skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think right here we have an example AI reproducibility problem.
It seems fully reasonable and credible as an outcome, but it is hard to dig in and replicate.
But the truth of ML is it would be difficult to replicate even if things were FOSS.
Overwhelmed by fast advances in recent weeks
The comment you’re replying to has the same concern.
Where did get the US has better wages than Sweden? According to my sources they are similar but Sweden is higher, $65k vs $74k.

Some of salaries you hear on HN are insane by US standards and only a few, relatively speaking, offer these kinds of salaries.

https://www.globaldata.com/data-insights/macroeconomic/media...

https://www.globaldata.com/data-insights/macroeconomic/media...
> No, it is like putting regulations on fossil fuels and giving them legitimacy.

We put regulation on fossil fuels as a practical matter of recognizing the reality in which we operate, and the harms that will come to real people if we outlawed it without a viable solution to the rest of the problems that would create.

> Some industries should stay in the dark unprotected always looking over their shoulder for when they might get caught.

This sounds nice, but the practical implications are that already disadvantaged people are further abused and taken advantage of. No one should want that type of system.
Moviemaking, gamemaking and education are converging. I can see the day when blockbuster education games/apps are built with the budget of a Hollywood movie.
Interesting.

Copyright and "intellectual property" have always been fuzzy subjects, and the legal frameworks have always struggled to catch up with changes in society and technology. The origins of copyright are (I think) about publishers re-printing stuff printed by other publishers. It has come a long way with photo copiers, audio tape and with "copy" being the essential primitive of any digital computer. And now AIs can recycle creative thoughts in some sense.

I suppose at some point, it makes more sense to look at what kind of law we need in practice, rather than how existing law applies to reality. Should AI models be allowed to learn from publicly available resources, without permission? Probably yes. Should AI output be owned by the AI owner, or anyone? Probably no.

Can we (the world) come to an agreement? From there, can we change laws to make this work the way it should?
Given infinite time you would expect any pool of materials to eventually wibble together into certain compounds. Those compounds will wibble infinitely until they create structures. Some of those structures will be able to wibble compounds together. Some of those structures will be an exact copy of the structure that made it. Those structures will then replicate.

Simple life seems inevitable. It’s the tiers above that are the hard part. We only have mitochondria because we ate them and forced them to reproduce inside of us. Without that we would probably have never got beyond the single cell level. There’s a lot of random developments that we could have missed and ended up as just slime on a rock for eternity.
It's just unlisted and description has crypto scam. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDTeSb0TzbQ
>This is equivalent to "mining" in a proof-of-work protocol, and comes with similar rewards from the protocol in exchange for securing the network (with the risk that if you deviate from consensus, your staked crypto could be "slashed"). Coinbase operates the validator on your behalf.

Using your analogy, if I send money to a Bitcoin mining company, they use the money to buy/run miners, and then send me a percentage of their profit, isn't that an investment in a common pool? Isn't the item they use to validate my share a security?

Bitcoin may not be a security but the middleman is a securitizing a service that involves bitcoin, right?
I think it's become a case of "Don't hate the player, hate the game."
That's a circular argument though, the label is also a moral judgement

The public was becoming too liberal, didn't have a strong enough reaction to "prostitution" anymore. Hence they started relabeling most voluntary prostitution disingenuously and even changing laws to make clearly "nothing special" also be "sex trafficking" ... like a man traveling for a weekend getaway to another city with two half-sugar baby half-prostitites.
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My hope is open research and open source collaboration will continue to lead to breakthroughs, most importantly lowering the barrier for entry to training such capable models.

It's still relatively early days for this technology; if model research and processing power developments find an order of magnitude or two efficiency gain over the next decade maybe OpenAI's closed approach will no longer matter. Maybe that's wishful thinking though.
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On the other hand, I'd consider "deplatforming" as an appropriate term if and only if the action literally removes the platform used for expressing opinion and communication.

E.g. If someone gets kicked off and kept out of some social media platform or gets denied the opportunity to speak at some public event, or interviewers boycott them even when their role normally would get interviewed, gets kicked out of a job which gives them public outreach (e.g. journalism or university) or some venue refuses to rent them facilities for a talk - to me, all of that is deplatforming no matter if it's because of political opinion or innate characteristics like the color of their skin or religion or whatever. If all the media agree to not show or discuss red-haired people, that's obviously deplatforming red-haired people.

