skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always like writing the first verse on paper, then typing it up and maybe writing the other verses/the chorus while trying to figure out the music at the same time... I usually just write lyrics in a very simple text editor.

I like Rhymezone too, and the MacOS dictionary's thesaurus, as they sometimes help me think of words I don't come up with otherwise. But I feel like with songs - the good stuff always comes when you let yourself listen to your unconscious, like all the really good material and images are buried in there somewhere and you just have to trick yourself into finding them.
This. Evidence that isn't strong enough to criminally convict can be used for other purposes (e.g. sentencing, knowledge/intent, civil forfeiture, civil damages etc).

(see OJ Simpson paying money damages for a crime he was acquitted of)
The presumption of innocence is a legal principle that every person accused of any crime is considered innocent until proven guilty.

Under the presumption of innocence, the legal burden of proof is thus on the prosecution, which must present compelling evidence to the trier of fact (a judge or a jury). If the prosecution does not prove the charges true, then the person is acquitted of the charges.
I don't think Putin would want to taint his relationship with Trump on his first week on the White House.
But the feds would never attempt shading means of solving a problem that they're being heavily pressured to solve in a timely manner! Don't be a hecking conspiracy theorist.
Interesting that 6 months ago, Microsoft was attached but now they're missing from today's announcement.
To be fair, it’s not easy to monetize the moon program into profitability. This has a far better shot of sustaining profitability.
E) it wasn't merely commutation, it was a pardon. A pardon means that President is declaring the defendant not guilty. A commutation merely reduces the sentence.
You can have negative dollars.
It's vindication of political violence that's the problem. If political violence is sanctioned, then there is no law.
This would be a large outlay even for UAE, who would be giving it to a direct competitor in the space: UAE is one of the few countries outside of the US who are in any way serious about AI.
Until you can prove to me that all courts, judges, attorneys, and juries are above reproach and no innocent people are imprisoned there absolutely should be a method for someone to pardon. Sometimes a pardon will be issued for people you disagree with, but that’s part of it. Just like somebody will say something that pisses you off, but that’s the cost of free speech
I would agree with this. He deserved punishment as he did break the law.
Because violent criminals tend to lack wealth, knowledge, and skills. Nobody in the hood about to knock off a 7-11 has a tormach at home and the gcode for a reciever queued up.
I wonder how this sentiment is going to play out in Luigi Mangione's trial.
They are trying. Microsoft wants to star the 3 Mile Island reactor. And other companies have been signing contracts for small modular reactors. SMRs are a perfect fit for modern data centers IF they can be made cheaply enough.
Ops ran out of edit time when I was posting my last two

Prompt: A hawk flying in the sky
PNG: https://0x0.st/8Hkw.png
https://0x0.st/8Hkx.png
https://0x0.st/8Hk3.png
Note: This looks like it would need more work. I tried a few birds and generic too. They all seem to have similar form.
Prompt: A hawk with the head of a dragon flying in the sky and holding a snake
PNG: https://0x0.st/8HkE.png
https://0x0.st/8Hk6.png
https://0x0.st/8HkI.png
https://0x0.st/8Hkl.png
Note: This one really isn't great. Just a normal hawk head. Not how a bird holds a snake either...

This last one is really key for judging where the tech is at btw. Most of the generations are assets you could download freely from the internet and you could probably get better ones by some artist on fiver or something. But the last example is more our realistic use case. Something that is relatively reasonable, probably not in the set of easy to download assets, and might be something someone wants. It isn't too crazy of an ask given Chimera and how similar a dragon is to a bird in the first place, this should be on the "easier" end. I'm sure you could prompt engineer your way into it but then we have to have the discussion of what costs more a prompt engineer or an artist? And do you need a prompt engineer who can repair models? Because these look like they need repairs.

This can make it hard to really tell if there's progress or not. It is really easy to make compelling images in a paper and beat benchmarks while not actually creating a something that is __or will become__ a usable product. All the little details matter. Little errors quickly compound... That said, I do much more on generative imagery than generative 3d objects so grain of salt here.

Keep in mind: generative models (of any kind) are incredibly difficult to evaluate. Always keep that in mind. You really only have a good idea after you've generated hundreds or thousands of samples yourself and are able to look at a lot with high scrutiny.
>The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) have both denied Grusch's claims, stating there are no such programs and that extraterrestrial life has yet to be discovered. No evidence supporting Grusch's UFO claims has been presented and they have been dismissed by multiple, independent experts.

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

Does the video provide evidence? Not going to sit through 41 minutes of unsubstantiated claims.
People generally do not come up with absurd beliefs all on their own, those do spread like a virus and as a consequence of all that social contagion, they do not seem all that absurd anymore to the person who contracts them.
Details here:

- https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2024/12/03/transferring-python...

