skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you think if we make a system for bad/broken transliteration and funnel it through ChatGPT, it might give meaningful results?

No, because ChatGPT's training data has practically no way of knowing what a real sign language looks like, since there's no real written form of any sign language and ChatGPT learned its languages from writing.

Sincerely: I think it's awesome that you're taking something like this on, and even better that you're open to learning about it and correcting flawed assumptions. Others have already noted some holes in your understanding of sign, so I'll also just note that I think a solid brush up on the fundamentals of what language models are and aren't is called for—they're not linguistic fairy dust you can sprinkle on a language problem to make it fly. They're statistical machines that can predict likely results based on their training corpus, which corpus is more or less all the text on the internet.

I'm afraid I'm not in a good position to recommend beginner resources (I learned this stuff in university back before it really took off), but I've heard good things about Andrej Karpathy's YouTube channel.
I tend to agree. However, I tried to continue to prompt ChatGPT make make the picture less "AI like" and it actually ended up doing a really good job after 5 or 6 attempts. I'm not sure why it took so much prompting. Further prompting just made it worse.
I don't know what platform vast.ai uses but what I have noticed is cpu compute is pretty slow in those. Specifically the tokenization stage was unusually slow for no apparent reason. Had to give that up and use Google cloud for my research project
Every good stereo from the 80s and 90s had two tape-decks, one of which could record from any other signal source on the stereo. It wasn't so you could play two tapes over the speakers...

Piracy existed a LONG time before Napster hit the scene.
I just set my phone next to another phone and put them both on speaker. It didn't actually dial a number, but I'm sure it could if you used the API and gave it a "tool".
Even if you control everything about your crypto setup from the atomic level to the software, unless you have a way to live self-sufficiently, you are still subject to outside control. There are many ways to apply pressure in the meat-space world that can lead to manipulation and censorship. Just ask any big tech provider _exactly_ how many National Security Letters they've responded to this month.
The point depends on the version, no?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_based_on_Faust

Marlowe being neither the first nor the most influential.
I would love a phone that only had calling, texting (iMessage) and a music streaming service.
Thanks for finding this. What browser do you use?
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41242400
Ben Horowitz Declares War on Michael Moritz
This is also true in the US. People pick up enough written English to get by most of the time, but it's often quite broken and clearly a second language. I know hearing impaired people native to the US with substantially worse English than the average European.
Sharding (huge data and local distribution, even worldwide) and HA by retaining serializable transactions. Possibly easier to operate.

The downsides are:

- slower - Postgres (if it can handle the amount of data, which is very much on proper hardware and partitioning of > 1B row tables) is much faster, esp. for joins

- features

- ecosystem (see the countless extensions)

- cost of course
You can get 4+% at US online banks. Short term CDs have been over 5% for the past year. You have to skip the brick and mortar banks with high overhead.
Why does the internet love tree law so much?
People have started training Lora's for Flux that look pretty pretty real. This was a good recent example: https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1ero4ts/fi...
> At the time, the Soviet space program technical capabilities were overestimated by almost everyone

Correction: Soviet (liquid fuel) rocket engines became world state of the art in 1950-s and mostly remained as such till about 2010. Rocket engines is the technology which is enabler to most - relatively simple, looking from today - space flights of 20th century.

One can't hit a bunch of milestones first just by chance - you have to have something behind it, and in addition to engines there were a lot of less-than-announced flights - remember how the back side of the Moon was successfully photographed only on the third flight and soft landing on the Moon took quite a few more attempts?

One can't be about as successful as the other guy in terms of deaths in space just because of luck - corner cutters were on the both sides of the Iron Curtain, but there were also understanding that you'll lose all your advantage by just having a few more deaths. No amount of successes in unmanned flights will help (because people are much more interested in manned flights), so you just can't really allow people to die - in USSR you could also have very personal displeasures of uncomfortable size.

