skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>What if a “10x-human” mind can do some thinking, come up with decisions, and then temporarily fork itself into 10 “human-level” instances, vote 10 times, and then join back to its more powerful self?

I suppose there are multiple ways to handle this situation. Hypothetically, we could say that the fundamental property of citizenship is the ability to vote. If you create 10 copies of yourself who think like you and can vote, them those copies are citizens and the act of joining them would be murder. This could apply even if those copies want to rejoin, because they might have that desire because it was a decision you made prior to forking yourself.

Or, we could say that a single vote is the consequence of having a unique perspective, shaped by being raised and living in a particular environment for many years. In other words, the right to vote exists because of the process that created a mind, and not because of the pure existence of that mind. As such, it cannot be cheaply copied, because that process is fundamentally different from the process of growing up. So, if you fork yourself, your copies are now different people who have just now come into being, and thus will acquire voting rights in 18 years (or however long).
Browsers copy and store websites as part of their normal functioning. If you didn't want your website to be copied and stored then maybe it was better not to put it up in the first place? Anyway the IA will remove everything with a very simple, automated text file placed in the root directory.
I'd like to add that there is another aspect to this, sheer luck. There are brilliant authors, musicians, and artists that, for whatever reason, never get the traction they need to be successful. So much of success in creative endeavors depends on being at the right place at the right time, and in the right market.

As lamentable as it may be, if a larger proportion of the population was able to be artists there would still be a struggle to be recognized. In fact, it might even be harder for them.
For line art, try "FSRCNNX_x2_16-0-4-1_anime_enhance.glsl":
https://github.com/HelpSeeker/FSRCNN-TensorFlow/releases/tag...

Or if you don't want noise reduction, try "FSRCNNX_x2_8-0-4-1_LineArt.glsl":
https://github.com/igv/FSRCNN-TensorFlow/releases (in checkpoints_params.7z)

Both are IMO sharper and more accurate than ACNet.
You'd need to prove it's perfect. I can't help but think that would require the original mind itself to judge - no one really knows how an individual thinks outside of the individual.

I suppose if you assume the person to simply be outputs in response to inputs then you could probably create a near perfect simulation, but if you assume the mind has its own internal state that makes that mind distinct, and given that I observe myself as a thinking thing I hold that to be true, then it would take introspection to get closer to the truth.
From European perspective it seems massive spending on every level. Losing money on product itself, very high pay, very high head count and so on... But then again I don't just understand software business.
In college, I went to a church and one day we discussed this topic. I put forward the idea that maybe evolution and creation weren't really in conflict. That maybe evolution did happen but under God's guidance.

Several of the people in the room reacted with loud boos and hisses. Not the jocular kind you get with friendly disagreement, but the angry, aggressive kind that mean you were wrong to even say what you did.

It definitely exists. Not everybody has been exposed to it, but it's there.

But about whether 150 million people "truly" believe this, that's a reasonable thing to be skeptical about. Do they believe it in the sense that they'd literally bet their life on it? Or just believe it in the sense that it's part of the set of beliefs prescribed by their flavor of faith and that maintaining orthodoxy is important to them? I think some of the both, and probably more of the latter. People can compartmentalize, keeping their everyday understanding of the world somewhat separate from the beliefs that go with their ideology.
To do A you need a good metric, which as you point out we don't have. Of course, it's also zero-sum.

You might be able to do B with pay for performance if you had a good metric.

C might make things significantly better 10 years from now-- increasing the size of the candidate pool. Of course, this requires you be able to adequately measure candidates, too.

I think we should increase teacher pay. I don't think it changes much soon in the quality of education. I do think improving teacher working conditions--- especially the ones that infuriate teachers because they have well articulated justifications of worsening student outcomes--- can improve all of the above.
these particular ML models are trained on human-generated data, which means the model is a reflection of that data.

This doesn't mean that the model can't create something original though. There's a video on youtube where a linus techtips graphic designer competes with DALLE-2, and I found it interesting that the human graphic designer did exactly what some accused the AI of doing - finding images on the internet and kitbashing them to satisfy the prompt. The AI on the other hand could create a completely original image without any source material, even if its understanding of visual concepts are merely an "interpolation" of the training data.
but “mental health” (i.e: well-being) is the reason someone would choose an abortion. If (hypothetically) water is legal to drink as long as you’re thirsty, is it a fudge to say “anybody is allowed to drink water”? You are thirsty by virtue of wanting to drink water, just like you want an abortion due to your well-being.
> Hard drive access LED

He's done that one: https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.06715
https://www.google.com/maps/@64.9820968,-21.0589178,3a,75y,2...
didn't stuxnet jump into an air gaped system? I'm curious if there is significant difference between egress and ingress into air gaped systems.
> However, we are quick to say that this should be the default for everyone, and I don't think that's the case.

