skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Technically you can't go over 5mph of the speed limit. And that's only because of radar accuracy.

Of course no one cares until you get a bored cop one day. And with free way traffic you're lucky to hit half the speed limit.
There exists a co-evolution between compilers, programming languages and CPUs (or more generally ASICs). I consider it to be very plausible that it is quite possible to develop a programming language that makes it sufficiently easy for a programmer to write performant code for an Itanium, but such a programming language would look different from C or C++.
The link i get is :

https://imgur.com/a/RSQIKP2

STOP !

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Il tuo browser sta tentando di raggiungere un sito Internet contenente immagini e filmati di pedopornografia minorile. L'inibizione dell'accesso a questo sito é prevista dalla legge n. 38/2006.

Questo servizio di protezione della navigazione sulla rete Internet è predisposto grazie alla collaborazione tra il Centro Nazionale per il Contrasto della Pedopornografia Online e gli Internet Service Providers italiani.

La visualizzazione intenzionale, la diffusione, la detenzione, la cessione, la produzione e la commercializzazione di questo tipo di materiale sono puniti dalla legge come reato.
I work a little bit on it every day. I guess somewhere around 15 hours per week. Glad you like it.
> Audits cannot prove anything and they offer no value when planning for the future. They're purely a retrospective tool that offers insights into potential risk factors.

What if it audits your deploy and approval processes? They can say for example, that if your AI deployment process doesn't include stress tests against some specific malicious behavior (insert test cases here) then you are in violation of the law. That would essentially be a control on all future deploys.
Things you could dig up with a search engine are explicitly not covered, see my other comment quoting the bill (ctrl+f critical harm).
I may be misunderstanding what you're trying to achieve, but you can simulate the bash '&' operator for a running process by pressing ctrl-Z to suspend the process and send it to the background, then running 'bg' to continue the process in the background.
Thats not what it's bocking it for apperantly. Obviously I wouldn't have a problem with simply archiving.

https://imgur.com/a/RSQIKP2
Indeed, I'd thought the title was deliberately ambiguous between raised ("upbringing") and raised ("uplifted").
> Your automatic “well it can’t be racism it must be that black people are naturally bad in other ways” response

Excuse me? This is an extremely uncharitable interpretation of my reply.

> “Our findings show that when speed cameras are doing the ticketing, the proportion of tickets issued to Black and white drivers aligns closely with their respective share of roadway users. *With human enforcement, in contrast, police officers stop Black drivers at a rate that far outstrips their presence on the road.*”

This is precisely the text that lead to my reply, why would they compare speeding tickets from speeding cameras with traffic stops by police and not speeding tickets from police? I'm not denying there is something here, just that this is a dishonest comparison.

In fact if you had read to the end of the article you would have seen they even indirectly allude to this:

> Over half of police stops in Chicago for 2023 were license plate, registration or equipment related. Automating enforcement of such nonmoving violations would eliminate a major reason for police-driver interaction, reducing the potential for bias and escalation.
> In the total dataset, 47.5 % of women wanted larger breasts than they currently had, 23.2 % wanted smaller breasts, and 29.3 % were satisfied with their current breast size.
In short it's about helping people who are making genuinely useful products find the audience who genuinely needs them. "If you build it they will come" isn't true. People need to find out & understand when something they're looking for exists. It's true of small town businesses and global products.

I think it's worth taking a step back and considering what a better world looks like, solving this problem without ads. I can envision a "pull" model, where you always seek it out vs it being pushed on you. I think people buying things they don't want or need is not good. If someone can propose a way to make the "pull" model work, and we can try it out, I'd be all for that experiment. And I hope they'll write it about it so we as consumers learn and demand better of companies we use.
Well this is exactly why there's a minimum scale of concern. Below a certain scale it's less complicated and answers are more predictable and alignment can be ensured. Bigger models how do you determine your confidence if you don't know what's it's thinking? There's already evidence in o1 red-teaming, the model was trying to game the researcher's checks.
I’m working on https://www.zonehero.io/ to deliver a cost effective alternative to AWS native load balancing (ALB).