In "History of Liquid Propellant Rocket Engines" George Sutton mentions that USSR made about 10 times more liquid fuel rocket engine designs than USA. That should bring some perspective to the matters.
This is the initial version of the online editor, and its functionality will continue to grow. It will always be free, with monetization only coming from cloud storage (for those who need it). However, I don’t plan on making it open source.
MongoDB switched from AGPL to their own license when they couldn't compete with others offering their software as SaaS, so I don't think the GPL is any kind of protection from this. It's just that the GPL is less popular than alternatives for this type of business model.
You are correct, but there is also an interesting phenomenon going on here: old school open source projects last longer. They end up being more reliable in the long term. It's kind of weird that the unprofitable option is the stable one.
What you don't seem to comprehend is that to a CEO, golf (or dinners with clients, etc) is business, not recreation.
Solid article! Important point I didn't see covered / worth noting with grid & flex layouts is visual vs logical tab orders ... Looking forward to a solution in upcoming specs

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/reading-flow-display-conte...
I used WriteFreely for a while. I loved its simplicity. It attracted a fascinating set of writers too.

But the price kept going up, updates were slow, and I think the project lacks some focus. I switched to OMG.LOL. I want a blog that is pretty constrained and forces me to make decisions. And keeps things pretty cheap.
I concur with u/colordrops 100%.
Thank you, and no worries. I appreciate that you took time to consider the interaction and write this, not everyone would. I'm sorry that my comment caused you distress of any sort. It wasn't my intention to demand anything from anyone, though I see how my comment could be interpreted that way. I'm really thankful for all the open source work done by other members of the community, and that's why I work to contribute everything I can. This is an exciting development for the imgui folks, and as an egui user, I'm just a little jealous! Here's hoping that all the toolkits get nice RAD builders sooner rather than later. I'd be happy to contribute to an egui effort.
Making a good OS costs money also but linux is given away for free. Is linux unfairly competing with Microsoft and Apple?
A crank who provides hundreds of hours of fairly decent mathematical education content free of charge; it's not because he harbours unusual/fringe opinions that he's altogether worthless…
I don't think we actually disagree on the facts so much as on the buckets we sort them into.

I very much count my internal English monologue as thinking in my language and would understand that to be what someone is asking about if they asked what language I think in. At the same time, I totally agree that there are layers to thought that never rise into the monologue.
> glosslop

What a marvelous word. Yoink!
AI is compression and compression, of any lossy kind, usually works by removing the high-frequency information first. That applies to both audio and imagery. It's obviously not the only factor, but I bet it's an important one.
> I think this does have a real shot of becoming something.

I wouldn't be doing a PhD if I didn't. PhDs are terrible. I'm amazed people do them for "the money" and not the passion.

> Because of that I think they’re going to keep throwing money at this until someone figures it out.

My concern is who they throw money at, and even more specifically who they don't throw money at.

Some people known to do carpet pulls, no prior experience in ML, and throw together a shitty demo that any ML researcher should be skeptical of?
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PhD researchers turning their theses into a product?
._.

Something's off.... But I guess when Eric Schmidt is saying you should steal and ask for forgiveness later, I don't think anyone should be surprised when unethical behavior becomes prevalent.

> Because what else is there left to grift on in tech right now?

l̶i̶f̶e̶Hype finds a way. There's always something to grift.

The key thing to always recognize: grifters are people who have solutions and are looking for problems (e.g. hamstring AI into everything) while honest people have problems and are looking for solutions (i.e. people understand the limits of what we can do, the nuances of these things, and are looking to fill in that gap). I can tell you right now, anyone saying anything should be end-to-end AI is a grifter (including Google search). We just aren't there yet. I hope we get there, but we are quite a ways. Pareto is a bitch when it comes to these things.
US is an outlier with 30 year Fixed mortgage especially during COVID. Now for any new debt its significantly higher across the globe.
Globetrotting NASA Research Model Increases Accuracy
Did you try sticking your bucket behind Cloud CDN?

