skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I definitely understand the reaction. This is an existential threat to Remix.

However, this is why I don't use Twitter. Remix is not just "an open-source project", it's a full-fledged company. This is definitely not the time (or the forum) to lay your cards out on the table...
Will be interesting to see if this expands up into Activision
If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.

Mark Twain
> It was my professional suggestion to separate the content to avoid that misinterpretation.

The problem is the misinterpretations, not the juxtaposition. Correct yourself, not me.

I'm never going to stop being gay, or a furry, or a cryptography nerd.

I'm not going to respond to the rest of your comment, because doing so would likely violate the HN guidelines. So that's how far free speech goes.
Not elitist at all; I highly appreciate this post. I know the basics of ML but otherwise am clueless when it comes to the true depths of this field and it's interesting to hear this perspective.
I'm curious why all of these tools seem to be almost tailored toward making meme images?

The kind of early 2010's, over the top description of something that's ridiculous
4 people fell off a cliff in Southern California
judyrecords, which was posted about here on HN [1], was able to scrape non-public records from the California Bar website which was managed by Tyler Technologies. Now all the lawyers are getting notifications about this.

https://www.calbar.ca.gov/About-Us/News/Data-Breach-Updates

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25150702

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30502117
You don’t use the blockchain to store, you use it for distributed version control.
Please don't waste time with this kind of obtuse response. This fact says nothing about why nursing is a female-dominated career. You claim to know that this is just an accidental fact of history or society -- how do you know that?
I can. Even if you design a good system up front, the requirements graph changes over time until your great ideas have turned into hindrances. This can be scaling issues, but mostly it's where reality turned out to be different than your abstractions were built for.

Maybe you made one module very generic but now it's cumbersome to add features to. Maybe you didn't add enough flexibility in another place which resulted in a buildup of suboptimal code. Maybe extreme concurrency was planned for but never needed and now the person has left and no one else understands how that part of the system works.

So now, over time, this emergent phenomenon that some call code rot causes your beautiful, elegant greenfield project to turn into a monster that no one wants to touch. It's hard to modify, easy to break, and takes forever to work on. It's legacy code.
I finished coursework and tuition (half of which was for "non-candidate research" "courses" that seem to only really exist to collect tuition on) is no longer being included. I would not say my compensation just went down by half.
Rust for the Linux Kernel Updated
Uutils As Rust Version Of Coreutils Updated Too
I moved to Canada from the US recently and was shocked at how poorly Interac e-transfers work and that there is no Venmo/Cash equivalent. The system seems to assume a 1:1 mapping from phone numbers or emails to bank accounts. Having multiple bank accounts means disabling and reconfiguring the autodeposit features constantly. I've also gotten used to friends not receiving transfers I send them, which was never a thing with Venmo/Cash -- you just check the history in the app.

ATMs are also mind-boggling after getting used to banks that will refund ATM fees in the US. In Canada it's back to the fee to use ATM + fee from the bank for using an ATM that I remember from 20 years ago in the US.
There are some other dynamics that are worth mentioning here that can stand in the way of undertaking any of the steps the author recommends. I don't think they touched on any of these things so I'll list some of them out:

* Technical staff in an organization feel they have no authority or respect within the organization. This can happen when companies become too sales-driven.

* Senior technical staff feel they have no ability to delegate, either because of the previous point or because they don't trust the technical ability of less senior staff.

* Those in an organization who do have authority to delegate lack sufficient understanding of priorities or lack technical knowledge.

These things highlight the classic balance between technical knowledge and managerial skills. If you don't have people that bring both to the table, you're in for trouble. Not sure if I'd go so far as to say this is what it's all about. However, reading over the author's advice, I thought to myself, "None of this could have happened at some places I've worked." You can come up with a good plan, but if no one will listen to you or take your advice, it's worthless.

The author probably was that person who brought what was needed to the table. As such, perhaps the plan is not what ended up mattering so much as having someone who was willing and able to push it through. Also, having the right people from top to bottom. My feeling sometimes is that effective teams occur almost randomly. This might be because organizations rarely have the patience or the resources to assemble them deliberately.
The average nurse has three-halfs of a tit.
To be clear, I understand the general techniques about (a) how diffusion models can be used to upsample images and generate more photorealistic (or even "cartoon realistic") results and (b) I understand how they can do basic matching of "someone typed in Shiba Inu, look for images of Shiba Inus".

