skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was expecting to read some story about criminal exploitation, but this sounds like it's just... completely above-board? As a few other commenters stated, the model hasn't explicitly stated whether she supports the use of the photo or not. Even if she did explicitly come out and say she doesn't like people using it, she doesn't own the rights to it.

I'm fine with (and happy for) people going above and beyond to respect someone else's dignity, but this is less about ethics and more about one person's potential regret over a business transaction. Just because you regret doing a deal doesn't mean others are unethical for benefiting from it. When you're using your own body in a business transaction (of _any kind_) you should really think through the possible consequences. Whether it's getting a tattoo or putting your kids on TV or selling photos to Playboy, those all have ramifications you won't be able to control very well later on.
It's astonishing how a supposedly liberal and tolerant society is so much hateful towards eroticism it considers the Lena pic originating from a PlayBoy magazine to have a "troubled" origin.
> So the best we can do is to build a system that works even when all actors are self-serving.

Doesn't seem to be working though eh?

That being said, I don't have any fantastic suggestions either. :(
If we can ignore what the law says in favor of its spirit, then the law certainly means that the EU can "shut off" e2ee at any point, given their track record. Second, even if the above is false, it doesn't matter as whoever gets to decide "the spirit" of this law can say that it doesn't apply to terrorists, or doesn't apply durring x type of situation.
I'm currently finishing my second year of what was supposed to be a two year term (but was recently extended to three years) as the organ scholar [1] at one of the larger churches in the U.S. The director of music and I are the only two organists on staff, so I get to play for thousands of people and accompany/conduct a professional choir every week. I left the tech world to do that because I knew I wanted to at least try working in music at some point in my career. I am still working on several open source projects, so I haven't taken a complete break from software development.

I'm technically 3/4 time at the church, so I've been looking for a part time tech job to augment that for the last two years, but have found getting one quite difficult since there are so few available. I always assumed this foray into church music would be a break from technical work and I'd go back after I was done, but my two closest mentors are strongly encouraging me to go to graduate school for organ performance after I finish my term, as my undergraduate degree is in math. I'm also somewhat concerned about my viability as a candidate trying to re-enter the tech world after being away for a few years.

I'm not yet sure what I'm going to do next year. I'm definitely happier than I ever was working in tech, although I struggle with feeling like I'm looked down upon for "just" being a musician. I also worry about the long term financial impact (retirement) if I do stay in church music, as the pay is obviously much, much lower than I'd expect otherwise. Unlike most people in this thread, I took my break early in my career, so I don't have a large pile of savings to fall back on.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_scholar
Only in very specific circumstances like Whistleblowing. In general companies are allowed to decide who they do business with or don’t.

They aren’t immune from critique for the practice however.
I agree.

I think that people who haven't been raised in such a society don't realize how chilling it is to be afraid to say something wrong and constantly be aware that you could be punished for your words. It makes you unable to even think clearly, lest a slip-of-tongue gets you sent to jail. It's no way to live.
Side note:
https://sipi.usc.edu/database/database.php?volume=misc&image...

>Please note that we no longer distribute the following images that were previously available in our database: 4.2.04 (lena), 4.2.02 (tiffany), elaine.512, numbers.512 and testpat.1k. Although these images have played a significant role in the history of image processing, they no longer represent the best examples for future research.

What are the reasons for not distributing anymore the other ones?
Contrast that case with this one: https://www.boredpanda.com/unflattering-donald-trump-chin-ph...

Why is it that in the former, everyone says you're a horrible person who deserves to be cancelled if you ignore the subject's wishes to not use the picture, but in the latter, everyone says it's a great thing if you ignore the subject's wishes to not use the picture?
"When Goodhart's law is used as a measure, it ceases to be a good measure"
Of course, but I was also talking about my own experience. If I randomly met you I would be hesitant to call you "blind" until I knew more about you. It stems from a young man being very angry at being called "blind" when he could see.

Rereading your post, it sound like people are unwilling to call you blind even after you tell them you are, so we may be talking about different things.
That's a nicely written piece, I wish it had been around when I was first struggling with bit-mangling.
And ... PyTorch
Sure thing! Footguns might be the wrong word, and I know as a low level language Rust is insanely safe, but for a high level developer it's type system is gonna mean spending a lot of time in the compiler figuring out type errors, at least initially. That might not be a traditional footgun, but if you're just trying to, I dunno, build a crud api or something, its gonna nuke your development time.

Please don't read this as "rust is difficult and bad", I definitely don't think it is! But its a low level language, and working with it means dealing with complexity that for some tasks just might not be relevant.
Maybe it’s not such a great thing that we all have an equal voice.
The model in question posed for nude pictures in Playboy...

