skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i can't find the papers now but it's also very well organized disinformation campaigns.

"The New Climate War" by M. Mann talks of this too.
If you're on windows and have a GPU, there's a GUI you can install. https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/x1hp4u/my_...

There's a WebUI with a docker container if you're on Linux w/ GPU; https://github.com/AbdBarho/stable-diffusion-webui and https://github.com/AbdBarho/stable-diffusion-webui-docker.

If you don't have a GPU, there's a Colab UI (Google hosted GPU). https://github.com/pinilpypinilpy/sd-webui-colab-simplified
> maybe it's too much to expect an AI to write a well-written story at this point

You just gave a great example of feedback. This kind of data can be used to train the model to generate self evaluation, maybe a few thousand samples would suffice to fine tune a large model. Then we could condition on good feedback.
> 2.5-acre farms held by many people in the article seems like an improvement over the gigantic thousand-acre ones here in terms of sustainability

Smaller farms -may- have less vast monoculture sustainability issues. However, how do the 2.5 acre farms achieve the efficiencies that scale affords the massive farms in terms of water, energy, and fertilizer use?
Why Are So Many Sweepstakes Void in Quebec?
Love the project but I really wish projects (especially linux projects) would include a "plain english" description of what this does at the top. Like, even one sentence.

1. Not everyone knows what AutoHotkey is and what it does. I had to google it.

2. Not everyone speaks english. Diving into a description that includes words like "fault tolerant, extensible, high availability" so infuriatingly confusing.
Ask HN: What MDM/Endpoint security you use in a small startup?
In the process of SOC2. All MDM tools feels outdated. We are small startup, we don't need to ship a device from Apple preconfigured, etc. Those features don't interest me. We are already 10 people and not growing that fast for device configuration to be a concern.

I just want the devices to stay secure and compliant, and also keep our SOC2 people happy. At previous work, I evaluated many anti-virus for Mac, installed CarbonBlack to 100+ people. All it found was a Windows virus on a Mac on a plugged hard drive over 2 years. Not dismissing, but our company got acquired, we deprecated it, we saw 2 more anti-virus which was only problems. I don't want to just check a checkbox.

So far, the closest I feel is Kolide of easier visibility & Slack based remediation (bugging people works), looked at Jamf Now and SimpleMDM. You can safely uninstall any MDM too, so I don't see what the point is unless the device is locked and encrypted. Don't want to be dismissive, just looking to hear ideas!
I don't understand this. If people cared (or perhaps comprehend) complex feedback loops, we wouldn't be in this mess. If the majority of the human population starts suffering, including you and I, we will certainly do whatever we can to stop prevent that suffering, short term. I don't think there's any evidence, from any point in history, that suggests we'll, as a collective species, shun our instincts of self preservation, and die for the unknown of possible future problems.

Let's say India (they seem especially vulnerable) starts having mass heat and starvation, where they're losing significant parts of their population, and decided to slow it, immediately, by launching some solar shields. Do we shoot it down?

I think "never" is ludicrous. Once people start dying, people will demand and plea for something to be done, or heads will roll.
I think what it shows us that activities that we think of as "human", like getting drunk, saying silly things that sound brilliant, or painting things that look stunning are actually the things that a machine has least trouble to copy.

Whereas things we associate more with computers, such as hard thinking, mathematics, etc. turn out to be more difficult to copy by a machine, and therefore perhaps more "human".
drug users don't care otherwise they wouldn't be drug users. Look up Krokodil, addicts don't care what it does to them as long as there's a high somewhere in the effects. It basically impossible to stop demand side which is why the (futile) efforts are spent on the supply side.
Absolute fatalities are not a useful comparison, in fact they are meaningless without the context of the proportion of each source of power. The same study provides adjusted numbers per GWh in the abstract:

0.3 to 0.4 fatalities per GWh for Wind farms and nuclear power

5.2 fatalities per GWh for fossil fueled power stations

i.e Wind and Nuclear cause between 5.8% and 7.7% fatalities per GWh compared that of fossil fuels.
Hardly. Howard Stern gets views by shocking his audience. He's raunchy and sadistic, either asking people about their personal sex lives, or bringing on a disabled person in order to humiliate them. He's not pursuing any intellectual aims. There's no comparing what Stern and Rogan are doing.
pets do get euthanized/ muzzled if they are found 'guilty' against humans because we do think they have agency . Sometimes we blame the owner for things they could have done, but there are cases where it's beyond their control. For the same reason we don't jail kids but sometimes they do get punishment. We do thing kids and pets have agency, but not full agency.

At the current stage i don't think there is any AI that can be punished, or anyone that would credibly claim that an AI must be punished. Its maker will always be punished instead.

