skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can read more at www.bluedotchange.com

4 Gt is roughly all the anthropogenic CH4, responsible for about a third (or possibly a half) of temperature rise. After that we will continue at a lower level in order to keep curating the level and as a precaution against methane bursts.

4 Gt of CH4 is considered roughly equivalent to 120 Gt of CO2
Fake Feelings – AI Emo
One thing that might be valuable on this is to do sms contact syncing where people can provide soft proof that they share the same social circles. In essence, if both parties have John Doe in their phone as 123-456-7890 , we can extrapolate that they both know him. Extend this across many contacts and it might be possible to see how much their direct networks overlap. One way of proving a person is indeed who they claim to be is by using a service like authillo.com
Wait, what's the point submitting 2022 call?
Does anyone remember the old maxim, "Don't write code as cleverly as you can because it's harder to debug than it is to write and you won't be clever enough"?
You are definitely not alone. I am really excited about ChatGPT but it also has me ruminating about the consequences.
Versions 4 and 5 look radically different.

Version 3 was fine. Very fine even for the time.

I didn't really like the default look of version 4. Oxygen had depressing colors, it lacked fineness. I always switched the theme to Fusion, or Cleanlooks, which imitated the Clearlooks GTK theme.

Version 5, with Breeze, is really good. Very elegant. By the way I also tend to find Gnome with the Breeze theme way nicer than with Adwaita (which is already fine).

The only DE I find almost as nice looking as Plasma with the default settings is macOS.

They are also constantly cleaning up the UI and making it simpler, bit by bit.
I hadn't made that connection but it's an excellent one!
Apparently not, as I learn just now

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video

> Video is an electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving visual media [emphasis my own]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_camera

> A video camera is an optical instrument that captures videos (as opposed to a movie camera, which records images on film).
What happens in a future where AI, that is trained on human generated datasets, becomes so prevalent that the humans that created the training data no longer have the original skillset required to create said dataset.

Are we going to end up with AI training on AI generated datasets.
Like other responders, I think your take is oversimplifying. It’s hard to both classify what imagination is, how to judge whether AI has it, and we also have humans tuning these models, which may or may not contribute to its blandness.

That said, I think it’s still fair to say that most interpolation type of work is looking very threatened by AI as it is today, so the converse (don’t go into those fields) is probably sound advice in light of current developments. As for the rest, I suspect we’ll be forced to chisel off piece by piece from our zeitgeist of “imagination”. Some pieces will fall off quickly, as AIs replace them, and some will take longer, perhaps a lot longer.

I do find it interesting that computers ended up killing it in unpredictable domains such as style transfer and NLP, while being mediocre-at-best in eg humor. It may mean that we have over- and underestimated aspects of what traits are unique and sophisticated.
> I am very sad to make this decision. It’s a consequence of the approach that Matt and I took in scaling the company over the last year, and we take full responsibility for the impact that will have on the lives of our departing team members.

Why do CEO's always say this empty nonsense. If you accept responsibility, you accept consequences - what consequences is Geoff Schmidt going to be facing? Hurt feelings? Give me a break.
>SHA-1 was already known to be broken at the time Git chose it

Please pardon my ignorance but could you elaborate on what time (e.g. the year) are you referring to?
There is no one size fits all solution to this problem, the stuff he said kinda makes sense to me. Maybe you have different issues. I don't care about whether it is scientifically correct, he is telling some simple stuff which makes logical sense, and it does actually work for me.

Alternatively you can read the "Procrastination" post on the Wait But Why blog about the same subject. That might be more scientifically accurate.
I agree. Our interview has 3 coding rounds, and one of them I call "clean code". For that I ask a straightforward question that requires candidate to define some APIs and write some classes / functions. Then I ask several follow ups, adding or changing requirements.

This is by far my favourite question, the one closer to on-the-job coding. It also lends itself well to deep conversations with candidates.

But alas I don't own the process and still have to work within the parameters of the company. Whenever possible I ask this kind of questions, but other interviewers will default to leetcode-style rounds.
>But how much of a song or a painting can you reproduce?

The reason why fair use is vague is specifically to confuse people who ask these kinds of questions. The Supreme Court needed a tool that artists could use to legally smack down people who republish fragments of other people's work, but didn't want to abolish the 1st Amendment in the process. So basically judges have the final say as to whether or not something is novel creativity or in debt to the original. Any hard-and-fast rule beyond "binding precedent applies" is effectively copyright abolition by degrees.

>We lost most of Elizabethan theater because there was no copyright. [..] Without some kind of protection, authors had no interest in publishing at all, let alone publishing accurate texts.

