skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to really dislike John. I've sparred with him on Hacker News a couple of times on various issues (under a different account).

I then listened to a podcast [0] he was on and basically changed my mind on the guy. I still feel he desperately needs to hire a communications director for Ghost but I've softened my view on him as a person.

[0] - https://www.notoverthinking.com/episodes/john-onolan-on-life...
I believe this is a stylistic, 'production values' choice. It used to bother me to the same degree that it seems to bother you. I suspect the content creators that do it are clipping out things like "umm" and "uhh". It might also be that some creators are better at this kind of splicing than others, which might explain why this particular example did not bother me so much.
This hints of a conspiracy theory that Anthony Fauci was funding research that lead to the creation of SARS-COV2:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1601894132573605888

Then there is a conspiracy theory about Paul Pelosi and a male prostitute:
https://www.npr.org/2022/10/31/1132906782/elon-musk-twitter-...

There are numerous replies of his that are somewhat questionable without being outright promotion, but troubling nevertheless.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/elon-musk-...
I will never buy or use anything that Musk touches again.
> LAION-5B openly indexed copyrighted data that it had no business collecting.

This seems to be legal in many countries (from what I know, the UK, EU, Japan and Singapore) due to the TDM (Text and Data Mining) exception, especially for researchers.
1.1 wasn’t public. Public releases were trained as I said.
All countries should align with the west. Mankind really needs to unify in some common framework, and west's is the best we have come up with so far.

Every other path will lead to doom. I mean, the framework could be something better than west's. But we first need such a thing, because it certainly has not been discovered yet.
> "true Communism"

A typical true Scotsman fallacy. Pretty much the only good thing about communism was that the fear of it generally pushed the capitalism in the direction of a better, more socially-aware, self.
I have neutral or positive emotions most of the time, and negative emotions only rarely. I almost never have negative thoughts (anymore).

You hit me with Stockholm Syndrome; I respond with Typical Mind Fallacy. Just because your life is largely suffering, you assume that all humans lives must largely consist of suffering. This is not true.
Perhaps because of the suicide nets? I get the Foxconn is not technically slave labour, but you must admit that suicide nets may give to the observer the impression that the gap is not that large between whatever it is and slave labour?
https://archive.vn/ghfiQ
where did you move to and how did you make the choice?
A Wisc which was already leaked, not gonna bother with any profesional one thats not leaked
Terribly unethical using unlicensed images. They could/could've crowdsourced image gathering and labeling instead of stealing images.
Archive link: https://archive.ph/vfqOZ
Two of his most recent tweets are

> My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci

and

> The woke mind virus is either defeated or nothing else matters

The first one seems connected to various conspiracy theories around COVID. The second one is more of a general culture war thing, maybe with some suggestions towards civil war. Altogether Musk is saying stuff that is pretty close to QAnon, which I suspect is what was meant by "fascist conspiracy theories".

I wouldn't necessarily call it fascist conspiracy theories, but the first tweet is deeply irresponsible. It puts a target on a single person that already received plenty of death threats and supports all kinds of outlandish conspiracy theories.
That's not a helpful post whatsoever. We don't get to individually choose the society we live amongst. It's not an option for most people to just quit and live their best life. So we do what we can to be happy and perform within the constraints we have.
The surprising this is that deleting those folders on Windows 11 results in it presenting as Windows 10.
Woah source needed on the Snapchat for company messaging. I gotta see this.
This article feels like it was written for my brother. He's been fired, sequentially, 4 times in roles of progressively narrower scope/salary.

From project manager (80k+) at a large NYC-BASED structured-cabling company to a billing coordinator position (<40k) at his most recent position. With the starting of each new job, him telling me this time it's going to be different and not end in his firing.

It makes me want to put my head into a pillow and scream because he's an intelligent, sociable and kind person but his mind just sits so juxtaposed from what these companies want. However, I can see his mind move beneath his eyes when we converse, and then subsequently lose focus, so it's pretty apparent if you were to meet him. I can see how that translates to poor job performance.

Unfortunately, due to a heavy-handed prescription dosage of adderall when he was young, he's pretty hesitant about trying a new regimen. I've tried pulling him into it by telling him my newly prescribed Semaglutide (Wegovy) medicine will also be a lifelong medication/issue too so we'll be in the trenches together.
Diesel locomotives are one of those things where the engine can be well over 50 years old and no one bats an eye since it's just not that unusual nor has the styling changed that much to make it obvious.

These EMD E9's are now used for tourist trains but there's plenty of other diesels pre-dating these that are still just doing their run today. eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa-Sapulpa_Union_Railway is running on diesels from the 1950's, not as a museum piece but just as their expected day to day operations.

