skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tribalism seems to be a part of human nature. One that requires active effort to counteract. BIPOC are also born into more difficult circumstances, through no fault of their own. Rich societies can and should lend a hand. Not close their eyes and pretend systemic problems will work themselves out.
Buying a used motorhome makes more financial sense than a new coach, but it also comes with some hiccups, which you need to investigate before making a purchase. The biggest one is the condition of the motorhome, which in most cases relates to age.
WAR IS PEACE
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
…
CLOSED IS OPEN
Not very common among the readers here and hard to look up
But you're allowed to invest worldwide, and across the whole world the population is still growing.
I want you to count how many trucks arrive at the local cement factory every day for a month so that we can make an informed offer.
If only Stable Diffusion wasn't already populated with a host of copyrighted images already.

Make your own art, dammit. This is the equivalent running some Photoshop filters through someone else's work.
Try "turn the car blue"
I think all these layoffs really come down to haves and have nots. You don’t need prisma, to be completely honest. You do need a lot of other software, otherwise some companies that depend on it cannot operate.

I have tried my best over my short (just six years so far in swe, and a few years in a non tech role) career to be on teams where our work is basically in the top 1-3 annual initiatives. It guarantees I keep my job 99% because I work on the things that make money for the company. It’s not my company, so that’s my terms of employment I set for myself. Don’t work on things that push the envelope too far (moonshot), if things don’t work out you lose as an employee (granted if you’re at a big tech company layoffs don’t really mean much with 3+ month severance packages and cozy amounts of additional support).

If I’m on an employee vesting schedule I’m gonna make sure I win as much as I can.
https://archive.is/gT5jT
> What about uploading every binary you run to their server to check if its “approved”?

My understanding was macOS only checked the signature of third party executables before first run.

Windows may let you run it first, but any unknown executable (not just a hash, the file itself) gets sent to Microsoft by default. [0]

[0] https://medium.com/sensorfu/how-my-application-ran-away-and-...
Top 7 Weirdest Macro Lenses [video]
SQLite Code of Conduct: First of all, love the Lord God with your whole heart
If GPT-3 can learn in context it means both the training set and the prompt could be in copyright violation. So even a clean model, trained on licensed data, cannot guarantee there will be no copyright issue.
Are you another one of those that think everything is going to shit because of immigration?

What used to be something only old racists and simpletons would loudly declaim 30 years ago, now it's become a common, yet still utterly moronic, party line.

But it's so easy to blame everything on the brown and the gaijin, when thinking hard about a hard problem takes too much effort.
PaulGraham: AI's Effect on Writing Quality
It's a minibook and I don't think Noctua sells fans tiny enough to fit those unique cooling assemblies.
As someone who's scared of all the lay offs happening, what should I do to calm down and keep going?
Responsibility without consequence or punishment are moot.
Although I appreciate the work folks like Tom Brown do, the notion that he has actually rescued 1000 varieties is a bit of a stretch. An apple variety is only really rescued when it has found a home in commerce and some significant consumer base wants it. Otherwise it's just on life support in a museum, and maybe in a few home orchardists' little collections of trees - it's perpetuation still hanging by a thread. In particular, trees grafted, as Brown's are, onto dwarf roootstock, sometimes mutiple varieties per tree, and maintained by an 80 year old retiree, could all be gone again in a decade or two, even if his records are meticulous. Dwarf apple trees don't live long, and a single ice storm or hurricane could kill hundreds of varieties in a single pass.

This is not to dis Tom's work, only to say, the actual rescue is very tenuous.
A difficult comment to understand. I had no idea what GBP was and had only a rough idea what was being said thereafter.
I like EasyOrg [0] and enjoy using the Calendar view. I have been using it more or less daily for a couple of years now, mainly keeping track of personal projects. It's orgmode based.

Adds a bit more intelligence and structure than a regular text file which I used some years ago. I feel EasyOrg makes it a bit easier to work with the org-files than Emacs, but that's just my personal view, and it's also possible to switch between the two.

[0] https://easyorgmode.com.
Damn it, my phone auto-"corrected" peltier to pettier and I didn't notice before now, after the edit window. Why is phone autocorrect still so broken?
They seem to be targeting certain devices (laptops and gaming handhelds), not top of the line chips.
France has done an exceptional job of retaining a viable domestic war industry - can and does produce its own planes, ships, tanks, missiles, bullets, and of course nuclear and space hardware. Consequently, along with Turkey, perhaps the only European country that can still operate with some semblance strategic independence. Tough to see how he can get this bill through though, going to take de Gaulle level credibility to pull it off
provisioned concurrency pretty much nukes the concern.
I think the term “accidental complexity” relates to this concept. The architectural model would be the “accidental” part, that is, in a magical world the business model would execute correctly without any need to tie it into the architecture, and thus there would be no “gap” between the models, and no need for some kind of tool to generate the architectural model’s code.

