skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't this just agreeing with what the copyright office said?

When prompting a human being, that human makes the image, so that human gets the copyright. When prompting an AI, no human makes the image, so no human gets the copyright. But in both cases, the prompter doesn't.

We've never treated writing a description of what to draw or providing iterative feedback on an image as an act that grants someone copyright over that image.
My solution is I immediately record the commands, but do not load them. That way new terminals get all the history, but old terminals keep their flow.
I thought so, but ultimately, in terms of relative productivity, who is going to out-compete the US? If we really fear that our ability to produce, that our productivity (in the economic sense) is under threat, then I would genuinely be concerned.
Natural Language-Assisted Sign Language Recognition
Some people are willing to pay more for quality food period. If this meat turns out to be better quality by some metric having nothing to do with "ethical meat" memes, there will be a market for it.
My reply to BBC's ai is the most important tech advance in decades is my hot take. It's a sad shit show of obfuscation of sources & hiding embedded beliefs. It will devalue & destroy meaning & understanding while adding nothing to human intellect.

This bankrupt poor shitty overrun society keeps thinking the ends are important. Those people are trash. No one knows what the real ends are & reality is an interactive integrative process for learning & figuring out. The only human value is escaping path-dependence & establishing a right to will, but AI keeps presenting pat simplistic convenient truths that have to basis, no argumentation for or against, but which can hem the ultimateine of middling, of being seemingly truthy. But without reason or cause, by just navigating a most mediocritous path.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35256041
We use red hat / CentOS on our compute cluster (academia/genetics). But I use the poorly names “PopOS”(an Ubuntu variant) on my local machine. I don’t notice any difference.

Red hat will sell support and know how. A long time ago, when I was at a hpux and Solaris shop they sent us who worked with the Os to a Linux kernel internals class at red hat, for us to learn what they had for us (scheduling and such). Such knowledgeable people. I’ve moved onto different development but I can see why companies would pay for the support.
From my experience this stuff is not really collectible. It's more of a novelty that wears off after some time.
I don't like it. Lots of the examples seem forced e.g.:

var _ = q.remove();

This is just stupid. We can write:
q.remove();

We don't need to save the return value in Java. The only case where this makes sense is:

instanceof Point(_, int y)

But that makes sense because the original code is so bad. A better solution would be type inference like we have in lambdas:

instanceof Point(x, y)
Seems like a realistic assessment.
I host wallabag and have a browser extension to add/tag sites and a phone app to access it.
The RESTRICT Act spells game over for all China tech companies in the US
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I like the one with the hat!

https://www.bing.com/images/create/a-dog-driving-a-taxi/6419...
Asteroid discovery suggests ingredients for life on Earth came from space
Nice! I guess they fixed it up

This review is for their 2021 model.

> Plus, while there is a climate button and fan speed button, as well as dials for the temperature settings, you still have to go through the screen to control whether the air conditioner is on or off, and also which ventilation is active. Odd.

https://www.carsguide.com.au/car-reviews/honda-cr-v-81488

And a demonstration, though it's for an even older model:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99WLw0pQc8w
I'm guessing this is the first thing all the old farts like me thought of when they saw the headline.
JPMorgan says the U.S. is probably headed for a recession
The problem is that he has all the correct opinions, but since he has every opinion, he also has all the incorrect ones.

But he's right when he says resolution doesn't matter even if you're making a billboard, SLRs are not the best kind of camera ever made and never were, and that normal people shouldn't get Leicas.
It's completely relevant. In both cases, you are describing what image you want created.

The fact that you are describing it to a human isn't materially different from the fact that you're describing it to an AI. I mean, heck, this has been the exact argument people have used about why it's OK to train an AI on copyrighted material -- that it's just like a human "learning" from the image. And now comparisons with a human aren't allowed? You can't have it both ways, you can't argue that a generative AI isn't any materially different from a human when it's imitating or learning from a work, but that using that AI suddenly puts the prompter in a completely brand new category of copyright. :)

And we're really talking about the prompter here, not the AI. Focusing specifically on the prompter, what precedent do we have in copyright law that describing the image you want created is a creative act? None, as far as I can see. And we have a ton of precedent that it's not a creative act, ie the entire history of copyright policy around prompting/directing. Nobody argues that directing a creative process means you inherently get copyright over the result.
The idea of tactile feedback is that you can look at one place - like a screen, which gives you information in ideally most convenient way - while, without looking, operate buttons, knobs, levers etc., at the same time.

