skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was in Poland in the late 90s and there were fairly large economic issues with a lack of job projects for many people. This in turn resulted in fairly high rates of crime as it was one of the more guaranteed ways to make a living if you were young. Many other people left the country to make money which in the long turn led to some of the Brexit issues. I literally didn't meet a single person, including myself, who wasn't burglarized or mugged at least once. Four point locks and steel doors were the norm for apartments and houses (and that didn't always help).
So... let's pop the champagne for the 1,000 Billion dollar business finally engineering a cheaper way to deliver their own software?
TV is one-way from high orbit; you just need a receiver. People have had that at home for decades already. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirecTV_satellite_fleet

Emergency service - distress, weather, etc. - go through constellations like Iridium. Low bandwidth, high latency.
Oh, the humanity.
They were trying to source leaks. Of course they were spying on them. Didn’t this all happen overseas? That’s exactly what the CIA is supposed to do.
The satellite you see currently needs to be able to see a ground station, there’s no hopping between satellites. Coverage will be limited to these line of sight constraints until the communication between satellites works.
Male life expectancy at birth in Russia fell by six years between 1991 and 1994. A drop that fast was practically unprecedented in developed economies. It’s not fun being a Millennial, as I know firsthand, but nothing comparable to 90s Russia in the aggregate.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41294-021-00169-w
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I guess what I find really interesting is, how come we can start to self-label data we encounter in the wild, yet the DNN needs data to constantly be labeled at the same intensity per image, into the billions?
> Did you read the whole post

as per HN rule, don't ask this question.

> 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

which is exactly the problem we don't have.

there are thousands of scripts written everyday that never see the green light.

> and it will lead to a creative revolution

it won't

main reason why content is not produced is money.

unless you find a way to create an infinite supply of money and an infinite amount of paying audience for that content, more content is a problem, not a solution.

> I don't have any trouble finding youtube channels that I like to watch and ignoring the rest,

so what's the problem?

There's already infinite content out there, what does the "AI" brings to the table that will make any difference, other than marketing, like 3D movies?

Have you watched any 3D movie recently?
The way I read it, she was very clearly communicating the nurse was full of vitality.
My personal setup for the creppy stuff is to use them only when needed, with the microphone "muted". Also with network wide telemetry blocking. Then after your done with the timer, playing music, or whatever you just unplug it from the wall.

They can't use human energy to power themselves so it just shuts down... for now.
> If you study geopolitics and history

Please don't make assumptions about what other people have or haven't studied.

> They also have a long, long history of authoritarianism.

You could say the same about the Axis powers in WW2.
Ah yes but recent consumer RADEONs are not suitable for computing task (ROCm still experimental?), while Geforce is always fine for FP32 or below.
“I get anxious at gatherings and typically prefer not to go, but thanks for thinking of me”
Hormones influence your scent. So a trans woman would have male scent before starting hormones, and then would (over the course of weeks to months) gradually develop a female scent, and vice versa with trans men.
It would also require companies to disclose their privacy policies in language children can understand

This should be the norm for everything.
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Thank you Adrian (B) for explaining this thoroughly! I'll use your comment as future reference for me!
> Why do you think the key phrase of the end of the cold war is "Mr. Gobachev, tear down this wall!".

That's a very American perspective. I mostly associate that quote with Civilization V, because it wasn't a big deal at the time, at least in Finland. The speech itself didn't receive that much attention in 1987. When the Berlin Wall fell, the scene that really grabbed people's attention was people breaking the wall with hammers. And if had to choose a single scene to symbolize the end of the cold war, it would be Yeltsin giving a speech on top of a tank.

