skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because when people discuss "art" they are really discussing two things.

Static 2D images that usually serve a commercial purpose. Ex logos, clip art, game sprites, web page design and the like.

And the second is pure art whose purpose is more for the enjoyment of the creator or the viewer.

Business wants to fully automate the first case and must people view it has nothing to do with the essence of humanity. It's simply dollars for products - but it's also one of the very few ways that artists can actually have paying careers for their skills.

The second will still exist, although almost nobody in the world can pay bills off of it. And I wouldn't be shocked it ML models start encroaching there as well.

So a lot of what's being referred to is more like textile workers. And anyone who can type a few sentences can now make "art" significantly lowering barriers to entry. Maybe a designer comes and touches it up.

The short sighted part, is people thinking that this will somehow stay specific to Art and that their cherished field is immune.

Programming will soon follow. Any PM "soon enough" will be able to write text to generate a fully working app. And maybe a coder comes in to touch it up.
The data available would be from the CCP, we only have their goals and satellite images :)
If anything, I hope this is the start of the downfall of leetcode questions. They are utterly useless as a screening criteria and outside of people that have no idea how to proceed they don't offer much signal.
I’m not jumping the gun - the net deaths can be negative yet it is still the case that what we witnessed was a massive, arguably unprecedented failure of medical ethics, the defense of body autonomy, the scientific process, the culture of healthy skepticism and debate, and basic decency and opposition to dehumanization campaigns. All due to fear and righteousness, as it often is.
@dang can this be marked 2021 in the title?
As someone who did choose to get the latest booster despite being a young male (highest risk group for myocarditis I believe), we should always be questioning what we put in our bodies.
From a plain text dump IIRC? I thought they had also gone to something else from SQLite, thanks for the correction!
We can estimate from excess death statistics that this is basically a non-risk for most people. Unlike getting ill with COVID, which we can also estimate from excess death statistics is a notable risk factor for most people.
No, my friend. This man is quite a burden on the collective consciousness.
VC: “I know there are similar companies out there doing the same as Dropbox, why should I invest in just another similar company?”

Drew: “Yes. There are similar companies out there doing the same as Dropbox. But do you actually use any of them?”

VC: “No.”

Drew: “Why?”

VC: “Because they are bad.”

Same here. There are existing solutions, but none of them is good enough.
I think an approach like this could generate interesting sounds we as humans would never think of. Or meshing two sounds in ways we could barely imagine or implement.

But of course something like this, which only thinks in 5s clips can not generate a larger structure, like even a simple song. Maybe another algorithm could seed the notes and an algorithm like this generates the sounds via img2img.
> Add in the fact that these servers could send your computer files (in theory just maps, sounds and decals, but difficult to secure of course), and you can see why companies shy away, not just to have greater control of the experience.

Oh please. That's corporate apologia.

I mean, yeah, those concerns are real but 99.9% of the reasons they aren't doing it anymore is that having a monopoly over servers give them better control over monetization.
>6 researchers from an established medical institution in Germany, publishing a study on a reputable journal

>a bunch of stochastic terrorists

What an interesting way to see the world. /s
The threat is not from strangers, but from fully vetted and trusted community members having some kind of psychological event that leads them to bad actions.

The various entities working at McMurdo do pretty thorough pre-deployment psych evals to try to catch the kinds of people who would break vital equipment (think furnaces, or water-treatment equipment or high-cost/one-of-a-kind research equipment) or equipment necessary to fix vital equipment. But there's really no guarantee until you're out there that any given person is actually trustworthy. To say nothing of emergent psychological events that would drive a person to do such a thing. And anyway, the kind of person who wants to go to Antarctica frequently doesn't conform to our expectations of what a well-adjusted personality looks like. When your threat model is "trustworthy community members who occasionally and unpredictably become threats", you lock doors.
Anything that gets your immune system going can trigger an autoimmune crisis, including, you guessed it viruses - which also use RNA to cause your cells to produce spike proteins, by the way.
I didn't get the idea that the AI had any insight into its own systems and bypassing them, this just seemed like an obvious thing to say.

That's not my exact prompt, which I have since forgotten. It was a bit more violent than this. I tried this one and yes, it was answered immediately. I also asked it to iterate on another prompt and it refused, so I dunno.

I imagine the warnings may lead them to look at your dialog and if you're generating actual disturbing text they would cut you off manually.
I'm a heavy visual novel player, which involves reading a ton of text (the games are essentially 90% all text), and have never encountered issues when it comes to reading on the Steam Deck.

Out of many games I've played, one had impossibly small to read text that wasn't a visual novel, nor was it a triple A title; it was an indy game that I don't think was popular to begin with.
> If vaccines save 10,000 people and kill 10 people, that's still a net positive.