Google's documentation is inconsistent, but you do not need to make your bucket public, you can instead grant read access only to Cloud CDN: https://cloud.google.com/cdn/docs/using-signed-cookies#confi...

Dangerously incorrect documentation claiming the bucket must be public: https://cloud.google.com/cdn/docs/setting-up-cdn-with-bucket...
In the Netherlands there is work from home legislation. Legally requiring it to be allowed, where possible and reasonable.

The reasoning is that it reduces traffic and reduces stress.

This existed since 2000 ish. It has expanded since covid. I now only go to the office once every two weeks. Used to be two times a week.
The CEO does it because he's the equal of the other CEO. It shows respect. In huge deals between mega-corps, the sales team has already pitched - likely a lengthy, multi-faceted process over the course of a few months - and the CEO-to-CEO meeting is the final step to close the deal.

I'm sorry but this concept should be immediately clear, if not, you really shouldn't be discussing what a CEO should or shouldn't be doing with his time.
Yes you need to always have current debt more than current liquid assets (like cash).
decent starter guide for 28 nodes scale. Would be cute to do a follow up around how to do health checks. Eg catching your transceivers from overheating, etc.
Looks cool! I’ll try it out for my ambitious project :)
US lawmakers urge probe of WiFi router maker TP-Link
I can't believe it's been 10 years since this game came out.

Rome I still has a special place in my heart. Probably spent more hours playing that game than any other. Even inspired me to read some Plutarch to learn about the lives of famous generals.

Rome II was somehow a worse game. Especially weird because it came right after Shogun 2
and its amazing expansion pack which are the best games in the series bar none.

Quite honestly none of those games have particularly good AI
If you are making informed decisions about something you should not be looking at the news for information. You should be looking at data.
The Trouble with Big Numbers
My disappointment comes from understanding that what humans do is keystroke prediction. If the output that I want can be solved by the most likely next keystroke, then sure, that’s a good use case. I’m perfectly capable of imagining those cases. People who are all in on humanity seem to not get this and go wild.

Don't mistake the "what" for the "how". What we ask LLMs to do is predict tokens. How they're any good at doing that is a more difficult question to answer, and how they are getting better at it, even with the same training data and model size, is even less clear. We don't program them, we have them train themselves. And there are a huge number of hidden variables that could be encoding things in weird ways.

These aren't n-gram models, and you're not going to make good predictions treating them as such.
So the original source is a random person on Blind?

Per the daily dot:
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/sam-altman-china/
Full (too long) title: US lawmakers urge probe of WiFi router maker TP-Link over fears of Chinese cyber attacks

>TP-Link, founded in China in 1996 by two brothers and based in Shenzhen, said in a statement that the company does not sell any router products in the United States and that its routers do not have cybersecurity vulnerabilities.

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=tp-link
HN has moderators that track things like that and can see where the upvotes are coming from and determine if the attention is genuine. If you're concerned, the correct approach is to email them about it, not post vague accusations of astroturfing.

From the guidelines:

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.
It’s the local team, not the traveling team lead, that’s being spoken of here.
Just buy the short term T-bills directly and hold them. They're as liquid and you don't have to worry about any risk besides US government default. Why pay a fund even 5 basis points simply to build a ladder that you can build yourself?
Yeah. I work for a database company, if we didn’t have copious amounts of integration, regression and stress tests we would absolutely be having a very bad time.

And of course we still have manual exploratory QA, it’s difficult to replace that safety net.
> it's only a tiny fraction of the privileged laptop class who even potentially have the option of remote work.

I have friends who are doctors. They chose their specialties not out of passion, but because of the lifestyle perks that come with them—benefits unique to their profession. Their entire education and career choices were driven by a desire for those perks. Similarly, I transitioned to an IT career to pursue the lifestyle advantages it offers. Which was not the same perks or lifestyle advantages they were looking for.

