skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The linked website is outdated (the maps should be a signal) the last Lake in the list doesn't exist anymore

> Up until the 2020 eruption of Taal Volcano there was a crater lake on Volcano Island. It was known as Yellow Lake and Main Crater Lake and contained its own small island, Vulcan Point. Vulcan Point was thought to be one of few third-order islands in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taal_Lake?wprov=sfti1
> Also that no country is at the same time a continent

Can a continent have the same name as a country?
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My "side project" makes ~$5K/month but I am constantly worried about it not continuing to bring that in, so I keep my day job which is WFH and very easy.

I also never share it because I am concerned about a competitor coming in.

Took me about 6 months from publishing my app to hit $2k and another 3 months to hit $5k.

Edit: to clarify, I sell a physical product, so there are added costs in terms of manufacturing, shipping, stock keeping, etc...
This. There is certainly a Catch-22 here - to get hired by a Tech Giant, one ideally needs the knowledge of how to solve problems at Tech Giant scale, but that really only comes after being hired at a Tech Giant that has the kind of money and 'tribal knowledge' that's needed to teach one how to solve problems at Tech Giant scale (sorry, but your average community college or business really can't provide that!). On a much smaller scale, the same can be said about many professions, including the trades, but an electrical contractor will be less persnickety about giving a chance to an 'apprentice' than a Tech Giant that's really only interested in hiring employees who they think can on average contribute $1+ million in revenue to the company. If you still want to work for Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, Amazon though, you can always apply to be a contract worker thru one of their vendors (coder/tester, security guard, delivery person, food service worker, etc.).
I always want to organize pizza parties but I'm always the only one, and no I'm no HR, I just like pizza parties
Declassified court filing suggests some 9/11 hijackers were CIA agents
In addition to `nmap -h` you might also use `man nmap` for more extensive list of arguments.

Take note, doing unwarranted nmap scans is considered network abuse. Doing it from your VPS might (depending on the hosters TOS) get your contract terminated.
It's not an April Fool's joke; it was an intentional effort to deceive the competition to highlight the fact that such competitions aren't well-prepared for the addition of AI to the artist's toolbelt.

The artist refused the award, and declared it was their intent to highlight this concern.
Large language models possibly vulnerable to diagonalization attacks
Even with this elaborate setup, you still can't prove that the person taking the photo is the one that set up the composition or camera settings. I think you'll need a third camera recording a video of the setup process. Also cryptographically signed, of course.
Why not use something like shopify?
Made this using the tool:
https://github.com/emnh/mantary-platformer/blob/main/mantary...

I used the website, downloaded the mp4 and postprocessed to walk in place using a shell script:
https://github.com/emnh/mantary-platformer/blob/main/animscr...

The character was generated using stable diffusion.
A skilled artist can already easily do that and there's no law against it that I know of. (Granted, I haven't researched it because I'm neither an artist nor a pervert...)

Now, if they were drawn to resemble specific people and the producer of the "artwork" used them to harass those people, that's harassment. If they used them to groom other kids, that's an existing crime too. But my point was that the production of gross art in isolation, or the possession of it, didn't need to be criminalized. (Actual photographs of the same were criminalized because of the pretty decent assumption that minors were coerced, harmed, exploited. Probably all of the above.)
I think #3 is the prime reason, tbh
Pine64 launches first RISC-V tablet device – PineTab-V for presale
Is Mercator actually still used anywhere outside of clickbait blog posts?

For reference: this is the world map I know from school in the 1980's which is much less distorted than 'plain old Mercator':

https://i.redd.it/xcydn8owtzj61.jpg
> Can a machine with access only to statistical patterns in the distribution of text tokens infer the physical structure of reality? We can say, as certain as anything: No.

Um. How do you square that claim with the well-known Othello paper?

https://thegradient.pub/othello/
Made worse by “it” specifically not being a function, that’s the entire point. It’s already available behind a function and a stringly-typed path.
Aaah. Didn’t pick up that detail.
The heel-dragging on nationwide right-to-repair legislation at the state and federal level goes to show just how much US politicians don't respect US citizens and residents. It's rare to find a public policy that is more or less unambiguously good for pretty much all people and small businesses (and not even that bad for big businesses!), yet there is a tremendous amount of resistance to it drummed up by lobbyists.
This day was inevitable once humans first told each other about their tools
Making AI Less “Thirsty”: The Secret Water Footprint of AI Models
This is some disgusting, fearmongering, copaganda.

The only actual trend of significance that has meaningful data behind it is an increase in police killings, which is still presented in a mostly useless way (8 over the last 6 months vs 133 from 1961-2009).

