skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Think about the problem in an end-to-end fashion: the user has an idea of what sort of image they want, they just need an interface to tell the machine. A combination of natural language plus optional image/video input is probably the most intuitive interface we can provide (at least until we've made far more progress on reading brain signals more directly).

How exactly we get there, by adding layers like on top like language models, or adding layers below like what you described, doesn't seem like such a fundamental difference. It's engineering, you try different approaches, vary your parameters and see what works best. And from the onset, natural language does seem like a good candidate for encoding nuances like "make it pink, but not cheesy" or "has the vibes of a 50's Soviet propaganda poster, but with friendlier colors".
A lot of times, these types is articles or Op-Eds are advertisements or marketing for the author. They put up an unpopular opinion for feelings, and that incites emotions, and hence gets shared. And they might net some publicity or extra book sales from it.

Based on this author’s background, I would easily lean towards that conclusion .
I don't really understand why is declining population problem in any country and needs some solution. If you have properly set pension system population decline is completely irrelevant and beneficial for everyone.
Amazon deliberately broke their search several times, one used to be able to simply sort searches or categories by the most popular, but that got replaced by "featured" several years ago.

Lately it's at least half "sponsored" results.
> What about uploading every photo to their server to check for child porn?

I don't believe that's true. If you use iCloud it goes to their server but if you aren't backing up to their service they are not checking. What was controversial was they were going to check on the device itself so even if you didn't use iCloud your phone was getting scanned.
Microsoft paid Sting to perform the night before their layoffs
https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2023/01/20/microsoft_sting_d...
"I take full responsibility" is always referred to the investors and shareholders.

aka "I admit I have done a bad decision when I over hired and I'm correcting it".

It's not a "I take full responsibility" towards the employees or customers.
A trove of links in that, a pdf-hoarder's delight. Some of the linked pages appear to be in Japanese, though scrolling down on those reveals a fair amount of English content, for those who don't grok Japanese.
I really want these ML libraries to get smarter with use of VRAM. Just cos I don't have enough VRAM shouldn't stop me computing the answer. It should just transfer in the necessary data from system ram as needed. Sure, it'll be slower, but I'd prefer to wait 1 minute for my answer rather than getting an error.

And if I don't have enough system RAM, bring it in from a file on disk.

Tha majority of the ram is consumed by big weights matrices, so the framework knows exactly which bits of data are needed when and in what order, so should be able to do efficient streaming data transfers to have all the data in the right place at the right time. It would be far more efficient than 'swap files' that don't know ahead of time what data will be needed so impact performance severely.
Don't think much evidence is provided that it's working very well for them. Certainly it worked better in the 80s. Having to work with low pay to support a giant population of elderly people is not a great economic position.
Damn, I use Prisma, it's a good way to have a unified database schema for which you can generate code in any language you want. It was very useful for converting a TypeScript project to a Rust one, I use prisma-client-rust in particular.

https://github.com/Brendonovich/prisma-client-rust
"Just give me a toggle setting for stop at 80% full."

And another toggle for 100% when I do need full charge, because I go somewhere.
Why such basic functionality is not avaiable, is a bit frustrating.
What was your motivation for the following function?

function rotateLine(position) {
if (position < halfabet) {
context.rotate((-90 \* Math.PI) / 180);
} else if (position > halfabet) {
context.rotate((90 \* Math.PI) / 180);
} else if (position === halfabet) {
context.rotate((180 \* Math.PI) / 180);
}
}

I'm sure you have your reasons, but when I was writing the alphabet to make a spiral I found the rotation reverse on me at 'n' which is where the other cases of rotateline() kick in. Why isn't this function just:

function rotateLine(position) {
context.rotate((-90 \* Math.PI) / 180);
}

Is it because it creates uninteresting results for actual names? Everyone just becomes spiral variations?
You don’t think a newspaper can attempt to guide public opinion by limiting the scope of the discourse that occurs within their opinion section? I would argue that NYT has a clear ideological perspective which can be easily inferred from their editorial section. What’s wrong with disagreeing with this perspective and trying to point out its limitations?
Recursion helped a lot ;) It took me like 15 minutes to make it. Reminds me of L-systems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-system.
Codeium: Free Copilot Alternative [video]
>Windows Update may (depending how it's configured) automatically install a new official AMD driver that overwrites this IREE-specific driver.

