skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the 80s, most cars were this easy to steal. The etiquette of the joy ride was known; if possible you left the car unharmed, somewhere public where it could be found, preferably not too far from the place where you got it.

this is yet another reason for civilians to own their own parking boots.

If I was feeling nasty, and had one of these cars; I might install a brake line valve instead of a kill switch. If you don't know to turn that switch, the car runs fine but you got no brakes.
Lots of talk about "fiddling with configs" here, but in my experience it's like a slow evolution over time: you adjust things here and there as you need them. That's a malleable system. It's not a constant tinkering, but a willingness and ability to adjust as you go.
I just want to add to this, I had this exact same experience when working with journalists and other non-technical background programmers.

You’ll find everyone from philosophy PhDs to Biologists to Journalists who use pandas because its so easy to learn it and work with it. It’s amazing how you can become productive in python/pandas without any experience or even basic understanding of programming because of how accessible jupyter, colab and blogs/docs on pandas are.

The other thing people don’t talk about is that a lot of these organizations can hire a CS student part time or a full time software engineer/data engineer/data scientist who can optimize their scripts once they are written. Pretty much any software engineer can read and debug python code without needing to learn python. So for example, I know some engineers working in genomics who have turned biologist-written scripts that take several days to run in python into scripts that take hours or minutes to run by doing basic optimizations like removing quadratic algorithms from the script or applying pyspark or dask to add parallelism.

The fact that python can be used as a bridge between technical and non-technical people is amazing and I think it has provided a better bridge between these groups than SQL was ever able to provide.
How is this image ethically problematic?
I think in order to be used in image tech, it shouldn't be shipped as PNG, even with lossless compression. It should be BMP, ideally with the PBM, PGM and PPM formats too.

Not sure how serious this is, though. :/
No one and everyone. Language changes as our world and societies change.
When the pointer chasing (sometimes) comes in handy, is once you have a successful business with a lot of data and/or users, and suddenly the cost of all those EC2 instances comes to the attention of the CFO.

That's when rewriting the hot path in Go or Rust or Java or C or C++, can pay off and make those skills very valuable to the company. Making contributions to databases, operating systems, queueing systems, interpreters, Kubernetes etc. also fall into that category.

But yeah if you are churning out a MVP for a new business, yeah starting with Python or Ruby or Javascript is a better bet.

(Erlang/Elixir is also an interesting point in the design space, as it's very high level and concise, but also scales better than anything else, although not especially efficient for code executing serially. And Julia offers the concision of Python with much higher performance for numerical computing.)
Sad how much this comment resonated me, but 1000% true in my current work environemnt.
> Tesla is far ahead as the king of the EV market

Only really in the US, today. It tends to be like fourth or fifth in Europe and in China.

Also, it has a _really_ high valuation, which implies enormous growth is expected; simply puttering along at 20 centi-Volkswagens of units a year won't really cut it.
Well, there's probably a lot more shit companies than decent ones out there
Hey, it is better than programs written as Excel functions.
We are using git-repo [0]. Having a manifest (default.xml) with all the used packages and their version in a single file brings a lot of benefits.

[0] https://gerrit.googlesource.com/git-repo
I would be more worried about climate change. The changes are starting to look like a hockey stick in trajectory
Yeah, I think you're right and I was wrong.
IMO it's way more likely that some random guy on 4chan leaked it than it being some vast conspiracy.
Having been raised out of a dictorship I don't have any patience for the cancelation culture that is now so trendy.

If those people would get visits from PIDE/DGS, or similar agencies, they would see how real cancelation actually works in practice.
Points for optimism
It shouldn't be much work to verify that the file is just a set of floats.
I mean, rendering fingers and butts are things we need the AI to improve in.
I also use a python repl as an alternative to excel or SQL. I find myself just downloading the data as a CSV and then quickly cooking up some pandas to get a graph or aggregate some stats, it’s just so much quick easier imo.
Idk man recently there have been calls in the UK as to "what is the police/government doing to help with violence against women"

But there has never been a call for me; the short guy targeted at bars/clubs because I'm an "easy" target. Male on male violence is the highest and it's just completely ignored for "boys will be boys". Men can read the aggression & will naturally cower/back off because we know we'll get hit, I've seen women at clubs being mouthy, pushy aggressive towards dudes bc they know their chance of being hit is so low.

Not dismissing violence against women, just sad that even after some form of enlightenment where the police actually help women, I'll still be out here trying not to get into altercations with drunk assholes.
know that as a remote worker it is hard to gauge what others think of you. I also thought i was doing pretty much average amount of work but apparently others think i'm doing "great". As for fitting in, if you are fully remote and have been from the start, it is very hard to develop meaningful relationships with your teammates. My current job is my first job i joined fully remote, and let me say that i made great friends at my previous jobs in person in a shorter amount of time than i have at this current job (even though i've been here for a while, i wouldn't consider my teammates "friends" as much as i do colleagues, perhaps this is what is ideal for some people but for me i like to feel a connection with my team and broader org). These facts alone are seriously making me consider taking a local in person job for a lower pay.
> Particularly because I'm not sure I've ever come across a case in my life when a speaker or writer wanted to include people from both continents as a single group.

