skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I’ve seen more often is software engineers preparing for their next job (or the job they want next) by pushing to build a project with a tool chain that they want to have on their resume. It’s not so much that they want to use X because Google does and it solves their problem, but that they want to look like they know how to use X because then maybe Google will be interested in hiring them—and if not then at least they know that they’re as smart as all those stuck up Googlers anyway.
What Is Computational Photography?
You're just flat wrong about the Khmer apologist thing...a common attempt at character assassination by anti-Chomsky fanatics with no relevance at all to the subject at hand.

Chomsky didn't say it was written down or announced. But there's no argument here - Baker simply DID say that there would be no eastward movement. It's not even remotely controversial.
Sam Altman is OpenAI's CEO.

What I'm submitting for consideration is that the marketing page and associated press blasts (there's a live influencer reaction video airing right now about Dall-E 2, for instance) for Dall-E 2 were potentially pushed up to offset negative press from Worldcoin for their shared founder.

I'd like to be wrong. But it's too well timed.
Not how it works, actually. The system changed in 2013 and now whoever is first to file gets the patent, even if someone else can demonstrate prior art.

https://www.justia.com/intellectual-property/patents/first-t...

AMD should have filed their own patents before talking about it publicly - that's how the game is now played.

If you don't - it's now possible for someone else to file a patent on your own invention.
how many are there today? if you read the article you'll see that back in 2005 they were already counting around 10M climate refugees per year
IDK about intel, but quiet a few companies in their sphere offer employees bonuses for patents.

It would not surprise me in the least if this was something some employee did to get a pay bump.
I'm not disputing the claim. I simply didn't know it. Consider me one of today's "lucky 10,000". https://xkcd.com/1053/

It is a shame this information is locked behind a paywall though. Telling people "your ecological footprint is massive" is fine, but better to understand how to reduce said footprint.

I'm guessing this calculation is taking into account production fuel costs, food production, commuting gas, etc. North America, and the US in particular, has enjoyed externalized transaction costs for a long time.
Not sure if it's included in 28.1, but its been overhauled on master. https://youtube.com/watch?v=LNK1DnPOqms
Transportation and heating will be electrified. Electric car share in new cars is 15% and climbing fast. New gas/oil heating installations will be (almost) forbidden from 2024 on (65% of heating energy must come from renewable energies).

So electric energy is what is relevant for the future.
So they did the thing they were recommended but didn't take some further steps, on this one issue. Clearly that means they are totally incompetent? Even though the people dealing with DMARC issues are probably IT & Marketing, not the DevOps & Engineering people who are running the product.
I agree the white text is a bad choice. Why? Because it is "aggressive" it is "in your face". It screams because of its high contrast. It distracts you from the content you are supposed to be reading. It makes you think you are in a black-room looking at some negatives. Perhaps some secret content.

When you read you should be able to forget that you are reading, your mind just "drops in to the story". That happens with books with black text on white background. You read but you are unaware that you are reading. Your mind just consumes the content.

Maybe part of it is convention since we are used to books and newspapers and magazines not having white text on black background. But I think there's more to it. Black background is like paint, whereas white background is lack of paint. There is no background there is only the text. There is only the content. Therefore you can more easily forget about everything else and focus on the content, on the message.
The most interesting item to me is the variations on the garden shop and bathroom sink idea. The realism of these leaks the AI lacking intuition of the requirements. This makes for a number of nonsensical designs that look right at first like:
This Sink lacks sensical faucets. https://cdn.openai.com/dall-e-2/demos/variations/modified/ba...

This doorway is downright impossible
https://cdn.openai.com/dall-e-2/demos/variations/modified/fl...
I think his comment is spot on. Many problems have a naturally limited number of users/objects. You can scale up. Scaling up is seen as sacrilege, but scaling-out is expensive in human labor. Scaling up is inexpensive in human labor, and often inexpensive in hardware, and sufficient for many problems.
Check with your local library. Many public libraries provide free access to O'Reilly for card holders.
The reason a lot of people chose something out of Google book is not because they get confused about not being Google (which is actually a pretty insulting and also idiotic assumption), but because they wanna benefit from Google putting a stamp of approval on certain tech and pouring resources into it. Tech changes fast, disappears quickly, there is a lot of it out there, most of it is readily available, and so we make use whatever signals we can gather to navigate this space.

