skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone moderately plugged into the AI art knew for at least 2 months.

I'm guessing those teams didn't know in that they're AI researchers, and in my own employment at Google, I've been regularly reminded that being a technologist and being someone obsessed with a technology and pursuing it socially are different things.

Even without knowing the precise individuals that'd do it, I knew in February that by August there would be an open source model challenging state of the art back then, if only because given 6 months _some_ open source team would try scaling to a bigger model.

Another thing to point out is these teams are descendants of open source, Katherine Crawsons open source breakthroughs led to substantial improvements in DallE. Everyone should be saying her name 1000x more often.* She also helped create Stable Diffusion specifically, in substantial ways

* I think. Maybe I misunderstand the technology dramatically. But I think it's just poorly understood how much she's been involved.
It is noticeably faster than the original model (~30-40%) on my machine.
Yeah, but we're always learning new things. You didn't say what we've learned is causing climate change

Do you know?
If you are going to argue by anecdote at least use a believable anecdote. Amazon have one of the most customer friendly refund policies and always offer a refund or replacement- obviously because they are just pushing it on to their sellers but still, they do.
Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS) do not have a $10,000 limit.

https://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/products/prod_tips_glan....
This is exactly how it is for me. I used to think, jease!, why does it does it take so long to write well. Finally I judt realized that writing is art and that it takes time to get good at it and it also takes time to formulate ideas into end producdts, in your mind and on paper.
I don't really think so. They're OSs that, when they added support for x86-64 CPUs, all opted to use the externally-defined ELF executable file format with the x86-64-sysv ABI. Note also that the architecture/ABI already includes a dedicated `syscall` assembly instruction.

On top of that, 3 of the OSs (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD) share a common source code ancestry, meaning that the oldest and most fundamental Unix system calls (like `write(2)`) had an excellent chance of remaining compatible.

Yes, calling write(2) on Linux is different, but only in the syscall number. That's also not a coincidence, as the behaviour of write() is highly constrained by POSIX which Linux and the BSDs both adhere to, and the way to pass parameters to the call is specified by the `syscall` instruction.

That there are enough differences in the environment to be able to figure out which of Linux or *BSD the program is running on is a bit of luck, but probably not that much.
It's true that we were initially using GPUs mostly for historical reasons, but over the last several years modern GPUs have been optimized for ML as much as anything else. If you read NVidia's marketing documents, they talk constantly about ML. The A100 is about as good, if not better, than the TPUv4 in terms of raw performance on ML workloads. The A100 can do 312 bf16 TFLOPs and costs $0.88/hr on Google Cloud [0] whereas the TPUv4 can do 275 bf16 TFLOPs and costs $0.97/hr on Google Cloud [1] [2]. The A100 is also generally speaking easier to program: it's supported by more frameworks and can perform more operations. The TPUv4 is in my understanding still worth it if you like JAX and/or you're doing lots of networking though.

WRT putting a TPU on a separate die -- this has been done for several years in the mobile space: Apple Neural Engine for iPhones, TPU (not same as server TPU) on Pixel, SNPE on Qualcomm, etc.

[0] https://cloud.google.com/compute/gpus-pricing

[1] https://cloud.google.com/tpu/pricing#v4-pricing

[2] this is somewhat unfair, because the GPU pricing number is for just the GPU and not the host it runs on, whereas the TPU pricing number (for TPU VMs) includes the host it runs on. If you include the price GCP charges for the host, preemptible A100s are about $1.20/hr. Why does Google make GPUs look cheaper than TPUs when they're not? Your guess is as good as mine.
I think the butt of the joke regarding their ineptitude with women is their being nerds, not their individual demographics (Indians, Jews, or Autistics).
The rabbits bred for meat also make good pets:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAi5Y8DDoNyX-4qcEcd-5w

On the other hand, there's apparently a problem where pet stores are selling similar giant guinea pig breeds as pets, but they're too wild and don't have the temper to enjoy it.

https://www.cavyhouse.org/%22Cuy%22.html
Can someone explain to me why it makes more sense to put large, complex pieces of equipment in space where maintaining it is costly, and then beam power though the atmosphere, as opposed to putting simple, easily maintainable tech on the ground, with the input radiation already having traverse the atmosphere? Is there such an advantage power wise that this is worth doing?
It is incumbent upon you, dear reader, to extend the hand of charity and goodwill toward your fellow man, and in so doing eschew all malice, unkindness, and sarcasm. I implore you, do not take up your pen in anger and unleash a seething torrent of invective against my person, for I have only the deepest respect for you, and it would cause me great pain to know that I had caused you distress. Please do not sneer, including at the rest of the community, whose interests you do not represent, whose intelligence you do not comprehend, who suffer while you prosper, who live in ignorance of your existence while you enjoy the fruit of their labors.