It's one of those fun things when you know enough to spot a 70 year old locomotive yet the general sentiment from non-buffs is just that that's perfectly in-line with expectations and not interesting.
No. It forces me to respond to every request that comes in even if it's not that useful. My activities start to conform to the inbox instead of the other way around. What relevance does the order in which things are presented to me have on how I ought to go about accomplishing my priorities. When my priorities change, the system I established for handling and the priority changes. Even if I'm done processing the message as far as I can, there is still more to be done to bring the issues it raises to a close. Sometimes, 2 or 3 items in my inbox are related.

I usually end up with a list of tasks that I resort and relate to one another, and keep reshuffling as the day goes along. When needed, relevant messages can go in a folder with anything else that's needed to address it so that when I return to it, anything that's needed for it is available immediately.
Probably Rust, given its ability to be low level but also feel like a high level language. In fact a few OSes are already being written in Rust, such as Fuschia and Redox OS.
American Football watchers grow up watching American Football.

Compared to that number, nobody grows up watching Dota.
There isn't a real difference between 999 million and a billion though.
Until other public charging solutions become widespread, the Supercharger network will continue to be a killer feature for Tesla.
Agree this is a very possible explanation. Though it is also possible that the use of viagra leads to more sexual activity for the elderly which promotes and maintains their health to begin with. So not directly attributable to the pharmacology of the viagra but still a contributing factor to the result.
I just don't like people following me around. It is creepy.
> LAION-5B openly indexed copyrighted data that it had no business collecting.

Seems like an open and shut fair use claim, web indexing (not even scraping, just indexing) is not uncommon...
Reductio ad absurdum, why not make all communication illegal without the explicit written consent of the recipient? Then you'll never have to be bothered by anyone ever again.
>So far I've had "nice to meet you" calls with six or seven of the people on this team. And nearly half of them mentioned "by the way, I have ADHD, just so you know."

Is this a generational thing? I mean, are these people in their early 20s? I'm in my 30s and would never say anything about my mental health in a phone call with a stranger unless my boss is bringing up this subject with me on a one-on-one.
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He made donations to Democrats and clearly favored them. It seems FTX made donations to Republicans when they thought they could buy regulatory influence.

So while I'd rather see him questioned under the upcoming house, not the current one, nothing would happen either way.
My cynical, tongue and cheek "Elon is playing 4D chess while us mere mortals can only watch in amazement" is that the current persona is a ploy to break the Tesla brand from the confines of the Silicon Valley/California customer base as that market is close to fully saturated.

The move to Texas and the embrace of antics that play well with conservative social media is an attempt at getting free marketing to a new segment of buyers.

It is beneficial to Tesla if it wants to expand into the middle American auto market - which is probably bigger in size - where buyers are probably skeptical of adopting EVs and would otherwise be hesitant to trade in their gas powered F150/Hemi for an EV Cybertruck.
"dowdy app that exists not to delight its customers but instead meet the growth objectives of its stock market master"

This is a vague and applies to all public companies.
The CCS charging network is starting to ramp up and with the last congressional budget I expect it to explode a bit in the upcoming years. $5 billion dollars was earmarked for EV charging.

The latest CCS charging standard supports the "plug and charge" model like tesla does. It'll take time, but I expect at the end of 5 years most stations will have it.
So you've been running an electron "desktop" app, perhaps connected to microservices running on kubernetes in the cloud?

Modern system architecture is an exercise in doing less with more.
I think false is sugar for the empty tuple / array. `?` is an operator that turns tuples / arrays back into choices. Thus `false?` can be seen as an expression that returns no values, which is semantically falsy in the language.
I called her specifically to ask this, so here goes:

It's part urban legend, part self-fulfilling prophecy and part other reasons, namely:

Sculpting is hard, manual labour. And expensive at that due to the sheer volume of the medium along with storage space requirements. Over time people simply get sick of dealing with the day to day hardships of this artform so they turn to something lighter - like painting.

Painters on the other hand get bored of exploring the limitations of their field - some of which, like avoiding the colour black, are akin to the tabs vs spaces debate in IT, so they try other forms.

Ultimately artists will eventually try every medium that catches their interest just like musicians try other instruments and sometimes even get good at them. Professionally they just stick to what they know.
Presumably the self-driving car would do a controlled stop for the fake stop sign, so the asshole should be the human driver who rear-ends them for stopping in the middle of the block.
I mean come on, "Psidecar"
>It is not possible to manually label hundreds of millions of images to train a model on them

Citation, please?

I think you mean "the developers of this technology do not want to pay to have hundreds of millions of images labeled".
Or obsessive-compusive personality disorder, which is what I have.

I tend to either care entirely about something or not at all, and the only standard is "perfect" (there are no visible ways something can be improved) – "good enough" doesn't really make sense emotionally. And even though I'm completely self-aware and I recognize this as it's happening, it's difficult to control what I feel.