Which doesn't mean that you can close your eyes and pick whatever tech for whichever use case (duh?) but Amazon or Google doing it differently in the past or a company not being as big as them is certainly not a great argument for not using parts of their stack.
FWIW, in practice this type of disclaimer is shockingly effective in a comment forum. The point is to short-circuit the reactions of the average comment-reader, who is skimming, who has already mostly made up their mind, who is inclined to see comments which further reinforce their view as insightful, and comments which contradict their view as misguided or not worth reading.

Obviously, if everyone read everything, and read it with the same temperament, it should be useless. How could something you can attach to any argument be persuasive? But people skim and skim with bias.

It's really significant effect on places like reddit, where "this will get downvoted but mediocre insight" will get far more upvotes than "mediocre insight". It can be used and abused.
I think the point was that that kind of conclusion shows a staggeringly impressive misunderstanding of how RAM works with regard to web applications.
Your post was a good, especially as a starting point of a discussion, until you started your last two sentences ('But those ...'). Those sentences are completely counter-productive, universal, generalising accusations towards people who might actually want to discuss seriously about this topic, because they honestly share the same goal of preventing a catastrophy. It is sad that discussions are often made impossible by such unnecesary prejudice about people who you may actually want to discuss with.
This was the main reason I built emacs 28 from source on Ubuntu about 3 months ago. Sadly Ubuntu 22.04 still sticks with emacs 27.1 :(
Arc blast furnaces are a thing - just more expensive. The electrode (typically graphite) is consumed, so technically not zero carbon, but the gas could be captured.
Yes, I'm aware that Calyx isn't degoogled and neither is Lineage, that's why I wrote "degoogled" in quotation marks. And I also know about lack of security updates in Calyx, but it's still better than Lineage lol
I still fail to see the heavily opinionated appeal of CircleCI over running a dockerized Jenkins instance (and agents) in AWS. (Or GitHub Actions or any other managed CI environment)

We get all the customization I want and it scales just fine.

But I am also still annoyed that when CircleCI announced their templates, they did not offer you the ability to have private templates (or something along those lines, it left a bad taste in my mouth and we moved to Jenkins a couple months later)
When Soviet rocket scientists nearly nuked New York City
Well, it is true that there is an agenda, sustainable ecology cannot exist without the end of capitalism. While it is true that in it's current form, even a minimum wage worker in global north country is not sustainable, it is the rich and the super rich that have by a large margin the highest carbon footprint.
Can confirm, I run this on my M1 works great!
What happens when they train this thing to make videos? We're about to be dealing with a flood of AI-generated visual/video content. We already have to deal with text bots everywhere... wow.
This trick gave me some pretty bad pain in my left hand after a month or so. Remapping control to CAPS LOCK worked for me for years, but what really helped was when I switched to a keyboard that had six keys on each thumb cluster, which allowed me to map control and meta to the thumbs.
Me too, been the strangest ride ever...
Russian Oligarch Charged with Violating U.S. Sanctions
MicroStrategy Buys More Bitcoin with Bitcoin-Backed Loan
Fine. Let’s assume that’s true. The problem is still the same. How does China coerce the West to get with the program if the West refuses, for whatever reason.

The problem is still the same.
No, it's not and I never said it was. It is simply a fact about not having children.
Same goes for business and wealth. I'm convinced that it's in the best interest of all of us to limit the accumulation of political, economic and military power. We'd be in a much better place if we had universal laws that forced countries, businesses to break up or become more democratic as they grow. Progressive tax rates should limit people from getting rich enough to buy up whole industries or at the very least we should limit these individuals from buying up majority stakes in new ventures.
the M1 is the fastest emacs-lisp machine there is. Give it a go!
At a certain point you have to be realistic about how long it takes to deal with email. No system is going to give you more time. You're either going to have to allocate more time to email, respond to fewer messages, or spend less time responding. Email is, unfortunately, an unpleasant part of the job for many of us. Some days it's better than cleaning toilets, so there's that.
There is no way to prove the statement "x is conscious". You are just stating your opinion.
> The error message when using the connection from multiple threads is "outdated"

I think typically you'd still want to use one connection per thread because (for example) there can only be one transaction per connection at any given time.
https://www.statista.com/chart/26102/emission-reduction-goal...
In addition to the native pixel-scroll-precision-mode in Emacs 29,
there's also a MELPA package called good-scroll which implements pixel-wise scrolling for other emacs versions also.
I think you should read the interview. It could be enlighting. We know what the Russian press are going through. It is very difficult to report anything from Russia after th eRussian athorities passed the law that made free journalism a crime in Russia. If you wonder why the press from the free world isn't reporting from within Russia these days, that is why. Their journalists risk 15 years in prison if they do their job.
Mapping control to its original keyboard placement, caps lock, is the first thing I do on any new computer/keyboard.
It happens by default, more or less.
Is this site pro-russian propaganda one? (I am not familiar with it, I found it by googling your text)

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2017...
You might know you are not Google but you might still love, unconsciously or not, CV Driven Development.
Given that the lower half of incomes (actually of the people behind those income numbers) in the US already have a lifestyle that is in line with the Paris 2 degree goal, we are talking about the question if the rich-ish are willing to go to war for their privilege or if we (I certainly count in the upper half here in Germany while still far from even seeing the top) find ways of maybe reducing our impact.

