skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only lesson I learend from this whole debacle is never trust people and organisations you know from the Internet no matter how famous or humble or good they are. Trust the tech. But never the people. Especially for financial advices.

Be it Sequoia. Or Yc. PG, Chamath, Mark Cuban ,Balaji or the Collision brothers. Tom Brady or SBF or CZ. Never fucking trust people or organisations.

They are all here for their financial upsides.

Only trust the tech. The maths. If you can't do the work you would be fucked by them.

That's all.

I am not saying PG did something shady. I am saying even a well regarded figure like him in this community should not be taken for granted unless they back their claims by sold evidence.
>So now we also have AI trained on AI images

It doesn't matter, and never did in the first place. All large models (including SD) are already trained on other models output, since there's simply no possible way to have a high quality tagged dataset of the size they need. Smaller models are used to classify the data for larger ones, then the process is repeated for even larger models, with whatever manual data you have. Humans only select the data sources, and otherwise curate the entire bootstrapping process. This kind of curated training actually produces better results.
I think the most annoying part about errors due to missing initialisation is that (especially with variables on the stack, so not those allocated with Malloc) they are coincidentally pre-filled with values from the functions that were called immediately before the current function. So instead of completely random behaviour you see somewhat random behaviour. And an off by 5 error is a lot harder to track than a off by several thousands error.
it's unsafe because it can lead to leakage of confidential information, and has many times in the past, but that's not the most common problem

the most common problem is that you write some code that dynamically allocates memory, you test it, it works fine, and then you write more code that depends on it, and later on (weeks, months, years) you run into some hard to reproduce bug

after a weekend of debugging it turns out your code only worked fine when you tested it because malloc was allocating freshly mapped pages the kernel had zeroed for you. so you didn't notice that you left some fields uninitialized in your records. ooops. you didn't need that weekend with your kids anyway

for this reason many debug allocators initialize your malloced memory as a form of offensive programming, and valgrind reports it as a bug if your program's behavior depends on uninitialized memory
Reddit fingerprints you very aggressively. Cookies are not used here. Every single pageload, they scan all your fonts, plugins, etc.

They also exfiltrate this data back in ways to prevent blocking, by completely randomizing the API endpoint used to submit it and also not use a dedicated endpoint. For example on each pageload it might send to /submit, or /register, or /friend, it'll just pick a random valid endpoint and "front" that

They also continue to do this while you are logged out to tie your IP to the fingerprint.

hxxps://www.redditstatic.com/reddit-init.en.4-tSxFR4sOk.js

^F "Arial"

Commonly spoofed fingerprints will result in a permanent ban automatically.
Remember the Wirecard collapse, where there was a fake bank account in the Phillipines that allegedly had $2.1 billion USD in it?

This is the crypto equivalent.
Actually, I predict there will be a software engineer glut in Big Tech like never before in an year or so because:

1. Many visa workers will go back to their (big-tech-less) home countries. Many won't be coming back. Many who were planning to emigrate will not.

2. If you're a CS senior and on the fence about doing a PhD, maybe the headlines will nudge you towards staying in school. Same for career changers.

3. People will value the bird in hand more than ever before. If earlier 30% more money was enough to get someone to hop over, it will take more to make them throw away a stable situation.
Sooo the server is banned, problematic users move off it coz they can't get anything from outside on it and... move on

How that helps ? It just makes impossible for small server admin to take vacation...
It would be interesting for there to be the option to see what formats your historical clients do support, allow selection of a set of them to generate a best common format list for, and all configuring your server to automatically transcode new content to some of those formats. I suspect many of us have a few high-quantity or quality-outlier consumers that it would be useful to be able to pre-transcode newer content, that's the most likely to be consumed, for.
FTX says it’s removing trading and withdrawals, after a $477M hack
>I've read that most of the apartments are owned by companies, and you have to work for the company to have access to the apartment.

Did you read that in the linked PDF, which says it on the first page?

>Almost all the accommodation is owned by employers. In most cases, you must have a job in order to get accommodation.
What if they ran the simulation for too long, and accidentally created advanced life? Ethically they would be forced to continue to run it, otherwise they would be committing murder.

As a consequence, their government may have banned these types of simulations, to avoid the responsibility of keeping it alive until life is extinct. We are one of the few simulations that are still running

If they simply created us by mistake, we may be very different from what they are. Even the laws of physics could be different.

It would explain the Fermi paradox. They could be stopping advanced life to evolve on other planets, as they want to reduce the scope of the simulation. They created us by mistake and are waiting for advanced life on this planet to become extinct, so that they can finally shut down the expensive simulation.
computer scientists doing metaphysics is funnier than philosophers doing computer science
Oh, that's even worse
> I know rust considers uninitialized memory unsafe but I don't get why. All that really matters is that we initialize it to something.