It's very frustrating. I sometimes wonder at how much more I'd enjoy things and how much more progress I'd make at work and with my hobbies if there weren't these... unbidden demands that take time to satisfy, the stress that the demands cause, and the constant internal battle between what I want to do or know I ought to do and the arbitrary need for something to be a certain way.
It actually uses Marco, which is a fork of Metacity
>The profitable small farm is common enough, particular among the older generations who have their debts paid off

The purchase of said farms and the paying off of said debts wouldn't happen to be enabled by a long career in tech by said older generations, would it?
Binance posts screenshot of customer service chat on Twitter
There are several conspiracy theories linked to this meme: https://www.factcheck.org/2022/08/correcting-misinformation-...
> the companies with the highest valuations are those which make the most money

In a perfect competition landscape, the net profit of players goes to effectively near zero. It doesn't matter if you're making sweaters or jet engines, this virtually a law of economics. The companies which have the highest valuations are those which make the most money (by eliminating competition).
Speaking of unfashionable I think that is the major test for Tesla - sustaining sales through a redesign/styling. The Hyundai IONIQ 5 looks really cool to me (the headlights look like pixels for crying out loud) but was well out of my price range when I was looking recently. In a few years some other manufacturer will have an awesome look for some model. This is all subjective, as is any style/fashion type of thing.

All car manufacturers end up having to redesign/restyle their cars because they literally become unfashionable. People look forward to redesigns and then when the new design is out, older models look dated. Tesla hasn't gone thru that cycle that I'm aware of and all of their models, sans cybertruck, look exactly the same. I imagine there is significant cost to redesigns and re-tooling manufacturing processes while keeping old design parts, etc. still available.
He seems like an addicted gambler who thinks he just needs one more bet to dig himself out of the hole.

> "Disgraced crypto boss Sam Bankman-Fried says he hopes to start a new business to make enough money to pay back victims of the FTX collapse."

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-63911363
Once again, cvdazzle seems focused on obscuring a human face, not obscuring the existence of a human, and I don't see how it is more effective than a ski mask.

A choice quote from your cvdazzle link:

> This face is unrecognizable to the Viola-Jones Haar Cascade face detection algorithm. (It does not apply to DCNN face detectors)

So... modern face detectors don't even have trouble with cvdazzle. All four of the detectors in this sample correctly identify the cvdazzled subject from the cvdazzle link: https://huggingface.co/spaces/celebrate-ai/face-detection-cn...

I'll also add a few choice quotes from Wikipedia:

> Unlike other forms of camouflage, the intention of dazzle is not to conceal but to make it difficult to estimate a target's range, speed, and heading.

> The result was that a profusion of dazzle schemes was tried, and the evidence for their success was, at best, mixed.

So, no, dazzle camo does not seem to have a record of being effective against either humans or cameras, so the bar is low to start with, not "pretty high" at all. But, the goal here is also concealment, not obscuring range, speed, or heading, which dazzle camo only had "mixed success" for, and dazzle camo was never designed for concealment at all.

In either case, I'm not talking about hiding a ship on the horizon. I'm talking about the effectiveness of this for hiding a human walking in front of a camera.

What was the goal here? Dazzle camo seems like it was never proven to be that useful, according to wikipedia, and cvdazzle is obsolete according to its own website and a quick test that anyone can perform. As I said from the beginning, the article OP linked appears to be nothing more than clickbait. That $71 coat is not a general solution to AI surveillance, and training a machine learning model to detect it would not make that model suddenly overwhelmed with false positives.
> Is it possible to write caption manually? sure, but that doesn't scale much and won't make it possible to train general models.

Maybe, I don't think so however based on the above comments by Unstable Diffusion. It seems like people are underestimating the power of high quality data and just throwing the kitchen sink at models. Perhaps a set of good quality data can indeed outperform Laion-style datasets.

It's like the YC saying about doing things that don't scale, perhaps with the high quality dataset, we can train better models than CLIP and in turn use those to caption the rest of the images, only now the caption model is much better than previous ones.
Has this helped long term and repeatedly? I have that same struggle of switching between things all my life even if I enjoy one activity a lot. Very occasionally I do find something I can sit and enjoy for hours but it is rare.
It's 2022, and we're still not getting paid. For any engineer you can find an executive in marketing or sales who is paid better.
here was an article on using latent embeddings for compression. might be useful.

https://pub.towardsai.net/stable-diffusion-based-image-compr...
I mean, at least with real life sports there are no hacky obtuse contrivances because, it's real life, not a videogame with a meta that includes knowledge of engine exploits or intimate knowledge of map geometry. Someone pixel-aligning themselves to throw a blind smoke that bounces off of invisible above-the-map geometry to eliminate a sightline or someone blind firing though a wall-bang because they've counted the seconds since round start and judge someone might be there is obtuse to anyone onlooking via a stream. In football, or golf, or soccer, all the elements of play can be observed all at once without multiple angles needed to explain what's happening.
Same here - https://www.naijagoal.com
The old guy in the video must be the inspiration for the old man muppet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statler_and_Waldorf#/media/Fil...
Here's [1] the actual JS file which Substack is loading, pulled directly from the network tab on the page linked in the thread.