And on the opposite side, if someone gets hurt in other ways that don't change "the platform" - their landlord kicks them out, they get fired by an employer that "only" provides money but not a platform for outreach, their customers drop them - all of that isn't deplatforming but ordinary discrimination, again no matter if it's because of political opinion or innate characteristics like the color of their skin or religion or whatever (that would only affect whether that's prohibited discrimination).
Any recommendations of books on compiler optimizations?
Hdslb: Open-source 100M+ concurrent session L4 load balancer
Given the difference in quality seen, I'd guess Thumbhash at 50 bytes would be similar quality to webp at 100-150 bytes, so basically 1/3rd of the size or 3x the quality for "the same price". The examples of webp are way worse quality, and almost 2x the size.
In a sense, yes. HTML and CSS (with JS?) are the best UI creation combo anyone could ever design, because so much effort has gone into making websites look nice over the decades. Millions of people and thousands of companies trying to create websites has pushed the standards really far ahead of any other UI kit.

I think eventually they'll become integrated with operating systems natively, rather than requiring webview. But that means desktop managers will become much more integrated with the web as well.

Basically I see a future where your OS is your internet browser as well as window manager, process manager, etc.
Play store doesn't work in China, so it'll be in the Chinese equivalents, which will be run by the ultimate shady third party (CCP)
It is a marketing tactic now that highly centralized capitalist companies pretend to be socialist decentralized warriors for the common people.

https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/16386740838178856...

BA appears to be taking this head-on to go on the offensive.
It's possible, but the views of the AI alignment community so far as I can tell are being skewed way too far towards nihilistic doomerism by the influence of Yudkowsky, who apparently believes that we're all gonna die in a few years and there's nothing anyone can do to stop it. [0]

[0] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uMQ3cqWDPHhjtiesc/agi-ruin-a...
Although the FB images do have much higher fidelity. So it is a tradeoff.
You mean will.
For what it counts, Vice does have a fairly strict editorial policy, which more or less is "we want David vs. Goliath stories". It becomes very obvious after a while that this is how Vice wants the world to be seen.

Everyone is either "The Man" and therefore evil, or is sticking it to "The Man" and is therefore heroic. I've been friends with people that have been interviewed by Vice - this is the single most annoying thing about them. Most of them are hobbyists (Nintendo-console related, both modding and emulation) who do what they do "because it's cool and fun to do".

Then Vice barges in, interviews them and/or their team members and suddenly the angle under which the coverage is presented becomes how these awesome, super cool hackers are doing it because they want to stick it to the Big Evil Nintendo which is just... not at all the motive. None of those people are/were out to be a David taking up the sword against the Goliath that is Nintendo. They just wanted to tinker with a console because of curiosity.

Vice is (alongside to a lesser degree Kotaku) responsible for basically ruining any conversation about homebrew, console modding and emulation by putting the "it's good to pirate actually" motivation front and center for hacking and modifying consoles. Like... fucking talk to these people. Almost every single one hates having their work associated with piracy since it can cause serious reputational harm (and is often inaccurate to boot), yet Vice doesn't give a single flying shit about that since Nintendo is "The Man" and that means that any action that can be construed as being against them is morally justified.

Probably one of the worst outlets to ever link (and for what it counts, what they cover usually has better coverage elsewhere so... yeah, avoid them if you can). Strongly also recommend to avoid ever talking to them if you can help it, they will slant the conversation to further that editorial policy if they can.
tbf, recreating banks but without regulation is one way to go about orchestrating once-in-a-generation wealth transfer from... one LP to another.
Let’s not pretend like anyone thinks we can reasonably reach out to someone and have any impact on what the SEC does. This country runs off money, not voter sentiment, and we all know it.
But there was also some international cooperation, as well, e.g. Pfizer-BioNTech.
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Will the Ozempic Era Change How We Think About Being Fat and Being Thin?
I think they mean that GNOME contributors can use it to debug and test features. If you want to evaluate it, you can probably best try out a distribution (e.g. Ubuntu if you want to go with popular, or Fedora if you want to get closer to the way GNOME intended it) that ships it.
High skilled workers in Sweden and Germany and severely underpaid compared to their US counterparts? So either they suddenly become much more productive after moving the US, they are subsidizing their less skilled colleagues or most of that surplus is going to their employers instead?

Probably a bit of each depending on the location/sector/etc.. However Sweden in particular has one of the highest levels of wealth inequality in the word (even a bit higher than the US)...
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That's exactly the point, denying them access to a payment system the consumers can easily access, hence, limiting the profit motive and the resulting massive human damage.

By your very limited logic, denying drug traffickers access to the banking system hurts poor coca farmers in Bolivia. Well yes, it does, any policy choice involves compromises.
Jaron Lanier on the danger of AI
Have you tried using gardener or rancher or ubuntus solution on bare metal?

They are very easy to use
That’s a cope, not an explanation. It’s like saying “God made the world”. It doesn’t answer the question because then the question is who made God.