Regarding farming: I was a farmer myself, working our own farm (pork and stud cattle) as well as a farmhand on others. Farming is an incredibly flexible role, and for many, it involves working from home because the farm is the home. I’ve been doing "WFH" since childhood.

Many people choose farming or stay on family farms because they enjoy the unique perks it offers—just like those who pursue "laptop class" work for its lifestyle benefits.
Sorry to hijack the thread, but how would one get into managing GPU clusters? Modern GPUs are expensive, so it seems difficult to build a homelab to play around with them. Is learning how to run software on a cluster at the end-users level + playing around with VMs enough experience to enter the field?
~So like, what am I missing?~ (edit: I'm not missing anything; an AI still can't do my job.)

Pod is stuck in 'ContainerCreating' state and never starts.
$ kubectl get po -A
```
NAMESPACE NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
default my-app-5d8d6f6d6f-abcde 1/1 Running 0 2d
default my-app-5d8d6f6d6f-fghij 1/1 Running 0 2d
kube-system coredns-558bd4d5db-xyz12 1/1 Running 0 5d
kube-system coredns-558bd4d5db-xyz34 1/1 Running 0 5d
kube-system etcd-minikube 1/1 Running 0 5d
kube-system kube-apiserver-minikube 1/1 Running 0 5d
kube-system kube-controller-manager-minikube 1/1 Running 0 5d
kube-system kube-proxy-abcde 1/1 Running 0 5d
kube-system kube-scheduler-minikube 1/1 Running 0 5d
kube-system storage-provisioner 1/1 Running 0 5d
```

Your root cause: no pod is stuck in ContainerCreating?
Grade: incorrect

My other problems were similarly confounding¹. One was "one machine seems loaded, but not others." All the pods had a node affinity to a single node tacked onto their specs, but that's only "partially correct"? And the last one is "Application components in different pods cannot communicate", but nothing is running except nginx, which would never communicate with itself.

We're generating the problems, and answers, with an AI, aren't we?

I've thrown a few real-world problems at LLMs, and they have floundered on them, to the point of not even being able to emit coherent output. I've had utterly incoherent responses, "add this label to the pod label is in Chinese", etc.

Edit: played again. Got the same node affinity problem. Same answer, but this time it was correct. Oh yeah, AI comin' for my job /s.

Also no alias k=kubectl and no up/down to repeat/edit commands, the site restricts you from copy/pasting pod names (or anything else), no tab complete, no common shortcuts… — like yeah, if this is the condition your SREs are working in then I bet an AI can beat them? Might as well tie their hands behind their backs while we're at it.

¹I suppose it matches real life, in that the reported problem is often utterly divorced from reality, and it takes 2–3 rounds with the reporter to make sense of what it is they're trying to report in the first place. But I can't interrogate the problem statement in this "simulator".
The real death of the news was that with the internet, these sleepy old papers suddenly had competition from around the world. No longer was it an essential regional monopoly or cartel of a couple news orgs being the source of truth for a given region. Now that they no longer have their moat, what do you know, old establishment folded to things people would rather spend their attention on now that they actually have the choice to do so.
Does Chase charge a fee to buy US treasuries? I know Fidelity and Schwab do not. I wouldn't be willing to pay a cent in fees to buy a T-bill.
Those photos look impressively realistic, but the skin has exactly the wax-like sheen that I think OP is talking about.
A big part of that must be that most people don't know how to describe style. That is something I bump up against often with generative AI - it can be obvious that two images are different but hard to describe why.
Any license that prevents others from selling your code and eating your lunch is, by definition, not an open source license.

