skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes I agree with you that the risks are low.

But I disagree fervently and am offended with the parent comment. It doesn't make one foolish or prideful to take ownership over evaluating the cost/benefit. As an asocial person who prefers it online: parent commenter, kindly [edit: mind your own business]
So far, "social credit" hasn't been very efficient or even operational ("back in 2014, the plan was to have a national system tracking all “social credit” ready by 2020. Now it’s almost 2023, and the long-anticipated legal framework for the system was just released in the November 2022 draft law.") and the article doesn't offer recommendations on how to improve that, so I don't get your "how to improve nazi gas chamber efficiency" comparison.

Is there actually any concrete way in which the social credit score system is benefiting concentration camps?
Some languages that integrate with an HTTP server and a database:

Ur/Web: http://impredicative.com/ur/

Dark (Darklang): https://darklang.com/
> For me, all of that is a bunch of irrelevant noise.

I share that exact same experience you describe.

For me, learning is all about making connections between the new material and material I already know.

If I kept notes I would have to do three things at once: (1) Follow the material, (2) try to question the material and search my brain for material I already know to make connections with, and (3) take notes, and there's just not enough cognitive capacity to do all three.

Taking notes means turning off the making-connections piece, and that's the most valuable piece to me, and I believe that this is not just a subjective experience, but something that would affect other people too: Focussing on note-taking instead of connections, creates a qualitatively different learning outcome, namely one that leans more towards superficial rote reproduction and less towards real understanding.

In school, when the teacher said something that was unclear or that flat out made no sense, I'd frequently be the one to ask for clarification. Then 20 other heads would pop up from their note-taking and notice that they didn't understand it either, but somehow they didn't notice, and I did. ...they would have happily reproduced the material that made no sense given the right prompt in an exam situation, but that didn't change anything about the fact that they didn't understand it.

What's more: I couldn't engage in that style of learning even if I wanted to. Like: If I tried to turn off the part of my brain that searches for meaning, e.g. when something simply has no meaning, like an exact date of an event in history that I need to know for an exam, then I still wouldn't remember the damned date, plus I wouldn't remember any of the broad themes either. The only thing that would happen would be that my brain would be bored and would wander off thinking about something else that's more interesting.
In fact, both "kaiser" and "czar" came from "caesar". Imperial Russia and Imperial Germany both thought of themselves as descending from Rome.
Head in Hands: Notes on the Extraction and Display of Human Heads
Holy!
The funny thing is that I basically agree with you 100%. I constantly rail against, and mercilessly tease, companies building with microservices from day 1 or going with low-level high-performance languages like golang or rust before they even have a single customer "because FAANG does it". Monolith until you literally can't anymore. High level until you are forced to use something lower.

I did say that Rails is perfectly adequate for certain classes of applications. I guess the point I was trying to make, poorly as it turns out, is that for consumer applications at least, Rails is no longer the "sweet spot" and you hit up against its limitations earlier than ever and will, not might, will be forced to deploy ever more complex workarounds for basic functionality that you get out of the box in something like Phoenix. OK, forget websockets. How about scheduling a daily summary email? Daily reports? Anything other than a build-the-world, serve-request, tear-down-the-world HTTP query? Now you're running some separate thing and boom, there goes the simplicity.

I get you. I'm the "use boring tools" guy as well. But the tools have to be actually capable of doing the job, and the job has changed, well the kind of things I seem to be involved with have changed, and the Rails productivity "edge" lasts weeks at best.
Indeed. It sounds soul-crushingly boring to me. She worked in a sweatshop, back when that was legal in the US. She couldn't afford the entertainment that's been available to me for my entire life. Used paperbacks were always affordable, even on my preteen allowance; it wasn't until adulthood that I learned that I was taking my comparative wealth for granted. When she could afford yarn or string, she'd crochet or tat... but she claimed to actually enjoy the solitaire. To me, it seems to be a monastic, meditative passtime. There's virtue in enjoying simple pleasures... but I'd probably lose it.
Can you elaborate on this? I found it to be a very insightful read?
Right but if you imported one of those crates, then your “safe” rust would have memory safety issues.

So bam, you just introduced memory safety issues into your web API. This is like a C++ dev using C++ and causing memory issues unnecessarily just because they don’t want to use a safe language.

And Elixir has concurrency and memory safety and it’s guaranteed, so no package you import can violate it. Unlike rust, where you can use safe rust and think there’s no violation, but then use a crate and suddenly have memory unsafety and concurrency violations.

These crates worries are wayyy better than normal C++, but they are terrible compared to any actually safe language.
And yet cargo-raze still requires cargo and is still experimental after 5+ years of development effort by folks from Google.

It is my fondest hope that the Linux folks will finally beat the cargo out of Rust.
I don't think the long painful decline for humans at the end is an avoidable thing.

