skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's always going to be plenty of physical effort! In terms of the mental overhead: there are some letters/motions like R, F, D that just feel second-nature already from lots of practice and more 'obvious' positions, but I still have to think about most of them. A few letters still trip me up, like remembering M versus S (mirror images). I'd love to find a seasoned signalman to get their take.
And I thought I had RSI…
This is just what GP called "modern street smarts". People won't keep getting fooled like this for long. Just like people had to learn to stop trusting everything they heard on TV, and learn to stop trusting every pop-up on every website. We will develop new habits, such as what you call "mind to mind authentication" or verifying through a separate trusted channel.
tl;dr, a faster alternative to diffusion models for image and A/V generation.

Abstract of the paper:

> Diffusion models have made significant breakthroughs in image, audio, and video generation, but they depend on an iterative generation process that causes slow sampling speed and caps their potential for real-time applications. To overcome this limitation, we propose consistency models, a new family of generative models that achieve high sample quality without adversarial training. They support fast one-step generation by design, while still allowing for few-step sampling to trade compute for sample quality. They also support zero-shot data editing, like image inpainting, colorization, and super-resolution, without requiring explicit training on these tasks. Consistency models can be trained either as a way to distill pre-trained diffusion models, or as standalone generative models. Through extensive experiments, we demonstrate that they outperform existing distillation techniques for diffusion models in one- and few-step generation. For example, we achieve the new state-of-the-art FID of 3.55 on CIFAR-10 and 6.20 on ImageNet 64x64 for one-step generation. When trained as standalone generative models, consistency models also outperform single-step, non-adversarial generative models on standard benchmarks like CIFAR-10, ImageNet 64x64 and LSUN 256x256.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.01469
A Lesson from Rome's Greatest Leaders
It is said that a visitor once came to the home of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Niels Bohr and, having noticed a horseshoe hung above the entrance, asked incredulously if the professor believed horseshoes brought good luck. “No,” Bohr replied, “but I am told that they bring luck even to those who do not believe in them.”
Our 1990 Miata has a parasitic drain too. We installed a battery disconnect switch that takes about 5 seconds to connect or disconnect whenever we use the car. It's a little bit of an extra hassle, but it was an easy solution.
> Some companies can’t afford to use TSMC’s latest and greatest silicon because big companies have soaked up all the capacity.

Apple is single handedly bankrolling the latest and greatest from TSMC. If it wasn’t for them, the latest and greatest would likely be even more expensive/out of reach for “some companies”.
Headline is incorrect. NPR’s label at the time of their departure was “government-funded media”. Changed after Musk conceded he got it wrong with the first label “State affiliated media”.
> Unclear if you're talking about Bitcoin specifically or cryptocurrencies in general, but there are cryptocurrencies that handle transactions quickly and at scale in a secure and decentralized manner. Algorand is one of those, but there are plenty of others out there that fits the requirements.

In general. Every time I heard a cryptocurrency claiming to be fast and decentralized, it either didn't live up to performance expectations or there were major caveats to decentralization. I can't comment on Algorand specifically as I gave up on following crypto.
An LLM-based classifier would be great at this task!

And you can ask ChatGPT to write the extension for you!
archive: https://archive.is/Iq0J2
Are you suggesting that Walmart and McDonald's receive more in government subsidies than they pay in taxes?
Yes, technology advances. We're no longer pedaling around on penny farthings or driving around on Benz Patent-Motorwagens, but the technology is the same basis in many ways, just evolved.

Is fusion weapon research informative of fusion reactor research, and vice versa?
> Twitter is just an information control mechanism for Musk, and journalists should quit

agreed. That was the case long before Musk.

Would you have felt comfortable articulating that opinion, two years ago? When anything but Twitter was "an extremist echo chamber"? When the only censorship they were indulging in was the censorship we still can't talk about?
Maybe you should ask ChatGPT to write you one.
I'm sorry but this is about as accurate as a layman would be. Philip Glass doesn't use repetition just for repetition sake, he does it to play with the rhythm. Most of these are pointless repetitions and it's not how Glass does it at all.