That's the thing: for many people, it's a single continent, called just "America", which can be further subdivided into "North America", "Central America", and "South America" (but these three are not continents, they're subdivisions within a single continent; another common subdivision is "Latin America", which corresponds to the countries colonized by Spain or Portugal).
Both of you are wrong.

China is most definitely not a democracy. At the same time, it is misunderstood in the West, and it's nothing like the nightmare that most Westerners imagine. Westerners are subjected to an unbelievable level of propaganda when it comes to China. China is neither a utopia nor a dystopia.
In my search for a senior Python developer I have encountered dozens and dozens of resumes whose Python experience consists almost exclusively of Numpy and data entry. Not at all the skill set I’m looking for.
If the differentiation is better scalability, it only matters when there is scale. That is not a reason for a user to choose AT over Mastodon.

I don’t think Blue Sky’s app is more decentralized that Mastodon currently.

So I interpret your point as being: the reason to use Blue Sky’s app (or another new app with AT protocol) is that the protocol, in the future will be better. I agree with the author that I see no reason for a user to choose this over Mastodon at the moment.
DOOM Emacs addresses this issue (and is an incredible, if opinionated, Emacs “platform”): https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs

> Gotta go fast. Startup and run-time performance are priorities. Doom goes beyond by modifying packages to be snappier and load lazier.
Yes we sell premium. I suggest you listen to the www.tastylive.com people, they are pretty sharp and realistic.
We do NOT listen to anyone but the math and our mentors who help us add realism to the approach. Pure math is ok but, as Simons showed, you need a little guesswork in there. We use graphical representations of complex data sets ALA Tufte.
It's a cool language, but it meeds a system for packaging and distributing libraries.
Do they actually what? Provide other benefits? Then yes, there’s huge body of evidence out there that shows active travel of any kind significantly improves people individual lives, and also the community they live within.

I don’t really understand why anyone would struggle to believe the a fitter, healthier population would be a good thing.
Great, can't wait for another democracy that is doomed from the start.
> Dude, it's literally porn. This is not hard.

You are going to far, i don't think Lenard has anything todo with porn...well maybe the feather is a bit inappropriate for the normal US-Citizen but if you look at your Music-videos i don't think it's too much.
Reaper Stash is probably what you're thinking of, stash.reaper.fm, and it has its own package manager, ReaPack that helps manage all that.

It also has a comprehensive API that can be manipulated with Lua.
Wow! I've been dabbling in real estate investment as a potential escape hatch from tech and I'd love to hear more about this!
One of the largest complaints about Mastodon is the complicated (yes it can be complicated) sign up process. You have to pick an instance and if that one is full, pick another, then another, etc.

How will Bluesky solve that problem?
I learned recently that there are services you can hire that will have actors call into your radio show, they even provide plot lines and scripts.
And you've gotta build Petra, of course.
> It overestimates the value of short-term delivery

For an early stage start up this is almost the only relevant factor for success.
If by "sanctions" you mean assassinating their key scientist, Stuxnet and countless other sabotages, then yes, sanctions "work"
It's not so clear that she doesn't want people to use that image. She has assisted several times at image processing conferences, and has stated recently that she was proud of the fact that so many people used that photo. The documentary linked above shows footage of herself talking about the photo, but she never really says people should not use it. The website hosting the documentary has several heavily editorialized quotations that suggest that.

That said, this new "lennart" is hilarious and I would like to use it instead of the original one.

EDIT: here's a 2019 interview where she appears to pose with the same hat again : https://www.wired.com/story/finding-lena-the-patron-saint-of...
The issue with the medical system is that there are a whole bunch of middle men leeching cash out at every possible point. Medicare for all would be one step to cutting back on this waste
Pretty sure I tried both Java and Python at the end of the 90s. So more 25 years ago.
Shakespeare would be proud.

(EDIT: I was gonna leave it up there as with my other dry humor but here, for all you Americans: https://www.bl.uk/shakespeare/articles/shakespeare-and-gende...)
If he had not done so, someone else would have.

The things that Brunel designed that were novel were not successful, the things he designed that were successful were not novel.

It's a good idea to note that a lot of the railways he designed were designed as very different than what they would eventually become, having had all the distinctiveness he brought to the projects removed in order for them to become commercially viable.

