skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand and agree with what you're getting at, but having both [1] and [2] would be impossible. Without DRM, there's no way you could "lend" a digital copy to someone and remove your ability to use it.
> SD barely follows prompts at all.

> ...and most of them could be linked to the prompt they came from.

You made it sound as if there is almost no connection between the prompt and the images and zimpenfish said that the majority could be linked, implying a strong connection. He/she doesn't have to be praising it at all to counter your claim.
Yeah, buy smart TVs for their display panels and image processing, not for their smarts. First thing when setting them up is disabling the wifi and bluetooth and not plugging in ethernet, followed by hooking up an Apple TV 4K/Nvidia Shield/PC.

Also worth factoring ability to update firmare without an internet connection when making a purchase decision. Sony TVs for example typically allow updates via a thumb drive.
Pizza was a vegetable in the US, right?
I don't think it's unreasonable to expect employers to not hire tens or hundreds of people using identical names and social security numbers. If it can be shown that an employer knew, or reasonably should have known, that they were employing illegal immigrants we should be throwing the book at them with full force.

There are no jobs that Americans don't want to do. There are only jobs that Americans don't want to do at exploitative wages.
The funny thing about generated porn is that once it becomes ubiquitous real leaked tapes become deniable. So the possible downside for celebrities is that when they intentionally leak a tape to create buzz it may be met with a yawn.
Corporate slogan of the 21st century: Why settle for some of your customer's money when you can get all of your customer's money (and monetize their data too)?

Microtransactions, ads, selling customer usage data, up-front costs, PPV, subscriptions... I'm shocked we as customers can actually afford to obtain and use any of these devices anymore.
It will probably result in paying majorities less to appease the mob that this metric was written for.
Most people do that to use integrated streaming apps. This is less expensive than buying an Apple TV/Chromecast
Not all streaming providers do this. For example, if you buy a movie on Apple TV, you can download it. To me, that makes good on the "buy" agreement. Based on my last experience, I was trying to buy a movie that was available both on Amazon and Apple for the same price. The amazon version is bound by the EULA, and they don't let me download or play on non-DRM protected devices/apps. But Apple's was good. So I don't buy movies on amazon anymore.
Can’t speak to frontend / UI things but I’ve generally found typescript a pretty easy language to implement Cloudflare R2 on top of Workers. I have no experience with ClojureScript so I can’t provide any meaningful comparison. YMMV.
Bought a samsung and a roku tv. I don't know which one it was - but, for one of them, I refused to install internet. And it had a red light that flashed like every 30-60 seconds. I looked up why? "Its the no internet" light and it couldnt be disabled.

I had to cover it up with a sticky note on my nice tv until I finally gave up.

Anti consumer patterns.
> stated goal was basically to develop advanced AI first, then keep a lid on it until they could somehow ensure it was “safe” or would only be used by “good” people

That was the stated made up bullshit they spun because "we're keeping this walled to figure out how to squeeze the most profit out of it" doesn't go as well with their focus groups.
He's been here 10 years. I feel people who have a track record of living, working and paying taxes in place should have better access to resources than someone who just got off a bus from Tennessee with an advocate provided checklist of how to find resources to help support their drug habit.
> There's fantastic support nowadays for building app experiences, from the perspective of layout and interactivity.

As long as you, you know, do no complex layouts or interactivity.

It's still a system for displaying static text documents, and no amount of lipstick can change that without re-doing the entire thing.

If you think it's not the case, animate adding a height:auto element to a list without the browser needing to re-layout and redraw the entire page
The cost difference is marginal unless you're buying bargain bin TVs, though.
I run a pihole on my network for exactly this reason. The amount of network traffic the TV attempts, even when on standby or watching over-the-air broadcast is astonishing.
Microsoft in the mid-90s outsourced the majority of sales and customer support to retailers and VARs. If you add up all the employees working to sell and support Microsoft products in external companies the total staffing was enormous. The same situation applied to their competitors like Novell.
Marcus has a strong case there, but he could do a better job focusing on that issue…
All Samsung devices are trash these days
Because you outright dismiss building social housing as expensive and ineffective but you want to put them in to an equally expensive situation that is clearly less effective. I cannot imagine why you would think prison is better than social housing unless you ignore the very real cost of prison.
> And at least for non-fiction books, one implied assumption at the foundation: people absorb knowledge by reading sentences

It was interesting to read this part. I'm not sure if this is even such a valid assumption for non-fiction anymore, given what we've learned about psychology and how people use books.

People read for so many reasons that we're just starting to understand. Just a few examples:

- To be able to say they read that book, to a given person, or for a given social or technical process. "Have you read X?" "Yes, it was an interesting book" and done, purpose reached.

