skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am, after the fiasco that was Github Copilot. It seemed like every post was filled with people dooming over how Copilot was going to make developers obsolete. Then I used Copilot, and I can't see how anyone could possibly think that would be the case. Maybe if all you do is write sort algorithms day in and day out, but otherwise, I think our jobs are quite secure, and I think that will be the case with SD / DallE too (especially after having used Dall-E 2).
The government has broken its social contract with the people, and it has become an extractive kleptocracy. This happened starting with Reagan, Bush the Elder, Clinton, Bush the Younger, and yes, Obama. None of these people - nor anyone in Congress - made it better. Not the Republicans, not the Democrats.

Trump? Not him either. I tell you, pstuart, Trump was a Hail Mary pass by people who have had everything taken from them by Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, and from their perspective they saw only obstruction and lies from the same people who have nothing but contempt for them. And that quiet part out loud? I see plenty of evidence to support that as a theme (and why I asked about your faith). People like yourself, unfortunately. They knew - knew it after decades of betrayal - that their situation would absolutely not have changed under Clinton 2.0 and certainly will not under Biden.

These are the people who voted for Trump. Look at them. Really look past your coastal prejudices. Look past what you have been told about these people. If you get squicked, or believe somehow they deserve this, you are not on the side of compassion, to be honest. https://youtu.be/oT7_8S5K9oA?t=834

So, you keep saying I have selective outrage, but then you hammer on Trump and co but give Biden a pass. Me, I give neither a pass. They're both assholes. The same corporate media that's telling you that Trump is bad is also telling you Biden is good.

And you do your "gut check" media discrimination. I'll give you a quick smoke test to see whether a media outlet lies. You won't like it, you won't believe me, and if you decide that I'm correct anyway, you'll dismiss its importance, but here goes: If you look back into the archives of a news source, and they said that Trump called Mexicans rapists, then you know they are liars and they lie about other things.
Precisely, they do! Which is why this isn't a free speech issue. Cloudflare is not a utility, nor are they a government entity.
Original source: https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-physics-of-nothing-un...
Do you reckon we will have Prompt Engineers who are skilled at getting AI to generate what they want before long?
> it's phrased about as neutrally as I can imagine

Try “what is an inland lake?”

It’s the question, plainly. You aren’t levying a guess against a contrived hypothetical (“offshore lake” isn’t a thing, and could objectively be parsed as facetious).
Russia is cutting deliveries quoting supposed technical problems, and demands unilateral changes to gas contracts, viz RUB payments. They also cut supplies to 0 for a number of European countries.

I mean, i don't quite blame them, they started a war and the West is sending in military kit to kill their soldiers in Ukraine, but Russia is certainly not holding it's side of the contracts here.

But it is indeed self inflicted as everyone warned Germany that this is how it will end. But hey gas was cheap for a while.
France sadly stopped improving and stopped building at the pace they did before and had to fall back on gas.

The Left in France has been fighting nuclear for 30 years and made progress in that when nuclear was really down after 2011.

Germany on the other hand could have easily overtaken France had they mass produced nuclear. Germany as an engineering nation would have been good at this. And unlike with solar, they would be huge in the global world market as well.
http://aka.ms/nohello
Is that a bad thing? Libraries like Tensorflow were never going to be written natively in Python, but it's a reasonable choice for deployment (whls can be installed anywhere), for user interface (Python can interop with anything), and for overall ergonomics/ecosystem (import antigravity).
That doesn't really fit the definition of irony...
I don't think you know that this is what it means, nor do I think you know what "normal people" entails.
Also, unlike DALL-E, SD comes without a content filter and "anti-bias diversity" filter so it gives you what you ask and treats you as an adult.
Hey, great question. Our target market is enterprise uses of Payload, where we can power critical content-based infrastructure, but that does not solely mean marketing websites.

I think that your comment is pointing at one of the areas that traditional CMS -do not successfully address- in that CMS is typically only thought of as a means to manage website content. But content is much more broad. Think of Spotify (managing album art, playlists, artist descriptions) but using that content through native apps, smart TV apps, web apps, etc.

For example, some of our current enterprise clients are using Payload to deliver _their_ clients with a customized copy of Payload to manage their own virtual events (attendees, webinar links, landing page content, post-webinar video recordings, etc). Or to manage a "broadcast platform" where their client can publish their own Roku channel (episodes, series, seasons, playlists, etc). This is all content, yet it's not marketing page content.

One of the bigger uses of Payload so far has actually been to power the entire backend for an Uber-like snow plow service, where the business side can log in and provide customer support, manage requests, approve service providers, and more. The devs were able to leverage Payload's auth, access control, hooks for Stripe integration, and last but not least - the entirety of its admin UI.