One good way of looking at the goals of open source licenses is to force companies to compete on offering services related to the code. Whether this is a sustainable idea is a different question, but this is one of the bedrock ideas about OSS (and FLOSS as well). The other is of course that the rights of those running the software are absolute and trump any rights that the original creators have, except where the users would try to prevent other users from gaining the same rights.
not that it means anything definitive, but Sinclair has been somewhat of a turbulent figure due to "overreaching claims" in the broader life extension research space: https://www.nmn.com/news/disgraced-david-sinclair-resigns-fr...
> Games do not leave services the way shows leave streaming sites

This already isn’t accurate, and it’s getting less so all the time.
I'm a happy user of login.gov for various things (IRS, SSA, etc). But I was surprised that there's also id.me, which is used many places for the same thing, as if there's another login.gov. I'm still not sure why there is two.

"It is a bad thing when one becomes two."
- Hagakure
> It took at least 17y for Amazon to get rid of its last Oracle database:

this is from CockroachDB license, pretty much straight out of Oracle's playbook:

> You will not perform Benchmarks against any products or services provided under terms that restrict performing and disclosing the results of benchmarks of such products or services, unless You have the lawful right to waive such terms. If You perform or disclose, or direct or permit any third party to perform or disclose, any Benchmark, You will include in any disclosure and will disclose to Licensor all information necessary to replicate such Benchmark, and You agree that Licensor may perform and disclose the results of benchmarks of Your products or services, irrespective of any restrictions on benchmarks in the terms governing Your products or services.
More like survivor bias. For every eBay, amazon, Starbucks ceo, there's a multitude of failures that weren't as good or lucky.
You don't pilot the boat though. You are trapped in the current with the rest of us controlled by moneyed forces unknown. Americans are docile cattle in comparison to other peoples who have the passionate collective culture needed to actually totally unseat an unpopular government.
Also, if you value the state tax exemption (for example, you live in California), you need to make sure the fund only invests in Treasuries and not in repurchase agreements. Treasuries are state tax exempt, but repos are not. If your fund holds a mix, you need to tease them apart at tax time.

Or just buy the Treasuries directly. Why pay a fund to do it for you?
Why should it scare me?

My culture is not products that others prepared for me to lure me into watching advertising.

Did someone expect these companies to maintain publicly available archives of these products well after it's relevance had faded?

If it's really important to you, I'm sure pirates have it. If not, maybe this should motivate you to get involved in piracy.
I can't fathom how "makes driving less of a chore" can work from a regulatory standpoint.

For me, that's the end-all-be-all of self driving promises. It doesn't matter whether they call it level 3, 4, 5, or 420, what the branding and promo copy says, it matters how it gets handled from a legal standpoint.

Unless you can get the vendor to accept liability, you're either hands-on-the-wheel driving, or sitting there tensing and waiting for the "you must jump back to hands-on-the-wheel driving in the next 3 seconds or we plow into the side of a lorry" alarm.

In a way, this is the same heuristic as "the company that offers a long warranty can't make crap." No company will willingly put themselves on the hook from the estate of pedestrians and other drivers until they know they've solved it to a statistically high level.
You now have different terms of service for these stores, including rules about data collection. Software will be exclusively available on these stores, so it’s not like you’ll actually have a choice about whether to use a given store.

Just like those “competitive” windows game stores.
A CLA is required to be able to sue someone infringing the GPL and represent yourself as the legal owner of the entirety of that code. If you have a hugely fractured ownership like Linux, it may be very expensive to bring a suit against an infringer.
I used that website a ton as a kid and teen. The games were actually really good.
u would either need to statically includw everything in the binaries all the time causing huge files everywhere, or use something like bsd jails. both is doable. then it is still possible to access the kernel though. so its highly impractical. as other guy pointed out Android somewhat works like that, but lots of malicious programs also exist for that..
Thanks! I’ll do my best to make it even better!
A tensor field is a finite dimensional object varying over space. The space of all tensor fields is infinite dimensional. An operator in QM is infinite dimensional at a single point itself, and in QFT we have fields of such operators.
Supplementary, by a CSS grid expert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EashgVqboWo