- To not be caught not knowing about things. In this case even "yeah, I recognize what you're saying--that's an idea from the book you shared with us" is easily enough.

- To soak in, rather than to learn (intuiting a concept vs. mapping it out, for example)

- To experience the energy/vibe/mood of the text; perhaps they are in an analogous mental state. I am often drawn to read computer programming books when I need to schedule or organize my daily work using logical if/then processes, for example.

- To exercise their subjective imaginative capacity, e.g. converting words to imagined examples, imagery, or experiences

- To limit their exposure to dopamine, for example picking reading from sets of other tasks like finger painting, or playing a group-learning game

- To express their identity, e.g. "I'm a big reader, look at these books I'm working on" when it may otherwise be in doubt, for example

And those are just some of at least hundreds that are broad enough to make useful categories which aren't too limiting.

With books serving this many capacities, IMO it's easier to see why the concept of books "working" can be broken in a given way. Especially "learning" which is one of the more historical cases, with books serving as repositories of knowledge.

But it also highlights senses in which one can say, "look, I'm not learning a thing here, and I know it, but I'm still reading this." IOW "books don't work" doesn't work in some important ways, and it could be that this is worth knowing, either for audience selection or other reasons.

Anyway, good ideas there, thanks for sharing.
It has a block of text, whose purpose isn't clear at the beginning [1], and requires you to read the entire comment, in its thick prose, and the article in order to understand, and even then you have to guess which point its referring, but could be wrong because cercatrova didn't actually own one.

Here is how I would have done the comment:

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>people worried that the electric push button would make human skills atrophy. They wondered if such devices would seal off the wonders of technology into a black box: “effortless, opaque, and therefore unquestioned by consumers.”

This reminds me of Socrates's story about how people in the ancient world worried about the atrophy from being able to use writing:

>>"For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom, for they will read many things without instruction and will therefore seem to know many things, when they are for the most part ignorant and hard to get along with, since they are not wise, but only appear wise."

Full context (Plato's Phaedrus 14, 274c-275b): https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext...

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Advantages:

A) Gets right to the point (so that if you already know the point, you can skip it.)

B) Saves everyone the time and effort of reading thick prose, most of which includes references to historical figures

C) Still quotes the relevant part.

D) Still contains a quick link to the rest of the context that cercatrova considered oh-so-important to add.

E) Contains a citation that can be googled in case the link goes dead.

F) Doesn't take a big wall of text.

But yes, it does have downsides: it G) takes actual communication effort, H) owns a specific point, and I) doesn't make cercatrova look cryptically wise. If those are your desiderata, then yeah, I agree he did it right, and everyone was right to vote it to the top of the discussion.

Can you elaborate on what you think we gain from making everyone read 6x as much with no indication of what the actual point is?

[1] I'm including people who weren't already aware of the quote, though you don't seem to think their vote matters here.
Thanks for your work! So a user can mitigate this by keeping encryption enabled and also enabling the option to never send encrypted messages to unverified sessions?
A Message from Inc
> you may be living under a rock

No wonder my back hurts.
How to Produce High-Quality Programming Screencasts
I have a remarkable 2 and like it quite a bit.

Only thing I don't like is swipe to turn page is not great.
I'm out of credits but I'll try that later
Amazon cannot just let you download the content. It's not up to them.
No, sorry, but there's a whole bunch of one-click things now, I think?

I'm running it on Windows 10 using (a modified version of) https://github.com/bfirsh/stable-diffusion.git and Anaconda to create the environment from their `environment.yaml` (all of which was done using the normal `cmd` shell). Then to use it, I activate that env from `cmd` and switch into cygwin `bash` to run the `txt2img.py` script (because it's easier to script, etc.)

[edit: probably helps that I already had a working VQGAN-CLIP setup which meant all the CUDA stuff was already there. For that I followed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH7ZP0__FXs which covered the CUDA installation for VQGAN-CLIP.]
It's so frustrating. For some consumers, you're dropping multiple paychecks on a TV that you want to just _USE_ - but you can't because Samsung, LG, whoever decided to take money from various companies and shove their garbage advertising down your throats and you can't disable it.

I don't feel like browsing various commercial signage websites for TV's that don't have any advertising in and I don't feel like we should be punished for paying more for this either!

I just want a TV I can turn on - and it doesn't need to load an operating system - it doesn't need to delay displaying actual TV because the computer needs to reach out and upload telemetry, download advertisements, and take pictures of what you watch. It just needs to take an HDMI/RCA/whatever ports, and output the signal on the screen.

There's no expectation of privacy anymore in society - some company somewhere has eked out a slice of the market share, and are pounding their customers with ways to extract more wealth out of you while you sit and take it - the 2 or 3 second delays eating up your life for advertisements you'll never buy things from.

