skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But is it a flaw that the model encodes the world as it really is

I want to be clear here, bias can be introduced at many different points. There's dataset bias, model bias, and training bias. Every model is biased. Every dataset is biased.

Yes, the real world is also biased. But I want to make sure that there are ways to resolve this issue. It is terribly difficult, especially in a DL framework (even more so in a generative model), but it is possible to significantly reduce the real world bias.
fwiw I do not really see how problem solving intelligence correlates to consciousness. I think it is a bit of a stretch to think we only evolved consciousness to guess how other people will react. I don't think our theory of evolution or theory of neuroscience points to that strongly at all.

I think children are conscious, mentally slow people are conscious, and I am conscious when inebriated even though a large group of people in any of those categories would never be able to solve large engineering problems.

I used to have a viewpoint more similar to yours but after spending more time around animals (at least birds and mammals) they honestly seem to have most of the same instincts as humans.
If you type as a prompt "most beautiful woman in the world", you get a brown-skinned brown-haired woman with hazel eyes.

What should be the right answer then ?

You put a blonde, you offend the brown haired.

You put blue eyes, you offend the brown eyes.

etc.
Little-endian makes more sense for computers where calculation is most important. Big-endian makes more sense for humans where, I would argue, comparison is most important. If I want to know e.g. if I can afford something, I'd prefer hearing the price as "four hundred and ..." to instantly get a ballpark rather than "five and ninety and four hundred".
We each have different tastes. I personally think that Diet Coke tastes like chemicals, and I vastly prefer Coke Zero.

My understanding is that Diet Coke is based on the failed "New Coke", and Coke Zero is based on "Classic" coke.
> When we get so excited about culture war, maybe policy is irrelevant and we’re really just talking about what team we’re on. When you and I talk about how stupid and evil and bad the other side is, we’re demonstrating that we’ve burned our bridges and we’re totally committed to our current tribe.

As a person with close friends and family members on opposite sides of the culture war, this is the explanation that resonates most to me.
when will there be a "DALL-E for porn" ? or is this domain also claimed by Puritans and morality gate keepers? The most in demand text-to-image is use case is for porn.
This is a twitter thread apparently from the lawyers hired by Indexed "I want to explain to you why what you did was illegal and wrong":

https://twitter.com/ohaiom/status/1451142195369725957
What I have wondered: let's say the US gives some predator drones to Ukraine, and then "trains" their military to use them. What is to stop the US from actually piloting these drones from Tampa or whatever, perhaps through a cable from Ukraine to Poland? Would be very hard to prove who were actually piloting them at any given time.
I'll keep saying it -- a "smart contract" is nothing nothing nothing at all like a real contract, it's a stupid little piece of vending machine code that just operates. If we're going to argue the ridiculously dumb idea that smart contracts are, in fact, legal contracts -- congrats to the kid because he is 100% entitled to that money.
The Wikipedia article on pumped hydro mentions some perhaps surprising variations that do not depend on mountain geography.

CAES -- compressed air -- is quite mature. Until recently it was considered to have insufficient round-trip efficiency, but that doesn't matter so much anymore. Again, there are numerous interesting variations, including pumping air into a vessel anchored to the sea floor via a pipe from an onshore compressor, and others where heat of compression is banked and added back when extracting power, for better efficiency.

In Chile, a big air liquification system is under construction. In principle this is similar to compressed air storage, but without need for pressure vessels. LN2 can be shipped, and is industrially useful directly.

A float can be attached to a cable looped through a pulley at the sea floor, and winched down from on shore. This, like several other undersea systems, would work scaled down to local utility size.

There are numerous projects preparing to push hydrogen into underground cavities, in some cases cavities natural gas was recently extracted from.

A UK company has a system with a thousands-of-tons weight winched up and down in a disused mineshaft. There are a great many disused mineshafts worldwide. They can often be used to keep compressed air or hydrogen in at the same time.

Ammonia may be synthesized electrically, and stored or shipped in liquid form under light pressure. Ammonia is massively useful industrially, so synthesis equipment would be idle only when stocks are being drawn down.

Form is building out factories to make iron-air batteries.

Ultimately, we will end up using a few that turn out to be cheapest, or otherwise (e.g. ammonia, LN2) valuable. We just don't know which those will be. We do know that Energy Vault, a publicly traded pump-and-dump scheme, will not be among them.
Good luck to the judge. Commodities laws still apply so this will be interesting to follow.