This brings us to the non-magical world where we have to ask if we even want to completely automate (ignore) the architectural model.
A human mind is not a rules model for Chess, and comparisons to a human mind are worthless. We're not asking if the LLM is human, only if it is modeling the game rules or modeling statistics

My point is this:

* If the results of the model were perfect, not a single counter-example, that would be a strong argument that the LLM has built an internal model of Othello

* If counter-examples exist, the result of the experiment is indistinguishable from a sufficiently clever statistical inference and proves nothing
I am not a TDD evangelist by any means, but if people would read a bit more detail about it, and use it as a set of guidelines we would be better off.

For instance, one of the things they say beyond the "red/green/refactor" is "as the tests get more specific, the code should get more generic." This is an interesting concept in itself.

Edit:

To clarify, if you are writing the least code to make it pass, and do not have the concept that the code needs to get more generic, you /will/ think the whole thing is silly.
YouTube + personal labs were far more effective and enjoyable in my experience.

Electroboom and Eeevblog are a couple great channels to get started.

The recommendation engine will pick up pretty quickly.
Yes, but there are a lot of ad agencies that try to do Google ads on behalf of clients for huge fees. I'm sure part of Google sales people's jobs is to try and either drive such agencies out of business or get the agencies to spend more on Google.
more like kept it from sliding in the last few decades, but yes, still pretty high, and it's an achievement. They were also helped by having a very young population to begin with (just look at that perfect age pyramid), and the whole country currently has population of Nagoya metro area, Japan is much bigger and harder to change.
> pathetic antiviolent decadence

Care to elaborate?
> MSFT will never get that $10 billion back

Easily. By integrating it into their developer tools, office suite, Azure, Dynamics, etc. You can automate/support SO many tasks with the toolsuite that OpenAI offers.

In addition to that, the way I understand it they can simply make money by licensing others to use those tools. They already started offering the OpenAI services through Azure.
>"Sorry, I can't help you with that while you're in the car"

I was on the way to an important meeting that didn't have enough time to prepare for. I needed to read a very long blog post and so I pulled up the page before I got in the car and once I was on the highway, I asked Siri to "speak screen"and got this asinine response. WTH? This is the primary use case for having Siri read something to me. What idiot thought this was somehow necessary for safety?

That day, Siri was the tipping point from Apple being a company that delighted me to one that infuriated me.
Try setting the CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES environment variable to ''.
You can never make the NYT happy about tech.
> > Do you ask for permission when you train your mind on copyrighted books? Or observe paintings? Or listen to music?

> Yes, that’s exactly what happens when you buy a book, or pay for a music subscription. The work is in the public domain, then global permission to observe and copy the work is already granted.

You can buy a book, read it, sell the book, and then write and sell another book based on the ideas contained in the first book (Baker v Seldon). This is the cornerstone of contemporary copyright law. Or read the book on a shelf of a bookstore where the clerk is asleep. Or borrow the book from the library or any other manner where direct compensation of the author is nowhere to be seen.

Copyright is consistently interpreted in alignment with the needs of public learning, both by protecting the authorial incentive as well as protecting the public need for knowledge.
your novel theory of extraterritorial jurisdiction will no doubt be very interesting to trips litigators

afaik asahi v. superior court is still governing precedent in the usa though so it won't be of any interest to domestic litigators in the usa
dunno, there is the one-time toggle in the notification area for 100% in my pixel and there is a toggle to turn off these adaptive features in settings.
> It's a business, not a charity. They have absolutely no obligation

Should keep this in mind next time a corp asks for a bailout, taxbreaks, or has major court case against them. Then it suddenly becomes all about understanding their situation and protecting valuable business

Capitalism for mee but not for thee.
Non-paywall link: https://archive.is/3hAkR
I just did a bit more research, artists AND corporations, including Getty images are in lawsuits against companies stealing their work to train AI models.

There's a big, big, big difference between copyright based lawsuits and you claiming "artists launching the first resistance against AI".

I think they're against people scraping their work and on selling it ? I'm not saying they're right or wrong, but there is a difference to what you're claiming.
> Even if you get the system to work, what about future artists and writers? Are we just creating an entrenched historical group of creatives getting royalties forever?

The flip side of this is that if we undermine paid creators until there's no incentive for them to create, then the AIs abilities stagnate on old data and we as a society drop or at least diminish the skillsets that could create new media.