Eventually there will only be iron stars around in the universe, and it will be exceedingly difficult to increase the entropy of the universe with them
A big one is physical harm from the job, be that pollution, dust, hazards, danger.
This is precisely the sort of thing I'd love to see shoved into a script or template instead of just a list of commands to run within a jail. For instance this would be perfect for a small ansible playbook using the jail connector. Or if you use iocage instead of bastille you could use nomad to build the image and/or distribute it as a ZFS snapshot

More nitpicky I'd drop the -j foo for bundle install as bundler already defaults to the number of processors (https://bundler.io/v2.3/man/bundle-install.1.html). I'd also suggest creating a UTF-8 login class and adding the mastodon and postgres users to that class instead of monkeying with shell init files since that'll work for any shell no matter how it's been invoked.

With postgres on a single combined instance I'd also drop all of the networking stuff. By default postgres should be listening on an AF_LOCAL socket and it should all just work. Rails should let you specify a path to a socket instead of a host/port combo, and psql(1) should default to looking for the socket.
SBF didn't act alone. Sequoia was heavily involved in this massive fraud and must be investigated along with a16z and the whole nexus.
He could have said it, instead of leaving it vague.

In this case, reference to Yubikey is not so relevant, since it was 2FA code that was hacked. If he wanted to use Yubikey with no fallback, he should have used Advanced Protection plan to force Yubikey.
>One of my formative experiences as a PhD student, in 2011, was submitting a replication study to the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, only to be told that the journal did not publish replications under any circumstances (you might be thinking, “WTF?” — and we were too).

A while back, I asked a psychology professor why replication studies were frowned upon. She said something like "studies need to be unique and never been done before" and "there's no money in replicating someone else's work". That's why replication studies are frowned upon.

If that's true, then I'm guessing we'll continue to get more Amy Cuddy's popping out of the social sciences.
Yeah. I'm surprised we haven't seen any more looks at the Japanese arbitrage story. I admit (as a non-crypto person) I had just assumed it was real until last week.

My totally unfounded hypothesis is that Sam made several million betting directionally on crypto and maybe even made a million on this Japanese temporary arbitrage. While most crypto betters are pretty isolated Sam knew with his connections he would be able to get in front of investors and he knew in order to get money he needed to say something that sounded more sophisticated.
I'm disappointed they didn't push parameter count higher, but I suppose they want to maintain the ability to run on older/lower end consumer GPUs. Unfortunately it severely limits how high-quality the output can be.
I think the chances of a new dark age are locally still non zero but globally very close to zero. The modern age, for lack of a better term, is cross cultural and includes science, engineering, cultural expression, and of course the internet in it's many forms and shapes. So, there are billions of people that are part of it and are sharing knowledge and teaching their offspring to be part of it. That's not going to stop happening even if some people and countries are desperately trying to do stop that from happening.

Of course those people might be locally very successful in keeping their people illiterate, poor, miserable, and suppressed for some time. You can find examples of that on most continents. But mostly, that tends to be a highly unstable situation because people don't tolerate being miserable and poor very long and inevitably come into contact with people that can teach them how to fix that. The more miserable they are, the bigger the incentive. That's how revolutions start.

That's how the dark ages ended in Europe. There were still people that knew how to read and write. The Roman empire fizzled out and moved east but it continued to exist. Constantinople was a cultured place for many centuries before it became Istanbul. And that eventually spread west again. What is now Austria and Germany actually used to be called the holy roman empire. Which was a thing that emerged out of the ruins of former actual roman empire after a few centuries of various tribes of Europe rebelling, converting to Christianity, and regaining literacy.

And that's just Europe. The Chinese, Indians, Persians, Arabs, etc. might have a few things to say about their long and interesting history. Europe was a bit of a back water for most of that.
Yes, but he gambled depositors' money.

He defrauded his customers.

He stole their deposits.

He stated he would not take their deposits, yet he did.

He committed fraud. He committed wire fraud.

He stole.
Part 2 is convince me not to buy it. This is the future.
Ignore the Linked text idea, in theory it is solved by the Memex like feature. It might lead to an over engineered trap.

Regarding the Memex like feature I did use it a lot, it worked like full text search for the HTML, they had a sync service that worked by importing your search history, I'm guessing they downloaded the HTML and stored it, so they could search against it. My usage of the service is a couple of years old so things might have changed, at the time it would crash when I did imports.

You already have search on highlights and full text on them, so maybe the Memex like feature isn't needed.

> How should it decide which article you want to re-read?

It could decide based on other users who also saved the article, this might require storing the data on your servers, maybe number of highlights made or just ask the users when they add it to their queue.

Nice extension, the more I use it the more I like it. I've even disabled Firefox reader mode in favor of this.

