skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You seem unaware that many, many journalists and interviewers do indeed spend several hours interviewing their subjects....that is then significantly edited down. That good interviewers (and their staff) have spent many, many hours doing background research to prepare for the interview.

If you think Joe Rogan is an impressive interviewer, your mind will be blown away by someone like Terry Gross. She appeared on the Tonight Show and Fallon showed a photo of a book Gross had read before interviewing the author - stuffed full of notes, page corners turned down

Stephen Colbert presenting her Peabody award covers her show better than I ever could: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl8mkTFY-D8
French Tax Collectors Use A.I. To Spot Thousands of Undeclared Pools
Yup, I've been doing the same. Amazon is for things I don't care too much about if it's a knock off. But generally speaking, I'll try and by stuff directly from the manufacturer or in store.

I really wish online shopping wasn't so messed up.
I am a person who will, to a fairly serious extent, have my marketable skills displaced by this. You shouldn't worry too much about it.

The ratio of people the printing press helped to those it hurt approaches 1.
Between a very old Panasonic Viera 42" upon which a buttload of Halo was played over many years, and the current Samsung Not-Smart Plasma which gets a bit less game play, I've yet to see the slightest hint of burn-in. I did get some ghosting on the Panny before I sold it, but I otherwise take plasma burn-in to be an artifact from TVs made twenty years ago.
There are already web sites that will run the underlying models, requiring no installation.

The neat new applications that have taken over this site for the last couple days sometimes require CLI steps to install because they are in active development and it can be easier to experiment with something local. I'm sure they'll either be moved online or wrapped in nice installers over the next couple weeks.
> platforming altright folks and semi constant COVID misinformation

In other words, he hosts people with viewpoints that some disagree with. And with covid there is like about 6-12 month lag between when something is "misinformation" and it becomes "we always knew this'. Example: The vaccines don't stop transmission. Covid could have been a lab leak. Lockdowns fuck over the working class and kids. Etc, etc, etc...

Most of the time "misinformation" is just a derogatory way to frame something one disagrees with.
I got an XPS 13 and it's the biggest crap you can imagine, especially the docking station. Not sure if it is Windows 11 or if it is the Dell hardware, but I cannot stand it.

I feel the only serious alternative is a Lenovo running Linux.
> I was against both the gatekeeping of GPT-3 and DALL-E by Open 'faux' AI. But now it seems that every-time an open-source alternative or version was released into the wild, it seems that the uses become even more dystopian;

So are you still against gatekeeping? Are you in favor of releasing AI advances to the wild?
wrt "(Although I'm not sure how much human guidance it has)" - at the top it says "Text Formatting: Human-written text is italic, AI-generated text is normal" so that kind of demonstrates the ratio [and the human selects the AI completions among a few options each time]

And yeah, generally agree - as we say on our About page, these stories are sort of explorations/demonstrations of what AI can do, as much as they are attempts at entertaining writing. So in a sense we want to keep the "weird choices" AI makes to let the story go in weird directions. Since we release weekly, the intent is in general not to go for a lot of polish but rather for a fun concept and just an entertaining read.
This is extreme libertarianism (of which Jeff Bezos - Founder of Walmart’s competitor and probable source of inspiration for the idea to open a “marketplace” - is a proponent) taken to its logical conclusion.

On a practical level, caveat emptor is a good principle for buyers to live by, especially in this era of pervasive cheating. But pushing to enshrine it as an acceptable norm is morally bankrupt, and in the long run, it will lead to the collapse of society.
But there is a nuance to the message that is disingenuous. Diction and imagery. This isn’t a legal contract, it doesn’t matter if it is ‘technically true.’
This applies in all directions: as a cyclist I see car drivers who behave badly, as a car driver I see cyclists who behave badly, as a pedestrian I see cyclists and car drivers who behave badly.

I definitely see many cyclists who behave badly and who think that both road and pavement belong to them while the law does not apply to them... especially as a pedestrian (perhaps there's an aspect of relative 'power' at play).