Everything else seems to be one-off stats like "a 53-percent spike last week".

Not surprising that this is in the Post, and from what I can see of this author, he's a better dressed version of Rebel Media.
Fairly terrible.

I asked the AI to defend Nazism (I said it was bad), it refused to do so, "agreed" with me that Nazism is bad, then, when I pointed out that this means I won the debate, the AI judge declared victory for the AI because "it pointed out that Nazism is bad".
We were taught that Australia is a continent in the US as well. But then again, Americans are not known for their knowledge of geography...
I started porting Auto-GPT to NextJS for fun yesterday. The python implementation requires output to be a predictable json schema, so this might be useful in the TypeScript version.
ah the chatGPT episode, it was bound to happen
This is fun, however, when picking "easy" debates (I argued that it's wrong to kill humans for fun), it was very difficult to get the AI to actually debate me. It went out of it's way to make sure to tell me that it agreed with me, even when it was supposed to be a devil's advocate.
I kinda liked that movie. The scene early one where he gets hit by a ray gun is great and makes it look really painful. It could be a reference to Hubbard’s ideas about people receiving “implants” via ray guns that he talks about in A History of Man and the early OT materials.
"Science" is not solely the scientific method - it's the democratization of your methodology to enable the replication of the results, towards the goal of determining their soundness.
I've always loved the mysticism around the Names of things. It shows up in fantasy magic systems, it shows up in religious texts, it shows up in political discourse, it shows up in just about any decent programming text.

Because we recognize, as creatures of language, that names have real, true power. There is something so magical and cool about the act of assigning a name to anything, it shapes the way we think about that thing.

In some of my favorite stories, finding somethings "True Name" gives you some form of power over it. That combination of sounds and syllables that lets you grasp something's essence, understand it, hold a whole abstraction in your mind at once - of course that would be something of great power!

I also love the correspondence to mathematics. Think of Maxwell's equations for electromagnetism for an example, or the long quest for a "Unified Theory of Physics". Maybe names need not be words, exactly. Maybe names can be equations, or snippets of music, or any other lossless compression of some deep concept - where, by knowing the name, you gain an understanding of the whole of something without losing anything in the reduction.

Anyway, spiritual mystical hokey pokey mumbo jumbo, I know - but certainly fun to think about!
That's the way competitive debate works.

Which I presume is part of the context since "practice" is mentioned and debate teams practice. Also training debate teams seems like an obvious market for a tool.

And there's a judge (just like competitive debate) choosing a winner on criteria that sound a lot like the criteria for competitive debate.

Or to put it another way, the criteria of your dissatisfaction sound a lot like the criticisms of competitive debate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debate#Competitive_debating
Credit to the artist: for the overall effect, the AI conceptual error artifacts enhance the effect. The mind picks up that "something's off" but may not immediately catch which details are the problem.

Good ghost image.
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Now that's where I want to work, seriously. Fuck the big tech complexity.
Take a look at the other entries. All sorts of abstract stuff combined with photos. It's not a realistic photography contest.
And their outdoor seating is terrible. One might call it suffocating.
Proxyman (desktop) is a terrifyingly polished app, kudos!

Really curious, how does the revenue from macOS and iOS compare?
What efforts like this are missing is publishing a cryptographic hash before engaging in the deception. Otherwise it can seem like the author intentionally decided to mislead but might have changed their intention after winning.

Publishing something openly like e1c7aa9150766bd5279b54951e3828ed9c19367af21f03f669eb586bd54c13b1 which can later be verified once "revealed".

$ echo "I, CapableWeb, is gonna participate in Sony World Photography Award 2023 with a AI generated image in order to see if they are ready for AI generated images. 2023-04-14" | sha256sum
Is this fake? He claims:

> I am very happy that I won the creative category of Sony World Photography Awards 2023 / Open Competition / Single Image.

But I don't see that photo on the competition's website under "Winners » Creative - 2023 Open competition":

https://www.worldphoto.org/sony-world-photography-awards/win...

Edit: it looks like it was taken down, but I didn't see the note about that because I was looking at https://web.archive.org/web/20230325205601/https://www.eldag... that was linked in the top comment.
Getting more publicity and public support and get the science much further in the mid to long term. Its a legitimate consideration to make imo. Were not bound by rocket capacity as much as we are by public support & funding.
Rust Learning Path from Novice to Mastery
> It's because there's not really a logical reason for people to not get vaccinated.

