skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This situation is why I continue to keep a receiver between a TV and the things connected to it, even when the receiver's gonna be hooked up to absolute shitboxen of speakers I picked up at the thrift store for a dollar each. Being able to turn off the TV without disrupting the audio is a godsend. Nowadays receivers have HDMI inputs, too (on top of the gazillion other inputs available on a typical receiver), so it's entirely unnecessary to ever do anything on the TV except turn it on or off and it's absolutely wonderful.
I lately had trouble convincing some non-tech acquaintances that IoT "cloud-enabled" cameras all over their house (including bedroom) as anti-break-in measure are a bad idea as those devices or the storage in some chinese cloud could be hacked. They ridiculed this as "far fetched".

I'll never be able to bring up this risk with USB to those guys.

Edit: IoC typo -> IoT
Dreamer v3 in model-based direction had some interesting scaling plots showing a pattern of faster (per-sample) learning using bigger models.

In terms of generalization, Ada by Deepmind was also quite impressive, but operated within simplistic world of tasks
Not that common. Most people watch shows and films on a screen bigger than a tablet if they are at home.
> commandeering a cloud or two would do.

No; The ASICs are orders of magnitude faster and more efficient per dollar. Every GPU on earth couldn't touch the bitcoin hashrate.
This appears to be low-content spam with less information than the Zorin Wikipedia page. And, given the repeated mentions of the paid Pro version, very likely to be an undisclosed paid ad.

In Italian we call the latter kind of articles marchette, an old-fashioned term the translation of which is unfortunately unprintable on HN.
Facebook is only up 30% since 2018.

Comparitively, NASDAQ and SP500 are up 69% and 55%, respectively. Even GOOG is up 100%.

Facebook is performing worse than the natural growth of the markets, so maybe moral is important?
Ok well yeah this looks more realistic as far as I can tell. Still looks like it added the kind of variety I suggested (e.g. "zib zib doo" -> "zib doo zib doo") whereas an actual artist would come up with other kinds of variety (e.g. Glass uses other kinds of "additive" techniques like "sul na, sul na doo, sul na doo re, na doo re, doo re, doo re..." etc). But that's probably nitpicking since you're free to do whatever.

EDIT: "doo doo la" -> "la la doo" looks a bit more "creative" since I don't think this is a suggestion I made (unless you added more examples to your response). So, yeah not bad.

EDIT2: Nevermind, I did use that kind of transformation in my example (1) above: "doo zib zib" -> "doo doo zib". In short, it seems to have vaguely understood that the point of repetition here is to emphasize transformations. But it should be able to come up with novel transformations like Glass does.
>... but you can always just send your friends a message and chat with the real version.

Well, until they aren't there anymore.
Depends on when you want to define "nothing to do with disk" as. M.2 was introduced in 2013 which would make them 9 years old by now, but if we look at Samsung's 2006 PATA SSD (with 32GiB!), then they'd be 17 and could well be on here.
It "might be said" but that makes no sense to anyone who knew firmly what their gender identity was from early childhood. The norm is around 4 years of age. It also makes no sense given that dysphoria does disappear for a portion of patients irrespective of which hormones they're on. As well as for those on puberty blockers. The entire point of puberty blockers is allow for delaying the decision on going on hormones or surgery as long as needed for the patient to be able to make an informed choice.

And of course a lot of the kids given hormones will end up getting surgery, because their dysphoria is highly unlikely to resolve itself with or without hormones and for those whose dysphoria does not resolve surgery will be the best option for many - hence the very low regret rates.

And hence the drive to get puberty blockers to delay the need to decide on either.

You're buying into a hysteria founded on ignoring the actual and immoral harm being inflicted on trans youth by those seeking to deny them care in order to try to pretend they mostly don't exist. It's at best deeply misguided, at worst deeply bigoted.
"People on the sidewalk are typically not soliciting fifty to five thousand dollars."

People on the sidewalk aren't offering you anything in return, either, as I am. I believe that GAGOOT could be a big project in the long term, and be influential in a real way.

