skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This.

The conflating of an authentically derived status ("This person is real") with a paid form of status both defeats the purpose of the first, and is somewhat telling about a particular mindset.
Should we be messing with asteroid orbits?
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33309969 for a recent thread on this.
How completely unsurprising - a person who grew up in a country most famous for chop yo dolla gives two fucks about the context of achieving his personal desires at the expense of those actually willing to do the work. It’s his own goddamn narrative. I hope Disney bankrupts him as a consequence to his ignorant and selfish actions.
You sure about that? From what I remember the smoking gun email that said "10% for the big guy" is from 2017. Notably not when Joe Biden was in office.
Can the current energy demand of the United States be met cost-effectively with wind, solar, and batteries?

I'm a huge proponent of these technologies but the answer to that question in 2022 is still no.

"Ending" domestic coal production would cause a drop in GDP that would make 2020 look like child's play.
or they were anchoring the price at $20 so $8 feels like a deal. not rocket science. :P
As long as the VR that Zuck is building is just another walled garden, I am not at all interested.

Why wouldn't I play Minetest, OpenTTD, or whatever other social videogame for which I can host a server myself?

I see little value in artificial scarcity coupled with complete surveillance, and awkward and expensive hardware requirements.
paying 8 dollars for a checkmark is also a bad idea...
putting trump back on twitter is also a huge bad idea...

he is full of bad ideas and will bring twitter down with most of them

though I like the idea of bringing vine back.
We are switching over slowly. That's literally the status quo. The argument of "we could end coal for X dollars" is what introduces the idea of a discrete value into this discussion.

How can you know what we will spend unless you specify a time interval? Clearly we won't be burning coal in 100 years. Maybe not even 50. Or 30.
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I'd like a feature that reminds me of a particular piece of information at a logarithmic cadence so I can commit it to memory better by being reminded a few times within a few weeks/months, but then a nudge 6 months down the line, etc.
"sanction" is one of the dumbest words on earth. "to give official approval" vs "impose a penalty".
"Leading by example " having heard that in a long time I believe it's called "virtue signaling " now. That should tell you how well that would work
the genuine reason why certain rich people don't act rich has nothing to do with status gains or zero sum games. There's plenty of rich people who do indeed act rich. Pick your favorite sports superstar.

The real difference is between new and old money. The nouveau riche like to show off because they're fixated with the idea that they've earned it themselves, very much on display among super rich techies. It's precisely the "non zero-sum" people who love to signal their wealth openly because they take it for granted that their wealth is based on merit.

It's your old money folks who have some sense of noblesse oblige who understand that wealth most of the time is indeed pretty zero sum and who think of flaunting wealth one as distasteful and secondly as potentially stupid if it attracts attention, which new money craves and old money does not.
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Ah, the POTUS spyware/fitness provider!
They usually just reject the invoice with late fees and quote their stated 90 day policy. Also usually they will redline it if you try to put net-30 and just change it to net-90 anyway.
Pretty sure this is the same technology as used for e.g. IBM Digital Health Pass, which underlies things like NY's Excelsior Covid pass.
As a Pixel 5 user I don’t really have any complaints about the cameras. If you pixel peep it definitely shows up, and I suppose the 48MP would be better, but gcam (Google camera) is probably one of the best pieces of software on android.

Having said that, I would love to see a large sensor camera with gcam esque chops. It’s not too hard to run into the limitations of the small sensor.
> Firstly, many poor countries are doing some of that. Look at China.

China is far from a poor country... by some measurements they outpace even the US.

> Secondly, the cost curves are decreasing for a reason

This is true - however we also need to recognize the technology is not ready today. It might be tomorrow, but throwing everything out and going full-in on green tech today is foolhardy. Some prominent states in the US already struggle to keep electricity on year round... how on earth can we expect new tech to not only do better but be cheaper in that environment? What chance do developing nations have if the wealthiest nations cannot solve this already?

> Thirdly, rich countries should subsidize the energy transition of poor countries

I agree on some level. However I do not agree with pushing unproven technology just because it makes us feel good day. That will just burn developing nations and make them less likely to trust us next time we come up with some amazing new solution to all their problems...
You can try that, but it's really difficult to tune so it's useful. The amount of time the server has to waste computing hashes is too close to the amount of time an attacker has to waste to break at least some of them.

It's just not hard enough to guess a potentially valid phone number. With passwords, hashing only helps because the probability of a valid password is _very_ low, and because you don't need to look up a password, only check if it's the right one for joeblow (so you can salt them individually).
> Similarly, I didn't accuse you of being inappropriately emotionally invested...