The whole 'controversy' is pure spin in an age when everything has to be controversial.
I'm just imagining someone in 50 years time trying to figure out why we are using picture of naked man posing with a hat complete with purple plume as reference for image processing.

That being said, is the Lena picture still being frequently used? Because I don't recall seeing it that often lately anymore
USAA Tells Staff, Your Remote Job Is No Longer Remote
They even support Sam Coupe!
Kids can feel like they're losing a real friend if they lose a stuffed animal. What's the progress on making teddy bears people?
Women and marginalized people who change jobs: Flakey and incapable. Unable to handle a job. Something must be wrong. Clearly a sign of caution to be taken as a reason not to work with them.

Men who change jobs: literally articles inventing new vernacular stemming from the mental gymnastics required to justify the hypocrisy — men aren’t incapable because they change jobs — they are prodigy — men aren’t untrustworthy for changing jobs — they are taking nonlinear career paths because of the uncertainty in the market
Some jobs are just hell, and the reason people stick in those jobs is that they don't know any better. Nobody has shown them other opportunities, they think getting another job and performing it would be difficult. They think their current salaries are OK because they have nothing better to compare with. For those people, the root cause of their misery is the job and all of them would be better off switching careers.
I once made the opposite journey and I miss the front desk daily. I have even considered finding a nice hotel where I could do the occasional weekend shift just to do something more mentally rewarding than architecting solutions, detailing user stories and testing implementation all day!
try ob-async
clone this and point the script(s) to your downloaded model files: https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama/
Requiring a driver's license for power tools isn't that bad an idea. That would probably be as popular as banning kitchen knives though.
Maybe go up the build tree a couple levels.
Afghanistan has trillions in mineral wealth. And yet you still have to extract it somehow and sell it. Unlikely that happens any time soon if ever.
I won’t speak for others, but I for one can’t stand the amount of extra packages needed to get a TypeScript project working. I need to install adapters for my linter, formatter, test runner, editor, bundler to name a few. Hopefully it all works together with all the other plugins and adapters. With the jsdoc version, I just install the `typescript` package, and I can use that to do the typechecking as well export types to be used by a TypeScript project. Sure it’s a bit more verbose, but I’d take that over tinkering with dependencies and configurations.
Ha, I wasn’t aware that “handicapped” is considered offensive. Is that an American thing? A British thing?
"making it clear that we won’t accept the unintended biases of the past"

Who is we? And who made them the arbiter of biases, unintended and intended?
Hehe, perhaps when I'm older. My collaborator on the LICS paper also tells me that the countryside is very beautiful. It will take time to get used to, as I've lived in big cities for the entirety of my life, and participate in activities like book clubs.
What the heck does "mambeous" mean? Ambiguous? Amorphous? Ambitious?
Lane nucleation in complex active flows
Faster Apple Builds with the Lld Linker
Huge vast swaths of Australia and the United States are effectively deserts, but they don't "define" the country. It mainly comes down to what pictures you see in the news when something happens, and Iranian cities look "deserty".
After a decade as a software engineer I became a nurse. It has its pros and cons. The defining difference is shift work vs project work. In California the pay is similar to tech which is a plus. Also watching all my previous teammates get laid off during the tech downturns is a motivating factor.
Weights are more valuable than training code in one regard. Even with the training code you may not have the dataset and reproduction requires a massive GPU cluster that few can afford.
Confirmed Musk is a Couper. And such a dumb one at that, implicating himself in tweets! Egads! You're on to a scoop!
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Please don't do this. Virtually all day traders lose money and the ones that don't are almost certainly running on luck. If you really had an edge in the market you would open a hedge fund and rake in billions. Everyone else is just playing the law of large numbers and the winners happened to flip 50 tails in a row.
To me, that's the real kicker; there's absolutely no cost whatsoever to respecting the wishes.

If anything, it's not a great image; the standard scan is a bit washed out and doesn't have a full color range. (I can't speak to whether this is a characteristic of the scan, which is now from a very old scanner, or the original image, having never seen the original in print.) No one test image can capture everything an image algorithm might want to test, but more full use of available colors would probably still be advantageous.
These people have higher than baseline testosterone in their system. Trans women usually have close to none. This is not comparing the same, or even similar situations.
Well I should imagine that "the street finds uses" (as per William Gibson) for his "Cob Quicky".
Frankly that's an insane expectation. I've done a ton of stuff and don't remember all the details of projects that I've worked on
the 7B model runs on a CUDA-compatible card with 16GB of VRAM (assuming your card has 16-bit float support).

