skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What is the content of the training set like, that DALL·E 2 has all this info?

Web crawling. (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.00020.pdf 2.2)

> Are there people out there spending thousands of hours just tagging or writing descriptions of training images?

"Yes", Google Image Search, Wikipedia captions, Danbooru are all that in some sense.

The biases should be obvious if you think about it for a minute and CLIP has even more biases since they removed all kinds of NSFW content, etc.

> And does DALL·E just receive the image as-is with its description, or does it get more info (e.g. "this part of the image is the dog")?

Only that, but segmentation is a big research area too and it looks like FB has a reproduction with some of that mixed in.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.13131
Truth. I recommended a Honda Element to a friend of mine who wanted a cute car, but who had a tendency of destroying cars.

Among our friends, somehow the "hose down" talking point was common knowledge. This was maybe 16 years back, so I do not recall how we came to this idea.

They ended up buying a stickshift VW bug. Which they abused in many weird ways.

Destroyed a couple Honda Fits since the bug.
Since you're using Firecracker, it's hard to understand how it takes 20 seconds to boot a VM.

AWS Lambda worst performer (JVM) I think takes much less than that, like 5 seconds in cold start. You must be loading something really bulky at startup...

Why don't you offer warmed VMs? Like reserved concurrency in AWS Lambda. Preemptively increase the number of VMs (like an auto-scaler) as traffic increases.
Yeah, it does seem to be very limiting. The previous behavior of allowing it can be configured by safe.directory[0].

In lack of CI I still tend to do builds in a container from a separate local user with read-only permissions. I wish they'd add an option to allow it when the user is in the owner group, which could be a decent compromise.

[0]: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config/2.35.2#Documentation/git...
NAFTA removes tariffs and quotas, it doesn't supersede regulations or enforcement.
Again you’re separating your worker identity and your consumer identity. You can’t consume if you don’t work. They are intrinsically linked, but you’re choosing to see them as separated. Yes, Maybe you give up your prime for a few months, but next year when you’re negotiating your salary, you have a stronger collective bargain position (unionized or non)
Argument by analogy is not much of an argument.
In most cars it's okay to get the carpet pretty wet for cleaning, but you need to suck it dry with a wet/dry vac or proper carpet extractor and b)immediately dry it out as much as possible, like leaving it in hot sun with the windows and sunroof all cracked a bit and a fan or two circulating air around. Letting the car get pretty hot and then driving it around for a bunch with the A/C on will help, too. Car AC systems are very powerful.

However, some car companies put control modules in the passenger footwell (like engine control modules, sometimes ABS or airbag controllers), so it's worth looking at a parts diagram or googling around first.
I honestly didn't even notice the denominators were different. All of the fractions were in simplest terms, which is (imo) preferable to using a common denominator.
Sorry, I had that blocked, so I didn't see it.

Here's the raw audio stream: http://198.178.121.76:8157/stream
Or, an exploit was discovered, and quietly patched out recently
Is the game open source? I would like to add it to my acos.games platform.
Ever since Gödel we’ve had a pretty convincing proof that there is nothing that you can do in terms of reasoning that can’t be expressed using computation. And since Turing we’ve got a framework that shows there’s nothing computable that you can’t compute using a universal computer.

So unless there’s something mystical beyond the realm of mathematics to ‘reasoning’ it can’t be a superset of computing.

If a finite amount of matter in a brain with a finite amount of energy can do it, then a universal computing machine with a finite amount of storage and a finite amount of time can do it.
> Office time should be “not only productive but also fun.”

I don't really want to have fun at the office though. I just want to be given the resources to do my job well, and to be treated like a professional who knows how to do what he was hired for. "Office fun times" often end up being an obstacle to those simple requests.
I am also suspicious of this flow, it too feels very un-optimized. I think it has existed since back in the days where you had to buy software in a box to install off of a cd-rom. I think they even frame it as this add-on software will come pre-installed on your new mac, like that is a big convenience so you don't have to go out and buy it separately. But now obviously the alternative is you can just one-click purchase it later from the mac app store. They don't even bother giving you some small 10% discount or something for buying it alongside the computer. I wonder how many people do actually check that box and add it on.
So, awk sort of works as a fancy grep:

ps axjw | awk '(/zsh/ || /login/) && !(/awk/ || /direnv/)'

And you can easily add features like "print the first line unconditionally:

ps axjw | awk 'NR == 1 {print} (/zsh/ || /login/) && !(/awk/ || /direnv/)'

IMO, awk is in a pretty uniquely sweet spot between grep and perl/ruby/python.
This is why I laugh when I see 90's era defenders selling for $80k in the states.
Is there a way to declare the code in the backend, instead of the frontend?

