skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. It's 100% BOTH.

Twitter is going to have some major, major legal problems with the current Missouri lawsuit - acting as a direct agent of the US Government puts Twitter 100% under the jurisdiction and requirements of the 1st Amendment. "The government shall not infringe" now includes Twitter censorship!

Social media as also enabled mentally ill and fringe lunatics to have a voice that is nominally equal to people who are rational and law-and-order based. In so far as individuals should show "reasonable restraint" in anything they do or say (to avoid 1st Amendment, discrimination, slander, libel or other ILLEGAL speech acts), that is partially and centrally an individual's fault as well.

Both feed on each other. Both are evil in any sense of what civilization and civil society are. The pendulum will swing back and in many ways already is.

When a group of people act like terrorists, it's absolutely wrong or illegal. It's not polite but politeness is not the measure. The definition of terrorism lately is (per the FBI):

Violent, criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups to further ideological goals stemming from domestic influences, such as those of a political, religious, social, racial, or environmental nature.

Committing slander or libel or violating the 1st Amendment (if government OR GOVERNMENT AGENT) is precisely terrorism by the above legal definition given by the government itself.
>People aren't excited by a working toot (like) button.
They seem pretty excited by this on Twitter. You haven't explained what you think are "mainstream user expectations".
Who do you believe launders more money: all crypto mixers combined or the US intelligence community?
Huh. I get 100% with 104.0.2 on Ubuntu.
>>not the nature of his intelligence, but simply the depth of his mental stack.

Excellent observation

In an experiment on spiders that I found very enlightening, the experimenter placed some desirable food on one (small) platform, and the spider on another perch, and there was a 3D maze of links that the spider could use to get to the food, but only one proper path. The spiders sat for around two hours, then used the exactly correct path to reach the goal. The researchers figured that they were using their tiny memory to just grind through the options until they found the right path, then went for it.

I've found this fascinating and oddly inspiring ever since I read about the study; I'm sorry I can't find it now to link here.
Per earbud! If it was per the entire set it would obviously solve all the problems I have with this product.

No, I won't use podswap.
EDI vs. API
Also, with PoS coming in a few days, the game changes. IIUC, stakers will be obligated to validate all (valid) transactions unless they are willing to forfeit their staked ETH... No preferential treatment anymore.

(This is still new to me, please correct me if I'm wrong)
Everyone should be able to communicate effectively, regardless of their role. I'd argue that one of the primary differences between a junior and senior in terms of capability is their prior experience and the degree to which the skills required for their job are developed.
In Scotland?
Researchers construct the most complex, complete synthetic microbiome
One way to take down someone you don't like will be to accuse them of using AI. It's an accusation that's impossible to defend against; you could require people to provide a video showing them creating the art, but that adds enough friction to be the death of a community and down the line will itself be something that could be generated.
It sounds like they should just have a rendering mode where you do just see hitboxes to test.
Couple reasons come to mind:
1) The institutional apparatus required to maintain the monarch as head of state is reasonably complex and expensive, both from a legal point of view and in a financial sense. The governor general is an unelected official whose power technically exceeds any democratically selected person in our government, and they make almost $300k/yr to do essentially nothing but administrative ceremony. I know that in the big scheme of things, $300k (plus whatever other perks/bonuses they get, along with their staff) is just a drop in the bucket, but it feels a bit like theft from Canadians given this role doesn't need to exist at all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_General_of_Canada

2) The royals do have a bit of a history of interfering in the politics of past colonies - the recent reveal a few years ago that Charles (I think...?) influenced the selection of high ranking Australian government officials in the 80's was a bit of a shock to many. Apologies, I can't find the right combination of phrases to yield anything in google except tabloid nonsense as a source. In any case, there is at least some evidence that the royals, either through wealth, old-school power politics, or direct action do play about with the politics of other countries, even when they explicitly should do not that. I detest this.

