skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would always choose San Francisco over Missouri. Every day of the week. St Louis' crime rate dwarfs san francisco, and the economy is much weaker. You can cherry pick stats that support your cause all day.

The fact is people in other states have infrastructure that some of my taxes went to. I will never use those roads. Perhaps we should all be selfish and just take more and more for ourselves?

Principled, fiscal responsibility is a great thing and what I would champion - but these bad faith arguments are not fiscal responsibility. We need some level of service and infrastructure. Even if costs overrun, we still need highways.
Mark Elias. And the dozens of people who perpetrated a massive Russia collusion hoax on America so successfully that some people still don’t realize they were fooled into oblivion.
Even if you had those choices chances are you would be losing interest, most lose interest in the new as they age, they become more pragmatic about it all. Optimal is rarely optimal outside of a few niche areas and often the difference between optimal and good enough is not much, especially when you consider the time spent to achieve that optimum. Things we learn with age. How many new and exciting things have you dedicated a good amount of time learning about just for them to fizzle out and be forgotten? So we get old and let the kids sift through the new for us.
Does anyone have suggestions on verbal ways to authenticate family members, for example, on the phone?
> Many people (managers and developers) lack the discipline, patience, and incentives to adopt this style of work.

Correct. So what do we do then? Changing people is hard. And communication styles are ingrained after a certain age.

Also, even the best communicators are finding it hard to do some tasks async, like designing a complex system.
You’re Going to Live Forever
Long story short for tracing/debugging/audit purposes. No one wants to take responsibility if an AI tells you to jump from a cliff.
'We Were Guinea Pigs': Soldiers Explain What Nuclear Bomb Blasts Feel Like
There are a few ways to control nuclear power plant output. You can send the steam someplace else and the generator turns slower. You can also moderate the nuclear reaction using control rods.
Seems to only be working for papers in TeX?
Their integrated GPU drivers weren't any better throughout; I've had to RE some in the past and I could imagine what their source looked like to generate some of the monstrosities I saw. They seriously should've just released the specifications for their GPUs and let the community write the drivers.
WaifuDenwa
Nuclear can ramp up and down very quickly. The only issue is that fuel costs are negligible, so ramping down does not save money.
You should watch it if only for her illustration of nanoseconds and pico seconds. It's brilliant and not what I expected.
But your GP comment implies that if the management fires them, then somehow "it is due to a lack of trust, which is management's fault". That's.... some circular reasoning there.
Welp, it's still a statistical model, and nothing is wrong with it. The only thing that's changed is that we now have a large-scale statistical method for extracting patterns out of a large corpus of highly complex data in short-enough time span. This progress was mainly backed by engineering efforts like cloud infrastructure, big data methodologies, GPGPU. The theory itself only got a small bump since the last AI winter (in terms of depth), and, combined with the engineering advancement, it opened up a whole lot of exploration opportunities (in terms of breadth).
Llama Adapter – An instruction fine tuned model under 1 hour
This repo proposes LLaMA-Adapter, a lightweight and simple adapter for fine-tuning instruction-following LLaMA models.

By inserting adapters into LLaMA's transformer, our method only introduces 1~8M learnable parameters, and turns a LLaMA into an instruction-following model within 25~50 minutes. LLaMA-Adapter is plug-and-play due to a proposed Zero Attention mechanism, and can be simply extended to multi-modal input instructions. After fine-tuning, LLaMA-Adapter can generate high-quality instruction-following sentences, comparable to other fully trained models.
some previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20829715

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13342941
https://archive.is/mQRAf
Ask if Wolfie is ok.
Safely removed from broadcast television where there are many, many people who are not innately curious or able to fathom a different set of ideas. Exposure to different points of view are crucial to a well rounded mind and development of curiosity.

Nothing is wrong with things being available on Youtube or podcasts. The point is that much (if not most of it) is only available there and broadcast TV sits at the bottom of an ocean of emotion that exerts such extreme pressure that free thought cannot occur.
Yeah, I don’t get the panic. We’re not on any good trajectory here. All signs point to suck. At least we have a chance to pivot.
Intel740, 1998.
I'm somewhat interested in older cars, but a big deterrent for me has been safety. I guess this is just a risk in driving an older car. A lot of my driving is on the highway going 70+ MPH, so I suppose if my commute consisted of roads with half the speed limit or less then it'd be more of a consideration.
Merch for failed companies like SVB would give new meaning to "tombstone": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deal_toy
Yes, it's like when people were saying blacksmiths would continue to exist. They do albeit at very reduced numbers. In their place we have mechanics. It will be the same in other industries.
Show HN: Tiny Blogs Like Telegram Channels
Political debates are a lot closer to rap battles, than to a math conference. That's because the listeners hatdly know any logic at all.

