skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So are you suggesting that every time an employee commits a crime, CEOs should go to jail alongside them?

Every time a politician commits an offence the president/prime minister should go to prison?

Every time a pupil breaks the law, the principal of the school should go to prison?

I'd suggest the reason 'no on else seems to have learned' it is because it's a ridiculous and impractical idea.
Should CEOs (etc) be punished if they knowingly aid and abet crime and/or cover it up? Sure, I think most people are on board with that.
you may be double counting opus encoding/decoding delay - usually, you can run it with 20ms frame, and both encoder and decoder take less than 1ms of realtime for their operation - so it should be ~ 21ms, instead of 30+30ms for 1 direction.
@dukeyukey, from these '_lot_ of studies', if we remove those that are directly or indirectly funded by the coffee lobby, are we left with the empty set ∅ ?
Yeah we shouldn't give attention to this kind of press.
The police unions spend too much time and effort protecting its worst members.
> According to the settlement, Mr. Bombard received $100,000, and $75,000 has been paid to his lawyers at FIRE and the American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont.
I'm the CTO of Pitch, so obvious bias here, but have you tried our product? Would love to know what you miss from Impress when using Pitch.
That would give big companies a big advantage.

It maybe wrong how it is now, but it exists for a reason.

Same with patents.
How exactly is this stochastic terrorism?
I think it's going downhill fast. I remember being 12 and watching bbc world news, every few months, after a scandal, you'd have a minister/high ranking official apologise and resign. it was completely different from the unapologetic cnuts at the head of my birth country at the time. now we have people like Dominic Cummings who basically broke his own rules and insisted it was fine for him to keep going until he was really forced out, and of course many more of these similar cases - some even lost to a salad.
I'm sad they didn't decide to push it away.

I imagine it would have required an insane amount of energy, but it would have been cool to imagine it drifting off, a-la "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets".
> Browser that uses ChatGPT to render web like it's 1996

Yes, we need ChatGPT to underline links in 2024. Can we have ChatGPT draw borders around buttons and scrollbars on windows ? /s
Hawaii home mistakenly built on Bay Area woman's land to be torn down
It's not about peers and poor, it's about immigrants, and racism within the post office - the abhorrent assumption that immigrant families who get contracts as sub postmasters were 'on the make'.

It was reported in the lords that >40% of those prosecuted were immigrants, with a high proportion of asian women, which, given the very low level of asian women in the prison population is hard to believe.

For reference, hansard has what was discussed in the lords:

https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2024-02-19/debates/E6D46...
What he revealed is that intelligence agencies are acting in bad faith and they completely trample on the civil liberties and freedoms they are supposed to protect. The way it's justified is all centred on this principle:

> Spying on other nations is generally considered fair game

Perhaps the most damning thing Snowden revealed is how this excuse is used for domestic spying. Britain's GCHQ, for example, is also not supposed to spy domestically. How did they 'sidestep' that issue? They told NSA exactly what they wanted, NSA listened to those communications for GCHQ, and handed the records over [1]. That way it's not "violating the law", it's just "intelligence sharing". And of course GCHQ returned the favor to NSA by doing the same in reverse.

Saying Snowden compromised foreign spying efforts is disingenious, when those spying efforts were inseparable from foreign spying.

[1] https://www.channel4.com/news/intercept-text-messages-spy-ns...
"It's basically just Teslas in tunnels at this point, which is way more profound than it sounds"
technically zero on average of you only count non-buggy (ecc) ram
> But for some reason C++XX decided to....

Why I gave up C++.

That and because somehow package management is still a nightmare.
> If you're implying that I would like Putin, who I consider basically a Chechen-cuddler.

Oh yeah, that's the big problem with him. Sheesh...

> I don't see the Ukraine war as per se very different from the Iraq war.

Yeah, I distinctly remember how Shrub denied that the Iraqi people exist, claimed they were all Americans anyway, and set out to annex Iraq to the USA. And who can forget the moving ceremony when he bestowed Statehood upon those four Iraqi provinces? Sheesh... Try as I might, I can't come up with any reason for why you would want to pretend to be this stupid, so...

> This means that I view Russia and the US as closer on the level of morality than most people, who I feel have a bit of short term view of the world.

Yeah no, that means it's you who are... If not morally blind, at least severely short-sighted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5OjgljiaZA
The AI images are completely wrong - these show full containers rather than single pallets.
There’s a great Dilbert about that… he turns in his timesheet to Carol the secretary and then she says why are you still standing there and he says I still have 14 minutes scheduled for this.
For tasks like data extraction, are people doing full finetunes or training a LoRA? Is it any different for classification?
> Any presentation that can't be presented in static pdf is a presentation I'd rather miss.