It's depressing - I just want a TV. A plain TV. I'd rather not pay more for a commercial display-tier TV that doesn't have any of this smart crap built in.
Didn't know you already inflation-adjusted your numbers. So I looked up the prices, mortgage rates and CPI in 2001 and 2022. I think your math is correct.
Ads are not speech.
The article answers this question in detail.
> if a value-aligned, safety-conscious project comes close to building AGI before we do, we commit to stop competing with and start assisting this project

Haha, and then they would proceed to get told to politely piss off.
If you are comfortable with configuring DNS settings you can use NextDNS, it works with LG smart TVs. Pi-hole is an alternative but it is a bit more complicated to setup.
How many applications need infinitely scalable distributed object storage?

I’ve worked at exactly one storage company that had a customer that had exascale data. They were doing cancer research as I recall and their test machines generated a lot of data. I heard stories about CERN at conferences but they also self host their data.

But those were outliers. All of the large and small enterprises outside of that could fit all of their “big data” in the memory of a single blade server and still have plenty to spare. You can get machines these days with many TB’s of RAM.
Very interested - you need people?
> The chemical composition of insulins like Novorapid (which my daughter uses) are slightly faster than regular human insulin

Huh, thanks, I was not aware that novorapid is faster than endogenous insulin (most graphs show it much slower, albeit when taken subcutaneous). I switched from Novorapid to Fiasp because of how long Novo took to act, funnily enough.

Also, moderate-fun fact: intramuscular injections, while a bit painful apparently, can release insulin much faster than subcutaneous. By much faster I mean Lantus/24hr insulin can make you hypo within an hour, as per what I read online on a particular post.
Rationality is not required. Someone sleeping rough in a place like my hometown is going to be moved along if they're in a highly visible area, driven to a shelter if it's dangerously cold, or killed by the elements if they don't get to shelter. Someone in San Francisco can sleep in the same spot right in the middle of everything, undisturbed, for years. Of course you're going to see more homeless people here.
Does anyone actually care about stuff like this?
That's the effect they were looking for. It's a basic terrorist tactic (in the original asymmetric warfare sense, not the "calling you a terrorist is an announcement that we're willing to violate our own professed norms to kill you and people like you" modern sense.) They found a sympathetic working class single native mother who had done relatively little filesharing to attack brutally, so average people could see and say "if they're willing to do that to her, they're certainly willing to do it to me." And the government announced with its verdict "and we'll help them do it."

My aging father, who has gone from a math-major programmer to nearly computer illiterate in 40 years, won't even take a file from me directly, out of fear. I think of that fear as a bit hysterical, but he uses Windows and an iPhone, so who am I to say that his devices won't report that file to the proper authorities some day in the future, after a forced update? Who am I to say it's not somehow doing it now, and flipping a flag at the NSA or Amazon marking him for special attention?

I obviously believe something like that at some level, with my insistence on FOSS and control over my devices.

The avenues for pirating have narrowed in an extreme way over the past five or so years. There can be no one professionally interested in piracy who isn't aware of all of them.

The government could just choose a week where they decide to contact and charge everyone associated with piracy, and pull down every pirate site. They could show PR-style grace by giving 98% of people a symbolic fine in return for the destruction of all of their digital storage, and give the other 2% brutal prison sentences. Everyone would then be placed on a public blacklist to encourage ISPs to ban them.

Entirely possible, and entirely consistent with centrist values. So I'm no smarter than people who don't pirate.
> GPT-3 is great at sounding coherent, but much worse at actually reliably solving problems. I absolutely see GPT-3 like things aiding with sales decks, but... it won't replace the sales person.

Also, if your competitors are using GPT-3 to solve customer problems, having an actual, intelligent human can be a formidable differentiator in terms of customer experience.
Both this drug (lecanemab) and the drug to which you're referring (aducanumab) are amyloid antibodies

https://www.alzforum.org/therapeutics/lecanemab

https://www.alzforum.org/therapeutics/aduhelm
Yann LeCun’s Facebook post from a few days ago now makes more sense to me:

https://www.facebook.com/722677142/posts/pfbid035FWSEPuz8Yqe...
>Is that fair?

No.

This happens in North Africa and the Middle East with smart young, native, people.

I know students in these countries who're making more freelancing with small programming tasks.

$24,000 over two years for 50% of the company. It's not money. It's not even smart money. They could earn more elsewhere as a salary and get more elsewhere as founders, including the social proof of association with respectable shops.

There are people whose roots are from a place but are established elsewhere (Europe) who'll prey on these inexperienced people. I'm advising everyone I know not to fall for this. Life is too short. They're better off working for someone else with a high paying job than to believe charlatans.

Ask me how I know.
Out of curiosity, how do you have it set up? I've done something similar via cron and Automator, but it's pretty kludgy.
This is so snarky.