But an important point, I think, is that the cycling infrastructure in the UK is wholly inadequate, which certainly does not help cordial relations.
>Yet despite the scam being obvious, Walmart still listed it.

And so they did.

How does that old saw go? "It is useless to argue with a man whose opinion is based upon a personal or pecuniary interest;"[0], and/or something similar.

[0] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/11/30/salary/
That 20,000 number is off by at least an order of magnitude just for US bird wind turbine deaths.
Turbine construction has been accelerating, so the 2013 numbers cited below are low.

https://abcbirds.org/blog21/wind-turbine-mortality/
As written in the article, Xenix was a Version 7 UNIX, so it was not written by Microsoft and as ATT didn't licensed the name 'UNIX', Microsoft had to use another name.

I have fond memories of the much more recent Windows 2000, it was a relief from the horrors of Windows ME. Contrary to UNIXes which ran on black box hardware (DEC/SUN/Apollo, etc) Windows ran on PCs where everyone could write a driver, and it (more or less) works with the OS.

Microsoft offered an interface for drivers and tools to validate them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Driver_Model
You can coax it to generate whole manga pages. The only downside is the text and story is incoherent, and the characters are inconsistent.
I remember when I tried to get my classmates to sign up for the AI ethics course at my grad program. Most declined saying it would be boring, not markettable, or wtv. At the end, a small slice of my cohort took the class. Kinda scary if it is the same at similar programs. I feel like a lot more people need to be thinking about the ethics of this. This particular blog post is quite harmless tbh, but things quickly get out of hand with explosive growth.
Right because there aren’t blue collar workers in hcol areas whose kids went to college, or is “blue collar workers” a dog whistle here?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/21/what-does-alex...

That's the call where Alexei Navalny tricked an FSB agent into admitting they had poisoned him.

I think often people try to come up with too clever explanations for stupid behavior. Sometimes it's just stupid behavior. Often times this is the catalyst for conspiracy theories - it's a nice explanation for random or stupid events.
This kind of summarizes my impression. I'd add that the story has a style I've come to expect from GPT-3. Basically, sequence of superlative statement alternating with fairly vacuous "softeners" - "I was in the lab the day that the greatest discovery in the history of science was made (though I acknowledge that I may be biased)." ... "But life did develop on one planet, which evolved one of the most diverse biospheres we had ever seen..." If it was a human writer, I'd say that the breathless tone makes it exhausting to read. And the lack of simple, "fleshing out" sentences means that, for example, it talks a lot of being excited by testing "their theories" but doesn't ever say that those theories are. And lots of human-written stories also do that. Many science fiction writers don't know modern physics in any detail and don't work out their science-variations in great detail. But naturally this system doesn't know anything but associations between words and makes up for this lack by using those associations quite effectively.
So based on my experiences with friends and family, I do experience less pain and am less sensitive to spice than them. There will be things that I am genuinely unaware are spicy but friends and family are telling me it's hot, but I think there's also the aspect that when it starts to get really hot I just enjoy the intensity of the sensation and pain.

The super mild stuff, like tabasco, tapatio, sriracha, cholula etc, I can sense the spice but it's mostly just about the flavor. Like I can literally drink the stuff straight out of a glass and it's like chili flavored vinegar, with only a bit of heat as it hits my throat.

Straight jalapenos just taste kind of sweet and fruity to me, with just a hint of spice, but these are some of my favorite just on flavor alone.

Bird's eye chili, thai chilis be they fresh or dried or in vinegar, feel only a bit hotter than tabasco/jalapenos to me.

On my recent trip to Thailand I really wanted to find a place that would blow me away with heat. I would always ask for everything 10/10 thai spicy, and I got to the point where I was additionally just covering my noodles/curries with a 0.5 cm thick layer of whatever fresh/dried chili they'd have on hand, and then adding more throughout the meal, to the horror of the poor vendors/chefs. It just tastes great, really love the flavors of the chilis but it doesn't honestly taste that much spicier to me than tabasco or jalapenos (which is why I kept adding more to try to get it spicier).

