monthly active users in January, just two months after launch, making it the fastest-growing consumer application in history

I've used it for some non trivial stuff. Legal advice and advice on launching a crypto project.
Is it correct to say that out of tens of thousands of places, distributed on the whole surface of Earth, it is highly probable that some will experience a one-in-a-hundred-years record in the next few weeks? Be it heat, cold, rain, drought or earthquakes?
Censorship and monitoring is not something I would attribute to the right within the last 10-15 years. In the US, things like the Patriot Act are bipartisan. Otherwise, things regarding moderation/censorship/tracking tend to have far more favorability among the modern left leaning governments.
> What will cause prices to fall is higher interest rates. This is what has been happening in NZ.

I hope so. But this assumes a fair market. I believe the NZ market will be pumped up through government action in order to avoid paper losses for property investors, landlords, and also for regular family property owners' unrealised gains.

Case in point: reinstating full interest deductions for residential property, reducing the tax investors pay. A $2.5b kickback to landlords. 60 per cent deduction in 2023/24, rising to 80 per cent in 2024/25 and 100 per cent in 2025/26.
> The concept of "mine" also exists in socialism.

Nope, even your shoes officially belong to the collective. I was told this by a former subject of the USSR.

> family

As I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, children are not fully formed humans, and have only a subset of adult rights. Families have evolved to deal with this issue. Extending the family to society does not work.

> why don't you tell us what human nature is

Two excellent books on the topic:

"The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature" by Matt Ridley
https://www.amazon.com/Red-Queen-Evolution-Human-Nature/dp/0...

"Noble Savages" by Napoleon Chagnon
https://www.amazon.com/Noble-Savages-Dangerous-Yanomamo-Anth...

I can sum it up with human nature is our evolved behavior, rather than learned behavior.
>Maybe closer, does this line of thinking mean that the twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olson[2] couldn't have distinct professional acting careers without one another's explicit permission because of their similarity (capitalized on for Full House) as one would necessarily infringe on the likeness of the other? That seems like a bridge too far.

What line of thinking? Right of publicity laws are not new. If one of the twins purported to be the other, yes, why wouldn't the other twin have a claim? What is controversial about that?
Well, shall we talk about the role of the commission? Or the court of justice? Or the whole apparatus of offices, sub-offices, representatives, and Initiatives? It’s all so complex that pretty much nobody you meet could correctly outline the way European legislation works. There have been discussions among scholars for more than 50 years whether the EU is a sufficiently legitimate democracy.

I’m definitely pro EU; after all, international collaboration is the only thing protecting us from the USA and China, but there’s lots of room for improvement here.
If it’s cheaper to hedge (by shorting) and waiting for the long term cap gains tax instead of selling (and paying short term cap gains) that’s what people will do. It has nothing to do with “risky bets” or anything like that. It’s simple tax optimization.
In my opinion still to be seen where LLMs are going in general. They are cool sure, but I don't see its value measured in trillions in 2024 but my prediction and investment aptitudes are disastrous.
> we evaluate the presented attention mechanisms on MNIST, CIFAR100, IMDB Movie Reviews, and Amazon Reviews datasets.

It sounds amazing, but I'm not holding my breath this one will scale.
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Does it disable (or allow for disabling) iPhone's dreadful dynamic tone mapping? (It makes exposure-locked footage look like auto-exposure is on)
I'm not making a legal argument, I'm discussing the absolutely awful intuitions constantly being put forth in the discussion of this potential case on HN.
The information was tucked inside a blog post about the new safety board apparently:

https://openai.com/index/openai-board-forms-safety-and-secur...
right, the $42K Rivian fender bender was a particularly egregious example. https://www.theautopian.com/heres-why-that-rivian-r1t-repair...
Suspiciously impressive, you could say.
No way, plenty of companies running simpler software can survive almost everyone leaving
I Am So Depressed
I am just so depressed, and I don't have anyone or anything to express it to. Since I am a programmer I chose to post it here. nothing fancy.
> I can't see these earnings being sustainable for nvidia over the long run.

We've barely scratched video and volumetric video training, even if text stuff hits a data wall I think demand will stay high for quite some time due to that.

The move to on-device inference actually takes more training, you need to train it longer to make it still perform well at edge parameter counts (with lots more training, Llama 3 8B is competitive with 70B). Nvidia is already more specialized towards training and has lots of competitors in inference.

Training tends to have steps that don't just involve matmul; Jim Keller said Tesla Dojo ended up having problems from being too rigid, where GPUs have been able to adapt to new training regimes better, though Google's TPUs have seemed to not fall into that as much, maybe just iterated much faster?
Lots of places let you vote. The impact that has on actual political work varies.
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I live near an airport that is very likely a major target. My plan in the event I am aware something is kicking off is to get on a bicycle and get as close as I can. Hoping to get vaporized by the initial blast.
"Do you talk to someone else while we're talking?"
They wanted Scarlett Johansson specifically, couldn't get her and then hired someone

They hired the Sky voice actress well before contacting SJ.

with the intent to convince the public it was her.

The only evidence for this is Sam's "her" tweet, which can easily be referring to the concept of a realistically-voiced AI assistant rather than SJ in particular.
> The OS enforces the security around screenshots, screen recording, and downloading.

Your OS enforces the security around screenshots. Mine forges WideVine credentials and downloads them anyways; we are not the same.
By definition, chemists are scientists.
Waiting for DDb to be able to read delta tables natively.
This is capital gains, meaning 15-20% in taxes. Nowhere near half.
> Again, English words for dirt, e.g. land, can be used for the exact same meaning.

Yeah, no, you don't get it. The stuff you can hold in your hand is maybe a quarter of it.
So we are basically fucked.
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And yet, once the money dries up after chasing another pointless hype, the "visionary" CEO will still keep their job - while starting yet another round of layoffs.
I wonder, if the board had explicitly said this (rather than their odd phrasing, "its board... concluded that Altman was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities") whether the firing would have stuck.
He's being hyperbolic because Arkansas only has 4 districts and the local residents probably know him [and he's a "local boy" from Hot Springs, Arkansas, so he's likely pretty popular]. But his district isn't the 2nd which is most of Little Rock, or the 3rd which is Fort Smith, Fayetteville, Springdale, and Bentonville. I don't think I know any of the cities in his district.