skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Still three or four order of magnitudes cheaper and easier than to produce said video through traditional methods.
In Eastern Europe is saying - They pretend that they pay us, so we pretend that we are working.
The difference here is that the Monty Hall problem has an explanation that while counterintuitive, is statistically sound. You should always switch, because the probability you picked the correct door is locked in at the time you made the choice between 3 doors. It is 1/3 that you picked correctly, and 2/3 that you picked incorrectly. The counterintuitive part is that if you switch, you are effectively selecting all the doors you did not pick originally. It's your original door, vs the field.

The green hat problem hinges on subjective interpretations of the meaning of both "liar" and the different ways in which the liar's sentence may be false. It may be false because the liar owns many hats, none of which are green. Or they own many hats, only some of which are green. Or they own no hats. These are all reasonable interpretations of how the sentence might be false, and the answers presented are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
I'm so glad you asked. I just turned 80, and even though I don't have the stamina or strength I had when I was 40, I've kept up my mobility through (more or less) regular exercise. As the old joke goes, if I'd known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself. My only saving grace has been (semi) regular exercise and a (semi) good diet.
And yes, since you asked, there definitely are some advantages to aging. That's why it's a good idea to stay in shape to enjoy them.
AI isn't trying to sell to you: a precise artist with real vision in your brain. It is selling to managers who want to shit out something in an evening that approximates anything, that writes ads that no one wants to see anyway, that produces surface level examples of how you can pay employees less because "their job is so easy"
ALICE finds first ever evidence of the antimatter partner of hyperhelium-4
It's just not how it works. All this type of quantum computer can do is test some of the more dubious objective collapse theories. Those are wrong anyway, so all theories that are still in the running agree.
Perhaps there's another formulation you meant to write, but every time I've seen it, it's been equivalent to the thing you just asked, and the only potentially ambiguous part of the question is "to your advantage". If you stay then you have a 1/3 chance of getting a car, and if you switch you have a 2/3 chance.

Yes, it's also correct that you don't "know" the result, and you might prefer goats to cars (even then you should probably sell the car and buy several goats), but there's a reasonable enough interpretation of "advantage" that you shouldn't dismiss the problem outright.
Top-Gun Navy Pilots Fly at the Extremes. Their Brains May Suffer.
What a nice project!
https://archive.ph/FQ32k
From Wikipedia[1]:

A poll of 72 "leading quantum cosmologists and other quantum field theorists" conducted before 1991 by L. David Raub showed 58% agreement with "Yes, I think MWI is true".[85]

Max Tegmark reports the result of a "highly unscientific" poll taken at a 1997 quantum mechanics workshop. According to Tegmark, "The many worlds interpretation (MWI) scored second, comfortably ahead of the consistent histories and Bohm interpretations."[86]

In response to Sean M. Carroll's statement "As crazy as it sounds, most working physicists buy into the many-worlds theory",[87] Michael Nielsen counters: "at a quantum computing conference at Cambridge in 1998, a many-worlder surveyed the audience of approximately 200 people... Many-worlds did just fine, garnering support on a level comparable to, but somewhat below, Copenhagen and decoherence." But Nielsen notes that it seemed most attendees found it to be a waste of time: Peres "got a huge and sustained round of applause…when he got up at the end of the polling and asked 'And who here believes the laws of physics are decided by a democratic vote?'"[88]

A 2005 poll of fewer than 40 students and researchers taken after a course on the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics at the Institute for Quantum Computing University of Waterloo found "Many Worlds (and decoherence)" to be the least favored.[89]

A 2011 poll of 33 participants at an Austrian conference on quantum foundations found 6 endorsed MWI, 8 "Information-based/information-theoretical", and 14 Copenhagen;[90] the authors remark that MWI received a similar percentage of votes as in Tegmark's 1997 poll.[90]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation#Pol...
The most impressive part is the temporal consistency in the demo videos.

He flower one is the best looking.
...and much faster, leading to more blind people having their sight restored sooner.
The claimed Monty Hall result becomes untrue with very subtle changes to the premises. For example, if the host blindly chooses randomly between remaining doors, the resulting distribution is 1/3 contestant door choice correct (switch loses), 1/3 contestant and host both incorrect (switch wins), 1/3 contestant incorrect host correct (no switch can be offered).
ChatGPT has far, far more concurrent users than tens of thousands. Sora is not a small hobby project by an amateur hacker that blew up.
That entirely depends whether an empty set trivially fulfills every possible predicate.

And if I remember correctly it's not something that's obvious although for convenience it's often assumed.
This is the silliest of circular logic. Of course you can't add comments to package.json, so tools can do whatever they want to the file. The fact that tools can rewrite parts of it doesn't mean they should just be able to do whatever they want. Literally every other single other config file format supports comments, and I have never seen a problem with tooling on those files due to the presence of comments.
Minimax (from China) and Kling 1.5 from China. Recently Tencent launched its own.