In the end, none of his successes elevates him above any of the hundreds of other engineers working at the same time as he did. What separates him from the rest were his glorious failures.
Erotica =/= Porn
Configurable low latency data APIs
I do too if I already have a repl open, but otherwise I mostly use bc so I don’t have to wait for the slight lag of the repl to start
> AutoHotkey enables Emacs-like extensibility at the OS level rather than the application level.

emacs is my OS though :)
There's really no question. Cost of bike maintenance vs car maintenance. Societal cost of road wear due to a huge car vs a tiny bike. Burden on healthcare system, regulation and enforcement for dangerous driving habits. We all pay so much for cars, even when not driving one, when usually a bicycle is perfectly sufficient.
Yes. Their main branch is the only one being developed, if you are wondering looking at their releases.
At the end of the day, the Turing Test for establishment of AI personhood is weak for two reasons.

1. We're seeing more and more systems that get very close to passing the Turing Test but fundamentally don't register to people as "People." When I was younger and learned of Searle's Chinese Room argument, I naively assumed it wasn't a thought experiment we would literally build in my lifetime.

2. Humanity has a history of treating other humans as less-than-persons, so it's naive to assume that a machine that could argue persuasively that it is an independent soul worthy of continued existence would be treated as such by a species that doesn't consistently treat its biological kin as such.

I strongly suspect AI personhood will hinge not on measures of intelligence, but on measures of empathy... Whether the machine can demonstrate its own willful independence and further come to us on our terms to advocate for / dictate the terms of its presence in human society, or whether the machine can build a critical mass of supporters / advocates / followers to protect it and guarantee its continued existence and a place in society.
This got a chuckle out of me!
Maybe he expects Elmo to buy it and use it for Twitter 2.0?
Ecological responsibility, recognizing that humanity is a part of nature, etc. are not in anyway connected to assigning 'agency' to natural pheneomena. However there is a plain (with historic empirical data /g) showing that there is a direct connection between assigning agency to natural phenomena and someone in a robe (priest or priestess) saying "The river god is upset. We must sacrifice a virgin to appease the river god".
Multiple times a week I receive WhatsApp spam. Generally it's trying to add me to a crypto group or someone trying to phish information.

The only other service/medium where I get comparable (really any) spam is SMS/email.

I've never, and I mean never, have received a spam message over iMessage.
The difference is sort of meaningless. What matters is if you are getting severance or unemployment, and if you can get a recommendation. If they are going to fire you for invidual performance, youd think they would put you on a pip, but some companies will just wait and lay you off.

But the two can be similar in that if you are valuable you won't get fired or laid off, unless the company is in serious trouble.

Sometimes you are just on the wrong project. It is good to be generally aware of your projects value if you want to keep your job.

Cucumber, IMO, died like 8+ years ago and never really made sense. It was useful for a team to define requirements and then see the progress to implementing them, but Gherkin was a sticking point and integration tests are hard to get/keep working, esp with javascript apps that are now so popular. The fact that someone would pay a OSS maintainer up til now seems like a crazy waste of money.
Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't character.ai use their own model and isn't associated with OpenAI? At least I can't find any information that would claim so.

Anecdotally, as a roleplaying chat experience, char.ai seems to perform way better than anything else publicly available (doesn't get repetitive, very long memory). It also feels different to GPT3 on how it is affected by prompts.

I've just assumed that char.ai is doing its own thing as it was founded by two engineers who worked on google's LaMDA.
> You're looking at it with a very north-atlantic centred perspective.

So? You say that like it is a bad thing.

I didn't say Iran is completely illogical in its pursuit of nuclear weapons. The comparison to North Korea is most apt. I don't want another North Korea situation, one is enough thanks. This one would be worse.

Why? Because Saudi Arabia and Egypt and others will then likely decide they have to get nuclear weapons too. I don't care about "fair", I want fewer countries with nuclear weapons not more - for obvious reasons.
I refuse to rename my git master branch to 'main'.
Huh, I remember reading about her finding it interesting, even attending one image processing conference as a guest, but maybe I misremembering?

edit: apparently she changed her mind later
Not sure if you know but things in the US are outrageously expensive. Childcare might cost 4k per month, a private tutor is ~50-100/hr, the best schools are generally either public schools in the richest suburbs or private schools that cost 50k/year. College even at a State University is going to cost $10,000 per year and at least as much for living costs so you are looking at ~$80,000 for a 4 year degree.

>- A luxury university diploma will not guarantee a good job

Maybe not guarantee but it can certainly make a difference. All else being equal a job candidate with a degree from University of Florida is going to get passed up for one with a degree from Yale and one with a degree from University of South Florida is going to get passed up for the one from University of Florida.
Farhad Manjoo, who failed his way upwards from being the worst writer at Slate into being a bad writer at the NY Times, here exposes his implicit contempt for the ordinary peers of the jury. How, he wonders, could these poor dolts have understood all this complicated DATA in just 3 hours?

