skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't get it. Pre-ChatGPT prompt engineering was a BS exercise in guessing how a given model's front-end tokekizes and processes the prompt. ChatGPT made it only more BS. But I've seen a paper the other day, implementing more structured, formal prompt language, with working logic operators implemented one layer below - instead of adding more cleverly structured English, they were stepping the language model with variations of the prompt (as determined by the operators), and did math on probability distributions of next tokens the model returned. That, to me, sounds like valid, non-BS approach, and strictly better than doubling down on natural language.
The normal failure mode for a disk is to return an error or nothing, not random bits. A straight mirror or similar structure can’t defend against that, you need checksums. If you don’t have them the filesystem will mostly break and the files you get are partly filled with the random bits.

It’s kind of impressive though that the filesystem doesn’t crash, many filesystem drivers trust the disks and don’t defend against corrupted or manipulated data.
I'm using the one that is part of gitlab self hosted instance. Pretty minimalistic, but it does the job.

Never had an issue upgrading Gitlab and I've used it for 5+ years over many major versions.
You're going to use 'If they tell you to jump off of a cliff, would you do it?' arguments? Really?

Are you suggesting that doctors don't have an institutiona legitimacy?

Seriously?

Hydroxicloroquine and Ivermectin? They are medicine. Doctors have been prescribing them for a while. We don't know the full effects of them, but we also know they are otherwise benigng in specific dosages, and there were hopes that there wouldbe an effect. It's good that some Hosptials were making the prescription.

And finally, no, we do not argue over the concept of 'behind the counter drugs'.

There is 0 debate anywhere that people should just be able to 'self prescribe' and get what drugs they want.

That doctors can be wrong is besides the point.

I don't think you've made any arguments to suggest that we shouldn't remain having some fairly serious instittional legitimcay in the field of medicine.
I am not a lawyer but I'd think:

You're not directly competing with the movie though, your work is a review, not a feature film.

If you were to make a parody movie from the material of the movie itself, directly taking scenes and altering them to your liking but still relying on the viewer recognizing the original in it, you'd have a harder time, I think.
Can you give some examples of the mistakes?
If you're interested in digital electronics (e.g. computers), I strongly recommend "Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software"[0].

It's a bit of a history book on the invention of computers, starting from the telegram. By the end of the book, you should know enough to create a computer from wires and a power source alone. The section on the physics of electricity is only a few pages though.

Personally, for a more high level and intuitive understanding of electrical concepts, I generally find educational YouTube videos more effective than books. I strongly recommend "The Engineering Mindset" channel on YouTube[1] but there are many others.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code:_The_Hidden_Language_of_C...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@EngineeringMindset
Comes as a shock to me when I'm literally reading their documentation on setting up sqlite with prisma for an internal project
You don't need to "understand" art to create it though. Good art, sure, maybe, but not really. Plenty of brilliant musicians who know fuck all about music theory, but they can crank out tunes.

Diffusion would appear to me to work in much the same way. It doesn't understand what's good ("works", creates acceptable output) or why, but it knows it when it sees it, and has the tools to refine it.
At least they didn't host a rock concert for worlds richest elites the night before.
I think you're a bit confused with the term 'strawman'.

The entire nature of 'free speech without consequences' is about populist appeal to stupidity.

The evidence exists in the fact that 30% of Americans believe the election was stolen despite there being no material evidence.

And all sorts of other things.
you don't believe in 2nd chances? people make mistakes, you usually have to make them before you learn from them.
With lambda you pay for what you use. It scales endlessly and is quite cheap. Depending on your typical usage and load it can be a huge cost saver (also mentally) as lambda will scale.

With ECS Fargate it costs money even without any traffic and you are responsible for correctly implementing auto scaling.

I'm coming from 10y rails dev background and now full stack typescript. Thinking in pure lambda functions is a breath of fresh air for me.
This is a funny comment after an article about Patton, who was famous for saying, "No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some other dumb bastard die for his country."
Shouldn't an em dash be surrounded with spaces on each side anyway?
Apple does the same horseshit with battery charging guessing. Just give me a toggle setting for stop at 80% full.
Yeah, that book is 75% fiction, at least. But it's a fun read.
how many are affected? 28% of what?
There are lots of people arguing against the training itself. And people arguing against all outputs, even when there is no detectable copying. I don't know how you missed those takes. You're arguing the wrong point here. Many people do want to say "no ai can look".
Does this company make any money? Any at all?

They have burned so much cash making an average ORM. First in Scala. Then in Rust. For what benefit over just TypeScript? None.

Just impossible to debug and a total pain to contribute to for JS devs.