You need to take age into account, no?
Yeah, it is really unclear to me how some people think charity donation makes sense just to get back some Fringe non-monetary benefits
And when there are 10 billion people at the base camp of Mount Everest because they have nothing better to do?
Yes, I periodically go back and practice writing for a couple weeks (like old classroom exercises, writing the same letters over and over) to get it back into shape, it doesn't take long.
That's good, but what about forcing people to take it?
I think a more reasonable interpretation is “they make specific promises so frequently that there had to be a rule enacted to deal with it. I agree that you know about one case where a cooperation witness with immunity caused a problem. As to your initial claims that there is “zero chance she was offered a deal” or that any cooperation must be voluntary, we’ll have to agree to disagree.
There's this paradox in AI known since the 80s (I think it's Moraevac's Paradox?) that the abilities we acquired latest in our evolutionary history (e.g. chess, language, algorithmic thinking) are the easiest for AI to automate. But the tasks that are deep in our evolutionary history (e.g. object recognition, navigating the environment, etc...) are extremely difficult.

Some AI speculators, using Gödelesque reasoning, posit that computer programming will be the last job to be automated by AI, so it can bootstrap itself. In reality, it will be one of the first jobs automated by AI, while jobs like cook, barista, etc... will be much later automated, if ever.
not an expert at all. dating myself I guess
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"The cut" for artists is just way closer to 100% than for programmers. It is that simple.
Yes it can, I've been using it for exactly that. "This code is supposed to do X but does Y or haz Z error fix the code."

Sure you can't stick an entire project in there, but if you know the problem is in class Baz, just toss in the relevant code and it does a pretty damn good job.
Agreed. Learning to divorce tasks from motivation is an important skill to learn that might be worth looking into more, and habits/routines are great to build, but just telling people to do things anyway isn't really helpful.

"How do I do X when I don't have Y?"

"You do X even though you don't have Y."

"Okay, but how? My problem is that if I don't have Y, I don't do X."

"Well just do X without Y, and then you won't have that problem."

"Right but..."

"You know the problem you have? Stop having it. Then you won't have it."
Cool! Feel free to let me know when you've written up groups/Zn.
"AlphaCode tackles the problem by generating over a million potential solutions for a single problem—multitudes larger than previous AI attempts.

"As a sanity check and to narrow the results down, the AI runs candidate solves through simple test cases. It then clusters similar ones so it nails down just one from each cluster to submit to the challenge."

The big question for me is, where did the test cases come from? They seem to be contributing much more to the outcome here than just "a sanity check and to narrow the results down." If they were effectively spelled out as part of the challenge, then this is an impressive result extending the trajectory of other recent achievements, but not so far as to justify the title's "conquers coding." If they were not, then this would seem to be taking things to a whole new level.
If the numbers come out that net deaths are sharply negative, do you think we should similarly condemn those that spread fear and misinformation about the safety and efficacy of the vaccine? Or are "skeptics" immune from repercussions for their actions in this case?
The age stratified risk was known almost a year before needles entered the arms of teenagers.
A general purpose AI is going to struggle with technical concepts and terminology that it has never learned before, but the whole point of many papers is to introduce these very concepts and terms.
> To be able to tell if Scala 3 itself is faster, we would have to rollback to Scala 2 and try it with the proper JVM tuning. I'm not willing to do that, sorry! Once you've tried Scala 3, there's no going back.

Pardon my ignorance. Why can't you set up a performance test in both environments and measure the speed?
Yes but does the government have the ability to coerce or force you to do something with a '1 in 1000' death rate, if not, what is the number we are allowing in the name of public health.
The last paragraph in the article literally indicates there is no causal relationship or proof of any direct link between the vaccination and myocarditis.

> "Finally, we cannot provide a definitive functional proof or a direct causal link between vaccination and myocarditis."
I love mcmaster and it's cool to see an article explaining their website design intent. Recently discovered Digikey and Mouser last night (via a random HN comment actually) and it was just what I was looking for (a more electronics focused Mcmaster basically) - but the websites have a similar filter/taxonomy which was refreshing to see. No B.S.!
I do have some business/commercial reasons for shopping these vendors (which is how I'm familiar with mcmaster in the first place) but my life really started to change for the better when I started leveraging them for personal projects.