AI can generate stuff humans care to look at only because of the availability of data that humans created for eachother to enjoy. As tastes, fashions, zeitgeists and pop culture change amongst humans the AI models will always be behind and unable to follow trends completely. I think.
But one timer and one timer only. Siri cannot start a second timer on your phone in 2023. Its ridiculous
if this is powering your primary API and you have 24/7 traffic, fargate can actually be cheaper in some circumstances. there's nuance in lambda config, including concurrency, temp space, and memory. pay for usage is nice until it's not.
It works in the USA, Canada, Australia.
Of course, so let's close the doors and magically I'll get paid £30/hour to collect trash off the street, because there's no competition with the immigrants. Simple as.

We've tried that in Britain. Come see how's that worked out for us.
There are multiple ways to transition out as CEO other than just saying “peace, I’m out”
A shocking amount of the world runs on Microsoft Excel already.
Wow, that title sounds like poor AIs need lawyers soon, or is it already lobbying for itself? We need the turing police!
I'd be interested to know the age (or any other) demographic of HN'ers commenting on posts like these. Lot of people sounding very personally slighted by companies trying to remain profitable (or just in business).
Yes it still works, but that is quite normal and fine, actually. The game's lobbies/sessions are based on peer-to-peer, so obviously when you cut connections to other players you will get to play by yourself (in other words, you are just "kicking" yourself out of the current session). Someone could join your "solo" session at any time, it just isn't very likely, as the game's services usually find more populated sessions for everyone.

Then again, nowadays you can play the game without restrictions in invite-only and friends sessions, too.
Using RAM to hold unneeded layers was one of the first optimizations made for Stable Diffusion. The AUTOMATIC1111 WebUI implements it, not sure about others.
before poetry and pipenv was a thing, pretty much everyone was recommending the virtualenvwrapper script instead of using venv directly...
so yes, thats what it ultimetaly always ends up as.
Huh my experience is very different. I used the app to get a jump start on my car and they came out in 20 minutes with no hassle. I think it really depends on your location.
that isn't how law works

copyright is not a get-into-jail-free card that allows private parties to invent their own legal system and nonconsensually impose it on other private parties
The public didn't just pay for the development but also provided social and economic structures, infrastructure and education that allow these companies to exist in the first place.

Even if one believes that vaccines deserve all the credit for returning the world back to normalcy, Big pharma didn't save us. Scientists and other staff directly involved in R&D deserve the credit and they would continue to exist even if their work was organized in another, more efficient manner. I find it quite disturbing when the role of profiteering corporations is glorified like that.
Extending from this, there’s also the NEETS reading material: https://www.hnsa.org/manuals-documents/2575-2/
Oh man, this is great.
I was always confused with this stuff and didn't notice that this is such a big mess...

Thank you
Especially if you’re playing blind. I’d say an error rate of less than %1 is pretty good in that case.
They do: https://www.prisma.io/dataguide/types/relational/what-is-an-...
What's the general opinion on Sundar Pichai as CEO? I haven't been excited about Google since Eric Schmidt, but I don't know how much of that is down to the CEO, and how much is just down to a different world and larger company.

In contrast I think most people would agree that Microsoft is a much more interesting and maybe better company with Satya Nadella as boss.
many of these clauses are legally unenforceable because you can violate them without infringing on any of the rights that copyright law grants exclusively to the copyright holder (who can license them)
It clearly says this:

> This decision will impact 28% of the Prisma team, and those affected have already been notified via personal and work email.

Do you see the English word “impact”? The word “impacted” comes from this. This has been used over and over in this context by many companies and people. So my question was why has this word suddenly come into vogue for this type of event? Why not layoff or w/e was always used?

Do you have an answer to that?
You don't stay in business for 100 years by coasting. I can see they've kept with the times in ways other than the video goes into; from a quick Internet search, they own the domain https://customfabricflowers.com/, and they have a quite active Etsy shop. https://www.etsy.com/shop/Customfabricflowers1
That's true, although the effect here is because the page size you picked (2MB) is close to the physical memory size (4MB).

Between a computer with 1GB and a computer with 64GB, any vaguely reasonable default page size you pick (whether that's 64k or 2M) is far from the total memory size, so the percentage wasted doesn't get much smaller as RAM continues increasing. I.e. the relative benefit of larger pages grows much slower than total system memory.

So in other words, my point is that default page size should not just grow linearly with memory size, the best tradeoff is something a little more complex. Saying that RAM grew 1000x, therefore page size should grow a lot is aiming too high too fast. Especially given that hardware already supports mixed page sizes (despite lackluster software support at the moment)
"the figures from there suggest that
Ukrainian inherent intelligibility of Russian is close to zero."

