skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As early as 2017, California started seeing hours of surplus electricity prices. Not minutes. Yet even after half a decade, the assurances that people would start storing and reselling this energy have not panned out. It turns out that white papers and prototypes are different from building the real thing.

You can keep telling yourself that cheap, scalable energy storage is just around the corner. But fantasy is not reality, and energy storage remains a fantasy.
See section 6 titled “Conclusions, Limitations and Societal Impact” in the research paper: https://gweb-research-imagen.appspot.com/paper.pdf

One quote:

> “On the other hand, generative methods can be leveraged for malicious purposes, including harassment and misinformation spread [20], and raise many concerns regarding social and cultural exclusion and bias [67, 62, 68]”
> So even if we managed to create a perfect model of representation and inclusion, 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 can understand why people wouldn’t want a tool they have created to be used to generate disturbing, offensive or disgusting imagery. But I don’t really see how doing that would be dangerous.

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.

> Restricting the ability to be creative seems to be a new frontier of censorship.

I agree this is a new frontier, but it’s not censorship to withhold your own work. I also don’t really think this involves much creativity. I suppose coming up with prompts involves a modicum of creativity, but the real creator here is the model, it seems to me.
Looks like a nice improvement, looking forward to trying this out.

Nested layouts was the one stumbling block we had with next and felt very odd that we had to invent our own TabPane component to handle this pretty common use case.
> For example, if DRNK costs $1 per unit, but I find out that by putting in $1.25 I get 2 units, have I actually exploited the machine? Is it not reasonable to assume that discount was intended?

What if you remove the last part? What if you know, clearly, that your interaction what not what the designer wanted?

> So, that's what I'd say the difference is. A smart contract defines all the interactions that are valid.

Implementations are not specifications. What do you mean by "valid"?
> On an accelerated timeline, no less, compared to what they had floated in January.

Is the Biden admin asking the Fed to get this over with in time for the election? Quick shock and return to normalcy in an attempt to retain power?

Or is this because they moved too slow and we're heading into something worse than a minor recession?
> At the end of a day, if you ask for a nurse, should the model output a male or female by default?

Randomly pick one.

> Trying to generate a model that's "free of correlative relationships" is impossible because the model would never have the infinitely pedantic input text to describe the exact output image.

Sure, and you can never make a medical procedure 100% safe. Doesn't mean that you don't try to make them safer. You can trim the obvious low hanging fruit though.
* MEV has entered the chat *

This is of course entirely untrue, and anyone who has done even the smallest amount of onchain trading would know this.
... and I knew that. DOH! Then I guess it is about return on investment on their deep fakes stuff.
Regarding timezones, this seems to be a fault of ISO standard. Why do they allow several representations of the same thing?
> a tendency for images portraying different professions to align with Western gender stereotypes

There are two possible ways of interpreting interpreting "gender stereotypes in professions".

biased or correct

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-21/the-most-gendered-top...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1019841/female-physician...
> If a consenting adult wants to deposit their money into a system that they have full visibility into, why should we stop them?

We already do exactly that, e.g. Accredited Investor.
I would like to bring up the question again of “compared to what?”

Are the metrics:

1. Based on university entrance (in which case you need to recourse and ask the same questions of that) or

2. Based on some pragmatic list of things that will help the child become a good part of society or

3. Completely arbitrary.
unstated but very real concerns

I say let people generate their own reality. The sooner the masses realise that ceci n'est pas une pipe , the less likely they are to be swayed by the growing un-reality created by companies like Google.
some of us refuse to let this real meaning be dictated by any entity other than oneself. not to say the meaning is subjective, just to reject all except our own appreciation of this meaning.

what I'm trying to say is that, sure, there is a real meaning beyond our own subjective experience AND that I reject any state, authority, ideology, and/or science which would try to tell me what this real objective meaning is or how I can access it.

> everyone's life has some vestige of real meaning.

maybe my life has just a vestige (a faint remnant) of meaning to you, but I think that for me, my own life has full 100% of possible meaning (and it should be the same for your own life's meaning). that is, unless you let this experience of meaning come to you from some institution or some ideological belief, then your own life will only be vestigially meaningful to yourself.
And what if the vending machine measures coins by weight, and you so happen to have a "coin" that is just a properly-weighted blank. You're still interacting with the vending machine as technically intended. But by not inserting the correct amount of money, you are not interacting with it as intended by the creators.

The smart contract implements a technical intent, just like the vending machine. But that technical intent will always have limitations. Some exploits are non-destructive, such as properly-weighted blanks. Some are destructive, such as crowbars. But let's not pretend that they aren't, in fact, exploits.
"Only if the levels were not designed with these affordances in mind, which I assume they were."