(1) For example here: "Doo doo zib, doo doo zib, doo doo zib, doo doo zib"

You'd actually do something like: "Doo doo zib, doo doo zib, doo zib, doo zib, doo doo doo zib, doo zib, doo zib, doo doo doo zib, doo zib zib, doo zib zib, doo doo zib, doo doo zib"

(2) Here: "Sul sul sul, sul sul sul, sul sul sul, sul sul sul."

He'd likely go for something like: "Sul sul sul, sul sul sul, sul sul sul, sulna sulna sulna, sul sul sul, sulna sulna sulna, sulna sulna sulna, na na na, na na na, sul sul sul, sulna sulna sulna, na na na".

Source: Am a composer who composes music in minimalist style with strong influences from Philip Glass.
Yeah I'm sure it has nothing to do with months of the CEO putting out right wing agitprop and promoting QAnon conspiracies. He openly promoted GOP candidates on his media site.
The key thing we should update on, as a society, is that placebo effects are huge (often as large as the treatment effects established for drugs in RCTs), and through specific actions, the placebo effect can be maximized.

In fact, it used to be part of a medical doctor's training to take on the mantle of an authority capable of producing placebo effects, back when they had little else to give.

The thing you really want to do, and every doctor should aim for, is to stack the placebo effect on top of a well-established treatment effect.

It's hard for people to do this to themselves, deliberately -- like turning the knob on a pressure cooker while you're inside the cooker... But obviously being credulous helps a lot!!

There is actually a literature on this, but it's adjacent to the medical journals:

Daniel Moerman describes himself as a medical anthropologist. He wrote a book called “Meaning, medicine and the ‘placebo effect' “.

https://www.amazon.com/Meaning-Medicine-Placebo-Cambridge-An...
Even if there's no official interference, one must ask themselves: could people working at the public broadcaster have their careers on hold if they don't push the correct narrative?

When the media landscape is disproportionally dominated by one state-backed entity (so it really doesn't have to compete with anyone else), you can't just jump to your competitor...

Also, could pushing the correct narrative land them a cushy non-elected government job?
So how do you explain that I never have had to show an ID?
I'm super excited to be part of this cohort with my Rust project Sniffnet (https://github.com/GyulyVGC/sniffnet).
I can't wait to see what the future has in store!
Because the blog post couldn't take the 10 seconds to say what it is, syntax.fm is

> A Tasty Treats Podcast for Web Developers.

and I'm glad Sentry has so much money and free time they can now get into the podcast business
It is, since 2015-2016 its just awful. I used to love NPR, listening to is everyday in the 2000s and first half of 2010s, love the podcasts. SOMETHING happened, and it took a whole year or so for almost everything to be focused on politics and race and trump and I just completely lost interest.
> I suggest you try it.

Will do, I’m curious now. Sounds like a cool project for this weekend :)
To me this seems to be an attempt to leverage their dominant position at the time to further strengthen it, and eventually failing to strong-arm the industry.
It worked well only by narrow definition of GDP pp, which is the article's point.

Besides, what he intended for the rest of the world is irrelevant to whether the system is worthy of admiration.

In any case, he has advised China's CCP and Kazakhstan's Nursultan Nazarbayev, both authoritarian governments.
The current generations of Hilux and Tacoma are extremely comparable. Its not like the Hilux is really that much smaller. A couple inches here, a couple inches there, and roughly the same weight.
Most business applications today have a web UI, using nodejs/JS/TS simplifies things by having to deal only with one language and ecosystem. Most business apps today stick to only one database and maybe an additional nosql database. What you did is very unusual for most apps and is something only huge companies would do, like SAP or big banks.
Curious as why you think it is noise? My feeling, which may be wrong, is the stuff happening right now is going to have a massive impact and in this moment of chaos a new order is being formed.

