skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was a heartbreaking video to watch. My heart goes out to this woman and her family.

In my experience, having caught covid in March 2020, fatigue is the problem. It's just that calling it "fatigue" doesn't spell out how dehabilitating that aspect is. It's maybe 100 ft/30 meters from my bed to the kitchen. At the worst of my long covid, I was getting winded walking from my bed to the kitchen. So then I'm in the kitchen, I'm supposed to make food for myself. But it's not like I could stand up for any amount of time. Chopping vegetables is right out. Making anything more advanced than microwave food was too difficult at the worst of it. And even then, figuring out the directions on them was sometimes too complicated. And I figured out C pointers and passed calculus. You don't know how your body can fail you until you can't do something that should be trivial to do but you simply can't. It's easier to see for physical maladies - you'd not ask someone with two broken legs why they can't stand up.

Fatigue in a Long Covid context means it's too tiring even to just watch Netflix. That the exertion to sit there and focus your mind even slightly is beyond you. People are able to put Netflix on in the background and still fall grasp most of the story. With long covid, following a plot, just listening, with all the power you have remaining, is simply asking too much of your body.

The most damning part of it is the aftermath from any significant physical exertion. Like going to the doctor in person. Remember, it's a marathon of exhaustion going from bed to the kitchen, so leaving the bed, getting dressed, going to the doctor, sitting the waiting room, filling out forms - remember your brain only barely works so writing out the answer to eben the first question, name, is a challenge. Seeing the Dr, hopefully they're of any use. Then you have to dance for them and take their tests. Finally you get home and crawl back in to bed, exhausted, so you take a nap. You wake up after that nap get some water and go back to sleep becy you're still tired. When you wake up it's literally been 4 days. You pushed yourself because going to see the doctor was important, but the overexertion of going to see the doctor wiped you out and not only were you bedridden for four days, but you were unconscious. That forces you to recalibrate your whole life. You can't just push through things and stay up a bit late or go out to see friends without stopping to think (which, again, is in and of itself a challenge in ways it never was before)
is there anything I need to be conscious for in the next four days?

So at least for me, "fatigue" was the primary complaint (followed by "brain fog"), it's just that without spelling out what fatigue actually means in the context of long covid, it's not apparent what that actually means.
Pirate Bay is the best literary critic, quote Palahniuk: "Nobody steals a bad book".

It has happened that I have paid for the stolen book and bought more books from the author because of free sample at Pirate Bay.
I’ve begun to grok it as “the amount of ram I have to play in before I have to start sharding work”

more literally and correctly, it’s the maximum number of tokens in the input and output, combined, where a token is 4/3 of a word

So we’re shifting from 5K words maximum to 40K (per sibling comment, who pointed out 32K context leaked as well)
So what's the recommended residue function?
>extremely rare edge case

hilarious attempt at a metaphor, traffic deaths from personal automobiles have been in the top 10 causes of death worldwide for the better part of a century lol
The whole benefit of centralized social media is that a large corporation has the resources to maintain it and the control that gives them. I don’t understand what’s in this for them. Maybe there will still be forced ads embedded into the instances.

My guess is it’ll be a lot easier to self host than other existing ActivityPub platforms like Mastodon. That’s the sales pitch at the price of an augmented proprietary service. And who knows what restrictions that’s entailed to.

There’s not a lot known, but who’s this for? Anyone conscious about this enough to even think about hosting expects freedom to use their own algorithms, moderation, etc.

I could only imagine it serving for commercial use. But no customer wants to install MyHomeDepotLife and upload a profile pic just to return a belt sander, I’m at loss for words.
> Americans are Americans because we believe (or should. Do you?) in the Constitution and the rule of law.

I'm not American. But that's not the citizenship condition your founding fathers passed. It's not even the citizenship condition today.

> And which "minority" are you talking about?

It doesn't matter - all of them living in the US (or any other country) will be subject to the same sub-replacement conditions I argue are harmful to a nation, in the sense that a nation is not just the legal and ideological system, but also people.

> "White" isn't an ethnicity or a separate grouping. Rather it's just a specific genetic adaptation to colder climates in the amount of melanin in the skin.

You're saying human groups were separate long enough to develop different adaptations to the climate.. but no other adaptations? Despite your claim about how similar we all are, genetic tests easily determine geographic ancestry, as a PCA plot of genetic diversity shows [1]. The claim that we are more similar rests on single-gene variation, which is a meaningless test, since nearly all traits are polygenic. Even your claim about Neanderthal genes is wrong - sub-Saharan Africans don't have them. And Scientific American has admitted to putting political goals ahead of science [2], so their credibility in this area is nil.

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:3D_PCA_plot_of_Xavan...