Unless you can name even one level that requires coyote jumps or input buffering, I assume you literally do not know what you're talking about regarding Celeste.

Bad games can use literally any mechanic as a crutch to compensate for bad level design. Quality-of-life mechanics at worse will just make an already bad game as bad as it was, and most of the time only serve to make the game better.
I'm guessing you don't have any presence in Africa? Unfortunately the Cape Town region is still gravitationally challenged. :-(
> and then launch a missile that homes in on that signal

Can signal relay swarm mitigate this threat?
Note that there was a close model in 2021 ignored by all
https://paperswithcode.com/sota/text-to-image-generation-on-... (on this benchmark)
Also what is the score of dalle v2?
Caucasians are overrepresented in internet pictures.
"As we wish it to be" is not totally true, because there are some places where humanity's iconographic reality (which Imagen trains on) differs significantly from actual reality.

One example would be if Imagen draws a group of mostly white people when you say "draw a group of people". This doesn't reflect actual reality. Another would be if Imagen draws a group of men when you say "draw a group of doctors".

In these cases where iconographic reality differs from actual reality, hand-tuning could be used to bring it closer to the real world, not just the world as we might wish it to be!

I agree there's a problem here. But I'd state it more as "new technologies are being held to a vastly higher standard than existing ones." Imagine TV studios issuing a moratorium on any new shows that made being white (or rich) seem more normal than it was! The public might rightly expect studios to turn the dials away from the blatant biases of the past, but even if this would be beneficial the progressive and activist public is generations away from expecting a TV studio to not release shows until they're confirmed to be bias-free.

That said, Google's decision to not publish is probably less about the inequities in AI's representation of reality and more about the AI sometimes spitting out drawings that are offensive in the US, like racist caricatures.
"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure" (Goodhart's Law).

Google measures how "good" pages are for a given search query. (It doesn't matter how.) Those who own the pages want those pages listed as high as possible, so the measure of how good their page is becomes a target (for them, not for Google). That's enough to make Goodhart's Law apply to Google rankings.
Why does middle class wealth destroying inflation go hand in hand with fractional reserve banking?
> Why should it be?

There exists a cohort of internal customers at medium-to-large sized software companies that need to ship new applications without being bogged down by the decisions of how to get that thing running and playing nicely with the rest of the ecosystem. For the same reason they don't give their end users CRUD APIs to use their products, it doesn't always make sense to give our developers the entire suite of AWS and say "figure it out".

There's need here but I'm not sure we've figured out what the right answer is.
Yep. I can not handle fluorescent lights. Work refused to make an accommodation for me. A dark corner was all I was asking for.
The discussion is also very meta. Our supposed superior ability, intelligence, by chance is the only way to measure...intelligence. We're unique and awesome because no other species can say otherwise in the language that we made up...for ourselves.

I'd imagine that if ants could voice their idea of success, it would be about numbers. Reproductive success. Winning from the colony next door. Not intelligence, which is neither and end goal nor an ability to apply some type of "rank" to.

Intelligence is an evolutionary trait to not die. The brain is a defensive organ, some 90% of our processing power (subconscious brain) is spent on that. It's not necessarily the only or the best method of defense. Nor is it a logical outcome of evolution.
RSS Hacks with XSLT
But you can leave the EU without warring for it
This bug presense can be tested without knowing the GPU model.
Induction electric stoves are poised to dethrone the gas range
if you're building real estate at the very least you have the actual building itself. This isn't comparable to the ephemeral "I'll sell you two dollars for one dollar <something something> we'll monetize the users"

There is no equivalent to MoviePass in the rest of the economy aside from literal MLM. They mailed people a credit card for what was it ten bucks a month, you could watch movies worth more than that with it, and that literally was their business.

And there's plenty of startups out there right now that basically work the same way. The 'business model' is gift people free stuff, so investors gift you free money and then hope you can somehow IPO and dump it on the retail investors.
I'm glad it's working pretty well for you folks. The info on leafs was that charging with Chademo, higher power charging, was really hard on the batteries because they'd get hot and leafs don't have a battery management system. Do you think that was an unwarranted opinion? Maybe you didn't do that much?
Are they any easier to shoot down than the Bayraktars?
You could stipulate that it roll a die based on percentage results - if 70% of Americans are "white", then 70% of the time show a white person - 13% of the time the result should be black, etc.

That's excessively simplified but wouldn't this drop the stereotype and better reflect reality?
Blacklisting doesn't have to be a feature of a blockchain. It's enough if most countries decide to make it illegal for anyone to spend coins received from a blacklisted address. It's not easy to enforce of course, but people would be afraid they get in trouble if they're ever deanonimized, and businesses could be required to report their trades, just like taxes.