Applying diplomatic and military pressure to break the Soviet block was not a new thing in the 1980s. The closest it came to succeeding was in 1968. Reforms and the protests didn't lead anywhere at the time, because the USSR had the will and the resources to respond decisively. The situation was different in the late 1980s, thanks to Gorbachev's reforms and Reagan's economic pressure.
Very different. This stuff is genuinely useful already, and is getting more effective every day.
The reason for doing something almost always has implications on the legality of you doing that thing. Since we don't have mindreading devices or truthtelling serum, judges use patterns and heuristics to make their best guess as to the reasons for actions.
Apple, Tesla, and the Terrible Trend of Unrepairable Design: Repair Roundup 8/21
I've never heard that "gender" is a grammatical term only, it got me interested enough to search up the word in some older dictionaries.

Webster's 1828: https://webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/gender

Webster's 1913: https://www.websters1913.com/words/Gender

Both include "sex, male or female" as a definition; the 1913 marks it as "[Obs. or Colloq.]" while the 1828 does not.
Notably they don’t say NFT once.
Now that ad blockers have to be built out of declarative syntax that Google controls, the browser maintainers basically _are_ responsible for implementing the ad blockers. And would you look at that they're pushing back on community contributions and dragging their feet because yes, there is a conflict of interest.

They left alone other imperative-but-dangerous aspects of extensions, such as the ability for any extension to watch what you type into password or credit card fields on any website. Actually that sort of extension is even easier to write in MV3 and Google will still need JS-reviewing wizards to give a guarantee an extension isn't snooping your passwords.

I don't think there's a consistent position from Google if the claim is they want to improve security via declarative syntax. I think Google is full of shit.
In 1955 the casting couch stuff was common place and acceptable, at least in some circles. In 2010 not so much, but still acceptable to make jokes about. After the “metoo“ movement, it’s a lot more taboo to joke about.
The cloud computing giants are vying to protect their fat profits
I doubt there's as much crossover as you think. I really don't see any evidence that a lot of MAGAts are JRE listeners.
Costco absolutely delivers, for both home [0] and business [1]. I've worked at multiple offices that got weekly Costco deliveries.

[0] https://www.costco.com/my-life-costco-grocery-online-deliver...

[1] https://www.costcobusinessdelivery.com/
NASA High End Computing
https://rom1504.github.io/clip-retrieval/?back=https%3A%2F%2...

Mostly LAION 5B, IIRC. Keep safe mode on unless you want to be inundated with 90s era pornog.

Browsing the dataset for inference terms can help build better prompts. For example, juicy seems to be a particularly weird term involving grapefruits index fingers and japanese people. so id probably use a synonym instead
@#$@ this page breaks scrolling.
Came here to say this. The numbers seem to off to me.
It doesn’t make it right, but if you eliminated all popular comedians that haven’t fucked up in the past, the list would be effectively 0.
Thank you for the clarification.

My comment about Discord’s inculpability was quite unfair anyway because even though I use Discord, I’ve never used the voice channel. It’s foolish of me to make that comment.

On another note, I wonder how many times those kinds of accidents had happened? And if it’s relatively high, is Discord aware of them?
The distinction with slavery is being property. Moreover, it is certainly not the case that people who do not work will die in our society. Being forced to do something to survive is not slavery in any meaningful sense of the word. It is the natural state of affairs.
It's not just that small garden birds are very common, in general they've co-evolved with predators similar to cats and have adapted to deal with that (for example by nesting at height, having large broods, etc). There's some exceptions, mostly when cats get introduced to islands with few similar natural predators, but as a general rule it's probably not the most pressing problem. Large birds like eagles reproduce slowly and don't have the instincts to avoid wind turbines which in theory makes wind farms a serious threat to those species.
> You'll learn that when you get older.

That saying needs to die, or you need to point out exactly how Aperocky will learn and at what approximate age.