In the specific case of Rust, no, because not all values are valid. E.g., in the case of Rust, bool must be true (literally 1) or false (0); other values are UB. &str data must be valid UTF-8. Violating these invariants can cause other code that might depend on them to do odd things. E.g., an Option<bool> might rely on one of the other 254 values for the None variant[1], a UTF-8 decoder knowing the data "is" valid UTF-8 need not bound check continuation bytes leading to accesses outside the butter.

> Why can't we wait and let that be the first value that's actually meaningful instead of wasting time writing 0's?

Well, in Rust, see MaybeUninit (https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/mem/union.MaybeUninit.h...). The docs page goes into the UB a bit, too (and names the above examples). So, you can … but it's often easier to just write a 0 or a known value & let the compiler make sure it's safe and optimize it out if it can.

[1]: Example: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio... — Option<bool> is 1 byte because the Option can take advantage of bool only using 2 out of 256 values of its byte. Cf. https://frehberg.com/2022/01/rust-memory-layout-optimization... and the first link in that.
The growth in population will never reverse. The decline in population will never reverse.
more bananas on the outside
It reminds me of the first illustration of a cell I saw in school. Beautiful.
A HTML Document standard would be great.

What is stopping you explicitly defining such a standard? Gruber did it with Markdown and that seems to have gone pretty well.

I use HTML for all my notes and writing, and I guess I have my own loosely defined "Standard" in the sense that I use a subset of tags, very light use of CSS, a predefined document structure, and I use the abbreviated model of HTML that doesn't require certain tags to be closed.
>if it is possible for our society, someday, to simulate a universe with the fidelity that we ourselves observe in our universe

That's the biggest if I've read all day.
It is all about negotiating.
Twitter and Meta's collapse and seeing more people joining Mastodon.
I always wanted my phone and tablet devices to serve as mini heaters/hand warmers. Thanks!
> It's a sophisticated interpolation, not so different from linear interpolation: a*x + (1-a)*y

These algorithms are specifically non-linear a far cry from ‘linear interpolation’ unless you want to water down the meaning of interpolation to be so generic it loses its meaning.

Having said all that - the sophistication of the algorithm is beyond the point here as long as what they are generating is substantially transformative (which >99% of the possible outputs are legally speaking).
https://www.spitsbergen-svalbard.com/2021/04/20/victims-of-d...
Also, probably interesting to mention, is that I'm obviously well aware of this, because I'm developing Flockingbird, which is fediverse "professional social network" (think: LinkedIn)
> Imagine if JP Morgan Chase's entire value was in JP Morgan Chase stock

The value of JP Morgan Case is the total value of their stock, almost by definition.

Buy backs are also basically a transfer of a company's cash to company stock and are regularly done by US corporates.

The difference here is that they secured debt against their own company assets so that when the value of the company went down, they went into more debt relative to their asset value.

They were also leveraging an asset which was highly volatile and which could be easily targeted by bad actors. Anyone with any experience in risk management understands that your leverage should be proportional to the volatility of the asset you're leveraging. This is why you get large loans backed assets like real estate, but not stocks. Stocks drop 20-30% every few years where as real estate is far more stable.

If they were leveraging dogecoin instead of their own token the result would have been the same.
How Twitter’s contentious new fact-checking project works
https://archive.ph/VdbC7
Not a lot of people play their games in Ironman mode.
in case anyone of you ever come back to this thread lol

https://arc.net/gift/1138fc8b
Languages and kernels don't exactly have the same design considerations. Types and compilers are trying to help you write valid programs for your benefit. A kernel only has access to machine code representation of your possibly buggy or malicious program. Sure, your language or libc might provide a convenient and object based API to the kernel but these are just wrappers over the basic number and pointer to C struct soups based syscall APIs that machine code can interface with. I.e. there's nothing exactly preventing you from providing the wrong numbers and bad structs aside from the "higher layer in the stack". At least you're allowed to mispell `cnect` accessibly so from the shell.

There are ways around this ofc like the Android Runtime that requires any code that interfaces with it to be written in Java adjacent bytecode that gets compiled to machine code (and cached) by the runtime (after being checked I imagine).
Polarization. People that see crypto as a Ponzi scheme would never invest time or money into something like SBF. End of story. On the other hand the people that actively invest in crypto would have had no reason to dismiss SBF. It’s a money making scheme and he was making money.
I started using plex when my synology nas stopped supporting smb1 and Sonos doesn’t support anything newer.