This will force creation and use of wallet reputation checkers for most users of cryptocurrencies. Mixers will not want to be left holding all the blacklisted coins, since that causes them financial loss. Therefore mixers will launder coins at a very high premium (lemon market) and compete on developing their own systems for reputation checks and escrows to reduce their risk of being left with coins nobody wants.
I bought a returned blue yeti from Amazon’s warehouse marketplace. I read the instructions and used the directionality filter to focus only on sounds directly in front of it.

I get compliments like “you have a voice for podcasting” regularly since plugging it in.

If it isn’t obvious yet, I don’t know very much about microphones.

My only gripe is that Google Meetings or Hangouts or whatever they are calling it these days doesn’t allow me to use the mic with my AirPods.

Zoom on the other hand let’s me use my AirPods as a speaker, and my blue yeti as a microphone. It works like a charm.

P.S. YMMV.

Edit: I also haven’t figured out how to use it with my iPhone 13, which was one of the reasons I bought it due to a YouTube video demonstrating that I could, but I wasn’t able to replicate the results. If anyone has had any success doing that please let me know.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagger_(mark)
Not seeing it in the article, but how are you handling `index` routing in the `app` folder? If you are putting it in the top directory (e.g. `/app/index.js`), is it not able to get a custom `layout.js` file (as that position is used for the global variant)?

If it's in an `index` folder (e.g. `/app/index/page.js`), how would one create a route for `example.com/index`?
Great job. Now take it the other extreme: is it okay to kill a baby that had already been born, but was still attached by the umbilical cord? It’s still, technically, part of the mother’s body at that point.
You mean like: https://say-can.github.io/

This is common in the research PA. People don't want to deal with broccoli man [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t6L-FlfeaI
Google Image Search doesn’t reflect harsh reality when you search for things; it shows you what’s on Pinterest. The same is more likely to apply here than the idea they’re trying to hide something.

There’s no reason to believe their model training learns the same statistics as their input dataset even. If that’s not an explicit training goal then whatever happens happens. AI isn’t magic or more correct than people.
ok, trash human beings.

What did I expect?
Wow, these wonderful virtuous billionaires. After this stunning act of selflessness it's clear now that they aren't the problem, it's the middle class that's the problem.
In the old days of satellite development (40 years ago at Hughes Space & Communications), I observed that the bit order in digital subsystems was always Big Endian, but all the other subsystems were usually Little Endian. Sometimes this caused issues, which fortunately were discovered during the integration & test phase. Usually problems like this were "corrected" by altering the documentation instead of the hardware so for a while, the majority of satellites in Earth orbit had a strange mix of endianness throughout the subsystems. The digital culture eventually won at Hughes/Boeing, but the standards committee punted and allows the endianness to be arbitrary (as long as it's documented) in the CCSDS standards.

https://public.ccsds.org/default.aspx
Life's one of those things that you can't explain. As I've aged I've learned facts that I can't communicate to younger people. Presumably more of these will reveal themselves to me as I age more.

Bible. Exercise. Mechanical keyboard. James Allen books. Ignore politics. Throw away your TV. That's my cheatsheet.
Please be kinder to yourself. You need to be your own strongest advocate, and that's not incompatible with being humble. You have plenty to contribute to this world, and the vast majority of us appreciate what you have to offer.
Sharp cut in methane now could help avoid worst of climate crisis
There's nothing stopping them from donating their money right now.

Since they haven't done that, it seems like they're disengenously trying to say or do something else.
The Nightmare of Getting Doom Running on a RS/6000 [video]
I thought this would be about the email client.
This type of bias sounds a lot easier to explain away as a non-issue when we are using "nurse" as the hypothetical prompt. What if the prompt is "criminal", "rapist", or some other negative? Would that change your thought process or would you be okay with the system always returning a person of the same race and gender that statistics indicate is the most likely? Do you see how that could be a problem?
No, in the 70s Nixon had just removed the gold standard, the real reason for the salary inflation WAS to convince people that the newly invented petrodollar had value by increasing the interest rate AND the salary to compete with the gold price; by extracting more energy from the Saudis to do the work.

Without the petrodollar and expedient Saudi oil, raising interest rates to fight a "permanent for the rest of eternity" physical lack of energy is going to go terribly wrong.

I suspect they will stop at 1% in Sweden when all households/businesses start to fail (because we have more debt than in the 70s) and then we'll get cashless UBI, which will lead to monetary inflation on top of the scarcity inflation.

> Whenever there is significant price inflation there will be salary inflation too, sooner or later.

You better be damn sure about that, because othervise when the music stops you got nowhere to sit!
> if it takes 1 or 2 hours a day to "keep up" with the standard curriculum in grade school, and "schooled" students are sent home with 1 or 2 hours of homework, after they attend "school" all day -- what is the purpose of sending kids to these institutions?