Notably, the first line is "For license information please see sodo-search.min.js.LICENSE.txt". But if you go to that file [2], it's not the license _for this file_; it's the licenses _for the OSS code it includes_. I suspect that Substack thought that link pointed to the actual license; I did too before I started writing this comment. Possibly that confusion has lead to some talking past each other.

The actual license is at [3], which is obvious if you know how npm packages work, and probably not obvious otherwise. I don't see a link to that file anywhere.

[1] https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@tryghost/sodo-search@1.1/umd/s...

[2] https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@tryghost/sodo-search@1.1/umd/s...

[3] https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@tryghost/sodo-search@1.1/LICEN...
Surely Real Rates are the issue? Ie now when inflation is 7%+ and rates are 4%, rates are effectively lower than when inflation is 2% and rates are 1%. I'm not buying lots of these analyses.
If all this was done maliciously from the get-go, I don't understand why he would take this approach as opposed to simply cashing out when things started to turn and disappearing. If you've got enough money, it's not hard to make yourself scarce.

So why stay visible and continue to do these interviews and testify before the US House when all he's managed to do so far is convince everyone that he's guilty as hell?

That's what I can't put together about this strategy. It only makes sense to me if he genuinely, truly doesn't believe he did anything wrong. Which is frankly amazing if true given everything we know.
Ah so that's the hack they were doing in the show Person of Interest
I've sort of wondered if this was his ploy. If this is truly what he's trying to do, then he runs the risk of losing his lefty sales. Perhaps he's banking on being the best EV on the market?
Pretty much it's "pick good students". I'd suggest skimming these two, for starters:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/does-it-ma...

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2015/10/29/our-firs...
I remember something about mysql not treating localhost as local, but 127.0.0.1 would. This led to very different performance. (Long ago, not sure about details)

Also surprised by libraries not using more efficient protocols although they were defined.

Compression also doesn’t seem to be a thing.
"Everything Sam Bankman-Fried is doing is in singular pursuit of not going to jail" -- https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/everything-sam-bankman-f...
LAION-5B includes images of humans without their explicit consent. Images of people generally involve IRB/HSR. Additionally, almost any IRB will mention that if you’re using data derived from humans, you must go through IRB.

LAION can say all they want that they’re not including images in their dataset. They include a script to download those URLs into images on disk. By being a company that’s not bound to decades of university ethics regulations, they are seemingly allowed to skirt what you learn on your first day as a researcher in academia. It may be legal, but it sure is not ethical.
Goldman Sachs to Cut 100s More Jobs as Consumer Unit Scaled Back
Yet another reason to push for a standard mechanism that browsers might natively support rather than allow each and every website to implement their own solution.
You’re mistaken. I suggest you hit the books and study the phenomenon. Climate disinformation has three components: denial, doubt, and delay. Lomborg is generally categorized as a climate denier because he deliberately engages in delay tactics to further the goals of the deniers. And the fact that he has been funded by Singer and the Kochs puts him in the category of climate deniers, each of whom are active using different strategies (denial, doubt, delay) to reach the same goal, namely, to continue business as usual and keep using fossil fuels to the detriment of the climate. You may also wish to review the work of Naomi Oreskes, Jane Mayer, and Anne Nelson, who have spent decades documenting these disinformation tactics in their collective work. Lomborg is not a trusted authority or expert in the domain of climate science, and anyone who tells us otherwise is ignoring the evidence.
Is the US Tesla charging network proprietary and can only be used by tesla cars?
Resist the pressure to “outgrow” your intuition
Isn't it a well known fact that virology lab in Wuhan received funding from the US? Although I do not know if this can be tied to Fauci personally.
Haha, freelancing ADHD is a classic! We seek being our own boss so we don't have to be forced to do what we cannot, only to then intensely struggle completing tasks we know we are capable of due to executive dysfunction, and then feel so much shame and guilt over a struggling freelance business leading to even more restlessness!

Anyways definitely seek a specialist, there are many options and even if it's not ADHD they've got access to a lot of really great resources to cope with what you do struggle with.
You say "video" but it offers nothing over audio-only conference calls, which we've had for decades, and in my experience people and teams mostly turn the video off.

In-person works better. You won't manage factories as good with phone calls and jira tickets.
Is Fauci lying to congress about gain-of-function research a fascist conspiracy theory? I don't think that's right.