I'm sure GPT can write novels. Just ask it to outline the list of chapters with brief summaries, then ask it to expand each chapter.
Sure. The BLM fraudsters Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi whose grifting campaigns brought in $180M for the organization only for them to spend it on themselves. More than what Roger Stone or Steve Bannon's worth combined.

Again. Let us not pretend that only one side can use this for their next so called 'donations' or 'fundraising campaign'. Both of them will, to influence the electorate of their choice back into power.
Get a job, finish CS, learn product/marketing/cloud architecture. In any order but the point is you have to remain competitive while others fall behind. Sticking to HN over the years will teach you good lessons btw
> they haven’t released it for real use

Its been released & in use for years. (Nearly a decade at this point?).

The problem is all the big email providers - Apple Mail, GMail and Outlook haven't added support. Its a bit of a chicken and egg problem - there's no demand for jmap clients because so few servers support it. And there's no pressure on email servers to implement jmap because so few clients support it.

Source: Friends with some of the JMAP authors.
Workarise – Simplify Your Project Management and Communication
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Sounds like burnout
I can say how long my software compile or build time takes fairly accurately. That's the better analogy to use with construction. The rest of the software project is design work, I'm moving walls around, adding more load bearing, and so on.
Can't this be made though? Just use the same adblock algorithm and then filter clickbait and block it out?
I tried to get it to intentionally respond with grammatically incorrect sentences and it had a lot of trouble. I basically couldn't get it to work.
On the upside, I can now narrate my own life and thoughts as Morgan Freeman.
Conceivably, anyone who uses his or her voice for spoken word or singing could, in theory, cryptographically sign each master copy of the recording, and therefore certify that they were present and active in its creation. Of course any post-processing would lose this attestation. So it's practically useless, I suppose. But it would be a first-line of defense in copyright cases, at least, by being able to say "I did indeed say that, and here's the signature." or "You can't prove that I said and signed that."
It is exhausting. I get bombarded daily by a deluge of hustle culture paraphernalia. Start a side hustle. Monetize your hobbies. FIRE by 30 (I'm too late for that). Build the next big thing. Optimize your life. 10x your productivity.

Rather than inspiring, I find this content draining and anxiety-inducing. Instead of materially improving my life, it makes me feel inadequate compared to more successful people.

I'm becoming better at blocking and ignoring this content but there is still a long way to go.
The final output isn’t the only criteria either. The file may look good, but when you really know your SLR, you can compose and shoot much much faster with more options. Aperture, shutter speed, even ISO, and you can create art.

On a phone it’s all kinda pre-canned. And you have to paw at the stupid thing like a monkey.

You might have an equally sharp or whatever JPG, but it’s the difference between watercolor and crayons.
Trademark of the voices, not copyright...
The audio directly in the post was for sure, but did you listen to the audio in the linked twitter thread? The only thing that gave me pause was the gpt text itself not the voice audio.
In testing and studies, buttons appear to perform better than touch screens. For example, https://www.vibilagare.se/english/physical-buttons-outperfor...

Aside from the studies, on a personal level I have a car with a touch screen and one without. The one without is, simply, easier to use.
No. A very quick google can confirm for you the definition of cask strength.
If there is one, the "GPL contract" in the case would be between Vizio and Linux copyright holders, not Vizio and SFC, since SFC are a third-party in this case.

You are indeed right that Vizio can probably get around SFC current suit by arguing that they did not enter into the GPL contract and just deliberately decided to use the code without a copyright license, but that then opens them up to higher damages under the inevitable copyright lawsuit.
Reasons to use Google:

Easy, fast, free. Pick all 3.
If there is less demand in the future from the overall industry cutbacks, that is definitely relevant to whether the supply and demand are the same.
and yet, here I am, typing on my keyboard, which is above my eye level while I lay on a couch eating a burrito with my latop on my belly. And I don't even have to see the keys... they should alternate every single key with a knob so I know the difference.
We can just make the AI phishing bots talk to a Lenny 2.0 trained to tie them up in endless conversations. AI interacting with AI will be the next economic boom fomenting a wave of new wealth creation.
Right it’s more like making a free art request. Except now instead of just humans, you can also ask an AI.
"Hey mom, it's X. Sorry to leave this voice mail, I got in a bit of a car accident and lost my phone. I need to get back home, could you send $$$$ to ####?"
You can already fool real world voice authentication systems. No need to phish for credentials when the voice is the credential: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/16/voice-sys...
Passwords. Think flash/thunder, but more casual.
I'm still a bit interested in buying a ILC camera, but I assumed at some point the prices would start dropping, but they really haven't. Demand has gone way down and supply isn't really limited. There is even competition. But the prices remain fairly constant.
I believe you are talking about COVID vaccines wrt to Israel ? Wasn't that mostly because of a new COVID variant surge ?
IDK if it's related but I have like a 50% install success rate. Seems to be complicated.
I've written a lot of tutorial material. Not sure if that qualifies me to comment here but... One aspect of my personality is that I'm a snarky cynical bastard who loves to confront perceived flaws in things via jokes.