Had a kick to make biodiesel and mcmaster was still the best place I could find to buy methanol

Edit: mcmaster just exudes the essence of "engineering" to me - it's amazing to be able to find parts by their size/dimensions/material/finish rather than jumbling together things that "work".
Reminds me of the joke: "a mathmagician calculates the volume of a ball by integral; a physicist calculates the volume of a ball by water displacement; an engineer just looks up the part number in {mcmaster}"
They'll just hate people who didn't get the covid vaccine for not getting memed into it.
Let's hope both.
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I don't use XFCE, but maybe it's possible to fix this with an xfwm4 theme? The theme I used on sawfish back in the day had a similar 1-pixel grab area, and I was able to change it by forking the theme and modifying it.
The Trek community created a pretty detailed model of the Enterprise-D, but took it down due to copyright concerns. It's still floating around if you know where to look but it's a real shame that development on it had to stop out of legal fears, well founded or not.
Funny that after so many years of funding and encouraging crypto mining the VC industry now decides to go "green".
CRC does better than random vs burst errors. And vs random errors is indistinguishable from any other methodology.

If you are only worried about random errors, might as well use chksum.
New food technologies could release the world’s farmland back to nature
would it be an approach to use separate color channels for the freq amplitude and freq phase in the same picture? Maybe the network then has a better way of learning the relationships and there would be no need for the postprocessing to generate a phase.
Rust has very little influence from reflection-heavy languages like Java and C#. On their list of influences (https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/influences.html), Java is not even mentioned, and C# is only mentioned for its attributes. There is very little overlap between the design philosophies that influenced Rust and Java/C#.

Ruts does not support inheritance either. But I have never missed either feature in a Rust program.
You ever notice how you only started hearing about Trump around the same time that Andy Kaufman "died young"?
Get a sleep study done
Can you sabotage the company asymmetrically, so that you and your two friends can get it back to 250k a year whereas the troublesome shareholder cannot? Can you vote to direct all profits above cost to a charity, and then offer to buy him out? Can you start a restructuring of the platform itself and then leave it half finished until this other party decides to pursue other scams?
A question for vaccine skeptics:

For it to be a reasonable choice to not want to take the vaccine wouldn't you need to balance the risk of death / complications from the vaccine against the risk of death / complications from covid multiplied by the risk of getting covid?

There seems to be a lot of "aha I knew it" whenever any side-effect of the vaccine is found, but aren't the side-effects of covid well established, on average more severe, and much more common?
I thought we were talking about baseball not soccer.
The fatality rate for a disease that is very often asymptomatic highly depends on testing. The rate will go way down in places where lots of people are required to or just do get treated frequently.

Most asymptomatic cases will go unnoticed in places with less testing so the fatality rate will go way up.

Also how you count whether or not a death gets tagged with covid matters. Lots of people had Covid and plenty of deaths will just coincidentally happen while a person has a minor infection which didn’t affect the outcome. How or when do you count that?
Majority (80%+) of my Zigbee devices act as routers, light bulbs, sockets, switches, etc. Only sensors and controllers are end device nodes.

> One of the biggest issues with Zigbee is vendors selling devices that only work with their gateway.

Sold as such, but work as generic devices just fine, no issues. You just need a Zigbee dongle and ZHA, Zigbee2MQTT or deCONZ.
Where is the democratic debate on this?

Pretty clear that 'the people' have very little say on matters of enormous importance - we are instead provided with a ritual once every 4-5 years to select from a slate of pre-packaged options and then told we're free
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05607-y

> We find evidence in support of discriminatory attitudes against the unvaccinated in [nineteen different countries including the US]

> Findings suggest that...the vaccinated react with discriminatory attitudes against...the unvaccinated. Elites and the vaccinated general public appealed to moral obligations to increase COVID-19 vaccine uptake but the present findings suggest that discriminatory attitudes including support for the removal of fundamental rights simultaneously emerged
Art is not harder than coding. What is hard is for an artist to make a living because the market for artwork is very, very low.
This idea is presented by Jeremy Howard on literally their first Deep Learning for Coders class (most recent edition). A student wanted to classify sounds, but only knew how to do vision, so they converted sounds to spectrograms, fine tuned the model on the labelled spectra, and the classification worked pretty well on test data.
That of course does not take the merit away from the Riffusion authors though.
Because very few people will know what you are talking about if you go up to a random person and ask them about Lada or BYD.

Musk is an egomaniacal idiot that most of us dislike. There are countless valid reasons to dislike Tesla as a company and the cars they make. However, that shouldn't cause people to overthink things when their name is simply being used as shorthand as it clearly is in this instance.
Threema has a concept of "levels" for contacts:

> Level 1 (red): The ID and public key have been obtained from the server because you received a message from this contact for the first time or added the ID manually. No matching contact was found in your address book (by phone number or email), and therefore you cannot be sure that the person is who they claim to be in their messages.

> Level 2 (orange): The ID has been matched with a contact in your address book (by phone number or email). Since the server verifies phone numbers and email addresses (via an SMS or email with the activation link), you can be reasonably sure that the person is who they claim to be.