- https://astral.sh/blog/python-build-standalone
So you’re saying people are making a rational estimation of the various harms caused to their fellowmen, determining that political actions in Washington are the primary component, and feeling bad about the harm?

I don’t buy it. Citing empathy is moral language to justify bad actions.
Nah social media is just about engagement. People who are happy with the article don’t bother to comment. Those who are outraged comment. It’s just two different groups of people commenting
Yeah some very impressive stuff with splats going on. But I haven't seen much about going from splats to high quality 3D meshes. I've tried one or two with pretty poor results.
wait what? Escobar was responsible for conservatively 4,000 people killed, some at his own hand

DPR conspired but didn't actually directly kill anyone

Not saying DPR was a good person, but a little perspective is in order
Thanks, that links to the charges.

"Two former federal agents have been charged with wire fraud, money laundering and related offenses for stealing digital currency during their investigation of the Silk Road ..."
a lot of known best practices were not followed in 2013.

Every advancement in crypto was done after the government made a move. And all subsequent moves netted the government less.

Now it takes more agencies to seize darknet markets, and most merchants and consumers get their money back because it was a multisignature transaction and the server stored nothing. Even domains have been seized back from the government.

The crypto space calls it "antifragility", as in the idea - and now history - that the asset class and infrastructure improves under pressure.
It’s religious conflict. Nobody cares really about differences in tax rates. But differences in foundational beliefs about the world and humanity will do that.
Pardon the money!
I found this one at B&H:

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1789487-REG/epson_c31...
Psst: it’s probably going to end up being a fraction of that but doesn’t make for as good a headline
It's significantly easier to get a Visa from academia than work
I can only assume the US is hacking China at least as much as they hack us.
I assume that the feds corruption is as bad as it is in every other high profile case case involving fed informants and politically charged topics. Randy Weaver, all the muslims they radicalized and then goaded into doing terrorist things post 9/11, the Michigan Fednapping. It seems like every time these people have a chance to entrap someone they do, but they do it in a "haha, jokes on you we run the system so while this probably would be entrapment if some beat cops did it the court won't find it that way" sort of way. They just can't touch anything without getting it dirty this way and the fact that that is a 30yr pattern at this point depending on how you count speaks volumes IMO. While I'm sure they can solve an interstate murder or interstate fraud or whatever just fine I just don't trust them to handle these sorts of cases.

It seems like all of these people they wind up charging probably are questionable people who wanted to do the thing and probably did some other lesser things but they probably would have given up on the big thing if there wasn't a federal agency running around doing all the "the informant says the guy is lamenting not having explosives, quick someone get him some explosives" things in the background.
> > also known as ... "piece of eight"

I wonder if it is a coincidence that "peso" sounds pretty similar to "piece of"
> All of this points to compute now being basically the only bottleneck to massively superhuman AIs

This is true for brute force algorithms as well and has been known for decades. With infinite compute, you can achieve wonders. But the problem lies in diminishing returns[1][2], and it seems things do not scale linearly, at least for transformers.

1. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-19/anthropic...

2. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-13/openai-go...
Video Game Writer Jon Ingold's Lament: 'We Can Do Quite a Lot Better'
I don't really believe that the US is a country ruled by law any more, but in some idealized land of the law you are probably correct. But you won't convince me that OJ Simpson walking on a double homicide he clearly committed is justice. For Ulbricht, it actually feels like things more or less balanced out, but he did try to have someone killed, and I don't think that's a nice thing to do.
I might just take it that the special case is more for the word 'one', not the value of one.

Or perhaps more for one of a discreet object, where the litre is considered as a single thing but 1.0 is implying a continuous measurement so it changes how we think of it?
Many corporations failed to fund their pensions, instead using the money to pad the pockets of corporate executives. Then, when the pension obligations eventually reached a breaking point due to years of improper funding, the corporation simply declared bankruptcy and paid 10 cents on the dollar on their pension obligations.

This fraudulent practice ended in 1974 when a federal law created the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation to provide pension insurance that the law required be funded 100% by corporations offering private pensions.

The response by the oligarchs? They dropped the private pension like the hot potato it suddenly was and the private pension was quickly replaced by self directed 401k plans. Boomers who were just entering the workforce during these years and there was no education to teach them how to invest - a burden the shift to 401k plans removed from the employer to the employee. The result? Millions of boomers with completely inadequate 401k balances as they enter retirement age.

Top it off with a tax on social security that did not exist until 1986 when Ronald Reagan signed it into law with a huge hidden provision. Social security benefits were not taxed unless your income in retirement - including 50% of your social security benefits - exceeded $25,000. Back in 1986 nobody's income in retirement exceeded $25,000.