Sorry I think I read something that wasn't there, apologies. My bad for being jumpy.

> I'm more fascinated that people see someone doing something wildly illogical and then say to themselves, "well it's Musk, he must have his reasons"... yeah, I'm sure he has his reasons. That doesn't mean they are good and I have no idea why anyone would assume so given how all of this transpired.

For me it's curiosity. Twitter always seems like the struggling social media. Unable to really make a revenue despite it's disproportionate influence in developed nation discourse. At this point, I consider Musk to be a loose canon and I would not do business with him unless costs appropriately reflected risks.
"Strong disagree. Twitter currently only exists as a bullhorn for already famous people, or a few lucky early adopters."

Not if you curate it at all.

My two Twitter accounts are dominated by...my fellow academics on one of them, and niche hobbyists on the other.
Is there a way with Mastodon to have an account on a hosted server but use an ID from a domain you control? Like if I wanted to have my ID be @me@social.apitman.com but pay for an account on another server rather than have my own.

Seems like it should be possible with Let's Encrypt.
it's a cross-sectional study and thus cannot be used to infer causality, so it doesn't warrant behavioral changes?
The most common scam I see on Twitter is imposter accounts replying to a real person with a link to some crypto scam. Right now you can usually immediately tell it's a different person since the reply doesn't have a check mark, this system seems like it will make it easier since the scammer can just get a checkmark.
> Forgive me for this analogy but it's in the news: Imagine if NATO just said one day

No, I definitely won't forgive you your 'analogy', because it's sneaking in a highly irresponsible argument for military escalation into a completely unrelated discussion.
These days the standard behavior of other nations is to keep enough reserve fuel and power to perform a controlled reentry of any spent stages or to design the vehicles such that the part that reaches orbit is small.
I mentioned this in a different HN thread today, but I'm gonna say it again anyway: if I can get a publicly-available "standard" price for launching something into outer fucking space¹, it's absolutely ridiculous that I can't get the same for something multiple orders of magnitude cheaper. Will that "standard" price be negotiated? Sure. Whatever. Just throw out some number instead of forcing the buyer and seller to mutually waste each other's time on basic information gathering.

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¹: https://www.spacex.com/media/Capabilities&Services.pdf
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I have some experience implementing deeprl models, statistical physics simulations, pre/post deep learning revolution AI algorithms and a couple of simple games. My degree was in theoretical physics. My interests are broad, so I'd be fine learning new stuff for a job, or working as a front end, or back end , dev, or doing ML research or designing high performance numerical simulations for SDEs or whatever.
> “I think the 12 MP shooting default is a wise choice on Apple’s part, but it does mean that the giant leap in image quality on iPhone 14 Pro remains mostly hidden unless you choose to use a third party app to shoot 48 MP JPG / HEIC images or shoot in ProRAW and edit your photos later.”

This, 100%.

The massive difference in image quality is when shooting in RAW. That’s when you actually get the 48MP & the images are fantastic.

But that’s not the default. The default is 12MP.

That’s why reviewers are so torn on this camera system. If the default was a 48MP picture/quality, everyone would be praising it. But when the default is 12MP, it’s par for the course.
My replies to Tweets aren't even in the always-dead bin at the bottom. The bin where you have to click to "Show additional replies, including those that may contain offensive content".

Literally it has penis pics, OnlyFans referrals, and an occasional sliver of humanity which has me question what they did to be flagged as always dead. But not my replies.

My replies only appear on my profile under the Tweets and replies tab.

In some cases, I would rather be in the click for more 'penis bin' than be shadowbanned.

People should Tweet directly at the person instead of hogging the reply space with OT insults.

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I'm thinking a little bit of empathy doesn't hurt. Reason from Hollie's point of view. She didn't ask for this and was working on cool stuff:

https://holliemengert.com/

Next, somebody grabs her work (copyrighted by the clients she works for), without permission. Then goes on to try and create an AI version of her style. When confronted, the guy's like: "meh, ah well".

Doesn't matter if it's legal or not, it's careless and plain rude. Meanwhile, Hollie is quite cool-headed and reasonable about it. Not aggressive, not threatening to sue, just expressing civilized dislike, which is as reasonable as it gets.

Next, she gets to see her name on the orange site, reading things like "style is bad and too generic", a wide series of cold-hearted legal arguments and "get out of the way of progress".

How wonderful. Maybe consider that there's a human being on the other end? Here she is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWiwZLJVwi4

A kind and creative soul, which apparently is now worth 2 hours of GPU time.

