skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps, but another possibility is that the more advanced models all end up being polyglots. The state of the art in machine translation already uses a single model trained on multiple languages[1], which results in better translations between languages it doesn't have a lot of examples for. If the same principle applies to other types of models, then training them on every possible dataset available regardless of language might yield better results. That could result in models that are fluent in hundreds of languages. (I'd be curious as to whether DALL-E understands prompts in languages other than English, has anyone tried?)

[1]: https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/10/exploring-massively-multil...
Apple has provided frameworks and technology specifically for pro-privacy sale attribution, and continues to be invested in efforts to support standardization of such techniques.
These humane touches make all the difference. Thanks for taking the time.
>there's no scientific way to disprove any of these theories

And yet probability theory has a lot to say about the likelihood of theories and epistemology has come a long way in the last century

Not every likely (or unlikely) hypothesis is as likely (or unlikely) as each other
Hm. Annual PV module production in 2020 was ~180 GW [0]; peak power per 1m² is on the order of 200W, meaning roughly the equivalent of 1000 km² or ~386 sq. miles or thereabouts of PV modules.

Covering 16,000 sq. miles would take about 40 years of the entire global PV module production - a few years less if adjusted for production increase.

Doesn't sound very realistic to me, especially considering infrastructure, storage solutions(!!!), and maintenance/replacement have to be added on top of that.

I'm all for clean and sustainable power generation, but a little diversity (wind, nuclear, geothermal, biomass, tidal power, hydropower, etc.) seems to be more realistic and actually achievable.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/668764/annual-solar-modu...
Indeed. Dating sites have a legitimate (and I'd say moral) need to protect their customers from all kinds of nasty business. If the only way to do that is through the use of PII, and that use is well-documented in the privacy statement, and the data is not being used for unrelated purposes, this should be well within the bounds of GDPR.
Agriculture is heavily regulated and subsidized in many ways. It is perfectly reasonable to give farms access to lower cost fuel to allow for lower cost of food. The only thing this proves is that low emission is not the only priority of a government.

For an example of my claim look at [0] which started as protest from rural France for an environmental fuel tax.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_vests_protests
HN gets comment threads every month or so with "FAANG engineers do in fact make >500k annually". I see commenters doubt this every time, but it's true!
Is this more than a preprint? Usually really long research like this takes a long time to verify, like that guy who claimed to solve the abc conjecture. The article talks about it like everyone agrees this is valid, but is it?
> biggest contributors to climate change and pollution are developing nations that use carbon based energy (ie coal plants in China, Russia, India, etc).

Apparently, the 5 countries that produce the most CO₂ are, in order:

1. China

2. The United States

3. India

4. Russia

5. Japan

https://net0.com/blog/top-five-carbon-emitters-by-country
issues could be exported as email threads. not only would that make them immediately readable offline by any mail client, but it would be easy to share them, and writing an import handler would also not be hard.
I'd just use air from a motorized large volume air compressor with a long spray attachment. Technically, not a leaf blower. Ahh malicious compliance!
My mower has a mulcher, but it isn't the mower that's the problem. It's the edger. Gotta get the remains from that off the sidewalk afterwards.

I have all electric tools and it's amazing how quiet they are. My neighbor laughed at me for wearing hearing protection until I told him they have Bluetooth in them. ;)
I’ve always wanted to make a game ever since I was little but I made the wise decision of trying to make a game engine first :) (in profile)
Doesn't the container help with versioning the software inside it, but you're still tied to the host computer's operating system, and so when you upgrade that you have to test every single container to see if anything broke?

Whereas if running a VM you have a lot more OS upgrades to do, but you can do them individually and they have no other impact?

This is the bit I've never understood with containers...
Not really new but I'm all in self-hosting, decentralization, privacy and original web owned by individuals rather than big corp. I never manage to get drowned in any social media trends or platform.

I really like Zola https://www.getzola.org/
ebitengine is "a dead simple 2D game library for Go". I like it.
But what if we hack death??

Joking, obviously. But it is amusing how many people (Kurzweil, Harari) seriously have faith in this (and believe there is something novel in this pursuit).
You could just decrease the timestamp instead of actually waiting.
Hang on while I become a legend.

I use GPT3 to generate the usual trite arguments about intelligence and consciousness why computers won't ever get there. Of course I don't actually reveal that a computer is generating my responses until later on. Eventually everyone will become jaded and skeptical that the other participants in that conversation are real people. Soon all arguments about machine intelligence will devolve into accusations of using GPT3 or not. Some day, even mentioning consciousness will just make everyone assume you're probably a GPT3 troll. This kills the conversation in a way that makes a valid point. If the bots can't be reliably identified, the proof is in the pudding and the matter is settled.
This is excellent and I greatly appreciate the write-up as it encourages and helps others see how they might accomplish the same in their own cities or districts. I'm literally listening to gas leaf blowers outside my apartment right now while I work from home; it's something I've never quite gotten used to, and this article is great motivation for trying to bring about change and improvement
Hey, thanks for your feedback! I really appreciated!
Congrats on the launch! I've been using CodeCrafters for a year now and am a huge fan of the product. One problem I had was finding proper documentation/guidance for when I got blocked. Beyond the Discord are there any plans to unblock users?
What a horribly written article. Not the content, just the structure and flow.