I feel the complete opposite - if the presentation can be distilled in a static PDF, I'd rather just read the blog post. The entire point of a presentation is being engaged with the speaker to me.
Depends on how your blog is generated. Static generators like jekyll have plugins for this[1], but it’s also easy enough to generate it by hand with an xml template [2]. Wordpress, substack and other platforms generate it by default afaik.

[1] https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-feed

[2] This is mine: https://github.com/facundoolano/olano.dev/blob/main/src/feed...
Looks related to what Swissmetro wanted to do in Switzerland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swissmetro Except that its not underground

Afaik, the project looks dead?
The grass is always greener; we have a Bengali friend whose innocence regarding how things work in the West makes us smile.
> Many of those culpable are pretty ordinary

You misattribute

The whole point of this coverup was to benefit the elites or cover up their failings. We have a dodgy contract, acceptance of a faulty system, and desire to cover up its failings because that would lead to ruined careers at the C level. Misallocation of funds would be investigated, we would have to figure out where did millions of dollars actually disappear to, etc.

The middle classes involved, solicitors, etc. are culpable in the sense that they serviced the machine and enabled it, but they not the beneficiaries, they are just cog in the machine. If a specific person would refuse, another would soon take his place.

So the real blame lies with those who were comfortable giving outright criminal orders.
Do good-looking people live longer?
I wasn't suggesting you need the LLM to perform sentiment analysis. The problem the LLM overcomes is generating the training data you need without having to trudge through massive amounts of material to mark a comment / thread with a 1 or a 0.

There's no scraping cost, the API is free. Your message, for example, is here:
https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/40801233.json?pri...

Processing 10,000 threads is probably not more than a few dollars on OpenAI's GPT API.

The reason I don't do it is I don't see the trend you see.
Most of the great art was created in a world without intellectual property, or with no effective IP enforcement on that art.

While I don’t think all IP should be abolished, I think in general there is too much of it, protected for too long, and society would be better off getting rid of patents and dramatically downsizing copyright to at most a few decades of protection.

(And yes I have thought a lot on this matter. The evidence behind patents being overall beneficial is weak, and there is no effective societal argument for the current copyright terms.)
IMHO yes, it made the rounds among the major tech outlets at the time. Although technically you could argue that everyone else was “reporting on bloomberg’s reporting”. It would be accurate but not reflective of how readers generally interpret these. They dont usually go “oh wow it’s interesting news that bloomberg is reporting this”, they internalize “oh wow supermicro has backdoors” instead.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/10/new-bloomberg-report...

https://www.servethehome.com/bloomberg-reports-china-infiltr...

https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2021/02/12/supermicro_bloomb...
Parallelization? As in you grow layers upon layers in parallel, align them and chemically bond them?
It probably will be in reality - pallet conveyor is too slow and expensive, so it’s most likely that this would be an electric monorail system or similar.

(I work in logistics automation design, 310 miles of traditional pallet chain conveyor just isn’t feasible imo for loads of reasons)
This is satire. Right? Right?!?
Product Image Optimisation with Chrome's Convolutional Neural Network
This is so, so good. I like that it seems to be a teaser app for cerebrium, if I understand it. It has good killer app potential. My tests from iPad ranged from 1400ms to 400ms reported latency; in the low end, it felt very fluid.

One thing this speed makes me think is that for some chat workflows you’ll need/get to have kind of a multi-step approach — essentially, quick response, during which time a longer data / info / RAQ query can be farmed out, then the informative result picks up.

Humans work like this; we use lots of filler words as we sort of get going responding to things.

Right now, most workflows seem to be just one shot prompting, or in the background, parse -> query -> generate. The better workflow once you have low latency response is probably something like: [3s of LLama 8b in your ears] -> query -> [55s of Llama 70b/GPT4/whatever you want, informed by query].

Very cool, thank you for sharing this.
The headline saying that it "will" do something, but not having any actual images or even a concept sketch is a little concerning
I hope you're right about bringing alignment with EU regs, although I'm not optimistic, given how safe Starmer seems to want to play it.
“Its just a tube with an air hockey table, it’s not that complex”
> The phrase "Slava Ukraini" predates the OUN by actual decades

> Comparing it to "Sieg Heil" is utterly disingenuous.

LOL I'll introduce you to the fact that Sieg Heil originated in Germany around the 1900, way before the nazis got the power. The roman salute was used by the Roman empire, the earliest known use of the swastika dates the 4th centure BCE. Yet none of this symbols/gestures are accepted today, because the nazis spoiled them for everyone.