I too believe AI art is inevitable and cannot be stopped at this point. Doesn't mean we have to be so ruthless about it.
> They are most likely built from existing AI frameworks, most of which are already open sourced (e.g. Tensorflow, PyTorch, Keras, etc.). Most of the mathematical equations that underpin these frameworks are published in academic journals, open to anyone who can understand them to implement, verify, and backtest

Are the algorithms actually grokable or will it just end up creating unhappiness, confusion, or more conflict. I can't imagine the algorithms take any for that will make the average person or political persona who believes the algorithm is biased happy.
I think it would do both tbh.
Can you name the MrBeast or PewDiePie of twitter?
yes great point, without a doubt he put together $44B and never once thought about what he would do once he acquired it.
Slashdot never scaled… it was news for nerds.

Reddit downvote and twitter out of context quotes.

HN isn’t much better.

Twitter is for tweets and not replies..

Never read the comments.
You'd want some sort of TPM for that to be viable.
If the haters had any virtue to signal then they'd just do that instead. You hate the game not the player, but that's just because you're* losing it.

* you referrs to people that use that stupid phrase, not you
The tariffs only hurt your own citizens.

The nations that matter for emissions are not going to care about US tariffs...
This is false; people end up with tons of money all sorts of different ways, from inheritance, to luck, divorce, lawsuits, hard-work hustling and grinding, or even criminal activity like fraud or embezzlement.

You generally can't know for certain, except in some cases such as a public figure. Lots of people expend vast amounts of energy projecting the image of wealth in a [pathetic] attempt to gain status, and they're faking it to the max.

As the saying goes:

"Mo' money, mo' problems."
Sanctions do not matter to China. They will just have their nation state backed hackers hack into aerospace and defense contractors and steal their R&D instead. Thats the Chinese way and MO. Anything to further the Chinese economy.

They have hacked nearly every F100 they needed to and steal hundreds of billions in IP annually already.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_intellectual_pr...

- https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/09/china-state-backed-hackers-c...

- https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/02/politics/china-hacking-espion...
If you're famous, you'll almost certainly have a twitter account, although there are obviously exceptions. The same just doesn't seem to go for YouTube. Creating content on YT is a lot more time-consuming than creating it on Twitter, of course.
> With the advent of generative AI art, it seems immoral from a fiduciary responsibility point of a view that an art director doesn't train an AI model on their illustrator's art before laying them off.

If they do that, the quality of illustrations they'll get will be vastly worse (as can be seen from the comparisons in the article). If they were willing to spend $1000 on an illustration in the first place, I doubt they'd accept that quality drop.
That is a really good point that I hadn’t considered. Presumably this comes at the risk of dropped packets if the upstream link becomes saturated? Does one just size the links accordingly to avoid that?
Yes I do agree. I'm definitely not saying that there are no valid reasons for gas in SF to have price differences from gas in let's say Alabama or something, there definitely are
If any number is going to be shit on may as well pick one that has a fun story
You’re confusing “everywhere differentiable” with “differentiable at the points we care about.” g(x) = abs(x) is differentiable almost everywhere (not in the Cantor’s Staircase sense, but in a practical sense), and that’s enough for gradient descent to work in practice. And fitting models by gradient-descent-like methods is the single unifying feature of deep learning.

I don’t understand the implementation thing you’re worrying about. Assuming it takes the same inputs to the same outputs, how you implement a function has no bearing on its limit properties, which is what differentiability is about.
I had a conversation with a prof from University of the Pacific (which is in Stockton, go figure) who was in charge of their piano program. He strongly contested the "new Steinways are shit" trope, after playing a whole lot of them and buying them for his students.

There's actually a book I read about the making of one particular Steinway concert grand, which is now retired after an illustrious career on stage at Carnegie Hall and other big places. I think this is it: https://www.amazon.com/88-Keys-Making-Steinway-Piano/dp/0517...

(reviews are a little mixed, so read those before you buy it.)
Differential Privacy only proves that it cannot leak a certain amount of information about individual samples of the training set. This only guarantees the input is not leaked exactly back, any composition of the training set is valid, although in image generation this usually means a very distorted image.

An example of DP in image generation (using GANs): https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10283631
Why even allow this? Just makes things less competitive and pays people to be unproductive.
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It's interesting how so much of what we used to consider 'being a decent person' is now 'virtue signaling'. It's the most cynical, worthless meme to come out of the last 50 years and that's saying a lot.
>But I'm also a musician/artist and so I find some of these conversations odd. The problem with them I see is that they are oversimplified. To get better at drawing I often copy other works. Or I'll play a piece exactly as intended. Then I get more advanced and learn a style of someone I admire and appreciate. Then after that comes my own flair.