Declaring the code in the frontend and having the VM execute whatever comes from it is asking for serious abuse.
It was slow but it was great. Leagues beyond Lightroom at the time.
> Let’s start with a general guideline for programming Go: write Go programs by writing code, not by defining types

I find this interesting - I think I typically do the reverse: I generally start by thinking of my program in terms of types and then write code to perform operations/transformations on those types (obviously this doesn't work 100% of the time).

That being said, I have never written any Go, but I can't imagine I would approach it differently.
> what am I missing?

It's very hard to define people who don't fit inside the normal blue-vs-red spectrum.

It's really hard to define people who don't fit into an easy quadrant on the political compass test.
Is it possible that your FJ Cruiser could get rusted out in exactly the same way as the Honda Element from doing this?
"The giant bee deserves to be here, with its comically large jawline, just like the everyday earwigs, crickets, and moths."

To quote Clint Eastwood; "Deserves got nothing to do with it." It will survive if it is suited to survive, and now apparently Man has become its worst natural enemy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4pRe8ul7KQ
Just for fun.

This is an ad for first iMovie released, from 2000.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oIjd5qsvZo
> Ghostbusters (1984) is another expertly crafted movie that is fun for kids, but well-written enough to be incredibly enjoyable for adults.

When you get right down to it, it’s a movie about exterminators—not exactly fun-for-kids fare. And yet…
No. But there are some complex laws about motor carrier safety, etc.

Ultimately Texas benefits greatly from Mexican trade, so even by the dim bulb standard set by modern Texan officials, this is a really stupid measure.
`tail -f` follows the logfile, so the command allows you to search over the logfile as logs are being added to it
I live in Texas. I don't care. This is just another political grandstanding to get back at Biden for repealing Title 42.
I understand from where your confusion comes from.

We have a few unoptimized things happening on our infra in the moment. We are working on it to make it better and it will be better soon. Most likely around 1-2 seconds.

Once we had the early version ready, we started focusing on figuring out the business side of Devbook and iterating on the product. So certain things aren't as high priority right now but will be very high in the near future.
> how about a simple app to let me trim and splice video and add audio? And a simple way to export, but not so simple that the choices are youtube and something else. Just export at whatever resolution I choose. And don't put stupid intros, outros, and transitions unless I ask for them.

That's literally iMovie.
If it weren't for Final Cut Pro, I wouldn't have upgraded to a Mac Studio. Not as big a business as iOS hardware but it has a halo effect.
https://github.com/weihanglo/sfz

check this out
I don't know how true this is but it's been widely reported that the lyric "hit me baby one more time" was due to the song's writer (who is Swedish) believing "hit" was American slang for "call."

It's plausible due to the idiom "hit me up" meaning "call me."
having the ability to get an infosec job isnt = intelligence. tbh most of the people ive met in the last 5 years who were working corprate infosec / cyber are not particularly skilled or creative just good at filling out reports doing the greyface suit thing.
WebP is such a goated format
> "Encanto" was an absolute poster child for this

That’s just kinda how musicals are.
After listening to in-person talks from Atlassian in the past, I got the impression of them having a smugness from being a big fish in a small pond (Australian tech.)

Their original and early Jira product was great and put them out in front, but I couldn’t name any other product of theirs except Bitbucket which is very much a second place competitor in their market. Jira itself has faded and been caught up with too.

Reading through the post and seeing the level of support some people on Twitter have been tweeting about, I would take this as a great time to look at other offerings out there.
Also xh and curlie
It's an important highlight that Atlassian is deprecating all of their on-premise offerings and forcing everyone to the cloud because it's "the future". And then promptly demonstrated how poor of stewards of the cloud they are.
That does seem like a mistake, upon a cursory examination.
I can assure you, it's far more pleasant. Even if there is coach on the plane. They are waiting in a terminal, which sucks. I'm waiting until boarding begins in a real lounge with free booze and snacks.

It is not even close to the same. First class is expensive. No argument there. It isn't just a little better. It's an entirely different experience.
Ah, well I wrongly assumed you worked. You’ve moved into the owning class and your interests have been severed from those of working people. Congrats, you’re now living off the efforts of others, and caring about those people’s fate is now fully optional for you.
Yes, we are called selection readers
Can't you? What kind of foreign code can be executed that way?

Clonning will not copy .git/hooks/ nor .git/config which is the main danger here, I guess. But I'd sure want to hear about other risks.

Maybe an env variable to disable hooks execution and .git/config parsing would be nice to have for safer use of git repositories you didn't clone yourself as part of shell prompt customizations.
You’ve got it backwards. The poll asks simple direct questions that reveal voter preferences. The article is about how to reframe those questions to get voters to give the answers progressives want.