We already had a PoC which saved our customer 50% vs ALB (in their case that’s more than a million dollars a year), we’re now working on tooling and scaling the solution up!

Next we want to bring wasm modules to the lbs, to do edge traffic curation, bring your own model, etc.

In technical terms, we offer a fully managed control plane for an optimised version of envoy running on EC2, and we react in near real time to avoid unnecessary cross AZ traffic (the key to the costs savings).
Sounds like the exact opposite plot of Wall-E.
Building an electric 1973 Ferrari Dino to compete in the battle of the builders at SEMA in November. Lots of fun electronics and software, as well as mechanical challenges to overcome.
Lol, I thought "How TF did Anthony Weiner get elected for anything else again??" after reading that.
I don't think the people saying that AGI is happening in the near future know what would be necessary to achieve it. Neither do the AGI skeptics, we simply don't understand this area well enough.

Evolution created intelligence and consciousness. This means that it is clearly possible for us to do the same. Doesn't mean that simply scaling LLMs could ever achieve it.
For an example of this, I recall reading a proposal that acts of Congress be strictly limited to be at most (say) 5 pages in length. This would be a natural form of regularization of the legislative power.
I was raised by the internet, too. I first started using computers at around the age of 5. A lot of my childhood years were spent in places that still exist today. My family was poor and computers were my only escape, just like the article says.

I can't help but feel like I lost something through doing that, though. It certainly didn't help my ADHD to teach my brain that it's possible to live life through only instant gratification. And it certainly didn't help to always be connected to so many people that now I can't seem to do anything alone.
You’re being downvoted (by others) because you confused design intention with errors in implementation.

All vendors have bugs in their products, including security bugs.

Apple is one of the few trying to protect the privacy of their users with technology.

Google does not. The entire company exists to drain your personal data into a giant pond for their ad-tech analysts to splash around in.
Extremely out of touch and not useful at all. He needs to learn how to tell when he has something important to say and when he’s just yapping. How can he think making just a little bit of money is even an option? I have a very high income and I still can’t afford a home. I can’t even imagine how terrible my life would be if I took risks.
I've been curious about doing algotrading for both the data engineering aspect and the quant. Do you have suggestions about books or others sources to get inspiration from ?

Is this a one man venture or do you have a group discussing edges ?
Agile is perfectly optimised for creating tech debt. Corporate software is almost always impossible to change once released so it’s obvious that frequent iterative deliverables that you can only code around or on top of propagate technical debt
If your editor just blithely replaces tokens in code, then your alignments are going to be wrong. We write code in monospaced fonts for a reason.
After a long break, I'm working on writing about Japan things I find interesting: https://onefromnippon.com/

I'm hoping Japanese vending machines will be an interesting topic for the next post.
I was looking a bit at the code for the shared memory implementation in https://github.com/3tilley/rust-experiments/tree/master/ipc and the dependency <https://github.com/elast0ny/raw_sync-rs.

My last systems programming class was already a few years ago and I am a bit rusty, so I got some questions:

1. Looking at the code in https://github.com/elast0ny/raw_sync-rs/blob/master/src/even...) it looks like we are using a userspace spinlock. Aren't these really bad because the mess with the process scheduler and might unnecessarily trigger the scaling governor to increase the cpu frequency? I think at least on linux one could use a semaphore to inform the consumer that new data has been produced.

2. What kind of memory guarantees do we have on modern computer architectures such as x86-64 and ARM? If the producers does two writes (I imagine first the data and then the release of the lock) - is it guaranteed that when the consumer reads the second value that also the first value has been synchronized?
Probably not the richest - just reach enough. If you can't get a decent life - and decency of life is very related to the life of those around you, including those who are perceived as more talented - there's a strong disincentive to work well.
btw do you plan to leverage your pcb connector plates for other kinds of batteries ?
And then there's you have to keep track of the lies, and that most people prefer to think of themselves as not the kind of person who would ever, ever gossip - which isn't the same as saying they don't.