Do any of the competing solutions work with Sonos and have iOS and webOS (LG TV) apps?
ive been fascinated by euclidean rhythms for the past 10 years or so, and while playing with the pattern ended up coming across a more general flexible abstraction built upon euclidean rhythms that can generate every rhythm, which ive laid out over at https://github.com/clumsycomputer/clumsy-math#recursive-eucl....

euclidean rhythms are also great for generating / selecting musical scales and chords among other things
Risk management for traditional derivatives is hard, risk management for crypto derivatives is almost impossible.

Even if "exchange" doesn't misappropriating customer funds, the customers themselves can easily become insolvent in a moment, and then it will cascade to every other market participant.
You are joking, but the Proto-Germanic language (the ancestor of all current Germanic languages (English, German, Dutch, Icelandic, Faroese, etc. (sorry for the nested parens, but this is a Lisp thread))) is actually called “urgermansk” in Scandinavia.
I think you're trying to suggest that some ideas are mutually exclusive when they're not.

There is nothing inconsistent about saying both "we have no idea whether intelligent life exists in the universe" and "based on the information we have today, and some rubric I came up with, I believe there may be an X% chance that there is other intelligent life in the universe". These are not opposing views, and no cognitive dissonance is required to sincerely hold both of them in one's mind.

The Drake Equation isn't "science"; your argument that it is pseudoscience is just not even applicable or pertinent. Science is merely making hypotheses, testing them, and using the results to develop frameworks that allow us to explain and make predictions about the universe around us. The Drake Equation is obviously not that; it's a thought experiment, a conjecture, a means of attempting to assign weight to various possibilities. The equation itself is not a result of science that has been done, but we can certainly use scientific knowledge to plug numbers into it.

Along those lines, we might do science in order to have better numbers to plug into the Drake Equation (consider that we already can do that, by using the past couple decades of exoplanet research). That doesn't, of course, mean that the Drake Equation is correct, or that it assigns the proper weights to various conditions, or even includes conditions that actually matter. I don't think anyone credible would claim that the Drake Equation (or anything else that claims to do something similar) is the authority on the intelligent life question. It's just an imprecise starting point that some people (clearly not you, but that's fine!) find interesting, and in my view, it actually helps illustrate how little we know.
The current C2x (aka C23) draft finally spells the behaviour out explicitly:

> 7.24.3.2 The calloc function

> […]

> Returns

> The calloc function returns either a pointer to the allocated space or a null pointer if the space
cannot be allocated or if the product nmemb * size would wraparound size_t.

https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n3054.pdf
Right. Apple is going to talk to Bloomberg and especially Mark Gurman more than the two words “no comment”. Highly unlikely and highly noteworthy when they actually do in this case.

Not sure what to make of it. It seems to me like a great way to make people think about “unwanted file sharing” and what it was used for recently in China.
Is this used on the VEMD in Heli’s, eg H130?
I agree it would smell amazing.

But offices! 90kg+ of living rosemary per person! When I worked in an office we didn't have anything like the space for that, even if you got rid of the desks and chairs and people. That would be quite something.
One interesting thing about the Atari 50 collection is to really see the games laid out on a timeline to see how the design sensibility and technical knowledge advances over time. As they point out in the interviews, this was the first ever "console lifecycle" and nobody really had any idea how things would change or eventually end. Stuff like Demons to Diamonds really is a huge step above Canyon Bomber despite being the same shooting gallery idea. And Solaris, which I hadn't played before, was just unbelievable - the gap between Combat and it dwarfs even the gap between e.g. FantaVision and God of War 2, if you know a bit about the 2600's technical design.

> To me, the Atari 2600 is where video games hit mainstream, but the NES is where it really took off and solidified video games a place in history.

This, I think, is pure recent bias. Nintendo is still around and Atari isn't, but Atari was massive in pop culture in their day.
I have a simpler explanation. She's 38 so if she wants kids she better have them before prison or she'll have none at all.
Maybe I misunderstood the study[1], but I don’t think the salary difference can be explained away by region.

“Class groups including “working-class” are based on parental occupation aged 14”

[1] https://departmentforopportunities.org/news/the-class-pay-ga...
It looks like DeviantArt sent out an update to placate its community [1] with some interesting technical implications:

1) DA tos stipulates that works of art needs to be opt-in for inclusion into AI datasets
2) scraping/downloading art will include a response header with "X-Robots-Tag: noimageai" to indicate individuals building models should not use the downloaded image in a dataset.

As someone overall empathetic to the artist community (who have had to deal with NFTs, copycats, difficult industry), I have no illusions that this will have a hard time standing up against fair-use laws. That being said, if you're looking to build an ai-art model, this might be worth paying attention to regardless if you decide to comply or not.