From: https://www.academia.edu/4080349/Mutual_Intelligibility_of_L...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Ukraine

On the name, including various discussions about the meaning of "Kraj". And the fact that "Krai" is still a type of division of land in Russia.
The West doesn’t really understand Japan - and never has, going back to the Meiji era - because the Japanese managed to “modernize” without entirely “Westernizing.” To our Enlightenment-derived idea of Progress, these are not two separate things, so we become very confused when a place is futuristic technologically but “behind” culturally, in terms of our own Western cultural history.
Is there a communication strategy that recommends that the heads of companies state that they “take full responsibility”? This seems to be a common statement in the recent layoff memos, but it doesn’t appear that the C-suite ever faces substantial consequences.
Trademark and copyright already restrict what humans can do with others work. If too similar then it could prompt legal action.
your novel theory of how diffusion models work will no doubt be of great interest to deep learning researchers
> The headcount in tech recently grew way faster than the rest of the economy

I am confused - are you saying did google management made an incompetent decision to hire them and now firing them is the rifgt decision?

Of decision 1 was incompetent, why do you believe decision 2, by same management, is competent? What if they fire all the wrong people? What if you need to fire the management? Has anyone even checked if management needs to be fired?
> Lot of people sounding very personally slighted by companies trying to remain profitable (or just in business).

Do you really need to make an effort to figure out why employees feel slighted for being fired without notice, and specially by an employer whose profitability is not questioned?

You made it sound like only unreasonable people would be bothered by being forced out of a job while having rent/mortgage and bills to pay.
Is that a trend or a blip?
generally luddites are found among those with the deepest understanding of a new invention

but i agree that in this case it's probably futile
That's not so much an argument for using metric units as it is an argument for fixing naming in the Imperial system.

What makes Imperial units harder to remember than metric units is not that they are related by factors of 2^n 3^m instead of factors of 10^n. It is that the names of different units of the same kind are not predictable based on their ratios.

If you had a system with the same relationships as Imperial, but say all the weight units were of the form <prefix>pound, where <prefix> indicates the multiplier or divider to go from pounds to that derived unit, and the same prefixes were used also used with length units so lengths were all <prefix>yard, Imperial units would be a lot easier than they are now.

The metric vs Imperial debate would then simply be whether factors of 10^n are better or worse than factors of 2^n 3^m.
> Even if you get the system to work, what about future artists and writers? Are we just creating an entrenched historical group of creatives getting royalties forever?

Copyright expires, and new artists will create new (copyrightable) art in the future. Unless your assertion is that generative AI is so good no one will make art without it ever again?
As a new father, I have toyed with the idea of raising my child with base 16.
What if the guilty party wasn't guilty? Isn't that like putting someone in prison for life on the expectation that eventually evidence will come to light that it was the right call?
> Which, i would argue, training an AI/ML is.

> Therefore, using a training dataset does not constitute copyright violation.

It's not for you to decide that. Different jurisdictions will have their own process for deciding that and none of them are based on the opinions of random commentators on internet message boards.

Also please bare in mind my comment was reply to a specific statement (repeated below) and not talking about AI in general:

> You publish in public, you automatically grate licenses for the public to consume and transform it.

^ this statement is not correct for the reasons I posted. AI discussions might add colour to the debate but it doesn't alter the incorrectness of the above statement.

> If the AI outputted an exact copy (or a close enough copy, that the laymen would agree it's a copy), then that particular instance of the AI's output is in violation of copyright. The AI model itself violate any copyright.

That assumption needs testing in courts.

As I've posted elsewhere, there have been plenty of cases where copyright holders have successfully sued other creators based on new works that have bared a resemblance to existing works. It happens all the time. I remember reading a story about how a newly successful author was being handed ideas from fans during a book signing only for one of her representatives to intercept them each time. When they later asked why the representative took them, the representative said "it's because if any of your future books follow a similar idea, that fan could sue. But if we can prove you haven't read the idea then the fan has no claim". (to paraphrase)

Experts don't all agree on where the line is with similar works created by humans, let alone the implications of copyrighted content being used as training data for computers. And this is true for every jurisdiction I've researched. So to have random people on HN talk as confidently as they do about this being all perfectly legal is rather preposterous. You don't even fully grasp the intricacies of copyright law in your own jurisdiction, let alone the wider world. In fact this is such a blurred line that I wouldn't be surprised if the some cases would have different rulings in different courts within that same jurisdiction. It's definitely not as clear cut as you allude to.
> I mean metrics for measuring responsibility towards the people, especially the laid-off ones - there seems to be absolutely none of these.

Of course there is none, so I'm always puzzled when company representatives mention 'loyalty' or implicitly suggest unpaid overtime.
Maybe they’re bad at, or maybe the problems are just hard.

Given the output of every other company tackling self driving cars, for example, I think there’s some evidence it’s the latter.

An “illusion to trap investors” seems like a big leap without any real evidence to support it.
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