3) I really do not like what the royals stand for. Monarchism, colonialism, genocide, general crumminess. Spending £12 million to pay off one of the women Prince Andrew allegedly sexually assaulted as a minor, using public money, is an atrocious act and one I still cannot believe got so little media coverage here. Then there's all the general petty money issues: Prince Charles doesn't pay inheritance tax (why? Because, that's why). The royal family is except from all sorts of laws pertaining to wealth transfer actually, in some cases literally because it's coded into the laws themselves that Her Majesty is excluded. It's ridiculous. And here in the UK you still are not legally allowed to protest the monarchs. I mean - you can, but you can also be arrested for it. Just in the last 2 days there's been outcry as 2 people were arrested for anti-monarchist protest signs.

https://metro.co.uk/2022/09/11/woman-arrested-after-holding-... https://www.thenational.scot/news/21319718.protester-arreste...
https://twitter.com/standardnews/status/1569270901685862403?...

It's time to let go of the past, try to build a future for ourselves that doesn't centre around the absolute worst parts of our collective histories.
Actually it doesn't appear that anyone has decided on a safe amount of alcohol to drink.

> Negative effects are related to the amount consumed with no safe lower limit seen.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_and_health

> Alcohol consumption at any quantity is a risk factor for cancers of the mouth, esophagus, pharynx and larynx.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_and_cancer
loans are underwritten based on both the intrinsic value of the house and your ability to repay. You can't predict that second one years in advance.

You can get a floating rate loan, however, it if you want your payments to follow the market.
Ugh. I'm not planning on updating this cycle, but eSIM + physical SIM was best of both worlds for me, as a US user who travels internationally. Carriers in my most common European destination do not offer eSIM or restrict it solely to long-term monthly accounts... whereas I could pick up a rolling month-to-month SIM card with a great local plan super easily before.

Sure, maybe by the time I upgrade next more carriers will be offering it. But it's definitely a current downside and one which I expect will be exploited for market segmentation in future.
Newgrounds: "not have the Art Portal flooded with computer-generated art"

DeviantArt: "complaining that their feeds are getting flooded"

Artstation: "the front pages are flooded with unmodified AI generated slop"

They're really worried about the volume that AI art scales. So they don't really have to chase down every image and decide if it's AI or not. They just need to stop users from throwing huge amounts of them, which is easy to detect.
So if I skillfully combine multiple AI generated images it's stops being art? What's the difference between someone only using that vs. someone taking parts form random images found in Google image search? The latter very common among digital artists.
And put his/her face on the money!
I considered that possibility, but decided the wording is fairly clearly referring to pre-transcoding library size (“500 GB of HD videos”).

On reflection, it’s possible that there was a miscommunication that led to this wording, since if it were the post-transcoding figure it wouldn’t be outlandish for something like VP9/H.264/AV1 at 1080p/720p/480p/360p, though it’d still be on the high side.
What would you say about Signal, designed to be incompatible with the law around lawful subpoenas?
> It “could”, in the same sense that “vaccine could cause autism”

No. The claim "design with tradeoffs X leads to more correct programs than design with tradeoffs Y" is the one that requires evidence. The null hypothesis is that it doesn't.

> Interestingly enough, you spend much, much, more time talking about it than himself…

As I said, software correctness is my thing. When I saw Zig's brilliant, revolutionary design, I thought, wow, that's a powerful and interesting approach to software correctness. I thought pretty much the same when I saw Rust's design. My aesthetic preferences lean toward simpler languages, just as others' lean toward a more refined type system, but both of these languages make correctness a major focus of their design, they go after it in very different but equally interesting and novel ways, and it will be fascinating to learn which, if any, can achieve better correctness. However, anyone who says we already know is not telling the truth, and probably has a shaky understanding of the subject.

> So the gist of your argument is that we don't know

No. The reason we don't know is that we don't have evidence one way or another. I gave you one example as an intuition for why your hypothesis might be false.

