skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree of its dangers and have witnessed Peters principle ; we have some promotion policies specifically designed to try to address it ; and fully agree that many people are paper pushers (not necessarily excluding myself).

But I fail to immediatelly see the causal line between fiat money and paper pushers. Are we saying paper pushers did not exist in gold times? That doesn't seem likely. And even if we put forward that there are a lot more bullshit jobs than before, productivity and Automation seem to intuitively account well for it. Can you help elaborate on the linkage?
It probably worked once
Art / design teacher here. In our school we are very worried about this software. Absolutely it will steal jobs sooner or later. A similar thing happened when photography was invented... Painters had to re-design the job of an artist. Result= modernism (kinda oversimplification but true enough).
Bill pay on the backside is ACH push but users never see it. Bill pay will send physical checks as well.

ACH push isn’t that common at the consumer level. Very common for other things like payments/payroll.
ah yes, the elders of the internet:

amanda, bill, carlos, eurek, john, kevin, michael (mike), steve, and zyfwp
Some campgrounds and trailer parks use small stop signs. Does this mean it will stop too late?
People seem to have missed the point of what this is.

This is not "work out what the prompt is for an image"

Instead it lets you give the model a "thing" (as an image) and then use that thing in your prompts.

So for example they give it a picture of a statue and name it "S", and then can say "Elmo sitting in the same pose as S" and it correctly generates it.
Those of us who loathe laying off good employees are busy because we are understaffed. We're understaffed because we are sure that a downturn, recession or worse is upon us (or coming soon) and that the agony, expense and distraction of layoffs (to equalize income & overhead) are a bear market squeeze not worth the bull market juice.

So we get by with fewer employees, more part-time & gig workers. We work harder than we probably should, and so do our employees. The imbalance this creates in good times is offset by the job security we enjoy in bad times. How do I know this is true? Because I'm old enough to have withstood three recessions, the last one by the skin of our corporate teeth.

We've had two good employees leave in good times for less work for more money. Both came back after a few years when boom business cycles that drove that dislocation reverted to the mean.

What the "anti-work"/"no wagie" crowd get's right is the inequity of hard work in a commoditized job at a company that doesn't give a rat's ass about you or your work product. What they get wrong is that small businesses like mine, who do care, require hard work to smooth the volatility - providing security for the business, the employees & the owner. We do this while insurance (health & general) rockets skyward, as the government stealth taxes the crap out of us, and while foreign competition engages in currency & regulatory manipulation for unfair advantage.

My advice to the "don't be so busy" folks... get busy. Do a good job and tactfully take credit for it. Work hard and make sure your name is associated with results.

An economic storm is probably coming as soon as politically motivated band-aids come loose. Most likely after the US mid-term elections, but perhaps after 2024 if they can somehow postpone it that long... get ready.
CSS the language is pretty great.

All of the hacks and warts around the specifics of rendering for the browser? Pretty bad.
Coupon code (TAN10)
Buying a house does not have 'finality' in that sense. This is why you buy title insurance - many things can happen where it turns out you don't own the house like you thought.
Certainly an element of victorian proto-socialism, chartism maybe too, included a healthy reach back into primitive christianity. It collided pretty heavily with the established anglican and catholic churches which were of course the legitemate inheritors of most of the land of the roman empire, post-fall. Carry that into the new world, they acquired lands and goods and importance, if not from romans.

The point of the socialism-communism arc is that why we want equitable distribution of goods and labour isn't the problem. The problem is how to achieve it. Owenite communities in the americas failed. It's hard to bootstrap.
This is true because they use cameras and camera lack depth information despite it being used with “state of the art AI”. This would not be an issue if they have any real depth based measurement system like a LiDAR.
None of the English/Irish/Scottish Breakfast Teas are spiced, they're blends but pure tea, and they do tend to feature Assams and other high-caffeine varieties.
The problem isn't that you can't stream the contents to other people. The current legal situation also roughly states that a viewer is allowed to stream the contents of copies they own, but you can't help them. (See also Aereo, where all data was permanently owned by a single user, no resale shenanigans whatsoever.) The law shouldn't work like that. Users should be able to outsource without causing a violation of copyright law.
If this was true, then why do most restaurants have you pay after you eat?
CoAuthor: Human-AI Collaborative Writing Dataset
It's a social experience, so look for moments throughout the thon for people to come up from their screens, discover new friends, interact among strangers, and together as a community.

