skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My mother is amazing to watch because she doesn't do anything efficiently, really: She puts about three times as much energy as necessary into everything she does. But she never spends any time wondering what to do next or how to optimize anything; she just keeps working. Her strategy, slightly simplified, is, "See something that needs to be done and do it." All day long. And at the end of the day, she's accomplished a huge amount.

This strategy is remarkably powerful and I've used it to great effect in my career. Committing yourself to pushing forward every single day, even if just a little bit, and always just peeling off one single thing you can do next (even if it's tiny yet takes you all day) has a dizzying compounding effect.
Yes, some people leverage after 1000x unrealized gains. Their portfolio and investment thesis may not care about cost basis. Welcome to crypto.
> The former product is based on the model of taking in customer funds, converting them to stablecoins, and lending them out to institutions, Bai explained at the time.

Sounds like the rest of their problems are moot then
While not essential, I wouldn't exactly call the gender "accidental":

> We investigated sex differences in 473,260 adolescents’ aspirations to work in things-oriented (e.g., mechanic), people-oriented (e.g., nurse), and STEM (e.g., mathematician) careers across 80 countries and economic regions using the 2018 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). We analyzed student career aspirations in combination with student achievement in mathematics, reading, and science, as well as parental occupations and family wealth. In each country and region, more boys than girls aspired to a things-oriented or STEM occupation and more girls than boys to a people-oriented occupation. These sex differences were larger in countries with a higher level of women's empowerment. We explain this counter-intuitive finding through the indirect effect of wealth. Women's empowerment is associated with relatively high levels of national wealth and this wealth allows more students to aspire to occupations they are intrinsically interested in.

Source: https://psyarxiv.com/zhvre/ (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29040132)
Have author checked world birth rate change?

You will see, that approx in 1975 was finished trend of exponential grow of world population.

Why this is important - from ~1920s, Western countries conduct politics of use Poncy scheme to feed governments budgets and because of rapid grow of population, it was possible to fulfill promises.

But in 1970s, with end of exponential grow, this bubble collapses, and now next generations of politics have to work in new world, where they cannot fully avoid to pay for their predecessors claims, but have much more limited resources.
> And even worse yet as her district is focusing on putting AppleTVs in every room while buying curriculum that has no books.

I agree that Apple TVs in classrooms is a waste of money, but I don't remember text books being particularly useful, either. We covered between 25% and 50% of the contents of the book, and maybe had assigned reading for half of what was covered.

Textbooks are also a bit of a racket, too. The contents and pedagogy generally move very slowly, but legislators and parents like to micromanage contents, and textbook makers are happy to oblige. The number of, say, algebra, books across the US is probably embarrassing, as is the fact that there isn't a movement for public domain textbooks.

Novels are different. With 5 books per year at $4 per book with books lasting a few years, I'm less concerned.
If the model is used to generate offensive imagery, it may result in a negative press response directed at the company.
It's just a different asterisk to distinguish, in this case, in the paper, they are "core contributors."
The bias on HN is that people who prioritize being nice, or may possibly have humanities degrees or be ultra-libs from SF, are wrong because the correct answer would be cynical and cold-heartedly mechanical.

Other STEM adjacent communities feel similarly but I don’t get it from actual in person engineers much.
Not just that ... Google Sheets must be the all-time worst way to distribute 200 short strings.
Looking at that link, I don't think that is a GitHub publication? It is marked Robotics at Google and Everyday Robotics.
He used some form of MEV shielding but not clear in which way (like if it went straight to miners) but its improbable that the transactions he formed would have been able to be frontrun
V. useful for your next pregnancy
Another idea so good it has to be enforced by law, eh?
Everyone already knows mixers are holding illicit coins. It doesn't matter because mixers don't actually "want" anything. They're just code in the ether. You send your coins to an address along with a receiver address and the smart contract sends coins to the other address. How do courts stop that without shutting down exactly what makes blockchains valuable?
5nm should be exciting. 7nm TSMC already gave intel a run for its money.
Could a smart person please compare and contrast this RFC and the ideas of remix.run?
"Libertarians are like house cats: absolutely convinced of their fierce independence while utterly dependent on a system they don't appreciate or understand."

No idea who said this originally but it continues to be true. Abandon the system, and they find it was there for a reason.
Stablegains was tied 100% to Anchor yields, and Anchor imploded. That said, targeting 5% APR is magnitudes more realistic than 15% APR. Pebble is able to do this through overcollateralized lending of USDC. It’s not risk-free, but it’s a pretty good risk-adjusted trade right now. The rates are higher mostly because traditional banks don’t have the infrastructure to underwrite or custody crypto-backed loans.
what if I asked the model to show me a sunday school photograph of baptists in the National Baptist Convention?
In short, the generated images are too gender-challenged-challenged and underrepresent the spectrum of new normalcy!
What is to stop the US from actually piloting these drones

Technically, probably nothing.