In other news, I’m a very big believer in what many would consider “conspiracy theories” and it’s been nothing but detrimental to my life. I wish I was like the rest of you and didn’t believe them.
Cute idea, but my guess is that 80% of the reply-to in spam emails are either forged or fake.

They’re not typically trying to get you to reply - they’re trying to get you to click a link.
I recently used it to create a picture of "an analogue synthesizer made out of meat and gristle". I don't really know how you could glue these concepts together, because nothing in reality causes them to ever go together, but it did a great job anyway.
Thought experiment: between you and the AI, which would do a better job depicting a giraffe skeleton? A giraffe in it's natural habitat? Their favorite tree to eat? Species on the genetic tree closest to giraffes?

If we assume this AI or a successor can win that evaluation, in what way would you say you know what a giraffe is better than the AI?
Unsolicited advertising is necessarily bad. It is an invasion of cognitive space for financial exploitation of the victim.
Memory is not infallible, and I find it more plausible that Adams is remembering his (maybe fair, maybe unfair) inference as an explicit statement.
No thanks. Try driving on highway truck route like I-5 where there are only 2 lanes in each direction. Even when the trucks stick to the right lane that still results in long delays as everyone else tries to pass on the left. Slowing the trucks down even more will just cause further delays, road rage, and dangerous driving.
Blindsight is one of my all time favorite books.

Looks like it's still available for free from the author's website [0]

[0] https://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
I find it hard to believe Google research doesn’t move data in or out in the form of peering agreements. Same for other parts of the org.
Traveling Wave Reactor Technology
All the extraordinarily intelligent people I've known worked unbelievably hard.
If I say "image A is 1 MB, image B is 30 times bigger", what is the size of B? I don't think many would respond "31 MB". If you consider it improper to use "bigger" in this way to express a multiple, how would you express that?
For context, diesel would be about 70kg for the same range. Batteries have very poor specific energy.
> It's hypothesized (and, I think, likely) that the machine learns some of those hidden/latent properties, though, obviously, only to the extent that they are useful to recreate the images.

Notably, this precisely describes humans too. We don't know the "true" properties of anything we interact with. We just have models - some more sophisticated than others - but only to the extent that we care for reasoning about the objects. From "This stone is too heavy to lift." to "Oh yeah Becky is always late."
Nearly all of SDF's services are free.
Hydrogen is missing one vital thing to be classed as a hydrocarbon based fuel.

You can extract Hydrogen from hydrocarbons, but you probably don't want to do that, for multiple reasons, if the carbon is fossil carbon.
>It would seem that the biggest contributors to climate change and pollution are developing nations that use carbon based energy (ie coal plants in China, Russia, India, etc).

This is a misunderstanding of the basic numbers. Developed nations generally have much higher C02 emissions per capita, and often have higher CO2 emission per country.

The top 3 contributors by country are:

China, 7 tons/ capita & 10 Billion tons/yr
USA, 16 tons/capita & 5 billion tons/yr
India 2 tons/capita & 1.6 Billion tons/yr

The average American emits 2x the co2 as someone in China, and 8x someone in India.

It is hard to convince China & India to adopt greener energy when they are emitting far less CO2 per person.

https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-pe...
The CEO mentioned it during a recent interview, I think this one:

https://www.woodmac.com/news/opinion/the-interchange-recharg...
> This whole comment section is pretty frustrating.

I agree. The amount of misinformation and/or active disinformation in this comment section is horrifying and disheartening.

> My trans brothers and sisters have it way, way worse - especially when surgery and/or hormones are not nearly as easy to come by as these people on the internet would like to think.

It really is wild to me how many people think, like, school nurses are handing out hormone medication like candy or something, or you can just go get them OTC at the corner drug store. My kid's school nurse won't even give her Tylenol without calling me, these people really think they're secretly sending kids home with hormone medication?

It is not and easy or fast process. Often, in the case of gender questioning youth, puberty blockers are used to buy time for them while they assess their feelings and the process plays out, because they are entirely reversible - just stop taking them. The whole initial transition process can often take a year or more from first appointment to hormone therapy starting and there are lots of gatekeepers along the way to safeguard you.