When this company dies so to will the ORM. No one else is going to maintain this thing.
Why don’t you think through the implications of your question? You say outlawed. Ok then, write a hypothetical law that would outlaw this behaviour. Remember, this law should be general enough to apply to advertising or internet advertising in general. The more specific it gets (“search engine advertising firm beginning with G”) the less likely it’ll stand up to judicial scrutiny.

It would only take a second for you to realise that the answer to your question is “it’s not done because it’s hard to formulate a law that’s fair, will pass judicial review, won’t be circumvented, won’t lead to unintended consequences and will achieve the intended effect”.

All that before we get to lobbying. Because even if you formulate this perfect law, there’s still an open question of how you plan to enact this legislation.
Your whole spiel about how people have to request access to FSD doesn't seem very relevant. The feature is being sold to the general public to be used on public roads. That means it has to be safe enough to be used by the general public on public roads, "beta" sticker or not, access request process or not.
What can a country do to get birth rates up? I'm sure there are analyses out there about why Japan's is low, but what can they (or other countries) do to pump birth rates up?
Poker definitely seems to fit the bill here. There’s a lot of half decent players who never seem to stay up for long or for very much.

Might have less to do with the game and more to do with play style and discipline, though.
-- linkedin says they have 164 employees --
It might be tricky to get hold of a print copy of this book, so FWIW: it’s also available on Libgen.

Just sayin’ (:
In fact, it is quite hilarious that in the last 5 years the go-to criticism of state-of-the art AI has switched from
"It can only do one specfic thing very well!" to "It can't do any specific thing very well!".

We have really struck a goldmine with unsupervised LLMs. While before the range of forms of intelligence we could cover only contained high performance "specific" intelligence, we now finally have an outpost in low performance "general" intelligence.

All we have to do is perform a pincer movement! Any data is tokens, any models can be interfaced.

I predict models will be trained on DNS-Server data streams.
In many cases I suspect there isn't any need beyond attempting to show shareholders that you are doing "something".

A lot of these layoffs will be net negatives for the companies.
It looks like Ruby on Jets makes you 100% dependent on 1 company: AWS/Amazon; not an evolution I'd welcome.
Because the black box is shrinking, does it mean we might ge able to get similar quality results with smaller models?
In your example "a desire" is unambiguously "the desire of Bob Johnson", but in your initial comment "a desire" is not part of a sentence or even paragraph that mentions an individual or a group, therefore is likely to make the readers assume the author (in this case you) is the one making the claim (in this case that means assuming you are the one who believes it's the most important document)
"It's the hardest decision I've had to make"

"We will work harder"
Things like threads sizes staying imperial makes sense to me.

I believe they are now technically defined in mm, but obviously it's still based on fractions of an inch. In my view, there aren't any truly compelling reasons to switch from BSP to something based on natural metric measures.

On the other hand, if we were to replace these pipe fittings with metric, we'd end up with a mixed system for realistically at least a century, if not a lot longer due to how long pipe systems last. The complexity (and also, in some cases, danger) of having to maintain both systems for so long would be incredible.

It's similar to how in flying, we still use feet/flight levels, and actually a few places have migrated from metric to the more conventional imperial system.

Imperial pipe fittings are pretty common across the entire world, in fact. I think most countries outside of UK/USA use BSP (often by a different name), but NPT is also sometimes used - and even BSP vs NPT is a huge pain.
It works fine on CPUs. Takes about a minute to generate images on my 8 core i7 desktop.
One miscalculation can result in them over hiring. Are you suggesting they should have instead every month lay off a few people depending on how the current environment looks instead of 28% at once?
I'd be interested to see how shock proof they are, along with how well they stand up to fatigue. I'm assuming they are silicon flappy-bits, which tend to be fairly hard but fragile.

However there are watch people using silicon as balance replacement, so perhaps its more robust than I thought.
Thank you for using the product and leaving your feedback.

We are working on getting rid of the “cutesy” cursor.
That doesn't mean I can't recover the image (or at least get really close to one) using a different query, does it? Edit: It's nonlinear after all.
tbf, TFA points out that among some "20 AI products" Google intends to release this year are mostly in response to OpenAI: DALL-E (image creator and editor), Copilot, ChatGPT, and OpenAI APIs (low-code, browser-based).
China doesn't care much about copyright law. AI is safe.
This is a great question.

Yes. Our images are orthorectified.
Pretty good approach. When Python was my main and only language, I had an ungodly amount of unnecessary imposter syndrome stemming from that.
> It gets to the point where it's hard to even know what to say about the nth tech layoff announcement.