What I don't understand is how they do the composition. E.g. for "A giant cobra snake on a farm. The snake is made out of corn." I think I could understand how it could reproduce the "A giant cobra snake on a farm" part. What I don't understand is how it accurately pictured "The snake is made out of corn." part, when I'm guessing it has never seen images of snakes made out of corn, and the way it combined "snake" with "made out of corn", in a way that is pretty much how I imagined it would look, is the part I'm baffled by.
Just a minor nit. Though widely believed, Descartes never wrote cogito, ergo sum. I'm not sure who came up with that, but what Descartes wrote was je pense, donc je suis, and the meaning is subtly different even if we define "so" (donc) as "therefore." What Descartes intended was not a logical proof of existence. What he meant was, "I am, I exist, whenever I think it." There is no "therefore" or quod erat demonstrandum involved.
Ah yeah, `llvmcall` is also part of the secret to the performance of LoopVectorization.jl / VectorizationBase.jl AFAIU.

Conveniently, it's also pretty easy to check how any LLVM IR you've added manually with `llvmcall` is fitting in with the Julia-generated IR around it using `@code_llvm`.
Yeah Dall-e looks amazing, to a mysterious degree even with hints of humour and irony, while imagen images look cheap, one dimensional and quite ugly to be honest.

Still amazing that we're at a point where that's the case, they're both incredible developments.
We had an amazing technical secretary in our Stanford research group (spouse of a Nobel Prize winner). She quickly visualize the order of symbols on the IBM Selectric math ball and typed the equations flawlessly. Then laser printers became affordable in 1980 with various UNIX equation hacks. Until Knuths magnus opus TeX.
Have you tried VQGAN+CLIP? https://github.com/nerdyrodent/VQGAN-CLIP

You can also use it through your browser via Google Colab: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Bzyn7cveZvc3_KHteje...
> Replying to the white woman criticizing the black conservative Candace Owens:

there's a lot of anti-black sentiments in these comments. i understand the disdain for her as i share the same sentiments. but watch your tone. especially when referring to a black woman.

That's one way to learn what the pecking order is, I suppose.
Germany's oil supply came largely from Ploiești which was destroyed by Allied bombing. The lack of gasoline, particularly high octane gas, crippled the Luftwaffe. High octane gas, in plentiful supply, led to Allied fighters having a huge performance advantage over the Luftwaffe fighters.

The battleships did not influence the war because of air power. Without airplanes, the battleships would have carpeted the Atlantic seabed with the convoys that kept Britain in the war. The Yamato also became ineffective because of air power.
In short, it’s all about money.
Although what you stated is true, it’s actually a short form of a commonly stated untrue statement “98% of Japan is ethnically Japanese”.

1. that comes from a report from 2006.

2. it’s a misreading, it means “Japanese citizens”, and the government in fact doesn’t track ethnicity at all.

Also, the last time I was in Japan (Jan ‘20) there were literally ten times more immigrants everywhere than my previous trip. Japan is full of immigrants from the rest of Asia these days. They all speak perfect Japanese too.
My apologies. That sentence should have read "does not seem to have had anyone accuse him of being..."
Even a major nuclear accident is not, in the scheme of things, as terrible as continuing to use fossil fuels, which is the realistic alternative for baseload power. The Great Barrier Reef will not mind a few nuclear accidents.
Stop caring. Save yourself.
If these models spit out the data they were trained on and the training data isn’t representative of reality, then they won’t spit out content that’s representative of reality either.

So people shouldn’t say ‘these concerns are just woke people doing dumb woke stuff, but the model is just reflecting reality.’
> Excel is cheap and and you can find it everywhere.
Isn't that putting an undue load on parents?

It seems extremely unfair that parents of young black men should have to work extra hard to tell their kids they're not destined to be criminals. Hell, it's not fair on parents of blonde girls to tell their kids they don't have to be just dumb and pretty.

(note: I am deliberately picking bad stereotypes that are pervasive in our culture... I am not in any way suggesting those are true.)
Can you by any chance also throw some x86 data into the mix?

It would be interesting to have apples-to-apples comparisons between Graviton and x86-based instances, as the price/performance gimmick reflects AWS's willingness to offer steep discounts to push their own line of processors.
Indexed gets no sympathy from me; guy exploits a bug in the code. Awfully predictable that these would-be DeFi fanboys go crying to a centralized legal authority when things don't go their way.
As the article mentions, there is a difference between the utilitarian and the libertarian view of DeFi / smart contracts. In the utilitarian worldview, the legal system still exists to handle disputes / exploits, but in the absence of such legal disputes, smart contracts allow you to automatically execute contracts without needing human overhead to manually execute them.
if you are using a REPL, first you should be using ipython. Second you should be running:

%load_ext autoreload
%autoreload 2

now all your imports will be automatically reloaded.

So good that I have it in ipython startup scripts
I like that you have thought about incremental adoption. However it looks like you're effectively deprecating the "/pages" directory. Which kind of sucks, as it's much more informative name, than the new generic "/app" folder.

Also, does this mean you cannot have a page named "layout" anymore?