> Regardless, your summary of Bandera and the OUN is selfish and ethnocentric.

Nice hand-wavy way to dismiss hundreds of thousands of murders.
I’ll believe it when I see it
I do not understand this. Will you still love it when it takes your job?

(Assuming it is really that good, which is something that I can never replicate.)
To all those snidely commenting about trains or rail: Do you think that Japan, of all places, is not familiar with railways? The article states that this is for palletized or small-package loads. Give them some credit.
More funny would be if they discover how efficient canals are then end up building old world aqueducts with flowing water.
Uber will pay you $1k to ditch your car for five weeks
Executives are not punished even when they knowingly and purposefully perpetuate a crime, just see Boeing.
> I wonder if there will ever be a challenge to Marbury v. Madison.

An excellent question. Marbury isn't itself so much a problem as how courts — and the All-Writs Act — have implemented the basic principle. But people have gone along with expansive judicial review for two centuries now, so it's pretty much locked in as "how things are done."

Congress could still limit the reach of Marbury without a constitutional amendment, I think: Under the Exceptions and Regulations Clause, Congress could pass a law saying, for example, some or all of the following:

1. Only SCOTUS has the power to declare an act of Congress (and/or a federal regulation) unconstitutional; a lower court's declaration of unconstitutionality is simply an advisory opinion that has the effect of putting the case in question on hold. (The latter part would need more thought as to the operational details.)

2. A SCOTUS declaration of unconstitutionality has no effect unless agreed to by at least a 7-2 vote.

3. A SCOTUS declaration of unconstitutionality can be overridden by, say, a 3/5 vote of each of the House and Senate, subject to the usual rules about presidential vetoes and pocket vetoes.

Is Congress likely to do any of the foregoing? Probably not — but there might be at least some bipartisan support for cautiously shifting more power back to the elected political branches.
I agree with most of what you said. For me though, it's really hard to go to YouTube without wasting at least an hour. That's why I built this app. So far, it's working great for me. I've added my favorite channels into different lists based on categories and set up weekly reminders for all of them. For example, every Friday evening at 7 PM, I get an email about the latest videos from Veritasium, 3Blue1Brown, Mark Rober, Ben Eater, Steve Mould, SmarterEveryDay, and Tom Scott. This way, I don't feel the urge to go to YouTube and lose track of time.
What profession did you think the headline referred to?
We have historical evidence of using hot oil, especially pitch (which is "oil" in the sense of petroleum, not plant oil), e.g. see [1], which provides academic sources.

If we go beyond Medieval Europe, using hot oil was observed by Josephus in AD 67 [2].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/26l4ae/was_b...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_thermal_weapons#Hot_oil
That's exactly how this works in regulated industries. At UK banks there is criminal liability for senior management for institutional failures.

Concretely in this case, if you are bringing a prosecution and you fail to uphold the rights of the defendant, yes I absolutely think you should face criminal liability for that.
there's already trains that do a lot of freight. Not sure what's the point of building this kind of things. Except getting into more debt?
this is a issue
My tests had one outlier at 1400ms, and ten or so between 400-500ms. I think the marketing numbers were fair.
> Saying Snowden compromised foreign spying efforts is disingenious

I’d argue this heavily depends on scope and context of discussion. For what you’re talking about, it’s a reasonable take. But for things like spying on foreign leaders and ANT Catalog and Tailored Access Operations — there’s not really much domestic angle there, so those elements wouldn’t be disingenuous to represent as “compromising foreign spying efforts”.

There’s certainly a concern that TAO techniques could be turned inwards, but what we know about it suggests that its been consistently outward-focused for the past 25 years.

> What he revealed is that intelligence agencies are acting in bad faith and they completely trample on the civil liberties and freedoms they are supposed to protect.

I agree with this. I just also think his disclosures went beyond this and that discussions about Snowden are incomplete if we limit ourselves to acknowledging only acknowledge the disclosures which include a domestic angle.

> Perhaps the most damning thing Snowden revealed is how this excuse is used for domestic spying…(etc)

I agree that this type of “i spy on your citizens, you spy on mine” information-sharing became much more widely known due to Snowden but I knew about Five Eyes/ECHELON back when I was in middle school before 9/11 or the PATRIOT act. The ACLU had this from year 2000: https://web.archive.org/web/20000711031525/http://www.aclu.o...

“Illegal” domestic spying via Five Eyes was published in books at least as early as 1998 - https://books.google.com/books/about/Live_by_the_Sword.html?...