[1] https://victorianhackernews.com/
One great benefit of a good template language is automatic escaping (e.g. within HTML attributes or tags), which you won't get from format strings.
Is Windows-on-Arm going to ever get good enough to use or should Microsoft just release their own Linux distribution?

Maybe Microsoft should just buy Canonical?

Microsoft has done pretty well with GitHub and Activision Blizzard so far. Perhaps they could make Ubuntu even better?
This doesn't feel too far off. With the img2img stuff you can give a picture of a character and the tool can spit out new images of that character or transpose them in to new art styles.

It doesn't feel like this tech has hit any hard limits on things that are impossible or very far away yet. Every limitation seems to be getting broken at rapid pace.
[opens new browser window on phone]

[support . apple . com]

"Hello, my inquiry is whether or not AppleCare+ covers spontaneously throwing my laptop out the window thus it falls down three stories into a storm drain. No, this is purely hypothetical. Yes, I'll wait while you research."
There's also this much longer talk he gave that I watched recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBVmnKuBocc

The premise is that we don't have enough minerals to transition to a decarbonized economy if we just do the most obvious, naive thing. For some reason, he assumes we need a battery capable of storing the world's energy use for 4 weeks, and then shows that there's no way we can manufacture that amount of lithium ion batteries. His analysis also assumes pretty heavy use of hydrogen for ground transport to get around the limitations of batteries, despite being rather energy-inefficient by comparison.

I'm actually kind of optimistic: his result just means we can't do things that don't scale, but we could do other things instead. Rather than building huge chemical batteries for grid storage, we can use pumped hydro and expand our power grids so we can move energy between continents and buffer out renewable energy variability and day/night cycles. Instead of using hydrogen fuel cells or huge batteries for ground transport, we can electrify our major highways so trucks only need small batteries to get from the freeway to their delivery/pickup point. (We could also rely on trains a lot more than we do.) Instead of building billions of brand new cars, we can convert many of the cars we already have to electric if they're still in good shape and worth the effort. We can stop using so much copper in everything, and use aluminum instead where it makes sense.
This is correct answer.

No reason to expose ssh to the internet.
The prototype tests I've read about transported medication (little weight, high value) across either remote area (Tansania) or across water (DHL to a German island) where a human-on-bike wouldn't have an advantage. The test setups made sense but it's only a tiny nieche of logistics overall.
There is plenty of reason for artists who are hired for one-of-a-kind work to be worried.

Getty Images will just get with the program and stock up on bazillions of AI generated images, indexed by the prompts used to generate them.

Someone looking for stock images doesn't want to deal with artists, photographers or feeding prompts after prompt into some AI software, while not quite getting the desired result.

If Getty makes it easier for someone to find some existing AI-generated image than to generate one, they still have something.

A lot of the AI images we see in online blogs and galeries have been curated; people tinkered for hours with the stuff, and cherry-picked the best results. There could be some business model in that, at least for a while.
It has a lot more joke potential if prompts can simply be generated from images.
You're absolutely right.

This is why the Creative Commons organization created CC0 in the first place to get around the differing and/or vague implementations of "public domain" [0].

As the author is most likely American and talking about Americans, I think my critique still mostly holds but you're absolutely right that once we go internationally it gets much more complex.

I only know of the Berne Convention [1] but doing some superficial research, it looks like their "fair use" doctrines are overly vague [2].

[0] https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/CC0_FAQ#What_is_CC0.3F

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_three-step_test
I imagine the response rate to this AMA is telling of the reliability
What are some convos & ideas about how to pivot/ adjust, in light of this taking some art & design jerbs?

Something that makes me not fear so much is: corporations and brands are still going to need artistically minded folks to handle media campaigns. Like just because you can make a turn-key website in Squarespace (and even in Adobe now I believe), don't you as a baller corporation still want to hire an expert/ team of experts to handle all that?

Like in the worst case scenario, aren't Art Directors and Creative Directors, Studios and Agencies, and even in-house marketing teams going to be using these AI image generation tools, as part of the process to reach the final images that go live?

Maybe we'll see less illustrators and designers, and more Art Directors (who'd still need to know how to tweak, refine, flesh out the images so they are on point)?

At least that's the way some colleagues of mine view these tools, as something to integrate in the creative process, and not as something that will replace the need for those who are aesthetically minded.
Reg e covers that. You aren't responsible for transactions you didn't do. It will take longer to get back your money than an ACH reversal.
Thanks!

I was just curious about your perspective-- When do you mean by Helm is pretty bad? Could you elaborate? Also, how does it compare with alternatives?
It was a local website: https://www.caasi.nl/ they don't carry them anymore.
"Zatko’s disclosures, filed with the SEC and first obtained by The Washington Post and CNN, made numerous claims of negligent security procedures and intentionally deceptive practices. Among claims made in the documents, Zatko alleges that Twitter knowingly downplayed the level of bot activity on the platform — something that Musk has cited as a central reason for attempting to back out of the deal to purchase the company."