Would you mind elaborating on why you think that's the case? I find this take very interesting.
Winner, winner. I am at a competitor of Tableau's, but the point remains the same. One of our favorite quotes was an upper executive at a major technology retailer who told us a version of "it's so cheap to fail with you guys".

There are absolutely needs for engineers who (deeply) understand SQL, can write python code, and can whip up a d3 chart. But that's an expensive project.

There are many, many more individuals in organizations who would make much smarter decisions if they learned a tiny bit of SQL, a basic data warehouse, and were presented with a GUI tool (PowerBI, Tableau, Qlik, etc, etc).
https://www.google.com/maps/@65.4562908,-15.8058236,3a,75y,1...
> Issues of standards are not really depending on funding

This is clearly not true, otherwise we could just cut all the funding and maintain the standards as they are.
If you think companies aren't tracking you even when you use cash, I have a bridge to sell you. Cash only
Good to see you still check out HN :) What happened to the old username?
Maybe in the 90's and early 2000's. Pizza delivery has gotten to the point where I don't even try it anymore.

Sometimes I'll see a deal - you know, 2 for 20 or something. Great. By the time you add tax, delivery fee(now around $4), and mandatory-but-not-really-mandatory 15% tip, it's up to 30. And half the places put a tip line on the receipt even when picking up...I leave 0, but assume they think I'm a tightwad(maybe I am, but what am I tipping for here?).

Dominos even has deals carry out only to try to keep people from ordering delivery, it would seem.
those links are to 2 random points on the ring road that looks like everywhere else
I am talking about option B yeah. It's less frequent after I stopped using Dockerfiles to build the blog, but it happens sometimes. Sending a "can you don't" message to the person and their hosting provider usually gets them to stop though.
because noone is happy, and the law is a negotiation between a large body of people and different part of society. This please noone but also allows sufficient slack for the differences to not explode into unrest. This is a working compromise that for now is relatively stable on the social contract of that law.

It will probably not stay that way, as the component of society evolve. We can hope for a different compromise ofc, but it is important to realise that the law is a compromise on a social contract, not something that exist in a vacuum
We're talking about the silly Netflix story here. Not capitalism and/or other companies.
Yes, that's true. I even contributed one feature to mpv. It was easy to port some features regarding VAAPI post processing - extra deinterlace modes and correctly handling bottom field first videos that Kodi had, but mpv didn't at the time.
If you are going to go extreme enough to have a compressor and fan, you can always put them in another room :p
Enterprise Follows Social: Short Form Video at Work
Skype => Zoom. YouTube => Loom. Facebook => LinkedIn. AIM / Text => Slack....

TikTok/Insta/Snap => ...What's next?

I've talked to dozens of CEOs about the tools they'd use. Still not sure.
Well if we're playing a game of poorly defined terms to expose them I pants them and move on.
I've had friends complain about USPS bending vinyl records to fit them in a mailbox, for example.
Even if alignment works and AI is "safe", what does that actually mean?

Frank Herbert in Dune wrote about AI:
1. "Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

If a few people control super intelligent systems, they could probably control all your thinking. Would these machines run all the media, all the politics, all of society? These machines could likely persuade you into any believe or action.

2. "Humans had set those machines to usurp our sense of beauty, our necessary selfdom out of which we make living judgments"

These early art generating AIs will only be the beginning to superhuman visual and audio art. All music, movies, games and whatever will come might be created by AI at a superhuman level. Will they control our sense of beauty and will you find human art to be dull in comparison?

This is just some perspective on what might be wrong with an AI utopia.
My experience included the profile mysteriously disappearing from my phone and then having to wait two weeks for a new one to arrive over snail mail, because the provider "could not verify my identity". I called from the landline that was ran by said provider.
Which numbers have been cooked?

I remember outright lies coming out of the WHO and governments regarding the usefulness of masks (out of a fear of running out of stock for health professionals), and regular exaggerations of the benefit of vaccines coming from politicians (at least in France), where they were drawing a stark black and white picture of a much more nuanced reality.

However, I don't remember seeing false epidemiological data coming out.
I don't really believe brogrammers exist though.
And in process of getting the market share, you have build organisation too heavy extract reasonable rent from the market. There could be place for these operators, but they have spend too much and continue to spend too much for their fair cut.
In my experience, I'd have had that door open at the first hint of a decomposing body smell, but I guess I live in a safer country or something.
That's a reasonably formed comment, 'lol ur name' is not, which I'm sure you know.
That's a very bad scenario and what would make it worse for me would be a brain-computer interface that would make it impossible to tell if I was talking to a real person face to face or a person who was acting as a proxy for AI.