> I was referring to this quote of yours above: “Zig has a pretty good memory safety story”. Which is empirically not so good.

You're saying it's not good because it doesn't try to completely eliminate such errors? That's called begging the question.

Now, you can say many things about me, but when talking about technical subjects I try pick my words precisely. I'll gladly keep discussing the substance of the matter -- I've devoted a lot to it and I care deeply about it (look at my blog) -- but if you're trying to poke at my words you will most likely waste both our time.

Yes, Zig has a pretty good memory safety story. It's a combination of sound spatial safety, precise pointer tracking, as well as some tools, to make catching temporal safety issues easier. It's not only a pretty good story, it's also interesting and rather novel one -- like Rust's -- only its particulars are very different. Zig's memory safety story is not perfect because the cost of perfection, Zig's philosophy believes, is too high, to the point of working against the goal of correctness.

There are two relevant open questions: If correctness is all you care about, what price should you pay for memory safety? And what if you also care about other things? I don't know the answer to these questions -- nobody does -- but we need both Zig and Rust to help us learn.
>It's going to destroy the livelihoods of the majority of independent artists in a way that looks inevitable to me.

Why is SD going to destroy the livelihoods of artists when machine language translation hasn't put human translators out of work yet?

I don't think there's been any industry that's been ended by AI yet, and yet people are strangely confident that art is going to be the first.
I think Stable Diffusion is a both a threat and a tool for illustrators but will mostly be a tool for artists.

The reason is that AI intelligence is probability generated mimicry. By extension it mimics art but is not art. Think of the character arcs in Shakespeare, the narratives, the layers of meanings. This sort of thing cannot even be modeled as a problem in AI. The ability to define what is necessary to produce such layers of meaning does not exist.

I think AI is missing something fundamental about intelligence. What it is missing is the ability to construct systems of abstraction and have them relate via meaning (which is informed by history, context, experience).

Something new must emerge for AI to move past probability generated mimicry.
Category theory has actually had a big recent boom in quantum physics.

Hardy's beautiful number theory math he thought was pure and impractical ended up used heavily in encrypting payment details for online pizza delivery etc.
Because there are languages and libraries that are a better fit for some use cases like for example PyTorch or JAX. The latter has been used in for example the research below.

A Differentiable Neural-Network Force Field for Ionic Liquids. (J. Chem. Inf. Model. 2022)

H. Montes-Campos, J. Carrete, S. Bichelmaier, L. M. Varela, and G. K. H. MadsenCorrelation Tracking: Using simulations to interpolate highly correlated particle tracks. (Phys. Rev. E. 2022)

E. M. King, Z. Wang, D. A. Weitz, F. Spaepen, and M. P. BrennerOptimal Control of Nonequilibrium Systems Through Automatic Differentiation.
M. C. Engel, J. A. Smith, and M. P. BrennerGraph Neural Networks Accelerated Molecular Dynamics. (J. Chem. Phys. 2022)
Z. Li, K. Meidani, P. Yadav, and A. B. FarimaniGradients are Not All You Need.

L. Metz, C. D. Freeman, S. S. Schoenholz, and T. KachmanLagrangian Neural Network with Differential Symmetries and Relational Inductive Bias.

R. Bhattoo, S. Ranu, and N. M. A. KrishnanEfficient and Modular Implicit Differentiation.

M. Blondel, Q. Berthet, M. Cuturi, R. Frostig, S. Hoyer, F. Llinares-López, F. Pedregosa, and J.-P. VertLearning neural network potentials from experimental data via Differentiable Trajectory Reweighting. (Nature Communications 2021)

S. Thaler and J. ZavadlavLearn2Hop: Learned Optimization on Rough Landscapes. (ICML 2021)

A. Merchant, L. Metz, S. S. Schoenholz, and E. D. CubukDesigning self-assembling kinetics with differentiable statistical physics models. (PNAS 2021)

C. P. Goodrich, E. M. King, S. S. Schoenholz, E. D. Cubuk, and M. P. Brenner

Some threads discussing the merits of JAX, PyTorch and Julia:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30349687

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29682507
https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/shsfkm/d_c...
https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/st8b11/d_s...

https://www.assemblyai.com/blog/why-you-should-or-shouldnt-b...

https://archive.ph/FL6hs
> In my experience, mobile connectivity just keeps getting better and better.