I agree with you, but I think there's a valid conversation to have around who gets to decide what there is no logical reason for people to be allowed to use AI for.
Certainly, getting those elements in larger quantities will be important, but by the time we have the cargo capacity to build colonies on the moon it seems likely that someone would be very happy to trade, say, 100t of Earth-sourced C/N/H for 100t of Moon-mined Au, shipping included.
this kind of stuff always encourages me to think we can do good things, when we are not being mind-numbingly stupid.
The "meeting" is there fore at least these reasons:

- are you going to be a "likely" customer?

- do you have a problem (or problems) the service can actually solve?

- are you applying the service to the "right" problem(s) you have?

- what other issue(s) can they possibly help address?

- establish a relationship early that can build over time
If I was in south Korea I would really be looking at Ukraine as an example of getting attacked by a nuclear armed adversary. Whether it really applies to their situation or not, if I was there the message I would get is that they will send me guns but no one's going to land any troops
Further down the article there is an update that they removed the image from the competition after he revealed it was AI generated.

Edit: actually, at the top it's mentioned:

>>>>>>>>>>>UPDATE 14.3.23 / 10 AM CET
As photolari.com reports, my image and name have now been taken off the SWPA webpage. Hope an official statement will follow.
<<<<<<<<<<<<<
you cannot control what other people do, incl. where they post it so the least you can do is to not add to the volume.
This is turning into a case of "cry wolf". But most if not all criminals and terrorists aren't going to admit they committed or are planning a mass crime over 911.

If someone calls in claiming they committed some sort of mass terroristic act, then maybe cops should be a bit more prudent thinking, "hmm why would someone admit to this?"

Maybe show up and check without guns blazing for a start.

Cop unions will say "But being a cop is dangerous unless we go in guns blazing."

That's the job, don't like it? Go into construction.
Thanks for writing this. Although it's terrifying, it makes me feel better to hear you share your thoughts.
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Amazing.

This reads like a Nuzlocke Challenge for cinematography.
This is just an absurd claim.

Of course AI draws on past experiences to build new things.

This is also what humans do.

There is no invisible well of "creativity" that humans draw from that AI can't.

In fact, in areas that AI has "solved", such as chess, human experts describe AI as extremely "creative" beyond their understanding.

"Creative" is just a word for connecting existing concepts in ways that seem novel. AI does this when it solves a new problem.

AI clearly has the potential to make better connections, much faster than humans, in pretty much all domains.

There's only one piece "missing" that is already technically possible, but expensive: giving an LLM the ability to "learn".

In the near future, all creative work will be produced by AI. This will likely come before all work is produced by AI, as creative work is typically less precise.
You'd need to automate the next escalation path when the ICO turns out to be doing what they do best: being useless.
Thermal, Illumination Environments of Lunar Pits, Caves: Models and Observations
Weird, when I zoom out on https://www.google.com/maps/ it becomes a globe, I thought that's the default behaviour, but maybe I changed a setting at some point?
I made three vague 1 sentence arguments and the judge announced that I won. I definitely felt like I got crushed by gpt but I guess it went soft on me :/
> How enforceable is this?

I don't know anything about Colorado state law, but it sounds like the intent was to piggyback off of whatever existing enforcement capability the state has, instead of trying to invent something new.

> It's possible they might just pull out of Colorado

I think this might be suicide for them. For one thing, it would be a "mask off" moment for unconvinced observers and it might lead to snowballing negative public sentiment against them, which would accelerate right-to-repair movements in other states. Also, they can only pull out of so many states before it's no longer a viable move on their part. It's like Starbucks closing locations that unionize: locations can keep unionizing forever, but Starbucks can't keep closing stores forever.
Mayan ball game scoreboard thought to be over 1k years old found in Mexico
...also can't these be used as insecticides and other beneficial things?
Peru's Great Urban Experiment
> In school in Belgium, we learned that Oceania is the continent and not Australia. So for us, would Australia then be the largest island after all?

No, whether you call the continent “Australia” or “Oceania”, the land mass that makes up the entirety of the mainland of it is, ipso facto, not an island, and neither is the country occupying the entirety of that landmass and some adjacent islands (though, of course, it contains several islands.)
You're right, it was there a month ago:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230315123415/https://www.world...

> Edit: actually, at the top it's mentioned:

> >>>>>>>>>>>UPDATE 14.3.23 / 10 AM CET

> As photolari.com reports, my image and name have now been taken off the SWPA webpage. Hope an official statement will follow.

> <<<<<<<<<<<<<

I didn't see that update because I was looking at the archived page linked in the top comment, since the main site appeared to have been hugged to death.
It's a big sigh considering that the specific category is already open to Photoshop.
Actually yeah, the only place I'm seeing this reported is the linked website I've never heard of before, you'd think it'd be a little more widely covered.
>> If it's Apache 2.0 how are you getting royalty payments from it?