Hope you find a way to monetize, play around with other monetization strategies other than good-better-best or one size fits all price point. Maybe usage based on the queue? There might be heavy crowds of users who would have a higher willingness to pay for example the "Second Brain" crowd.

Links

Memex Site: https://memex.garden/

Recent Pricing Guide I've been working through:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33502567

Priceintelligently posts on hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=priceintelligently.co...

Some Lago Blog posts on pricing: https://www.getlago.com/category/product-billing
I am greatful for the cold water. Never been poor but a survival course where we had to make river water drinkable - your whole
day becomes about the water!
Steven Strogatz's Sync and Infinite Powers
It is well documented that he directly stole depositor's funds.
That doesn't necessarily mean that those kids will also be republican. Young people continuously move more to the left.

After all, the jokes about no politics at Thanksgiving has a lot to do with much more conservative old people having different ideas than the youth
So far Musk has been very busy "fixing" the code, although it's unclear what the problem is, and creating actual product and business problems. Advertisers fleeing, the weight of the Blue Checkmark decimated - in just a few days.

This has all the hallmarks of the new CTO rolling in hard with his old Crack Team and declaring that "everything here sucks, full rewrite, bitches".

I have zero tolerance for this bullshit. The last time that happened to me, I started looking for work right away and quit within weeks.
Valuing a gram on the low end of 10$ per gram puts that at millions of dollars in untraceable funds to use on hacking journalists phones
Google complicit in refusing to take down misinformation? I don't believe it.
Does it actually make anything in the corporate world better to use generated images in slides? When coworkers use stock photos which were presumably made by humans operating actual cameras, I don't think it's clear that their presentation is actually more valuable as a result.
As a counter-recommendation, Topaz’s much-advertised Gigapixel AI is rarely useful. Their Denoise and Sharpen apps are good though.
As a user, I switched to reddit. With subreddit it was so easy to move to a new forum and you'd get a single feed with new posts from all forums you were on. Signup barely qualified as sign up.

It's ranking algorithm was better than "newest activity", the collapsible trees made branching discussion tolerable, and the aging of posts kept those 2000 page long top posts with hundreds of branching discussions displayed linearly from happening.
Well, you can do it with an 8m-diameter primary mirror, because it's been done at Gemini Observatory. Keck and the VLT have directly imaged exoplanets as well. See this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_directly_imaged_exopla...
I'm working on a language/platform that combines pure core (no direct side-effects) with some procedural techniques (allow internal/local mutations) and no shared mutability (100% pass by value, copy-on-write is used to optimize quick deep snapshots of value trees).

I'm convinced this is the best combination of OOP and FP. I tried to find other languages like this, but I couldn't. Ironically the closest thing is how an SQL database works.

Does my description ring a bell to anyone?
How is it horrible? In my view, Twitter is actively harmful to society, so seeing it crash and burn is not only funny, but looks like a good thing, even if it means some highly-paid SWEs need to find new jobs.
The Foundations of Statistical Inference by L.J. Savage
I don't know if sites getting studies funded is unequivocally good.

It could mean some other promising research doesn't get funded
No one is clicking a video called "turning the earth into a telescope" to actually "turn the earth into a telescope". They are likely doing it for educational or entertainment purposes.

On the other hand almost everyone clicking a video called "Guide to replacing a toilet float valve" is actually looking to replace a toilet float valve.
> The so called "AI safety" researchers issuing breathless warnings about the dangers of superintelligence are nothing but grifters.

Who are you talking about exactly? Who are these alleged grifters and who are they grifting?

> There is zero actual scientific evidence to support their claims

What claims are you talking about, exactly? Let's get specific.
>My point is that there is precedent for governments requiring companies to implement restrictions on what images can be handled by their software

But images of boobs are still legal. So this NSFW filter seems to be much more above then the law asks. Is the issue is that even if you do not train with CP you might get the model so output something that some random person will get offended and label it as CP? I assume that other companies can focus on NSFW and have their lawyers figure this out, IMo would be cool that someone sues the governments and make them reveal facts about their concern that CP of fake or cartoon people is dangerous" , I think they could focus on saving real children then cartoon ones.
Why do you expect a victim of digital crimes to know and explain how it was done? Or to know about some "advanced protection plan?" Or to pedantically differentiate between hacking of 2FA code versus hacking of Yubikey? This is just a type of victim blaming based on a technical just-world narrative.
Just tried a bit, looks nice!
> Could You Be a Web Designer?
I have some young kids, would love to try this out with them if you’re sharing.
I mean, maybe it's not worse though. Maybe others would find what the other guy wants too narrow. There's a tension between only playing stuff you are 100% going to like and actually introducing you to stuff you haven't listened to.
Winning Ways For Your Mathematical Plays by Berlekamp, Conway and Guy
Ran into this too and was really bummed to ruin the surprise!
> huh, i didn't know they could be connected like that!