If you have, for example, a screen which shows you docking crosses in the center of the picture and control buttons on the periphery of the picture, you still need to move your focus from the view to controls to operate them. This is a simplified example, just to illustrate my point.
That's a more charitable way of viewing it. Thank you.
The old name was propaganda. It’s been around longer than you and me. 2015 gave it a modern name, that’s all.
If you take a picture without looking at the screen I hope you checked the lens cap is off first.
What MS demo are you referring to? I like chatgpt way more than new Bing’s GPT interface.
Windows 10 1607 and newer support it now if you call SetFileInformationByHandle() with FileRenameInfoEx and specify the FILE_RENAME_FLAG_POSIX_SEMANTICS flag. Not sure how commonly it's used in standard libraries, but I've seen it popping up more and more.
I looked into this a while ago when I was thinking of DMing a TTRPG during the pandemic lockdowns thinking I might be able to use the tech to make having to play the game online less of a negative and more of a fun different experience… and I was extremely disappointed by the majority of them and just generally disappointed by all of the ones I tried. They all had massive shortcomings of one kind or another, and even the most advanced ones where I would have to pre-record audio and upload that to their online charge by the minute of processed audio… they had a noticeable, irritating dullness, like it was trying to remove expressiveness in order to better conform to to their target waveforms and honestly… it sounded less alive than if I just used a text to speech engine with a female voice like the one that powers Siri.

I might be a little biased since I have used a lot of text to speech tools over the years (I routinely listen to hours of TTS generated audio per week to read technical books and research papers that aren’t in audiobook format) and consequently developed a bit of an “ear” for all the ways various TTS engines sound robotic, mangle pronunciation, and generally fail to read how a human would.

I’d be very curious which tool or service you used that sounded “freakily realistic”, care to share?

I’ve been looking for a good one to test out if running the TTS audio through it sounds any more or less robotic, since their robotic prosody gets deeply tiring with particular kinds of text after a while.
It may be fair, but still frustratingly inadequate for what we would want to use it for.
Yellow journalism has existed for longer than a century. In industrialised societies this hasn't been exactly a new phenomenon.
It looks like a free article to me?
This reminds me of https://pynecone.io

I would love to see these merge somehow if possible.
Yes, I use the bookmarks. While bookmarking I try to categorise a url with hashtags (e.g #javascript). This makes the search easier based on grouping of hashtags.
> taking programming classes in college is a waste

my algorithms class definitely helped me pass interviews like Microsoft. I know many people learn this stuff on their own, and many people don't, but i can't call it a waste by any stretch of my imagination.
VAD: Vectorized Scene Representation for Efficient Autonomous Driving
> you can't run webforms + MVC Core side-by-side

Besides the obvious IFRAME approach, one could have a single solution with both a ASP.NET Web Application project and another MVC (or Blazor) project. Both of them would reference shared models/services via some .NET Standard 2.0 project. IIS can host ASP.NET Core.

Then start refactoring and rewrite the old HTML4/CSS2 into HTML5/CSS4, while the Server Controls and Master Pages become Razor Components.

There is definitely an upgrade path.
Many people that claim to be successful aren't. It's like stock traders that sell access to their newsletters and Discord channels, etc. They aren't making their money from their amazing stock trades; they are making their living from subscriptions. "Side hustle" people do the exact same thing. Certainly, there are people more successful than me or you, and most people on this board but they usually aren't the ones online making videos about it. When I was 20 or so I was pushing $250K a year in revenue on eBay and Amazon, which felt great at the time as a side gig for a college student; but I barely made a dime. This is an example of a scheme that is pushed all the time by people, and I know how difficult it is and how their numbers usually don't add up because I was there...even when seller fees were way less.
A panel of 47 different mirror experts also all confirmed that Sticky Ricky is indeed the "Fairest of Them All." It was proven at this link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35256105
Systems I run (e.g. web based account creation) properly validate & accept gTLDs. However, at the same time, my mail servers will flat out 5xx incoming messages for just about all of them. Why? Spammers. Literally >99.9% of emails that use one of those addresses is pure junk.

This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things (tm)

Sure, you can ask for an exception and you'll get it, but due to abuse it's a default deny policy around here.

IMO, the whole gTLD racket is just a money grab from ICANN anyway, but I digress.
There's a difference between policies to increase working-class wages over the long term, & a tight immediate feedback loop. Runaway inflation is a serious deal

Plus if everyone is auto-raising every employee, that would include lots of well to do professionals, not just those struggling
Why should the CCP be allowed to operate such a large company in the US? Makes zero sense.
I suggest reading further down in the article. It’s mentioned twice.

> Check out this famous chart based on the World Values Survey. It’s gerrymandered in a way that would make a Republican state legislator blush. All East Asians get grouped into the “Confucian” category, despite China being closer to Belarus than it is to South Korea, and Japan being as close to Protestant Europe as it is to its neighbors. Given how distant China is even from Taiwan and Hong Kong, one could argue that it would be too much to grant that all Chinese-derived nations and territories have a similar culture.