Also look for ways to continue and extend relationships past the event. Discord channels that start at the event that persist. Listservs, repos, etc.
> As far back as 2004, Thiel lamented that “America’s constitutional machinery” prevents “any single ambitious person from reconstructing the old Republic.”

etc
Why does Russia get to have a say about Ukraine's alliances?

Or any other country's for that matter?
A program called MouseCape can do it but you need to convert the .ani animated cursors to a spritesheet to use it.
I though it is a joke when seeing the random pixels.

Try again after seeing this post made into front page, it's actually working (and relatively very fast), just the loading screen is misleading ...
I got the reference immediately, but astonishingly, Googling the slightly misquoted phrase utterly fails to turn up a link to the song lyrics, or the Wikipedia page on the song which contains the phrase.
I'm mixed. Definitely a very competent chip, great perf & efficiency gains, a fairly lovely new platform.

$700 for the 16-core 7950X chip is well into HEDT price range, and while this has the CPU oomph everything else is missing. It's more $/core than what EPYC launched at, with a 16 core EPYC 7281 running $650. That had half the MHz & wasn't as good an architecture, but it also 128 lanes of PCIe (3.0 in Naples then 4.0 in Rome) and 8 channels of memory, versus 28 PCIe lanes (5.0!) / 2 channel memory (oof); that's a huge advantage.

Hopefully Intel can start shipping new process nodes again & the competition can come-back.
It's been a long time, but I seem to remember that Amazon used to do a similar thing back when they had a giant monolithic webserver process. Maybe 2004? The executable was >1GB back when that was unimaginably huge and it was kind of comical.

The process (Gurupa?) used to leak memory and the solution was to kill the process after a small number of requests, and start a new one. This is second-hand knowledge so it's possible that I'm confused.
> but setting expectations based on ideals is a recipe for disaster

What's the alternative? Isn't that all anyone has ever done? The only difference seems to be what those ideals being used to set expectations are.
The answer is that people DO steal via ACH, just like people rob houses. They are caught and prosecuted. What makes you think no one ever steals via ACH?
From your own definition it seems like you admit it doesn't really fit.

- all-encompassing ideology

Maybe a lot of startups fit this bill, but most jobs people just come, do their work, and go home. They couldn't give two shits about the ideology. Startups are different cause you need people to work really hard / sacrifice and mission helps with that.

- a single party

you agree this doesn't work

- a terroristic police

sounds like you agree this is a stretch. HR can be annoying but it isn't really terroristic.

- a communications monopoly

this isn't even remotely accurate. there are so many backchannels and secret meetings and company gossip is everywhere. especially now that we have slack.

- a centrally directed economy

most mature organizations have teams run their own P&L. in some places (Amazon) they even compete with each other, and have a market-type internal economy.

It's just a bad analogy. There ARE companies that run like totalitarian dictatorships, but I don't think it's the norm and it's not inherent in the model. There are other, and in my opinion much better, critiques of the corporate relationship with employees I'd start with first (I could talk at length about stock based compensation).

Edit:

I think there's a bigger flaw in your argument though that misses the forest for the trees. You can break things down into their constituent characteristics (or the ones you can see) and try to argue that because they share a lot of traits, those two things are the same, which is kind of what you're doing here. The reality is there is a subjective experience of a thing that is different. If the experience of working in a job doesn't feel like a totalitarian dictatorship, it seems it'd be wrong to tell people "no you actually are living under totalitarian rule, you just don't know it". Unless you think people are so acclimatized to corporate rule like a frog in water that they don't notice (which you might).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylaC0MUleZs
105W TDP ouch.. i was hoping for much much less, ~65W for entry level

> AMD says Zen 4 should outperform Zen 3 by about 35 percent when set to a 170W TDP, by about 37 percent when set to a 105W TDP, and by a whopping 74 percent when set to a 65W TDP.