They had to sue or they would be sued themselves (which they might regardless), but there is no law restricting you actually from inflating the market value of an item (or a security). Their advantage is that he doesn't have a lawyer (or claims to) -- which is a stupid move; and that they froze his gains (another stupid move). If a hack is actually involved under Canadian law we shall see but a civil lawsuit is not unlikely to dictate that.

He misled their market maker, not the holders. Of course without reading the case one can not say anything and has an incomplete view, but they are trying to shift blame here.

There is precedent of course, when Oil futures went negative and in the end brokers paid the difference -- as their software wouldn't allow people to trade non-negative ranges.

tl;dr: I think they are still on the hook for the lost funds back in the E.U./U.K.
All it takes is a specially formatted comment

/*
int g() {
volatile int x;
return x;
}
*/
import "C"

import "fmt"

func main() {
fmt.Printf("%d\n", C.g())
}

But I know you'll say that 'import "C"' or 'import "unsafe"' is the same thing as using an unsafe block in rust or such, and really shouldn't count against go.

Which is fair and true, but you're chasing down a pointless detail. The point isn't that go is memory unsafe. It's not. The point is that Go's type-system is not powerful enough to express various types of type-safety, and as such it's an error-prone language where you can expect null pointer exceptions frequently.
You can't. But you can absolutely have a `nil` that will unavoiad runtime panics if you don't check it. And further, you only can't do this because go defines by fiat that the zero-value of a type must be legal. Of course, this is wildly inconvenient and annoying for many types, including those that come bundled in the standard library.

There are other, very convincingly better options to this that many in this thread have been trying to teach you about in the expectation that your responses have been in good faith.
My repos have a `make_release {bump | tag}` script for this purpose. The repos have both a develop and a main branch. The develop branch always has the next version with a `-dev` suffix. e.g. `4.6.1-dev`.

Then, running `make_release tag`:

1. Sets the version to `4.6.1`, commits it, tags it.

2. Sets the version to `4.6.2-dev`, commits it.

I then merge the 4.6.1 tag to main and push main, develop, and the 4.6.1 tag to the repo.

If development calls for a minor or major release, that's what the `bump` option is for. It prompts for which part of the version string should be incremented and creates a commit doing just that.

Setting the version usually involves touching a couple of files. e.g. a source code constant and a podspec or some other metadata file. The script really helps preventing any mistakes.
why stop at audio? the pinnacle of this would be text-to-videos, equally indistinguishable from real thing.
Former Xbox exec compares GamePass to Spotify
Not to bad! I don't have a detailed analysis, but they were small. Maybe a few extra K over straight C code.
You mean one of Google's domains?

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I guess that angle is interesting, but for most of us here, the board doesn't help that much in that case. The chip docs are all in Chinese, and it is a 4x4 CSP package with specific pin assignments so you have to route some very tiny PCB traces. I wonder what PCB fabs can handle that without charging a fortune. I believe there are some almost-as-small parts where you have more routing flexibility and a reasonable GCC port.
Did you consider trying a debt/capital backed growth strategy? Where you take on funding and use it to subsidize introductory pricing to gain market share ahead of raising prices? cf. Spotify's free 3 month trial, AWS free tier, food delivery app shenanigans.

I feel like this strategy is often just delaying and magnifying a failure, but if you really believe your product is better than similarly priced products, and the hurdle was getting customers to switch, then providing aggressive price incentives for switching, then ratcheting prices to parity would probably work pretty well.
There are people working on reproducing the models, see here for Dall-E 2 for example: https://github.com/lucidrains/DALLE2-pytorch

It's often not worth it to decentralize the computation of the trained model though but it's not hard to get donated cycles and groups are working on it. Don't fret because Google isn't releasing the API/code. They released the paper and that's all you need.
Ok. Now, how about the legality of it generating socially unacceptable images like child porn?
What's the best open source or pre-trained text to image model?
I exactly wanted to put the link I gave.

I tried with "laser printer", and the results were simply PERFECT.

Now, this may depend on one's location, but for me (here in Europe) it works perfectly well (and I'm not Russian), I just ignore the site language, since the results are mostly English anyway.
Reinforcement learning?
I think you answered your own question: it's a scam to enable the company to save money and reduce actual vacation days.
Or the consumer businesses can raise their own prices?
In enterprise software, it’s rare that you can win your first clients with a low touch strategy. This means there is a phase where you are investing a lot to win specific clients, and getting little in return.

