skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Increased energy usage is increased energy usage. The underlying argument here is proof of working isn't actually burning this energy for any useful purpose and the excess clean energy production should be directly offsetting dirty energy production instead.
Can you share how are these two things related?
Visualizing the EU’s Energy Dependency
> Even at ~1300 or whatever the old model is going for [...] you can get both a digitakt and a digitone

You could probably get an iPad, a USB midi dongle, a midi keyboard, and a whole suite of software for that, too.
This has not been experience at all. I receive this login wall pop up every time I look at Twitter, including today while trying to read this post. I generally look at Twitter once a day for some link that gets sent to sent to me and this is consistently true.
Maybe we'll end up creating an artificial mind.
> Yeah, but it's the rank and file employees who will now think "I'm not there to defend myself against being fired if I take maternity/paternity leave"

If an executive is gunning for a rank and file employee, there is no defending yourself except through wrongful termination lawsuits, etc. Being sat in the office when it happens won't help you save your job from an executive that wants you gone.
It's proof that there's a ton of mass in the dark part of the picture (cause stuff is orbiting it). It's also proof that the thing at the center isn't outputting a significant amount of radio waves. If you know the mass, and the volume, that's enough to say it has to be of black hole density.
crypto dude bros are irritating, just stay off social media,

what sickens me more is all these companies jumping on the crypto.nft.metaverse bandwagon, like f off seriously.
crypto mania, similar to tulip mania.
The Pew Research article you are quoting show a considerably shrinking middle class over the past decades with a stagnating income: „Median income of the
middle class in 2016 is
about the same as in
2000“.
There is so much post processing that the telescope resolution barely matters. Personally I'm skeptical of these images since the algorithms have a lot of data fitting to "what it should look like" built in to them.
Can I haz Nukepunq? Wiff mootänntz, räydeeäyshun storrmz, and telepathic brain burtstazz?
Bitcoin will be fine until Chia finally overtakes.
Seems a perfect movie plot: A villain kidnaps children to extract brain fluid looking for the immortality :-(
I'd wager there's enough people, but I never looked into it so I have no data other than the people I know IRL.

I will add something though, I don't think the other way lends itself too well to being "discoverable". I just had my brother copy some data across documents with different formatting and he didn't know that "paste without formatting" was ever an option and now I think, if it ever worked the other way around, would I ever know that "Paste with formatting" is an option if the app defaults to unformatted paste?
I'm still fine with using the Turing Test (now >70 years old) for this.

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

I guess a key stipulation there is an interrogator who know what they're doing, but an AI that can fool an experienced interrogator would be worthy of the AGI title to me.
And all without agency over the decision!
Comparing the stock market crash to LUNA/UST crash is not the same thing.

Luna went from $100 to 1 cent.

UST was also meant to be a stable coin, it was sold as being equivalent to stacking your money in a savings account, just stable currency that follows the USD value. Lots of people took their money OUT of many coins, and moved it to UST for "stability" thinking that their nest was safe during the storm. (Of course their trust was misplaced as it was not equivalent to keeping your money at the bank, but that's what they were led to believe)

It's equivalent as if banks were bankrupting all over the place in the United States with no bank insurance from the government.

No common measure comparaison with the SP 500 being down for a few months (or even a few years).
So they’re finally moving money off of exchanges?

And shareholders are like “oh noes even less revenue… perhaps”

I just don’t get the impression it’s that rational, since the low bar Coinbase offers at all is a much higher bar or on par with all other crypto asset exchanges. I think shareholders are just thinking it meant bankruptcy incoming.
It'll be a bloodbath if the deal falls through since there was a runup when Elon first started sniffing around.

The fact that it's not pegged to the purchase price already shows there is some skepticism that it actually closes.
Not just consciousness- all of science requires a leap of faith- the idea that human brains can comprehend general universal causality. There is no scientific refutation for Descartes' Great Deceiver- it's taken as a given that humans could eventually overcome any https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_demon through their use of senses and rationality on their own.

I have long worked on the assumption that we can create intelligences that no human could deny have subjective agency, while not being able to verify that. I did some preliminary experiments on idle cycles on Google's internal TPU networks (IE, large-scale brain sims using tensorflow and message passing on ~tens of pods simultaneously) that generated interesting results but I can't discuss them until my NDA expires in another 9 years.
CLIP has a distinct Vision Transformer and distinct Text Transformer model that are then matmul'd to create the aligned embedding space.

Gato apparently just uses a single model.
It is normal to ask the outgoing management to clean house before the new management moves in. Often a condition of any severance payment.
How good is your dog at Atari games, stacking cubes and image captioning?

You can actually measure the effect of generality by how fast it learns new tasks. The paper is full of tables and graphs showing this ability.