"And if I meet someone on the sidewalk I can see their face and have a conversation with them which helps me assess whether or not they are trying to scam me."

I am open to video calls through Zoom or Skype, but no one has bothered to ask. Also, I am willing to provide evidence of my situation. Lastly, if this was a scam, then it must be a long con, given that it began with a post half a year ago.
I don't think it's very common, although having a TV is increasingly meaning something different than it used to. A TV now is just another glorified tablet that a family might share some time in front of, but isn't necessarily the entertainment center of the home like it once was given the amount of personal screens and choices available to everyone.

There's a TV in my home, but if it died I probably wouldn't replace it, at least for a while. I barely need it. Only if I have someone over to entertain might I want to use it. For most people, TVs will still be around because watching a movie together with friends is simply a better experience in front of a TV than someone's 13" laptop.
This reads pretty much like an ad.
I can picture a malicious actor convincing less tech savvy folks into enabling USB debugging to "unlock wifi speed" or some similar BS.
In most scenarios that I'd get to talk to Elon or Trump, I'd probably get the public persona too. So an AI trained on that and giving it back to me isn't that useless really.

When trained on a private chat group like OPs, you get the private persona towards your friends group. You can talk to your friend for 10 years and still not really know how they would reply to their bosses email, so this isn't that much different.
It wasn't? What were the other ones?
This reads like ad copy. To flag or not to flag?

edit: I'm one of three commenters saying the same thing within one minute... flagged.
This looks like a case of the contrarian dynamic:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

(The parent comment was upvoted to the top of the thread. I've downweighted it now. It's standard moderation practice to do that with generic and/or indignant comments because they tend to attract upvotes and get stuck at the top of threads, making the threads less interesting.)
Isn’t this entire site run off a laptop in someone’s shed?

And yet it’s got basically perfect uptime. Whereas the impenetrable cloud goes down every week and costs billions a year.
You share your experience as an (probably rich minority) individual. What about the society you lived in ? How about the society your kids will live in 40 years ?

The movement I describe is “sobriety”. It’s similar to being poor of something (big car) but you’re not lacking it, instead you choose to do without. This difference is a big deal in a psychology point of view and that’s probably why you feel “less fun”.

Totally agree with your point of healthiness of vegan diet, the case was more on quantity than beef/no beef.
> By contrast, the UK doesn’t bar dual citizens from Parliament-in fact, it even lets Australians vote, and run for Parliament-and I mean sole Australian citizens, who aren’t UK dual citizens.

In fact we have had a prime minister (Boris Johnson) who had been a dual UK/US citizen although he renounced it when he became foreign secretary[1] and one (Rishi Sunak) who had a US green card but didn't go on to get citizenship[2].

[1] https://money.cnn.com/2017/02/09/news/boris-johnson-us-citiz...

[2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61044847
This does not pay out in Germany due to the high energy costs in private house holds or office spaces.
Sorry if it wasn't clear, my argument is less "we shouldn't even try the better solutions, because people might object" and more "we shouldn't fight against other solutions in favor of a hypothetical that we are miles and miles away from being able to try."

I have seen protestors who draw a line in the sand at "free good housing for everyone" (sometimes piling on even more things like "abolish capitalism" for even less feasibility) and fight against any solution short of that. And the only people who would win, politically, from that are the right-wingers who want to deploy cops against the homeless and push them out of town and out of sight. Enough people start to lose patience with the lack of action that they vote with the assholes since nobody else is trying anything.

It's not all the way there, but look at the last mayoral election in Los Angeles: two candidates who were both fairly pro-police and pro-shelter and pro-encampment-clearing, despite the efforts of the more radical protestors. If those efforts were to get blocked by protests from the left, I think people would only swing further right on that issue, since both of the final candidates were already far more active on the issue in their platform than in previous elections.
Twitter and its curation and targeting mechanisms make it very much a publisher.
Maybe you should be happy they’re not voted in, voting is a popularity contest that completely ignores capabilities. I want the people in charge to know what they’re doing.
So a miniscule number, and one where the best approach to reducing it further is to encourage the use of puberty blockers to prevent getting to the stage where it is the best option until they are better able to give consent.