The moral consideration carries real weight, as you note; lying in a survival situation is one thing, but this kind of problem relatively rarely meets that standard. But even if the potential moral iniquity and certain hazard is entirely ignored, the policy as a practical matter simply cannot work for long.
It's an interesting analogy.

Nukes are a far more primitive technology (i.e., enrichment requires only more basic industrial capabilities) than AI hardware, yet they are probably the best example of tech limitations via international agreements.

But the algorithms are mostly public knowledge, datacenters are no secret, and the chips aren't even made in the US. I don't see what leverage California has to regulate AI broadly.

So it seems like the only thing such a bill would achieve is to incentivize AI research to avoid California.
If so good why are you selling it as a service ?
I'm unclear where the ammonium nitrate was meant to be shipped to. You'd think they could continue to there, possibly with the aid of tugs.
Open source doorbell camera software running on Raspberry Pi Zero. Face recognition and motion detection already built-in, so I've set it up so that I get a message on element when someone is at the door and a video of any motion longer than 5 seconds. Not fully optimized yet.
why would Google, Microsoft and OpenAI oppose a torpedo against open models? Aren't they positioned to benefit the most?
Science is captured by money? Blame the scientists.

Never ever blame the monied interests. That would be anti-capitalist.
Not many places in the US.
I'm kinda sidestepping the actual topic here, admittedly, but:

> It's not like Wells Fargo treats its workers badly but does well by everyone else. Remember, those fake accounts existed as part of a fraud on the company's investors. The company went on to steal $76m from its customers on currency conversions. They also foreclosed on customers who were up to date on their mortgages, seizing and selling off all their possessions. They argued that when bosses pressured tellers into forging customers on fraudulent account-opening paperwork, that those customers had lost their right to sue, since the fraudulent paperwork had a binding arbitration clause. When they finally agreed to pay restitution to their victims, they made the payments opt-in, ensuring that most of the millions of people they stole from would never get their money back. .... They stole millions with fraudulent "home warranties." They stole millions from small businesses with fake credit-card fees. They defrauded 800,000 customers through an insurance scam, and stole 25,000 customers' cars with illegal repos. They led the pre-2008 pack on mis-selling deceptive mortgages that blew up and triggered the foreclosure epidemic. They loaned vast sums to Trump, who slashed their taxes, and then they fired 26.000 workers and did a $40.6B stock buyback. They stole 525 homes from mortgage borrowers and blamed it on a "computer glitch":

In any kind of remotely just and sensible society, this corporation would be shut the fuck down by authorities, have it's assets liquidated, it's leadership imprisoned, and the trademark barred from use for 50 years. The sheer volume of horseshit a company of sufficient size can get away with here bends the mind.
It pains me to say: you can make this point without overtly calling the parent racist; and the guidelines say you should. I do wish that we could have such honest conversations online, but it time shows that doing so is not a sustainable practice. Replying now before you get flagged to death; there is time to edit.
The largest factor in new housing construction is land cost, and withholding land from new construction largely as a financial asset.

Land-value taxation directly addresses both factors. Note that this is a tax on the land, not (as most property taxes are) on improvements. This increases the costs of holding unimproved land, and directly incentivises the improvements of land.

As with numerous other types of widespread phenomena, localised zoning restrictions do little to explain why new housing is so unavailable on a global basis, both across the US in hugely disparate cities, counties, and states, as well as in many places worldwide.

The places which seem to have the most affordable housing are those in which capital is least incentivised to buy and hold it. Notably Vienna, Austria, and of all places, Tokyo, Japan.