Well true but i think that chunk is quite small. It's one thing to nonchalantly say "this is alive" and a very different thing when you have to deal with the consequences.
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> it is usually better to address concerns from others, rather than to dismiss them

It is often better....

Many ideas are designed to be refuted. The refutation spreads the ideas. It is part of the strategy. A "mind worm" (to coin a phrase) only needs to be repeated and it will do its job. Refuting it is repeating it.

So dismiss the speaker, attack the speaker's credentials and motivations ignoring the ideas. argumentum ad hominem, whilst rhetorically invalid, is the best tactic in those circumstances.
Why wouldn't it help? Surely this (and others) method do static analysis on what's actually used in the final program, no?

Example: you use a crate with 13 functions. You only use 1 but it depends on 2 others in the same crate that don't depend on anything else. Why shouldn't the end result only compile 3 of the 13 functions?

Or maybe I am misunderstanding or I am badly informed (not a compiler / linker engineer so I'm likely with naive assumptions) -- apologies if so.

I understand it's not easy, I am just a bit surprised that Rust's team is not chasing this a bit more aggressively, let's say. It puts a slight stain on an otherwise excellent project.
Misinformation is presenting falsehoods as truth. Speculating based on past behavior is something else.
This one has always stuck with me:

https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.htm...
I do find your [1] oddly compelling, but not for the reasons you think. Wide political and social change (or progress, if you want to be an optimist) is rarely made through convincing people to fundamentally change, but generational shifts. You are merely finding yourself on the fading side of that shift.

That aside, it's very funny to accuse the left of shifting the overton window after a republican president that pardoned his co-conspirators, called for insurrection and then took top secret documents home - a crime he himself increased the penalty for. So much for law and order.
You're completely right that Katrina was an example of an event you should expect (albeit infrequently) and that there was a cascading response failure.

Cascading response failures are definitely an organizational/social problem; any natural disaster is going to be worse where planning is subject to complacency, corruption, or lack of resources.

The basic problem is that most of our infrastructure and governance (including things like building codes and zoning/planning) is set up for a mid-late 20th century understanding and frequency awareness of extreme weather events.
I have not done this. I've only bought Savings Bonds from TreasuryDirect, mostly because the website is absolute ass. Whenever I've contemplated buying "Treasury Marketable Securities", I've always just looked at using my broker.

Every year, you'll get a 1099-INT for the coupon payments.

But yes, if you want to sell not-at-maturity, you'll transfer it to a broker. That transfer should be in-kind and should not have any tax reporting consequences.

When you sell you will get a 1099-B and your broker might not know your cost basis, so you may get a reported basis of zero and have to correct it. Or you might get the correct cost basis.
People see these headlines and think that the job market is loosening. But growth tech is such a small percentage of overall employment, it effectively doesn't matter.

Only if big tech does layoffs is it meaningful for national employment numbers. Fed will have to go much harder to fix the broken job market
We use Jamfnow with Apple Business Manager. It works really well and I pretty much don't think about it.
Rogan is claiming 11M listeners per episode, CNN and Fox News ratings peak around 1M for their primetime shows. I'm not sure how to make a total viewership comparison, but it appears like they're in the approximately same scale.
> I think it's fascinating, and at least to me completely unexpected, how good these image generation models are. What happens when we have a 42gb model, or a 4.2tb model?

First 'how good' is an ill-defined metric -- that it seems in this case is a measurement of how much surprise and wonder they generate in the audience.

Second, it might just be that the real wonder of the models is the their compression -- that is there is a space of mappings of line drawings and simple descriptions into art and this technique was able to lossy compress that space down to 4.2G. If you only compress it down to 42G, you'll be looking at the JPEG that's 90% compressed instead of 99%. Yeah it will be better but incrementally, not necessarily "Wow!" better.

Honestly it's not obvious that it will be better at all.

> For comparison, the human brain is estimated to have a (equivalent to a computer) capacity of about 2.5 petabytes [0].

That's a terrible and basically non-sensical comparison to make.
Assuming best faith that this was accurate, definitely you can't make everyone even in the best of infrastructure behave. This is just as likely in a car as a bike. The difference is that it's trivial for a car crash to maim or kill a cyclist or otherwise endanger another driver or even a building or a home. A cyclist is much less likely to maim or kill and a pedestrian even less so.
This Shared Lane Marking is also known as a 'sharrow' (a combination of the words "share" and "arrow"). Sharrows are generally regarded as a dangerous non-solution, as you describe.

> Results suggest that not only are sharrows not as safe as bike lanes, but they could be more dangerous than doing nothing at all.

https://macwright.com/2020/12/04/sharrows.html
That’s awesome, thanks for sharing!
I'm not going to bother digging up the clip cuz it's easy to find, but it pretty much tells you what you need to know about Rogan.