If your theory relies on external creation on another planet or whatever, then it’s meaningless because how did life start there. If life could start there then it could have started here so why do we need your theory at all?
Still lets you turn off Bluetooth with a single click, even when all you have is a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard.

Seriously, I only use USB input devices on desktops to bootstrap the system, and then unplug them and tidy the system away.

For a few times now I've clicked that button by mistake (it's there in GNOME 43, just without the ">") and promptly turned off Bluetooth and had to go fetch a USB mouse from storage, crawl under the desk, and plug it in to turn everything back on.
That's mostly because filmmaking is ceasing to be filmmaking, at least for big movies and TV shows.

I tend to ignore new TV shows these days. Why? I just know they're gonna be great for a few seasons at best then start sucking, and I don't feel like wasting my time in the meantime. I can count on one hand non-episodic TV shows in the last 25 years that have maintained their high quality throughout.

The Wire
The Sopranos
Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul
Mr. Robot

Honourable mention for Twin Peaks: The Return, although Twin Peaks didn't exactly maintain its quality throughout season 2 even if Lynch swooped back in to save it near the end.

All cases where one person or a couple people had strong creative control of the project throughout.

I could sit here all day listing shows that started out really good but then it became clear the writers had no idea what they were doing, or the writers who did left.

These shows are all written by committee now. All these garbage Star Trek shows. Westworld has really neat sci fi premises for each season but other than season 1 they always devolve into action schlock because the writers don't understand how to actually write good sci fi.

As for big movies, they feel like they're written by marketing people not writers. They're optimised for getting people into the theatre and everything else is an afterthought.

There's still a handful of auteurs making great movies you could think of as big. People like Tarantino, Scorsese, the Coen brother. Christopher Nolan gets lucky sometimes, but most of his sci fi is ruined by sloppy writing for me(Interstellar...)

One thing is certain for me though. I can't think of a single recent movie I've enjoyed that had lots of CGI in it. The movies with the best writing are pretty much never the ones with huge effects budgets.

The true art of filmmaking lies in the writing. You can have all the effects in the world, the best actors and directors. Doesn't matter one bit if the script is terrible.
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Could you explain what you mean by "people can just leave". Because this isn't really a realistic option for a majority of people.
Warning, rant ahead:

File chooser grid view (ie thumbnails) - that's nice, but I'm so jaded at this point to care anymore. I've been using ubuntu on and off as my personal system for the past 15 years, it sure beats windows in many respects (typing this on MacOS). But I'm just too old to be excited by UI features that should've been here long ago and that were the standard in the software of the late 90s and early 2000s. There has also been a vocal part of the community defending the lack of thumbnails in the file picker, so this whole story has a bitter taste to it.
One more thing, it feels like open source systems and UIs are developing at a glacial pace these days, either the tools used to develop open source software are sub-par or maybe there is a lack of people working on it and effort put into it. So glacial that in the age of AI, a grid view is somehow a notable feature. There seems to be less to be excited about these days and I have given up expecting great things.
I do forget that time -- what's the context?
These are all Mar 2023 considerations. Things will get faster, better and possibly harder to disable especially if delivered as a virus, where every pc/phone has an “AIPU”
https://pair.withgoogle.com/explorables/private-and-fair/
With like 40-50% margins too.
> or by just charging full freight again

But is this possible with a one-time-full-price app in the App Store? It’s not, right? Once someone pays for your app, they get all updates forever. I think that’s what the person you were replying to was getting at.

Basically, there are 3 major purchase models for software:

1) I’m buying a forever license

2) I’m buying this major version only

3) I’m subscribing to this software on a monthly/yearly basis

The App Store only seems to support 1) and 3), but not 2). If you want to do 2), you have to roll it yourself outside of Apple’s infrastructure. Which means sending your own invoices, setting up your own key mechanisms, and all of that associated pain
https://react.dev/learn/separating-events-from-effects#decla...

> Here, onConnected is called an Effect Event. It’s a part of your Effect logic, but it behaves a lot more like an event handler. The logic inside it is not reactive, and it always “sees” the latest values of your props and state.
Mostly, yes. But... can you configure three-finger touchpad swiping to perform back/forward actions yet (like on just about every other platform)? Last I tried it was essentially impossible (well, short of getting into the code and re-compiling your own). The built in browser (web/epiphany) was the only app that implements three-finger swipe, but lacking extension support until very recently, wasn't really an option.
It heavily depends on the nature of catastrophe.

* meteor coming to earth in 20 years, obliterating everything - the humanity will unite

* gradual reduction of temperature by 20 degrees. Every nation for themselves.
Ok great good for you! You're (presumably) in the West and can choose what you value, and you value a life with balanced work hours and, well, you call it fair, but in global standards it is high.