Otherwise you're just saying "I only have my personal experience to judge from, with no solid argument, but I'll project that into you with utter confidence and no room for disagreement"

I mean, are you even sure you're older than Aperocky ?
Probably running KVM, so basically, it's their own Hackintosh?
You just provided the example of how its ambiguous. It makes titles confusing when you don't know exactly which meaning is meant. While using "gender" in the title would have been clearer, especially as mice don't have social constructs that we associate with the term.
> much better if Gorbachev had been the head of the post-USSR Russia

Gorbachev wanted to keep USSR intact. He didn't want a post-USSR Russia. He initiated referendums to that end. But USSR was already on the train to dissolution and nothing was going to stop it.
Absolutely enjoyed Ted The Caver back in the day. Someone even took some photos to get it look more realistic. Surprised to see someone even filmed (indie) movie about it, but judging by 5/10 rating, probably far from good one.
If we consider a frame rate of 60 FPS then a 5 year old would have seen about ~ 6.3 billion images [60 (frames) * 60 (seconds) * 60 (minutes) * 16 (waking hours) * 365 (days) * 5 (years)]. Even with 30 FPS you can halve the number and it's still a huge number.

A cool fact is that this model fit ~5B images in 900M parameter model which is tiny compared to the size of the data.
ambiguous

2: capable of being understood in two or more possible senses or ways

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ambiguous
The other side is Ukraine, not USA. USA is merely providing support.

Generally speaking, proxy wars happen between superpowers. In this conflict there is only one, and it’s supporting Ukraine.
> You and I have never seen even 100,000 photos in our lives

If someone's 30, that'd only require seeing 10 images a day. For most people that quota is probably fulfilled within a couple of minutes of watching TV or browsing social media, even if the video stream from our eyes otherwise counts as nothing.

We've also had about 4 billion years of evolution, slowly adjusting our genome with an unfathomable amount of data. Gradient descent is blazing fast by comparison.
Reading the description of the events, it sounds like they intervened militarily after this event: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baku_pogrom , which sort of makes sense.
See, people will make up any kind of shit just to make shit up.

There is absolutely no value at all in uniformity of wind turbines. And they are not, in fact, uniform. Those erected earlier are smaller than those erected later.

The overwhelming majority of wind turbines that will be put up haven't been put up yet. So painting some blades black (or blue, or what have you) is no burden -- the blades have to be painted, regardless. Probably it will end up needing only a little bit of paint, like just the leading edge, so the thermal signature is moot.
> So, if you think about it like a tool to enable a form of lucid dreaming, it may be something interesting.

we usually call that tool psychedelic drugs.

there are devices being developed for that purpose, I don't think they will ever be reliable, AI is not necessary for that.

On the philosophical implications of lucid dreams

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waking_Life
It always seems impossible until it is done.
Scientific usage of many words often is very specific and unambiguous to scientists regardless of a vague or shifting common usage. Unless you’re publishing papers that have to do with such things, you’re not included in “we” and scientific usage will mostly ignore common usage.

Science does not need to adopt a whole new language because the rest of popular culture is ambiguous.
I made this in your honor. Call on him in a time of need. https://labs.openai.com/s/r4Y8SfSWhNdiXpnh5vFj3aZ3
> I am objecting to how they are pressuring people, perhaps unintentionally, in the moment to accept the injection of a substance in which the injectee admits they don't understand.

I am just guess of course, but I am pretty sure anyone able to achieve a CEO or VP title of a well known internet media company probably has the ability and determination to say the words “no thank you” if they don’t want something injected into their body when asked. I am neither a CEO or a VP of an internet media company, but just a normal dude, and I have no problem telling someone “no”.

Honestly have really reached that place where HN commenters feel that we have to protect wealthy and successful adults from big bad podcasting boogeymen?
I haven’t seen the specific announcement this thread is referring to, but it sounds like it will essentially be an extension of the free inflight messaging T-Mobile has long offered on Wi-Fi equipped flights, except that it will work on flights without Wi-Fi. Extremely low bandwidth and limited to only messaging apps, but an extension of a service they already offer.
> Four point locks and steel doors were the norm for apartments and houses (and that didn't always help).