It's him talking to Joe Diaz, where Diaz is bragging about how when he was the manager at Laugh Factory he wouldn't book female comics unless they sucked his dick. Rogan asks him how many women he did this to and Diaz says a dozen or something, and Rogan starts hyena laughing like it's the funniest thing he's ever heard.

Rogan gets some great guests on, but don't be fooled by his "aw schucks I'm just a bro asking questions" act. He knows exactly what he's doing and he's a lot more predatory than his on camera character.

Something to consider before you associate your brand with him. Probably better to find an up and rising podcast.

Edit: freetime2 dug up the clip below and it's even worse than I recalled.
Unfortunately a lot of adults act like children. It's debatable if acting like children is the cause or the reason for treating them that way.
I work in tech, and while it's mostly meetings and leaning on some knowledge of various Java and SQL use cases, as well as some niche knowledge of crappy languages like D, I probably don't work as hard as someone scrubbing the toilets or making the beds in the local Marriot hotel.

I can accrue money doing what I'm doing - they can't.
Echos of https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/criticism-of-criticism...
I think pop media will continue to decline while the long tail will become better and better (this has already happened to music, film, tv, etc). If you use google and billboard charts as a discovery engine you’re gonna have a bad time, but people who seek out quality will have more options than ever.
Ask HN: Should people meet 1) their bf/gf 2) their elected reps for free?
This is a general thought experiment about rent-seeking. [1]

I wonder about two relationships everyone cares about:

1. Everyone cares about their bf/gf (or spouse once they have one but a bf/gf is a prerequisite)

2. Most of the world is democratic, people care about their duly elected representatives.

My question is, should people be able to meet these people without third-party rent-seekers attempting to extract money out of the relationship?

Examples of third party rent seeking would be if you couldn't meet your own boyfriend or girlfriend without going on trips you don't want to take (you could imagine tinder partners with a travel agency and hides local matches but gives you distant matches and airline tickets) or if you couldn't meet your elected representative without paying some sort of tax such as if event invitations you sign up for on the politician's email list were sold to ad agencies who filled up all the seats with actors who aren't there to meet the representative but just redirect you at the door to some unrelated paid event or to pay to talk to someone else?

Basically my question is whether people should be able to meet their gf/bf or elected reps for free by simple invitation without paying third party rent-seekers?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
On the other hand, all too often the thinking goes:

- Something must be done

- This is something

- Therefore this must be done

Some ideas are just bad.
It's best to know and understand each party's interests. Insurance companies want to keep you alive and paying premiums. Hospitals (government, for-profit, and non-profit) want you to receive a lot of treatment. The government treasury wants to keep you alive as long as your future tax payments exceed their healthcare and other expenditures. Government health departments have an extremely complicated set of incentives, dependent on exactly how they're organized.
There was an example on a Splendid Diffusion post earlier. Someone using SD for generating recipe pictures, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32644800 where they almost certainly wouldn't hire an artist.
Calling it now, someone will make a tool for automatic documentation of R codebases, and call it R2D2.
The fragmentation of BASIC was a huge problem.

Also, that one of the most widespread, CBM BASIC 4 on the C64, was utter junk and made an entire generation of home computer owners believe that BASIC was junk, period.

https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/71381.html

Contemporaneous with the C64 were some excellent 8-bit BASICs, notably BBC BASIC on the BBC Micro, but also Beta BASIC on the ZX Spectrum (a 3rd party add-on) and SAM BASIC on the SAM Coupé (an enhanced Spectrum compatible.)

But not, by and large, on any American home computers, and so the large majority of people who mostly only saw, used and knew American home computers didn't know and were misled into believing that BASIC was rubbish.

And so we all got C instead.

And that really is rubbish. A quick and dirty hack from the 1970s that has created a multi-billion-dollar industry in fixing leaky broken software.
Once you add useMemo and useCallback, your code will become pretty unsightly though. I wish React had a better solution to this problem.
why on earth would you camp under a wind turbine? And how? Most are on private land with access control.

Besides, once you're more than a few hundred meters away, you can barely hear them. Don't believe me - please look up the sound power numbers of modern wind turbines and see how close you need to be to hear them.
For me having to fix weirdly incorrect code is much more annoying than writing new code. Similar to the issue that I have with driver-assist tools: supervising a system that does ok much of the time but then does something batshit insane every once in a while is a lot more stressful than just doing it myself.

I much prefer predictable tools like code templates where I know exactly what I will get when I trigger it.

