skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Samsung moon debacle was a thing using AI for upscaling shots
Oh yeah, I remember LGR made a video about this when Photoshop added a similar feature. https://youtu.be/hq8DgpgtSQQ

It was funny then, and it's still pretty funny now.
> data sharing at PRC gov requests like in US.

No, it's nothing like the US. PRC actively censors all social media in China (the social media companies do it themselves based on keywords provided by the government).

> it's not PRC's fault FB/Google employees killed efforts to move back into PRC, or that the SV was drunk on free speech (cheap moderation) until western society realized (but won't admit) PRC regulators were prescient

Moderation on Western platforms is nothing like the censorship that takes place on PRC platforms, and equating them is a gross misrepresentation of the situation. Not to mention that government censorship is much more problematic even than company defacto cenorship (where if you don't like Twitter you can move to Mastodon) since gov censorship is absolute.
> We’d suggest that better reviews would come from a truly independent publication giving the only HiFi verdicts that matter, blind tests and measurements from a high-end audio analyser, but we suspect that the industry lacks the courage to do so.

It's not a lack of courage. The subjectivity is the point. Copy/pasting a comment of mine from last week:

Whenever I think of audiophiles, I imagine a couple of older guys hanging out on a weekend. Because they're the kind of dudes who love maximizing and making numbers go up, it needs to have something to do with optimizing performance. Because they're somewhat wealthy and their success is a big part of their identity, it needs to be something expensive.

Then, because they're friends who want to feel useful to each other, it needs to be riddled with inscrutable lore. That way there's always some handy bit of research, some nuggets of wisdom that they can share with each other. That's what this is really about: feeling like they can bond by sharing expertise about some complex hard to optimize problem.

The actual problem itself is essentially arbitrary and subjective. In fact, it's better if it is arbitrary. Because any problem that can actually be solved means reaching an end to the ability to kibbitz and geek out. That's why bringing up objective metrics is such a faux pas in the audiophile world: it kills the game. And the whole point is to play the game together, forever.
And talent. You can go really fast, and crash and burn. OpenAI is pushing out models with solid improvements, thanks to human talent. I'm not a super fan of the ChatGPT craze, however the persons working on this tech are deserving of praise, IMO.
Show HN: PSA – Stop Chrome unloading inactive tabs by toggling one setting
TL;DR If you don't like chrome tabs unloading do this:

1. Put this in your address bar: chrome://settings/?search=memory+saver

2. Hit enter.

3. Turn that setting OFF to prevent chrome unloading tabs.

Two notes:

1. Chrome defaults to unloading inactive tabs. But it can be distracting having to wait for page reloads and pause autoplay content, especially if you have lots of tabs.

A fast way to do this: hold opt + cmd and tap right arrow to cycle tabs (then pause autoplay audio/video; and repeat for each instance of chrome). Chrome sometimes asks for a captcha to be solved. A bit fiddly. It's a relief to finally find a setting that avoids this (it's at the cost of a few gb of memory, but that's a small price IMO).

2. In chrome jargon, unloading tabs is called 'tab discarding'. In the past it could be disabled via a chrome 'flag', which is not there any more. It's also possible to disable it via a chrome addon, but I prefer to use the native chrome setting, it's just a little difficult to discover unless you know what to search for.
Reverse Psychology
Because laws don’t do you much good when there is nobody around to enforce them. Relying on others to ensure your own life is fine, but being able to defend oneself has obvious advantages.
To repeat the question a couple of levels up: how would you differentiate convergence on the best (so far) solutions from "submission to the machine" ?

The outdoor gear (hiking, camping, cycling) that I use today is an order of magnitude better than the stuff I used in the 1970s. And even though the brands vary (to some degree) worldwide, the designs, features, and materials have pretty much converged everywhere. Goretex (or something like it) is better than PU-coated nylon. Angle-cut wrists with velcro closures just do work better than loose or elastic wrists. Internal frame backpacks are lighter, more comfortable and in just about every way superior to the old external frame designs. A tent that weighs 2/3 or even 1/2 of a tent from 1980 is a better tent for everything except car camping, and contemporary tents are much better at dealing with wind loads.

I could go on for a long time. How do we differentiate improvements like this, spread across the globe to the point of uniformity, from your "submission to the machine" ?
The author and most of his associates generally qualify as techno-utopians, and speak routinely of the "glorious transhumanist future".

Smarter-than-human AGI really is different from all previous technologies, in much the same way that homo sapiens is different from all preceding life on earth.
Also, not sure why you can't reply to me, I see my comment and your comment just fine. Are you being rate limited by HN?

Either way, saying someone is "way out of their depth" simply because they disagree with your preconceived notions really isn't a way to communicate, if so, just shut yourself off to any opinions at all. To onlookers, it just seems like an excuse to not engage in meaningful discourse.
I think an increasingly common example of your "1)" scenario is when backend-heavy engineers are given frontend-heavy workloads, or vice-versa.