So how does this come across in my tutorial writing?

Not at all. That part of my personality is completely absent (I hope) from anything I create that is intended to teach people. Because the people I want to teach programming to could be anybody. They could be someone who can barely speak English and will just be totally confused by snark. They could be a precocious ten year old whom I would rather not expose to my adult cynicism. They'll get enough of it in life anyway.

Teaching materials should be clear, cynicism and snark free, and should never be condescending to either the reader or any alternative technology or point of view. That doesn't mean criticism free. But the criticism should feel balanced. Does comparing the alternative with a dirty nappy feel balanced to you?
Has ChatGPT actually read any books (apart from snippets on the Internet), or has that been avoided for copyright reasons?

I wonder how long until someone pirates every ebook on Z-Library or SciHub and trains a language model off that. Imagine a language model that's read every book and every scientific paper.
> I don’t think the general population is prepared for this

i dont know how many videos it will take of trump and biden shit talking eachother on xbox live but it looks like several on youtube are near 1m views
"Potential" is just a belief, and wielding it proves nor does nothing.
What's the feasibility of signed ads/speech verified on the device (tv, phone, etc.)?
I was with him right up until the last paragraph. The pussy grabber tape was VIDEO. You can lip read it.
I've build several little scripts in my browsers over the years to deal with this. As an example, I have a stylus script that cuts the salacious celebrity and entertainment sections off CNN.com. I've also added to my lists in ublock origin to nuke taboola and other bottom of the barrel content ads that used to be hawked from the bottom of every blog.

Today I actually just consume a lot less news and media, and much less direct from the news sites. Community aggregation like HN, Lobsters, and a few subreddits lets me stay appraised without being intentionally distracted
For those interested in Andrew Bridgen's speech here is the link again,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvSHD_n3Lyg&t=390s
I wonder if this would be a viable use case for a browser plugin that talks to an LLM for the text stuff at least. Have it summarize bits of content and then apply some rules on categories you don't want to see.
This is one of those things where Balaji is ahead of the curve - the way to guarantee metadata (e.g. who the speaker is) is to do it cryptographically on-chain.

https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1583495595737481217
it’s already here. People on the chans are using a alexjones model to sing anime songs and it worked really well.
> No celebrity gossip. No conspiracy theories. No weight loss breakthroughs.

Yes, let a big button to decide what are facts, what are opinions and what are conspiracy theories for us. Exactly what this society needs.
I asked it to make a certain stand up bit in the style of various comedians. The Seinfeld one was reasonably good but the Chris Rock one was off because it wouldn’t curse.
It does not seem to want to write any code. Initially, it did write me a convolution function in Python (which had problems), but later on in the day I can't get it to write even a simple Fibonacci function.
As a counter to all the replies, I have owned nothing but Hyundai and Kia since high school, and my family has owned several Kia and Hyundai vehicles. It would take something very major for me to consider another brand.

Their warranties are outstanding and long. My Kia engine was part of a recall, had an issue, but was then replaced out of warranty for free in less than a week during 2020. The engine now has a lifetime warranty. All of their warranty repairs, for small things, were done without hassle.

When we took a look at buying another car a few years ago, Kia and Hyundai were by far the best quality car out of everyone, including Honda. I think people to still shit on Kia and Hyundai because the names aren't Honda or Toyota. They have their issues, but in my experience, the warranty and recalls they did covered everything at no cost. And at this point, my Kia is an 8 year old model which was at the tail end of its model design even then.

I have zero concern about my Kia's reliability. I even drove my much older Hyundai well over 100,000 miles with hardly any maintenance before trading it in.
Dropping to say I miss your Twitter account man, I remember doing how-to-host-one-html.page years ago. Keep posting bangers king.
The sun logo was one of the all time best
I use ctrlp.vim in vanilla vim with fzf.

https://github.com/ctrlpvim/ctrlp.vim
Maybe a use case for NFTs hah.
> There's no mocking of concrete implementations

That was always halfway between oxymoron and forbidden magic.
Copyright might not be needed.

SAG created a rule after Crispin Glover’s face was used without permission via a prosthetic in Back to the Future 2 to ensure it never happened again.

