skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What "disinformation which led to staggering loss of life" do you have in mind, specifically? The vast majority of high risk groups for SARS-CoV-2 were fully vaccinated very soon after vaccines were made available, so (assuming their protective benefits were actually all they have been cracked up to be) there couldn't have been some huge impact of "disinformation" there. There also couldn't have been a "staggering" additional loss of life in the less vaccinated lower risk groups because COVID wasn't a particularly lethal threat to them in the first place. And the vaccines had marginal-to-zero ability to reduce infection so any question of lost herd immunity is out the window. Is there something else I'm not thinking of that you have in mind?
The financial turmoil is not over
> Like religion, if enough people believe in it, it becomes reality to some extent. But now we see that crypto was indeed bullshit all along.

These statements do not contradict- they can both be true
I'm a little curious, but haven't heard a word of what you're referring to. A quick search for 'atoms stalled' didn't result in anything that felt helpful.

Do you have a link that would clarify?
A relationship is like anything else. If you don’t consistently invest in it, it will atrophy.

It is scary.
Been at it for the past 3 months. It is soul crushing and demoralizing. I'm starting to accept that I would rather work in a toxic company than have to go back job searching.
Tried in oxford. Essentially it's a scheme to privatize public roads creating gated communities and ghettos. Can't be scrapped fast enough.

If you want to turn streets into pedestrian only zones do so, but making them accessible to some but not all is unacceptable to me and to most people.

https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2023-02-19/five-arrests-as...
It can be isolating when one has thoughts and ideas that the people around one simply cannot follow or understand.

Of course it’s also often the case that introverts are simply low social status and thus find social interaction generally unrewarding. In that case pretensions of high intelligence are usually just a coping mechanism.
Unrelated. But anyone knows if there is a way to pin the dock to a single display?

it is kind of annoying when you have multiple displays, how the dock moves almost randomly between then when you move your mouse close to the bottom of a display. If at least it was not random, but no, sometimes you can hover your mouse pointer for hours in the bottom of a screen and the dock won't move there, other times, just looking at the display will move the Dock.
[Shameless plug] I was partially inspired by phind.com to develop aisearch.vip

It flags results containing ads or seo results, uses gpt to summarize rather than cite, and gives an overall ai gpt summary

It's prepaid (first search is free) and has a login wall
Yeah, anxiously waiting for FerretDB to support Meteor over here.
Well, this is interesting. I was going to respond: I hear it even when I'm outdoors so it can't be transformers.

However, then I decided to check if my phone could hear it, so I fired up my DB Meter app. And funnily enough, there is a little spike right around 12kHz, which seems to be right around where my tone is. It's not a huge spike, but it's definitely there.

Weird.
> From the perspective of poverty statistics, Africa will assume particular importance: by far the continent with the worst economic performance over the last several decades, it is there that the most sig­nificant population growth will occur over the next century. The result, pending dramatic change, is a world in which the progress made against poverty over the last forty years will slow, stagnate, or even reverse.

It has always struck me as strange that Africa as a continent would grow its population so much without corresponding development.
obama and bush took office way before 2015.
Sure, but eventually the “public health imperative” demands they all peddle quackery. And your comment that “COVID disinformation led to a staggering loss of life” is disinformation itself.
Ultegra is better, of course :-)

But you're making an invalid comparison: the real comparison is between Ultegra and 105. The two are functionally the same, but Ultegras are a bit lighter and use better materials (probably carbon fiber handles, for instance). The year I got mine, the 105s were physically larger too, so the internals weren't as advanced; not sure about today.

Tiagra is a 10-speed shifter, while Ultegra is an 11-speed, so they're certainly not compatible at all. You can assume that Tiagra will be even more cheaply-made than the 105.
That's a silly argument. Every home owner in America pays a "wealth tax" in the form of a percentage of the value of their house. Somehow we homeowners generally manage to survive, most of us actually have growing property values over time. Rich people say I can't just sell some of my valuable assets to pay the wealth tax, they might not generate cash. Well tough luck, we homeowners have to deal with that too.
Market consolidation happened.

Our technology started favoring really large companies again, ending the era of innovation that was the late 19th and most of the 20th centuries. People just can't start from nothing and create something on the real world.
Riiiiight? Imagine reading that at an impressionable age before the Internet was a thing.

To me, most of the craziness we're seeing now seems like a variation on "How Ya Gonna Keep 'em Down on the Farm (After They've Seen Paree)?":

> a World War I song that rose to popularity after the war had ended. The lyrics highlight concern that soldiers would not want to return to their family farms after experiencing the European city life and culture of Paris during World War I.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Ya_Gonna_Keep_%27em_Down_o...