But here's the kicker: that $25,000 figure was not - and is not - inflation adjusted. Thus, almost 40 years later, retirees must pay taxes if 1/2 of their social security benefits and all other income (such as IRA/401k withdrawals) exceed that same $25,000. And every year as social security benefits go up by the tiny 2.5% or less - just means a good chunk of the increase gets returned in taxes because so many people today exceed that $25,000 figure compared to how it was "sold" to everyone in 1986 (that nobody but the oligarchs would ever pay tax on their social security).

American capitalism at its finest.
I don't think this administration is worried too much about showing aggression. If anything they are embracing it. Today was the first full day, and they have already threatened the sovereignty of at least four nations.
What a travesty. Maybe life was too long a sentence but this was far too short.
https://archive.ph/E1v8T
How about any LEDs?

Having to use duct tape to prevent an appliance from lighting up my entire room at night is egregious.
That usage of "you" was more in the proverbial sense. My bigger disagreement with the parent was about calling it training.
The courage a lot of these whistleblowers have shown is admirable. How the American public outrages, though: Facebook has targeted ads. How they don't outrage: their government is illegally tracking their own citizens' movements and communications including overseas.

Not going to say Ulbricht is a hero like some of the others, but he trail blazed like none before him! And he deserves his freedom years ago.
I'm privately predicting the senate will remove the filibuster this term.
When did Biden talk about universal healthcare?

Let's go through Trump's campaign promises: Infrastructure, Border wall, increased US manufacturing, repealing ACA, "drain the swamp". He achieved zero of those.

Biden in contrast followed up on his campaign promises: Infrastructure, increased US manufacturing, expanding ACA plus lowering costs. Among others.
Being 'interesting' doesn't make you more likely to understand VPNs and opsec. I expect it makes you more likely to try, but there's a good chance of doing it ineffectively.
The pardon can restore certain rights in some cases, I'm not entirely familiar with the Stone shenanigans, but knowing the parties involved I can't assume that Stone was legally entitled to do what he did after the pardon, and maybe he was.

That said, the recovery of assets after transfer to Treasury is settled law. [1]

> More broadly, the Court ruled in several cases during this period that pardons entitled their recipients to recover property forfeited or seized on the basis of the underlying offenses, so long as vested third-party rights would not be affected and money had not already been paid into the Treasury (except as authorized by statute).

Was covered in Osborne v. United States, Knote v. United States, In re: Armstrong's Foundry, Cent. R.R. v. Bosworth and Jenkins v. Collard

Subsequent cases make it clear that the offense is not in fact "gone."

> ... the Court in Burdick stated that a pardon “carries an imputation of guilt; acceptance a confession of it."

> ... then, in Carlesi v. New York, the Court determined that a pardoned offense could still be considered “as a circumstance of aggravation” under a state habitual-offender law, reflecting that although a pardon may obviate the punishment for a federal crime, it does not erase the facts associated with the crime or preclude all collateral effects arising from those facts.

The court holds that it is not in fact as if it never happened.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/article-2/sec...
Is there some reason he should not be allowed to vote, own a firearm, or receive federal benefits?
What "users flagged it" tells you is that it wasn't moderators who flagged it. That's important because many readers assume otherwise.

Re that link: I turned off the flags on it earlier, but it isn't a great story for HN. The way it is written is as tendentious as it gets; at minimum, we would need a more neutral source.

Beyond that, there are endless stories about weird patterns showing up in someone's limited set of data points on the internet. I can tell you from personal experience running one of these sites* that sometimes these turn out to just be people seeing patterns in randomness, as humans do; sometimes they are actually happening, but people are misinterpreting and jumping to dramatic conclusions about them; and sometimes (though rarely) they turn out to be an interesting story. What that means is that the existence of a post like this isn't enough of a signal to make for a good HN thread. At minimum there would need to be more information. This is the case regardless of what side of any political fence a post or an author happens to be on.

* a tiny one compared to the big fish! but big enough to observe all these phenomena, which show up increasingly at scale
White House Executive Order on AI Has Been Rescinded
Consider what happens in JavaScript when you declare a function as async. Now everything calling it is infected. Passing around runtime constructs like context in Go (AbortSignal in JS) or an allocator in Zig gives exactly the right level control back to the call and I love it. You can bail out of context propagation at any level of your program if that's your desire.
People also served no time for selling more drugs and actually murdering more people.
He did order (and pay for) at least one murder. It just happens that both the victim and the would-be hit man were both informants so they staged the murder. Ross’ argument is that he knew it was fake, but that makes no sense in context.

It was right that they dropped the charge because it was quite obviously entrapment. But none of it reflects well on Ross Ulbricht’s character.
He should be considered innocent by the courts - and he was (innocent of the murder for hire charges, I mean). In the public we aren't obligated to follow the same standards of evidence as the courts. I think he almost certainly did pay to have those people killed, and that can shape my opinion of him.
> Is the key idea here that current AI development has figured out enough to brute force a path towards AGI? Or I guess the alternative is that they expect to figure it out in the next 4 years...