Where does that 65W TDP come from?
> And when people _are_ shopping around, they search for things like "best vpn providers 2022"

Which coincidentally a number of VPN "review" sites were purchased and the lists "updated" to recommend a certain owner that I'm fairly certain at this point is a honeypot.

https://restoreprivacy.com/kape-technologies-owns-expressvpn...

https://www.techradar.com/news/pc-mag-owner-j2-global-buys-s...

Kape Technologies was formerly known as Crossrider before it was acquired by Teddy Sagi, an Israeli billionaire that has spent time in jail for insider trading. Crossrider itself never had that great a reputation itself, what with their primary product being a development platform through which they were frequently used by third parties to invade ad platforms to serve up malware.
“If you think without writing down your thoughts, you only think you're thinking.” – Leslie Lamport

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/video/thinking-for-...
I’ve found that working with the DOM can be really difficult because the types built into TS don’t accurately capture the underlying API. In just a few hours I found 2 cases where it seemed obvious that the type definition was incorrect.
What if they rented the customer the server that read and encoded the customer's copy of the Blu-ray on the fly and streamed it to them using bandwidth that was leased to the customer? Would that violate the studio's "performance" rights?
What if the customer is in the same room as the server and loads the disk themselves?

I, as a citizen and a consumer, want to know what rights I have when I purchase a product. The free market depends on perfect information when making purchasing decisions, and this is an area that is vague as all heck. If the rights the sellers of these movies claim I have matched the minimum guaranteed by law (or were even a super-set) then it would be clear. But they continue to claim I would get fewer rights than they are legally obligated to provide (technically playing it is a copyright violation according to their terms, never mind format shifting). They actually have it so ambiguous that it even seems anti-capitalistic.
Was founded in 1954, back when europe was something. These days they can only organise in sanctioning other eu member states and crushing each other’s economies.
Turning off affiliate blocking fixed 99% of those, and the rest I just manually add to my allowlist. It’s not many but if that doesn’t fix quickly then I just switch it off for a minute.
>AI art has a specific smell to it and people will associate it with cheap.

It might now, but I feel like that will be trained out of it a few more papers down the line
InAppBrowser – JavaScript Inspect
What the demoscene have been able to do with 8088 based (4.77mhz) systems is crazy: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-xJZ9I4iqg8
It’s also not not agile.
The question wasn't "why is there NO abuse of the ACH system" it was "why isn't there MORE abuse of it"

The answer is, it is illegal, and easy to catch, so people don't abuse it as much as they would if it wasn't illegal.
Yeah, definitely thinking about doing something similar. Was wondering about something like Zero Tier as well. I just don't use my phone all that much away from home, so it hasn't been up on the priority list.
> 80% of the people really were that dumb.

Dropping in just to point out that ignorant, dumb, and uninterested are different concepts.
Hasn't it been superseded by the Gervais Principle? https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
Python library for univariate regression, interpolation, and smoothing
I authored this package as I needed to generate confidence intervals for time series data without using SciPy. Sharing this here, as this could be a useful package for others :)

Included Models:
- Linear regression
- Ridge regression
- Linear spline
- Isotonic regression
- Bin regression
- Cubic spline
- Natural cubic spline
- Exponential moving average
- Kernel functions (Gaussian, KNN, Weighted average)
There is not some universal right to get paid for things you like to do. Pay is a transaction between someone who wants something and someone who can provide it. I once saw a Ted Talk by a busker who was a mime or something and was calling what they do "work" (and was complaining about people who didn't respect that). I found it ridiculous because effectively they are a beggar, they are doing what they want to do and hoping someone gives them money, and in some cases, feeling entitled to it. I think it's this perception of entitlement (real or imagined) that rubs people the wrong way about artists, at least ones complaining about not getting paid. If you want someone to give you money, do something people want. The universe doesn't owe you a business model.