...as the masses come out from under the influence of mainstream media. People don't know what to believe and many of them have not had the training and education in rhetoric and logic to be able to effectively navigate the weirdness of the real world.
Why not just give them a small (1 hour max) take home assignment with your tech stack, and then have have them talk through their approach in a follow up interview. You can test for all these things in their implementation while giving the interviewer time to think and breath.
What license is it released under?
Running locally I can get SD’s webui to spit out images in about 6-10s on my hardware.
Blaming goons for Trump is pretty next level. That’s butterfly effect stuff if it’s true.
This site is also quite an easy service to run - it's all text, with very few customizations that affect the frontpage that everyone sees.
Maybe you didn't mean to but your comment did indeed equate the two.
It's just a remote docker context on a machine with the nvidia driver and container runtime already installed that you rent by the hour.
on that grounds it’s also not ok to be a capitalist… maybe I’m not familiar enough with communism but I didn’t think it inherently included genocide like white nationalism tends to?
Super agree on the Discord point. Feels foreign to run an entire business model by relying on a third party chat service.
I though so too (what the title says) when I read the Wired article referenced, but I realise now, reading the article above, that I have no idea how many "robotaxis" [1] are in San Francisco. The interesting statistic -that the Wired article didn't mention either, as far as I can tell- is how many such disruptive incidents are caused by number of robocars circulating, or by number of miles driven by them, or some other relevant ratio; and compared to ordinary cars, of course.

It's the same way we consider accidents caused by robocars. Not in terms of absolute numbers, but in terms of relative ones.

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[1] jameshart I'm looking at you :P
This is no different than the property taxes ordinary home owners have to pay.
People generally pay with money from their already taxed wages.
On the contrary, Leninism mandates terror and ethnic minorities are always among the first targets of terror and repression. Stalinism was synonymous with Russian chauvinism, and saw other ethnic groups as inherently counter revolutionary. Chinese communism is also an ideology of Han supremacy. These are all flavors of communism, but Naziism was a particularly German flavor of fascism, so I think the comparison is appropriate. Stalin ran death camps for ethnic minorities, and it was part an parcel with Stalinism.
No, you can see the time breakdown in the table under the "coffee break" quote: it is the time for the 3-step RLHF process only. Training a 1.3B parameter model from scratch is still a very large undertaking.
It was the guy who invented dynamite. Dynamite is pretty useful in extracting stuff and building stuff when things like mountains are in the way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Nobel
I have a hunch based on no insight or rational thought, but it is that the wall will be generic for AI apropos to art/creation. It will be doomed to uninventiveness.
Huh, TIL Twitter uses GraphQL under the hood: https://github.com/trevorhobenshield/twitter-api-client/blob...
Android – Madaidan's Insecurities
The sanctions are being challenged in court. A federal agency prohibiting use of what is nothing but software is totally unconstitutional, and amounts to a total abrogation of internet freedom, done without any public process like legislation.

It also amounts to a general criminalization of financial privacy.

So hopefully the legal challenge succeeds.
Insufficient sample size to support this article.

Cruise can only operate in a small region between 10pm and 5:30 am when bus service is limited and there will be few interactions to report.

Waymo rides are still significantly limited. No clear data on service rates or range.

All other programs have a safety driver in the car who is able to quickly react and prevent reports of an incident.
There's lots of versions of Stable Diffusion so I've had a hard time knowing what to compare exactly. But from what I've seen none of them come close to Midjourney.

Stable Diffusion does more things though, like in-painting where you can erase part of an image and then have it recreated. I've seen videos of people doing impressive things with in-painting and extensive regeneration of each portion of an image until it's just right. Seems like a ton of work though. Still I've had some fun using it to modify images or extend images.
If "bullshit fractal" wasn't a thing before, it deserves to be one now. The kind of bullshit which just invites even more bullshit when you dive in and try to pick it apart.. its turtles of bullshit all the way down.
Would have to search for it but read an article recently that, even in Africa, population growth is slowing faster than expected. It was basically saying that peak global human population would peak earlier than recently thought.
interesting whitequark thread on that idea: https://twitter.com/whitequark/status/1521146654535172100
Tons. See https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/11/29/h... among others. He literally live tweeted about the something related to FOX News segment as it was happening.
This is a well documented phenomenon. Poor people have more kids than rich people.
I handle most of the moderation of violence and gore. That painting would get a user a message about the violence and gore guidelines, but that’s all. The guidelines are all about avoiding visceral reaction from the viewer. Not visceral like “The war my people endured was horrible”. Visceral like “oh god my face is torn off”, “me punching my girlfriend” or “politician I don’t like not just in hell, but explicitly burning and screaming and suffering painfully in hell.”