You can see more model samples heee
https://youtu.be/bCAV_9O1ioc
There is no problem unless you insist on reflecting what you had in mind exactly. That needs minute controls, but no matter the medium and tools you use, unless you're doing it in your own quest for artistic perfection, the economic constraints will make you stop short of your idea - there's always a point past which any further refinement will not make a difference to the audience (which doesn't have access to the thing in your head to use as reference), and the costs of continuing will exceed any value (monetary or otherwise) you expect to get from the work.

AI or not, no one but you cares about the lower order bits of your idea.
> there’s some sort of physical element that would be hard to replicate

For a truly authentic CRT experience you need a faint smell of ozone, the crackle of a static charge on the screen and a high-pitched screaming/whining noise right on the edge of perception.
Advertisers, I guess. Same folks who paid for everything else around here
Keep our right not to be subjected to decisions based solely on AI
If you hire the bad lawyer and loose the case, the lawyer won't serve your penalty. If Funko authorizes anyone to represent them, they are responsible.
In modern world, sometimes, even if you pay for it, it doesn't always give guarantees... :(
something like a white paper with a mood board, color scheme, and concept art as the input might work. This could be sent into an LLM "expander" that increases the words and speficity. Then multiple reviews to tap things in the right direction.
> Or think about this comparison: I own a bar where I sell drinks to the general public. Then some businessman comes in, throws out my bar staff and starts selling his own drinks to the guests, and offers 10% of revenue to me.

Which is a completely wrong comparison.

- You own a bar (website) and serve drinks (ads) to the general public.

- A large subset of your visitors decides they like the atmosphere of the bar, but whenever you try to sell them a drink, they refuse to order one. Alcohol is bad, they claim, and since you aren't offering non-alcoholic drinks, they've decided its moral to not order anything and enjoy your bar for free.

- An enterprising individual (Brave) recognizes the plight of both the bar owner and the customers. They surreptitiously serve non-alcoholic drinks (clean ads) to the bothersome customers.

- They sell the drinks at 70% discount, and strongly suggest to the customers to generously tip with the net gain of money, to ensure the continued existence of the bar they enjoy so much.

Brave isn't turning non-adblocking visitors into adblocking visitors. Its converting adblocking visitors into revenue-generating visitors.
Do you not have friends? A social network of your own? People I know are responding in a similar fashion to what we are seeing all over the entire spectrum of online media.
If you continue down this train of thought you eventually realize that outside of earth, velocity is just a number and all that really matters is the relative velocities of the two. So it's impossible to definitively state which one is moving or if they're both moving and if so how fast each one is moving. And then these sorts of things seem far less impressive.

And then it gets weirder when you consider that galaxies don't actually collide at all because they're so sparse and all that really happens is they pass through each other and maybe they permanently merge or maybe some of the matter in one galaxy joins the other one and they just keep drifting apart in slightly different directions.
What happens when you don't send the request after receiving the response? Please try and report back.
I think if we start applying that rationale we could skip a lot of steps and just move everything over to YAML.
To me, currently, visual generative ai is an evolution and improvement of stock images, and has effectively the same purpose.

People pay for stock images.
I think that's just the typical HN cynicism.
Anyone else find this stuff extremely distasteful? "Disrupting" creativity and art feels like it goes against our humanity.
In other words:

If you find a silver bullet then everything else is largely irrelevant.

Idk if you noticed but that “if” is carrying an insane amount of weight.
I got lucky and got in moments after it launched, managed to get a video of "A pelican riding a bicycle along a coastal path overlooking a harbor" and then the queue times jumped up (my second video has been in the queue for 20+ minutes already) and the https://sora.com site now says "account creation currently unavailable"

Here's my pelican video: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/9/sora/
>But I don't think the chequebook I have can be used to sent money to someone outside of France.

I suspect if you sent me one, my credit union would figure out how to get me the money eventually.
Do what I can do in npm scripts
> Government provided customer protection laws are quite lax

I have the opposite perception. Most of the customer-screwing business practices I constantly see in other countries don't exist in Germany, because nobody even dares trying them.
> Standard Diffusion XL

you probably meant Stable Diffusion XL. (autocorrect victim)
Sure, if your main use of formal logic is to while away the time doing vacuous puzzles.
How do you monitor for when they inevitably get acquired?
I would expect IBM, but I can't find any information on their system metrics based on a quick google search.