Along the same lines, weavers and scribes and travel agents and a million other professions have moved on. Automating low value art is not any different, nobody owes you anything.
Note that those chips are using second generation 7nm. It's unknown whether that's comparable to whatever SMIC is producing. If you want to make a less favorable comparison the list should actually be

Apple A12

AMD Zen 2

Snapdragon 855
An unregulated market is not a fair market. Companies will put the risk and externalities on others. That's why we don't let them dump chemicals into the watershed, or rather we incentivized them through regulations and fines.
Some people find writing daunting. An email, an eng doc, or whatever. However, editing pre-written text is a lot easier. If you don't know where to start, start _anywhere_. Because once something is there, editing it is a breeze.
War and Industrial Policy
They never implied that it couldn't happen, they implied it didn't happen that often because it is illegal.
How far are we away from throwing a screenplay and some reference scenes at an AI and getting back a full movie? 10 years? Doesn't seem very far away now...
Apartments partners with a bank. Bank creates files every night following the standards and rules of NACHA. They submit those files which are processed. ACH is bank to bank. You can’t access the network if you aren’t a bank. End of the day it is moving at the fed level since every bank has an account with the fed. Banks enforce the rule because they are on the hook on claw backs.
What I want to know here is can I seed it with a human face? If so, this really becomes a breakthrough for fast meme generation / other more nefarious uses. That will really be the thing that opens the floodgates on this.
Ronnie was never less than 1% body fat, or even 1%. Stage ready bodybuilders are more like 3-5%. People are just poor at estimating bodyfat, and the media throwing out nonsense numbers doesn't help.
I have a weird feeling that the vast majority of high-BMI people somehow don't really fall into the athlete category.
If I want a bit of clip art for a presentation or stock image for a website, is it disdainful to say it's irrelevant to me if it was made by a living human or a computer?

I want the thing. An artist getting paid is a means to an end for this purpose. To you and others, the artist getting paid might be the end. That's fine for you, but I may not have reason to care.
They're well legally defined words.
> iPad

there's your problem right there.
> Is this approach used elsewhere?

Yes, or at least in a similar fashion. An alternative variant of port knocking is SPA (Single Packet Authorization). Often SPA protocols use UDP and contain within the body field an encrypted payload containing all the required data to authenticate and authorize a particular request.

There are multiple different implementations of SPA: OpenSPA [1] (full disclosure: I am the author of OpenSPA), fwknop [2] just to name a few.

SDP (Software Defined Perimeter) often builds upon SPA technologies in order to achieve a form of zero trust access.

[1] - https://github.com/greenstatic/openspa

[2] - https://github.com/mrash/fwknop

I am currently re-writting the OpenSPA protocol (version 2) and I plan on playing around with eBPF as well, so thanks eeriedusk for paving the way :)
Why It’s Been Such a Brutal Summer for Streaming
It just moved to the cloud where you can't uninstall it.
Tell me about it.

Even though I'm a big picture type of a guy but I LOVE writing in general and one of the driving forces behind this strong feeling of appreciation for writing is that it makes you think clearer and help too with expressing and understanding your emotions esp. when delving into touchy subjects.
Sure, but that's an effect on tons of laws.
It's pretty ridiculous that this isn't legal.

Sure, VidAngel could have built some custom software to play back a real Bluray disc, skipping certain scenes based on configuration file per title, and then would mail the disc to customers, who then have to mail it back, but that would be a worse experience for customers, and would be more wasteful (unnecessary physical shipping, as well as wear-and-tear on the discs). I guess the studios would actually see more money from this kind of scheme, since the discs would wear out and need to be replaced after a while.