We get a lot of death metal fans, 80’s schlock movie fans and a few horror artists that I get to talk to regularly. Pretty much everyone is pretty chill and agrees the guidelines are a good thing for the community. And, the few that don’t agree with MJ’s terms of service are free to do whatever they want elsewhere using Stable Diffusion.
"Most (if not all) embedding-based retrieval use approximate nearest neighbours (ANN). If we use exact nearest neighbours, we would get perfect recall of 1.0 but with higher latency (think seconds). In contrast, ANN offers good-enough recall (~0.95) with millisecond latency. I’ve previously compared several open-source ANNs and most achieved ~0.95 recall at throughput of hundreds to thousands of queries per second."

Can the results of multiple very fast, approximate queries somehow be used to get the equivalent of one very slow, reliable query?
Yes, that would be great! Keep up the great work, you have something good going here
really? I don't remember seeing any ios nags like that. super weird that you'd be seeing them constantly.
I apologize if it came across as I made the claim that they really do; I was making an attempt at summarizing my understanding of how the business model for bookdepository might carry some value adding proposition to customers that extended beyond "just" free international shipping. That understanding comes entirely from this quote from a Guardian article about Book Depository's demise:

> The Gloucester-based bookseller was founded in 2004 by Stuart Felton and Andrew Crawford, a former Amazon employee, with the mantra of “selling ‘less of more’ rather than ‘more of less’”. It aimed to sell 6m titles covering a wide variety of genres and topics, as opposed to focusing solely on bestsellers. [0]

Seeing as Book Depository later became a subsidiary of Amazon, it's fair to question whether that model held true. I don't have enough insight into Amazon's catalogue to say either way. Also, I can't remember to which degree Amazon relied on "other sellers" back in 2004 or if that came later ("other sellers" being a way to offer a wider selection than what one carries oneself in retail).

To answer your question for an example of a title Amazon doesn't have; I recently found myself recently looking for "Hur svårt kan det va'" by Eva Bodfäldt, which may admittedly be a contrived example, although Amazon does carry another title in Swedish by the same author [1] (though used and from a third party). As it happens, Book Depository has the title... alas, it's not available for delivery anymore.

[0] - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/apr/04/amazon-to-clos...
[1] - https://a.co/d/bIEwL9W
[2] - https://www.bookdepository.com/Hur-svårt-kan-det-va-en-liten...
I play that too! I call it NPR bingo
When a reporter wants to insert his or her own opinion, they simply refer to a random "expert" or "researcher" of said subject. So when you see such wording, just think in your head, "I say."
Yeah; thats exactly what I have. I have a script which compiles the rust code for all the combinations of hardware (arm & x86_64 on ios & macos) and produces an .xcframework. Then I just recompile my xcode project. Its a bit hacky, but it works fine.

I'm using the swift_bridge crate to generate a lot of the bindings and generate the .xcframework.

https://github.com/josephg/replica/blob/master/build_swift.s...
"On Package" isn't the same thing as on die. Apple's M1 LPDDR memory setup isn't really any different from what you would find in a normal PC laptop. By putting the memory as close as possible to the CPU it makes it easier to maintain signal integrity, but it's not really any different from anyone else's approach.
I am effectively a customer of alarm.com but not sure how. They seem to be a bundler or backend provider (sort of like a service OEM) for various branded alarm systems. Is there any technical material that explains what they do, and provides more visibility into the ecosystem?
There is little reason to not pay for YouTube Premium, in my opinion. Worth every penny.

YouTube TV, on the other hand, well, I need to cancel that.
I think there were, but in general to things that you wanted to get access (food, events, schools, buying a car) - it was more done with connections, and knowing the "right" people and doing favors (to return favors). Money wasn't (maybe) that important for these.

For example, we had the CORECOM store (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corecom) - which was really a place for all truck drivers, air-pilots or whoever had to work outside of Bulgaria, especially outside the Eastern Block to come back and exchange their """filthy""" currency with products that you can't get anywhere else.

It was really hard to get a Kinder Surpsise Egg for example (only to be found at the Corecom). Even if you had the bulgarian levas, it was not possibly (easily) to exchange these for dollars in order to buy them. You had to know the people that might've brought some from outside (Then again, this is from my memory as a kid).

So PEZ, Kinder Surprise Eggs, or anything listed (and much more) on the wikipedia page above was DEAR to all of us kids. I do remember the day where I went to the local bakery (some years after the communist regime went down) for normal bulgarian pastry (these are still yummy), and saw so many kinder surprise eggs available for anyone to buy with levas. It was no longer that great :) lol.

Ok, here is a weird one - empty cans from coke, pepsi were prized collections. We would use these empty cans to put our pencils or just to demonstrate we got something from the west. The (free) Neckermann magazine was "required" in every home - you got to glimpse into furniture, clothing, and just to stroll through the enourmous volume of the latest (this year, last year - doesn't matter).

I also vividly remember when the french magazine store opened, and I've got PIF Hercule comics (without knowing french), and some of the greates PC games magazines (great graphics).