Every time I eat at a restaurant that has a spice scale I always go for 5/5, 10/10, nuclear/danger/whatever, and 9.5/10 times I will be disappointed. I get the feeling that most restaurants just err on the safe side so that people don't return the food for being too spicy.

For some reason habaneros to me are a real jump up. Some really pure habanero purees can get pretty damn spicy. I still douse my food in it, but this is where I can really start sweating and breathing through my mouth. For whatever weird reason I still find it super enjoyable but definitely straddling the border of pain/pleasure.

I got a Hot Ones variety box including the Last Dab, and I was just using that as regular hot sauce for my pizza and burritos. Like a good 1-2 teaspoons per bite? Honestly for whatever reason less spicy than some of the habanero sauces I've had.

Have not tried straight ghost peppers/carolina reapers yet. For some reason they scare me, but I'd love to if I came across them.
> it is literally dropping the bar to the ground

I think you're directionally correct, but overstating the case in a few ways.

One, as a not particularly visual person, even this example involves some skills of composition and perspective. If you asked me to do something practical, like creating an illustration to go at the top of a blog post, I would not do nearly as well as somebody with art skills, and I would take a lot longer.

Two, this is the beginning. In the same way that digital artists took tools I could use and got really good at them, I expect the same will happen here. What will a good artist be able to do with a solid workflow and a few years of picking up tricks? Given the opaqueness and quirkiness of models, I expect a person who puts in the time, especially one with a strong command of art styles, composition, and the practical uses of visuals, will be able to run rings around me.

Three, people are quite accepting of AI images right now, but they're novel and exciting and decontextualized from how we normally use images. That's a playing field that advantages the novice. But what happens once these images are no longer fun and novel, but boring and overdone? As we learn to discern novice-grade work from what real artists can do with AI assistance, I think our bar as image consumers will rise.
Human societies have always crowded riverbanks. Until very recent times.
It amazes me how many VCs or angel investors will put out all this information about what they want to see in a company or founder they invest in, but close to nothing about themselves on their website.

“We have money to invest come and apply to us and we will determine if you are good enough.”

Bro please.

If we are building game changing AI before we take your money we want to know what you stand for. What are you made of. How do you want to shape the world. What’s your track record of dealing with small companies. What’s your philosophy around investor relations. Prove to me you’re not a complete dick to work for or to have on the board.
I don't hate cyclists nor pedestrians at all, I am one at times. No ne should ever be assaulted in that manner... What perplexes me though is how hostile both bicyclists and car drivers are becoming towards each other lately, and the only thing I can imagine that is driving the ire is online partisanship or the "us versus them" ideals that the Internet creates, which in reality is really not sane.

There is some kind of shadow campaign across Reddit right now ... r/fuckcars that threatens the very meaning of the right to own personal property in the world. It has also become kind of a brigade that lobbies and protests in many other online and real world places too, without any clear message or leadership.

I may be wrong, but it seems like a lobby run by people who want bicycles and public transportation to be the norm for everyone worldwide. The logic seems highly unreasonable in a capitalist society at least, and as infectious disease threatens us all that these solutions could ever be imposed on a free society of people.

That also being said, pedestrian, public transport, and bicyclist infrastructure is also majorly funded in part by car-related taxes, to which there is no alternate source of funding if cars completely go away, meaning that biking, public transport, and walking would all see new taxes... Just imagine having to pay a daily toll just to walk across every single bridge you use, and then another toll to be able to walk or bike through a residential neighborhood.

It's very mysterious what the end game is for the r/fuckcars subreddit lobby, is it to sell bicycles? Or run by government employees that ride bicycles to work? I took some time to look into a few posters and found many of them spoke about the cars they own in other subreddits, so it's all very confusing to someone like me.

Tons of money is being wasted on alternate bike, pedestrian, and public transport infrastructure that just doesn't work to improve safety and harmony on roads by cities every year, there needs to be some sort of accountability for whoever is driving those decisions.