But... the world we live in where this sort of thing isn't allowed... is stupid. Calling this a "performance" is just a legal gambit to unreasonably restrict what people (or companies, even) can do with things they've bought and own.

The $20 "purchase" and $19 "buy-back" is creative, but it should also be fine to just charge an all-you-can-watch subscription fee, as long as they don't allow concurrent viewing at greater than the number of Bluray discs they've purchased. "Performance", my ass. Fucking copyright cartels.
A lot of manufacturing operations are having trouble getting the skilled workers they need, like precision machinists, because the older generation is retiring and there aren't enough people learning those occupations.

When you read discussions of "going into the trades" instead of going to college, there is almost never a mention of the skilled trades. It all seems to be construction, and I think that's a mistake.
Did OpenAI (Dall-E) and Google (Imagen) know Stable Diffusion was coming?

I'm sure they were looking forward to many months of maintaining highly exclusive access and playing "too dangerous to release" games before SD completely upended the table.
> I think the main issue here is the computational cost, as - if I understand correctly - you basically have to do training for each concept you want to learn. Are pretrained embeddings available anywhere for common words?

I just read (skimmed) through the paper.

That's in fact the key idea here: that the training model is untouched. Using the existing, trained model, they use this "inversion" procedure to discover some word that acts as a stable reference for a concept expressed in some images exposed to the model, which the model will understand as a reference to that concept.

There is a pretrained model with those common words, which knows how to do things like, say, "hamburger in the style of Picasso".

Now, without such model having been trained on the works of some artist, or other images, using a few samples (merely five or so), it's possible to uncover a latent word in the model which refers to the concept that those samples have in common. That word is stable in the sense that you can compose it with other words in prompts, and it really seems to denote the concept in those sample images.

In the paper these researches consistently call such a word as the meta-variable S*, and use it in prompts like, "flying monkey in the style of S*".

What I couldn't spot in the paper is a concrete example of what the S* word actually looks like for given examples. I'm guessing that it's some sort of gibberish. According to the concrete usage instructions, the process produces an embeddings.pt file, which you then upload, allowing you to use the pseudo-word * (asterisk) to refer to the concept.

People have been intuitively experimenting with gibberish words in prompts, discovering some stable behavior that seems to correspond to words that the AI "came up" with by itself (like a child, some have noted). This research seems like methodical way of discovering those internal words.
"more part-time" are there more part-time positions due to recession (or fears of one)? Are there job board for part time jobs, ideally remote?
This is mentioned in the article, I must admit I previously thought it was as you say, but:

"available evidence in humans suggests that hyperinsulinemia precedes weight gain (rather than the other way around)"
It being illegal makes parties involved forced to cooperate. If someone hacks your Twitter and tweets something - the FBI isn't going to investigate who did that. If someone commits a wire fraud with your account - FBI will investigate.
Because their soon-to-be-had wealth is tied to serving ads and the rest of us don't want it.
Ah, the classic "you're racist and if you disagree, then you're double racist!" gambit. I think ESR coined the term "kafkatrapping".

> It is affirming the stereotype Indian males lack confidence with women

The whole show is about males lacking confidence with women. Did you even watch the thing? The only male there that has any screen time and doesn't have problems approaching women is Zack, I think. And he's a walking stereotype too and dumb as a ton of bricks.

> worshipping of cows etc

If you think Raj saying "I swear to cow" is supposed to be a portrayal of a real Indian person, as opposed to obviously completely ridiculous comedic gag, lampshading its own ridiculousness - maybe you shouldn't be watching comedy, it's not good for you. Stick to anti-harassment videos from HR, there's no comedy there.
Look for software that has "long term stable" releases and switch to that. Lots of software does. People are more aware of it at the enterprise level (because we have to manage it) but you might be surprised. Chrome has (FINALLY) released an LTS version and Firefox has a great one. Even Windows 10 has it as an option (although a bit difficult to access)