[2] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/science-must-not-...
The "memory usage" section of the README highlights the surprising fact that image generation models need much less memory than text-based language models. ChatGPT itself is by far the most resource-hungry part of the system.

Why is that so? It seems counterintuitive. A single picture snapped with a phone takes more space to store than the text of all the books in a typical home library, yet Stable Diffusion runs with 5 GB of RAM while LLAMA needs 130 GB.

Can someone illuminate what's going on here?
The existence of political parties that don’t police themselves.
This is so great. Love the work IANA does.

Do you sponsor visa as a not-for-profit org?
It would probably actually be a good idea to do both (since the UK also has some other proposed HVDC links to Europe). That creates redundancy, having different paths, as well as opening the generation up to a wider market.

It's actually not a bad idea to run a long HVDC through the ocean - they're very low-loss and it's frankly easier than running transmission over land given all the property rights etc. you need.
You got pedantic instead of replying to my overall point.

To take a step back, which browser do you use? Did it come with an ad blocker?

Do you apply these same standards to all browsers and fiercely challenge them like Brave, let's say... Firefox?
The most incredible thing about this system is that it uses Stable Diffusion (the open source AI art generator), rather than DALL-E (the proprietary closed art generator owned by OpenAI).

The fact that even Microsoft, which partially owns OpenAI, is giving up on DALL-E shows the power of building an open-source community around models with published, downloadable weights.
I had this exact idea a couple weeks ago- cool to see that somebody built it!

edit: Website stuck at "please wait"
This. DRM is a courtesy lock on a bathroom door. It makes ripping content enough of a hassle that only people who are willing to put some effort in will bother, and those people are going to find a way around it no matter what. It doesn't have to be unbreakable to have some value to the content owner.

If we accept that enabling DRM on some of their content has some value to Netflix, which it obviously does, and we accept that it doesn't impose unacceptable user experience tradeoffs, which it obviously doesn't, then it is rational for them to enable it on all of their content.

There is probably a hypothetical cost/benefit break-even point where it actually degrades the user experience a little and thus is only acceptable in cases where it is absolutely needed, but it seems unlikely this is significant enough to even be quantifiable.
... until you find out the FDIC itself has a weak reserve ratio against their insured accounts, meaning they will be as broke as everybody else in a systemic banking failure.
Sweden had one of the highest death rates in Europe during the first wave and did not fare so well on the second wave of the pandemic either. Their own government formed a commision that concluded they were unprepared and that earlier and more extensive action should have been taken before the first wave.
It sounds interesting to me but I wish it was not Meta.
If you are using 1Password it's also possible already: https://blog.1password.com/1password-ssh-agent/
> I don't know what you're talking about

Sure, I'll try to be clearer. You wrote "I'm making a simple positive argument about the clearly stated goal of the founders."

Which goal, and where was it stated?
Don’t sweat the downvotes.

People have very heated opinions about this technology and any strong statement will have more vote-volatility than usual.

I appreciate you putting a voice to what you said. The historical novelty of what these generative AI’s produce is striking, but the variety of style and form is still narrow enough that you start seeing the signature of CharGPT/SD/etc once that historical novelty wears off. They each have a strong, specific voice and it gets as tiring as any other art style that’s overexposed.
Rust generics are good at it too.
So why hasn't there been a "as popular as ChatGPT" open source version?
It wouldn't surprise me if the rest of the team were consistently exceeding expectations, proposing bullshit initiatives while refusing to touch the parts which were on fire.
Taking the World Wired Labs website at face value from an administrative standpoint, what distinguishes it as a malicious program as opposed to other programs? Like DameWare by SolarWinds? The marketing makes NetWire sound like a combination of PDQ Deploy, McAfee EPolicy Orchestrator and TeamViewer.

Has anyone ever purchased NetWire for legitimate remote management purposes? Conversely, has SolarWinds or TeamViewer or VNC ever had to answer for someone abusing their products? What's the difference between using NetWire or, say, creating a VBA document that silently downloads and installs DameWare, adds a user, then phones home the credentials?

I guess the question boils down to, "where is the line in the sand?"
That was also common on TV. Everyone seems credible, until we spot errors when someone in our field starts talking.

edit: minor typo
Well, we'll see... That project has been in the news for some funding difficulty recently, potentially the project might collapse.
Personally, I think it depends on the skill of the artist who made the art. I have seen a few latest AI generated arts and they are incredibly beautiful. Sure, most of them are abstract or figurative and AIs still can't draw hands properly but those are easily fixed with a bit of artist manual curation or model improvement later on.

