skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find interesting the selective examples being used for the supposed raising threat to freedom in (and from) the US. At the same time the US has had one of the highest incarceration rates in the world (largely affecting one minority), has been extrajudically assassinating people all over the world, started wars and supported dictatorships when it suited economical interests for a long time and created the biggest worldwide surveillance net which has literally landed innocents in black torture cells.

But somehow not being able to say that one thinks people of a different skin color are genetically inferior on someone else's platform is the threat to freedom. I wonder what a uighur working as a defacto slave would think about that, or one of the Guantanamo prisoners who have been detained without trial for close to 20 years.
So is attention a resource or a capital equivalent? Doesn't seem like you've made up your mind on that.

> Some of us feel we're being exploited by having our data harvested for the transaction of advertising, but most do not.

Since FB and Google have monopolies in ppc marketing, I'm not sure how you'd reach this conclusion. The only way to opt out is to completely block them on your networks, there is no competing option.
"...children should be at least 10 years old to play unsupervised in their own front yard, 12 years old to stay home alone for an hour, and 14 to be unsupervised at a public park."

By the time I was 10 I was allowed to be unsupervised and to get on a bus to a railway station, purchase a ticket for an intercity train that took me the better part of 100 miles away to another city then alight there at a major railway junction with many platforms and from there catch a suburban train to my final destination where my grandmother lived. However, before I could get to see her I had to walk several miles to her home and this involved crossing a very busy four-lane arterial highway.

I was no exception, as this was the norm for kids of my age. Moreover, such things were never a big deal for us kids, it was just the way things were back then. We gave such concerns little thought if any at all.

This - unlike millions of today's kids - is why my generation were and still are a much more resilient lot and not afraid of the world than is the present younger generation.

In my estimation, overprotecting kids rates on a much higher scale of child abuse than some[1] matters which are normally associated with it.

If you are a modern-day parent and overprotecting your children then you need to think twice about the damage and harm that you are causing them. It is very difficult to acquire resilience if it's not acquired very early on in one's life, and those who don't are often forever handicapped.

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[1] Of course, that excludes any form of sexual abuse, it's inexcusable and unacceptable under any circumstance.
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Shifting from needing continuous fuel input from countries we are in conflict with, to only needed that input when we want to expand capacity, is a massive massive win for nearly any economy.
It's just a new index created out of V-Dem data dude, no need to go full Spy vs Spy paranoid. Being an index it naturally doesn't have units, you'll have to give meaning to the scale yourself.

Here is a bit of quote from the methodology section if you are curios:
"""
In producing the Global Expression Report, ARTICLE 19 selected the 25 indicators described below which best matched with our broad and holistic view of freedom of expression. These indicators were included in a Bayesian measurement model for countries with available data from 2000 to 2021 to create our metric: the GxR.

V-Dem draws on theoretical and methodological expertise from its worldwide team to produce data in the most objective and reliable way possible. Approximately half of the indicators in the V-Dem data set are based on factual information obtainable from official documents such as constitutions and government records. The remainder consists of more subjective assessments on topics like democratic and governing practices and compliance with de jure rules. On such issues, typically five experts provide ratings for the country, thematic area, and time period for which they have expertise.
"""

More starting at page 52, but there's really no big mystery here, it's just quantitative sociology.
I wonder if Kagi could be a 501c and and there might be a way to get funding from other large providers?

Google finances a lot of Firefox, for example, so there is not a monopoly in browsers. One could argue that means Firefox is beholden to Google but in an ideal world it would not be. Mozilla probably gets lots of other donors too. Kagi may be able to do something similar or at minimum get some big donations / endowments from wealthy people who support the cause.
Large industrial projects are gigantic efforts that involve billions of dollars and years/decades to take effect, massive capital requirements. And risk.

"State sector raises salaries, private sector is forced to follow." ... my god man, no, that's not how it works.

More like: "Already inefficient state bureaucracies raise salaries, attracting workers from private sector who cannot afford to pay higher wages, requiring massive budgetary increase from government i.e. 'more taxes' just as economy goes into tailspin due to private sector layoffs.

Probably the EU needs to re-think the fact that it's designed to send all young workers to Germany or at least out of Portugual/Spain/S. Italy and Greece and leave them as octegenarian tourist centres with illegal Turkish workers doing the actual work.

Either 1) the EU starts massive transfer payments or 2) get rid of the Euro and have some limits on mobility, or it will just limp along. #1 might require political and fiscal integration which would probably just exasperate the problem.

In the short term, they should probably raise taxes on foreign home ownership.
Aye. Yeah I was not "scratching my own itch" as we say. Shane has a background in restaurant sales and we started in the industry with an assumption that SMB restaurants were underutilizing their customer data. Your guess is accurate. The game as YC likes to say is "building stuff people want" and that's we attempted and eventually meandered into.