This is a dated example, if only because creative works leave a lot more evidence now than they used to. People today will act to preserve art against the artists own wishes and at great personal risk.

>and it’s easy to suspect that the actual payments will be similar to the royalties musicians get from streaming services: microcents per use

Given the amount of data these systems need (read: more than humanity can provide) I'd say microcents is arguably too high. Remember that you can't actually derive a clear chain of value between one particular training set entry and one particular execution of the model. It's all chucked into a blender that runs on almost-linear algebra and calculus. At best you can detect if parts of the image resemble specific training set examples[0] and pay people slightly more if the model regurgitates training set data.

Let's also keep in mind that a good chunk of the licensing system is based on being able to say no to specific users, or write very tailor-made licensing agreements for specific works or conditions. That's still going to be threatened, even if we can pay sub-Spotify-tier royalties every time a model trains itself on your work.

>It is easy to imagine an AI system that has been trained on the (many) Open Source and Creative Commons licenses.

Working on it: https://github.com/kmeisthax/PD-Diffusion

The thing is, we already have a good database of reusable, public-domain, no-attribution-necessary images; it's called Wikimedia Commons. I really can't fathom why OpenAI didn't start there, other than just an assumption that they were entitled to larger datasets or a feeling that they could get established before anyone sued.

Even then, OpenAI already tried this with computer code and they're getting sued for it anyway, because they never bothered with attribution in the case of training set regurgitation.

[0] This is possible because part of the prompt guidance process involves a thing called CLIP which can do both image and text classification in the same coordinate system.
To be honest, I have been forced to choose a side during all those debates about copyright and advertising/adblocking. And it was artists who forced me to make that choice. It's hard not to see this as just another way in which artist are trying to limit how people use their own computing devices in a way that provides the most value to them.

All these talking points about lack of empathy for poor suffering artists have already been made a million times in those other debates. They just don't pack much of a punch anymore.
The worst part is that we have already comprehensively litigated all of this. The spanish flu had people protesting being forced to wear masks and other societal health measures and the Supreme court affirmed the US's right to mandate those kind of large scale health things.
The amount of work in that area of research is substantial. You will see world shattering results in a few years.

Current SOTA: https://openai.com/blog/vpt/
This comment is downvoted, but it makes an important point. AI systems that produce an outcome that can be easily verified by non-experts are far more practical. If my mom can get an illustration out of the AI that she wants, she is done. Not so for software, where she cannot really verify it‘s that going to reliably do what was specified.

This is especially true for complex pieces.

If an AI could produce a world-class totally amazing illustration or even a book I will afterwards easily see or read it.

On the other hand real-world software systems consist of hundreds of thousands or lines in distributed services. How would a layman really judge if they work?

Nevertheless I also expect AI to have a big impact since less engineers can do much more.
A lot of human meaning comes from providing value to others.

The more computers and machines and institutions take that over, the fewer opportunities there are to do that, and the more doing that kind of thing feels forced, or even like an indulgence of the person providing the "service" and an imposition on those served.

Vonnegut wrote quite a bit about this phenomenon in the arts—how recording, broadcast, and mechanical reproduction vastly diminished the social and even economic value of small-time artistic talent. Uncle Bob's storytelling can't compete with Walt Disney Corporation. Grandma's piano playing stopped mattering much when we began turning on the radio instead of having sing-alongs around the upright. Nobody wants your cousin's quite good (but not excellent) sketches of them, or of any other subject—you're doing him a favor if you sit for him, and when you pretend to give a shit about the results. Aunt Gertrude's quilt-making is still kinda cool and you don't mind receiving a quilt from her, but you always feel kinda bad that she spent dozens of hours making something when you could have had a functional equivalent for perhaps $20. It's a nice gesture, and you may appreciate it, but she needed to give it more than you needed to receive it.

Meanwhile, social shifts shrink the set of people for whom any of this might even apply, for most of us. I dunno, maybe online spaces partially replace that, but most of that, especially the creative spaces, seem full of fake-feeling positivity and obligatory engagement, not the same thing at all as meeting another person you know's actual needs or desires.

That's the kind of thing I mean.

The areas where this isn't true are mostly ones that machines and markets are having trouble automating, so they're still expensive relative to the effort to do it yourself. Cooking's a notable one. The last part of our pre-industrial social animal to go extinct may well be meal-focused major holidays.
Ask HN: Strange audio effect from my mixer, can anyone diagnose it?
A couple of weeks ago something strange started happening to my (audio) mixer.

An audio record of it can be listened to here:

https://d.pr/a/TklCXj

(DropLr if that is not cool I am happy to post
it somewhere better)

After about 5 - 10 minutes it would start this odd phase warping.