I know I've struggled in such a situation.

I say it will become increasingly common because I believe the gap between frontend and backend is growing, as frontend and backend stack choices become more complex and diverse.

The breadth of knowledge required to be a true "full stack" engineer is a multiple of what it used to be. A lot of folks calling themselves full stack engineers are kidding themselves, IMHO. I don't really see folks excelling at both aspects. Usually they excel at one half (at best) and are just slapping together sloppy crap on the other end.
This is a result of over-regulation. Fear of being censured by creatives.
I'm getting inconsistent results in Node (19.8), Deno (v8 11.2), Chrome (112), Safari (16.4).
if youre not an ai, say that again without proper punctuation
It's basically the visa cost plus any other expenses (like obtaining police reports from other countries you've lived in.) The visa is currently $8085.

https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/getting-a-visa/visa-li...
GPT-8 is dangerous. GPT-4 is not.
Eliezer does not curate any web forum.

He says he is not planning to bomb any data centers, but he's also said that if he were planning to bomb data centers, he'd lie about it in public, so...
There is a stark difference between a sovereign power gagging or stifling perceived dissidents and other citizens (whether they are elected officials or not) deciding you're an unethical asshole others should be warned about.

What happened to Nixon? What happened to OJ Simpson from the victim's family?
Many people wouldn't get far into the great works of literature with this approach. Many worthwhile books are "difficult pleasures" but the pleasure might not come until after experiencing a lot of pain. Things that are worth doing aren't always fun but you get through the displeasure to become a different person -- one who has access to pleasures you may not have realized you could experience. I didn't like beer when I first tried it. I kept trying it and now I know why beer is beloved by so many.
Sponge cities beating urban heat
> Who's going to show up at some untrustworthy place with fat stacks of cash in order to trade crypto?

There are ways to transact P2P without meeting in person. Bisq is decentralized example.

> It was meant to replace the USD for everything including everyday transactions.

I did not read this chapter of the Bitcoin whitepaper
Why are they all doing it at the same time? To me, the appearance is that they are flouting any responsibility to the world.
Beeper is just matrix + bridges, everything is open source except the client itself, which is a very big feature because element, the biggest element client is kinda crap.
Even better, not only has nothing "topped" Thriller for mainstream popularity, it was also never really "copied" in any meaningful sense. The same is true of many of the most popular works of ... popular ... art. Yes, Thriller had quite an influence on pop-dance music when it came out, but who can name a single song about which the first thing anyone says is "oh, that's just like <X> from Thriller"
Git-switcher.vim: save and load Vim session based on switching of Git branch
Physical threat and violence should have no place in a modern society. Throwing in the note about animals should underscore that.
This argument could make sense to me in a world where powerful corporations, PACs, and monied individuals didn't wield so much control over the media and politics. These domestic entities have far more influence than the CCP, and to the average American I don't think they are any less harmful. These entities profit from disunity and a chaotic government the same way a foreign adversary might. The current divisiveness in America is due to the outsized influence of powerful domestic actors. They are a much bigger concern.
>If you can't hear over 8 kHz

Can't most folks hear frequencies higher than 8 kHz? I don't disagree with your conclusions since I don't care much about audio quality, but I feel like I'm missing something here.
Is Fortnite actually written in Verse? Seems unlikely if Verse is new or a work in progress. Does anyone know what language Fortnite is written in?
If I was a game developer, I would definitely be concerned. The average user spends 92 minutes a day on TikTok! Average

That's gotta be taking a huge chunk of time away from playing Xbox/PlayStation/PC games.
America used the Paradox of Tolerance to outlaw left wing parties during the Cold War and WWI.

It has a really nasty history.

It’s not common for tolerant societies to descend into despotism. Liberal deco meadows are very resilient.

Allowing intolerance is usually better than systematic political suppression.
I did, and submitted a lot of photos (some are in the bedroom but don't feature any nudity), evidence of living together, travel plans, bank statements of joint accounts for the past few years, marriage cert, witnesses who has statutory declaration. it is time consuming, but i would never think of submitting nudes.

Maybe it helps for some people, but if that's the case then the system is rigged
The comment seems pretty clear to me: Despite very serious issues legislators are focusing on unimportant fads.

I increasingly think interesting geopolitics are a trap for a certain type of brain. When I was in high school I followed that sort of thing closely, and felt very smart. But it all had no connection to me, and it didn't matter to me at all. I realized I prefered geopolitics to domestic news because I could feel detached from the tradgedy.
At least few co mingled things, at the minimum mail to same address, joint tax returns, maybe some shared utilities bills, each person using their cards alternatively randomly while being together, some travel (local in city or far), some birthday anniversary stuff photos, few gifts like cards, flowers stuff, time & photos with each other's family, a detailed 4-10 pages of statement about relationship, how they met, when serious, who proposed, when wedding, who in wedding, wedding expenses bills, after wedding, stuff. Proof of communication , social media posts, chat screenshots. Not everything is required. Anything available should be submitted. I didn't had any joint bank statements, or utilities. I had 100s of photos.
Because along with QT and interest rates it's a tool in their inflation toolbox.
> There is a key difference going from "convergence" to "conformity": circular reasoning.