I mean, we have had this tech for a grand one year. Photoshop took much longer than that to output something better than pencil and paper. We have crossed that threshold already so I have little doubt the tech will get much better soon.
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I'd love for my own paintings to be as "dogshit" as some of the stuff Stable Diffusion generates. "Dogshit" seems to be code for "not quite as good as Michelangelo 100% of the time".
My first recollection of this sentiment pertained to the New York Times, for what it’s worth.
Again, I don't think you and I are having the same conversation Rayiner and I are, and I don't think it's worth the effort for us to sync up at this point.
you need to prompt it with more specific knowledge; if you're generic in your prompts it will be generic in its responses. inject some field-specific terminology and be esoteric in your queries, etc

its latent representation is vast, I find you can get much higher quality+interesting responses if the prompts are tuned appropriately
The guy was an absolute train wreck.
The referrer header is for site to site, not directly from browser.

The browser injecting a referrer header seems less transparent than it being in the link, no?
Pretty crazy. Amazon actively harvests your data, w/ and w/o your consent. Because you tried Echo, that's all it took. You connected it to wifi/bluetooth, and Amazon was then able to access all your connected devices; all of them. Anyone who downloaded the Alexa app, Amazon took over your phone, accessing all your apps, your mic and your camera, as well as accessing all your devices that share wifi/bluetooth connection. We're talking some of the most intimate of situations Amazon has copies of, without your knowledge or acute consent.

It is legitimately criminal.
Remember when Facebook (and Google, etc.) supported federated XMPP? I can't bring myself to expect any different outcome this time.
Well there I think part of the problem is that for the world's Googles running a boutique social networking site for auto mechanics or whatever makes less sense -- they'll want to have mass appeal from the jump.
Luca Cardeli: Type Systems [pdf]
A World Without Men: Women of SK’s 4B movement are leaving behind the patriarchy
Chinese AI groups use cloud services to evade US chip export controls
APL (a programming language) array-based and diff'rent.
archive: https://archive.is/SLLik
The flight simulator is the strangest thing?

Not the Psychological_Thriller_Horror_Success page about the Salem witch trials, Chimera, Leonardo Da Vinci, and the Easter Bunny?

https://yvettesbridalformal.p1r8.net/psychological_thriller_...
Peruse the generated art from midjourney and I think you might have a very different reaction.

I am constantly in awe by what is generated using it.
Your experience of SSH CAs is different from mine (that doesn't make it wrong). My experience is that the major motivation for SSH CAs is linking SSH authentication to MFA SSO. The long-lived secrets here are the MFA secrets.
I will never use any Facebook product again after they completely bricked my oculus devices with the forced sign in.
I've had hidden order since I was a kid but never read it. Not enough hours in a day. I should really do that one.
I recall watching a video where Sam Altman was downplaying expectations for GPT4 so I'm not expecting Star Trek. However, I don't think we are due for another AI winter anytime soon. Even if technology were to plateau at GPT3.5 for several years it would not constitute a typical AI winter as I don't think we've found the edges of the current technology yet.
I think there are other fees but I couldn't find them. Sure so that's $22,000 once if everyone (10k) is $3 tier patreon and goes for one month. For someone who can't work, and then there's taxes. With just federal they're down to $15k for that month. Yeah that's nice, but that's what being nice is. Does that keep going, likely no. And that's max, not including local taxes, etc.

Are they rolling in it, no not at all. I'm not sure what your point is, they don't think they can work, it's been going on for a bit, they get a nice community pay out ... do people live on less, yes definitely. But she didnt' win the lottery here.
There are more examples in the paper:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.04671.pdf
Therefor you have to verify the answer or accept that it may be wrong.

I’m finding that it’s fairly good for code snippets. You can test that pretty quickly. But asking it something you don’t know and can’t verify is a huge risk.
Can you explain why my most recent comment was flagged?
I admit I was immature sounding in my writing there yeah.
What exactly is the substance of this post you've just made? Just attacking the parent with no argument?
Very sad to see. I've seen a few posts recently from her accounts suggesting that things really haven't been good at all. I really do hope things get better, and quickly at that.

Post viral wise, things can get really nasty, even if being infected with the virus doesn't appear to be that bad. I had shingles five or six years ago and have had chronic fatigue since. I'd say I was pretty fit being able to cycle 30 miles a day going back and forth between work, and now I'd consider myself lucky if I could do 1/8 that. I have a stick on me at all times in case I collapse. Congitively I'm pretty borked at points as well. I am better than a few years ago, but it's clear that I'll never be back to where I was -- I experience good days and bad weeks.

Avoid COVID if you can, get your boosters and if you do get COVID or any other illness, really, please try to rest well and avoid returning back to normal too quickly if life allows for that (I know it isn't that easy). I went back to work too quickly and belive that had a significant impact on my recovery.
That's just not what stalking means. It's a pretty serious crime with a real definition, not just "I don't like somebody" or "they hurt my feelings" or whatever.