And yet you're arguing for denying them the option that'd reduce the demand for these surgeries.
Thanks for the info.

> it seems that my jet engine screams at about 18000 Hz

It's impressive you can hear that frequency. If you don't mind me asking, how old are you?
They are absolutely "tech". Either automotive tech or agricultural tech. I mean, if you want to be totally pedantic about it, go for it. Doesn't make it accurate though.
I think Twitters' main criteria currently is "Has <@anyone> been saying mean things that Elon Musk doesn't like lately?"
It is not either or. It’s a weighted sum of environment and self-agency.
maybe it was added in the 12 minutes since you wrote your comment but there is a disclaimer at the end stating the writer is an NPR correspondent.
My comment clearly states "by definition". I'm going by the technicality, though I do agree with you that if there was any sway at all due to this funding, it's been minimal and did not reflect in the previous presidency.
It’s still available for purchase here and works on modern Macs.

https://en.infinisys.co.jp/product/afterdarkclassicset/index...
I think people get scared and then panic. Not many folks are used to being around a person who is bleeding from a stab wound.

I was walking home through a park and saw a girl who was slumped over and it looked like she was dead. My heart started pounding, for some reason it scared me pretty badly. I went and found the police and they refused to even believe me. I then found another homeless person and asked her to check (part of the reason I didn't want to go near is that I'm a male).

Anyhow, I was scared.
> It seems common in the US to have TVs in several rooms and have them run in the background for long stretched of day. This is far less common in the cultures I've lived in where sitting down to watch TV alone or together is more of an occasion and modal.

From yesterday on Marketplace: Why streaming networks love a good background show https://www.marketplace.org/2023/04/11/why-streaming-network...

> Tomorrow Warner Bros. Discovery is supposed to reveal it’s new but not really new streaming service. What once was called HBO Max will now just be called Max, according to The New York Times.

> Beyond the name change, it could include more light reality TV shows like “Dr. Pimple Popper” and “House Hunters International” —you know, the shows you might put on in the background while you’re doing chores, paying bills or working.

> There’s a term for shows like that: ambient streaming.

And from a few years ago: “Emily in Paris” and the Rise of Ambient TV- https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/emily-in-...

> In this and other recent programming, Netflix is pioneering a genre that I’ve come to think of as ambient television. It’s “as ignorable as it is interesting,” as the musician Brian Eno wrote, when he coined the term “ambient music” in the liner notes to his 1978 album “Ambient 1: Music for Airports,” a wash of slow melodic synth compositions. Ambient denotes something that you don’t have to pay attention to in order to enjoy but which is still seductive enough to be compelling if you choose to do so momentarily. Like gentle New Age soundscapes, “Emily in Paris” is soothing, slow, and relatively monotonous, the dramatic moments too predetermined to really be dramatic.
Why are they not doing metrics against GPT-3.5 and GPT-4? My understanding is Dolly performs significantly worse.
Oh interesting, that's very cool, I didn't realize Java was doing that. That's a different axis than M:N though (cooperative versus preemptive) and you could definitely write a preemptive async runtime for Rust (rtic comes to mind). But the async-std and tokio runtimes are certainly cooperative.

(As a note, cooperative scheduling also requires a runtime - Rust might not "have a runtime" by default but you need to opt into one to use async.)
I think this only holds if enough other people believe in gold or crypto as a backup system.

If I had some extra zucchini and potatoes, and you were running very low on food, it would take quite a bit to convince me that a piece of shiny metal or numbers in a distributed ledger would be worth the calories I'm surrendering.

Right now, dollars would be worth it, because nearly everyone believes in their utility, despite being a very similar faith-based currency.
There's a great episode of NPR's Hidden Brain about the placebo effect called "All The World's A Stage—Including The Doctor's Office".

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/718227789
That's an odd reaction.