Lastly, I appreciate all the hard work that goes into nextjs, it's a great developer experience and my goto framework.
What makes you think those are the only options? Why can't we have an option that the model returns a range of different outputs based off a prompt?

A model that returns 100% of nurses as female might be statistically more accurate than a model that returns 50% of nurses as female, but it is still not an accurate reflection of the real world. I agree that the model shouldn't return a male nurse 50% of the time. Yet an accurate model needs to be able to occasionally return a male nurse without being directly prompted for a "male nurse". Anything else would also be inaccurate.
Radar had the effect of doubling the firepower of the US's guns. It's hard to overstate what an advantage that is.
I really try to be understanding, but my time in QA, working with QA as a dev, and then organizing testers on a team has not left me with many favorable memories.
> But the incentives are weird here: who, exactly, does it serve for us plebs to be able to train these things from scratch?

I'm not sure it matters. The history of computing shows that within the decade we will all have the ability to train and use these models.
my life motto is "don't be stupid" and it's the best life advice I can give or take. of course I have failed following this advice as much as I've succeeded. which also further proved my advice to be a really good advice.
These things can make any image you can define in terms of a corpus of other images. That was true at lower resolution five years ago.

To the extent that they get used for making bored ape images or whatever meme du juor, it says much more about the kind of pictures people want to see.

I personally find the weird deep dreaming dogs with spikes coming out of their heads more mathematically interesting, but I can understand why that doesn’t sell as well.
Starlink for RVs
I'd dispute point (a) partially. It's possible to have some insight and knowledge that has an at least partially predicted effect. But it is chaotic, so effectiveness is limited.

And I'm skeptical of (b), depending on your definition of "greater good". But in our context here, "greater good" means monetary stability. In this case, the power of the rich people with the money is greater than the power of whoever is in charge of monetary policy. And the people with the money want to preserve value. They will have anyone ousted who doesn't do that.

Or put another way, the best way to stay in power in the fed is to keep things going smoothly and upwardly.
he has "a wonderful secretary who looks at the incoming mail"
This video by Juergen Schmidhuber discusses the acceleration of AI progress:

https://youtu.be/pGftUCTqaGg
So, the model should have a knowledge of political correctness, and return multiple results if the first choice might reinforce a stereotype?
How Map Reduce Works
Bigger model = better because a lot of performance at this task is memorization or the “lottery ticket hypothesis”.

An impressive advance would be a small model that’s capable of working from an external memory rather than memorizing it.
With "moving around" I mean mainly getting it out of the ground, processing, installing and waste storage. That alone has proven to be problematic enough.

And no, other power technologies are not as impossible to estimate. Nuclear power plants are very unique in the kind of mess they can make, see Fukushima and Tschernobyl. Those sites still need looking after and cleaning up, the final cost can't even be estimated yet. It's always been the accidents that supposedly can't happen and never happened. With other technologies not so much. Falling of a rooftop is a very knowable thing. Calculating the likelihood a nation state fails and terrorists get access to nuclear material for a dirty bomb? Never happened. But if nuclear power is your solution to the climate crisis, it needs to be everywhere...
I suspect the intention is something more like IPFS (https://ipfs.io), built on some distributed data structure like a DHT. With that in mind:

- "Infinitely scalable" in the sense of the internet, I suppose? If we had a way of paying for storage and indexing in a decentralized way, then you could switch from one 'provider' to another, or host your own data. Data would not be siloed in the way it is by AWS.

- I assume "serverless" means you don't have some specific upstream server you must hit with requests. You could submit queries to a local job, which could pass them to any node in the network.

- "Fundamentally reliable" because data is replicated, and jobs can be executed by any member of the network.

- "Distributed globally" because you could store data from any internet-connected device, "available locally" because, again, you don't have some single-point-of-failure server you need to connect to, or VPN you need to join, or whatever: your computer would be a node on the network, as capable of accessing data and running jobs as any other node.

And "intelligence" and "no performance cost" are just aspirations.
English is somewhat better than Chinese because it’s easier to learn and has more total speakers, but 1.4 billion people is still pretty far from 7+ billion people. Choosing to only offer something in English _and_ make it difficult or impossible to translate it in other languages is telling 5.6 billion people they don’t matter until they learn the language you happen to speak.
Kanji, katakana, hiragana, Arabic numerals, Latin text, and punctuation. It depends on the quality of the typesetting and the formality, but you can expect the Arabic numerals, Latin text and punctuations to have different widths than the rest. Of course it's acceptable to make everything full-width, just like in English.
Very cool! I love the colour scheme.