Brick and Mortar retail is a big market with similar dynamics to restaurants. We do have non-restaurant customers already but believe there are advantages to carving out this niche. Some of the best customers who like us best are those that were texting with more generic companies prior.
I think a more fitting punishment would be to make an AI that measures how much pain he caused each of his customers, and then makes him sit through that pain. It would probably take hundreds of years, but the AI could make him live that long too. But I don't know if this is ethical. Someone chime in?
Humans are free to enter contracts of their own choosing, not forced by arbitrary government regulations. As many other commenters here have pointed out, negotiating oneself to a 4 day workweek (or other offers) is possible.

I for one, choose to not take the 20% pay cut and will happily work a 40 hour work week. That's my choice.
I believe the model is copied into ram once upon calling StableDiffusionPipeline, unless the mac implementation partially loads the model due to only having 8G of ram.
Greedy corporations bad, except the news media ;)
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Well, we can at least say that one side in more sophisticated in how they present their truth, but I'm not sure that makes it any more truthful.
I know people who work 1 day, 2 days, 3 days, 4 days, 5 days, 6 days, 7 days and all sorts of other schedules.

9-5 5 day office jobs aren't everything that's out there, they're not even probably "most jobs". Shift work and contract work are obvious counter examples.
just 512x require something like 10GB VRAM on your GPU, 1024x would need even more. How much VRAM does the M1 Max GPU have? You're probably running out of memory.
> You shouldn't be comparing the mailbox part of email addresses at all other than as literal bytestrings

It's hard to know what to do in practice, but this seems to be wrong according to https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6532#section-3.1: "normalization form NFC SHOULD be used".
FYI, lines get toed, not towed.

Calling it a coverup is quite an accusation; do you have any evidence for that?

I also remember it differently, with that being one theory expressed at the time, and it is certainly in line with what Russia has gotten up to in the past. I wondered how it turned out. From Wikipedia, on what independent analysts hired by the Washington Post found:

"One of the analysts characterized the data as a 'disaster' from a forensics standpoint. The analysts found that people other than Biden had repeatedly accessed and copied data for nearly three years; they also found evidence others had written files to the drive both before and after the October 2020 New York Post reports. In September 2020, someone created six new folders on the drive, including with the names 'Biden Burisma,' 'Salacious Pics Package' and Hunter. Burisma Documents.'"
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>I'm firmly of the opinion that kids are naturally born geniuses

Well, your opinion goes against the basics of genetics and reality.

>and that our [lack of] child-rearing and educational systems traumatizes them into dullards before they get a chance to grow into their full potential.

Incredible how that only some people get to be traumatized and others do perfectly fine.

>László Polgár

What is never mentioned in László Polgár's story is that he made the sister choose the activity they already enjoyed and were good at (natural talent, in other words), and by doing that he completely invalidates the results he would have liked to obtain: I bet that if he were to force the sister to study Physics or Chemistry or Literature or whatever he would have not achieved the same "extraordinary" results.
Yes, exactly, that's the point I'm getting at. We experience "life" through our senses, and our senses can be fooled. Even measuring brain activity requires a subjective level of "trust" that we're seeing a real machine that's taking real measurements, rather than a simulation of a machine. We can look for glitches in the matrix, but absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence.

It's wildly impractical to live your life like that, but at the end of the day we just don't know and probably can't know.
I imagine that would be hard because the scope is so much larger today
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This feels like a rhetorical question, you've clearly got an answer you're satisfied with.
Sure. And now you need thousands of lines of JS to make it cooperative in real time.
Simple: Money.
Show HN: Pith language. JavaScript with a little bit of Python syntax
I've been writing a lot of JavaScript and Python lately. I like Python's syntax, so I created a language called Pith that's JS with some Python-like syntax (but without trailing colons).

It's not a full compiler. It really just does search-and-replace, but I find it fun and useful in spite of some sharp edges. I use it on my smartphone to write and run short programs.

Here's an example using the HN API (https://github.com/HackerNews/API):

max = 6
ids = await getApi('topstories')
for id in ids.slice(0, max)
getItem(id)

async def getItem(id)
const div = document.createElement('div')
results.appendChild(div)
div.style = 'padding-bottom: 1em;'
item = await getApi('item/' + id)
? item.title, '|', item.score
url = '//news.ycombinator.com/item?id='
div.innerHTML = item.title.link(url + id)

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url = '//hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/'
return getJson(url + path + '.json')
A100 devices in the cloud on preemptive/spot instances?
Electron bundles Blink by embedding Chromium (and Node.js).

WebKit is used only by Safari, and a select few open source browsers.
Unions are inherently free market. If government controlled all labor, Unions would not exist.
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Well in system text json the api keeps the same and you „only“ need to pass an autogenerated meta object its basically the same api you just need to pass another object instead of an generic Parameter. But yeah its a change.
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Which crimes would you reduce/remove prison sentences? Murder, rape, assault, fraud, robbery, kidnapping?
I ran in to the exact same thing.