Twitter is in a precarious state with both advertisers and media folks like reporters. Advertisers are concerned that Elon Musk has a tendency to hurt brands by taking unpredictable, rash action. Reporters are concerned that Twitter is becoming increasingly political.

In a fit of conservative pique, Elon Musk took an umprompted pot shot at NPR by labeling it as "state-sponsored media," which fed heavily into both stories in a completely predictable way. Then he changed his screen name to "Harry Ballz."

And you accused the OTHER guy as "child-like."
Thanks! Totally overlooked that. I've managed getting through the first hurdles last night, I'll leave some more feedback on GitHub :).
How does the targetting of the sparrow species for annihilation in China compare to the post-Columbus ongoing deforestation in the Americas's? Xi does have the ecological health of the environment on his policy priority list which is a change from previous leadership driven by slavery to economic devop. There are documentaries on little birds by the sea. They have their place.
I think we're all in for a rude awakening, regarding what societal changes AI actual makes, but that's neither here nor there.

You're making the same mistake you're accusing them of making - assuming to know the future at the beginning. You're assuming that fixing these issues will prove to be trivial or at least inevitable. Sure, recent progress has been swift, but if you recall, it was damn-near stagnant for decades. Some were even claiming we were in the middle of an "AI Winter" and could not see the spring!

Based on all currently-available evidence, the current techniques that we utilize for generative AI are unreliable, in terms of accuracy of derived facts. It will require either a different or complementary approach to iron that out, or we're going to have to start seeing some _very interesting_ emergent properties from scaling higher. This stuff could show up tomorrow, or it might never show up at all! But the _current_ LLM framework does not look like it can do what we're looking for here, not reliably, certainly not 100% reliably.
People will realize that once there's some easy-to-self-host blogging software with support for comments and newsletters.
I noticed a little while ago that A-B repeat is just gone from every media player (soft- and hardware) that I own. I think VLC is the last place it exists.

I understand why; it’s not exactly the most useful feature, but it used to be pretty ubiquitous: iTunes, Winamp, every DVD player, some CD players. We lost all the fun features! I want to hear the last 4 minutes of Freebird on repeat sometimes!
Android allows you to select the 'USB mode' between charging, MTP/PTP media transfer, debugging (if enabled), and filesystem.

If not an exploit, you need the victim to do something a lot more obviously (though the absolute obviousness of course remains debatable) dumb/risky than merely plug in.
making claims with no visual evidence seems suspect to me for a product that makes visual things
Meredith Perry from uBeam comes to mind https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/05/another-red-hot-tech...

I met this woman through friends of friends. Just kinda felt weird, and off.
you are referring to the dolly model?
I think the training set could achieve similar performance if we would fine tune similarly sized model
For my uses, no. The soundbar was a compromise between tiny, terrible built-in speakers and all the space and wiring needs of a proper surround sound system.

We got a soundbar which mounts to the wall, and has detachable satellite speakers if we really want "surround." And it comes with a wireless subwoofer, so we still get the boomy sound for action movies.
> In private discussions I have heard three counter-arguments, none of which I accept

I think this article skips the most compelling (to me) counter argument.

If there’s a 51% attack, the currency loses all value. Nobody will want to trade Bitcoin or use it as a currency once this attack is exploited. So a 51% attacker is disincentivized to perform said attack because doing so would make the prize lose its value.

Now I write this, I suppose if your worry is a government trying to destroy Bitcoin, then that’s exactly how to do it…
They can post on Twitter in the same way as others can. If the objective is to show potential bias, why only apply it to some accounts?
Don't many TVs communicate bidirectionally with receivers now? When I turn off my TV, my receiver turns off as well. Which is usually what I want. If I want to only use the receiver, I can connect my laptop of phone to the receiver directly via bluetooth. No need to involve the TV.
>> Bitcoin mining requires special devices (ASICs)

Nitpick: Any computer can mine bitcoin. Economic bitcoin mining requires special devices.
Have you ever seen money being given without any strings attached?
Have you considered reading my comments? I didn't say it didn't exist before. I said it was the standard. Looking at a bunch of current PHEV models:

- Ford Kuga PHEV: 28-41 miles
- Mazda CX-60: 39 miles
- Volkswagen Tiguan PHEV: 30 miles
- Kia Niro PHEV: 33 miles
- Toyota RAV4 PHEV - 46 miles
- BMW Model 3: 32-36 miles

This whole thread started with me suggesting it needed a different moniker because it was so different to the rest of the market.