I’m not “trolling.” In the last few years folks have become too comfortable calling policies “racist” or “dog whistling” without being confident that minorities actually perceive them that way. I think this is itself racist and manipulative—a way of fluffing apparent support for progressive policies by vaguely invoking minorities—and needs to be called out as such.

Cross-border criminal activity is a real concern that affects real people. There’s a reason majority Hispanic communities along the border have flipped Republican in the last couple of years. Right now Abbott is leading Beto among Hispanics in reputable polls: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2022/01/29/abbott-r.... Waving your hands and calling these concerns racist “dog whistles” is not only lazy but disrespectful to a distinct community with its own interests and often nuanced positions.
Until today, I didn't know you could create hard links (ie "multi-parent" files/folders) in Google Drive.

How did one achieve this? I would like to know, because I'm wondering if I have unintentionally done so. I gather this is completely different from "Make a copy" in the web UI. So how did you do it?
T-Mobile Bought Its Customer Data from Hackers to Stop Leak. It Failed
> I work in AI/ML and every places I've seen the practical applications of these techniques has ranged the equivalent to adding sprinkles on a cake, to completely useless engineering nightmares that would ultimately create more value with their removal.

That "count the objects" app that can tell you how many items you have in a photo seems like a very practical application that wasn't possible with traditional CV before ML.
The answer to the first question is in the article! There are new inspections being done by Texas state police, part of a political stunt by the governor to "protest" the elimination of covid-era federal inspections. And like any new bureaucracy, it's implemented poorly and causing backups.
The FBI’s takedown of Virgil Griffith for breaking sanctions, firsthand
Its purpose was to compete with Muzak, I assume?

Yes. See [1]

The Seeburg 1000 could play a stack of 25 records, both sides, each side good for about an hour of music at the slow speed. Thus there was about 50 hours of audio in the stack, enough to keep it from being too repetitive.

Musak worked by distributing audio over phone lines, rather than using an on-site player.

Streaming no-name covers of songs as low-cost background music is not new at all. From a historical perspective, that's the history of music - mediocre musicians playing background music for little money. For a brief period of history in the 20th century, being in a famous band was a Big Deal. That started with mass-market record production, and ended when there were several million MySpace bands.

All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeburg_1000
Zero. But I did read the research paper, web site and viewed the web site mentioned in this hacker news post along with the samples. I've worked with lots of machine learning models and tools and understand the underlying design of the system. You can't ask Dall-E to create a pop art picture of Corgis if you didn't train it on images of Corgis and pop art. I'm not downplaying the achievement of the system that creates an incredible connection between the input images and the text descriptions. But.. at the end of the day. It is not creative in the same way humans are creative.
I have spent quality time with a couple different FJ Cruisers and it is a vehicle of which I am not very fond. The seating and interior, especially the headroom, is not comfortable for me and has poor outward visibility. More than those things, though, is that its driving feels coarse and unrefined on the street. It may be great offroad but it is not a rig I'd buy for my mostly street use.
It's using it here on line 1042?

git_config_pathname(&interpolated, key, value)
I don’t exactly disagree with this point, but in mitigation, being constantly vigilant must be exhausting, and even bright people with strong executive function are going to slip up once in a while. It’s just too hard to keep your guard up 100% or the time.

Most deceptions, even comically absurd ones like “dude who has two families in different cities” do not require perfect vigilance, whereas running a cybercrime forum does. I bet success at this stuff comes from having an unusually fastidious personality more than anything else.

While you’d think bright people would be smart enough to recognize these risks and the comparatively safe, lucrative alternatives available to them, I know plenty of genuinely bright people who’ve made systematically poor decisions about how to run their lives or who have personality defects that otherwise impair their ability to succeed. And that’s even despite my social circles being heavily weighted toward people who went to good universities and hold down good jobs.

I’m sure that the ability to make sound, rational, forward-thinking life choices is correlated with intelligence, but I’m not sure how strongly.
You're not wrong. But I'd be very interested to hear the counter argument. I've been trying to chew through the reporting on the topic and I haven't actually found yet what the Governor's justification is for these inspections. The best I can tell is he appears to be lumping them under general public safety authority, which is a paper thin excuse when the thing that he admits we're keeping people safe from is international trafficking. There are vast swathes of public safety that are not the responsibility of a state government.
Traffic filtering using NIC capabilities on wire speed (10GE, 14Mpps) (2017)
The key is the "Git-enabled `PS1`". PS1 is an environment variable recognised by common shell programs (such as bash) that configures the shell prompt. Git often installs its own glue into the prompt that ends up running a Git executable to discover such things as the current branch name and how many changed files. The vulnerability is that it's possible to add malicious things to .git/config that the git executable will pick up and call/run, even on simple operations like displaying the prompt.
I didn't see much about the buyers of the bee in the article, but I imagine that someone buying a really big bee for thousands of dollars is unlikely to be in the 'desperate' classes. For a start they have access to thousands of dollars!
You change your passwords during the divorce...
Good critics aren't 'prescriptive'. They are scholars of various media who elucidate where a new piece of work sits with in an artist's oeuvre, or the larger canon that the work is contributing to.