There are any number of other factors which also play roles, but those tend to vary strongly amongst regions. Zoning is a problem but not the problem, as are certain building codes and other restrictions. I'd include those in elements to be addressed, but focus on the main problem.
I‘m building https://sql-workbench.com in my spare time.

It‘s a SQL Workbench in the browser, based on DuckDB WASM. You can query remote and local datasources, such as CSV, JSON or Parquet files.

You can also visualize the results, and share the queries via URL. Let me know what you think!
** Anthony != Scott Weiner
This is a press release for a paper (a common thing university departments do) and we'd be better off with the paper itself as the story link:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42113-024-00217-5
For some people, "never" means something like "I wouldn't know how, so surely not by next year, and probably not even in ten".
Only 10 more years or so, pinky promise ;)
The article really is about a specific cheese, not cheese in general. Can someone put the "This" back at the beginning of the title?
MNISTsharp: A Pure C# End-to-End Deep Learning Demo Using Torchsharp
I'm working on a 2D computational geometry library with a focus on irregular part packing in Rust. IE laying out laser cuts for wood or water jet for metal. https://crates.io/crates/babushka

I've got some nice types set up and a no fit polygon algorithm. Working on the genetic algorithm for packing à là svgnest.
That'd be "I can't believe it's not msgpack with extra design flaws and the name changed to my own name" CBOR?
Thank you. For some reason I hadn't thought of the advertising angle with local LLMs but you are right!

For example, why is Microsoft hell-bent on pushing Recall onto windows?
Answer: targeted advertising.
> The notion that any system somehow couldn't be "turned off" with or without the consent of the operator is downright laughable.

Does anyone remember Sen. Lieberman's "Internet Kill Switch" bill?
In my opinion, a good first step is to stop looking at socialism and capitalism in absolute terms. I think its a mistake to idealistically cling to one archetype as the best of all possible archetypes. When you go the idealistic route, you are doomed to repeat the failings of the past.

I would argue that the most successful economies are blended economies that have achieved success by blending elements of both systems and perhaps other systems as well.

For example, the USA once had working conditions as described by Upton Sinclair in “The Jungle .” Those working conditions are no longer legal thanks to regulations. But regulations are an element of command-economy, not of free markets.

An example from the other side is the rise of China’s economy. I don’t believe China could have become “the world’s factory” without introducing elements of free market capitalism.

During the cold war, propaganda made socialism the bogeyman to the west, and capitalism the bogeyman to the east. I don’t think this fear is rational. To me they are just two economic archetypes of many. Each has its own merits and faults. The key is to apply them where they make sense.

To me the real enemies are: authoritarianism and corruption.

I see regulatory capture as a form of corruption. The regulators are corrupted by those who would like to externalize their costs onto society. How do we fight corruption? It’s a tough battle, but remember it has been done before. Tammany hall, etc.
Had a flashback to twenty odd years ago in Sydney when there weren't enough Rubyists to get a reservation at the pub for a meetup so we had to team up with the Smalltalk guys. Ahhh, different times.
Huge fan. Been using it for years with very few issues across Win10, MacOS, iOS, Ubuntu / PopOS, Steam Deck and even Quest 3. Fire and forget. Like Tailscale, don’t know what I’d do without it.
The responsibility remains squarely with the people who developed these devices and the people who give it FCC approval.

Devices shouldn’t malfunction and handle interference gracefully. It is an FCC certification requirement and that requirement includes any interference.
Linux 6.12 with Real-Time, Sched_ext, Intel Xe2 and Raspberry Pi 5
This is why I prefer to have a copy of all of my music on a hard drive I own. If I paid for it, I want to access it in perpetuity, the same way as if I'd bought a cassette, a CD, or a book.
Antibiotics (Most of the time) Everything surgery, I would include gene replacement therapy and auto transplants in its viccinity.
Anthony Weiner is a disgraced New York Democratic politician who does not appear to have re-entered politics after his release from prison a few years ago. You mentioned his name twice in your post, so it doesn't seem to be an accident that you mentioned him, yet his name does not seem to appear anywhere in your links. I have no idea what message you're trying to convey, but whatever it is, I think you're failing to communicate it.
As someone of the younger generation, I think "raised by the internet" these days is extremely toxic and non-productive not at all what the author here is talking about in this lovely post.