Can't answer that question, but, if the only thing to change in the next four years was that generation got cheaper and cheaper, we haven't even begun to understand the transformative power of what we have available today. I think we've felt like 5-10% of the effects that integrating today's technology can bring, especially if generation costs come down to maybe 1% of what they currently are, and latency of the big models becomes close to instantaneous.
Trump's Law, not you know, the people's law.
Its well known and well covered facts regarding this high status case, you even got links in a sibling comment so read them
why do they need profitability? they already made $500B
I'm more than happy to have the discussion with you but I have no requirement to provide all of the information that is widely available in the public domain.
Part of getting pardoned is admitting guilt - ask joe arpaio ...
It does not change my opinion that the sentence was well deserved in the eyes of the law. Those are all things, that independently, can lead to serious jail time. The scale of his operation was also substantial.
> addicts would have access to regulated, pharmaceutical grade heroin

We tried that, it was called the opioid epidemic and Purdue was the pharmacist. We had readily available, doctor-prescribed, high quality narcotics available to anyone who wanted them and the result was an epic disaster that cost thousands of lives.

> weapons weren't permitted on the platform

My mistake.
He was found during sentencing to be guilty of hiring a hit on a competitor using a preponderance of evidence (lower then presumption of innocence). While this is a lower standard than a conviction, it is still a higher standard than most apply in public discourse.
https://archive.ph/A0dOf
Valid point, however even those involved that were comvicted in the US such as Brian Farrell only received single digit sentences.
Decentralized Training in the Inference-Time-Compute Paradigm
As part of the FBI conviction they were accused of tampering user logs and taking over accounts. So… literally none of it can be used as evidence imo.
The judge issued the punishment at their sole discretion. The legislature sets the laws often without any input from the constituency.

Meanwhile a sizable campaign has materialized around this case and many people do feel he has done enough time and should be free without any restrictions
They want their LLMs explicitly approved to align with the values of the regime. Not necessarily a bad thing, or at least that avenue wasn't my point. It does get in the way of going fast and breaking things though, and on the other side there is an outright accelerationist pseudo-cult.
That’s what happened to me: PhD in UK -> postdoc 1 -> postdoc 2 -> faculty -> industry.
It is also the case that prosecutors need to decide both the probability of conviction, the effort needed to do so and whether likely conviction on other serious charges are sufficient for the people to feel that justice has been done.
>So you’re saying people are making a rational estimation of the various harms caused to their fellowmen, determining that political actions in Washington are the primary component, and feeling bad about the harm?

Trump released an executive order yesterday that said some of my friends are no longer considered citizens of this country. Yes, sometimes it is incredibly obvious when Washington is to blame for people's suffering.
Since no one is posting it, here's Trump Truth Social post on the matter:

"I just called the mother of Ross William Ulbricht to let her know that in honor of her and the Libertarian Movement, which supported me so strongly, it was my pleasure to have just signed a full and unconditional pardon of her son, Ross. The scum that worked to convict him were some of the same lunatics who were involved in the modern day weaponization of government against me. He was given two life sentences, plus 40 years. Ridiculous!"
You believe there are "selfless politicians" operating in America right now?
Allegedly. The 2 rules of his Fight Club were no underage sex stuff and no physical harm. That hitman claim was not part of his charges or sentencing. The heavy sentencing was to like "send a message" the judge said.
AWS GovCloud already exists FYI (as you hinted) and it is absolutely used by the DoD extensively already.
I’ll let you Google the pleas and sentences. Stop with the asinine recalcitrance.
Isn’t that how laissez faire capitalism works - the person with the higher bid gets the sale, not based on central planned rules of which country the current administration is beefing with that day?
Interesting! I've sadly found more capable models to really fail on music recommendations for me.
Just because the far right complains about 'drugged out zombies' ruining cities thanks to drug smugglers from Mexico, doesn't mean libertarians think that. Libertarians have been opposed to the "war on drugs" for decades.
It does. Innocent until proven guilty.
I'll be very positively impressed if you make this work; I spend all day every day for work trying to make more capable models perform basic reasoning, and often failing :-P
Wait, is he smart or stupid ?
I knew people who were wringing it out of medicated patches and sniffing it out of Afrin bottles during high school in the 90s. I also knew someone who ODd and died from tainted/fake pills they bought from one of The Silk Road's (immediate) successors.

Some number of people also OD on "traditional" street drugs every day. So, this is really not a sound argument.
Just feels all around
Gallic pride is a helluva thing
I believe there's a wide range of choices and behaviors and any poor choice is not equivalent to all poor choices.
I wonder if Assange will get the pardon he’s campaigning for:

https://www.action.assangecampaign.org.au/