The biggest lever is governmental regulations. Especially enabling capitalism to make good decisions. If externalities were priced into (for example) air travel, shipping or meat, the market would find ways and massive innovation potential could be leveraged.

As long as we are able to (relatively) cheaply consume while the externalities are payed by us all in the end (or the next generations) there won't be a solution. Neither socially nor technologically. At least imho.
This isn't true. The employee account was 2 or 3 (depending on accounts) at the time when he supplied almost their entire funding round after basically no one else would, and continued to supply funding rounds. Saying "in about a year after it was founded" implies that they had done real work in that year when in fact they couldn't even pay their own salaries. The company would have ended right there, just like so many other "two guys and some incorporation papers" companies.

Musk invested in the company, became chairman of the board and quickly became active in their normal everyday operations.
As a chartered psychotherapist, I would suggest you go to a psychotherapist. Furthermore, I suggest you have some "aerobic therapy" (that is, exercise) and, if you can, interact with some people.
A couple of resources may help you gather some information and make a more informed decision:
[0] https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/depression
[1] https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/depression
I'm a lifelong engineer.
I started programming when I was 12, studied computer engineering in college.
But I've burned out a couple times. Most recently in 2016, burnout prompted a lot of inner work for me.
At the time I was VP of engineering at the startup I founded, with a team of ten.

Every day I saw how I was getting in my own way, and just how many opportunities I had to grow as a leader. But I couldn't actually do much of the work I needed to do while I was in the startup. It was too intense. I had to leave and reboot.
So I left, and I started doing inner work in a completely open-ended way.

In the end, it took about four years.
I was lucky and privileged to be able to take so much time off.

In the first year I was feeling through the darkness for clues.
I had no idea what I was looking for.
I only knew that I was burned out.
I knew that the way I was operating wasn't serving me anymore.
It hadn't served me for quite a while.
I went to EMDR therapy, which was very helpful.

The first big insight: Because I had focused so strongly on engineering as a kid and into adulthood, I realized that my growth was stunted in other areas.
I started reparenting myself.

The second big insight: I had learned to numb my emotions and was disconnected from my own body and my sense of intuition. I believe that's what led to burnout in the first place. I'd lost my connection with my spirit.

Being used to clear career paths and life paths, the scariest thing to confront was the reality that there's no clear map for spiritual development, and it's a winding path, and signs of progress aren't always obvious. There's only a set of tools that have worked for others. You have to be willing to go into the unknown, and try some of those tools, especially the ones that may are beyond your comfort zone. For example, a five-day meditation retreat was a huge breakthrough for me, and it felt like taking a big risk for me to go at all.

In order to really commit to this growth, I needed to let go of the idea that I'd ever return to tech. That was tough, because engineering has been such a big part of my identity.
But I found, after that period, that I was able to come back to tech with a rediscovered sense of genuine curiosity.
I returned as more of a whole human being.
I gained a perspective that couldn't have come through more engineering work.

It's hard to describe spiritual growth, but the entire journey was well worth it.
I learned how to listen with my whole body.
I learned how to get fear out of the driver's seat of my life.
I prioritize very different things than I used to.
I am more able to remain grounded in my body as I work.
I actually enjoy working out now. I play basketball, I box, I meditate.
I feel more of my emotions, and more empathy and connection with others.
I learned how to cry.
I'm so grateful for all of this, it is such a gift.
And today, I love the engineering work that I do in infosec and PKI.
As long as I stay connected to purpose, I'm not worried about burnout.
I can feel that my heart is in my work.
And when it isn't anymore, I will follow my heart to whatever is next.
We could have already passed the great filter. Maybe going from single celled life to multicellular life is extremely rare. It did not appear on earth for 2-3 billion years after the appearance of single celled life. The creation of single celled life could also be great filter. Good evidence of that comes about a billion years after the formation of the Earth. And then there is a species that can escape its home planet. Apart from some single celled life on rocks ejected by impacts (not going to colonize the galaxy with those rare events), that took another billion years after multicellular life evolved. But, as Elon Musk emphasizes, we should get life into the solar system now. We don't know how rare life getting to this stage is and how likely it is to regress and never recover the capability. And in any case, current theory suggests that the sun will expand in the next few hundreds of millions of years making Earth uninhabitable to current life on Earth. Not very long compared to the 4.5 billion years Earth has existed.
The way that key JS ecosystem programs get rewritten tells me nothing is made well. Most ecosystems don’t have this much constant change.
For electricity, which is a small fraction of energy consumption overall. Most of the other sources are much harder to switch economically, and raise serious health and safety issues if storage and capacity is not increased dramatically.