People are putting work into solving classes of bugs that cost us billions and billions in GDP per year.

This is one solution, and sure, like TDD, has tradeoffs and problems. The details, circumstances, and implementation all play a role.

But it's a potential way to go. Snark is not.

What's your solution?
Here is the text in question:

"We selected the background after carefully investigating the temperature dependence of the non-superconducting CSH sample at 108 GPa, the closest pressure prior to the superconducting transition. We note here that we did not use the measured voltage values of 108 GPa as the background. We use the temperature dependence of the measured voltage above and below the Tc of each pressure measurement and scale to determine a user defined background (Fig. 2a). The scaling is such that one achieves an approximately zero signal above the transition temperature; the subtracted background isolates the signal due to the sample."

I challenge you to actually repeat what they did using that description. It is not a complete description.

And no, they did not "show how they went from the raw data to the published". Just because they said they did, doesn't mean they did.

The raw data is in question because it's impossible to understand how subtracting two noisy data sets would produce data that is a combination of a spline and digitized data.
Is there any way to do performance testing with TLA+? I always had the impression that TLA+ could help you validate the design of what you intend to build, but was less helpful if you wanted to see the performance implications of the design.
the amount of effort put into optimizing javascript engines blows my friggin mind every time i see something like this.
> S-Matrix was the beginning of fifty years of string and SUSY

S-Matrix is a scattering matrix - a basic notion in QFT. S-Matrix theory is an attempt of axiomatization of particle physics with S-Matrix analyticity axioms as a basis. It still makes sense to this day - and still at the brink on unresolved questions in QFT, like QCD vacuum and/or confinement. A popular notion that S-Matrix theory was "replaced" with QCD is bogus (not to mention that bulk of publications by Gell-Mann was on S-Matrix theory). String theory is just a thing that was inspired by S-Matrix theory. And SUSY has almost nothing to do with it.

> I would disagree with the idea that the theoretical community decides where efforts should be focused - who ever is paying the bills ultimately makes that decision.

It is a very naive view of how research works. It is like saying that who ever pays the bills gets to decide what startup is going to succeed.
They shouldn't be able to. But either way, kids don't have adult brains, and there's nothing anyone can do about that. They are physically different. You can't expect a 12 year old to dunk a basketball, and you can't expect a 12 year old to think like an adult.
> Go is designed with a human centric view, IMHO: "Make writing great programs easier rather than design a language with novel/cutting edge features, but with a high cognitive load", and I find it as a noble aim as Rust's guarantees and aspirations.

I don’t understand his horrid informal writing style trend. You are clearly not quoting anyone and just providing your own interpretation. So why in the hell are you using quotation marks? In this case you could just ditch the quotation marks altogether since the colon already acts as a separator.
This is fully pathetic. I expect poor quality from Marcus bit this really takes the cake.

>LeCun, 2022: Reinforcement learning will also never be enough for intelligence; Marcus, 2018: “ it is misleading to credit deep reinforcement learning with inducing concept[s] ”

> “I think AI systems need to be able to reason,"; Marcus 2018: “Problems that have less to do with categorization and more to do with commonsense reasoning essentially lie outside the scope of what deep learning is appropriate for, and so far as I can tell, deep learning has little to offer such problems.”

>LeCun, 2022: Today's AI approaches will never lead to true intelligence (reported in the headline, not a verbatim quote); Marcus, 2018: “deep learning must be supplemented by other techniques if we are to reach artificial general intelligence.”

These are LeCun's supposed great transgressions? Vague statements that happen to be vaguely similar to Marcus' vague statements?

Marcus also trots out random tweets to show how supported his position is and one mentions a Marcus paper with 800 citations as being "engaged in the literature". But a paper like Attention is all you need that currently has over 40,000 citations. THAT is a paper the community is engaged with. Not something with less than 1/50th the citations.

This is a joke...
> But the idea that companies are just hiring extra people "because they can" in order to "build empires" and "have reports" is one of the most nonsensical things I've ever heard.

This definitely happens, I'm not saying that is the case here, but to dismiss it outright is pretty nonsensical in my view. Obviously it's not the "company" strategy to hire people and waste money, but company incentives and individual incentives start diverging very quickly in large cash flush companies.

The best thing for the company isn't necessarily the best thing for an individual to get promoted. I have definitely worked on projects that were entirely pointless and only existed to "use up resources" and justify hiring more. Bigger teams require more levels of middle management which results in promotions.

Again, not saying this is the case here.
So I never used "bouton" for "to push forward", and while it is used for a pimple, above all, today, a bouton is simply... a button.
You're not gonna replace people who make phone calls all day without something more or less indistinguishable from strong AI. Nobody wants robo-calls.