The answer is simple: they had sat through a 6-week trial and had plenty of time to digest all of this information. And the strongest piece of evidence, Murdaugh's voice on a Snapchat, at the murder scene just before the murders, after he had lied to investigators about not being there, doesn't require much technical sophistication.
I have pics of my grandfather standing and talking with the Shah, and then sitting next to him at a large banquet as if the two of them were the important people in the room. It's still a mystery to me what he was doing there or what their relationship was. My grandfather was a professor of economics at Columbia University who was a leader of relief efforts such as in Armenia after the genocide there. He definitely did good in his life, but whatever his involvement was with the Shah makes me wonder.

UPDATE: more information makes its way onto the internet over time, and while I've done searches on him in the past, this tidbit is now available via Google that wasn't before; he was "Director of Relief for the American Persian Relief Commission in Teheran, Iran in 1919" and I guess he was still involved there when the Shah took over and they developed some sort of relationship.
GUIX as the OS it's the ultimate GNU system witht he spirit of ITS+Emacs.

Not everything open and insecure, but hackable up to the last bit.
That is true.

However, I hope that these C applications are written by people who are really good at C. I know that some of these Python applications are written by people who discovered the language as they deployed into production.
If someone just decides to use the torrent and ignore those restrictions it might finally establish precident for if you can copyright model weights.
"However, 46 years on, Lena is still being used as a test image. According to Creatable and Code Like Girl, this is symbolic of how women were left out and pushed out of the industry."

No comment necessary.
Doesn't Iran export oil to China? I'm sure they can export lithium, too.
Intellij/Webstorm doesn't "just work", at least for javascript: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WEB-57184/wrong-warning...

It's a real turn off that a commercial IDE can't get fundamental stuff like the one show in the bug tracker correct (or fixed in a timely manner). You start to question why you are even paying for the thing.
It's mentioned in the FAQ on the AT Protocol website: https://atproto.com/guides/faq#why-not-use-activitypub
And if we feel as if we were losing a real person, AIs will have to be treated to some degree as if they were real people (or at least pets) rather than objects.

This could be interesting, because so far the question of personhood and sentience of AIs has revolved around what they are and what they feel rather than what we feel when we interact with one of them.
- how much vRAM needed to run each model parameter size?

- any inference optimization we can use similar to StableDiffusion, to bring down the vRAM requirements?

I only know about these:

- use 8bit precision

- https://github.com/bigscience-workshop/petals

- https://github.com/FMInference/FlexGen

- https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed

Anything that could bring this to a 10GB 3080 or 24GB 3090 without 60s/it per token?
Why bother using typescript then?
It's not really up to models to decide what their pictures gets used for though. Why should this be different?

From what I gather it's not because she's uncomfortable with it being used, it's because of controversy other people have drummed up:

> When I asked her if she had heard anything about the recent controversy around her image, she seemed alarmed at the thought that she could have a part in hurting or discouraging young women. I sent her some articles about the Lenna and later gave her a call to see what she made of them. The photo, she said, doesn’t show very much—just down to her shoulders—so it was hard for her to see what the big deal was.

https://www.wired.com/story/finding-lena-the-patron-saint-of...

Not that it really matters that much, it's a historical curiosity by now.
Which can be inlined/speculated away easily. It won’t be as fast as well-optimized C++ (mostly due to memory layout), but there is no reason why it couldn’t get arbitrarily close to that.
The majority of Teslas being sold right now use lithium iron phosphate batteries already. This isn't just some future plan, it's already largely implemented.
I think trying to identify a separate "Hard Goodhart's Law" or whatever is a bit silly. Very little you've said here is really specific to Goodhart's Law. If you don't have the power to solve the problem, then, well, you can't solve the problem. You're left with the standard options for working with any bad system: go with the flow, leave, try to gain more power, etc.

Which is not too say that asking for advice is a bad idea, quite the opposite. Just that said advice doesn't need a special name.
> Python makes it really easy to interoperate with other languages via the subprocess module

Launching processes and interacting with them through stdin and stdout is a bare minimum, and really a flag against the few languages that make it hard, instead of a relevant feature.

> Python makes it easy to work in different programming paradigms

As long as you stay in imperative, non-pure, structured with optional OOP and first classes functions. Again, that's not much in multi-paradigm. This is the set of things that work well with the imperative model.
Was every Meta employee able to download them or why did so many people have access?
Do you not see the difference between the issue of whether it can legally be used, and the issue of whether or not it's nice to keep using it when the person involved would prefer it not be?

She, like Trump, is entitled to her opinion. And sometimes people want to respect people's opinions, sometimes not.
Alleged satellite cyberattack by Russia on eve of Ukraine invasion
Word documents seem very baroque. Do they really have streams in them? Are these streams the Windows filesystem streams, or yet another implementation?
TOR browser fixes all