I am sure that is the wrong term.
I have not come across this before

I have changed out (all) audio cables, different speakers, various sources, different channels, different outputs.
it keeps happening.

I hooked up a different mixer, same cables, sources, speakers, had it for two weeks now and it has no issues.
(Its a loaner so I cant keep it)

I took it to the shop and they said they had no issues.

I take it back and I still have the issue.

I went to a PA place and harassed the guys to listen
just to the recording and they had no idea either.

it is still under warranty but until I can get the
shop to recreate it they wont take it.

Could it be an electrical wiring issue?
It runs off an 240VAC adapter to 19V DC.
One important thing that you should consider is that feelings are not facts. While facts do inform our feelings, that isn't always the case. Most people are average (sometimes even people who think they're good). Its not wrong to feel like a failure just like it isn't wrong to feel like you're a success/have made it. IMO, what is important is that you should strive to perform at YOUR best. If you're doing than then you're already successful. Give it all you have, and ignore the haters.
The number of doctors who "died" after getting their fourth dose is a moving target, but the article i posted did a bit of a breakdown:

"
The cluster of deaths back in the summer helped kindle what is now a fire — a conspiracy theory that today peddles a list of dozens of doctors online, including the three who died in July, as well as — according to its own descriptions — several who drowned, one who was in the middle of biking 105 kilometres and a doctor who died coming down K2, a mountain deadlier than Everest.
"

It started out as "three" doctors, now it is "dozens".
Thank you for your reply, I need to go to sleep so I'm gonna be brief: I'm very glad to hear you've been able to turn your life around, I will look into everything you've mentioned.
They are making these leaps of logic because people have refused to look into it…
hubungan antara pembinaan bahasa Indonesia dengan masyarakat bangsa Indonesia secara psikologis mempunyai hubungan langsung atau relevan dan berkepentingan agar kegiatan membina bahasa Indonesia itu dilaksanakan secara intensif
They aren't. the first battles were fought by victims of deepfakes.
Interesting position. Are you suggesting that the solution will not involve innovation, or that climate change is unsolvable?

As an employee at a climate tech company, I think the primary roadblock is simply investing resources (money and time) in the various solutions available to us. A ton of innovation is happening along the way (e.g. first ever net positive fusion ignition yesterday) but even without much innovation, we could solve the problems by directing our resources at them.

In other words, I think climate change is very solvable and that innovation along the way is constant and inevitable. I'm not saying that we will definitely make the necessary investments to succeed, which I think might be your point? But as this post demonstrates, the rate of investment is improving significantly.
Ask HN: What do you look for in a designer?
I'm a designer (product, brand, etc.) with 13+ years of professional experience (20+ personal), predominately in-house at startups and freelancing for agencies and established companies. I’m 34 and working remotely in the US.

I didn’t have much trouble finding work and opportunities in the first half of my career, but it’s become nearly impossible for me to even get interviews anymore and I’m not sure why. I know it can be a numbers game but I promise you I have put in the numbers. I /promise/.

I need to leave my current job ASAP. It’s a bad environment and has effectively no benefits, and I’m at least a year deep into burnout. To that end, I’m putting together a new portfolio and résumé in hopes of sending out a volley of new applications in 2023.

For those of you who are or have been involved in vetting and hiring design talent, what do you look for in a designer? What do you like to see in an application or portfolio? What turns you off?

Thanks!
Anyone remember AOL chat rooms? You'd jump into a room with a topic (#teenpoolparty13) and start chatting with strangers. In general it would be okay, because it was like a bunch of people huddled together trying to have their conversations in one tiny bedroom. "New" social media killed the free-form group conversation, instead creating splinter conversations that were so highly focused that it actually generated more conflict.

Even in-person, where we have a thousand interpersonal heuristics and social queues to control social interaction, it can still be a mess. Social interaction is best in small groups connected by a common theme and protected by a blanket of familiarity. But with a random group of strangers, no social (or physical) ramifications, with splintered, hyper-focused conversations, it can only either A) devolve into rancor, or B) become an echo chamber. Bringing together lots of people you barely know or don't know at all to talk about random things just isn't a good model for human interaction.

Eternal September is just one of many of the examples of it devolving. With a small consistent group you can establish a consistent culture and psychological safety. Grow the group and the newbies destroy it. Healthy social interaction relies heavily on trust and cooperation.
Yeah the government is just people in power who suffer all the same issues as the rest of us. That's why surveillance and government need to be limited because they always get abused and as power accumulates they just want more power; it's a lot like being rich, you can never be rich enough to assuage your desire for more.
Why do you think this will kill your job? To me this looks like an extension of the hip-hop genre.
Have you been to any art museums?