Unpredictability is the fundamental problem with these tools.
No, this is just Stable Diffusion without any modification, no fine-tuning is needed to create nudes.
If you listen to the start of Acker Bilk's "Stranger on the Shore", you can hear him bending the notes deliberately.
Isn't the lack of a WebRequest API one of the primary changes in Manifest v3?
I asked GPT about what Tyler Durden would say about the 2020s, results are scary
It sounds like you have some really horrible neighbors. Not the neighbor kids but everyone else.
Learning composition and style is a different thing than developing technical skill though. You can learn the principles of composition/framing and get a good survey of art styles in months, compared to technical skills which frequently take years and years to develop. With this tech, you could start out as an enthusiast generating your own art, then get hired as an assistant of sorts to do low level prompt and input "exploration" for a head artist in a sort of apprenticeship.
>So for example, as a Junior Engineer you will define the design (architecture) of a feature within a service, while as a Staff Engineer you will oversee the architecture of a system spanning several teams.

Sure, but at some point "spanning several teams" means you will not be close to the code anymore. You'll spend most of your time in meetings and it increasingly becomes difficult to stay close to the code. Doing "grunt work" is increasingly a waste of your time and a distraction from doing things that have impact at your level. At that point you end up telling people what to build and having them build it.
This is DXM, a dissociative like ketamin, found in cough medications like Robotussin. You can get quite high on it.
They are 44%, and California is 30% - it's not that dramatic of a difference to call them "isn't able to take care of themselves".
It’s even more the other way around, the native cat species basically domesticated itself finding hanging around humans for our density of vermin to prey on to be more advantageous than living in the wild. We didn’t go stealing cute kitties from the wild because they looked nice, we started taking care of the vermin eaters that migrated into our cities, especially the ones that had adapted themselves to be cuter and nicer to us.

We are not separate from the evolutionary process and several species have effectively domesticated us in order to survive better. Our civilization has created new habitats and we don’t need to pretend that it doesn’t exist.

You want to help your local bird populations? Plant oak trees.
Every time. They concentrate the pfas in the water, which bleeds through the cartridge as it sits there between uses, meaning all the diffusion breakthrough has to be flushed every time.

These filters only slow down the contamination relative to water flow rate. Think Of them as big chromatography columns or frontal analysis columns
Is this not an acceptable result to you? Did this on my first try and to my eyes it’s the same thing as I see when I googled “stencil image.” I’m thinking you have just not tried these prompts enough.

https://ibb.co/k5hMWZr

Edit:

I gave this another shot to see if I could get a more complex stencil. This was my very first try again, so truly not cherry picked. Prompt was: “Stencil image of a tiger face. Clip art. Vector art.” This looks like an infinite stencil making machine to me

https://ibb.co/mNdsms8
Typically, a ST image is a combination of the base image, and the change set applied to the image. The change set can be code loaded in from an external source, or someone hacking in the system. By default, all changes made to an image are serialized to a changes file. That way, if your image implodes, you can start with the previous image and roll forward your changes.

That said, projects in general are NOT change sets. They're just collections of classes serialized out as ST source code. These source code files capture the state of the source code within the image, but not the state of the image itself.

Done properly, you don't have any aspects of the source code depending on some existing state within the image, but not captured in a class. But, you don't know that for sure. All of the source code relies somewhat on the vast amount of global state within the image. If global variables make you itch, well, let me introduce to you an ST image.

Pharo is a fork of Squeak, and it's distributed as an image.

Now the Pharo folks have done a lot of VM work, but even in the beginning I imagine that having a chain of custody of source code that converted a stock Squeak image into a nascent Pharo image probably never existed.

I bet even with their long github history it would be very difficult to generate later Pharo images from source code checked in to github.

The ST image is a ball of clay that the developers add to and cut away from in an ad hoc manner. I'm sure they strive to repeatability and such, but I imagine it's not really a high priority for them when some sneaks into a core developers image (which can be from their work, or changes merged from someone else).

Having been raised in a world of "make clean install", where the finished product is a deterministic result of all these pieces I can see and touch, the ST image world has always made me a bit uncomfortable.

Obviously the users cope, and it's a "me" thing, but there you are.
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A lot like wikipedia.

Which begs the question: why is wikipedia the best source of medical information online?

Doctors, research hospitals, and the like should be required to maintain best of breed public health information.

Public universities are funded to the level of A TRILLION DOLLARS A YEAR.

Think about that.
The difference is in the intent. The British did not settle in India - they built it as a colony and thus, every institution was set up to extract wealth and send it back to the home country. The Mughals, for all their faults, came as settlers. The institutions they set up were not meant to merely exploit and send resources back to another country; the wealth stayed right there, locally.

The fact that there are so few Indians/Pakistanis of English lineage despite 200 years of rule should tell you the intent of the British rule - the land and its people were merely seen as places to exploit, not as places to settle. They were essentially tourists.