Diplomatically? The risk of nuclear escalation or various WWIII-esque scenarios, because at that point you have the US military directly killing Russians.

Assuming that the US (gulp) does not actually want WWIII, I can't see them flying the drones themselves unless they could somehow have 100% plausible deniability. Keep in mind that Ukranian facilities and perhaps the whole country itself could fall to Russia, and all secrets might then be revealed to the Russians. Or a single base could be captured. Or Russia may be able to spy/intercept/deduce this information.
yea but now they aren't giving people more data-points to attack them with such nonsense arguments.
No, I'm just inferring your ethical framework for this specific situation. Shedding more light into a matter that is not settled yet is not appropriate at this time, specially because the author is the vulnerable person in question.
Gmail doesn’t read your email for ads anymore. They read it to implement spam filters, and good thing too. Having working spam filters is indeed why they make money though.
Good thing colleges are going test optional.
I'm happy with OOP, except for when I have to work with OOP zealots. To get it right you usually do need an overarching philosophy for how to develop. And so every CR becomes a fight over SOLID or DRY principles.
It’s the same as with an artist: “hey artist, draw me a nurse.” “Hmm okay, do you want it a guy or girl?” “Don’t ask me, just draw what I’m saying.” The artist can then say: “Okay, but accept my biases.” or “I can’t since your input is ambiguous.”

For a one-shot generative algorithm you must accept the artist’s biases.
Thanks! A little confused though, the protocols run here all assume the classroom stays in-person and just goes into different isolation measures.

Most of the protocols (besides the baseline, do-nothing protocol) have some effect, but aren’t perfect.

> None of the mitigation protocols we modeled, initiated by a positive test in a symptomatic individual, are able to prevent large transmission clusters unless the transmission rate is low (in which case large clusters do not occur in any case). Among the measures we modeled, only rapid universal monitoring (for example by regular, onsite, pooled testing) accomplished this prevention.

But as it says there, prevention can be achieved by emphasizing frequent on-site testing (which is super consistent with what we know about avoiding spread events generally).

> Without closing schools down entirely, if we want to prevent large clusters from occurring altogether, this leaves approaches to detect potential index cases before they show symptoms. Pooled testing, wastewater monitoring and airflow monitoring have all been proposed with this aim [42, 43]. We simulated introduced cases and resulting transmission under the baseline of no regular testing (with the same baseline as above, symptomatic individuals going home) and compared this to weekly or every three day testing or environmental monitoring covering all individuals in the class. The results for the total cluster size are shown in Fig 6. Regular pooled or otherwise universal testing dramatically reduces the sizes of even the most unfortunate clusters (infectious index, higher-risk room), for example from a median of 12 to a median size of 3 if the index is asymptomatic. But even with regular pooled or otherwise universal testing, testing in a matter of hours (e.g. onsite) has a substantially greater impact than testing at a centralized laboratory (if that takes 2 days including shipping time).

This doesn’t seem like a strong argument in favor of virtual school?
A fluent GraphQL library for Go
Thanks for elaborating!

> Firefox for Android still has a long way to go (I was working on that when I left Mozilla), but unfortunately it hasn't been treated with the same urgency as desktop. I know that they're still working on that and have been able to make a lot of progress now that site isolation for desktop has been released.

This might explain Daniel Micay's perspective on Chrome vs. Firefox (on Android) then.
Nice job touching on backward compatibility. It’s underrated.
SymphonyNet: https://youtu.be/m4tT5fx_ih8
Producing electricity during the summer nights is basically useless. There's a huge diurnal effect, and an even larger seasonal one. The consumption at the winter peak is roughly double that of the summer trough.

Solar is fundamentally a bad fit for Finland. (Wind is a little bit tricky too, since abnormally low winter temperatures correlate with low wind speeds. But that is a problem on the time scale of a week, rather than half the year.)
I think this serves at least as a clear demonstration of how advanced the current state of AI is. I had played with GPT-3 and that was very impressive but I couldn't even dream something as good as D-ALLE 2 was already possible.
Is this going to be hand-rolled? Do you change the prompt you pass to the network to reflect the desired outcomes?
Granted that's a selection bias: you likely won't hear about the cases where legit obscene output occurs. (the only notable case I've heard is the AI Dungeon incident)
"code is law" until you suddenly realize you suck at coding and come crying to the actual law.
I agree with your skepticism about Davos and it being about "thought leadership" and a vanity virtue signaling game.

I think the case for making an award for patriotically contributing the highest taxes is that for the most part paying taxes is done privately and is therefore rewardless for the contributor. And then you (as the contributor) see on the flip side - politicians rewarded for boosting taxes and praised for legally taking from you.