Either way, for people with the skills to choose between working for Google and making $400k a year or working for Hollywood and making $70k a year, then they go and work for Hollywood and complain about the hours and pay, I just don't really know what else to say other than it's a choice.

You get to see your work on the big screen, hang out at cooler parties, etc. Google people, generally speaking, do not get the same thing in life. Unions have their place, of course, especially with monopsonies or mining towns, but when it comes to a whole industry I just think some things naturally come out that way due to the motivations and dynamics.
> people from having a higher wage than their colleagues

That's not really true though is it? I mean unless you assume companies have an infinite amount of income to distribute...
Tech screwup scapegoats:

- open source library

- a devops guy that didn’t update software

- an intern

- congress

- interest rates

- baldwin brother at index n

Use as needed! As long as you don’t take any true responsibility, you’re still disrupting!
What is the article about then? They cut off researchers to starve the research competition?

That's another interpretation, perhaps they cut off researchers and true open source competition and business competitors.
Spoiler for The Watchmen:

The Watchmen has two examples (comic and movie) that I thought might work, if they were really pulled off.

However, even then I agree with the other comments currently posted that there would still be deniers, who would ultimately win.

Maybe humanity could pull it off, but if they could I'm not sure we'd be able to sustain it.

We're good at short term disasters, but not at preventing them, or following through with the lessons we've learned.
I can't speak for other countries because I never looked at the data but in Germany, increasing wealth inequality correlates with decreasing union membership in recent decades while the big and broadly distributed wealth gains of the post-war era correlated with historically high levels of union memberships. Intuitively it would make sense that rising income inequality is the result of too little unionization, not too much or it being irrelevant.

Also, there is plenty of actual research that backs this up, i.e.:

- https://www.epi.org/publication/unions-help-reduce-dispariti...
It seems you did not read OPs comment completely, did you? The second refered to his investment opportunuties that have "not for US citizens" written on them.

And Credit Suisse wasn't the most stable bank to begin with, despite being the second largest in Switzerland. So of course their bonds have been riskier than others. On the other hand, hadn't Credit Suisse failed those bond returns would have been higher as well. No idea why people just don't get the link between risk and returns
Agreed completely, the parent comment is completely out of touch with the actual state of the game industry.
The barrier of entry is high in the payments market. You have to follow a lot of regulations, get other payment providers to accept you, and most importantly have enough liquidity. If you are missing even a single one of these factors, then you're only playing around with Monopoly money.
> Noone wants a bland, vapid, sanitary product "for everyone".

Well, empirically you're wrong. Unfortunately, there's enough of a market for Marvel movies and big-ass games titles to make huge profits, even if we feel they're too average, too mediocre to spend a single dime.

...But I get what you're saying. ;-)
That's why technology leapfrogged all other domains, because it was free to innovate at a crazy pace.

The most financially successful innovations in US tech this century have arguably been business models based on venture capital and barely regulated corporations achieving monopoly/oligopoly levels of control and engaging in exploitative behaviours at a larger scale than ever before. Is that really the kind of free market, light regulation economics to be proud of?
I think about this often. If copilot could hook into the Typescript language server, it would be much less likely to hallucinate and generate blatantly wrong suggestions.
You should work for Asus.
Curl was selected as a winner in inaugural Bloomberg FOSS Contributor Fund
So many UIs these days try to shove some random idea of a PM into ones face recently E.g. "OneDrive this", "Adobe Cloud that" on just saving a document.

GNOME apps would simply need to show up to become a superior experience in the long term.

Great to see that they do so much more than 'just show up'.
"and the Academy is always there to stomp out their protest during the few minutes they get at the Oscars"

Hm, I have no knowledge or connection to the events, but "stomping out protests" made me expect a bit more dramatic events, than stopping someones speech, after his time was up.

"But Westenhofer’s speech was cut off mid-sentence after he used up his allotted time"
RNA is a structure capable of being both a store of data and a catalyst.

As RNA forms spontaneously with time, eventually you would end up with an RNA which can catalyse its own ingredients and replicate. As soon as you have one, it would replicate and take over the pool. Random changes would then lead to advancement.

Membranes also form spontaneously so the replicating RNA could find itself a bubble through random chance and live in it.
Note the current Verse style guideline is to capitalize variables rather than types. Seems pointlessly contrary to established practice. Makes the code read like the author is shouting.
Like what FirefoxOS was doing.
You broke into one more system on your way out

Glad you found your way to our heart
I hope for (but do not expect) a positive outcome
Attackers hit Bitcoin ATMs to steal $1.5M in crypto cash
k8s folks get paid big money to keep it running. Not surprised by the comments here at all. As the saying goes, "in complexity, there is opportunity." and the k8s devops team is milking it hard.
I don't really see benefit for countries like Japan, Australia or other isolated countries to join others.