So hard to tell. Probably people had preferences - there were several, if not dozen types of Russian-made and other cars: Lada, Zaz, Moskvich - surely some prefer one vs the other. But this joke was not so far off:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I9AdLnjP0M

You had to wait sometimes years to get your car, refridgerator, etc.

anyway :) - I guess TLDR was - WE WERE OBLIVIOUS - We had some "fake" glimpse into what the western world was, without really knowing what it was (it was also distorted through our own media).

But again, as a kid - I had such good time!
The best interview question I've ever heard: Someone is sitting shopping online with their cursor hovering over "Add to Cart". From the moment they physically click on it to the moment the page refreshes, tell me everything you can think of that happens.

Responses are awesome because it gives you an idea of what this person's background is and what breadth of knowledge they have and what they think is cool or exciting. Maybe they start with a contact closing and signals being denounced, or an interrupt being triggered, or the OS and window manager, or the browser and DOM events, or HTTP or TLS or TCP or Ethernet or WiFi or LTE or routing and the tiers of network infrastructure or DNS or load balancing or proxies or web servers and tiers of API services or databases... It's can lead to some really fun technical conversation, follow up about how they learned the things they know and experiences they've had, and most of the time the interviewer learns something too.
I think terminology varies a bit by university (and maybe even by department within a university). At the college I attended, I learned from discussing with a few professors that the computer science department hired professors either for the "tenure track" or the "lecture track" (although no distinction in terms of title was presented to us as students, as far as I could tell). "Tenure track" professors were required to teach one course per semester and produce research, whereas "lecture track" professors were required to teach two courses per semester and had no requirement for research (although they were welcome to pursue it if they desired). As the naming implies, lecture track professors were not eligible for tenure, and most of the professors in the department were on the tenure track. This meant that the professors on the lecture track intentionally passed up the opportunity for tenure in order to focus their time on teaching. I personally found the courses I took with lecture track professors to benefit from the passion they had for this part of the profession. There were definitely tenure track professors who also cared as much about teaching and put in the same amount of effort into the course they taught each semester, but the only courses I took that felt like they suffered due to a lack of effort on the part of the professor were taught by tenure track professors. The sample size was much larger than for lecture track professors though, so I don't know for sure whether it's actually more likely that tenure track professors to "phone it in" for their courses, but it certainly seems like it would make sense.

As for the lecturer mentioned in the parent comment, I'm not sure you can draw any conclusions about whether they research or not from their title without looking into how things work at their institution/department, but at least in my experience people with the title "lecturer" tend to actually engage with students a lot more, so I wouldn't be surprised if they spoke with the journalist with the intention of sharing their own first-hand observations rather than from a research perspective.
we had SecondLife, ut dies everythibg metaVerse does, 20 years ago.
this is a baffling comment! white nationalists still very often hate jewish people! they are not dramatically different and still have a tendency to idolize nazis!
No languages use io uring by default, it's pretty much work in progress at best.
Parallel construction: if you do enough crime-adjacent things, the likelihood that you are also engaged in crime makes you interesting to law enforcement.
> The world's standards for art and text have gone up faster than they ever have in world history over the course of the last 10 months

This is a funny sentiment because to me, the exact opposite has occurred. Now that everyone can create work of comparable technical ability, never has it been more clear that taste and other conceptual skills are lacking in those who haven’t spent hours upon hours engaged with and making art.

I’m sure many will decry this as snobbery, but I think this is also obvious in the reliance on various famous artists names in prompts. I expect a similar phenomenon will emerge with AI generated code where things that look superficially impressive are terrible in other dimensions (architecture, efficiency, security, etc)
What I think it should have taught people, but probably didn't, is that vaccines for any pathogen that might be a pandemic or endemic in the future needs to have preservatives, and be designed for use in multi-dose vials. Not having preservatives in the US authorized COVID-19 vaccines directly caused them to only have a few-hour shelf life after being opened, and it also limited the number of doses per vial, as every violation of the stopper (really a synthetic rubber diaphragm, but it's called a stopper) increases the chance of pathogenic bacteria entering the vial. Obviously mRNA vaccines are more fragile, but an open, partially used vial that includes preservatives can last for years at a totally usable and approved state in a standard refrigerator. See eIPV ("IPOL"), authorized for use in the US for an example. From the WHO, some potential pandemic or large scale epidemic viruses are: Crimean-congo Hermorrhagic fever virus, Highly pathogenic emerging coronaviruses relevant to humans, Rift Valley fever virus, Nipah virus, Lassa fever virus, Ebola virus, and Marburg virus. For the last two at least, there are multiple strains, and I would be careful about saying "we have a vaccine for Ebola", for example, as there are multiple strains of Ebola and the US vaccine probably only works on one or two.

TLDR/in conclusion: put preservatives in your pandemic/epidemic vaccines. Supply chains fail, don't rely on the idea of single dose vials or prefilled syringes.
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