That being said, it's also quite hard to cart a newborn along with your grandparents to the hospital or to evacuate a city during crisis in snow, rain, tornadoes, and freezing cold weather on a Schwinn...

I think we all need a better dose of reduced sensationalism and more rational thought in this world when it comes to public safety and transportation, without veiled political agendas pushed online for profit.
This is end stage capitalism greed. It's a full blown assault on the consumer. The trust that citizens have in their retails is being mortgaged for desperate profits. The quality of the products is dropping to possibly dangerous levels. There's no quality control. The products that you are buying could be full of toxic, carcinogenic, reproductive harm chemicals. The cast iron pan you buy has lead in it. The kids toys are using toxic paints. The cotton clothes you are buying are not cotton.
I agree. And a very small percentage of Chrome users turned Firefox users could still mean a significant increase in Firefox usage, which in an ideal world would allow Mozilla a much needed breather from their metrics-driven efforts to stop bleeding users.
I'm going to be level with you: I don't want to pay for someone's food and board so they can draw lines on paper (which won't sell) all day. Likewise, I don't expect anyone to pay for my food and board so I can do fuck all either.

If you want a living, earn it. If you want wealth, earn it. Might not happen with your favorite school of craft, but the vast majority of people don't/can't make money doing something they are passionate about.
Unexpected-Keyboard: A lightweight virtual Android keyboard for developers
TinyEngine: High-performance neural network library for Microcontrollers
You're going to need to provide a source for claiming that the value of wind power is "very limited".

Land-based utility-scale wind is one of the lowest-priced energy sources available today, costing 1–2 cents per kilowatt-hour after the production tax credit[0]. Please note that governments still spend more subsidizing fossil fuel extraction and production than wind power generation. About double[1][2].

0. https://www.energy.gov/eere/wind/advantages-and-challenges-w...

1. https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2018/03/16/how-much-do-ren...

2. https://www.iea.org/topics/energy-subsidies
Our #1 export is death.
It’s a trope in sci-fi - the protagonist encounters a mysterious technological object from an ancient civilization, a trove containing ‘all the knowledge of an extinct race’.

Usually it gets downloaded into someone’s mind, triggering some kind of cascade of baffling imagery.

Feels kind of odd that this model data actually… works sort of like that?
Or buy real estate.
I don't talk about my zines (https://kradeelav.itch.io) and artwork to people IRL -- it occupies a very liminal space in my mind and soul where I can mention things a bit too raw or depraved for office spaces. ;)

While I don't make zines to make money, per se (going as far to give a free digital copy on my site), there's still evidentially enough people that buy them that it technically counts.
I don’t doubt your abilities but I personally will always go with the choice that bounds the maximum risk to myself and the company every time
Beyond your specific question, which appears to have been answered, highly recommend the book “Venture Deals” to learn more about equity based funding:

https://www.amazon.com/Venture-Deals-Smarter-Lawyer-Capitali...
I believe the long term bet is that retail winner(s) will use e-commerce search data to inform product development. It's a well known Amazon play and other retailers are trying to catch up.

Other retailers will also sell ads on their sites which are additional revenue. Amazon proved this out being the 3rd highest ranking company in terms of advertising revenue behind Google and Meta/FB.
AI generated art is interesting and will probably be helpful.

I see it as a cheap and fast alternative to paying a concept artist.

But not a revolution.
Creating precise and coherent assets is going to be a challenge, at least with the current architecture.

From a research perspective this is, I think, much more than a toy, those models can help us better understand the nature of our minds, especially related to their processing of text, images and abstraction.
1. they're Thinner And Lighter™

2. ...err...

3. ...that's it...
The child in-utero is most certainly an independent being (or else the mother is not unless she's living in a universe she created herself ex nihilo). Is there some way to define "independent" that isn't driven entirely by subjective desires for one outcome or the other? Or must we leave bodily autonomy as being too subjective a principle?
I'll do you one better: a curated retailer that only carried merchandise with a 10+ year manufacturer's warranty. And they automatically register/store all proof of purchase information in an online portal.