I only got the 30b model running on a 4 x Nvidia A40 setup though.
I Migrated This Website from Symfony to Laravel
How to change prejudice to uplifting technology know-how
Social disappointment and partner presence affect refusal in ‘inequity aversion’
Easy - they get paid have some additional responsibilities on top of a standard job. It would be better to have several of these than a single manager who only has meetings all day and is disconnected from the actual work of producing value.
> People change their minds and we should respect their wishes.

When you sign a contract that says "in return for a bunch of money, you agree that other people can use this picture of you", you shouldn't get to keep the money but change your mind about the picture.
Looking at the 'damage' amazon has done, both to its workers, and to the credibility of their wares, you could say that amazon has suffered from goodhart's law to some extend on the grander scale.

Specifically, they set a list of 'outcome metrics' that they wanted to optimize. Using these WBRs they ensures that the metrics by which their middle managers are measured remain effective for actually optimizing these outcome metrics. However, at some point these outcome metrics stopped being good targets. They have led amazon to exploit their workers, and have negative impact on outside businesses and the environment to the cost of massive political pressure. Moreover, these targets have led amazon to often sell counterfeit products, as well as incredibly low-quality budget alternatives. This is slowly causing people to distrust the amazon store for many things.

In other words, whatever outcome metrics they set as their target, have seized being a good metric for how well amazon is doing.

Or maybe the problems I identify are well considered trade-offs, and they are aware this is what their targets are causing...
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This is basically my FIRE plan. I want to be a mechanic on high end cars / folk’s toys. I made an attempt, but I had to relocate which stopped this plan from succeeding, and I now need a lot more capital to FIRE.

I look forward to wrenching instead of sitting all day. Which I know is ironic because I know a lot of mechanics who feel exactly the opposite.
you're confused between what's legally permitted vs what's ethical. something being legal doesn't prevent anyone from protesting or doing something about it, even if they had accepted a legal risk.

you're also just wrong about the legal aspect of it and seem unfamiliar with licensing
> adding so many customized code lines to my .emacs to reassemble the modern editors

I feel like trying to recreate vscode in emacs could be a suboptimal approach to say "add a directory sidebar and lsp-mode, but get used to emacs buffer and tab handling"
I’m dying picturing someone with the skills to work at Sierra Club and totally believes climate science but inclusive language is a dealbreaker.
Fashion is keeping pace with The Times.
Science does not explain why there is anything rather than nothing. It is still effectively magic.

Tip: don’t use science dogmatically.
Yeah now we can get back to normal internet usage, which definitely doesn't involve strange emotional attachments and wierd rabbit holes.
Hmm. I saw vastly fewer Teslas in the UK last month than I see in the US.

I drove the length of the country so don't think this was a sampling problem.
> However all the members are appointed by the governments of the member states

Which means that the commission members are already elected by those governments.

> The parliament only gets a vote whether to confirm the commission in its entirety

The parliament doesnt only vote for that. Every law that passes Eu-wide must be voted on and approved by the parliament.

Moreover, any law that comes to the parliament must be proposed by a parliament member.
A mile or so away from Argo’s former location in Pittsburgh, there’s the national robotics engineering center: a commercial unit within Carnegie Mellon University. Rotting away amongst all their other former creations is a truck with special headlights. They solve the issue of snow blindness by only shining light where the falling snow isn’t, cut out a nice silhouette of oncoming drivers so as not to blind them, and are also capable of projecting driving directions onto the street ahead of the driver.
Is one of the big advantages of these no magnet motors that they have a reduced need on rare earth metals? I thought this was a big advantage for Tesla's announcement recently - which has implications for relying on foreign miners / allows for cost reductions over time as supplies decrease.

Can someone confirm my understanding - thanks!
This seems like a needless distinction though.

If people refer to a certain segment/shade of orange as brown in both normal discussions, art, interior design, etc., then it's brown.

It's an interesting tidbit of knowledge, but it's a useless correction and needless distinction.
Well now this is also a practical problem. At this point, you'd have to unseat this "theocratic dictatorship" and possibly kill N thousand people in the process, otherwise they will inevitably get the nukes.

That's the thing with non-proliferation that doesn't really sit right with me, it kind of goes against human knowledge and progress. You have to have a smaller group of people ban certain kinds of knowledge from the rest of humans, and be demonstrably willing to use violence to enforce that, otherwise anyone with enough determination will eventually figure it out. Even when there was somewhat of a consensus on how to deal with that during the Cold War, a bunch of countries slipped through the non-proliferation but everyone pretended like it's ok. Now that there is less consensus on anything in this world, how will this system work going forward?
Rogue Amoeba’s Historic Screenshot Archive
... And here I had tracked down her address and was about to mail her a print-out, with a request to ask her to sign it.