Without sure technology, I could take some solace in interacting with real people in real life and even if the online space was irreversibly transformed by ai propagandism. But if it reached directly into the meatsphere, then I'd be rendered hopeless. To be unsure whether I was authentically engaging with anyone or interacting with fleshpuppets proxying an AI would be to much to bear.

I cannot imagine a more complete hell. My only hope is that it is either physically impossible or economically impossible, because believing otherwise means it is inevitable.
To be honest I love their computer games archive, but it boggles my mind that it's allowed to exist.
A good brief intro in the subject, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zMf_8hkCdc, largely following Thomas Aquinas definition. For modern sensibilities it may be hard to stomach that a XIII century monk might have had deeper insights than the reductionist materialist drivel we are soaking in. Alas, I can't help with that.

"God is not a Being in the World, God is Ipsum Esse Subsistens". In English, "God is the subsistent act of 'to be' itself".
There were no exceptionally unusual Russian mobile forces massed along the Soviet/Reich-occupied border during 1941. In fact, Stalin pulled a number of forces back from the very border itself while a transition was being made between the partly abandoned Stalin Line and the (further west) newly developed but still unfinished Molotov Line of border defenses. Almost everything Stalin did in mid 1941 before June 22 reeked of two things: A heavy application of desperate appeasement towards Hitler and secondly, a lackluster defense preparation that was a pragmatic minimum whose absence would be too much to justify even by appeasement standards.

It's amazing how much Viktor Suvorov's completely discredited book and its arguments still carry weight with many people today. There was NO serious Soviet invasion plan of what Germany controlled in 1941, only hypothetical scenario planning and poorly designed plans for near future offensive power. The one thing the USSR was doing right however, as part of a more general strategy was gearing up a massive rearmament and war production program. This had been in progress since even before 1939 but only really picked up steam in the early 1940s.
Linked repo isn’t public, you can check through the author’s public repos on gitlab.
Global status of abortion access as of 2021 https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/WA...
I would say any styleguide that is in prose form and not machine enforced is deficient. Modern linting and formatting tools are the best, most efficeiect means for enforcing style. No religious arguments are needed if the tooling decides what is correct.

Shameless plug for https://trunk.io/products/check - which will handle universal enforcement of all the tooling for all of the pieces of your tech stack.
How do you know a huge portion of people engage in useless hobbies with no meaningful external outputs ? I really don't even know how one would go about figuring that out.

I think I see the opposite in my part of the United States. A life without purpose leads to rampant drug use, malaise, and decay.

I think an AI on demand that can out compete people in most of their hobbies would be absolute game changer, and doesn't currently exist. If that kind of automation reached the average consumer, I think the vast amount of people would give up those hobbies as well.
Humans created the religions, so yes, the culprits are humans. Like everything, we (humans) created everything, with tech and science, not God. But the point that 4 in 10 Americans believe it’s God the “creator”, is absurd to me.
Why would dates be removed from articles? (and why is this only a thing for 'news' articles and advertisements? I've never seen a personal blog without dates)

The only reason I can think of is to misrepresent the content as being more up-to-date and relevant than it actually is. Useful content that doesn't go out of date would never be harmed by including one.
I used to until I just consolidated the advice into a single pagehttp://jeffrey.io/ -> http://jeffrey.io/consolidated-writings.html

I found it hard to maintain content around myself, but for my new company I find it easy to pump out content since there is a topic: https://www.adama-platform.com
Consider that perhaps you live in a bubble.
Glad to see this project grow, made my first pull request here :)

Occasionally, I would go there and checkout random peoples blogs and its surprisingly how much great it can be. Some sites look good and are surprisingly fast. I love this collection.
This is classic Google. You run for 45 days or so then they do an automated “review” and if they don’t like your results they ban you and keep the money. No information and no appeal is possible.
By default, it only makes very small changes. See the "video-sync-max-video-change" setting.
Glycine

https://hvmn.com/blogs/blog/supplements-glycine-for-sleep-th...
Tree of Heaven is extremely difficult to eradicate, and has spread throughout Boulder over the last few years.

https://arapahoe.extension.colostate.edu/2021/09/05/tree-fro...
Thanks, will give that a go
Definitely supports dual boot...it's baked into Apple's bootloader, so it's pretty much the only way it works.
The team member above states there were black and Native members so you are incorrect
Don't matter what you call them

They need to go

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FX9FUPFVsAAFlHm.jpg
> Anyway the IA will remove everything with a very simple, automated text file placed in the root directory.

What if the site is simply gone, or now belongs to someone else who is not the owner of the archived content?
After a bunch of struggling with the knowledge that my consciousness will one day cease I've recently come upon this thought myself and I find it strangely reassuring.
> If you hold a microphone 50cm away and point it in the wrong direction and expect your voice to be [heard] well, you would have done better with instructions.