You're free to call it creepy or frightening or anything else, it's just not what stalking is though. You've made up your own definition of the word.
most banks that fail are tiny because most banks are tiny
This is the #1 biggest mistake large companies make when trying to force their way into a new product area.

"We already have a huge user base, we'll just automatically sign them up for <new thing> and get it off to a running start". No, these users will hate you for it and in fact ruin the experience for the select few who are actually interested. Meanwhile executives will tout the rosy user growth metrics, declare the launch a success and collect their bonuses.

There is no substitute for old-fashioned organic growth. Start small. Focus on early power users and listen to their feedback. Have something unique that sets you apart from the competition and attracts more users. This is how Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok and the like were able to establish themselves in Facebook's presence while Google+ failed.
A streamer I watch has autoimmune diseases and CFS. Since she got Covid last year, they both got worse. Not even close to what’s the case here, but still enough to force her to take extended breaks more often than usual.

And for more anecdotes, "extremely atypical"? Extreme fatigue is pretty much the most common symptom of long COVID I heard of, why would that be atypical?
That tracks; in Japan there’s a 99% conviction rate, so realistically if you get arrested you’re getting convinced. It may not be perfect, but it’s almost certainly better than “catch and release.”
I am learning to build a database from scratch and teaching people the same!

It taught me how to take on a daunting subject, break it down and make it approachable for beginners. I learned how to reduce the initial friction so that it is effortless to get started.

I set it up in TDD style so you always get quick feedback, and it guides you in the right direction

python version: https://github.com/avinassh/py-caskdb

go version: https://github.com/avinassh/go-caskdb
Without putting too much thought into it I would guess that it's been a while since we had a really novel technology go widespread in its early days (cue counterexamples) - really new things tend to stay niche so we don't get daily reminders of how dogshit they are. If you go back to early television, though, you'll see an objectively dogshit product that was amazing at the time. I think that's what we're looking at now with AI
Some of us from the forum totse emailed local news stations, schools, and police departments pretending to be concerned parents. I wrote my high school and local news and said that my child was using jenkem and linked to an article from a local news station from somewhere else in the country to kind of back up my claims.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jenkem/
I have zero qualifications to talk about this subject, but from what little I do know it's because Stable Diffusion's network has "only" ~900m parameters, whereas ChatGPT has 175 billion parameters.
Once connected to wifi/bluetooth, Amazon can access any devices that share that connection, e.g., your laptop. With that Amazon can freely access your browser, your keystrokes, your camera, your mic. All of it.
Is APL an abbreviation for "A Programming Language" too? Do you have a repo to checkout?

It sounds to me as a perfect language for SIMD?
Newly discovered enzyme that turns air into electricity
I understand that a C corp is its own legal entity, but from a risk management perspective, the bank’s approach makes perfect sense.
I once came across a satire piece for tech interviews comparing them to asking a carpenter if they’ve ever worked with a certain type of paint. I can’t seem to find it. Anyone know?
I am studying system design as it relates to interviewing. I wish I could go back in time and study this consistently throughout my career.

Why?
1. I am not good at verbalizing the details unless I read or practice the concepts periodically, even though I grok the main concepts due to past experience.

2. Last 10 years has been a boom in horizontal scaling. I just learned what a MinCount sketch is and I did identical work in this space back around 2015. Designing Data Intensive Applications book was published in 2017 but I recently bought it.

3. Not all of us work for FAANG companies and don't always get to work on scaling problems. I find them fascinating though and fun to work on. Studying about it and doing a small side project is a great way to learn.

4. Money. There is a better chance of landing a role at a FAANG company with top pay if you can ace the system design interview and coding (leetcode) interview (at least before the recent downturn). Or a higher pay at 2nd tier tech companies by coming across as more senior.

5. Learning and growth mindset. I spent too many years at working chasing results and learning as I go, but not enough time in stepping back and investing in my training in areas (see above) that are very important but not very urgent. System design resources are plentiful and free, and it's easy to find good resources if you search via the lens of interviewing.

I've always been a little overwhelmed with the amount of new software/cloud tech that comes out and not choosing to start somewhere (unless my job at the time called for it). I've personally found that looking through the lens of finding a new job provides accurate and motivating results. Even if it's not studying system design, you can at least find out the hot skills by looking at senior/principal software roles. Aside from machine learning, I keep seeing AWS and Kafka on the list of tech aside from the normal python+linux skill requirements. And while the tech skills may change quickly (it was cassandra and rabbitmq back when I remember), the concepts in Designing Data Intensive Applications provide core foundations/understanding for a lot of depth in systems.
But we are talking about Netflix's motivations, not ours. And Netflix does not want this download button.