skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best case is that running diesel trains along all the interstate routes would be cheaper than the interstates themselves. I'll give you that, it is probably true (or close enough).

But the vehicle I use on the rails has to stay on rails, and the cost of running rails becomes significantly more expensive as density increases. Politically and economically both. And can you replace every last paved road in America with rails? No, of course not, so you still have some kind of road network. Which brings us back full circle to why people like interstates to begin with.

Systemic energy efficiency is one very simplistic measure of a transportation network. And I would argue the least important.

Though I would love to hear a description of your utopian transportation system. Assuming it doesn't rely too heavily on a wholesale redesign of lifestyle preferences (e.g. "everyone lives in a skyscraper" is kind of a non-starter).
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ML models are not comparable to human memory. ML programs are not comparable to a human brain, not even by claiming that they use some of the same conceptual structures.

Stable Diffusion has no agency, cannot think, and cannot create on its own. A human brain, even if it has been given no art to learn about, can still create. The art influences the form of its creations, true, but in ways that are fundamentally different than ML art generators, if only because of the presence of a conscious human will actively directing it. (And no, a human writing a prompt is not the same thing either.)
It is but certainly not the English word “God” - for Jews it would technically be יהוה (YHWH) but if you’re not even Jewish why would you care?
Why does this have to be cloud-based at all?
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> Put otherwise, GPT doesn't interact with reality directly, but mediated through our language.

Yes, but the human language is garbage. So while passing throught that filter without maintaining the highest degree of precision barely any of the actual reality remains. Truth sounds exactly the same as a lie.

The actual language that decently captures reality is math. Nothing less is even barely sufficient to produce almost anything but nonsense. Nonsense nicely sounding to human ears but still nonsense.
I think the other critical point is that some naive readers might think that regulators are interested in the pursuit of the truth. That they go in and weigh the information and make an honest attempt to figure out what happened.

This is not the case. They can and will take any information in the worst possible light. They want fine and convictions not for the fair decision to be made.
I think for someone more interested in the formal side of things, Strang is definitely a little weird. I bounced right off it, and to this day don't really know what the rows are supposed to be about. Axler was perfect for me. But for developing an intuition for the nitty gritty operations, I think Strang is probably pretty good.
Their mistake was in framing it as collective bargaining. What if they put the owner in the group with them and brainstormed ways to allow everyone to prosper. Casting it as a zero sum interaction--we want more from you and unfortunately you get less--rarely works as well as shared problem solving. At an individual level if they had investigated other opportunities and reported back practices from other employers that matched what they were asking for it would strengthen their case that it would be hard for the employer to attract new employees with their current set of policies.

You have to look at it as a dynamic system or ecosystem. "Us against them" is rarely the most effective framing.
I formed this opinion, that in academic institutions there exist two types of persons:

bureaucratic types, who play politics and so on, like the ones you describe.

and the ones that actually know the content and love their fields of study.

my opinion is that institutions need both types. But what do I know... I am going to finish my masters (or maybe not) and get out of academia.
> The point is that basically all Stable Diffusion / DALL-E / MidJourney output is some shade of this; the only new data is that contrary to prior assertions, in some cases, it goes all the way to a verbatim copy.

This is absolutely not the point of the linked paper. It may be something you believe but you’re on the hook for providing evidence for it, this paper does not.
> I've always seen IQ as a predictor for how fast you can learn material and make connections.

This is what we call being talented for something, it's not necessarily related to the one's IQ.
This is a great application of AI summarization. You can focus more on the candidate when you're not writing things down in the interview. Also, as a candidate, noticing your interviewer typing/writing is also pretty offputting.

The next-level thing would be having a way to tailor the generated summary to your particular notes style/format.
You split developers in to two categories, but how do you know those are correct categories? What if there's another type of engineer that only knows about 200 and 400?

My approach is that conventional knowledge doesn't need to be documented in comments. Attempts at guessing how much conventional knowledge someone is lacking are futile. Those comments are similar to:

int a = 4 // set a equal to four

If someone doesn't know what 429 is, they should get confused, do their own research, and learn. Comments should not be turned into educational material about open standards, they should be about your business. There are much better places to learn about standards.
Admitting that I'm older, and haven't kept up with ideology on the subject of human differences - which of the following statements would be "best kept to yourself", these days?