It's just a small model, 170x smaller than GPT-3, has lots of room to grow. But for the first time we have a game playing agent that knows what "Atari" and "game" mean, and can probably comment on the side of the livestream. AlphaGo only knew the world of the Go board. This agent knows what is outside the box.
I generally agree that AI continues to impress in very specific ways but, to be fair, some of the points you make are debatable. For example, I would argue that the development of GANs and other algos do no necessarily disprove the statement "ML models can't perform creative work." They definitely represent meaningful steps in that direction, but I don't think it's hard to find flaws with generated content. On the other hand, AI definitely has punted the ball over many moved goalposts as with the AlphaFold example.
Thank you for those kind words. I have two 2yo twin cats as well and the thought of not having them around is tough. Will check out both recommendations. I've never heard of Bhagavad Gita and it seems incredibly interesting.
I’d say it’s all backwards default copy-paste should be just text and then you can go overboard with adding +shift to combination or +alt
Yea it’s annoying more often than it’s useful. As always, there’s a macOS app for that: https://sindresorhus.com/pure-paste
"Fired while on paternity leave" hurts a hell of a lot less when you're a mega millionaire who will be able to walk into a leadership position anywhere he likes, but it still sucks.
We had a student get beaten to death over drug money stuff and another student hang themselves over it shortly thereafter.

Death is still a number when it's close to you. Just because it's close to you doesn't make it common. If nobody got rare forms of cancer we wouldn't have those rare forms of cancer but just because those people have families who (presumably) care doesn't mean those rare cancers should be considered big problems. You might get away with running a village on emotion like that but you need to run a country by the numbers.
Trying to literally answer your question of who came up with this:

I'm pretty sure Windows 95 already allowed rich text on the clipboard (using the RTF format), and at least Word and Excel both supported it. Mac OS X also had RTF support from the start.

Nowadays most desktop applications write HTML to the clipboard instead of RTF, I believe. And that's how the formatting ends up in your Gmail editor inside a browser.
> slight differentiations on very emotional side shows

Slight differences? In the U.S. right now there are states that would ban abortion immediately if Roe were overturned, and ones that allow abortion until birth, limited only be the conscience of the doctor. The two sides are further apart than the most extreme poles of the EU.
Didn't we see this image last April? What is new here? tia
Bringing Page Transitions to the Web
I like to quote Reggie Watts, from his TED talk:

“What can you do when the entire economy is based on lies?”

Such an uncomfortable chuckle from the crowd!
Meanwhile in Berlin you can use public transport alone if you are 6 years old, and you can take your younger sibling too

https://www.bvg.de/en/tickets-tariffs/conditions-of-carriage
Maybe Elon buys Reddit next /s
Basically the achievement here is that they have produced a generic AI capable of engaging in different activities, and from here if we extrapolate, it could lead to even more refinement, wider range of activities with even more dimensions of complexity.

It's reverting to replace somebody sitting in front of a screen, not just artists and coders but literally anything you can do on a screen which also means manipulation of remote hardware in the real world.

Very possible that within our lifetime our networked OS would be able to perform much of these generalist tasks and content creation. I say OS because theres only a few companies that own the datacenters, software and hardware ecosystem to automate, and capital to invest big in a final mile innovation:

Imagine playing Battlefield 15 with realistic and chatty AI while generating Sopranos Season 9 featuring Pauli Gaultieri Jr. with crowdsourced online storyboard to 8k film, while the same AI could be used to scalp money on Google Playstore by generating ad filled free versions of existing productivity apps that it reverse engineered, while your robot maids takes out the trash, cook you a bowl of ramen and massage your shoulders?

The rise of general AI would then optimize the labor force to select candidates based on their "humaneness", no longer the cold rational analytical mind, as those fields are overrun by AI, but what it cannot bring. such "humaneness" would increasingly be mimicked with astounding accuracy that it would become impossible to distinguish what is AI and what is human.

If it can happen with DALL-E-2 and 2D images, it can happen with 3D, moving pictures, sound, music, smell, 3d positional torque (haptic and robotic), socially cohesive and realistic emotion.

We might as well be able to capture entire experiences as we learn to digitally manipulate ALL sensory inputs from vision, touch, sound, taste, etc. Maybe even imagination and mental pictures too, which could be used to fabricate and manipulate objects/vehicles in the real world.

We are being pulled towards a singularity, where we are truly no longer our minds and bodies but whatever our digital avatar of all possible senses live and contribute to a sort of Matrioshka brain.

What would the capacity of such collective knowledge, experiences add to the entropy of the universe and where will it take humanity? Some sort of lightbodies?

Anyways, just extrapolating from this point in the lifetime but future generation of humans could be very much different, socities would function completely different than what we recognize as they would be married in some shape or form of everlasting continuity or eternity.
They absolutely are not, but in the context of economic scarcity, I can see why they're put off to the side when comparing policy.
And that's because a lot of such mergers/buyouts fail.