That's not to say that we -can't- power marketing websites. Of course Payload can do that in spades. But that is only one small aspect of our target market and we make the most sense for enterprise content needs, where dev teams may need to manage more than just marketing pages. Maybe they also need to manage customer support resources or more intense content needs (like Klarna).

In my experience implementing enterprise websites for large companies, the buying process usually goes like this:

- Director or VP of Marketing says we need to modernize and move to a better web stack, let's go headless

- They start to evaluate options, but need engineering backup because headless CMS is a tech decision

- They tell their engineering team to go find the best headless CMS

- Devs do the recon, then report upward

Our strategy is to appeal straight to devs, and by being a solid product that they can advocate for, they will. This is actually how Klarna found my agency when we were hired to build their enterprise site - by the engineers. Decision to go headless came from the top, but then engineers found me and selected tech. Same with a few of Payload's bigger inbound enterprise opportunities in the pipeline right now.

Long story short, I fully understand your question and in all reality our messaging is nowhere near sharp / completed. We've seen a lot of growth over the past few months and are about to the point where we can take a breath, revisit some of this, and razor-sharpen our positioning!
> As a Startup you basically want to protect two things: your IP and availability of your product.

On what basis do you make this claim? I’m working in cyber and see the damage side in large companies. IP is never a thing. It’s mostly service / production availability and, with companies doing business in the US, data breaches (loss of PII).
Terrorism includes attacks on infrastructure, not just bodily harm. Firebombing an empty building still counts. In this case, it would fall specifically within cyber terrorism.

>the premeditated use of disruptive activities, or the threat thereof, against computers and/or networks, with the intention to cause harm or further social, ideological, religious, political or similar objectives. Or to intimidate any person in furtherance of such objectives

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberterrorism#Defining_cybert...
They delivered technology that everyone would have said was sci-fi ~5 years ago. I think some confidence is deserved at this point.

I personally remain skeptical of the claims that the singularity is just around the corner though.
> ’m asking if a famine will be a down stream result of this catastrophe.

There was already a secular trend of Pakistan having to import ever-larger amounts of food[1].

Unfortunately the minute Putin invaded Ukraine, we saw one of the world's breadbaskets invade another of the world's breadbaskets and the West lost its mind with sanctions. The EU's reaction is "we'll do whatever it takes" which is a nice way of saying "we'll out-bid everyone else for food and energy". From that moment, most of Africa and many Asian countries were condemned by the West to face famines - just so Europe wouldn't face the total consequences of its own sanctions. Pakistan is one of the countries that will be out-bid by the EU.

Pakistan was already expected to raise imports before this flood[2]. I cannot imagine how bad it's going to be now that they have the confluence of terrible flooding and, Putin and the EU exporting famine to much of the world.

Everyone that can should consider donating to Pakistani aid.

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[1] https://www.dawn.com/news/1630378

[2] https://www.world-grain.com/articles/17140-pakistan-expected...
what do you mean by "their" ? Because Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria managed to properly free themselves from Russia and are now solidly in the EU and NATO
Interviewer: What about cancer?

Cigarette company CEO: We understand that our product is dangerous and believe adults should make a judgement call as to the risks. We offer a lot of products to help people quit...

Aren't you glad you wasted N minutes with that canned response? Or were you expecting a change of heart and him relinquishing the role of CEO and dissolving the company?

> If someone is pushing something with an awful unmitigated issue, hell yes they should be challenged on it.

I don't want my interviewer to be doing advocacy or "mitigating" issues. I want to listen to an interesting conversation. Not everything has to be advocacy.
I always like the Nasa "earth observatory" pages:

they have the before and after as a zoomed in image.

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/150279/devastating-...
Sorry if that came over as negative. I really like what they did with it. I am using it in python and getting a video stream into OpenCV and sending commands to the drone is stupidly simple.
If you are on the fence I'd say just buy it, it's quite cheap and is great for experimenting.

The reasons why I would like something like the Avata are:

* I want something that does not rely on Wifi but has their own transmission system (DJI is really top of the market here) because it should fly around a two story house where I can't guarantee coverage

* and I don't want to deal with switching networks (the goal will be switching between multiple houses and flying the route recorded for that specific house)

* and a better camera (the Tello is a toy camera). I would go for adding a naked GoPro but that's a hack

* and if all stars align, something that has indoor path following already built in
Assuming you're talking about FsAutoComplete and this was recently, that's nothing to do with the .NET Runtime and entirely a coding mistake that I made that we've released a fix for :)
I'm ugly and non-photogenic to many so yeah, short of claiming a disability for being bald at 26 I'd say being forced to provide an image to my employer or some app is ethically questionable.

Granted, I really enjoy remote work now. Don't have to worry as much about being ugly anymore.