- Some people are taller than others, Basketball Coach

- Some people can run faster than others, Track Coach

- Some people have more musical talent than others, Piano Instructor

- Some people are sicker than others, Emergency Room Nurse
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Still better than Elon Musk or SBF/FTX or other crypto bollocks I guess...
Hunters and gatherers*

The hunting myth is in vogue, but one can make equally handwaved arguments for gathering as the obvious choice.

Plants never move, they have regular seasons, they never fight back, our gut bacteria are symbiotic with digesting plant matter, and it's way easier to chase away competition herbivores than actively hunting them. Since our roots are primates, hunting likely evolved from killing competing herbivores and eating them out of desperation during poor crop years.

Hunting is a risky exercise with variable returns by season. It requires far more knowledge and skill to succeed at.
I wouldn't call the experience bad but I had a brief stint with some sort of weird receptionist role right out of high school (had to take a gap year due to logistics) and I had a similar reaction to seeing how everyone around me at work lived. I think it fundamentally broke something inside of me and was a critical experience in my conclusion that human lives are not really inherently valuable.
There's another one where you make a loose fist and use your thumb as a pointer (eg https://i.insider.com/581118cab28a64c9018b52c1?width=1300&fo...). I'm guessing actual pointing is seen as overly aggressive?

It's called chironomia and it has a very long history - there are even dictionaries of gesture, with systems of notation.
On Windows, the Resource Monitor will let you watch most filesystem activity, filtered by process.

Some types of I/O show up as being by the 'System' (pid 4) process as well.
My own undergraduate degree program was well known among students as a relatively easy major for people who wanted good grades and didn't want to work too hard. There was an honors track for the people who wanted to work harder. I'm not sure if that was the intention, but that's certainly how it worked out.
Without reading the article, it's because I have yet to see a recipe that's not on a blogspam site.
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I'm asking you to explain why that difference is relevant to the consideration of receiving censorship demands from foreign governments. In my view, there is no relevant difference and both organizations should refuse these demands.
I’m disappointed in all the anthropomorphizing in this thread. Time and time again, we make analogies for how black box ML algos must work like people, only for researchers to come along and show that they actually just use shortcuts that don’t remotely resemble human learning/thinking.

When will we learn to stop being overconfident about how these things work? Just say “we don’t know yet.” Anthropomorphism and overconfidence are dangerous in that we could set the wrong precedents (culturally and legally) for how these are used and how automation affects society.
In India, upto like a few decades ago, getting up early in the morning and doing a surya namaskar was a daily morning routine.

I guess, this is one of the health benefits of getting exposed to early morning sun.
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I've tried that, but it's annoying / painful to manage N different stores / tracking things / return policies / etc for the smaller things that I end up ordering easily from amazon. e.g. new PLA, paper towels, batteries, replacement kitchen utensils, a keyboard, etc. So for small regular random orders, I love amazon.

What pros does off-amazon bring for you?
Amazon Prime or Amazon Redline?
The self-driving car could save many more lives by simply not moving at all from its parking spot, except in cases of medical emergency or imminent threat to life mitigated only by moving.

The economy might be improved somewhat by personal vehicular mobility, but we’re talking about human lives.
For the F-35 to work out to somehow being cheaper than the F-22 they have to acquire some insane number of them for nearly two decades then keep them in service for 50 years. At some point reality is going to set in that a front-line aircraft that is also old enough to run for senator may not be the best idea.

It's also unlikely the projected numbers are ever going to be acquired simply due to the fact that projected budgets and reality don't usually agree.

Particularly during R&D you can kick and scream as much as you want to deny reality about things. At some point it will set in that while the F-35 does in fact exist as an aircraft, it isn't practical, meets none of it's objectives and may actually be operationally inferior to existing aircraft.

If you don't believe me read any of the DOT&E reports on the F-35. Even they mention that for things to work out would require the F-35 program to suddenly go from never meeting any of their own objectives to meeting 100% of them for the forseeable future.

My personal projection is that acquisition is halted in the next few years and in less than 20 years the available aircraft will be in storage in Davis-Monthan or a similar facility.
>it's also not using many of the complex and more efficient extraction approaches that have been used on GANs and such in prior research

Some links?

>most of their 175 million images comes from effectively "retrying" each prompt 500 times

Prompts from the most duplicated samples in the dataset, a really important aspect if you actually want to used this method in the wild, this is also one of the reasons why I said that this attack seems so implausible.