The above seed stage startup could be in the boat where they won a customer bootstrapping, but are now scaling through the use of sales engineers etc.

A 100k per month burn may translate to needing to win 1-10 deals to break even.
You mean Germany has enough storage now that is unused and would also be enough to cover the case where gas is replaced with solar? Any numbers that show this , including say 1 winter week for residential and industry consumption?
The first one is part of the syntax for defining a sum type, the second is a function returning a tuple, and the third is a function returning a record.
> But is it a flaw that the model encodes the world as it really is

Does a bias towards lighter skin represent reality? I was under the impression that Caucasians are a minority globally.

I read the disclaimer as "the model does NOT represent reality".
Additionally, if you optimize for most-likely-as-best, you will end up with the stereotypical result 100% of the time, instead of in proportional frequency to the statistics.

Put another way, when we ask for an output optimized for "nursiness", is that not a request for some ur stereotypical nurse?
"Unlimited payed time off sounds great - can I just get it in writing that it is OK for me to take 6 weeks off over the summer every year?"
Maybe. That actually raises some interesting questions, come to think.

A key factor in an offence is the location of the offence, which usually determines jurisdiction and the relevant laws.

In the classic example of hacking an American bank from Canada, the offence occurs on the American bank's servers in the United States. That's relatively clean and simple, legally.

With an Ethereum smart contract ... I'm not even sure where to begin. Where does the offence even occur, legally speaking? What aspect of fraud by a non-American, against an American resident by executing an adverse smart contract, occurs under the jurisdiction of the United States, if any?
ethernauts is particularly good intro that has you work through a lot of the common security issues.
Jesus, this is so awesome. I think it’s the first AI that really makes me have that “wow” sensation.
It wouldn't make me live in fear to NOT send dick pics to thugs... not sure where that came from... It just wouldn't accomplish anything to send them one. It would be like poking a bear with a needle... why do it? It's just a stupid move. You are better off just sending what you have to the cops, but my bet is that they had something to hide and didn't.
Man you are too right about the data rug pulling.
I'n not certain but I think it's prelease. The paper says the site should be at
https://imagen.research.google/ but that host doesn't respond
rugpulls are different because crypto developers lie and deceive investors in their disclosure.

A better example would be 3rd parties pumping and dumping a crypto asset. Should this be illegal?
For those looking for a linux-compatible solution, I've had some success with Avalonia: https://avaloniaui.net/

Specifically I made a small application with F# and the FuncUI library https://github.com/fsprojects/Avalonia.FuncUI

So far the most complex real-world application I've seen is Lunacy: https://icons8.com/lunacy

It's nice to have something like this out there. It definitely eased my apprehension of using the platform on the grounds of it being immature.

I've a decent amount of experience with Xamarin (Native and Forms), and so far I've had 1/100th of the build issues with Avalonia.

I am excited to try out MAUI however and see how things have evolved!
The authors are listed on the page and a quick look at LinkedIn seem to be mostly Canadian.
At last, a goodbye to Python 2. Otherwise, I'm excited to see the increased support for desktop use of Alpine with each release. This time, a new setup script is included to help set up a desktop environment automatically. For some reason, it's very satisfying to boot such a small distribution on a big screen.
> it's supposed to be the final word on the actual financial transactions that happen within the contract.

The court doesn't care how crypto idealists think the world should work.
Ah yes, deepfakes porn as a service would have been a blessing for teenage me.
I was joking, with that particular sentence. My point was that there is someone managing the server irrespective, and that there's not a particularly clear metaphysical distinction between 'create my database in this way' and 'instruct someone else to create my database in this way'. Not in the computing world, where everything's already under 17 layers of abstraction.
That's an unanswerable question. Perhaps the answer is "don't".

Siri takes this approach for a wide range of queries.
> Is this true? I always thought this was anthropomorphism. I have dogs and I thought dogs more just “are” rather than self aware.

I don't know. Dogs certainly know when things relate to them, when we are talking _about_ them and not _at_ them. It seems clear to me that they have an understanding that they are an entity. The question that we might not be able to answer is whether or not they can or do introspect about themselves.

> and then extrapolate that to see we’re all the same.

As our understanding grows, we have seen more and more evidence of behavior that we didn't really notice before (elephants mourning their dead - their version of it). It does not seem logical that humans suddenly develop 'consciousness' out of nowhere, and that there's a discrete jump between 'conscious' and 'not conscious' and that humans are somehow completely unique.