…

> boundaries. In contrast, in East Asia there has never been a strong idea of an identity that encompasses Japan, China, and Korea and separates their civilization from those of other peoples, or at least nowhere near to the same extent. Thus, while it makes sense to speak of a European culture, the idea of an “East Asian culture” seems like a convenient shorthand used to arrive at a quasi-explanation of why countries that happen to be next to each other have similar outcomes. Europe is even more of a coherent concept in the World Values Survey cited above, unlike the gerrymandered East Asian category.

> None of this is to say that some ideas like Confucianism and Buddhism haven’t crossed the borders between China, Korea, and Japan. Only that political, social, religious, linguistic, and other kinds of links between the nations of the region have been extremely tenuous and weak compared to Europe, and also other parts of the globe we consider broad civilizations like the Indian subcontinent and the Muslim world.
Yeah we can also ban factory farming, like we ban murder.
I mean, generally the ROI on stuff like this is pretty solid. Looks like the book is $36 new. From a quick Google, the average software engineer (who is the group most likely to read and benefit from this book) makes 90k per year. Gross, that's 45 dollars an hour. If I buy this book and it saves me one hour of time writing tests, writing better tests, debugging tests, or whatever, it will have paid for itself. That's obviously not counting reading time, but I believe the point stands. All the time saves after that first hour is gravy on top

Also, content takes time to make. If you want to charge for it I think that's completely fine. It's not like it must be our based.
As I understand it, the ATI days were his last successes. Since then, his career as an exec has involved presiding over products that are somewhere between terrible and mediocre.
It is very useful just be careful when switching between shells and hitting the up arrow to get the previous command, as you may get something from another shell.
I find it exceptionally rare to want not to use a variable that way, it's usually something you want to make harder to ignore, not easier. In the case you really do want to ignore, there are annotations to prevent the warning.
Factory farming is truly satanic.
I'm usually listening to audiobooks. Right now Tesla doesn't support any audiobook reader, so voice commands momentarily mute the book without pausing.

Next issue is the quality of voice recognition. It just sucks.

Oh, and wipers are a pure fucking BS in Teslas. They removed a $5 infrared precipitation sensor, and it STILL doesn't work well.
I still have tons of things from Sun Microsystems. I love it.
Could you give any concrete examples?
"Assuming good faith" certainly doesn't mean "assuming bad faith unless the author explicitly denies bad faith".
Japan’s Delicious Strawberries: Kerosene
We see this all the time, journalists as an easy example like to invent "facts" that then become common sayings or cited by others as if it were always true. And some even evolve to become the truth eventually, accepted by historians with an agenda, though sometimes they get corrected a few years/decades/centuries later.

See "Let them eat cake", "Napolean is short", "inflation is transitory".

And then these people get mad when we don't find them as always trustworthy. Some things aren't even small omissions, others vastly misrepresent ideas so as to be wholly false.
> seem eager to use it as a search engine or replacement

For me personally, no particular reason. I just want to see what all the hype is about. And using it as a general "suggest me solutions" type of thing, so you know the specific keywords to research further is certainly useful I would say. It just often breaks down if you ask for something specific.
I’m not sure if this is the previous poster’s reason, but (given the implication that the poster is a vegetarian) it my simply be that many vegetarians are put off by the taste and texture of meat, whether it be real, cultured or fake (via textured proteins, etc.).

But I think it’s pretty silly to think that vegetarians are the target market for fake or cultured meat. Surely not.

If you’ve been vegetarian for a long time (life-long or for decades), then the distinctive texture of many meat products can be very off-putting. It’s not like anything you find in vegetable dishes (which is why fake and cultured meat products exist!), and if you’re not used to it, it can trigger you to gag as your brain sends signals that “this isn’t food as I know it”.

This isn’t usually a problem. If you’re a vegetarian, you don’t have any requirement to eat meat. Except some restaurants are now excitedly adopting fake (vegetable protein-based) meats as a “vegetarian” option. It must be convenient as they don’t have to invent new vegetable-centric dishes, but many vegetarians just can’t manage to eat them even if they try. I’ve been to a couple of work dinners lately where the vegetarian option was a fake (TVP-based) meat, and had to just eat the side salad because the main dish triggered my gag reflex.

I’m a life-long vegetarian and kind of wish I could eat meat, it would make life simpler. But I just can’t bring myself to chew or swallow it without plenty of water to wash it down. That said, I’m all for cultured meats as an option for meat-eaters. Go for it.
I'm sure this is not an original thought, but after some initial skepticism I'm starting to see the promise of LLMs in various SW applications. I can imagine never having to actually know make/cmake/scons/etc syntax ever again, for instance. Opening up a codebase and getting an increasingly detailed technical summary would be amazing.