I could easily see a similar rule being added by an appropriate union to their contracts to prevent AI copies of voices that weren’t approved by the original actor.
Where are they needed now do you think? This isn't a rhetorical question.
It’s true that OpenAI can change it radically by tuning, but to a very significant extent users can change it by prompting (which is more actionable for people building apps on top of the chat models) but lack the ability to do tuning (which OpenAI makes available for the base GPT-3.5, etc., models but not the chat models, including GPT-4, which is currently available, even via the API, only as a chat model.)
This is the kind of thing that makes me want to throw away all my electronics and move to a farm in the middle of middle America and have a farm.

The problem is, with property taxes of any kind, you have to have a "day job".

:/

I just want a farm, a family, and to be left alone.
AFAIU, Fidelity's cash deposits are FDIC insured but the default "core" position -- where uninvested money goes to sit -- is SPAXX, which is not FDIC insured. That position is mostly U.S. Government Repurchase Agreements, with some treasuries and agency securities mixed in.

No idea what risks might be associated with everyone now treating these mutual funds as de facto bank accounts...
This is completely ignoring the thousands, maybe millions, of non-notorious artists that do their art, in whatever form, because it's fun, because it allows them to express themselves or as a creative outlet or as a mere hobby to unwind after a hard day of work.

Honestly, I'm an artist myself. I'm competent enough to be reposted and plagiarized (to my amusement) in places, and I have influenced people with my designs or style, even unwillingly. I mean, I can say anything on the internets, but I've been through all of the "artist's phases of grief" and nobody can take that from me.

Let's humor this thought for the sake of discussion: What if, maybe, just maybe, the artists that get replaced by an stable diffusion instance...deserve to be replaced?

People keeps talking business and not enough people is talking about ART. Something which is baffling to me as an artist. A lot of artists have a lot of technical skill obtained through grinding (and learning from others) but have zero passion to improve further or have any real distinctive traits to stand out.
It's double baffling coming from places such as Hacker News, where a majority, being tech workers, know that you need to keep improving and recycling yourself to stay relevant to employers. We know that pressure very well. You think art is not a competitive field? Every day 10 people can just pop out of nowhere to compete in your niche and take your audience away, with a much lower barrier of entry. That other person just needs their art to look good, no need for qualifications. Some people are just gifted, too.

If your art stagnates and all you do is sexy ladies for overblown prices, then, yes, you failed to keep up and someone else will replace you. If it was not the AI, it would have been another human being, as always.

Besides, corporate entities usually use custom photographs with photogenic actors, carefully staged for maximum engagement, or generic, parametric, inclusive-yet-bland art in the lines of Alegria.
The whole notion of megacorps purposely stealing from indie artists (when their models are usually curated, or going to have to be curated for maximum advertiser friendliness, and a lot of indies draw cheesecake because it's what people commissions...) paints a pretty tale of David vs Goliath, but it's completely absurd in practice. And the risk of some random dude "stealing" your style has existed always.

The AI can have pretty dark uses in the wrong hands, but a lot of the situations described say more about the lack of passion or excess of ego of the one crying foul, than actual reality. And, take it from an artist, we do have an issue with inflated egos. All of this sounds to me like a huge case of "Do not steal", when making it into any huge training set in any significant capacity should be a badge of honor to wear. If even The Algorithm© recognizes the value of your art then you are already pretty well established anyway. I really can't wrap my head around the strange perspective of other artists.

People should really put all those strong emotions onto the canvas instead of internet kerfuffles, is what I'm saying.
Seems to be a good strategy for some situations like the iterated prisoner's dilemma.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_for_tat
> killing ethnic Russians is breaching the same agreement later breached by invasion.

This provision is not in the Budapest memorandum so that’s just plainly false.

> Asking for NATO nukes

I’ve not seen any evidence that Ukraine asked for NATO nukes could you provide some?.

> And yet states that don’t trust each either enough to be at war still manage to negotiate peace, historically.

Historically Russia creates conflicts freezes them and then starts them again once they rearm.

So what’s different this time?, the answer is nothing, if we allow Russia to continue they won’t stop doing this.

So in reality there’s only one solution, the forcible ejection of Russian forces from all of Ukraine.
You already have the right to your likeness, which includes the things you say in your voice profile (especially when attached to your name, and not said in a manner like that of a parody or an impersonation for laughs).

The threat is that, supposedly, pretty much all of the media companies that need Voice actors have a clause that allows them to use generative voice AI after the VA's death or if they're otherwise incapacitated to the point where they would be physically unable to get the voice actor back in the studio to record more lines. This is not outlandish for voice actors since they probably couldn't care less about their voice being used after they are dead, but it does mean we'll be hearing a lot more of it as more and more decade-long franchises use it to avoid hiring a good-enough impersonation or voice replacement once the old one dies.
The Unraveling of the U.S. News College Rankings
Is this course relevant for MariaDB as well?