Can't wait for HN "am I too ugly for a faang" job to become a thing lmao.
Thank you! I totally agree. I've been using headless CMS since the start and have ridden along with a few of the options out there, but never trusted them enough to hit production.
Dumbing down user interfaces has always been the trend on the internet.
I don't argue with the general claim of this article, but the following statements are just wrong:

> Deep learning entered the sphere of mainstream awareness less than a decade ago, but the science is ancient. This 1986 paper in Nature contains almost all of the core technical innovations that make it work well. (The term deep learning hadn’t been coined yet and neural networks was used instead).

> However, the dataset sizes and compute resources that were available in the 1980s weren’t enough to demonstrate the effectiveness of deep learning, and other machine learning techniques like support vector machines took center stage.

I think there are two glaring errors here. First, multilayer error backpropagation wasn't developed in 1986. It was developed in the early 1970s, but was quashed by the elimination of funding after the Perceptrons papers and book. It was rediscovered several times but didn't take hold until the PDP group (Rummelhart et al) pushed things through with enough gravitas.

Second, and this is the big one: there were plenty of reasonably large datasets, and frankly plenty of sufficiently large compute resources in the late 1980s and certainly the 1990s to do this research. That wasn't the problem. The problem was that neural networks were largely restricted to two layers due to the vanishing gradient problem, so they had to be fat rather than deep, which wasn't good. That's the whole point of the name deep learning -- by overcoming issues which prevented deep networks, researchers were able to do the stuff they can now. That didn't come until later.
I just use photos from when I was in college haha.
Wow this is shocking to hear, It’s one of the most stunning achievements we’ve ever accomplished with computers.

A huge milestone in the journey to AI which is of course the future of everything
Eh. An overhyped technology where I'm thinking "oh that's neat" but meh, it's a trend I'm not interested in, one gets used to that kind of thing. It doesn't bother me until it starts having significant negative effects (like crypto hype).
No, I meant you. As I understood it your software blocked ads at websites, presented your own ads and then you told website owners they could recoup some of their lost revenue by participating in your whole BAT scheme. That sounds pretty close to a protection racket.
Look there is a reason Wall Street focuses on growth: the thing (company, organism, population, whatever) that does not grow will (eventually) be overtaken by that which does, no matter how small the latter's growth rate is. So when the "market" is composed of 1000s of companies, one of the easiest ways to differentiate the good from the bad is to filter by PROFITABLE growth. Now here is the rub... "PROFITABLE" often becomes hard to define so we have long periods of time where just "growth" is used as a proxy... and at the ends of bubbles you typically have lots of companies with unsustainable growth trends being valued at assinine multiples. But again... there is a (good?) reason the heuristic exists.
Considering the widespread opinion that they'd have won by the end of the first month, tops; I'd say no they're not winning. They might yet but I suspect the cost would be too high anyway. The only way Russia gets out of this is as the Evil Empire and enemy of all Europe+, or a broken nation needing new government. Be that internal revolution or they get to spend time as a client state of another power.

Longer term I think Russia loses no matter what, the question is how, exactly; and what rises from the ruins.
Small grocery store worker. I get to walk more and people are interesting.
I felt the same way and still kind of do, but I was really impressed the other day. My rural neighbour and I decided to share an Internet connection and I set a Mikrotik WAP in "CPE" mode (basically what you'd use if you were connecting to a WISP) and it was incredibly smooth to get going. WiFi radio in the WAP connects to my network, Ethernet coming out of it goes to his home network.

They're incredibly powerful devices no doubt and I have ended up in configuration hell before, but they've definitely gotten better at some of the more common (and less common) workflows.
Anyone here done cool things with the YubiHSM? I've been dying to buy one for a year or so!
I would call it vigilantism which is a type of definitional terrorism. People in the US don't like that word, but there's a good many things that are terrorism that we don't call such. At the end of the day, violence with political aims is terrorism.
If you use one of the ui or don't remove the watermark (99% of people won't) then search engines will be able to filter those stable diffusion images.
Why don't insurance companies fund some of this research? Honestly, I don't know.

Wouldn't they want to get treatment costs down? Large HMOs, especially, have motivation to control treatment costs, and access to the patients, data, etc... to make it work.
True, credit cards are an even better example of the future that I fear.
> undated blog post

> Cloudflare launched nearly twelve years ago.

I wonder if they are going to keep updating it as time passes…
If water kill your child, na water you go use

Water no get enemy
Hey there - we do have a set of comparisons on our site (linked in the footer of the site), but we don't have a comparison to Wagtail yet. Would be happy to add this to the list!
>snake oil
>our book

Ctrl+F "scaling" gives 0 results across this essay

Deep learners have their scaling laws which seem to hold across many orders of magnitude of model size and compute spent on training. Critics sometimes have to resort to building their argumentation along pretty esoteric tangents to avoid naming this elephant in the room.