Celebrating tax contributions and rewarding the contributor (on an opt in basis) could be hugely beneficial for certain types of wealthy individuals. Often times wealthy people enjoy being on these lists as it helps their business, PR, etc. - not to mention just plain vanity.

Since its for the most part audit-able, it isn't as easily gamed (unlike net worth) and can't just be empty virtue signalling.

I think it would lead to healthier discourse as the tax contributor would be in a public position to effectively be saying - of all the philanthropic causes I could support, I am purposely choosing to give up that right and instead contribute it via taxes to my country because I believe in its people to vote intelligently and the elected politicians to act in the best interests of those people.
It is possible to design scale-out database engines with very fast and elastic load following though it isn't common. In these kinds of systems, you don't provision for load, the system automatically adjusts to the load as it happens. In good designs you can often shed load in milliseconds once the additional server capacity is online, so the latency is often a function of how quickly you can bootstrap more server images.

These kinds of fast-twitch load shedding mechanics were not designed for elasticity -- it would not be worth the engineering investment in most cases. They were typically developed to support scale-out of data models for which uniform sharding is intrinsically impossible, requiring real-time adaptive resharding instead. If you have super-fast load shedding for extremely and unpredictably biased data distributions, you are 90% of the way to a really nice implementation of elastic capacity, just add hardware provisioning.

These setups are nice as a user, because the sharded nature of a table is (necessarily) completely transparent. You can create an empty new table and insert trillions of records without every having to manage sharding or cluster capacity as the table grows. In this sense, the fact that it is running on a cluster of discrete servers does not leak through the database abstraction presented to the user.
I think it's both.

You are correct that no individual human could build a spaceship. Our ability to aggregate intelligence across brains and across time is our superpower.

But that superpower is open to exploitation. When working together as a group, you can't blindly assume all other members are good faith participants. Doing so would open the species up to being exploited and destroyed by an evolutionary offshoot that parasitized or otherwise took from the group without giving as much in return.

In order to aggregate our intelligence across the tribe, we also need a lot of individual level brainpower that we can put to use determine which other humans around us are helpful versus harmful.

That same brainpower can also be harnessed to let us solve problems individually. Sure, lots of us would die on a desert island, but that's because surviving on any isolated microclimate is hard. Plenty of animals die on them too!

But a solitary human would survive better than you give credit for across a whole range of environments. Any given animal might have some honed instincts to survive in a single climate, but none of them is as plastic and creative as we are.
Am I correct thinking this will help create a simpler integration with - just hypothetically - Prisma calls that are dependent on app auth states in a single page? Replacing auth providers and moving them into Layouts?

Daily user, very excited!
My bad, it's a google-specific problem.
us-east-1 only for now.
> Someone describing the same disk using very similar terms and with from a similar location ⁽ʰᶦ ᶠʳᵒᵐ ˢʸᵈⁿᵉʸ ᵇᵗʷ⁾, which I'd be surprised (to say the least) to learn is not you: https://forum.amiga.org/index.php?topic=73527.15#msg838909

Christ, that's embarrassing, you've found me! Seems I'm stuck repeating the same thing every decade without even realizing it! Excellent sleuth work :-)

I'm tempted to try my luck messaging 'jjsmith' on the abime.net forums, and might just pull on the Prime Artifax route... Thanks for your help with this
"Is Taiwan a country" also comes to mind.
> In fact, I wonder if this sort of technology could reduce the harm caused by people with an interest in disgusting images, because no one needs to be harmed for a realistic image to be created. I am creeping myself out with this line of thinking, but it seems like one potential beneficial - albeit disturbing - outcome.

Interesting idea, but is there any evidence that e.g. consuming disturbing images makes people less likely to act out on disturbing urges? Far from catharsis, I'd imagine consumption of such material to increase one's appetite and likelihood of fulfilling their desires in real life rather than to decrease it.

I suppose it might be hard to measure.
Unless said island has a vast amount of easy food (say, berries) most modern urban people would simply die and do none of the things you mentioned. Nobody knows how to hunt or fish and you won't have time to figure it out.

Further, the "innovative" solutions you use as examples might as well be used to realize how very useless we are without tools, whereas almost every other species survives without them.

The reason animals won't learn human things is because they're human things. I imagine dolphins trying to learn you how to swim would conclude that you suck at it.
Big pretrained models are good enough now that we can pipe them together in really cool ways and our representations of text and images seem to capture what we “mean.”
Yeah, to be expected, it’s a bank account. Other services often make you validate a checking account or credit card which are run by banks and want ID to get accounts.
Is there anything at all, besides the training images and labels, that would stop this from generating a convincing response to "A surveillance camera image of Jared Kushner, Vladimir Putin, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez naked on a sofa. Jeffrey Epstein is nearby, snorting coke off the back of Elvis"?
That doesn’t even lead in the direction of an AGI. The larger and more expensive a model is the less like an “AGI” it is - an independent agent would be able to learn online for free, not need millions in TPU credits to learn what color an apple is.
No, because a user will see a particular image not the statistically ensemble. It will at times show an Eskimo without a hand because they do statistically exist. But the user definitely does not want that.
But do we trust that those who do have access won't be using it for "malicious purposes" (which they might not think is malicious, but perhaps it is to those who don't have access)?
:))))))

You remembered me political talks in Ukraine around 2008.