This reminds me of when I used a Radeon 7870. The old catalyst control center drivers worked flawlessly but Windows kept installing crimson drivers which didn't work.
> “those affected have already been notified via personal and work email”

Even for remote staff, there are many more human ways of informing someone they are out of a job than shooting an email. Am I the only one who feels that way? Is it actually better to get an email an process the blow in async? Genuinely curious as I didn’t see this comment yet.
Fair enough! It must have misheard me and then did its best guess with some of the words it did hear.
Also Evilhack has a lot of improvements and more interesting gameplay than vanilla Nethack. I would definitely recommend trying it.
In the PCWorld interview on YouTube they even showed an unbranded Intel laptop cooled by these chips and also mentioned that multiple device manufacturers are planning to put this technology inside their products this year. So I highly doubt this high frequency noise is an issue. They also explained that the traditional arrangement of having a vapor chamber between the CPU and the active cooling to move heat also works with this design without losing efficiency, and this way they also can increase the cooling capacity by putting more chips next to one another.
Arranged marriages, known as "omiai", are still a thing in Japan, especially if someone is desperate for a marriage. If a man or woman doesn't marry, that is in the vast majority of cases by choice.
I’m not seeing a salient argument here. Something about an allegation of abuse?

Where is the abuse happening?
> I understand many people do not "like" this kind of solution...

Which in and of itself should be disqualifying. This would be so deeply unpopular and destabilizing that it's not even worth considering.
Headline: Power Infrastructure Attacked

Hinged response: this was obviously done to rob a business
Maybe it would be possible to create some kind of equilibrium/fixed-point based AI that, for everything it knows, it knows that it knows, knows that it knows that it knows, and so on.

Then again, perhaps not, because PPAD is much harder than P; so just getting the AI to maintain the perfect self-knowledge invariant as it learns more things could be intractable. There might also be halting problem reductions if the AI is sufficiently powerful, although I'm not sure.
They could have fixed search just fine but opted to focus too much on ads...
They have a ton of VC money to spend somewhere. The VCs get mad if you don't spend the money, it makes them feel like you asked for it under false pretenses...or if you are spending it too slowly, that you are not trying hard enough.
Do the wives have to hang out with each other or does he just alternating visiting each one of them in different apartments?

Either one would be an example of "things women don't actually enjoy".

Though Takehiro Sakurai and Aya Hirano both had career limiting scandals about dating 3+ people at the same time, so I guess some people try it.
Perhaps things are different in Japan then, over here in Western Europe that is definitely not the main reason.
Is the word “impact” the latest way of saying “fired” without saying it? We are seeing that particular word in nearly every note regarding these types of action.

Why this word and why is everyone using it? It’s not only CEOs and HR but on LinkedIn I see many people referring to themselves as “impacted” and open to word, etc.

Is there a word for this type of memetic term suddenly being used everywhere as a substitute for previous words? Wasn’t “downsized” the word like 20 years ago?
Wait.

It is my perpetual guess that evolutionary pressure alone will be sufficient in the long run. Our society is now strongly selecting for parents who want kids. That choice has only been a choice for a few generations.

Ten generations from now, I think there will be a much larger fraction of the human population who strongly prioritize having kids.
Men don't get pregnant. A man and two women can give birth to 10 children (5 each). A woman and two men cannot do the same.
It doesn’t work that well for Japan. Having spent some time working there, the economic stagnation and inverting age pyramid really weigh on the younger generation. There’s a general feeling of decline that’s hard to put in words
> the translations are extremely biased towards showing a positive view of the texts

That's certainly not true of reputable translations - you can easily verify this by just glancing at something widely available like e.g. an annotated version of the NIV - the scholarship and scrupulous attention to detail is evident.
It's a bit like all those people claiming that the new millennium shouldn't have been celebrated until 2001. They didn't stop to think how many years pass between the epoch and the time of interest. You celebrate a baby's first birthday after one year of time has passed. Until that point they are zero (and a bit) years old.
The Full-Stack Developer Fallacy
Yesterday I stumbled upon this: https://news.stanford.edu/2022/12/05/explains-recent-tech-la...

Interesting read if you're recently reading about a lot of "layoffs".
demonstrably untrue; between google announcing models but never releasing them and anthropic being invite only theres plenty of competition for that title
Regression =/= memorization and is exactly how humans synthesize information as well.
Pro-Natal Policies Work, but They Come with a Hefty Price Tag (2020)
Alright, so getting a legal education isn't easy. Admittance to the bar takes years, and the test is non-trivial. (You can't just waltz in with a high IQ and expect to pass without serious study. You can't bullshit your way past it.) Still, everybody's familiar with the stereotype of the scatterbrained and incompetent public defender...

Now, take that stereotype and raise it by a couple orders of magnitude and you've got the average pro se litigant. It's almost impossible to "skip past" those years of study and practice, and just litigate your own case as though you were a lawyer. Most pro se litigants have literally no clue what they're doing, and they often end up relying on coaching from the judge (which raises fairness issues) and from the opposing lawyer (which raises ethics issues) -- it almost never ends well.