Because whose who installed them of course now knew where are someone with something worth protecting with a steel doors.
If you look at the text labels for the data used by Stable Diffusion you'll find that they are very low quality. Take a look at some here:

https://laion-aesthetic.datasette.io/laion-aesthetic-6pls/im...

Clearly quality of labeling isn't nearly as important once you are training on billions of images.
It sounds like you are arguing FOR the GP's idea.

"there are thousands of scripts written everyday that never see the green light." "main reason why content is not produced is money."

So if there are plenty of ideas and not enough money, and you could put those ideas into a box and spit out a movie that would normally cost millions, that's good right?
They support Github, Gitlab and Bitbucket. Here are the Github instructions: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/connecting-x...
Pro tip: if it costs someone something, it’s not unlimited (this is true even if you’re paying a flat fee).
I imagined every last one of them. Satisfied?

Of course, I also didn't imagine any.
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"It was not effective at all for willow ptarmigan, ground birds which tend to run into the turbines’ base rather than its blades."

I want to see these numbers. They can't be very high.

Actually, I want to see a new horror flick where the blond protagonist is ambushed by ground birds running into her house. I'm guessing it won't have the same affect as the Hitchcock's
That's the art in it.

It's a beautiful fact that your lifetime won't be enough for everything you want to do. It means what you choose actually has meaning and love behind it. It's sacred in a way infinity isn't.
I think a more interesting thought is how entertainment boils down to a sequence of 1's and 0's... and if we could somehow get enough of that sequence right, we could unveil video/audio/images of real people doing things they've never done - such as Brad Pitt fighting Godzilla.

Imagine uncovering a movie that was never made but featured actors you know. If Steven Spielberg can make the movie, then there is an undiscovered sequence of 1's and 0's that already is that movie, a sequence that could be discovered without actually making the movie. Imagine "mining for movies"...

Of course that sequence is likely impossible to ever predict enough of to actually discover something real... but it's a fun thought experiment.
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> This notion is based on ignoring historic facts.

No, it's not. Please refrain from this kind of personal comment.

I wasn't suggesting that the US meddle in Russia's political system. Russia was already moving to democracy by itself. The point was to provide economic aid to support that existing, fledgling, fragile democracy. What happened, unfortunately, is that many Russians suffered heavily economically during the transition, and they started to look back with some fondness to the "good old days", because they were worse off financially than before. That's where the western world could have helped.
> I didn’t state a number of people making a living on social media.

Sorry, I misread your implication then. Twitch had a leak a while back and something like 4500 people were making over $50k USD, which is not nothing, but also not that practical as a career strategy.

Hopefully you're right that AI will open lots of opportunities for everybody, and hopefully those opportunities will be worthwhile. I know historically technology hasn't brought about the end of all jobs, but AI is a pretty new concept and we can't necessarily scale up forever. I think it's reasonable to be concerned about the number and quality of jobs remaining. It does seem like some of the jobs that people really want to do, are some of the ones AI could be taking.

But I don't really know one way or another, just feeling concerned and a bit bummed out about it. I guess we will see over the next 5-10 years.
> list every BSD instance possible