Would love if someone could weight in.
I don't think improper wording makes it an example of the type of puzzle GP is complaining about, because the counter-intuitive aspect holds up when everything is clarified.
Related:

Starlark Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40700549 - June 2024 (49 comments)

An Overview of the Starlark Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40573689 - June 2024 (49 comments)

(The) Starlark Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39457410 - Feb 2024 (1 comment)

RepoKitteh: Github workflow automation using Starlark - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26674781 - April 2021 (7 comments)
I am not authorised to give financial advice etc etc but I think that it makes sense to have a substantial fraction of assets (but not all) where you live or correlated with its market, especially retirement funds. So I moved mainly from the US to UK for simplicity and speed, but I may push some of that away into non-UK markets when I muster some enthusiasm.

If you are in the US then maybe markets correlated with the US but not the US (Canada?) may be a sensible alternative.
Apple silicon RAM is basically all VRAM, with 150-400 GB/s bandwidth.

Windows machines with dual channel DDR5 are only around 80 GB/s bandwidth.

Nvidia cards are around 1 TB/s, but models with 40+GB of VRAM are more expensive than macs with equivalent RAM capacity.

I would expect that an Nvidia card on Windows would be around twice as fast as apple silicon if you have a model with 40+GB, and from some quick research this seems to be true.

edit:
"Any Macbook 64GB can run it at about 6-7 Tok/s using Q4 quantization. 2x3090 can do it much faster at about 18 tok/s"
https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1h9kci3/comment...
Sure but isn’t this due to income disparities between iPhone and android users? Android is available in more cheaper models so poorer groups include more android users. A bank is going to care more about proof of income than what phone OS you use, will they not?
It looks like he may have just been caught.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12/09/nyregion/uhc-ceo-mur...
There is.

[].all(x => whatever(x)) == true

At least that's how math usually thinks about it.
The main comparator is Kasane Teto and Suno. Kasane Teto is functionally a piano that uses generative AI for vocal synthesis: https://youtu.be/s3VPKCC9LSs. This is an aid to the creative process. Suno lets you put in a description and completely bypass the creative process by instantly getting to the end: https://youtu.be/UpBVDSJorlU

Kokoro is art. Driveway is content. Art uses the medium and implementation to say something and convey messages. Content is what goes between the ads so the shareholders see a number increase.

I wish there were more things like Kokoro and less things like Driveway.
We had a saw with a mechanism that was non destructive and SawStop sued them out of the country (Bosch REAXX). It's why my feelings on SawStop are complicated, they say they're all about safety and willing to work with others but stomped out the only one that tried.
The app is pretty straightforward - I built it with Go and standard templates on the backend, keeping things simple with vanilla JS on the frontend. No fancy frameworks needed. It runs as a PWA so you get that nice native app feel on mobile.

For the receipt scanning magic, I'm using Gemini Flash which has been fantastic. It's incredibly cost effective (we're talking about $0.0001 per scan) and does a great job extracting text from receipts.

Deployment is super smooth with Kamal on a VPS - zero downtime deploys and easy scaling when needed. I really recommend it.

Really happy to dive deeper into any part you're curious about!
I agree 100%. It is such a pain to write tools that have to account for all these exceptions.
I mean thats a bold claim. I'd first let chatgpt win an Oscar for writing the best screenplay, and only then would Sora come into the picture.
My understanding is that, yes, the way matter in a galaxy merger behaves acts as strong evidence for the existence of dark matter and the theory that it's made of something that interacts weakly with normal matter.
https://www.verbraucherzentrale.de/wissen/vertraege-reklamat...

Initial contract terms can be longer (up to 24 months) and as the site points out, the new rules only apply to new contracts, others can be up to annual.
Ok, but please post informative comments rather than putting others down.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think some element of it might be: Shor’s algorithm has been known of for 30 years, and hypothetically could be used to decrypt captured communications, right? So, retroactively I will have been dumb for not having switched to a quantum-resistant scheme. And, dumb in a way that a bunch of academic nerds have been pointing out for decades.

That level of embarrassment is frankly difficult to face. And it would be devastating to the self-image of a bunch of “practical” security gurus.

Therefore any progress must be an illusion. In the real world, the threats are predictable and mistakes don’t slowly snowball into a crisis. See also, infrastructure.
They have dyno charts on their website! It made between 2.7 and 3hp on the two vehicles they tested, which is pretty much the amount of variation you'd expect between two dyno runs. Total rubbish.
> Except there's no such thing as "OpenWrt with no changes", because every OpenWrt build for every device is itself modified specifically for that device. The OpenWrt One is no exception; its OpenWrt builds, too, have device-specific settings and drivers, just like any other supported router.

There is such a thing as OpenWrt with no changes; that is, first-party OpenWrt builds with no third-party changes.