>they're usually much more targetted than this

Even if you target some images you would still need an absurd amount of luck if with the most duplicated sample you only get 109, we can be generous and think that with the whole dataset will have something like 200 matches, the probability of finding an image with a direct attack is still less than a million (even if you know the prompt) and we're not talking about a model trained on a deduped dataset.
An encyclopedia only journals what already exists in the world. There already exist many cultural illustrations of Muhammad and that's the only reason why Wikipedia also discusses them. This is a case of shooting the messenger.
> It's because a) people want high resolution,

This cannot be any serious part of the reason, since literally playing 3D video games fullscreen at full resolution can use less power than Discord.

[EDIT] For that matter, any streaming video platform. They're ~all extremely battery-efficient even when pushing 4k.
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I play sudoku daily and will give it a DL. That being said, I already see a big gripe from the screenshots: No pencil tool. At higher levels, it's critical. Will report back :)
> Sooo, VDOM can improve performance?

This article doesn't really argue against that. They say the VDOM is a "means to an end" and is "generally good enough".

The thrust of the article seems to be that a virtual DOM isn't a guarantee of performance. Rather it's just one solution that can be pretty fast. Svelte happens to take a different approach which is also pretty fast.
As far as you know, solar proponents haven't analyzed sun availability in the regions that they're installing solar? Perhaps they have done the analysis and that's why they're spending billions of dollars installing them? The industry has seen something like 75% decreases in cost-per-watt installation costs in the past decade, I can assure you, they're doing the analysis.
> Right. but things they have in common are questionable cost/benefit, and, undoubtedly, unintended consequences.

Attaching a beacon to highly dangerous radiation source is questionable, and has "undoubtedly" unintended consequences?

Looks like searching for a problem where there isn't one.
The way the author summarizes his own study in this thread borders on misinformation. You could actually take their findings and write the opposite headline, which would more accurately reflect their actual research results:

"Critics claim that models such as Stable Diffusion act like modern collage tools, recreating copyrighted and sensitive material.

Yet, our new paper shows that this behaviour is exceedingly rare, recreating copies in less than 0,00006% of 175M test cases."
React-DOM will probably just compile to WASM.
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This is leadership.

Everyone taking a pay cut instead of 10,000 layoffs and executives taking an even larger pay cut.
I agree. Getting kind of sick of these posts that are thinly veiled political campaigns against the other framework. Great libraries tend to speak for themselves in terms of adoption. You shouldn't have to convince people not to use other options.
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Why not? Could you give an example as to why this would not be legal in some country of your choice?
Since you are working with raw text, it shouldn't need too much effort. There are a bunch of open source tools to extract text from PDFs.

The hard part would be parsing tables and other layout-dependent semantics. You usually start with text coordinates (like HTML elements with absolute position) and have to work backwards from that. I worked for some years in a project for a client that was full of edge cases, because whenever the input PDF (from a government agency) would have a slight layout change the parser would break. It took multiple iterations to make it robust enough.
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It's easy to think all of the things you wanted to say were important, so you leave them in. But often they weren't so important to your eventual audience.
Hard disagree. I am a very strong supporter of EU wide initiatives but this one is misguided.

- You cannot have a single CV template for all professional fields.

- The template is beyond verbose and low density, it takes forever to parse relevant info, you have to assume HR or hiring managers will reasonably skim through for 10 to 15 seconds before making a first pass decision.

- Too many sections might make sense for Writer/Marketing/Management/Sales but are useless for technical work, as an e.g. I can speak 6 languages at a confortable level yet it has never been relevant in any Hiring process for my technical roles, it is a waste of space (and reader attention) to have a quarter of a page on language skills.

Personally I think something like ModernCV is a much better starting point for a technical CV.
So quite reduced from their initial operations though, correct? Why is that notion apparently so threatening? I remember people here proudly loathing the distracting music and making (apt) comparisons to existing co-working spaces, shared offices, coffee shops and public libraries (in order of increasing affordability).

I never used one, but the idea that it's a household name is just tone deaf. Most people probably know it best from the Hulu series about it's demise.
I am not trying to construct anything. I just described what happens and what I expect.

"where you have the ability to elevate your own rights to somebody else's repo's contents."

This is not an accurate description. There are two repositories: the original repository, and the fork. Nowhere I want to to elevate my rights regarding the fork to the original repository.

" Name a computer system that intentionally allows people to do that."

If somebody sends me a word document per Email, I can edit it without someone else being able to delete the modified word document.