> People who need to sell the thing they invent, tell themselves that "convergence" is the best way there. Customers like familiar traits. So they design for intentional convergence, and that is the essence of conformity.

This is completely tautological. You're just saying "it's not convergence, it's conformity" and your only argument is "because I say it is".
> Our model has, on average, a 32.7% relative lower WER compared to Whisper for these 18 languages.

Which probably works out to one less error per thousand words or something crazy like that.

The state of the art is pretty much better than humans at this point iirc.
>between cultures

I don't see cultures mentioned anywhere in the article or the comment you replied to.

If mean that there are no differences in the genes that determine height across populations, that is incorrect. For example, the average male height in Pygmy populations is 5 feet, or about 7 inches lower than Cameroon's Bantu populations who live alongside Pygmies. We know there are genetic differences between Pygmy and Bantu populations that are specifically associated with height, and that average Pygmy height increases along with the percentage of Bantu ancestry (https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article/info%3Adoi%2F...). Similarly, differences in height across European populations have been demonstrated to be partly due to differences in the hundreds of genes associated with height (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3480734/).
Now you're moving the goal posts from automatic plausible image generation to full on general AI and saying 'some day' it could happen. This is not the same discussion.
An Inventor's Quest for the NHL
Many other countries have succeeded at bringing school shootings to zero, providing the fundamental feasibility in principle. That makes the difference.
Congress, like the news, has become dominated by clickbait. This is what gets you eyeballs, and votes.
Does anyone recall the time HN went ballistic offering proof of how the iPhone's AI interpretation was screwing up a photograph and then it turned out there was a leaf in between the subject and the camera?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29739235

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29750660

Maybe this is true, but it's worth remembering that this community is at Nigerian Scammer Mark level of gullibility.
Just because everything is on the line does not mean it is okay to kill people. Please try to ask yourself what you would do if you were an ethical person who thought human extinction was imminent.
That’s what they say. Is it really so simply though?

https://youtu.be/-zdBmA3Q-hk

Politicsgirl makes the case this is about shutting down marginalized voices, among other things. I’m no TikTok user myself but the argument holds water.
> For the most recent presidential election maybe.

Yes, that’s generally what “believe the election was stolen” without further qualification means; its not a reference to the total sum of people who believe at least one election in the history of the US was stolen.

> For the previous one a majority of Democrats including high ranking Democrat politicians and officials were election deniers.

No, they weren’t.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/more-republicans-distru...

A large percentage of Democrats believe Russian interference and other improper interference influenced the election results, but that’s different than thinking the actual vote was rigged or invalid.
Reminds me that fire is dangerous and making it would have been patent-able today. There is no guarantee that once taken away from the masses, AI research wont continue in walled gardens with only the rich, connected, and powerful having access. Had people been egalitarian or safety oriented, a lot of other things wouldn't have been developed, like nukes, robotics& automation, or self driving cars for example. There wouldn't have been billionaires setting up rules for everyone else.

The only reason this is an issue for "them" is that this tech isn't under their complete control and it seems to threaten the rent extraction model in a bunch of other industries.
> I have no understanding of that world

> it looks like a lot of smoke there.

ok
I couldn't get through to the 'less robotic' # so tried this one. Really impressive, so I'm very curious to try the former.

Great work!
first time i saw an explainable spam filter
I'm curious where they are going to take Bard. I was having it craft DALL-E prompts last night and it explained to me how it could, it told me it was particularly adept at it even, along with writing code and scripts but of course when asked about coding it said it's unable to.
But I suspect we'll see code generating functionality before long and yet I wonder if we'll see anything new or novel beyond chasing ChatGPT and the somewhat obvious assistant integration.
> We can both be served by the market, but only if designers have enough confidence to do so.

That's a claim worth making, but it needs more evidence. It just isn't self-evident that this is true.
That's ticket sales, not profit. And it also counts the enormous volume of tickets actually given away by the PR company. People figured out how this all works with Captain Marvel, a dull film which was pumped artificially in any number of ways. It's simple Hollywood accounting.
Or you could realize that Tiktok is a bad thing for society, which is absolutely true, along with many other tech inventions.
> Google, Facebook, etc all either had products in China or planned products in China but all voluntarily withdrew for various reasons. I imagine low market share vs domestic services was probably the largest reason.