[1] https://www.deviantart.com/team/journal/Tell-AI-Datasets-If-...
Thanks, that makes much more sense now. Appreciated.
No, it's not at that scale at all. "Is there a god?" is not falsifiable, so we can't prove that either way. Whether or not reality can be simulated is something we actually can know, at least in the affirmative: if we do manage to construct such a simulation, then it is obviously possible, and the answer is obviously "yes". Of course, as long as we have not created such a simulation for ourselves, we may not be able to prove that it is not possible to do so.

Certainly we don't know the answer now! And it's possible -- but not certain -- that we will never know. But suggesting that it's on the same scale as the god question is just not correct.

> Might as well go full theist if you want to entertain this possibility.

That's pretty unscientific as well. We can't reject the possibility of a god, even if we know that we can't prove or disprove a god's existence through science. Science, as a tool, does not have unlimited applicability. Declaring that it is not possible for a god to exist is just as religious as declaring that one does. For the record, I don't think gods exist, at least not in the sense of anything described by any human religion, as a creator of the world or universe, or an arbiter of morality. But I at least have the humility to admit that I don't -- and can't -- know that for certain.

(I do consider that hyper-intelligent, hyper-technologically-advanced beings might exist, that are able to -- through technology -- examine and manipulate space-time to whatever degree they desire. Are they "gods"? Not necessarily in the way any human religion would consider, but they'd at least have the omnipotence/omniscience bits down pat. And who knows if they even exist, or if such technology is even possible.)
The startup space is rife with people just looking for a job.
The thing that I always wondered about with FTX (and Binance frankly) is how did they get so big so quickly. What did they have that caused so many people to use _their_ exchange. This is still unexplained and was a major red flag. Usually to grow that big takes many years. Just look at Coinbase.
Okay. Ignore then. Hypothesis proven wrong
Quite sure that most people couldn't afford a decent apartment in Paris.
Half joking. My point is that focusing on researchers isn’t that relevant, because the entire idea is a thought experiment. One that many people were philosophizing on before it became a ‘research’ topic.
According to Dmitry Kobak, some details in these figures are merely convergence artifacts, and no longer produced when using more recent versions of UMAP.

https://twitter.com/hippopedoid/status/1318917878364672001?l...
This summer as I came up to the largest main stage I have ever been to, around 40k people, I remember thinking “this is it, if we are in a simulation, it should glitch out now”, and exactly at that moment the only text in hours of trance came up - “I am physically independant neural network”.
AKS Security: 10 Proven Tactics for Securing Your Kubernetes Clusters
I need to make this jump at some point. I can cope with the money-grubbing UI changes but the Plex App for smart TVs and consoles is by far the worst piece of trash software I've ever used and certainly the worst I still use. It crashes constantly, it displays my progress in a video yet still restarts it from the beginning when I hit Resume, and it has absolutely no idea how to regulate its own performance. It will happily get so bogged down trying to apparently use a bitrate that's too high it takes over thirty seconds for the Back button to stop the video and return to the menu. It's not 2002 anymore, your video player should be able to tell when it's locking up every five seconds.
I love open source and free stuff, but I also understand that there is nothing for free.

This thread is packed with people wanting a free service, better open source for their (hopefully legal acquired) media.
The code of the services is written by programmers in (mostly) their free time, the movies are produced by professionals and all you want is it even more cheaper!
I wonder if you see that most of this "free stuff" you and I use every day was not accidentally "here" but financed by ads via Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Yahoo, etc.

Accept that sometimes ads are ok because it enables this freedom.

I myself use a pihole in my network to reduce the ads which works quite well to block annoying stuff.
It's becoming harder to have a meaningful discussion on the topic of what defines art and what place AI generated images have moving forward. It feels like defending either side will cause backlash and people will implicitly include extra conclusions with a response.

There is a place for AI art generation and there is a place for artists. NFTs were interesting in how they overvalued otherwise mediocre art. These models are interesting in how they bring down the cost and experience needed for making derivative art.

To me, the creativity still lies in someone being able to produce something meaningful. Art is about being able to convey ideas in a way that's impossible to communicate in some other way. An artist is someone that makes art. In that sense everyone who has generated art is an artist. Oversaturating the world with derivative art will only make novel things stand out more.

It's very hard to share a nuanced take on this topic because this argument has become framed in such a binary way. With something like medicine, the value of a doctor's opinion is very clear to a layperson. But when it comes to art, the value of an artist's perspective is not clear at all. However, I think making parallels to music makes it clear for me. AI generated music will replace elevator music at best, but I don't think the public fears ai models will ever replace musicians. At most ai will complement the art creation process. The "soul" and novelty in art will always come from an idea another human wants to communicate.
maybe not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33580653

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