> It's a stretch to call them "unsupported" when the routers in question are specifically advertised as compatible with OpenWrt (if not already outright running OpenWrt).

Vendors like to advertise compatibility but the fine print will always say that anything but the shipped stock configuration isn't supported under warranty, whereas the OpenWrt One is first-party supported by the vendor to run what the OpenWrt project ships as their official builds of the firmware.

>> OpenWrt is saying “this is the first router made for us, by us,”

> Which is still quite different from "this is the first router designed specifically for OpenWrt".

This is the fist router designed specifically for OpenWrt, as I have elaborated upon above.
What were you working on? It took a month to render 2 seconds of video?
They're not German businesses that's why.
You unlock the "You've met a terrible fate." achievement [1]

[1] https://outerwilds.fandom.com/wiki/Achievements
What Are the Magical Clocks For?
23andMe identifies seven genetic subgroups for that group.

There may not be enough samples for finer detail. People have tried to use 23andMe data to decide who gets tribal membership benefits. But the company says there's not enough genetic difference for that.

There's a lot of noise in genetic data. Each person's DNA is about half from each parent, but which parts are copied is somewhat random. Unless some population comes from a very narrow base, such as Thoroughbred horses (three founding sires, although many mares) or cheetahs (almost extinct at some point and have only a few common ancestors), strong genetic uniformity is rare. Some isolated human populations show it, but those are inherently ones that don't get around much.
>Worst part about such small payments is that intermediary, that will process the payment, might get 50% or even more of said payment, leaving not much to receiver.

Yeah you essentially need a system has an internal balance that would then let you send and receive micropayments and only convert them to cash when the balance is large enough that the processing fee makes sense.
How does your conclusion follow from your statement?

Neural networks are largely black box piles of linear algebra which are massaged to minimize a loss function.

How would you incorporate smooth kinematic motion in such an environment?

The fact that you discount the knowledge of literally every single employee at OpenAI is a big signal that you have no idea what you’re talking about.

I don’t even really like OpenAI and I can see that.
The network is decentralized, but each domain still has a single registrar, making the service you (domain owner) receive very centralized. If that one registrar misbehaves or is unresponsive, you're out of luck.
>AI is all about Torch/TF, not details below that

This could be 100% true, and the best ML engineers in the world could be completely oblivious to CUDA and it wouldn't change why nvidia is leading right now.

Anyone who thinks it's "trivial" to use AMD cards should help geohot and his tinygrad boxes. Despite emailing the CEO several times, it was a clear uphill battle to get something working, and even now the sales page lists driver quality as "mediocre".

If you open a GitHub issue or a forum post about your weird CUDA application that isn't working right, you will have an engineer help you. This is in nvidia's DNA and they did this before AI started printing money. On the flipside, you can email Lisa Su today and still not have problems fixed in AMDs drivers. I'm sure AMD is trying, this isn't to say they aren't, but having decent software culture at these large companies is hard.

If AMD can't do it, I feel even less confident about Intel. If the CUDA moat truly didn't matter, we would see AMD cards in demand. However it doesn't and it isn't for lack of trying.
Yeah, maybe for some purposes. In business, people sometimes pay for stock images but often don't have the expertise or patience to really spend a lot of time coaching a video into fruition. Maybe for advertising or other contexts where more effort is worth it (not just powerpoints), but it feels like a slim audience.
For those not in this space, Sora is essentially dead on arrival.

Sora performs worse than closed source Kling and Hailuo, but more importantly, it's already trumped by open source too.

Tencent is releasing a fully open source Hunyuan model [1] that is better than all of the SOTA closed source models. Lightricks has their open source LTX model and Genmo is pushing Mochi as open source. Black Forest Labs is working on video too.

Sora will fall into the same pit that Dall-E did. SaaS doesn't work for artists, and open source always trumps closed source models.

Artists want to fine tune their models, add them to ComfyUI workflows, and use ControlNets to precision control the outputs.

Images are now almost 100% Flux and Stable Diffusion, and video will soon be 100% Hunyuan and LTX.

Sora doesn't have much market apart from name recognition at this point. It's just another inflexible closed source model like Runway or Pika. Open source has caught up with state of the art and is pushing past it.

[1] https://github.com/Tencent/HunyuanVideo
There was tons of duplicate code, unnecessary code, dead code, etc. There was also a lot of code for which CPAN modules could entirely replace. (Also, I'm a workaholic who obsesses about a problem until it's fully solved.)
For when you need a smaller payload:

According to @Reid's answer in [2] and @ThomasPornin's answer in [3], the idea of truncating hashes is fully supported by NIST, in fact SHA-224 is just SHA-256 truncated, SHA-384 is just SHA-512 truncated, etc.

https://security.stackexchange.com/a/97389