skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aren't you contradicting yourself there? Stack Overflow is ad-supported, but is good. But you want search engines to penalize sites that have ads?

I hate ads, but I don't think we should be focusing on them here. Some sites that have ads have garbage content, and some sites that have ads have useful content. Just... find the useful content, and return it in search results. I know "just" is doing an awful lot of heavy lifting there, but I don't think "has/does not have ads" is as important a signal to a search engine's algorithm as you think it is.
Started my startup to provide HR onboarding software to small businesses for onboarding employees and university colleges for onboarding new students.

Any advice/thoughts highly appreciated.

Link: https://wonderin.org/
Only if you've already accepted that a loss in functionality is acceptable.

If you could implement a declarative language as powerful as an imperative one you could solve the halting problem.

So the switch from imperative to declarative is not free to make and Google has thrown the baby out with the bathwater. They just so happen to lose money every second that baby is alive. On the one hand, the decision to implement this specific declarative language is a malicious exertion of market force. On the other hand it's a stunning display of implementation incompetence. The language can't even reimplement the most popular existing extensions.
Well said, I agree.

According to the parent comment, in order to criticize Joe Rogan, I have to "get on his level" first. Got it.

Brb, gonna go do some whipits.
Non-Russian-Propaganda link:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-62732447
It should be noted this is a very recent development though. I'm pretty sure if you looked in dictionaries made pre-2000, gender is synonymous with sex and was often the preferred term for biological sex since as GP points out, "sex" also means intercourse. Only in the last 10 years or so has the definition of gender been usurped to have a new distinct meaning to accommodate new social developments.
Used Google Colabs for the last 8 months, will fully divest from them with this change...
Did you describe forcing a dozen women to give you a blow job 12 years ago? I didn’t.

Why is that so trivial to you?
Yeah, Moldova is an order of magnitude worse-off now:

https://youtu.be/wnDxHTaeNX0
All of this wringing of the hands could be dealt with summarily: by ending the monopolistic power of the accreditation agencies and the universities on higher education.

A college degree—all college degrees—should have a basic set of requirements that are made publicly available for anyone to access.

If one meets those requirements, whether that is through individual study, or group study or through the help of an institution, it shouldn’t matter.

Offer standardized exams, written and/ or oral if there is concern over competency.

College as it is now is a racket. The whole racket is based on marketing: socializing (drinking and partying), campus amenities, paid rankings in magazines, sports hoopla, etc.

Sure, it’s all fun. Lots of fun. But you can make a good a downpayment on real estate or a business with 4 * $60k for goodness sake.

I have three traditional college degrees. And I can’t count the number of hours and dollars wasted on taking useless, outdated classes using useless and outdated textbooks.

Seriously, we need real change in higher education. No bandaids. It’s ridiculous.
I recommend looking into "transfer learning".

That's where you start with an existing large model, and train a new model on top of it by feeding in new images.

What's fascinating about transfer learning is that you don't need to give it a lot of new images, at all. Just a few hundred extras can create a model that's frighteningly accurate for tasks like image labeling.

This is pretty much how all AI models work today. Take a look at the Stable Diffusion model card: https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion/blob/main/Stable...

They ran multiple training sessions with progressively smaller (and higher quality) images to get the final result.
My guess is that very few people care to learn anything about Smalltalk-72, and simply saying you mean something like SOAP or Erlang will clearly communicate what you mean by "true" message passing.

If your interest is point-scoring maybe say Smalltalk-80 is simulated message passing or faux message passing ;-)
I purchased a used 28' boat for $10K and used it for 5 years and sold it for $10K. Worked great. As for repairs, well, that's expensive but, while I am a horrible mechanic, I learned. Repairs were extremely inexpensive for me. I replaced a steering wheel chain that broke, fixed a leak by removing drive shaft and replacing a part. I would imagine it would be so much easier now, with all the youtube stuff - there was no youtube when I owned a boat in the last 90s.

And as I think someone else noted, who wants a slip to dock at? Why would one need that because you are sailing around the world. You don't have a home base or anything. That's the whole entire point.
Why should we believe he’s changed?
Problem is "sex" is an ambiguous word with multiple meanings and "gender" has been redefined to be useless. We probably need a new word that specifically refers to this one usage of "sex"
It depends on exactly what problem you're trying to solve. If the goal is to find the same image with slight differences caused by re-encoding, downsampling, scaling, etc. you can use something like phash.org pretty efficiently to build a database of image hashes, review the most similar ones, and use it to decide whether you've already “seen” new images.