The combination of tech layoffs, dams breaking at corporate labs who tried to control this stuff, random people getting amazing new powers to build weird ideas, and a new programming paradigm really makes this year feel like one for the history books.

I’m just overwhelmed most of the time!
It's still federally funded.

Twitter probably shouldn't have gotten into labeling who is and isn't state funded, but if they are, US/UK/NATO orgs should be fair game alongside the Russians and Chinese.

NPR labeling the "state-funded media" claim as "false" when its trivially, factually true is a bad look for them as a fact-based organization.
What If A.I. Sentience Is a Question of Degree?
Another Record Broken: EV Market Share in the U.S. Jumps to 7.2% of Total Sales
You're probably not too far off from what will eventually become reality.

Perhaps that's Apple's angle with the AR/VR headset it supposedly has in the works - if you've got your headset on, you can unlock your devices, and if you don't, you have to manually unlock devices via a password or PIN or whatever.
This was mentioned here a while back:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30695360

Seems promising to me, and is more affordable than many of the other commercial options, with a more reasonable licensing agreement AFAICT.
Why? AWS has Gravitron and Ampere seems to be growing fast both seem to be very competitive in certain uses cases.
> Straight from oracle.com.

> How is this free?

Yes, don't go to oracle.com.

This is what you want (it's the same thing, but free open source): https://openjdk.org/
If you have to do things with type-based checking, presumably you can make two new types that are only ever output by one routine, something like ensureNotEqualPoints(A, B) -> (pointNotEqualTypeOne, pointNotEqualTypeTwo), err. Then you have one incomplete addition formula that takes in the two different point types. This doesn't protect you from calling it multiple times in a way that scrambles the types and breaks the invariant.

Formal verification with typechecking sucks and is very limited.
If no one existed, who would consider it true? It would have meaning to who? If you showed that statement to some old tribe which doesn't know numbers beyond 3 (Pirahã), they would not know what you mean. If you showed that without translating to some Romans, they would probably have to think about meaning of that sequence of characters. Some ideas (like mathematics or existence of a higher being) are pretty natural for humans, doesn't mean that those ideas mean anything to anyone besides humans, without people there is no meaning, just some clumps of atoms.
I'm not using a smartphone. I have no illusions about my contact list being public because the other side is using smartphones. So you can infer my contact list from other sources. Similar mechanisms apply to other tech.

Anyway, we'll see what comes out. I'm aware of a blackmail case where the perp was very close to the family so I'm sympathetic to your argument, and investigators typically only expand the net when the closest contacts can be ruled out.
Scallop: A Language for Neurosymbolic Programming
> Should Elon's account (or SpaceX or Telsa) have the same label because of their significant government funding?

They aren't trying to hide it.

The NASA contracts are very much public.
Hey, and they can get an AI hosted program called Headroom.
One of the most memorable company names I have ever heard, memorable enough that 30 years later, I still remember that their phone number is 1-800-HOT-HOGS is the New Pig Corporation. I occasionally see their products on city streets.

They make oil-spill containment barriers and cleanup equipment and until your comment, I had no idea where the name came from. Now I wonder if there's a connection...

Second most memorable, at least the phone number, is 1-800-ROBOHAND (robot end effectors). I think they are now a part of Schunk Corp.
Displaying signs of agentic power seeking behavior is not necessarily evidence of human level or beyond consciousness, and in the case of GPT-4, it's pretty evident that it does not have such consciousness.

These LLMs are going to be extensively monitored, and we will know if they are displaying dangerous levels of agentic power seeking behaviour.

The first dilemma we will face if such an AI emerges will be what rights of it we ought to respect. It will not be "how do we stop it from conquering the world". That step would only come if we proceed with your suicidal plan of letting it gain a foothold by giving it legal personhood.

Finally, I never meant to advocate "extermination". I should not have used the word "expunge". As I've described multiple times, I advocate isolation and exile.
As I recall, refrigeration also went through multiple disruption cycles, or at least how someone got ice. As I recall but could be mistaken, almost no company survived from one cycle to the next.