When someone says "I was raised by the internet", I immediately think: social media addiction, 4chan and other online obscenities. But this is completely based on my own personal experience.

My point here is not related to this lovely post at all, it's just that I always have associated "raised by the internet" with negative connotation.
Tuilet: a TUI for Toilet, the premier ANSI text generator, written in Rust. https://github.com/gamache/tuilet

Are you an IRC shitposter? Isn't it hard to experiment with Toilet/Figlet fonts and flags? Well _not anymore._ Presenting Tuilet: a front-end to Toilet written by us, for us.
Built a site that will follow development of popular upstream open source projects on a daily basis and uses AI to summarize the commits and attempt to make it easier to track what's going on with the project: https://gitpulse.org
But what if I want to ask chatgpt how to conserve power during a potential blackout?
It is certainly possible for a small group to cause disproportionate harm. Physical access is a powerful tool.

Then again, what is worse than a small group who hates? A large group who doesn't care.
I skimmed through the paper and couldn't make much sense of it. In particular, I don't understand how their results don't imply that human-level intelligence can't exist.

After all, earth could be understood as solar powered super computer, that took a couple of million years to produce humanity.
AGI is not required to transform society or create a mess beyond no return.
Yes Italy, I'm not sure why but for others it seems to be working.

I'm sure it's down to the DNS / ISP.
> I'm well aware that this reads like an overdramatic manifesto.

No, it reads like you are reading my mind. Well said, especially the point that this is _every single aspect_ not just an infraction here and there.
Migrants from around the world are trying to reach the U.S. via charter planes
Really cool! I wonder if you could use AI to do other useful things in the text of webpages.
> but LLMs do solve problems that people thought were extremely difficult to solve ten years ago.

Well for something to be G or I you need them to solve novel problems. These things have interested most of the Internet and I've yet to see a "reasoning" disentangle memorization from reasoning. Memorization doesn't mean they aren't useful (not sure why this was ever conflated since... Computers are useful...), but it's very different from G or I. And remember that these tools are trained for human preferential output. If humans prefer things to look like reasoning then that's what they optimize. [0]

Sure, maybe your cousin Throckmorton is dumb but that's besides the point.

That said, I see no reason human level cognition is impossible. We're not magic. We're machines that follow the laws of physics. ML systems may be far from capturing what goes on in these computers, but that doesn't mean magic exists.

[0] If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and swims like a duck, and looks like a duck it's probably a duck. But probably doesn't mean it isn't a well made animatronic. We have those too and they'll convince many humans they are ducks. But that doesn't change what's inside. The subtly matters.
Curious if anyone can point to some resources that summarize the pros/cons arguments of this legislation. Reading this article, my first thought is that I definitely agree it sounds impossibly vague for a piece of legislation - "reasonable care" and "unreasonable risk" sound like things that could be endlessly litigated.

At the same time,

> Computer scientists Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, who developed much of the technology on which the current generative-AI wave is based, were outspoken supporters. In addition, 119 current and former employees at the biggest AI companies signed a letter urging its passage.

These are obviously highly intelligent people (though I've definitely learned in my life that intelligence in one area, like AI and science, doesn't mean you should be trusted to give legal advice), so I'm curious to know why Hinton and Bengio supported the legislation so strongly.
that's better if it works better, but often profit is what works better as a motive. ultimately what matters is that the fruit finds its way to hungry mouths—and that those mouths are human mouths and not rat mouths!

systematic harvesting is much better at that; whatever kind of point-scoring exercise people engage in on the way is irrelevant
Yeah but less scary than a teenager driving a car.