It would not surprise me in the least to learn that insects have their own version of consciousness. Even if it means they will forever be incapable of developing philosophers in their particular evolution tree.

Maybe our neocortex just allows us to communicate to others something that had been there for millions of years.

It's easy to fall into the anthropomorphism trap though.
May be we are talking past each other. "Collectivism" has a formal meaning and that's what I am referring to. Mao's collectivism. The sacrifice of the individual (killing of millions) for the good of the society.

I am sure you would agree, given the definition, it is Un-American.

> when a country grants you citizenship it expects that you buy into this notion at least as an ideal

I hope this is not an accussation inclined towards my loathing of what's going on in this nation. If it is not, well said, if it is, then it is extremely condescending because any immigrant knows this better than anyone else. It is obvious and I live by it every single day. It makes me uneasy to hear this from someone, almost offensive and alienating.
Technical debt is unavoidable, but letting technical debt grow without managing it is a great way to kill a project.

Explaining the benefits of paying down particlar pieces of technical debt is important, but another important piece of the puzzle is talking in advance with stakeholders about when, where and how much technical debt you want to take on to launch a product. When the existence of technical debt isn't talked about until it needs to be repaid and thus comes as a surprise, the conversation becomes a lot harder. Additionally many of the decisions about how much technical debt to take on to launch something can be improved by bringing stakeholders directly into the conversation, at least on a general level.
I agree with almost all of your points, especially regarding humans as a fundamentally social species, however I disagree that technology really proves our intellectual superiority. When we developed writing we created a way of compounding our intelligence. Without this compounding action we wouldn’t be so much better tha other animals. Our achievements are certainly far greater, but thats because our species has developed a unique organizational structure, not because we’re so much smarter. In studies chimpanzees out perform humans on not just short-term memory but game theory![1]

I also think that high functioning Autistic people, who absolutely lack the sort of social cognition you seem to think set people apart, also work against your claim. Unless you really claim autistic people aren’t conscious or don’t meaningfully contribute to society.

[1] https://www.science.org/content/article/chimps-best-humans-g...
The results are not inherently neutral because the database is from non-neutral input.

It's a simple case of sample bias.
it isn't woke enough. Lol.
Davos should have an award celebration for the attendee that paid the most taxes to their own government. It can be opt-in if privacy is a concern.

Kind of like a Forbes 500 Richest list but instead of celebrating an often ficticious net worth metric - it should celebrate patriotic contributions made via just paying taxes.
I thought the TB2's were used as decoys? Apparently Russian ships can only target in a 180 degree arc, so send some TB2's highly visible but out of range on one side and send some ocean skimming missiles in from the other side.
No - I think that big-endian only makes sense because you grew up with it.

Think about who used numbers back when this decision was made - small business people who mostly did math by hand - addition in particular - which we do from small digits to large - if we'd done the sane thing when we borrowed arabic numbers we'd write them in the order that numbers come out of an addition operation, rather than having to guess at how much space to leave for the result and write them backwards from the order we normally write them
I'm saying that the dataset needs to be expanded to cover the most examples possible.

Work a lot on adding even more examples, in order to make the algorithms as close as possible to the "average reality".

At some point we may even ultimately reach the state that the robots even collect intelligence directly in the real world, and not on the internet (even closer to reality).

Censoring results sounds the best recipe for a dystopian world where only one view is right.
appspot.com is the domain that hosts all App Engine apps (at least those that don't use a custom domain). It's kind of like Heroku and has been around for at least a decade.

https://cloud.google.com/appengine
Keep in mind that the favorite method of waste disposal during the early history of nuclear energy was dropping containers into the ocean. This dumping strategy hinged on the dilution of the material in huge quantities of water. The strategy was successful but particularly unpopular.

If the containment on these reactors was lost, the effect would be measurable due to the sensitivity of such detectors, but literally a drop in the bucket of waste disposed of into the ocean.

http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2017/ph241/jones-a2/
There are also some who confuse consciousness with intelligence. The word consciousness isn't even defined in the western culture: people see it as a some woo that makes them different from a chair. In sanskrit, the word consciousness means just perception; "consciousness arises from interaction with matter". The definition from dictionary.com is a mishup of related things: consciousness somehow turned into awareness, then into self-awareness and then even gained rudimentary mind. That's a whole evolution in one definition.
More like a piñata full of money sitting next to a whole pile of sticks.
Love the FAQ page!
How the fck are things advancing so fast? Is it about to level off …or extend to new domains? What’s a comparable set of technical advances?