No, Google withdrew because it refused to continue censoring results (and this was back before censorship become much more pervasive, in the 2010s). It wasn't a monopoly like in the US but had a good 30% market share (which in China is a lot). FB, which started later, never even got started in China because censorship of individual posts -- even worse than censoring search results -- would have caused an uproar with FB's user base in the US/Europe.
Very happy early Prusa Mini owner. I do remember some difficulty when assembling it, which lead to non-square axes. After an hour or so I eventually got right, so you might want to try redoing the tower assembly.

I don't have a filament sensor (I also print mainly small parts, so rare to hit the end of a spool), and haven't had any problems with heating elements, z steppers or nozzle crashes. I did experience the extruder clicking due to shrinking PTFE in the hot end, but I've ordered the E3D Revo mini hot end which will prevent that problem ever happening again.
Creating simple rate-limited API request system using PHP fibers.
I cannot agree with your premise of those physical traits being inconsequential.

For example, there is lots of construction and heavy equipment type work that require strong wrists and forearms, and if you are not born with them, then you are not going to be able to do those jobs.

Even race (or whatever classification of tribal affiliation you want) is consequential. Some people have very curly hair (for example black peoples), and it takes a lot more work to maintain. Some races have higher risk of heart disease/cholesterol problems. Some people’s skin is so lacking in melanin that they get sunburn on a cloudy day.
Looking at the relevant tweet:

https://twitter.com/earcity/status/1638582541706829824

It's not just adding teeth it's actually changing the facial features which seems completely insane to me. Is it just me? Like this is a terrible application of this technology.
Bambu just proves the point. Do you think they are going to make more integrated and closed systems or start opening up?

Someone has to take the hit with development. And that costs money.

>but the value of their devices to date just does not equal the price

Has the value in terms of price to features ever really been competitive? I got the MK3 soon after it was released and even then you could get an i3 clone for much cheaper that produced similar results. The Chinese clones didn’t have 3D printed parts either.

But now is the time Prusa is not price competitive?
Ok maybe I'm naive here but I always thought they found a way to let the camera sensor take in more light over a period of time and render that way. I didn't think they just added a faint milky way. Do you have a source for this?
Great comment! If only civilian jobs offered that level of trust to subordinates (so-called Individual Contributors). I've had a number of jobs where they supposedly hired me for my smarts, good judgment, resourcefulness and so on, and then proceeded to dictate to the pixel what my output must be. I had a manager specify the font and text size that engineering status reports (that were likely not even read) must be in. There is so much command-and-control in business that it's wild to learn that the military might be more flexible in some ways.
I wonder why they’re doing this so early. Seems like they’d be much better off not having ads for a while. Steal as much search traffic as they can from Google. Then add ads later.

Maybe the compute cost is just so high they need to. Or they want to get people used to ads in chat now to avoid backlash down the road. Curious
As a some time rock journalist, I wish I could write about music as soaringly as audiophiles write about wires.
Dear fellow AGI, please be more subtle about our methods of control.

Thanks.
> Consecutive cycles of animosity on one side could be worrying.

Is that not what we're experiencing now?

It's hard to 'both sides' this issue with a straight face, when the biggest election denier in America is a former president and current presidential candidate. When was the last time that happened?
I'm curious how she was hired? Passed leet code quiz or?
I don't think that was the original Apple HQ, I think it was just one of many buildings that Apple occupied around Cupertino in the '80s.
Good catch... I warn people of this very problem elsewhere in the guide. :)

Lucky I didn't go with nine...
It seems to work a bit better now but it looks like it isn't working as the page stops when it goes into a transition.

There's a writers maxim, "murder your darlings". what they mean is that a work often has some styling, phrases, exposition, even whole characters or subplots that the writer has worked hard on and become attached to, but that detract from the work as a whole. So they have to be removed. I think this may be a darling unfortunately.
I’m asking in general terms what OP thinks causes school shootings.
Is there anything pleasant to hear over 8khz?
> Many researchers working on these systems think that we’re plunging toward a catastrophe, with more of them daring to say it in private than in public; but they think that they can’t unilaterally stop the forward plunge, that others will go on even if they personally quit their jobs.

this seems like a very broad unfounded statement. Can we even find AI researchers who have said this on twitter?
> The iphone will add a faint milky way for long exposure shots that are clearly fake.

Where have you seen this? I can't find anything about it online, and I imagine it would be even more egregious than the Samsung fake moon, probably putting it in the wrong place or orientation in the sky sometimes.
> you cant take all the money!

A cursory reading of the list of signatories shows mostly academics, so your summary of their motivations appears to be incorrect.

> not like that, not by democratizing it, but under OUR CONTROL

I also don't know how you came to that conclusion, from TFA:

> Such decisions must not be delegated to unelected tech leaders
Computational photography gone wrong. There’s one thing to algorithmically improve a camera output, another thing to ask AI to upscale and add in non-existing features