'Ground' is not necessarily 0V, it is just convenient to use it like that. If 'ground' is 0V then 12V - 0V = 12V, but if you make 'ground' -12V then that is 12V - (-12V) = 24V.
> However, the Dutch basically solved this problem and provided a logical framework for reasoning about imperative programs in a way based off the program text, with no need for attempting to mentally simulate the probably infinite set of possible processes it describes.

Do you mind clarifying what the framework is that you mean? A pointer would be helpful for me.
I do draw and write things by hand, but typing is absolutely faster, and ESPECIALLY because you can seamlessly edit.

And you know, printers exist.
This is typical Conservative victimhood. These "activists" and their "agenda" are out to cancel a rich man because he is more successful than them.

Or.. something.

Or maybe it's just, you know, shocking incompetence and being surprised at the consequences of being a tool.
Elixir. Lets you do stateful declarative stuff (talking to databases, communication, disk) with no fuss. No mutability, single line lambdas, fast function calls.

Plus, rediculously easy concurrency, customizable failure domains, first class concurrent testing...
That's a really interesting point, and it makes me realize that the Nancy Reagan 'what constitutes porn' question is obviously super old and problematic.

Also lexica.art is swarming with celebrity fantasy porn that just has a thin stylistic filter of paintings from the 19th century. And a plethora of furry daddies that you can't not love.

I get why these models should be curated but I also like that the sketchy porn possibilities keep them feeling un-padded / interesting / dangerous.

Then again this all is probably really dangerous so maybe that's silly.
The contents are gone. What happened?
img2img can change the style of an image so you can make it look like a vector illustration but it will still be a bitmap.
Not to mention full-text search, which feels more natural than manually organizing and upkeeping folders.
I want to believe you but it's a pretty damning accusation and I think here on HN people expect some citation to reliable sources.
I think the point is they didn't even bother with those shitcoin bets. They didn't lose the money due to poor risk management, they just....took it
I can think of multiple distinct reasons not to run any ads on Twitter right now. Which is frankly making me really sad, as I liked Twitter, and had some respect for Elon:

- The CEO also owns/leads a primary competitors (as you said).

- The political turmoil attracts a lot of bad-for-brand content on the platform.

- Having ads on Twitter makes it seem like you support what Elon's doing.

- Elon firing 85% of the staff means the platform's behavior, security and results are unreliable and can't be trusted.

- Looming bankruptcy of Twitter (announced by the CEO himself).
This is not “any soldier “, it’s a small percentage
Just baselessly accuse the website of hosting death threats. That will get it taken down.
I want to see the Van diagram of the people who complain about these liberal activist shadow groups and those that support Citizens United. Lets really talk about dark money.
Glad you liked it!
I'm not sure If i've got your query correctly, but if you mean that I've used a training set to generate the images, that is not correct. Just prompts, lots of hit and trial and then seeding some newer generations with the formerly generated good ones!! Also did all this manually and didn't use any api so I've gone through all of the assets a couple of times at least, if not more.
https://twitter.com/wclementeiii/status/1592289824542949376

That is hard evidence that Alameda took FTX customers' deposits.

It is easy to find the original FTX Terms of Service which state that deposits are not lent out. Additionally, SBF himself tweeted that deposits are "never invested, not even in bonds" [verbatim].
I always wanted a voice assistant but there's no way I'm having big tech listen in on me and my family 24/7 just to have one. Most non-tech family members I talked with about this share my opinion. THAT is why these assistants are failing.

On the other hand, Mycrodt sounds like something people would actually want to use provided that it can operate locally and doesn't send any data outside the home.
FTX collapsed due to accounting mistakes and using illiquid tokens as collateral. What sources show that SBF stole customer deposits?
Speaking of business models for AI, and the fact that stable diffusion is anti-trained for porn. Somebody with an old terra byte image porn collection right now: "Hold my beer, my time has come!"
There's no "large coalition of political/social activist groups" that control ad revenue. You need to see through Elon's spin, he's trying to shift the blame for his own failures.

We have a set of independent private companies making decisions in the interest of their brand and performance.

The "coalitions" they're in are several large ad agencies many of them participate in, but it's the job of those ad agencies to know where it's safe to run ads and where it's not. They're not political, not social, and not activists. They're advertising professionals.
see also https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr
Fortunately Apple isn't the only company selling these cables.
Depends. How do you define "dark age"?

Failure to transmit the culture's foundations to the next generation? Given the contempt for "dead white European males", arguably we're in a dark age by this standard.

Loss of technical progress (and even technical regress)? No.

Few records or little information about that age available to future ages? No. Even if you worry about loss of digital information, our garbage dumps contain insane amounts of printed matter, most of it buried quickly enough and deep enough that it's in anaerobic storage. There will be plenty for future societies to read about our current age.