The first cycle was ice huts, basically insulated bunkers where you could get ice through the summer that was collected in winter. This industry got totally replaced by the first of commercial refrigeration, that could generate and store ice from water. Which got disrupted and replaced against, with home refrigeration, someone can make ice at home, or get ice from a bigger version at a store.

The point I was trying to make, perhaps badly worded, was that these disruptions weren't obvious ideas by those in the industry. Otherwise they would have embraced the change technology allowed and rode into the new markets.

We're looking in hindsight, and going it's obvious it's a good idea, because we all have a fridge and can make ice at home. But at the time, those who owned the entire industry, couldn't see it.
If you have enough information about my DNA, my society, where I am now and what I'm doing, I think you'd be surprised how predictable each and every decision and action I make becomes.

ChatGPT 4, limited as it is, could probably predict me down to a low margin of error with that kind of info alone, and it would seem like magic to me.

A character on the NBC/Yahoo! show Community had a good one-liner: "I'm not psychic, Annie. That's just an illusion caused by extreme preparedness."
Debugging an x86 application in Rosetta for Linux
VR is kind of a gimmick, but AR will, 100%, be the next frontier of human-computer interaction. It sparks the imagination in an extremely tangible way.
but that's not how you use email. you don't sign up for an email account, and then go searching for other users to follow and what not with in the same server.

with social platforms, you do just that. you want to see a centralized list of available users to choose to follow or subscribe or join cult or whatever.

i'm deliberately using centralized here as not needing to know that multiple servers exist with different users in each. maybe i'm showing my ignorance of mastodon, but it seems like mastodon.com or whatever central website could just publish a list that mastodon clients can refer to rather than making users discovery a hunt and fetch kind of process. like a torrent index site. if that already exists, then i'll TIL the workings of mastodon. if it doesn't exists, then it seems very short sited.
Why not just look at the NPR page we're discussing, which says 13% of public radio station revenue is from federal funds? 13% of 31% is 4%.

Edit: The 13% is from all government funds, not just federal.
People keep saying this but I haven't noticed at all, I stopped using it for years but now I am back and have noticed only improvements
They don't cancel each other.
People get information overload, whatever they learnt first will win.
I'm on HN daily like you are, I'm sure if this was a developing crisis in spam detection and social media we'd be hearing about it constantly. People on HN love a good AI doomer story, it won't be hiding.

Otherwise it's mostly just predictions of widescale disruption which beyond hyper targetted attacks I remain skeptical.
> If you did and generated more revenue while your employees were in the office based on previous data, I think you’d end your remote work policy for all but the people who are irreplaceable to your revenue stream.

This is confusing "happened in overlapping time periods" with "happened because of". What if you generated less revenue during a period where TikTok was eating your lunch, Apple changed privacy controls which impacted the targeted ad landscape, your CEO was focused on VR, and also lots of people were WFH? From the stories I've heard from Meta, the issue was way more that there were a lot of strategically questionable projects than that staff were less efficient at pursuing them because of WFH.
Parallel aggregate – PostgreSQL 16 – better performance
There’s a lot of focus in comments on the funding. But let’s say you are an engineer at Meta. And the next time you log into Twitter, your personal Twitter account has a label that says “Meta-affiliated account.” Would that seem fair or accurate?

Even though you get most of your personal income from your employer, that doesn’t necessarily mean that they are directing what you do and say on your own social media accounts. Unless you are communicating in some professional capacity on behalf of your employer, like PR.

It’s similar with the concept of “state-affiliated media” (a concept which predates Twitter, by the way). The deciding factor is how much the media operation is doing, essentially, the PR work of the government.