While some self-anointed blogger critics might have certain ideas about what they wish an audience would watch, an actual critic's (broadsheet paper, industry trade) only job is to contextualise a work in the larger bodies of genre, medium, and culture.

> User reviews are retrospective: how much did they actually enjoy watching the movie.

How can ANY review not be 'retrospective'? In fact, probably the majority of film criticism speaks to how much or little the critic enjoyed a film. Pauline Kael (probably the most incisive and celebrated American critic in film history) built a legacy based pretty much on how much she much she enjoyed the film.

> I think a very interesting graph would be so see to what extent critics prescriptions are accurately forward-looking to viewer attitudes.

Why do critics and audiences have to have the same opinions? I this is the fundamental misunderstanding and wonky premise of the article.
electrical power lines are "critical infrastructure" status in most countries; fifteen percent of countries worldwide do not publish official maps at all.. every country has protected information and publishing restrictions related to self-defense.
The trucker has to sign to say that the company loaded the truck correctly before departing. So if the load cannot be unloaded it's the truck drivers fault!!!
Compelling argument for seizing and nationalizing amazon right there. That's power way beyond even monopoly, I can't see how it can be justified.
that was my take too. As with any company, if they can stop sharing revenue with third parties it seems almost inevitable that they will. It isn't just Amazon basics, its Netflix producing its own shows that are a product of machine learning about people's preferences.

Whether that is good or bad is a different question

Whether they are being honest about it is a different question

Whether they should inform people / people should inform themselves is a different question

But I see the perverse incentives as a problem, and the the misleading behavior as another the problem...the incentive is universal in any platform that has to pay for the content it hosts, and while folks may be okay with this one, whats the limit? If they really stood behind this they would be transparent 'here I'm playing you music created by spotify to fill your home with generic low-engagement sound. The fact that they are obfuscating it is telling.
While it seems rare for covid to cause MS itself, there might be a link between neuroinflammation and demyelinating damage.

https://www.msard-journal.com/article/S2211-0348(20)30400-4/...
Deep inside some large enterprise company:

Jr Engineer: "Hey, I know we've always managed our little dotnet application via email and shared-network-drive, but I've been reading about a thing called "git" that we should probably use."

Sr Engineer: "Change is scary and bad, also we are not a software company. We're not going to learn some newfangled whatsit. Just email me the .vba files when you want me to review the changes with the one copy of visual studio 2008 that our team has access to."

Jr Engineer: "C'mon, give it a chance! We can leave everything the way its always been, but have better tracking of changes. Remember that time Bruno hard coded the tool to point to the C: drive? Git would let us just undo that, instead of having to search our emails for the last-most-recent version."

Sr Engineer: "Ok fine, I've got 10 minutes, show me."

Jr Engineer: "Ahh! Well I just got it installed, so let me go to the network drive... and then I think I have to git init our project folder... huh? Let me just... Maybe if I..."

Sr Engineer: "Times up! Looks like this "git" thing isn't compatible with our setup after all. Those modern dev types never make anything that works in a real enterprise environment."
Yes but that's a general use function, it won't check for safe.directory inside of it
Maybe it's intended? If you specify a directory for something in your git config it sounds reasonable to assume you trust it.

That said, if it is intended, I'm surprised there isn't a comment mentioning that because it certainly looks like a bug.
It can be used as an emergency fund (takes some time to build up but if you do the math it’s totally worth it to take 10k you would have invested, put it in i bonds, then invest 10k from your cash savings after a year, even assuming inflation goes back down to 1-2% and stocks perform really well) or as part of a portfolio with both stocks and bonds.
I submitted a PR on github https://github.com/git/git/pull/1235. Supposedly there's a bot who will send an email, but I don't have permissions to use it... mhm...
It's fascinating that the system is able to generate such precise imagery, yet can't handle words at all -- it can only barely reproduce words you explicitly tell it to. But sometimes it'll adds words when you're really not expecting it, and like you said, it's uncomfortable. Like the worst uncanny valley I've ever experienced. It was so unsettling to see the "four seasons" and "periodic table" that I couldn't stop nervously laughing.
I do most of my programming in VS Code these days, but I still use BBEdit frequently for quick file editing and complex search/replace tasks.
I use Mullvad and I constantly run into things like ASN bans etc. For example, cloudflare often bans whole ASN making many websites not accessible through Mullvad.

Seems like mullvad is being used by a lot of bad actors and they're not really doing anything about it.

I like their software and monetization but their IPs are probably the lowest quality IPs in the VPN market.