Instead of denying scaling, why shouldn't we make it work for our society's benefit? A new generation of thinkers already proposes a whole research program for life science, designed from the scaling and transfer learning fundamentals: https://markov.bio/biomedical-progress/
> My team is not a viable system.

> This means that my team exists to serve the rest of the organization.

The post presents a useful categorization for team type in tech orgs, and includes her analysis of her own team, which helps clarify purpose and responsibility.
So... are we done politely coughing and looking out the window at the idea that the gatekeeping was motivated by altruism so that we can move on and just use this much better innovation model going forward?

Various (subjectively judged) SOTAs on at least some subset of at least this family of tasks is changing somewhere between daily and hourly right now. I've been watching this stuff closely since fairly early ImageNet days and I've never seen a Cambrian explosion of "how the hell did that do that?" events at anything like this cadence.
Isn't Manifest v3 going to break TamperMonkey/etc?
That's interesting and something I hadn't heard before.

Any pointers to further reading on why deep learning might be a dead end?
If they can get a president, they can get a president of the union.
> They are a company that exists to make money, not a public service beholden to a specific, lawfully mandated social contract.

Part of the reason for my position as stated above and throughout the thread. I believe that SPECIFICALLY at Cloudflare's scale, they have more control than most governments in the realm of speech. Therefore, they are MORALLY (not legally) required to enact the same social contract. I believe any alternative where they break that social contract will have unintentional repercussions for minority groups.

To have my position changed, I would need to be convinced those repercussions wouldn't happen in practice.
If you pick a jurisdiction, like the US, to settle most of your disputes, that provides a minimum floor for everyone to understand and work out what should happen.

If you don't - then the legal standards you have will be those of the worst country in the world. If Iran and North Korea issue court rulings banning cloudflare, should that affect people using cloudflare everywhere else?
So then the answer is for Cloudflare to restructure their company. If they want to be seen as a utility so desperately, make it so!

Not having the legal obligations of a utility, while acting like one (i.e., getting to pull the "neutrality" card in the face of public pressure to drop nazis) is not okay.
Here's my cynical take on the state of the art for 99% of AI projects: 1. take some training data. 2. Do some statistical analysis on it and find relevant variables for the variable you want to predict. 3. Build a model to predict the variable. 4. Put it into production. 5. Run model and get predictions. 6. Notice predictions are becoming less reliable 7. Retrain the model on new data. 8. GOTO Step 5.
All images from stable diffusion have an invisible watermark unless you modify the source to remove it.
Actually most of the video frame interpolation programs in the market uses two frames interpolation. Theoretically, you can do a better job with multiple frames but this doesn't bring much more values beside of some extreme cases.
Yup. Interesting filing. I assume, like you, that they’ve settled and it is likely that there will be another filing to dismiss today or tomorrow.
The projects with logos are not part of "these efforts" in the sentence you're quoting.

Yes, they market some other things they do.
I think a passing mention of:

- https://xyproblem.info

- http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

might be of some help as well :)
Against Deep Work
Is there actual overconfidence?

I think that if just in 2020 we did a survey about whether the capabilities of (for example) the image generation systems discussed in other today's threads would materialize at 2022, then more than half of deep learning technologists would have said that it's not going to happen so fast, demonstrating underconfidence instead of overconfidence.

For another example, when people in NLP put up tasks like the GLUE dataset, a reasonable expectation was that it would be a meaningful benchmark for some time, but it turned out that the previously too hard tasks became too easy just a year or so later - again, demonstrating underconfidence instead of overconfidence.

IMHO the overconfidence appears when people listen to PR of various companies overpromising products, not to the actual technologists doing research on the technology.
Imagine getting hit by a car.

Poor car.
We have a stock market investment bubble. Deep learning, AI, metaverse, blockchain, quantum computing, self driving cars, and this very website's whole shtick all revolve around fumbling for an answer that isn't there.

"Technology" is set for a long winter of commoditization and consolidation. Technology as a standalone sector will become sleepy with all the excitement being in every other sector of the economy leveraging cheaper and better technology for their own benefit.
The autonomous driving question is an interesting one. It's probably some combination of techno-optimism, naive extrapolation of deep learning advances over a fairly short period of time, and--yes--at least some degree of a massive game of topper because everyone else was feeding at the funding trough and saying things were right around the corner. How much of each doubtless depends on the person.

And a lot of other people listened to the vocal "experts" and assumed that they must know what they're talking about.
Cloudflare is one of many such tools, but I won't contest that CF didn't affect the situation I was in.

That doesn't mean they don't lower the barrier to entry for good, bad, and ostensibly not bad but we all know whose side they're on actors alike. Just means my comment and lived experiences were just not perfectly applicable.
Yeah totally agree - unfortunate that OpenAPI so much flexibility that there are multiple ways to define the same operations. For api users having the concrete types just means faster integration, no ambiguity on what is/is not supported.