If that isn't profitable, make the warranty storage/customer service advocacy a yearly subscription where they take care of the full return process.
I thought Teddy K was dead. Maybe you're a bot trained on his works.
I had these as a kid in the 1960s. The reel (actually, packet of three reels, I think) I remember best was a retelling of the Titanic episode of The Time Tunnel.
Economists are still divided on the subject. So far localized experiments in UBI have not caused localized inflation, but it's hard to tell since it's small scale.

I'm not so sure it would actually happen though. We already give support to a lot of poor people through various programs like EBT and Medicaid. This just converts that help to cash, which gives people more freedom on what they want to spend on.
Zephyr's latest flight had 64 days airborne:

https://newatlas.com/aircraft/zephyr-8-mission-ends-abruptly...

Unfortunately, it ended with a crash.
How much text was edited away to leave this piece? The images are nice, but both the images and text have only partial coherence (which is to be expected, of course).
Oh yes. Dropshipping has to be one of the least valuable manifestations of the Internet economy. Waiting earnestly for the invisible hand of the market to give this particular "job" the shove.
The only purchase I've made on Wish was a similarly "too good to be true" set of flash drives. When I received them I tested them out on a linux live image and sure enough they were simply programmed to report having much more storage than they did. I did get a refund, but you can bet the products are still there.
Yes, Copilot works for COBOL. (Haven’t tested for PL/I, though).
>Your data is absolute trash.

You've been pretty hostile but you've yet to cite any sources, while I've provided a plethora. Got anything to back up your statements?

Also, is there any point to the hostility?
I'm not understanding your objection. Would you be able to fill in some of the steps between "UBI" and "the entire earth's crust has been turned into paper clips"?
The Open Sourcing of Paranoid's Library
Most every tech job in the world could go to someone who needs it more. That doesn't make me discourage people from taking tech jobs, nor do I plan to retire when I have the minimum amount needed for a modest retirement.
There was nothing quite like Quake 3 in 800x600 @ 120hz. The smoothness and incredibly low input lag. I maintain that it was better, in many ways, than my current position 1440p @ 180hz setup.

Sadly, UT99 was capped at 85 or 90 hz. It was very noticeable, especially at the time when my body was still young. I am still twitchy but not even close to what I could pull off 20 years ago.

Mid 2000s to early 2010 were tough for monitor enthusiasts. LCDs were total crap and the vast, vast majority of gamers, let alone regular consumers, couldn't even wrap their heads around the whole FPS / Hz thing.

The stupid 3d TV push didn't help much either because the masses were convinced all these TVs could do 100/200/400 etc. refresh rates even though the hdmi input was capped at 60 hz. Scary times
.online is an interesting TLD choice.
>doesn’t tell you that much

I agree
Reminder that reddit is basically all trolls. There is no “end game” for anything going on there.
Talk about click-bait: that's just a link to a logo PNG. And not even a very good logo at that. D----, would not click again.
Google Employee Who Played Key Role in Protest of Contract with Israel Quits
FDR and his administration went to great lengths to hide the wheelchair. They even made a panel for the resolute desk to hide FDRs lower body when seated. Imaged mattered then as much then as it does now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolute_desk
The worst I've got recently is from the Amazon locker team. The recently sent me a notice that they'd "learned that my package had been delayed". I don't mind that much; shit happens, but that passive language just disgusted me. No, you weren't able to deliver my package on time Amazon. I'm sorry if Jeff Bezos sticks you in a solitary wellness pod or whatever Orwellian punishment he's dreamt up for people who delay packages, but it's the job you picked.
The drought hit all of western Europe hard, not just Spain. To my admittedly vague understanding of this, it's expected and related. Even the drought areas are now suspectable to floods as the land is so dry it lost the ability to soak up water. It's a vicious circle.