Sorry to be a pedant, but DragonflyBSD is missing.
If you don’t know them just ignore them. At least thank them for their interest but tell them you’re not interested at this time.
Could you expound on this? In my mind there must ultimately be a manufacturer of a given product. Even if there was a completely open source blender, for example, manufacturers would be incentivized to make it in such a way that it still breaks, unlike code where there is no factory and no resources being spent after the design (code) is finished.
I'm not sure what I'm missing, but don't most cloud providers have ARM instances these days? We've been running most of our stuff on Graviton processors on AWS for some time now and it is a nice cost savings.
I'm going to make an exception from my usual policy and go sleep in my bed without first asking my wife.
Yes for autokey, I've used that to get emacs-like keys everywhere (modified from https://github.com/psederberg/autokey-emacs-config to https://github.com/podiki/autokey-emacs-config/tree/key-twea...)
I agree with you. I just think this declarative API could have been a good move were it not for the conflict of interest. Makes me wish gorhill made his owh browser instead of browser extensions.
And the things to do to amortize b-tree write magnification, are well known, so b-tree magnification alone is not an excuse not to use b-trees.
Is there a link with OTAN?
Everyone fucks up. All of us. That's a basic requirement of existence. The difference is how we react to our fuck ups, how we grow. Talking about a past experience like that, and then "hyena laughing" while moving past it like there is nothing wrong tells me that there is next to zero self-awareness and no effort to better themselves.
The next internet crawl is going to have thousands of (properly labeled) AI generated images. I wonder if that could throw these algorithms into a bad feedback spiral. Though I guess there are already classifiers that can be used to exclude AI generated images. The goal is to profit off of free human labor after all.
Open source and open spec parts can be manufactured by anyone with a jigsaw, 3d printer, cnc machine, etc. You could walk into a maker space with $100 worth of materials and walk out with a repairable, maintainable blender or whatever that will last your lifetime, and your kids' lifetimes.
Hello rektide. You've said this type of comment before on Flutter threads yet I believe it's not as nefarious as you always make it seem. Having used it to make apps, I believe it's as good as claimed, I can write once and run everywhere.
That probably depends on what you are doing with it, and how the results can be used. Note "can be" and not "expected to be."

For example, haveibeenpwned uses "hacked data dumps" for their service, and uses it in an ethical way. Of course you don't enter your password - just the associated account user name, to see if it shows up in the database. I don't know however, if they have a way to tell if the password has been changed, thus killing any possibility of telling if the account has been pwned more than once.

The Credit Card Cop site used to as well. But in their case, I always questioned the ethics of teaching people it's okay to enter their full credit card numbers to a site they've otherwise not done business with, to see if they've already been collected once... how does the user know they didn't just fall for a scam to collect their credit card numbers?

I met the owner (Dan something) at an infosec tradeshow once. I think his heart was in the right place, but he thought I was overthinking my concerns, and my idea of at least using hashes of the stolen card numbers, compared to hashed input was overkill. I'm pretty sure that database was illegal, and if there was ever an intrusion, no insurance company in the world would cover his liability on that one.

The service doesn't exist anymore, and their site is ironically now owned by what definitely looks like a credit scam. The site content (complete with typo in the name) has Lorem Ipsum text throughout, something about buying humorous Lorem Ipsum, etc. And confusingly, some text about a fake Photoshop plugin called Focus. It's literally the most baffling fake site I've ever seen.

Further, there are legal implications, given GDRP and similar rules. I personally wouldn't do what you're suggesting, but maybe if you spoke to a business lawyer you'll head off in a wholly appropriate direction with a clear benefit to those whose data you are using.
Bitcoin / Blockchain doesn't have any intrinsic value other than to those who believe in it. Self driving cars (Level 4-5) are not available to the public and is still in development. This stuff is real, produces some incredible results, available to the public and advancing at a rapid rate.
Good luck Kimberly!
Bit of a tangent/slightly off topic:

how do HNers make Windows not evil/terrible? Like, it tries to force you into creating a Microsoft account to install Windows, I hear it has ads in the OS, forces reboots when you don't want them, and appears to generally treat its users with contempt and as a resource to exploit.

Do you need an MSDN subscription to get LTSC? Any third-party tools that try to fix the horror show?

Such a shame to have a solid platform run for evil motives.
And nevertheless React.Memo does exactly what they said - it prevents a component from rerendering unless it’s props change. Likewise useMemo can be used for a similar function - to prevent a component from rerendering unless the dependencies to the useMemo call change.
Yeah. Humans take a long time to train. We spend years and years, starting at birth, just absorbing everything around us before we get to a point where we're considered adults.