Refreshing the page for more worlds reminded me - at some point someone recommended this[1] Chrome extension to me and it's been neat to have a new satellite view of earth show up every time I open a new tab

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/earth-view-from-go...
great project! since it relies heavily on subtitle files, and as an alternative to generating your own, which websites would you recommend to find subtitles for videos which are not on youtube i.e. movies and series? preferably ones with ratings systems similar to guitar tabs websites - I can envisage a musical similarity in the variance and quality of user-submitted content e.g. timing, volume, tone, punctuation, expression, improvisation, etc. since I doubt many are composed from the actual scripts. I have never used vosk so am also wondering whether it would be quicker and more reliable than filtering and spot checking say a few subtitle files per video
I use a blue yeti and airpods on google meet daily. Connect both and then "Ellipses (?) icon > settings > select target mic and speakers from dropdown"
That's ridiculous. If we're talking power disparities and differences in resources, corporations could just code up standard smart contracts with loopholes in them that allows the corporations to steal from their customers. It's not like customers have the resources to carefully audit the smart contract and make sure there aren't any backdoors that the corporation has written in to exploit.
Why aren't fentanyl test strips more widespread? (2021)
related: https://github.com/abcminiuser/lufa
When the birds are chirping, or I can't understand the code I'm reading anymore, I always say!
USA flaunting its intelligence from before the invasion to now has got to be the biggest flex of the past 30+ years on the world stage.
fun fact, I adopted this as my motto after hearing those exact words from someone as investment advice right before he obliterated his net worth. words to live by.
A good explanation is here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=344w5h24-h8
Hiring people at remote distances (100 miles away) during the pandemic was going to cause this policy to be a clusterf.

I don't doubt that contractors have a hard time living close enough to a place whose prices are set by full-time tech workers.
I will be honest, I assumed it was something akin to a "Won't someone rid me of this priest?" situation. Plausible deniability is a huge factor, and the Clintons are connected enough (and smart enough) to know this. To be willing to do this, directly, can only speak to an arrogance that one is in fact above the law and cannot ever face consequences. That it "worked" is another issue entirely. I guess this is just another moment where despite being jaded, cynical, and untrusting of authority figures or institutions, I simply need to make a note, and be more pessimistic in the future.
> You just have to internalize that major version numbers are not sacred, you’re not going to run out of them

I know of at least 1 popular app that caused integer overflow when their version was parsed by a host system, so YMMV. Who would ever release a version greater than 65535, anyway?
Typescript became popular
I don't buy the ethics but I do buy the obvious PR nightmare that would inevitably happen if journalists could play with this and immediately publish their findings of "racist imagery generated by googles AI". That's all it's about and us complaining is not going to make them change their minds.
Does it just wrap the code in a context manager where __exit__ returns True or something?
I love many things about Microsoft & .NET. Most, even.

Their UI frameworks are not among these things. I don't know that they could ever be trusted again with something like this.

We do use Blazor right now, but I've already got us sliding back into a bare-ass vanilla JS solution that only uses the most minimalistic of AspNetCore APIs. I.e. connect websocket & run my own protocol on top type of deal. Blazor showed me the way (push deltas and events over websocket), but I don't like the lock-in to anything Microsoft+UI.

The open web is a much more trustworthy path. Nothing else comes close on a historical basis.
Does anyone know how safe such a thing could be? What keeps the virus from mutating and being dangerous?
The crypto community does seem inclined towards a law of the jungle approach. It's amusing but unsurprising that the wannabe Shere Khans go running to the legal system when they learn they're actually prey.
Yes and no.

For example: the high-frequency trading industry is estimated to have made somewhere between 2-3 billion dollars in all of 2020, profit/earnings. That’s a good weekend at Google.

HFT shops pay well, but not much different to top performers at FAANG.

People work in HFT because without taking a pay cut they can play real ball: they want to try themselves against the best.

Heavy learning people are no different in wanting both a competitive TC but maybe even more to be where the action is.

That’s currently Blade Runner Industries Ltd, but that could change.
The input control is pretty hard - it kinda needs an AGI :). How do you stop undesirable images being created?
Nota bene "and other means". This may include other fossil fuels, even other sources of natural gas in the meantime. Which are still easier to get rid of mid-term than nuclear power.

Nuclear power in Germany is not going to happen. We don't like the risk profile, both financially and otherwise. Other nations may see it differently.
FreeCAD vs. SolveSpace
This characterization is not really accurate. OpenAI has had almost a 2 year lead with GPT-3 dominating the discussion of LLMs (large language models). Google didn’t release its paper on the powerful PaLM-540b model until recently. Similarly, CLiP, Glide, DALL-E, and DALL-E2 have been incredibly influential in visual-language models. Imagen, while highly impressive, definitely is a catch-up piece of work (as was PaLM-540b).

Google clearly demonstrates their unrivaled capability to leverage massive quantities of data and compute, but it’s premature to declare that they’ve secured victory in the AI Wars.
Thanks. I think I just approached it wrong.