Elon Musk needs all the dirt he can get on Twitter so he can legally argue that Twitter was dishonest and that the terms of his acquisition deal should not be valid.

These revelations by Zatko might be exactly what he is looking for.
Two questions:

Why the requirement that you can't use scipy?

Have you heard of the package stats model?
I've been using System76 linux laptop (Kudu model, 21 inch screen, and awesome cooling fans) for a few years and it's working very well.
It comes with Ubuntu pre-installed (although I switched to archlinux afterward)
I can't imagine getting that pissed off over what is at worst a one-time 5-10 minute annoyance.
vodka has zero caffeine content!
My employees don't seem to understand why I prefer they email questions to me instead of calling. The clarity writing often brings aids the conversation. I frequently call once I have the email.
two wrongs don't make a right, there is no justification for either doing so
I've heard this from Chinese lesbians too. They aren't out in China, but other people are completely incapable of noticing they're gay, and other women won't admit they're gay to them even if eg they have just had sex.
Post-scarcity doesn't exist in the real universe. It will always come down to energy, whether it is bound up into matter or not.

Providing actual necessities, instead of money, would be far better. Money is a proxy, and just giving it away makes it worth less... So you get inflation. Meanwhile, the people working are also drowned in the ever rising costs of funding UBI, and the ever rising prices from inflation. The government has financialized everything, and the bottom falls out when growth stops, which it always does, even if temporarily.

UBI may be a wealth transfer to the poor, who'd get first crack at the cash (unlike QE), but the overall economy is still devastated either way.
I'm imagining some artists will master prompt writing and then use AI image generation to fill in sections of an image one at a time, taking direct control of composition and style selection - but leaving the fine details mostly up to the AI.

But for most utilitarian images the artist is soon dead.
Am I misunderstanding the Wikipedia article?

>There are various ACH systems around the world. The World Bank identified 87 systems in their 2010 Survey

Seems to me like there are many different ACH systems, but perhaps the one referred to colloquially as ACH is specifically FedACH, the American system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_clearing_house
There's definitely a tendency to oversimplify authoritarians by criticizing them for other aspects. American right-wing authoritarians are bad because they're authoritarian, but get criticized for the Evangelical tone through which they enforce it. Likewise with Chinese authoritarians getting criticized for being communist while they do authoritarianism, rather than for the authoritarianism itself.
> If it requires a tutorial for all users, that’s called a manual and it doesn’t have to appear on launch or force you to read it. Unskippable step by step tooltip guides are the absolute worst.

Lots of game developers have conducted extensive research and found that player retention is considerably higher when you "annoy" them with these things rather than just throw them to the wolves and tell them to RTFM.
There were also one or two clips where they cut off someone midsentence where they didn't really have to; just waiting for them to finish their sentence to start the cut would have been fine. Very low-effort job all around. But I suspect that if you grow up with this sort of thing, you just assume that it's normal, possibly just how foreign shows are made. You might not think anything is wrong until someone points it out, and shows you the uncensored version. But how many people in China would have access to an uncensored version?
>This piece isn't really anti-China in the usual sense
>It feels more like a pro-globalized/unregulated economy piece.

To me, this is clearly anti-China propaganda. Sure, you can take one article by itself and say this is neutral or slightly negative. No propaganda here! But what if 99/100 articles from NYT have the exact same tone? To me, that's propaganda.

Throw in an author that used to live in China for extra "credibility".

>Going back to your point, I feel like those things (cities being safe, no homeless) have nothing to do with the issues people are finding with it. You can have people living decently in cities and still commit a genocide on the side.

Oh I absolutely agree. I think you're referring to the genocide of Uyghurs? As far as I understand it, it's not a genocide in a sense of mass killing. I think when people hear the word "genocide", they automatically think jews in WW2 or Native Americans in the US. It seems like China is putting them into mass education camps in order to brainwash the Islamist extremism out of them. This is China's way of dealing with Islam extremism. Is it right or wrong? I don't know. I just know that China has Islamophobia, just like the US and EU does as well.

How do you think China should deal with Islam extremism/terrorism?
The Google Pagespeed report https://httparchive.org/reports/chrome-ux-report has a large body of websites. They have a popularity requirement https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux/methodology/#populari... but it's not sorted afaik.
How about working in a bullpen sux? It was bad enough in a cube farm with tall walls. Then short walls. Now they stuff lots of people at a long table…. And they wonder why people with shorter attention spans (thanks social media!) have problems concentrating when both sound and motion surrounds them?

And sickness is airborne every winter (or all the time with covid). And allergies from pets, perfumes and other particulates. And commuting has not gotten better and probably can’t if outside walking distance. And to make it worse we’ve just had two years where things went quite well, so the bs about non office work is was revealed for many lines of work.