Holy cow did previous generations / civilizations love to collect lewd sculptures and paintings.
psychologically, the relationship between the development of Indonesian and the people of the Indonesian nation has a direct relationship or is relevant and has an interest so that activities for fostering Indonesian are carried out intensively
I don't tend to count (currently) #2 on the main page to be drowned.
Wow, thanks a lot!

I will look into your comment in detail tomorrow, need to go to sleep.
Ferroelectrics: The Dream of Negative Capacitance
This is a bad take both on the nature of art and Wendy Carlos.

Art encompasses all aspects of the human experience. How could this not include identity and sexuality, and yes, the treatment one lives through as an aspect of those things. Also wrong is the supposition that a ideological art is somehow a lesser form of creativity. Some of the greatest works in history were made by "ideologues", and made specifically as tracts for their beliefs, either expressly or subtextually. To demand that art be politically inert and sanitized of the identity of its creator is to demand art that says nothing to the viewer and means nothing to the artist. It is to chide a mural for not being a wallpaper.

But even then: Wendy Carlos is perhaps one of the weakest examples of someone doing this, as the article itself makes abundantly clear. Her identity as a transgender woman was something she had to hide for over a decade, and even then the social stigma has driven her into seclusion ever since. Rather, the story of Wendy Carlos is one that massively underscores the sheer importance of having the loud-and-proud expressions of people's identity and experiences that we're (and I am) fortunate enough to have today. If you don't like that, well, maybe you can be the one to close your blinds this time.
they'll keep growing alfalfa and almonds
N is too small (but that's fine). The study is surely opening up an interesting window for future research.

Could it be a side effect of (accidental) intravenous injections, leading to a more pronounced immune reaction?
What is the HN type audience? HN is a news feed run by Ycombinator, a "startup accelerator". While many people around here have deep technical expertise, given the name "Hacker News", I always thought the main purpose was to make news and technical discussions more accessible to non-technical co-founders and startup executives.
> And as a society we need to figure out how to protect artists by protecting and celebrating the expression of ideas.

Github copilot would (until they manually changed it) spit out the famous fast inverse square function word for word - comments and everything which is more than just the idea (why would you want the comments with them swearing?)
Coming at this from a layman's perspective, would it be possible to generate a different sort of spectrogram that's designed for SD to iterate upon even more easily?
You would be right, except that there are no faster hash functions (on all modern Intel, AMD and ARM CPUs, which have hardware SHA-1).

BLAKE 3 is faster only in wall clock time, on an otherwise idle computer, because it fully uses all CPU cores, but it does not do less work.

BLAKE 3 is preferable only when the computer does nothing else but hashing.
Sorry but it's completely legal and anyone can look up the info as it's publicly available. It's also protected under the 1st amendment and court cases. It's not stalking, it's simply relaying already available public info in an easier to find place.
I think we're at the point, with these AI generative model thingies, where the practitioners are mesmerized by the mechatronic aspect like a clock maker who wants to recreate the world with gears, so they make a mechanized puppet or diorama and revel in their ingenuity.
The top of the market started at the bottom. Entry level is requiring higher and higher skills and capabilities.
Anxiety is a result of being uncomfortable, which is understandable. Interviews suck, especially the FAANG ones.

So - how do you make yourself not uncomfortable?
Practice. Make interviewing normal, and it becomes just another thing.
I recommend https://interviewing.io/, you can do live practice interviews. After a few, you'll just be comfortable with it.

I would also research outcome independence. If you learn to not care whether or not you pass an interview, your comfort level spikes through the roof, and you ultimately improve your odds of passing, oddly enough.
Isn't this just the riff sampling thing? So depending on the output you could be infringing.

Like how Vanilla Ice "stole" Queen's bass line.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_(music)
I had a conversation recently about the problems of social media and the growing extremes of political viewpoints. We agreed the a good part of the problem is partially caused by the online echo chamber but mostly by the increasing physical isolation of people in the real world. In the past the majority of men would have worked in manual labor with lots of other people, women would have worked at home and spent a lot more time getting to know their neighbours, now we work in isolation on a screen and stay at home without integrating with a community on a daily basis like times past. This allows people's views to go unchallenged and reduces the middle ground we all depended upon. Previously our vees would be challenged and our standing in our community would depend on our views. To go back to your point about anonymity should we be posting stuff online that we know our physical peers would have a problem with. Anonymity has its place I'm just not sure where the line is drawn.
It's a little disappointing not to see investments in regenerative agriculture. Granted, most of the work here isn't in software but in actually...farming...but still, the more energy put in that space, the more we'll see it be used as a standard for how we get our food.