In most places if you are under 18 you have to be under the care of an LGBT-affirming physician (which can be very hard to find, even in cities, and often have months of wait time), have had at least some therapy under your belt, and an official gender dysphoria diagnosis to get hormone treatment started.

Surgical approaches are very rarely considered for young people. Like I am sure there have been some, I can't fully rule it out, but I run in LGBT+ circles a lot and have for decades, and I personally have not met a single person who had any kind of gender-affirming surgery done before 18. Most have them done in their 20s or 30s if they can afford it. The wait times can stretch into years, and the surgeries themselves are often considered cosmetic procedures and are often not covered the same as a medically-required surgery. Even among adult trans people, surgeries are often considered a far off goal that many never be reached, and quite a few will find that they don't want or need it once other transitioning processes have happened and they no longer feel crippling levels of dysphoria.

And all of that assumes you have a supportive parent or guarding and, as one stroll through various transgender hangouts on the web will tell you, that is not as common as one would hope. All it takes is one parent to say "no" and you're not doing anything until you're an adult. Once you are 18 things are a bit more open and you have more options to speed the process up, but it is hard being a transgender youth.

There are a lot of misconceptions in these comments about what being transgender is, what the process for getting HRT is, and all of the various steps needed to reach each person's individual goals. And all of this is easily researchable using Google in 10 minutes, it just takes an open mind and a willingness to see others' viewpoints. It's extremely frustrating.
Dick comment. I'm talking from experience that keyboard is sometimes faster, and I actually say (clearly you didn't read to the 4th para) that a mouse is better in other cases. Try reading an entire post before responding.
Maybe their close co-workers also retired and are getting close again?
Another cool example is when you ask DALLE-E to make a "Jaguar XF", it does not really know if I talk about the car or the animal, yet it manage to blend the two together
https://img-comment-fun.9cache.com/media/a6wG6Kq/aq04bGmR_70...
Bill Gates Bet on the Future of Green Energy
> I think we have to weigh our sacrifices against the impact....we will bear the cost of that ban...*

I feel like part of the point of the "Ban Private Jets" movement is that the "sacrifices" and "cost" side of the equation are pretty dang low (particularly for the vast majority of folks that cannot fly private). Even for those that can fly private, the point is that other valid alternatives exist.

Banning private jets makes even more sense to me since it seems reasonably simple to regulate and enforce (given the already strict regulations around aircraft). The super-rich can always find a loophole, but this seems like an area where regulating the supply stands a good chance of driving the demand towards more climate-friendly options...
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This is something I really struggle with.
I'm now middle class, but the horror of growing up poor still sticks with me.
I have severe nightmares about being poor again, I just can't go back.
I tend to overwork, and hoard thing at times.

The most difficult thing these days, is my kids. I'm extremely happy that they don't know how bad things can be, but I get extremely worried by that too.
I get worried, that they don't try hard enough because they don't understand how bad things in life can get. I get worried that they are far too trusting because times are so good and plentiful.

Life can change good or bad in an instant.
Maybe you could give DALL-E creativity lessons by finding such nonsense queries and adding creative interpretations of those into learning set.
What are the better options?
WNBA star Brittney Griner sentenced to nine years in prison by Russian court
Paper was posted on 30th May and this article was written on 4th August. So it is possible it has been verified.
> - Smoking has declined, but more because of the negative marketing (ugly pictures on a pack of smokes). It is also less "socially acceptable" and so young people dont pick up the habit.

These things don't happen on their own.

Canaday's Tobacco Strategy, presumably funded with money that has to come from somewhere (e.g. sin taxes): https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/publications...
It's time for software engineering to grow up
I've used EGO's zero turn battery powered mower. It's great, but I agree that it wouldn't be sufficient for a professional.

Also ancecdotally, a friend has cub cadet's battery-powered sit on top mower. He loves it
This is the kind of response that turns me off on all of these amazing technologies. Blanketing the world with low-level content in the hopes to gain ranking and clout sounds awful.

On the flip side I'm guessing we'll have some gpt-3/dall-e blocker extensions that help reduce some of it.
'We' can absolutely influence global warming caused by developing nations' emissions. Look at the trajectory of industrial pollution per capita in the developed world - it started low, but as industrialization catalyzed by fossil fuels took off, it crept up exponentially. When this was happening, the developing world was not even on the development trajectory, as most of it was reeling from colonialism or other ills.

Shift to now, the developed world has offset quite a significant bit of the per-capita emissions by purchasing carbon credits from the developing world in the name of helping them grow, or simply shifting expensive manufacturing to these countries where it gets counted as their emissions and their problem.

So, what do we do? First, simplify the accounting so that there is a very clear and direct overview. Today, you have billionaires flying around in jets, but still not showing up as large scale emitters since they can afford enough credits to look at it as a minor inconveniencing tax.