To clarify ....

When I spoke of "quality of service" above, I didn't mean technical service (although for some carriers it can be a factor), I meant customer service.

I think you'll struggle to find anyone who will say their carrier's customer service has improved in recent years. Carrier customer service, irrespective of what country you live in, is generally globally accepted to only be in the "awful to non-existent" range.
I get 100% using Firefox 104.0.2 (64-bit) on Windows 10. Maybe it's related to the platform or addons? Could it be uMatrix or something blocking some kind of behavior that would be questionable on a normal webpage?
This is the central flaw of social media itself.

As engineer by training this is positive feedback with a wide bandwidth loop gain which is ALWAYS a recipe of unstable system behavior. Things that could "fix" social media:

1. Slow down the speed of replies - e.g. 24 hours instead of seconds

2. Reduce the gain - limit how many people can see your reply or post to a narrower range of people you know instead of broadcasting to the universe.

This is exactly what you do with feedback systems like amplifiers or analog circuits to control their stability and prevent unstable behavior. :-)
> If I rig up my car to explode

Mechanical devices are not protected as speech.

> If I hire a hitman.. I am guilty of murder.

SCOTUS has already carefully defined this in the Brandenburg test. Speech is only not protected when it results in direct, imminent lawless action. And SCOTUS has consistently ruled that the boundary for the test is extremely concrete. (Contrary to popular opinion yelling fire in a crowded theatre is actually protected by Brandenburg under the First Amendment.)

Sending a text message to a hitman telling him to "wack Tony at midnight" fails the Brandenburg test because it leads to imminent lawless action. But you can literally publicly advocate for an ideology to overthrow the United States government and murder millions of people, and that's Constitutionally protected because there's no imminent lawless action.

Writing and publishing open source software is Constitutionally protected, because the simple act of publishing software does not lead to imminent lawless action. Even if it's reasonable to assume that the software will likely be adopted for illegal purposes. Again this isn't hypothetical, SCOTUS has consistently ruled that the government cannot restrict the ability to publish instructions on how to make pipe bombs or 3D printed guns.
I've long suspected the "10x developer" is mostly (but perhaps not entirely!) a result of above-average ability to spot the right teams and projects for one to be successful, and/or some early luck, followed by compounding success because before long they have the reputation to get on the right kinds of teams doing the right kinds of (high-impact, enjoyable) projects that let them work their best and do things that are highly visible to important people in the company hierarchy.

I think this is why famous developers tend to either stick with a place a long time, or bail really fast—in the latter case, because they realize they made a mistake and won't be as productive as usual, because the organization as it relates to them (key point: they may get special treatment many places, so their experience may not be everyone's) sucks. Lots of workers tough it out if it's not too bad, while people accustomed to being "10x" run the hell away if the management + team + project combo isn't just right for them.

I bet my personal productivity has varied by at least 10x the lowest level, depending on where I'm working and what I'm working on, even adjusted for experience level and such, entirely due to work environment and the kinds of projects I'm on. Though perhaps that lowest-level was "0.1x" or whatever, I dunno.
This is weird, they copied the favicon for Xiph.Org FLAC: https://www.panda.sys.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/favicon.ico vs. https://xiph.org/flac/favicon.ico and https://xiph.org/flac/
OK let's see if you are qualified to have these opinions.

1. Have you dated women, as a man?
2. Are you successful in dating women which can be measured by staying power? Could you message a woman today you haven't seen in 6 months and arrange a date?
3. If I asked you to go and get a date today from a woman previously unknown to you, could you do it?