That's why the price is never on parity.

Putting everything on hold until the merger closes is a severe dereliction of duty.
The first amendment gives private entities such as Twitter the right to curate what’s on their site. AKA “freedom of the press belongs to those that own the press.”

Twitter isn’t the government and it doesn’t control the rest of the internet.
I’m trying to get myself not to buy one. It’s $17,000, which means it’s pretty much the same price after inflation as it was during production.
Until the money goes away, at which point it becomes as it always has been about getting rich and not about any of the ideals.
I do provide a free trial because it lowers the friction for users trying my product. I sell a self-hosted software, so the main push-back against such software is that installation could be too complex. The main purpose for trial in this case is to let customers test the installation for free and if it works for them as expected they can then purchase a license.
I do not understand why the most services doesn't do diffs by them self.

My bank for example has an "show diff" button if they change anything. This saves me time and build up trust because I know they try not to hide anything.
In word, Cntrl Shift V just applies formatting. You have to Ctrl V wait hit Cntrl again and then hit T.
Coinbase and Circle were certainly able to pull off both steps for USDC. They require KYC to purchase USDC from them, or redeem USDC for USD. USDC can be traded on the secondary market without KYC.
> which is essentially a proxy war between Russia and NATO

This is kind of like seeing WW2 pre PH as a proxy war between the USA and Germany....

Ukraine is clearly a part in this war, as they have shown by their heroic ability to resist.

Nato is clearly on Ukraine's side.

You are right that NATO benefits greatly from still having Turkey on the team, though. Also, I think Turkey is not super supportive of Putins's attempts to annext territory by force and/or vassalize their neighbours through invasions.

Next time, they could annex Georgia, and I'm pretty sure that would be seen as a grave threat by Turkey.
> useless mouse over popups all over a UI

I go back and forth on whether I want to disable intellisense and tips in VS Code because half the time I feel like it's helpful, but the other half of the time it's covering up other code I need to reference to finish typing.
Although if you were fired after being investigated and the company is keeping it quiet, then surely going with the standard "spend some time with the family excuse" and keeping it quiet rather than drawing attention to that fact would be basic self preservation.
The German Federal Ministry of Finance has issued a document outlining and regulating the various sorts of cryptocurrency gains.
We find, in particular, that German nationals will be immune from taxation on cryptocurrency gains if they keep them for longer than a year.
As I understand it, quantum physicis essentially predicts that the randomness of quantum fields effectively disappears at scales of just micrometers, let alone at the scale GR works on. How is the uncertainty principle supposed to affect bodies at the scale of light years?
He’s probably just an idiot with money working for the idea, and his supporters getting a salary for doing an ethically vague job
Another option - get rid of the talent before the next guy comes in to run it, because you don't like him.
I'd love to believe this, but nobody has demonstrated that yet. Also, I'm of the belief that if you have enough ram, either an infinitely tall-and-thin or wide-but-short MLP could do anything transformers can (happy to be pointed at a proof otherwise).
Yay another hip SV startup just around the corner!
A Gentler, Better Way to Change Minds
I don't know any degenerate gamblers that expect 20% returns
I think this is a step in the right direction, but the performance on most tasks is only mediocre. The conversation and image captioning examples in the paper are pretty bad, and even on some relatively simple control tasks it performs surprisingly poorly.

That's not to say it's not an important step. Showing that you can train one model on all of these disparate tasks at once and not have the system completely collapse is a big deal. And it lays the foundation for future efforts to raise the performance from "not totally embarrassing" to "human level". But there's still a ways to go on that front.
A more frutier variety is the ruby chocolate, I really like it, but its a personal taste https://www.viba-shop.de/heilemann/ruby-chocolate/
Curious. I'd much rather these resources were spent on combating offline child sexual abuse.
you are correct about the bitter part. Maybe, just don't focus on things you can't do anything about.
Seems like a pretty typical use of the word "insane" in the US.
At least gold has a certain amount of practical, physical uses.

Connector plating, jewelry, dentistry, optics plating for [james webb].
While I think much of the article is right, the amount of time spent on dismantling housing NIMBYism is somewhat unfortunate. The analysis is right to some extent, but there are also valid reasons to consider that urban sprawl should be limited, while also protecting historic city centers, and trying to make sure normal people can still afford housing close to or in the center of their cities.

A very problematic tendency with a free housing market and free reign for development is that it ties the price of buildings to the price of the land they sit on. No one is going to, of their own accord, buy a piece of land in downtown Manhattan and build a low-income housing building there. So, free development does allow prices to overall go down even as the city grows larger, but at the cost of moving poor and middle-class people towards the periphery of the city.