Most of them beginning with phrase "Timoshenko behavior leads to crisis", and I asked "are you going to say, Timoshenko called WORLD crisis?"
there's no baseline skill aside from syntax drills. those are of limited help longterm.

if you really want to improve, try learning more advanced math concepts and using them in code to solve a problem. a good example would be learning linear algebra to implement the low level primitives and operations for a ray-tracer.

Programming over a long term is less about syntax and nore about te meta skill of building something. ANYTHING. just have a goal and work with that goal in mind. you'll get better as you go.
>happy to answer questions about the RFC

Would love to hear about the parts of the RFC where you guys took some inspiration from Remix!
The ancient mummies older than Egypt's
> > ... people could still use it to generate extremely offensive images with little effort. I think people see that as profoundly dangerous.
> Do they see it as dangerous? Or just offensive?

I won't speak to whether something is "offensive", but I think that having underlying biases in image-classification or generation has very worrying secondary effects, especially given that organizations like law enforcement want to do things like facial recognition. It's not a perfect analogue, but I could easily see some company pitch a sketch-artist-replacement service that generated images based on someone's description. The potential for having inherent bias present in that makes that kind of thing worrying, especially since the people in charge of buying it are likely to care, or notice, about the caveats.

It does feel like a little bit of a stretch, but at the same time we've also seen such things happen with image classification systems.
Are you able to work remote?
Yes metaculus mostly bet a magic number based on perhaps
and tbh why not, the interaction of NLP and vision is mysterious and has potential. However those magic numbers should still be considered magic numbers. I agree that in 2040 the interactions will have extensively been studied though but the conclusion of wether we czn go much further on cross-models synergies is totally unknown or pessimist.
Next.js Layouts RFC Discussion is Here > https://github.com/vercel/next.js/discussions/37136
In discussions like this, I always head for the gray-text comments to enjoy the last crumbs of the common sense in this world.
> The one positive of this environment that when you see someone who has succeeded in publishing a substantial amount, it's safe to presume that their work is not entirely without merit. That's not a 100% guarantee, but it's a good heuristic. A post like this implies that the author's personal judgement is more insightful than a process that I know to be enormously thorough and harsh [...]

This has not been my experience. In my own field, I've found that quite a few well-cited peer-reviewed papers have severe flaws that are not difficult to find. I can't call the process "enormously thorough and harsh". I view current academic processes as more of a facade than anything else. Sure, the process probably filters out absolute garbage, but I don't think most people need peer review to recognize the worst quality research.
Yeah, it seems like it. But it's still just complicated statistical models. Again, where is the reasoning?
If someone is convicted for public camping then yeah, that's totally unwarranted and insane :)

For murder, rape etc I think such measures would be justified.
Hi Sam, I'm big fan of your work! Coincidently, I just made a simple POC video editor by editing text using this speech to text model https://huggingface.co/facebook/wav2vec2-large-960h-lv60-sel.... It might be cool to integrate into your Videogrep tool, it also works offline with CPU or GPU, and gives you timestamps for word or character level.

https://twitter.com/radamar/status/1528660661097467904
You're confused by the double meaning of the word "bias".

Here we mean mathematical biases.

For example, a good mathematical model will correctly tell you that people in Japan (geographical term) are more likely to be Japanese (ethnic / racial bias). That's not "objectively morally bad", but instead, it's "correct".
Quality assurance workers at Activision Blizzard subsidiary unionize
No, competitive advantage means that it’s impossible to run out of jobs just because someone/something is better at it than you.

(Consumer demand and boredom both being infinite is another thing working against it.)
Yes, there is a denominator problem. When selecting a sample "at random," what do you want the denominator to be? It could be "people in the US", "people in the West" (whatever countries you mean by that) or "people worldwide."

Also, getting a random sample of any demographic would be really hard, so no machine learning project is going to do that. Instead you've got a random sample of some arbitrary dataset that's not directly relevant to any particular purpose.

This is, in essence, a design or artistic problem: the Google researchers have some idea of what they want the statistical properties of their image generator to look like. What it does isn't it. So, artistically, the result doesn't meet their standards, and they're going to fix it.

There is no objective, universal, scientifically correct answer about which fictional images to generate. That doesn't all art is equally good, or that you should just ship anything without looking at quality along various axes.