If you can answer yes to all these questions, then your opinion is valuable.
Which is why it is said that, if we do it right, we "stand on the shoulders of giants". E.g., we don't each need to reinvent calculus, Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz did that already...

[Edit typo: of/if]
Convergence is something that’s been talked about for a long time, but I don’t see it being something the large consumer companies want to actually drive forward.

Looking at the direction of Apple/Microsoft/Google, they’d much rather sell you more devices and keep your data synced in cloud services than let you own in all in one unit locally, so that’ll probably be the main direction we go in.

The main exception will be in the indie/enthusiast/hacker space with devices like the pine phone/purism units.
And this is where it gets fun. Banks will absolutely not tell the customer that their transaction is flagged for one reason or another partly so that they do not lose their 'safe harbor' status under BSA. Any numbers you will see might be from the government, but FinCEN is relatively tight lipped about those for a variety of reasons. The discussion is taking place now, because it has become fairly onerous on an average person, who sends anything to MOHAMMED HASSAN. Instead of data, I can only offer anecdata. Long long time ( or not long ago depending on your perception of time ), we had a person, whose transaction matched some OFAC info, which resulted in bank holding the transaction. I cannot go into details beyond saying that eventually even OFAC representative seemed to admit to that it does not seem to apply to him. To the best of my knowledge, a year after that person still did not get his funds.

It may have not happened to you, but I do not think it is as uncommon as you think. Parent is right. We are doing this backwards.
The response is the same no matter how polite you are, so I'd rather normalise ridiculing ridiculous positions like the apparent absolute necessity of being able to move a piece of plywood no matter when and no matter where you are at any cost including trillions of dollars and tens of thousands of lives each year.
They aren't banning AI art because because it doesn't take effort. They're banning it because once that work has been done, you can create a huge number of images which creates problems for the community.
> The problem is that on ethereum it's not possible to censor a deployed contract.

It is possible, via a hard work. Similarly as it was possible to transition from PoW to PoS. The question is, if there is political will for that. Clearly changing the protocol rules is possible has it has been done with ethereum in the past, including for censorship reasons (in the earlier hard fork the reason was to cancel a hack).
Don't forget that they use 230V, and electric stoves often use three-phase power. Even with a 25A fuse that gives almost 10 kW of power.
Takes about 8 minutes per image with 15 steps on my 8GB M1 Air.
The original LibHTML commit makes it sound like it was originally intended for embedding, so I don't see why not: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/commit/a67e823838943b.... Electron has affordances beyond just being a web view, so you would have to add those (or work around not having them).
> Commuting is not so bad when public transportation is good and/or you live close to the office.

You mean iff you can afford to live that close to your work that you can just walk in 15-20 minutes? Yeah, then it might not be bad. I still lose almost 3 hours per commute twice a week because I can only afford to live 60 km away from the capital in which I work.
You can downvote all you want; this is the truth
Except computer languages are not named after their designers[0] but as a tribute.

Not in the Algol family: Haskell

In the Algol (indeed Euclid) family: Turing

As yet vaporware(?): Noether

[0] generally, anyway: AWK is infamous; and I have some suspicions about CPL and MCPL ... once may be coincidence, but twice? Also, what about Popplestone's POP-n languages? ... and the "Wolfram Language" should be no surprise to anyone who's read the eponym's book.
>assuming a developed country

Bad assumption

Anonymous fundraising for political dissidents is the biggest use case I can think of.
Maybe the Queen was the only thing holding back an invasion of the US … I saw a documentary about that once called Canadian Bacon I think.
It took me weeks to get used to mine, but I find I do sleep better with it than without my CPAP machine. With respect to insurance, I replaced my original machine without going through insurance. It would have cost me more out of pocket for the doctor visit and on-site sleep study.

The state of health “insurance” in this country is mind-boggling. But we continue to vote for politicians that vote against our own best interests. We need more than these two f’d up parties.