>So I ask, what is different between me doing it and a machine?

You are a human. If you practice art as a hobby you can feel pleasure doing it, or you can get informal value out of the practice (there is social value in showing and sharing hobbies and works with friends). One could try to formalize that value and make a profession out of it, get livelihood selling it.

When all that "machinery" to (learn to) produce artistic works was sitting inside human skulls and difficult to train, the benefits befell on the humans.

When it is a machine that can easily and cheaply automate ... the benefits are due to the owner of machine.

Now, I don't personally know if the genie can be put back into bottle with any legal framework that wouldn't be monstrous in some other way. However, ethically it is quite clear to me there is a possibility the artists / illustrators are going to get a very bad deal out of this, which could be a moral wrong. This would be a reason to think up the legal and conceptual framework that tries to make it not ... as wrong as it could be.

It could be that we end up with human art as a prestige good (which it already is). That wouldn't be nice, because of power law dynamics of popularity already benefit very few prestige artists. So it could get worse. But could we end up with a Wall-E world where there are no reason for anyone to learn to draw any well? When a kid asks "draw me a rabbit", they won't ask any of the humans around, they ask the machine. The machine can produce a much more prettier rabbit, immediately and tailored to their taste.
Donald trump?
My current employer tried to make me sign a noncompete clause and I asked them for precisely this.

They were flabbergasted that I wanted compensation in exchange for essentially cutting myself off from a wide swath of employment opportunities.

“Aren’t you our slave to do with as we see fit!?” was very much the attitude that I was getting.
It's definitely real! At least as far as my N=1 dataset is concerned. I dislike having to pick a seat when they're all kind of the same. Just tell me where to go, I have to make enough decisions at other times in life.
Doesn't seem like too bad a method to me. Apart from in situations where you have a ton of data (e.g. Amazon) most product prices are pulled out of someone's arse anyway.
The way that the USA would "close all of its coal mines" would involve replacing that production with different domestic energy production; not by becoming reliant on foreign energy markets.
Nice thing about this is how easy it is to implement. But if it ever says 'no' then there is a bug.
> When you turn a tree into a house you create value.

Of course, because the tree has no value, right? As long as you call things you don't care about "externalities" you can trivially prove anything is a positive-sum game.
I mean a pollutant has no upside. Being intoxicated has a lot of upsides including a good time, stress relief, community etc.
if you only proof the price was $20 is because "journalists" reported it as so then I question your ability to critical think and judge facts because "journalists" report false things every day all day

there is little to no evidence it was ever really $20, and even less evidence that Elon's mind was changed by Stephen King of all people... Who care what Stephen King thinks?

More likely it was always going to be $8
This is normal for a community. These statistics naturally fall in line with the Pareto Principle, and the concept of the vital few. [0]

> Twitter has nothing to do with "humanity as a whole". It's obvious that the group that uses Twitter is niche yet highly engaged.

You are confusing posting on Twitter with using it. The vast majority are lurkers who still consume information and then regurgitate that information in real life on other platforms. The statistics you provided don't paint an accurate picture of the "usefulness" of Twitter in modern public discourse.

Do you have a better popular example of a modern day forum?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
No? It is not undeniable. Maybe for a huge chunk of people who require socialization or they eat themselves. But this bizarre idea that you HAVE to have friends and romance to be healthy is ridiculous.
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Get into all the same trouble as Facebook. Stop thinking that more data is the answer. The problem is we don't know how to make ethical companies capable of dealing with the data they have. Fix that first. Please.
Totally right.

And Musk's answer was to offer $8/m

King wasn't talking about paying anything
Why don't we forget that since it's expensive. How about "fix the leaks or we'll bomb presidental palaces"
Only if you're an algebraeist. There's a lot more to math than algebra.
I guess it depends on what kind of content you're looking for. One account I follow tweets what amounts to live reviews of video games (often obscure) with video clips and images. I think that's just as 'proper' as anything I've seen on pinterest or tiktok.
Not interested in deflection, and not interested in passive aggressive quips like "is a pretty interesting/illuminating choice", either.

> I still think you're reading a lot into this thread that is not there

To reiterate the background for this discussion: a participant in this thread went a step further than what you're saying here and literally* wrote things in that weren't really there.

* literally literally, not the other kind
Treaties require that no waste can be dumped there by anyone.
Apple has not chosen to bless the plebs with this functionality, so it does not exist.
But very possibly the type of clownish take Musk is trying to monitize by charging for access to it.