That approach works well when the images are basically the same. It doesn't work so well when you're trying to find images which are either different photos of the same subject or where one of them is a crop of a larger image or has been modified more heavily. A number of years back I used OpenCV for that task[1] to identify the source of a given thumbnail image in a larger master file and used phash to validate that a new higher resolution thumbnail was highly similar to the original low-res thumbnail after trying to match the original crop & rotation. I imagine there are far more sophisticated tools for that now but at the time phash felt basically free in comparison the amount of computation which OpenCV required.

1. https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2014/08/upgrading-image-thum...
Biologists and sociologists have distinguished between sex and gender for far longer than a decade.
> By indigenous I am referring to before the british colonial era.

That usage is incorrect as applied to the subcontinent. Before the British was the Mughals, who were foreign colonizers as well. Before that it's Muslim invaders going back to 1200.

> The way land ownership was stratified, martial races, playing off of groups of ethnicities and religions, how one humbly starts writing a letter, the present arrangement of nations in the Subcontinent, feudal land ownership, government structures into parliaments, these are all examples of colonial legacy that affect the present day.

That's just a way of saying that everything is a product of history, which is a truism. That's just as true of Europeans as anyone else. But again, if I'm a Bangladeshi, how is that actionable information?
I happen to know somebody who is a flat earther, and is heavily into conspiracies of all types, and I listen to her without being combative but with her knowledge that I doubt it is correct but I'm happy to listen if she wants to talk about it. I've done that a couple of times. She's got other issues and I think it helps her to have some listen, even if she knows she not getting confirmation of her beliefs.

But it's not really about hearing the same perspective multiple times that I'm after, it's hearing from multiple perspectives.
Apple took the first steps to an AWS competitor in 2010 when it started working on phone CPUs.

Apple is very unlikely to build a “general cloud” offering. This is built and sold on differentiated services (eg BigQuery, Lambda, Kinesis), not on undifferentiated compute units (ie Apple Silicon even if it is slightly cheaper for the raw hardware).

Meanwhile, every time a developer uses local inference with CoreML, that competes directly with AWS’ revenue.

Apple’s “cloud” offering will be hosted in people’s pockets, powered by electricity consumers pay for, and hardware that Apple sells for a fat profit. And they will keep empowering developers to move more compute over to “the client”.
Number of birds killed annually in the United States by

Wind turbines: 140,000 to 328,000 [0]

Cars: 340 million [1]

Building collisions: 365 to 988 million [2]

Cats: 1.3 to 4.0 billion [3] [4]

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00063...

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/05/29/bird-deaths-c...

[2] https://bioone.org/journals/the-condor/volume-116/issue-1/CO...

[3] https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2380

[4] https://www.npr.org/2013/01/29/170588511/killer-kitties-cats...
... what happened after 2008?
If you're starving, why shouldn't you be allowed to sell yourself into a lifetime of slavery in exchange for a meal today?
Also I wonder why they never pronounced it “Ten-Code” (after all “Mac OS X” was “Mac oh-ess Ten”)
In a nutshell, Weinstein alleges that the breeding programs used by suppliers to produce lab mice and rats result in animals with artificially long telomeres as a side-effect, which makes them behave very differently from most mammals in response to a variety of drugs and treatments. Furthermore, presumably because this could conceivably invalidate the findings of decades of research, he alleges that journals and academics collectively turn a blind eye toward (or even blackball) anyone who attempts to sound the alarm with respect to this procedural flaw. If his premises are true, it would represent a ticking time bomb for the biological science research community not unlike "replication crises" faced by e.g. human psychology researchers.
Did you read the whole post? Parent post was talking about assisted movie generation where a human is making a movie and using the AI as a tool to make the content. This will absolutely be an enormous thing in the next 10, 20 years and it will lead to a creative revolution in the same way that youtube did - entire genres that do not currently exist will come to fruition by lowering the barriers to entry to a huge number of creators.

I don't have any trouble finding youtube channels that I like to watch and ignoring the rest, and I suspect I won't have any trouble finding movies generated using AI as a production tool that I want to watch either.
Well develop the UI again
Like the self driving revolution? Or the bitcoin/blockchain revolution?

Personally, I’m not even getting out my popcorn yet.
That (people using a lot of resources) is probably why the change was made.
Companies are halting investments, people are being laid-off, people's debt is increasing, inflation is high than ever...

What more do they need to accept we are in a recession?
> how many TV shows are there to train it on?