My solution was subscribing "legal+i_bet_you_will_fix_it_now@service.com" to the same list.
I would love for 4DWW (Four Day Work Week) to become more common. In past threads I've seen some employers doing it but with no standard label - perhaps we should include 4DWW in thread description so those employers have a uniform way of standing out from the rest.
I didn't say rods were interchangeable. Also, between powder and tablets lies the most complicated and expensive process - enrichment. I'm not aware of the current way of things, but about 10y ago US was importing fuel, mainly from Russia.
Exactly. That's what they mean by "embodying the light". Also in the tao te ching in the introduction.
Not just TV shows in the 90s, but netflix documentaries and fictional shows about serial killers today. These seem to be insanely popular.

Serial killers are extremely rare, exceptionally few people will ever know somebody who knows somebody who knew a victim of one. Everybody today knows that serial killers exist, but most people only know it because they heard about it from mass media, not because they have some sort of personal experience with it. I think this surely leads people to overestimate the risk.
Environmental groups have no power to stop SMR development.

For that matter, unless environmental groups are putting saboteurs inside construction projects around the world from France to China to the US, then environmental groups can't really be blamed for the failures of the past 20 years, either.

Personally, attempting to construct new nuclear, after the lessons of 1980s construction, is a big "stop hitting yourself" move as wel.
I might be able to best that, if Skippy would reprogram a wormhole in the neighborhood.
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M architecture is unified memory - so the system memory is shared as GPU memory. There is likely a cap somewhere on how much can be used by a single app (or collectively by all apps).
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> For those who say it would lead to a decrease in productivity. Well that is only relative to the 5 day week. And the 5 day week, only exist because of some archaic reasons. It is not some law ingrained in the universe.

But it is ingrained in the profit metrics of the company so are you okay taking a 25% or so compensation hit (the extra 5 is due to benefits not scaling down)?
Not true at all. As a group workers have far more power than alone.

So the "free market" for workers says they should unionize as soon as they have the power to, because they can drive the price of their services up. Monopolies happen even in free markets.
> The free market would grind every last human into powder if it could.

That's interesting, because it's not free market capitalists advocating for importing billions of people and cramming everyone into urban centers in the name of efficiency.
> Are they being bailed out by the government? I didn't see anything that said the government is making the investors whole here, do you?

Isn't the whole thing that code is the new law?

If you transfer ownership to your cryptos to that exchange, they should be the "legitimate" owner if you follow that logic. However it seems that all of this is just avoid the actual law when it seems convenient and cry back when it's not.
I strongly encourage you to find a jurisdiction that agrees with your belief systems, versus making everyone else suffer due to yours. I welcome government protecting my labor rights from businesses, and I will vote every election for people who will steward such policy. I will even show up to help organize others, even if it provides myself no benefit whatsoever.

The world libertarians describe of “everyone is free to enter into contracts” is the modern day version of Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle.” We’re currently trying it, and to be frank, it’s pretty fucking terrible for a majority of workers. Perhaps that’s why support of unions in the US is at record highs (since 1965); the beatings continued until we were all out of morale.

https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR2014.html (Refer to Key findings)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle

https://news.gallup.com/poll/398303/approval-labor-unions-hi...

(crafted as politely as possible and not intended as a personal attack; my belief system is a natural result of robust amounts of consumed data, actively collected ground truth, and an overwhelming amount of empathy)
1. Dreamstudio is paid, with 2 EUR worth of credit for free.

2. The M1 GPU is an iGPU. A good iGPU, sure, but it's not anywhere near the performance of a dedicated, cooled GPU with dedicated VRAM.

On a 2060 Super with 8 GB of VRAM and with tensor cores it takes 15 seconds to infer with the default settings. If Dreamstudio uses deep learning GPUs then there is your answer to why it is as fast.
I do. My wife works four days a week, and so do I — our weekend starts on Friday. That's actually more than our parents worked back when husbands worked full time and the wives did the household and perhaps some part time work on the side. There is no way we're going to do five days, and in the current economy employers have little choice but to accept it — at least in countries like the Netherlands where there is no real downside to working part time if you can make do with a lower salary, and both parents of children can work at the same time due to childcare being heavily subsidised.

Presenteeism is blight on society and ruins many a fine country and its people (Japan, the US, etc.).
For 512x512 on M1 MAX (32 core) with 64 GB RAM I'm getting 1.67it/s so 30.59s with the default ddim_steps=50.
Would help if the articles had substance worth reading. Lack of substance is by design
4/10's are fantastic, especially if you commute. The extra 2 hours a day really doesn't feel like much, and I often find I have better "productive" time than in a standard 8 hour day.
Well I wasn't making up the AI numbers, the experts who supposedly know something about this gave them. But some follow-up questions:

1. What is a valid technique for making long-term predictions?
2. Do you agree that in theory AGI can be built?
3. Given that some people worry that it has the potential to be harmful, do you think it's worth at least trying to think through when it will be built?
Yes, it can, but "deepfake" is explicitly for doing so, Stable Diffusion is not explicitly for that purpose. Just like Photoshop is not explicitly for changing a nude persons face with a celebrity, but you can do so if you can/wish.
Well then it sounds like a great idea for a start up. You could corner the market on people who only want to work four days a week.