Land near the city center and other landmarks is naturally scarce, there is no way to create an abundance of physiccal space. That inevitably drives the price of that land up as the city expands. The only way to prevent the rich buying it all up and excluding everyone else from those areas is for the city to regulate the need for low-income housing being built or regulate the price itself.

A better policy overall, though no one has managed it to any extent, would be to find a way of developing in a less centralized way - stop growing cities to this mega metropolis level, and somehow encourage the creation of more big-but-not-huge cities. Or, find a new way of organizing cities so that they are less centralized themselves.

Abig part of this, I suspect, would be reducing centralization of companies as well. The huge behemoths we have today control a vast amount of resources, so their decisions of locations naturally force people to gather in the same city, and create high value space. If instead you had a much larger range of much smaller companies, there would be less need to have huge HQs with thousands of workers in the same building a la Apple's Infinity Loop 1.

The best proof, I think, that this type of decentralized development can work at some scale lies in Europe. Even though individual European countries and cities have similar problems and tendencies to those in the USA, these are much more recent problems, and overall there are many times more large cities across the EU, and no mega metropolises like NYC or LA. And, many of these cities have city centers that are somewhat frozen in time for 100 or 200 years, not since the 70s, without reaching the ridiculous prices of San Francisco for example (though they might get there).
Insanely is just operating as a term of emphasis in this context. Maybe that's not an easy translation?

One definition for "insanely" is [0]:

> to an extreme degree.

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/insanely
Always enjoy reading your comments, sir.
Permanent poverty is also a defining feature of feudalism, which is the end game of any unmanaged market economy.

That's another reason markets get a little bit of steering.
But that is a wildly inaccurate assumption for any real table.

I still wouldn't call it perfect play because as soon as someone adopts a fixed strategy, the meta game shifts and it is no longer optimal.

If anything, the assumption is equal play, not perfect play
While some platforms go through the Maps app to get the location, under macOS/iOS there's the locationd daemon that provides the location independently of any app. There, Maps is just a locationd consumer just like any other app requesting a location so Maps shouldn't be invoked in the background by non-Maps stuff. But perhaps Maps has a timed trigger to background update your cached location (so it can open up to the correct startup location instead of locating you after startup) or something similar.
Yeah the new reddit is unusable. Not borderline unusable, but like actually useless. I can't believe they released it and I can't believe people actually use it.
Is that you Mike?
I'm trying to figure out the same... well, at least a related question. What's the point of this? Why would I want a single-file version of Python?

Is the main idea here to be able to provide some of the benefits of a static binary (like a Go compiled binary)? Namely, you can keep this pyoxy binary with your project and then all of your custom code/dependencies/etc... are kept together in one single folder without relying on the system Python?

If so... I like it. Then the next step would be merging this binary with your code (plus dependencies) in one file, or maybe pyoxy plus an egg file? (or wheel? I can't keep track anymore). Seems like it would work for pure python dependencies pretty well, but would still have issues with dependencies that require compiling?
That money isn't in a jurisdiction you may necessarily be able to reach.

They also have no obligation to pay anyone a cent of their reserves. Any USDT->USD exchanges they do/claim to do are a courtesy, not a requirement.
much faster than infiniband. A suitcase full of hard drives.
Apollo has the ability to intercept clicks on reddit links and open them in the app. It works pretty well.
> So there's two options right - the first is that Parag is for some reason making big strategic decisions about the direction of the company despite the fact that we all know he'll be gone if the deal closes. Or he's making big strategic changes at the behest of the acquirers before the deal closes.

It's conceivable that he already had a backlog of changes in his mind that he wanted to do at some point, sooner or later. But due to acquisition coming, sooner or later has turned into now or never.

If he legitimately believed these changes were best for the company before, he might still believe so.

In other words, yes, there's a reason, but not necessarily a nefarious one. It could be, or maybe it's as innocuous as urgency.
I thought crypto was supposed to be a hedge against the markets.
Are you already blogging? If not, I would start doing that. Writing short form technical articles and sharing them is like bootcamp for longer form writing. You'll learn the mechanics of organizing thoughts into a linear narrative, the discipline to finish, and you'll get feedback from readers about what works and what doesn't.

I blogged for a few years (and wrote thousands and thousands of comments on Reddit, which was also helpful) before I wrote a book.
The more likely scenario is that some of the financial backers like Larry Ellison will ask Elon to renegotiate the buyout price due to current market conditions and the deal will fall through.
As a Norwegian, I will be very happy if Finland and Sweden join NATO. :)
That doesn't make sense. The black market (being illegal) would have significantly higher risks and transaction costs, so even with arbitrage the prices could still be significantly different.
Oh wow I had always gotten into the habit of copying into a simple text editor first if I wanted to strip out the formatting.