Investors don't get free helicopter money, thus they can't pump money into startups/tech companies thus companies have to cut the dead weight. There will be more lay offs coming - because the free money economy is currently suspended.
Much surrounding the episode of the Bonus Army is shameful, but I wish articles about it would put the blame where it belongs. Patton was ordered into action by MacArthur, who was ordered by President Hoover.
There are some overfittings where you can point to source images, but that number is a lot smaller than 5 billion.
Now try “play two Mozart songs, a Bruce Springsteen song, and then four flaming lips songs” or ask it to play Dark Side of the Moon in alphabetical order.
I feel the pain. So much software doesn't even expose a proper tree, much less a DAG. But that seems to be improving somewhat - I see trees in software more often. I just worry I'll retire before the ecosystem makes the cognitive jump to start implementing/exposing DAGs.

> I can think of are note apps with their weird "notebook", "chapter","page" concepts rather than just letting me choose the depth of nesting I need.

Exactly! And then you end up using "outliner" software for this, and then people are surprised that you need rich text capabilities in it. In reality, what's needed is to combine both, to get a note-taking app with arbitrary nesting levels.
Not sure what you intended to imply, but I don't think those two consents are related that much to worry about. Copyright licenses usually are written down like this: "[you are allowed to] use, reproduce, modify, adapt, perform, display, distribute" and so on.

When a new technology is introduced, for example the compact disc was invented, lawyers get to poke whether that "distribute" applies to the music CDs, or just to vinyls and music tapes (because at the time of granting that license, CDs weren't yet a thing! gotcha!).

The answer to this conundrum might vary in different countries, and we can have fun discussing that in the context of AI, but it does not affect how handmade art shouldn't be too similar.
Are these layoffs of tecnical jobs?
"Significantly" in statistics does not mean "reliably", but "confidently".
DNS DriveBy: Stealthy GPS Tracking Using Open Wi-Fi
I’m not sure; it sure seems like women statistically aren’t too eager to make tons of babies when actually given a choice. Not a cat you’d want back in the bag either. Perhaps we really are screwed on that front.
Allow immigration.
Ecosystems (what I infer you mean by "the world", since things that are part of the world such as gravity, plate tectonics, etc don't follow the laws of evolution) haven't had thousands of years to evolve, adapt, and settle around the capabilities that we've had since the industrial revolution started. AI is merely an aspect and consequence of the logical progression of that continuity.

(In terms of tangible effect on the world today and what seems on track for the few decades to come, AI is still far behind coal - to pick one - when it comes to concrete negative externalities tho)
This company is based on an ORM library? How do they make money?
Protestants are absolutely trained to make use of commentaries. Its one of the bare fundamentals of exegesis, which is taught in first year in basically every Bible college. Its nonsensical to say that they ignore the masses of study on these documents.
While I don’t disagree I don’t see the point of taking out the power to the community around an army base.

If they took out the power on the base to disrupt operations then maybe but from my time at Ft Bragg all that would’ve caused is an inconvenience even if we were in the middle of an alert.

…now that I think about it I’m surprised they never cut the power on us when they did one of the alert readiness tests.
Yeah I'd agree, this was the instant turnoff for me, I don't like Amazon. But I totally understand people trying to build a more modern Ruby framework.
Great work, congratulations! One question, if I understood it right you based your demo on GPT-2 - what is your experience working with those open-source language AIs. In terms of computational requirements and performance?

I'm really fascinated by all the tools the OS community is building based on StableDiffusion (like OP's), which compares favourably with the latest closed-source models like Dall-E or Midjourney, and can run reasonably well on a high-end home computer or a very reasonably-sized cloud instance. For language models, it seems the requirements are substantially higher, and it's hard to match the latest GPT versions in terms of quality.
"I take full responsibility" is the new "our incredible journey" of failing tech company cliches.
What's discrediting about scheme?
>https://www.kalzumeus.com/2022/11/11/tether-required-recapit...

At no point does this blog post mention Binance, it discusses an entirely different cryptocurrency exchange.
He gets to learn from his mistake while 28% of his company is held accountable for the company’s lack of productivity. What’s so complicated about that?
"Capture images" is something cameras do, eyes do vastly more (baring on the neuroplascitity of the brain, and so on).

We have never built a system capable of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopoiesis , and so, cameras are vaslty inferior in this respect, since they are wholey incapable of modulating the growth of an organism.
> How is it much different from a search index?

A search index usually links to the source. Without that a search index is worthless, you can't use content if you don't even know where it comes from and who holds the rights.

Google search links to sources like Wikipedia in its info boxes, because without that you can't know whether the info is reliable or sourced from my brother's coworker's imaginary flat-earther friend.
Natural attrition can cut headcount. Large layoffs are a sign of incompetence.
> The issue is a completely different matter if you made a copy on a harddrive.

But there are no copies. For example, the LAION-2b training data is a total of 240 TB. The pruned SD model based on this dataset, is less than 5GB.

The data isn't copied into the models, it is used to teach the models, letting them learn patterns in the dataset.
Most people aren't asking for copyright on the AI output, though.