For instance, for Germany to be self sufficient in the winter using electric heating, even if using high efficiency heat pumps, will require massive capex. Likely on the order of 7x all they’ve already spent on their entire electric grid.
Except it will only get more powerful with time, probably at an accelerating pace.
Everyone always downplays these legitimate fears about AI, pointing out how "it can't do X". They always forget to put the "yet" at the end of that sentence.
That's how the US patent system works now.

"The first inventor to file (FITF) provision of the America Invents Act transitions the U.S. to a first-inventor-to-file system from a first-to-invent system and became effective on March 16, 2013"

https://www.uspto.gov/patents/first-inventor-file-fitf-resou...
How is using the German flag different from calling the language “German” (or Deutsch)?
Major sports championships when teams from my hometown are playing. Since I'm from Los Angeles, that is actually fairly often, but those are the only events I watch live. Everything else can be recorded without losing urgency. "Technical topics" sounds more unnecessary than usual as far as transmitting in real time. The content shouldn't become less useful if people watch it a day or week or year later.
No worry, the one thing humans can do that robots can't (yet) is fill spare time with ever more work https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's_law
Additionally, insofar as lies must be written down to qualify as such, that in itself is quite fascinating and deserves its own separate conversation.
That's why decentralization is important. It's less efficient than centralization but more resilient. But because of efficiency, life tends to evolve into complex centralized systems that become incredibly vulnerable.
I have a therapist but I'm thinking about stopping my sessions because I never felt that I needed it. I'm pretty well put together, not stressed or anxious, great people person, pretty much know exactly what I need to do all the time and good at getting stuff done. What are you supposed to talk about with a therapist if you don't really have any problems?
it's mind-blowing that people like you accept the idea that it's perfectly normal and fine for unelected members of international pseudo-government bodies to spread fear porn propaganda specifically in order to get citizens to enact change in their lives, And That's A Good Thing™. how the fuck did we get to the point where top-down emotional terrorism of the working class is lauded as some kind of grand achievement for furthering human civilization? insane
Oh what a shame, I was planning to sign up for ACM next week. Unfortunately, that was a predictable move from O’Reilly. I bet most of the folks signing up for ACM were actually after O’Reilly’s contents.

I think the only cheaper alternative is during Black Friday period where they give a 100 usd discount.
For me it was worked relatively well.

I track my config in a git repo, and doom-emacs is rather helpful on what external tools must be installed for various configuration "layers" (like when working with such and such language). When using LSP, it can even proposes to install an appropriate language server in some cases.
How many bits per hour do solitary animals like cougars or hawks convey? I agree that whales sing endless, perhaps even annoying other whales with their wails. But many animals don't seem to even hit one bit per day.
Maybe they could include an E-meter?
I'm only part way through the paper, but what struck me as interesting so far is this:

In other text-to-image algorithms I'm familiar with (the ones you'll typically see passed around as colab notebooks that people post outputs from on Twitter), the basic idea is to encode the text, and then try to make an image that maximally matches that text encoding. But this maximization often leads to artifacts - if you ask for an image of a sunset, you'll often get multiple suns, because that's even more sunset-like. There's a lot of tricks and hacks to regularize the process so that it's not so aggressive, but it's always an uphill battle.

Here, they instead take the text embedding, use a trained model (what they call the 'prior') to predict the corresponding image embedding - this removes the dangerous maximization. Then, another trained model (the 'decoder') produces images from the predicted embedding.

This feels like a much more sensible approach, but one that is only really possible with access to the giant CLIP dataset and computational resources that OpenAI has.
The issue is not as straightforward as you describe. The promise was made and several actors confirm it [1]. That it was not put in a treaty does not contradict what Chomsky said. NATO expansion is a huge part of the current conflict, and it is a pity that it cannot be discussed without smears like yours.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/12/russias-belief...
Also former world leaders building multi-million dollar mansions right on the coast (that are supposedly flooding at any moment if we don't tHiNk Of tHe ChIlDrEn!)