Yet legal services, especially for defendants who are trying to protect themselves from unfair or frivolous accusations in civil court, are so often priced out of reach. So defenses are difficult and sometimes impossible to raise, and there are more than a few law firms who act as though they were mob enforcers.

There are two solutions which have been proposed:

1. In most small claims courts, both sides are prohibited from using lawyers, and legal proceedings are simplified and rooted more in common sense than established precedent. This practice could be extended to higher-value civil cases.

2. Establish a "right to representation" in all cases -- civil as well as criminal -- with public access to government-funded legal assistance. It has been argued that this might even save the government money, as pro se litigants are a severe drain on judicial resources, and this practice might weed out frivolous cases before they're even filed.

But, hell, the way things are going, legal services and even judges might soon become AI models, so who knows?

As for making frivolous cases expensive to bring forward: I think that judges should be quicker to sanction people (and corporations!) and label them "vexatious litigants," which would place limits on their ability to bring forward subsequent civil cases. That aside, I don't think that the pricetag of _anything_ associated with the legal system needs to be raised.

BTW: I am not a lawyer but have a philosophical interest in the theory and practice of law. There are lawyers here who surely know a lot more than I do.
Sounds like something from The Illustrated Man, by Ray Bradbury.
I don't think there are good ways to inform people they are laid off. Personally, I prefer to receive an email than being told in person. At least I can keep my emotions for myself. The best thing that the company can do is to give a good severance package.
Appalachian Apple hunter who rescued 1k ‘lost’ varieties (2021)
I've got the third edition and I'm not very impressed with the adjective "practical" in the title.

It does not deal with practical topics like safety, system layout and grounding, board layout, reliability (heat, vibration, mechanical parts), connectors, testing, record-keeping, and so on. Some of these things get a superficial mention, to be sure. But not much practical advice.

For example there is a section of a few pages on transient [over]voltage suppressors, but it's just a catalog of a few different types of device with no real practical information on how to select and size them for different needs, test your design according to the standards, or the design tradeoffs.

I already know simplified treatments of the theory and I would have found a book on practical electronics to be useful.
Yes but the idea is you need to fire a lot of people at once and a consequence of that is that their access needs to be cut off immediately. So you cut access, remove access to everyone that’s being fired, and then deal with each individual over the following weeks.
Huh, likely leaving the rest of the co in a lurch. Nice.
The Political Economy of Authoritarianism – Aly vs. Tooze Revisited
I feel like the logical next step is to plug something like this into something a bit more powerful than Siri Shortcuts. I expect you could easily hook this up to the home assistant API or similar and have it work properly programatically.
Anyone who doesn’t want to do it is the wrong person, and doesn’t sound like a good lead dev to me.
He should cut his own pay by the same %.
> Pick any human. I claim there exists some subject that ChatGPT has a better understanding of than this human, based on a surface-level evaluation.

Isn't that a low bar, though? For any human, you can find some subject that that human knows next to nothing about. It's kind of like saying "Google is smarter than humanity because for any human, I can find some fact that a Google search will reveal that that human doesn't know".
A significant part of economic growth is the assumption that there will be more consumers tomorrow. If that goes, general growth goes, and with it the investments that usually fuel retirement
> You publish in public, you automatically grate licenses for the public to consume and transform it.

No you don’t. That would fall under the category of “derivative work” which is still the intellectual property of the original author under most jurisdiction copyright laws.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_work
Oh no, I was thinking of sitting down to learn next.js. What is this midway switch you mean? Isn't it brand new?
Regardless of whether one agrees or not with paying creators of the training data, I think the deeper issue here is about societal wealth distribution and who gets paid for X now that X is being done very well by AIs. A less equitable world has Google or billionaires getting paid. A more equitable world has the artists.

But I want to argue here that for purposes of this latter question, your proposal of copyright enforcement (or anything similar) is too little to late.

-These "copyright violating" AIs have demonstrated the proof of concept and the damage is done. Even if these AIs are banned, the companies will just parallel reconstruct it by running the 80/20 rule: pay tiny amounts to get most of the data. After all the creators of the data were doing it for free and are in such fierce competition there's no bargaining power.

- More nefarious AIs will just do transfer learning on intermediate neurons, very difficult to prove stealing here.

- 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 distributional problem is not well solved by copyright, and better solved with e.g. corporate taxes, income taxes, VATs.
Seems like a perfectly good proverb to me. It's saying don't create out groups that have no sympathy for you by excluding them from society. Not that you should increase your distrust of out groups!
Maybe not, but at least It delays the issue for another 30-40 years, until every country in the world is as developed as we are now
This is like saying you only need one particle in the accelerator.
I am no lawyer, so the following is only my opinion.