I used to see this in church settings where someone would come up front to "give a testimony" (share a personal anecdote) and be handed a typical SM58-style vocal mic. They would hold it nearly at arms length pointed straight up, so they were talking off the side of this directional mic.

It drove the sound guys and the entire congregation nuts.
> I, uhh, I guess that’s quite close to de-facto abortion on demand? Not sure what political dynamics led Israel to leave abortion “illegal” but also add multiple redundant layers of extremely broad exceptions. Maybe the country has other priorities.

Someone isn't familiar with Israeli politics.

Since this is HN and a snarky comment won't suffice, let me elaborate: Israel is a cultural mishmosh of so many different varietals of Judaism, Islam, Christianity, and every other thing that literally every view on every given issue exists. The country doesn't have a constitution because it can't agree on one.[1] The current government, which is falling apart, is a right-wing-left-wing coalition government that includes ultranationalists, Arab anti-Zionists, the left wing who was out of government for a decade, and vaguely centrist "yeah whatever Zionism" parties.[2] The Church of the Holy Sepulchre is administered by no fewer than six (!) different churches who all share the space and have to carefully coordinate the timing of their rites and services.[3]

And don't even get me started on gay marriage.[4]

This topic is something that people who are blindly anti-Israel (as opposed to anti-Zionist philosophically, anti-the current Israeli government, anti-occupation, etc.) just do not understand. Israel is a melting pot that boiled over onto the stove and made the fire stronger instead of snuffing it out. It is a very strange place to have a government.

So "we theoretically ban abortion because traditional sects of various groups don't like it but in practice we allow it for everyone because lots of people want it and we don't really want to make them angry either" is a typical Israeli policy position on something like this. It is just the nth example. This way, Israel can plausibly claim to take every position on this issue, all at once, and thereby appease a coalition of about a zillion different views.

Now try to get the country to agree on an approach to Palestine and you see why the current situation is so messed up.

[1] https://theconversation.com/how-israels-missing-constitution...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-sixth_government_of_Isr...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Holy_Sepulchre
[4] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/world-of-weddings-israel-same-s...
> otherwise as an employer wanting to hire someone I'm not convinced this person actually learned anything about Kubernetes with this project.

Not every piece of writing on the internet needs to be written to sell yourself to a potential employer.
> That may very well be true - but they won't go to great (or any, really) lengths to make users' lives easier unless they see a competitive advantage in doing so, or are forced by (threat of) regulation.

And that may take awhile. IIRC, it took decades of user-hostile suckage for one underdog carrier to try to compete on customer experience (T-Mobile). IIRC, they've since merged with the other underdog (Sprint), so I expect things to revert to the mean (user-hostile suckage).
It is kinda middle-class trap in West. You earn how many times what lower-class service worker earns? 2-3x? Maybe 5x. Now your taxation and living cost take what at least half? Meaning that on low end for hour you worked you can maybe pay hour of someone else work. And hi-end maybe 3?

The math just doesn't look too good. And thus actual market is pretty small making it even worse as now the person you are hiring doesn't have full utilization.
I'm wondering how long will they take till they think of exploiting the workforce of privatized prisons that's quite abundant in some places in US.

They wouldn't be the first ones to do this either. IKEA had a similar model in Sweden.
The mission of preserving human culture is far more important than respecting rent-seeking copyright holders. At the end of the day, The Internet Archive has good intentions and is morally in the right.

The time has come to consider changing the laws to allow for truly fair use, especially for physical items scanned to digital (e.g. books), old video games, and more.

It's about selecting for the common good over the extremely low-value proposition of helping rent-seekers preserve an infinite zero-effort stream of income.

TIA is one of the best things to emerge from tech, all thanks to the tireless and complete dedication of the founder: Brewster Kahle.

I don't know if they still do it, but pre-pandemic they offered tours of their HQ in San Francisco. It was really cool to meet the team and see their setup, and an amazing opportunity to meet Brewster and hear the conviction in his voice as he described his vision for The Internet Archive. It's a very special thing.. imagine if it didn't exist? I am feeling tears coming just considering such a possible reality.
For now.

The reason Florida is an outlier among the rest of the southeast US is an explicit right to privacy in the state constitution, which was of course the basis for Roe v. Wade and has precedent at the state supreme court as protecting abortion access. The 15-week ban is seen as a test case for how the current state supreme court will rule, since it has 3 DeSantis nominees. If they uphold the law, expect to see FL follow the rest of the region, post-haste.
It can also be read in a more generalized way as religion is no different than any other human endeavor: prone to abuse for gain (however that may manifest). Also given some of the other responses in this thread contain some thoughts of which are critical of religion (any maybe rightly so).

IOW, they basically said what you said.
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