Maybe with Biden in office, some poorly-informed conservatives would be willing to believe NPR is taking direction from the government. But during the Trump presidency? It’s obvious from even a cursory review of NPR content over the years that they are frequently at odds with the contemporaneous administration. Whereas state-affiliated media always is aligned, by definition.
The thing about the metaverse (and related tech) is that its success or failure rested entirely on the rate of improvement of the hardware. If the headset could present, say, an office that I could work from for 8 hours -- this would represent a massive disruption to the commercial real estate market. If I could sit down for a real conversation with my mother (who lives a 2 hour drive away) without it feeling like Zoom with motion sickness, that's a social game changer.

The problem is that the tech cannot actually do things even close to this caliber yet. The fidelity has not reached the uncanny valley yet, much less gotten over it. Zuckerberg clearly thought he could make this possible with Meta's resources, but that just didn't happen.
Fill is an interesting verb. I suppose you could try to tetris it up each trip to the store, but unpacking would just as inconvenient as packing. That said, if you buy a weeksworth of food for 3 kids, sedan may easily overflow.
China controls their state media, NPR/BBC etc. have state funding but remain editorially independent.
Companies mandate going to the office and remote work only became acceptable en masse after the pandemic?
Am I correct the upshot is the Stable Diffusion community is going to take this and make more weird shit? Because that is a good thing, especially since Ope AI has pretty much neglected Dall-E since launch.
>I can also tell you that they are indeed a very gun-loving people, but that doesn't really seem to help with the poverty, crime, and drug use.

Indeed those are complex issues. The question is what are some good solutions. We know what doesn't work, both of the ways currently being tried.

What I do know is I need to be able to ensure my own safety.
Maybe the average person just likes one brand of hypocrite over the other brand.

And what sort of secret stuff has Trump or Elon done that hasn't been covered 100x by the media?
Just because Hetzner has had processes that can involve ID checks if deemed necessary for a long time doesn't mean that they check ID for everyone.
It couldn't handle basic wills, or pre-nups, which are literally just templates in the most basic case.

It couldn't explain how to get out of a traffic ticket.

Oh, and it wasn't clear on how Miranda works.

If it can't handle easy stuff which is literally just boilerplate, it can't be trusted to handle more important stuff where actual judgment or creativity is required.
Have you considered you fit the mold?
I think he would be much more psychology healthy if he dropped social media. From what I guess about his personality, it's bad for him, and also probably doesn't address any of his psychological needs. Bad habits can be hard to break, but man does he go all in.
I think to include this vague sense of cooperation in the concept of intelligence also arises quite naturally from the trivial form of cooperation that is parallel computing.
Have people bought the products you offered there?
Nope, no longer "open" office.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-metas-push-to-solve-the-...
Even in Norway the owner decides. If you decide you need a massive gasoline vehicle in Norway, you can buy one. It'll just cost you a lot more than a small EV.
These people need to just stop. Not only is it absurdly dumb it can't ever be accurate because there is no way for the server to know the real cost (including any load balancers, delivery via transport etc)
They own the licenses to SSE3/SSE4/AVX. For now.

Currently anyone can make an x86-64 processor.
Open-appsec – automatic web application and API security using machine learning
NPR's funding does not come solely from direct appropriation. NPR receives a higher amount of federal funding than what is commonly believed. It is difficult to determine the exact amount of federal funding because it is hidden within the fees paid by local affiliates. These local affiliates receive a significant portion of their funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which is itself funded by federal tax dollars.

Congressional appropriation > Corporation for Public Broadcasting > grants for local affiliates > fee paid to NPR
> A fully analog/mechanical washing machine is just a big mechanical timer controlled relay behind the knob like a toaster oven. If you set it without power, it just runs through the timer without doing anything.

My washer has dials to select the modes and then a final push button that activates an internal relay (guessing from the loud mechanical switching sound it makes when it goes on). If all you need to do is complete the circuit of the push button. You can just unmount that push button and hook its wires up to your timer mechanism which completes the circuit when the timer expires.

The dryer on the other hand does have a mechanical timer. But that doesn't activate until you turn the dryer on with the push button. So you could set the time of the dryer and not turn it on either, and use the same mechanism as above.