None, according to the MPAA.
I still have a free ticket for the live event left over
Of course it signals credibility. I suppose you can argue that the entire effect of social proof doesn’t exist, but I’m sure there are better uses of that groundbreaking knowledge than commenting on HN!
Yes you are on the right track. Once you get really close to a perfect score on your benchmark you can no longer improve so you need to develop a better benchmark with more headroom. And you have the right idea of how you go about benchmarking subjective quality. A bunch of humans produce output-scoring pairings and the model is judged against that. To train an AI you need a very measurable goal and in this case the measure is “humans like it.”

If you are noticing that this seems to fundamentally limit model performance on certain tasks to aggregate human capability, you are noticing correctly.

To give you some idea of what these benchmarks look like, here’s the prompt list from DrawBench which Google created as part of training their Imagen model.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1y7nAbmR4FREi6npB...
The profit motive promotes efficiency by driving all prices towards marginal cost, as long as competition exists. Highly durable goods are not per se an efficient use of resources, but we probably disagree on the meaning of that word anyway.
Except Russia and except Ukraine, which was 90% of the URSS GDP
No. Some guests are willing to give something in return for the opportunity.

He seemed unwilling to express himself which is strange because the company he founded is centred around doing exactly that.
>The transition to a market economy went very well for most of the former Soviet Republics except Russia

That might be what it writes in the link, it wasn't the case though, except if you mean after things stabilized 15 and 20 years later (and it's still bad in most places). Tons of conflict, forced migration, poverty, crime, sexual slavery, and so on...
> I’m not arguing your opinion, I’m just pointing out the established precedent and law disagrees with your opinion, so it’s going to take some work if you want the outcome you’re describing.

Except for all the pre-digital precedent that informs and agrees with my opinion.

> The shining light analogy is a little hyperbolic, I’m sure you know. Transcoding & streaming definitely is making a copy, because the bits exist in two places.

I don't think it reaches hyperbole. The bits only need to exist in two places for milliseconds. It should not count as a copy. It's only a copy in a pedantic technical sense.

> The point of copyright law is to give copyrights holder control over who gets to distribute and who gets to consume, and it may not make any difference whether there’s technically copying involved according to however you define copying.

Except they're supposed to lose a huge amount of control after the first sale. This feature of copyright is broken for digital items.
of course you forgot the most important part

Advertising is differentiated from public relations in that an advertiser pays for and has control over the message

me promoting a product I sell is not advertising. It's business. Businesses work on client's trust, promote a bad product, they'll leave you for someone else.

Sellers are not advertiser and vice versa.

Advertisers don't lose their job if they advertise a bad product, their job is to create a campaign for the product, their reputation does not depend on the quality of the product, but only on the quality of the ad.

Adding a feature to a software product is not marketing, it's a way to have an edge on the competition (or be on par)

If everything is advertising, than me giving you the phone number of my dentist should be advertising.
This is quite interesting. This really makes me wonder how much of the differences between Stable Diffusion, Dall-e 2 and MidJourney are due to different architectures and training intensity and how much is due to different datasets.

For example Stable Diffusion knows much better than MidJourney what a cat looks like, MidJourney knows what a Hacker Cat looks like, while Stable Diffusion doesn't (you can tell it to make a cat in a hoodie in front of a laptop, but it won't come up with that on its own). Meanwhile for landscapes Stable Diffusion seems to have no problem with imagination. How much of that is simply due to blindspots in the training data?
WW2 was the culmination of Japan's semi-conscious effort to speed run the transition from feudal backwater to first rate world power. Considering all the stuff they had pulled off up until that point and that they exited WW2 with their national identity and power structures intact I don't think it's that surprising that they pulled off the transition from imperial government to constitutional democracy with an imperial figurehead.
in australia its because there is a pervasive and incredibly poorly informed belief that roads are for motor vehicles only.

Australians have a "Darwinian" style to road usage. the bigger, louder faster or more agressive you are on the roads the more rights you have.

I really enjoy disabusing people of this notion.
What the US and Europe should have done was to strip Russia off all its colonies, not just some of them.
The article cites Target Australia. My understanding is that because Target doesn't allow 3rd-party sellers like Amazon or Walmart, they have much better control over their supply chains.
Some quick research shows these tests can be ordered by the patients, themselves, for ~$60, so the same as the disccounted/offer price here.

LabCorp: https://www.ondemand.labcorp.com/lab-tests/inflammation-hs-c...

Quest: https://questdirect.questdiagnostics.com/products/crp-inflam...
I think the thing that’s missing is that the AI can’t train itself. If you were asked to draw a realistic x ray of a horse’s ribcage, you’d probably google image search, do some research about horse anatomy, etc, before putting pen to paper. This thing is being trained exactly once, and can’t learn dynamically. That’ll be the next step I think.
You misrepresent his argument.