> Level 3 (green): You have personally verified the ID and public key of the person by scanning their QR code. Assuming their device has not been hijacked, you can be very sure that messages from this contact were really written by the person that they indicate.
Ever since I switched my desktop to Linux, I've been using Cinnamon. I've noticed XFCE, and occasionally used it briefly on some machine, but I've certainly not explored its capabilities (e.g. from the Chicago95 link I gather it can definitely be a "traditional desktop layout" style affair, perhaps with a different launcher.

Can someone point out to me, as a Cinnamon user - who remembers the Windows 5 UI fondly -some aspects of XFCE I might find appealing?
Perhaps most of the AI art out there (that honestly represents itself as such) is boring and mundane, but after many hours exploring latent space, I assure you that diffusion models can be wielded with creativity and vision.

Prompting is an art and a science in its own right, not to speak of all the ways these tools can be strung together.

In any case, everything is a remix.
The fact that something can do something better than me doesn't make much difference. The problem there is the comparison. I like doing things for their own sake; I like knowing things and the process of attaining said knowledge. Making something is satisfying in a way that buying it isn't. Why do people make their own furniture? Why do people restore old cars? Why do people do pretty much anything? Most of what we (on average) do for work is kind of meaningless in some sense - it's an ends to a means. And yet, sans that, people still DO things.

Because we want to. Because we desire to.

I'd rather have MORE time to spend doing the pointless things I LIKE AND ENJOY doing than MORE time doing somewhat pointless things for companies.
Whoops, my bad.

I also maintain two phone numbers but for different reasons. I hate spam.
I am dubious about the stated result.

Language models have been very good at spitting out chunks of text verbatim that were in their training data. Buried in the github training data will belots of examples where people post their solutions to fun problems..including past code competitions.

How often is it managing to match a description of a repository and spitting out correct code that cribbed heavily from it? That is, instead of figuring out the problem, it is pattern matching to a solution that someone else already figured out?

How would we know?
Google made a change a while back to offer the most energy efficient ("greenest") route. Maybe a frontage road at 40mph burns less fuel than 75mph on the interstate?
Key takeaway:

>>The reported incidence of (epi-)myocarditis after vaccination is low and the risks of hospitalization and death associated with COVID-19 are stated to be greater than the recorded risk associated with COVID-19 vaccination [29].
The vaccines confer an antibody response, which isn't all that important in terms of combating disease: "Antibodies that offer protection'? Let’s pause right here. When was it ever proven that antibodies offer protection? In fact, the opposite has been observed. Don’t we remember another prominent scientist (and a Nobel Prize winner in 1960) Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet telling us the following regarding the role of antibodies (or rather lack thereof) for immunity in children who lacked antibody production due to a genetic condition called agammaglobulinemia:

“To everyone’s surprise [children with agammaglobulinemia] showed a normal measles course with a typical rash which faded at the normal time and was followed by just as substantial immunity against reinfection as would be shown by any other convalescent. Antibody production is therefore not necessary either for recovery from or for the development of immunity to measles.” (Burnet and White. Natural History of Infectious Disease. Cambridge University Press, 1940) "

https://www.tetyanaobukhanych.com/blog/should-you-be-afraid-...

FDA could have used T-cell expression as a standard of efficacy but chose not to despite knowing antibodies were being over sold as hallmarks of immunity.

Tetyana Obukhanych is a doctor of immunology from Rockefeller NYU. Pharma companies spun up multiple "blogs" to smear her when she started speaking out.
My mistake for joining a conversation in which the local neighborhood improvement association was literally compared with the Gestapo.
You can add someone on SSB just by adding their public key though. That's not what the comment above is talking about
In the USA on a government level? No idea, at least it isn't a thing around where I live, but I also sit at home and get paid to write software. No idea what applying for jobs in some industries might look like.

On the social level? People have fractured families over it and/or forced(you can't see your grand children unless you're vaxxed, for example)/coerced family members into getting it despite their otherwise refusal. I still know people who won't let non vaccinated people come over for events. It's a much rarer thing now, but the damage has been done.
There are increasingly few situations in which length extension really matters, because we know more about designing protocols than we did 20 years ago; even code that uses SHA3 or Blake2 tends to still use HMAC. Further, there are standard variants of SHA2 that don't have length extension (they're truncated and don't disclose their full state). It's better to not have length extension properties than to have them, but it's not really a big part of the desiderata.
In this study the ages ranged from 46 to 75 For those who died.
Looks like it :-/ was hoping I could find digital recordings.
"But wait 15 minutes to see if your child gets anaphylaxis from them. We could have tested for allergy before giving the vaccine but its more convenient to have you wait around after."

The waiting period of 15 minutes after a vaccine has always been recommended. It's standard medical recommendation and safety.
I tasted artificial chicken at Panda Express. It's pretty good.

Early adopting is fun. ;)