I am completely aware that scale is a "thing" in legal systems. But as I said before: For scale to be important, the unscaled act in itself has to be problematic already.
not literally everything this comment says about copyright is false, but it does pack an impressive number of errors into a comparatively small space
You make it sound like the human brain is a shoddy piece of work. In any case, even if it is imperfect, it isn't imperfect because it is a black box.
See also Chs. 1 & 2 of Applied Engineering Principles: https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Portals/103/Documents/NNPTC/Elec...
Editorial opinion regarding "whys" for low-birth rates in Japan and what we'd typically call "household formation" in the United States:

Japan had a giant property bubble and economic collapse a few decades ago, creating a "lost generation." Off-topic, it is an interesting way to see aspects of America's future with many common factors.

Socially: From the Japanese men side the picture, there are many news stories of "herbivore men" that are not initiating or engaging women for dating, sex, etc. Women that can afford to do so, end up hiring male "hosts" at host bars for their (non-sexual) social company.

Culturally: Many Japanese women would prefer to be full-time parents and homemakers, exiting the workforce after having children. This requires a husband/partner with stable employment and income. Many Japanese women would also prefer partners to be at home more often than the well-known grueling "salaryman" experience in Japanese corporate business culture.

Economically: Japan recently reported record inflation levels over several decades where wages have not kept up. In some cases companies will be raising salary levels in response, but the vast majority of people working are not in roles or at companies to see this. The minimum wage level in Tokyo is approximately 1,070 yen/hr or around $8.25 USD/hr. Basic hourly wages at a common ramen or gyu-don type restaurant in Tokyo pay around 1,200 yen/hr. The impact of the lot generation weighs in heavily here.

Demographically: If you walk around the streets of Tokyo, you'll probably observe that there are many people of older age working simple jobs marshaling car traffic from garages, street crossings, street/utility maintenance, and cleaning sidewalks, streets, train stations. There often appears to be many more people working than the minimum needed. Automation technology in areas, such as food production, end ip creating a surplus of labor elsewhere.

TL;DR: Dating as a whole is occurring less often between Japanese men and women. Economically, traditional households are not forming because people cannot afford to support the traditionally desired lifestyle where Japanese women become full-time parents and homemakers after parenthood.
Forgot YouTube, which literally has no competitors.
"I take full responsibility" sounds more and more like "your sacrifice is a risk I'm willing to make".
Has Academia Ruined Literary Criticism?
That's a lot of money for most people. It also means they have to have a PC to put it in.
This is not how double jeopardy works.

By all means, sentence Bob for kidnapping, stick him in jail, have him get out, put a tracker on him and forbid him to leave the country. Then, when Alice pops out and is dead, you just trial him again. It's a different crime! What's more, even if it was the same crime, it'd be material new information!

(Quoth the ECHR: "The provisions of the preceding paragraph shall not prevent the reopening of the case in accordance with the law and penal procedure of the State concerned, if there is evidence of new or newly discovered facts")
Reverse Dominance Hierarchies
> But then you get to grand masters and draws become common. The game, as designed, seemingly becomes less “viable.”

This is why Blizz/Rapid got popular in the chess world.

Btw: Magnus Carlsen has a life time win rate of 42%, draw rate 42% and losses at 15%

https://www.365chess.com/players/Magnus_Carlsen
Are you high? How is ML learning superior to human learning?

If I show a 3 year old a single picture of a Tiger, and tell him this is a tiger, the child is able to recognize a Tiger fairly accurate in real life without further input. Though the child might say that a house cat is tiger,,,,

ML learning needs millions of pictures to do the same, and still might mistake an elephant for a tiger...

ML is nothing more than graph approximation, there is no logical reasoning
>> One possible best practice would be to allow authors to specifically opt out of use of their output for ML training.

That is legally the default. Creators own their copyrights. In many cases it is made explicit with a creative commons non-commercial use license. Remember, without a license you get nothing commercial - except the nebulous fair use.

The real problem here is companies thinking they can consume large amounts of material and works simply because they can see them on the internet and obfuscate them by combining together.
"Amazing/incredible talent"

"Amazing/incredible journey"

"No way reflect"

"Local laws"
It's not meaningless: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maybe_It%27s_Because_I%27m_a_L...
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34389041
IBM and GE are still around. Doesn't mean they haven't irreversibly peaked.
Bruteforcing should not work as the attempts are either throttled, or lock the account. Provided that they are in place, otherwise the account is wide open.

This i what happens with the 4 digits of a CC PIN and the 3 attempts before the card switches into PUK mode.
Is prepending useless text an attempt to stop copying of the recipe, or is there another incentive (besides SEO)?
ChatGPT is impressive but it makes a lot of mistakes. Siri can't afford that rate of errors for PR and legal reasons, so they need to use a technology that's less flexible but more reliable / safer. This is similar to self-driving cars: it's relatively easy to come up with a proof-of-concept but making it into a safe mainstream product is a different story.