Just as we have to consider the price of people dying across the whole population, we also have to consider the price of lost liberty across the same population. If the average person in the population shares his preferences, that they would prefer liberty even at the risk of death, then the sum across that population of those values results in the same conclusion. The population as a whole will suffer more from loss of liberty than from excess deaths. And therefore the greatest good would follow from doing as they prefer rather than as you think that they should.

But that isn't what it actually looks like. What we actually have is about half the country who prefers liberty, and half who prefers life to be as long as possible. And this division corresponds fairly well to the existing political divide between Republicans and Democrats. Who are really good at not hearing each other already and so misrepresent each other's points. As you just did.

Now of course his argument is missing other harms that people have suffered. Such as the impact of long COVID. There are plenty volunteering to make that argument. I'm pointing out that the reverse is true as well. The cost of lockdowns includes widespread mental health problems, lost education, weight gain, increased alcohol consumption and so on. See https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2021/03/one-year-pan... for an idea of how common and how extreme these impacts are.

When you add up everything on both sides, it isn't obvious which side is better. I know my preference. Which is, of course, biased by my extreme experience. But in 20 years we will still be suffering from long COVID. We will also suffer from poor mental health, alcoholism, excess diabetes, and so on. It isn't clear which set of harms will be worse. But if you refuse to look at the harms that don't support your chosen position, then you literally are unable to even think about this.
>or are they making exemptions from their ToS for themselves

Err, allowing it to your self, is not an "exception from their ToS". The ToS, any ToS, only applies to third parties you provide a service/product to. You're free to do whatever you want with it yourself (within the general law of the land).

It's the same reason someone can't "violate" GPL by giving their own code, they wrote themselves, under a closed license as well, or even stop providing new versions under GPL altogether...
They were too moderate for the modern age. Centrism has gone out of fashion.
> Firefox became popular (in my personal experience) because it came with a popup blocker by default.

Yeah. Firefox should ship with uBlock Origin by default too. They're almost doing that on mobile since uBlock Origin is one of few allowed extensions.
I disagree. There is lots of useful information around the internet that is hard to find. A lot of content simply doesn't have the keywords it needs to be discovered.

For example, somebody could search for "best rewards credit card for married couple with normal lifestyle" and find some listicle full of referral links that's a few years old. But the best advice might be in a Reddit or Twitter discussion titled "what's a good card for my P2 with no AF, low MSR, and at least 2CPP" whose replies are terse comments like "CSP?" or "BofA Custom; select CNP transactions as the 3% category and order everything online. they give high CL if you want to AU instead". There's enough jargon and levels of understanding that Google can't find the best advice, only good keyword matches.

I recently had a similar issue when I searched for something well-phrased and generic ("how to stop wood joints from squeaking"). The results were lackluster, but after a few attempts, I found the most helpful results were actually under a specific application ("how to stop a bed frame from squeaking").

So what's my point? It's not Google's fault. They are trying their best of optimize text search, with some fancy word associations and other stuff to help. But it's going to take a lot of effort to make an efficient, scalable, general-purpose AI that can achieve near-human understanding of text and then find the most relevant articles related to that. This "super-Google" would have to comprehend every post and comment on the internet, contextualize the knowledge ("a squeaky bed is caused by squeaky wood joints or fasteners, so this advice is useful for any kind of squeaking wood furniture"), and quickly generate results for every query.

It's not WebMD's fault they have ad revenue that lets them hire writers to SEO their articles with the best keywords. Nor is it Merck's fault that they are using specific language that doesn't cover all the phrases that a person could search. Nor is it Google's for making a search engine without human comprehension. It's just a technological gap that can't be bridged in the present day.
This was 2010 not 1955 for fucks sake.

Back then! Jesus Christ.
An interesting question. Do transwomen have a male scent or a female scent and do mice respond to transwomen like a male or female? How about transmen? A fascinating area of research.
It's not remotely ambiguous?

It has two meanings, the biological sex of an organism and the biological reproduction of that organism.
Social-Media Firms Must Consider Children’s Health Under New California Law
Only when those concerns are brought forward in good faith.

Nobody legitimately thinks bird strike is a reason to stop a wind farm. It's just a convenient thing to bring up if you don't care about the environment but know your opponent does.
https://archive.ph/eRfRl
Good point, researchers who did this research should have never done it in the first place if it is relevant to making chemical weapons. If it is irrelevant then ok.
Final numbers don’t seem believable. Steam alone has 50,000+ games listed.
You can't do that in general. For example you can't statically devirtualize a call to a virtual function on a non-final class because it could be inherited from in a different dynamically loaded library. This pattern is pretty common with C++ SDKs.