I had been planning to display it in a glass cabinet next to my Melitta teapot and Luxo jr lamp and ball.
(and if anyone has a lead on a terracotta rabbit, please let me know ;)
The Subgenus must have slack, but windows is okay too.

https://subgenius.com/fh_pc.html
Thank you for sharing your experience, I'm really interested in this! I daydream daily of going rural while still building technology, also I agree with you that real wealth like land is essential for the future given current trends for jobs (Adam Smith spoke in his time about the real wealth of owning land), I suspect but not sure completely that starting a family in a farm will be advantageous since most education could potentially be descentralized. Also interested in different economic communities for different scales (co-ops and such), I happen to have read several localist advocates.

That being said, do you have any resource material or references on this? I'm on the verge on making the move and I will be starting soon.
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Immortal as long as someone's paying to run the instance.
Show HN: Re-launching EZCoordinator, a decade-long B2B SaaS for RE management
EZCoordinator is the simplest (as most of our current customers say) real estate management software out there, designed specifically for real estate (RE) agents, transaction coordinators and brokers in the US. It helps the users manage their clients, properties, and transactions all in one easy-to-use platform.

For additional contexts:
(i) The business has been around since 2012, and we acquired the business in early 2021.(ii) Now, we have upgraded it to version 2.0 with the primary goal of double-downing our focus on simplicity and multitasking experience. Customers can now work on more than 10 transactions in one go by providing them with an "in-app" multi-tab experience. (iii) Monthly churn rate was under 7% on average in 2022. (iv) Currently, we are heavily focusing on cold emails.(v) We are bootstrapping the business. Therefore, we are cautious with the money spent on growth. (vi) EZ's FB community page has over 7K followers.

We have just re-launched the EZ v2.0 and would love to get your feedback on how to grow it pragmatically in terms of revenue:

(1) what would you choose between product-led, sales-led, or community-led? Or even a combination of each of them? Could you explain why?

(2) do you think reaching out the real estate-related influencers on Twitter would work to boost the growth?

(3) what would be the most effective marketing channels for re-launching EZ v2.0?

(4) has anyone tried LinkedIn as the main marketing channel for a B2B SaaS business with a size like EZCoordinator? what were your biggest lessons-learned?

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Best.
also interesting to divert interests from oil in this region, if they can prosper on lithium it may loosen some tensions
So your argument is that stock photography of humans are unethical unless every model signs a new model release for every use? Is it immoral to use András István Aratós image in memes too?

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

I have no issue with user data being used to build ML models, although I don't agree with you about the close proximity between a model's photo being used for photo research and anyone's data being used for everything.
Civilian casualty is the lowest-common-denominator. Right now, China is under scrutiny for current human rights abuses and a potential domestic ethnic-cleansing a-la third Reich. That's a slightly different situation than indiscriminate civilian casualty.
The pth file seems to be a model and weights, saved as described here:

https://pytorch.org/tutorials/beginner/saving_loading_models...

.chk file is am md5 hash of the file, the .json file contains this for the 7B model:

{"dim": 4096, "multiple_of": 256, "n_heads": 32, "n_layers": 32, "norm_eps": 1e-06, "vocab_size": -1}
USAF Mobility Aircraft Operating Without Most Markings, Tail Numbers
Why not just use vim?
Impact of Russia–Ukraine conflict on water resources and water infrastructure
What can I say. I bought an old school house around 2 miles from my house spent a fortune turning into a mixed use building. Each classroom is a studio apartment. I had a fiber line installed.
I guess the only thing I can say is that 8 units was a magic number for me. The idea is that if one should pay about 25% as rent. 8 units represent 200% of the average income of my town. The downside is that all the serious building code laws start above 5 units. This means I must comply with ADA, Fire protection, and many others. I don't resent this. They all seem like fair if costly rules.
I prefer a single building to multiple smaller units. A single building helps me focus and I only have one location to be at besides home.

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Show HN: In The Zone – An app to boost productivity and fight interruptions
The Zone is the state where you are completely focused and fully productive. It takes time to get there, but the slightest distraction can knock you out of it and you have to start over.

So I built this app to track productivity and measure the impact of interruptions.

This is how it can help:

• Launching the app and starting to get in the Zone is a commitment to work. It can prevent you from procrastinating and is a good motivator to actually start working and to keep distractions away.

• The timer can help you decide if it’s a good time to take a pause because you’ve been in the Zone for a long period, or if it is better to continue working because you’ve just entered the Zone.

• Your colleagues will notice the color change from yellow to red. This is a great signal that helps them understand the impact of interruptions on your productivity.

• Statistics help you measure your daily productive time.

• Using your phone for other purposes is considered an interruption by the app, so that’s already one distraction taken care of.
China? They didn't adopt Arabic numerals until the 17th century after it was introduced by Europeans, and there's no way to argue they weren't a nation state before that.