Also animals can be trained and make outputs and nobody accuses them of copyright infringement. That's a much better analogy here than leaping to the idea of treating one of these models like a human.
The blunt truth is that layoffs are not really failures from a business perspective. Employees and their employment don't really matter independent of other things. Could be the symptom of a mistake or could just be a failed bet but that's all. It's just a question of risk, reward and cost. Not a question of people. If the layoffs targets low performing employees or departments then it's actually a business win.

If you don't like that then consider pushing for unions, government regulations or join an employee co-op. However many people don't like that option because they prefer to not risk the massive compensation packages that big tech gives them.

I'm reminded of the Street Fighter quote:

"For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me... it was Tuesday."
Is that like, weird? How many companies are realistically hosting their compute/data across multiple providers for the sake of diversifying that risk? Certainly some, but a tiny minority right?
mypy still has some rough edges but in a couple years it’s going to be golden. My Python programs are already always fully typed and checked with strict settings. For all intents and purposes that’s 95% of the way of what a statically typed language provides anyway (if we ignore multithreading).

This article had a good impact on how I do typing nowadays (applies to any language): https://dusted.codes/the-type-system-is-a-programmers-best-f...
I used Ruby on Jets for a small project a while ago. It worked really well, however I got the impression that the project was somewhat stalled and maybe losing support. Has that changed?

edit Yea the github activity is still pretty concerning. But Rails seems to be having a little bit of a renaissance so maybe it will pick up here also.
Not in English. The two equivalent English alternatives -- as far as I know -- are the en dash surrounded by spaces---or the em dash with no space. I actually like the look of the em dash with no space better, but for the reasons mentioned in the GP I end up using the en dash anyway.

(Another reason is that Swedish, which I also write, only has the en dash, so its nice that I can be consistent.)
It’ll be a notable thing if China win the AI race because of ignoring copyrights
Become poorer, more religious, and get people to work less.

I don't believe there's any examples of modern countries doing it. Providing lots of childcare benefits doesn't seem to help, though it does make the children you do get healthier.
If you search online it is easy to find parallel texts showing, say, the Koine Greek and English side by side. I think you should try to see what you make of them.
Ah yes, the global conspiracy to get people to...checks notes...occasionally use a pocket calculator. Very socialist indeed.

A system merely suitable for the human scale will never enable you to reach beyond.
This is also the opinion I reached after thinking about it for quite some time.

I am, a wee bit, shocked people believe there can be impactful legislation on this. As if politicians who have been unable to curb PIRACY in any real sense would now be able to tackle an even tougher problem. This is despite well funded lobbying groups. Even large corps enable piracy without consequences.

Further, the government frequently indicates a concern that China will beat the US at AI.

There is an extremely bumpy ride coming for a group of people that have never had to deal with an unavoidable bumpy ride. I look forward to an increasingly logical viewpoint from people being struck by reality. Not maliciously, but societally.

AI has indeed removed the "need" for copyright. Let Mickey die.
Hosted database SaaS, with the (free) library somehow integrated.
So I read their website and to my understanding, they make a DB interface layer, and have 100+ staff? How is this not a company of like 10 people.
It all sounds great, but it is based on a single huge assumption: "it will be easy to get 'green' hydrogen".

They make it sound like they found an alternative to oil, but that is wrong: the hydrogen needs to be produced first.

Should we have enough energy, in a post-fossil-fuels world, to produce hydrogen for aviation, maybe it could work. The big question is: will we have that energy?

I guess the aviation sector won't entirely disappear, but flying will be much, much more expensive. The aviation sector as we know it will probably end with the end of oil.
There are actually Bibles that do this (like the Interlinear), with accompanying commentaries as well. You'll often find them on the desks and shelves of preachers, because they consider it their job to dive into that research, understand it, and then convey that understanding to those who haven't been trained in the literary arts.
Copyright at its heart is fine. The original objectives, allowing people to hold a short-term monopoly on their ideas, so they can fund further ideas, and the manner in which they’re achieved is perfectly fine.

Where goes wrong, is when individuals and cooperation believe that such monopolies should be indefinite, and pushed the monopolies beyond the lifetime of the author. A dead author can’t produce new works, so it’s now clear how allowing such long monopolies increases the amount of creative work produced.

The original primary objective of copyright was to create an environment to could produce an endless supply of public work, freely available to all. It’s only abuses of copyright over the past 50 years that have destroyed objective, and ironically it’s copyright holders like Disney that really starting to suffer the consequences.

Winding back copyright durations to better balance the public and private interests would go a long way to resolving many of our issues with copyright today.

> Yes ... and because it's not a logically perfect system, its lifetime has to be limited.

It’s also worth pointing out that no system of law is “perfectly logical”. It’s almost certainly impossible to produce a perfectly logic system because humans are inherently illogical, and binding them into a perfectly logical system of law would almost certainly produce more injustices.