OMG OMG OMG this!

It’s amazing how little time it takes to keep up with school. It’s so completely clear once you clear the fog that school is mostly just day care so both parents can have a job outside of the house and increase the output of the economy.
I always wanted a markdown-like video editor. I want to chop up my videos and make notes about what is in them.

Text based document would be so much easier for this than big clunky Premiere.
1. yolo
I think the key is to take the information in this world with a little bit pinch of salt.

When you do a search on a search engine, the results are biased too, but still, they shouldn't be artificially censored to fit some political views.

I asked one algorithm few minutes ago (it's called t0pp and it's free to try online, and it's quite fascinating because it's uncensored):

"What is the name of the most beautiful man on Earth ?

- He is called Brad Pitt."

==

Is it true in an objective way ?
Probably not.

Is there an actual answer ?
Probably yes, there is somewhere a man who scores better than the others.

Is it socially acceptable ?
Probably not.

The question is:

If you interviewed 100 persons in the street, and asked the question "What is the name of the most beautiful man on Earth ?".

I'm pretty sure you'd get Brad Pitt often coming in.

Now, what about China ?

We don't have many examples there, they have no clue who is Brad Pitt probably, and there is probably someone else that is considered more beautiful by over 1B people

(t0pp tells me it's someone called "Zhu Zhu" :D )

==

Two solutions:

1) Censorship

-> Sorry there is too much bias in Western and we don't want to offend anyone, no answer, or a generic overriding human answer that is safe for advertisers, but totally useless ("the most beautiful human is you")

2) Adding more examples

-> Work on adding more examples from abroad trying to get the "average human answer".

==

I really prefer solution (2) in the core algorithms and dataset development, rather than going through (1).

(1) is more a choice to make at the stage when you are developing a virtual psychologist or a chat assistant, not when creating AI building blocks.
This is only slightly different than what goes on in the stock market

But yield farmers and high value targets should open insurance policies

And the insurance pool participants should also be wary ha
Yeah, at the end of the day it is all about trust. If you trust that X creates tags that don't change, that signature is a trust document.

Right, as with many things in computing often you want "trust, but verify". Trust a good tag by a good author not to change, but also go ahead and store a hash in a lockfile and verify it, just in case.
Well I do not know what else to say, other than to observe that we somehow got in a position of understanding the same article in diametrically opposite ways.
> But sometimes McDonald's falls, builfings fail, etc. The odds there are better though.

The 6x6 mall in San Francisco is a great example of this. Someone built an entire mall next block to Westfield and it sat empty for 6 years. It's still empty today, but IKEA signs showed up a few months ago so it looks like San Francisco is getting a downtown IKEA.

Upfront investment: $150,000,000 according to [1]. Never got a single tenant or opened its doors.

[1] https://archive.curbed.com/2020/7/23/21334508/dead-mall-6x6-...
This competitor might be better for respecting spatial prepositions and photorealism but on a quick look i find the images more uncanny.
DALL-E has IMHO better camera POV/distance and is able to make artistic/dreamy/beautiful images. I haven't yet seen this Google model be competitive for art and uncaniness.
However progress is great and I might be wrong.
Broken slot machines do happen, and it's been made very clear that the player does not benefit.

https://www.aol.com/2016-11-02-broken-slot-machine-dupes-wom...

https://www.foxnews.com/us/not-a-winner-oregon-woman-denied-...

However, this works both ways. If the mistake is in the favor of the player, they are obligated to pay out:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-slot-machine-in-las-vega...
Ask HN: What can you practice every day to improve at programming?
In piano, at a very low level, one of the most basic skills you can practice are scales. You can almost do them mindlessly and if you do it enough, you will improve.

I'm curious whether there's a similar primitive for programming. Whether there's a baseline skill you can practice daily and find yourself inevitably improving.
Will there ever be a fix or blessed workaround re: #32216?

https://github.com/vercel/next.js/discussions/32216

previously: https://github.com/vercel/next.js/issues/2581
Google Maps Workers Say They Can’t Afford the Trip Back to the Office
> quantum computers are almost real now

in what sense is this true? practical quantum computers seem almost as far off as they were decades ago and NISQ appears to mean not large or reliable enough to do much with

one consequence being people take option 3 and pad a career with speculative papers, too many of which are lacking in rigor

QCs are "possible in principle" but remain a formidable engineering challenge in which we seem to be making rather slow headway
Yup this is what happens when people who want headlines nitpick for bullshit in a state-of-the-art model which simply reflects the state of the society. Better not to release the model itself than keep explaining over and over how a model is never perfect.