You yourself called the BMW I3 an range extended EV. Why does that deserve a different name but not a Prius with a much extended range?
You've already been provided with all the breadcrumbs required to understand the key concepts. Your failure to engage with this information and follow the trail does not make you a "good skeptic", it makes you obstinate.
This looks like important research, but the pre-trained models may not do what you hope. From the model card [1]:

> These models sometimes produce highly unrealistic outputs, particularly when generating images containing human faces. This may stem from ImageNet's emphasis on non-human objects.

I guess we’ll see what other companies do with this research? It would be great to have image generation times that are closer to image search.

[1] https://github.com/openai/consistency_models/blob/main/model...
> Because "tech" isn't a business. You don't sell "tech".

"Tech" is a fairly broad category that includes both computer hardware and computer software, but these are definitely things that companies produce and sell for money, or produce and offer as services.

But why are we talking about what counts as a tech company when the issue is what counts as a media company? If Microsoft was a "Cloud Services" instead of a "tech" company, Azure still wouldn't be a media entity.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_media#Internet

The internet, like broadcast television and cable, is a medium of transmission. But when people talk about media companies, they're talking about NBC, not Panasonic.
I know IoC as “Indicators of Compromise.” While that’s kinda true here, that’s not how you used it. What is IoC short for in your parlance?
Medium broke things (by making people login) precisely because they wanted to charge money, because they did not want to use advertising (and AFAIK they still don't).
I like that idea...I was thinking not only see who is slurping the data from you, but force them to pay for it, assuming you don't care if they have it.
It doesn't matter in the slightest if they do this explicitly. NPR would be stupid to bite the hand that feeds it.
Thanks for proving my point by spamming me with more unrequested news.

FYI I'll ignore it as I've been bombarded with this children in camps news piece for days already on all the media I have access to.

Since I'm not a hypocrite like you, I can tell you that I don't care at all about what's happening in Ukraine as I prefer living my day without being forcefed terrifying/incorrect news or even worse propaganda. The same way as I ignored what was happening in Syria and Yemen or whatever other war/disaster happening right now in the world.
So? The government isn't the arbiter of what words mean.
That's a hard question. I really have no idea, but I would have loved a browser that takes in structured data and displays it in a way that I control any day over the junk that the web has become.
Yeah? Lockheed Martin could be reasonably described as "federally funded".
> ASICs are orders of magnitude faster and more efficient per dollar

Every supercomputer in either the U.S. or China plus its cloud resources would be able to mount a 51% attack. And this isn’t counting e.g. the NSA or GCHQ’s supercomputers, which are optimised for code cracking.
51% of the bitcoin mining hashing power being available for rent is so far fetched that it’s silly to even consider as a valid critique
Cloud is about elasticity. At ${work} we spin up a ton of EC2 instances in anticipation of huge traffic spikes that happen predictably several times a day, in different regions, and spin them down afterwards.

It's also about simplicity. Many services come pre-configured on.AWS, with clustering, failover, backups, etc already present.

When you are small, you can sysadmin your server fine, and you don't yet need the cloud.

When you are colossal, you want everything custom, and the cloud would cost you a huge amount, so you go for your own servers (and possibly datacenters).

But for the midrange, the expense of hiring several more SREs to handle dedicated servers is usually higher than the entire AWS bill, and the cloud looks very reasonable.
Well they literally are, and combined with being as biased and disingenuous as any MSM organization out there, they should be labeled as such. Twitter has become much better since Musk took the helm. The little people can finally speak truth to power without getting deplatformed.