While I'm thinking of it, does anyone know of anyone working on 'stable diffusion' style design of hardware? I could see a system where you effectively just dictate your requirements and out pops a schematic and board design ready for fabrication.
I tried to do something tangentially similar recently, telling ChatGPT that I'd ask it a question, but rather than a response, I wanted search terms for Wikipedia and Wikidata that I could give it that would have the answer in. The thinking is I'd then be able to provide those to it, and get it to synthesize that data, providing answers that had decent citations in them.

Perhaps it was the example I chose "flight time from New York to London" but I couldn't really get it to provide sensible search terms for the information it wanted or needed
Factory farming is infinitely more repulsive. Lots of us actually care about other living things
ask it if its using wattcdwwr fhtfytrsz as a source...
https://archive.md/qqdxo
NPR almost never ignores stories outright. They will slip things into a vague half a sentence quickly between segments, only cover one viewpoint, and uncritically repeat government statements. All news sources do this kind of stuff though, so it's important to read and listen widely and critically.
MSM still have some of the problem mentioned by the author ("urgent but unimportant breaking news", "insights about the royal family", "things that are true but irrelevant"). NYT is also prone to writing "stories designed to demean, degrade or intentionally inflict distress with little recourse available" since their style differs from WSJ whose news section are written strictly in reverse pyramid style.

But yeah, reading MSM news without looking at social media discussions of those news can address at least 80% of the problems described by the author. The information explosion is irreversible and the Internet allowed higher parallelism and lower latency in consuming information compared to TV/Radio/Newspapers. Some degree of exhaustion is inevitable unless one trains themself to properly detach and disconnect on the regular.
Amazing. Now can we promise to keep instrument cluster dials as needles? I don't have a repeat of the Aston Martin Lagonda when the LCDs undoubtedly become dated.
I wish automakers would make buttons with small programmable OLED displays, so that I could bind custom actions to them.

I hated button layout in ALL of the cars I've owned. I usually needed only a couple of buttons, with the rest being unused.
I used bard a fair amount today. It's pretty bad compared to ChatGPT. I would basically never use it.
The word list being checked against isn't quite the same as whatever Wordle is using for possible guesses (this is mentioned on the page); for example, "DUCKY" is a valid Wordle guess, but shown as invalid when entered into this tool.

The original Wordle word list was contained in plaintext in the game's javascript (which is what is used for this map), however I believe the current version used on NYT is using a different list. I don't know that the current set of guessable possibilities / the list of words possible to be chosen is known. I think some people have mentioned the list may have been expanded.
I've read in a few reputable seeming places that polio was on the decline before the vaccine was introduced [1].

This chart [2] (if accurate) is pretty eye opening.

I've also read that the diagnostic criteria for polio was changed roughly in conjunction with the release of the vaccine, which resulted in a significant decline in case counts. This article [3] discusses that and the headline claims to debunk it, but the content didn't do a very good job to me, it kind of did the opposite when I read it, so I'm still left curious.

I've also read that the primary contributing factor to the decline (and recent rise) in polio is sanitary conditions. Most of these arguments come from biased anti-vaccine publications, so I'm skeptical but that doesn't necessarily invalidate the points.

I've discussed this with older relatives who swear to me, pointedly, that the polio vaccine was a godsend, and that polio was a common horror prior to the vaccine.

Note I am looking for expert feedback on these points, I would appreciate it if folks avoided just piling on me and calling me an anti-vaxxer (I'm not, I have to receive regular life saving vaccines due to a medical condition). I don't have any "sacred cows" though, and I'd love more information from experts out there that can explain/refute these points, because once I parse through all the propaganda and anecdotes I'm left very confused about the actual efficacy of the polio vaccine.

Are there controlled studies that compare infection rates in populations that account for confounding variables like sanitation?

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/252553744_The_polio...

[2] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-polio-death-rate-was...

[3] https://vaxopedia.org/2018/07/25/the-myth-that-polio-only-we...
Vanguard Said to Shutter Business in China, Exit Ant Venture
First nuclear reactor: 1942.
First INES level 6 incident: 1957.
Loading remote wasm after installing should be allowed. Your extension would still need bindings in javascript for whatever the wasm is doing.
Do you have any suggestions how to feed different search engines into each other, along with random injections of random prompts, to watch their dialog?
I run into frustrations whenever I search for anything to do with products or something popular like parenting. Results are swamped by garbage as filled SEO content some of which I swear is written by chatGPT. I don’t know why Google doesn’t penalize those results. Come to think of it they don’t seem to mind surfacing content that’s behind a paywall either. I’m really not sure what’s going on over there these days…
I really like this visualization of the possible words with the known information.

It’s possible to have two yellow letters in the same position, but it doesn’t look like it’s possible to represent that with this.