And you can save a little money and eat better when doing it yourself. The big negative is socialization and one could argue that it’s not what work is for. Rather, the hassle of work provides the resources needed to socialize.
You don't need to modify the clipboard to do that, news sites were doing it long before the clipboard API existed. It's usually done with CSS, abusing display properties, positioning, font size, etc to make attributions a non-visible but still copied part of the text.
Is feeding copyrighted material into an AI really copyright infringement?
Well, SciPy depends heavily on NumPy, which as a CPython-specific extension won't run on other Python interpreters in general. Although for example there is ulab for MicroPython which replicates part of NumPy, and PyPy has a compatibility layer for CPython extensions.

Edit: well, Regessio itself also depends on NumPy, but might be able to run on top of ulab whereas I really doubt SciPy would.
No, I think its more likely they failed because of the practicalities of moving an entire welsh speaking village to bolivia, to build a new jerusalem. I don't personally ascribe social failure to heresy per se. After all, many heresies existed in New England, but it persisted, and did remarkably well. There was no shortage of bad behaviour in the puritan communities around Boston, they just managed their economics and social fabric better.
Doesn't fully answer the question. Increases in monetary mass inflate the prices mostly uniformly. European markets have seen prices of energy rise way more than the others.

Also, you are calling the covid policies "reckless". I believe they were fully measured and calculated. Of course the economies are in a bad state after being put under perfusion for a year. But nobody thought it would be otherwise, it was just the less bad option
If you only allow key auth they mostly go away.
Doesn't make it inaccurate.
When historian Charles Weiner looked over a pile of Richard Feynman’s notebooks, he called them a wonderful ‘record of his day-to-day work’.

“No, no!”, Feynman objected strongly.

“They aren’t a record of my thinking process. They are my thinking process. I actually did the work on the paper.”

“Well,” Weiner said, “The work was done in your head, but the record of it is still here.”

“No, it’s not a record, not really. It’s working. You have to work on paper and this is the paper. Okay?”, Feynman explained.

From Smarter Than You Think by Clive Thompson
I use Firefox on my phone for that purpose.
Looking at this some more, I may have a slightly less flawed high level understanding. There is never actually a concrete word. There is an "embeddding" represented as an abstract vector, and that is forcibly associated with a pseudo-word like *. That * just recalls the vector; there is no intermediate gibberish that has a word representation: that vector is the gibberish.
It’s a lot easier to rise well past your level of incompetence in the current culture of frequently switching jobs, since it’s a lot easier to interview at a new company into a job beyond your skills than to be promoted into such a role from within.

I’ve interviewed a shocking number of “senior engineers” with seemingly impressive CVs who nonetheless could barely pass fizzbuzz-level coding tests. One even called me out on it, saying he was “insulted” to be given a coding test with his 20 years of experience. Bet he got hired as a principal engineer at a place that wouldn’t deign to give coding tests to people claiming 20 years of “proven industry experience.” (Thank goodness our policy is to give coding tests to every single applicant, no matter how senior!)
It's a chaotic system so I think no one can really understand or predict with high confidence. That's what the math around chaos theory says anyhow. Humans tend to overestimate their abilities and impact, that's what psychology says

There are long-term, short-term natural processes as well as human processes impacting it. Even the sun has cycles which impact Earth's climate on scales we don't fully understand.

I definitely think we are not approaching ways to keep our current (preferred) climate intact the best we can. The focus seems to be more on low-impact, feel-good solutions rather than the difficult, high-impact solutions. I for one would like to see a lot more money going into R&D for H2O desalination and CO2 sequestration.
Even with O(n^3) algorithms, how many symbols can you put on a display?

And to be fair, more than 90% of those symbols are very likely to be plain old ASCII...
Isn't a key selling point of the latest, hottest model that's on the front page of Hacker News multiple times right now, the fact that it fits on consumer-grade GPUs? Surely some of the interesting ideas it's spawning right now are people doing transfer learning on GPUs that don't end in "100", don't you think?
> The glitches serve to remind them daily that their government is manipulating them.

I suspect that the vast majority of Chinese viewers barely notice, or just assume that there was some sort of problem with the source material when it was imported into their country. Most probably don't make the connection that portions have been censored, because this is just what they've grown up with, and seems normal.

I think you both under- and over-estimate Chinese people in this regard. Certainly they are well-educated, but they've been raised culturally very differently than you or I. It's not impossible to be smart and know how to think, but also close off your mind to certain classes of criticism because you've been raised to value unity and harmony above other concerns.
Only if video creators get a cut, otherwise it won't work.
From what you decribe I would skip the registration and use the payment checkout page (e.g. Stripe) to collect all data. It sounds like a new app so first have 100 sales before worrying about more complexity. (In our SaaS startup we dealt with the first 50 sales using email and manual Excel).