Secondly, we need to make green energy affordable (just the way the fossils were dirt cheap for the developed world) for these countries by using economies of scale - deploy green energy generation in the developed world which would make it cheaper. Where does better accounting come in? When your manufacturing based emissions count as yours and not the developing world's you will have an incentive to pay more to also offset the emissions, instead of just shifting physical manufacturing.

I do agree that small scale individual sacrifices are mostly useless, as there's just little efficiency in doing smaller things than making huge changes on a more scalable level. You could give up flying for an entire year, but if you only fly 10 times a year, that's still less than a billionaire not flying private just once.

We need more accountability. We have the technology, the solutions, but we lack in accountability.
> Happy to answer any questions. AMA

Would you like to clarify any of the misconceptions?
I'm not sure it is incorrect. Google doesn't sell the data sure, it sells indirect access to it by selling targeted adds based on the data. They abuse the data on behalf of others, but it's still getting abused.
The EU is already on this with new regulations. As of 2022 european trucks can be upto 90cm longer if the extra space is used for aero bodywork. The DAF XG+ is the 1st truck that uses a 60cm longer nose to get improved aero. It will be interesting to see what other truck manufacturers will do with these new EU rules.

https://www.daf.com/en/news-and-media/news-articles/global/2...
Now you’re just moving goalposts.
Will your tech job be offshored?
Dall-E knows what a giraffe is IMO
The US has 4% of the global population and 9% of coal usage

Germany has 3% of coal usage and 1% of the population

China is certainly the biggest at 51% coal and 18% population though. India per capita usage is lower but total is 11% of coal

Coal usage is also going to spike in Europe due to the gas shortages in the near term
Third party general interest websites generally don’t care where their advertising dollars come from, which is why they outsourced it all in the first place.

If anything, they would probably prefer advertisements at least tangentially related to the content so that their readers don’t get creeped out by some Amazon product following them around the internet.
Same here! I'm "serious" about making a game, but I don't devote enough time to it yet to be considered "serious" by their metrics.

And that probably means I'm not a good fit for the group, but it feels dismissive to tell me that way.
Very nice! But the white for a placed letter and gray for a original letter is too close - I was trying to figure out why no word would work when I realized I had placed the T - it wasn't an original letter.
Even if the startup was unsuccessful, I bet you learned a lot along the way. Reflecting on how much you've grown may help you feel fulfilled by the experience.

That said, "grief" is the right word to use. The University of Helsinki ran a study comparing activity in the reward centers of the brains of entrepreneur parents. The study concludes that love of one's business and love of kids light up similar reward pathways in an MRI scan.[1]

I would work with a therapist to coach me through the grieving process. Think of it like hiring a personal fitness coach for your mental health.

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/hbm.23562
Same with Panic Software (MacOS app developers), while I haven’t been using it, I really like how they’ve set up the pricing model for Nova [1] using that same model. I’m happy to pay for new features when I need them, but don’t take things away from me that I already paid for!

[1] https://nova.app
I would really hope so. All of this conversation is devolving into a philosophical argument about 2 letter words. To know what something is relates to understanding some of its properties, and how it might interact with the world around it. Whether DALL-E knows what something is, is debatable. Whether you know what something is should be pretty clear.
Also China and India are investing a crazy amount into replacing coal. Its just a slow process since they have to balance it with economic growth. Governments there are pretty cognizant that they'll be pretty badly affected by climate change. But the OP isn't really interested in facts, he's more interested in having his selfishness seen as rational.

Sources are numerous but heres the first few I found :

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/govt-nod-to-stronger...

https://www.csis.org/east-green-chinas-global-leadership-ren...
Personally the path of becoming an excellent engineer is the best path (possibly hardest) to take on any situation, precisely because of the versatility in scenarios like this. I'm by no means an excellent engineer, but I like to plan and approach opportunities thinking someday I'll be one.
The best part about vaporization is that there's nothing left to remove.
Well, no advice here, swap watering for $B in shipped product, etc. and the feeling is the same.

"I will do this forever" becomes "You know what? I don't want to die in a meeting or in front of a keyboard."
That green works pro battery doesn't take hours to charge either. It's about 30-40 minutes from empty to full again.
It's cow burps that were an issue, but manure is already used to create carbon negative fuels and/or hydrogen while cutting pollution:

https://www.historylink.org/File/20270
How to be independent as a developer:

1. Write a book

2. Promote it to chumps on the internet
why is this a bad thing?
I wouldn't categorize this as "news".

I mean it is years that the situation is as you describe, I don't feel it has worsened (let alone bettered) recently.
Oh, that is awesome.

I swear, every time I learn a new thing about Earth's internal structure it gets weirder and cooler.
They have consciously chosen to give up dozens of billions in potential revenue, because it would be against their customer's interests. That's got to count for something.