The biggest difference pre/post Snowden wasnt so much the knowledge that these illegal things were happening — but that in less than a year, people’s responses to me talking about the known realities of domestic surveillance switched from “okay Mr. crazy person” to “well yeah, duh”.
I don't think we pushed CSS too far; the complexity of CSS is inherently tied to the complexity of the UI requirements. Even now CSS can't handle everything.
Sure, but it’s all the same in large corporations. I might be happier in a smaller company, but they pay correspondingly less. I need to pay for a house and education. It’s depressing, but not depressing enough to throw away my children’s future.
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Just a name
Plenty of success stories start this way. Unfortunately, since it makes it impossible to really determine what to do in such a situation.
I have thought on the matter for millions of seconds.

Politics and economics don't have anything to do with morality. It's about power. The moral fairytailes are there to justify whatever the state of affairs are. When these change, new fairytales justifying them will be adopted.

If right to property is a God given right, why the hell I as a atheist should give a damn?
Thanks for the warning. I assumed it would be de-orbiting but still, a very bad headline prone to lead people into believing in something that's not going to happen.
Someone upgrading from an Intel Mac to an Apple Silicon Mac doesn't increase Mac marketshare.
You can achieve your share option in iOS using shortcuts. If you make a shortcut that sends the content of the share (like the URL of the article) to an arbitrary URL.
"other uses of xenon" feels like this is just AI-generated spam.
Hims & Hers Selling GLP-1 Injection That’s Not FDA Approved, From Shady Supplier
First contact will likely be with an older civilization (2020)
For me it's more than apathetic - for example when I'm encountering content which is illustrated with AI-generated images I noticed that I'm subconsciously downgrading it's quality right away - for sure it's wrong because that's classic example of judging book by the cover and even some good quality OS software on GH and/or good tech blogs with proven record use AI-generated content for illustrative purposes - however it's kind of automatic reaction for me and I need to use conscious effort to combat it.
I don't see how one follows from the other. It's also rather well known that Bernie was disliked by much of the Democratic establishment, so shouldn't that, by your reasoning, mean that WikiLeaks shouldn't have published the DNC leaks either?
I just roll my own website with mostly hand-written html/css. Ill look into just dropping a handwritten xml into the root
Notion just launched Notion Sites. This is in direct competition to 3rd party Notion website builders like Super, Potion, Feather, Bullet, SimpleInk, HelpKit, and my product Sotion.

Now the question becomes differentiation... Here's my take...

Notion Sites: Will become the standard for simple sites like Personal sites, Event pages, Travel guides, Job boards, etc.

Super: Has an edge with advanced styling and brand customization options.

Potion, SimpleInk, Bullet: Not much differentiation from Notion Sites.

Feather, HelpKit: Niched down to focus on Blogs + Newsletters, and Help Docs, I think this will work out well for them.

Sotion: On par with Notion Sites, with the addition of advanced Membership Management capabilities, including: Password Protection, Email Sign Up, Restricted Email List Access, Paid Memberships, and Integration via API and webhooks.

The move by Notion can be seen as positive for the whole space, but it will definitely take potential business from all 3rd party apps.

Keen to hear your thoughts.
Depends on your frame of reference. Compared to anything else I've seen generated on a consumer grade GPU, I'd say these are are indeed pretty good.

Here's their example gallery: https://hpcaitech.github.io/Open-Sora/

Compared to the outputs from other models run on consumer grade GPUs, I'd say those are very good.
Non-directional doppler radars are cheaper than the kind of directed radars that would be needed to map the distance to all static objects.

Also a dopler radar can scan the whole sector with every emission, and simply measure the distance to the closest moving objects (and their speed) with each scan.

A radar that creates a 2d image of the sector usually needs to send a targeted beam in one direction at a time. Such a radar is not only much more expensive, it also adds latency.

Visible light is better suited for 2D imaging, anyway.
I used the future tense.
Make ppt more fun
Why do others need to be able to use the tool?

By the way, Figma has powerful live collaboration features.
The difference is in shared understanding. With tools like CUE or Starlark, you can learn one system and everyone can reason across each other's work. With imperative languages, every instance is a snowflake and creates significant mental overhead. It's the flexibility that is actually the problem for configuration. I get there is/was a trend towards general purpose languages in DevOps, but I think we are post peak on the adventure.
This won't actually happen. It's a "we're doing something about it" project that will spend a lot of money on planning and then not pan out (obviously, since the very premise is ludicrous).

Then they can say they're doing something about the shrinking worker problem and call it a day. No one need be shamed.
Space Exploration and the Transformation of Time
The domain matters. You probably can sell a car called Sora, but not AI video models or bike parts.