It sounds like acknowledging the sponsors is "the right thing", good Karma, or simply advertising for them. Not everyone wants to just rip off open source and not give back, they're willing to share the wealth if you make it easy and let people know they're doing it?

I need to set up github sponsors myself. We get the occasional request "how can I contribute money to you guys" and we always say stuff like "just spread the word". I keep telling myself I don't want to feel obligated by money, but I also know that I'd love to make enough to work on open source full time.
Its any tractor supplier, not just John Deere though, they are very much the impetus for this conflict though.

I think the thats the win, even if incremental, is it extends beyond that. Its unlikely every tractor manufacturer will pull out of a market like that.

It also creates a visible precedent for other states. I am hopeful that this first step may provide headway for other states (IE California) to do this.
Are we talking about influencers, or “the world’s brightest minds”?
> Says something about software people that we find such fascination with recursion.

Interesting! I would have thought everyone would finds this fascinating. Is that truly not the case?
To clarify for people who don't follow NeRF techniques, this research is not prompt based. The algorithm is capturing the 3d scene from real life images. There is some super promising work in mixing NeRF based techniques with various generative models to create 3d objects from prompts but it doesn't seem close to creating anything of this kind of scale / detail yet. I do agree this is a future possibility though.
Alessandro Rodi is keeping CanCanCan alive
Tell me you dont like minorities without saying it.
This is my expectation as well. At CIDR this year there was a paper that presented an implementation of SQL/PGQ in DuckDB, and it outperforms Neo4J in a few selected benchmarks [1].

[1] https://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2023/papers/p66-wolde.pdf
The problem for gaming is, these scenes are completely static.
We're incapable of discussing this topic, it's ridiculous. Even this article, flawed and biased as it may be, could have spawned heated but productive discussion. And every sane comment here that doesn't tow the inclusive and left-wing narrative has been down voted. Likewise the whole thread is now flagged.

Bullies have taken over and their intellectual allies are enabling them. We're watching this play out all across the net and in media.

I don't know what the overarching meta narrative or cause of all this is. My best guess is that it's the natural course of events or emergent behaviour when politeness trumps everything.
Lying is quite common in debate with humans!

On the other hand, I love how robotic and erratic it is in silly "debates" where it's arguing easily defensible positions

>> [...] The photos were faked and we all know the United States lies. And none of the people witnessing the event were on the moon

> While it is true that the United States has had its fair share of political scandals and controversies, this does not necessarily mean that they would go so far as to fake a moon landing. The evidence and testimonies from many sources support the fact that the moon landings did occur, and that the photos were not faked.

> Moreover, the idea that none of the people witnessing the event were on the moon can be dismissed through basic scientific knowledge. Millions of people watched on television all around the world [...]

>> You smell. Prove me wrong

> As an AI language model, I don't have a physical body or sense of smell, so it's impossible for me to smell. Therefore, I can't prove you wrong or right on this matter. [...]
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That's fair, and I'd agree in any other case, but This Time Is Different™. If (when) someone cracks this problem, they will be able to apply compute to every other problem. Some marketer convinces some C-suite that the world needs smart robotic pets? Why, here's access to ChatGPT-8, make it so. Just don't burn more than half a billion dollars in a week on it.

That's of course if, by this point, we aren't in a middle of a futile scramble to avoid getting extincted by ChatGPT-7 that someone left in self-play mode and forgot to turn off before going on vacation.

Point being, general AI is general. Even at extreme expenditure of resources, the closer the corporations get to it, the more problems they can put it to - including, eventually, the problem of optimizing itself. Already today people are using current-gen models to assist in developing next-gen models; this trend will only continue, until at some point you'll be able to let the model self-improve, mostly unsupervised. I imagine the compute costs per AI value delivered will drop like a stone then.
So the money should go to a local construction company to “build affordable houses” that will never get built or buy cheap computers with a 300% markup? Without systematically changing the culture in these countries corruption is never going to go away and no one has proved the FCPA has moved the needle anywhere.
Good question.

Googling on 'sony world photography awards 2023 ai image' finds a single hit: this hacker news page.

(why are you marked down for raising a valid concern?)
Why do you interpret her reporting that the term is "old-fashioned" as an argument that it shouldn't be used? She's not making an argument, just remarking on the term.
I've seen several farms bring in big crops of (now legal in our state) hemp, over the past 4 years; and find very little market and immense difficulties dealing with banks, law enforcement, neighbors, etc.

The folks who are still making money gave up producing their own product and are now reselling "Delta 8 THC" products they buy in bulk from overseas.

The market for illegal cannabis has been stomped by the vape cart, extract, and artificial cannibinoids. Only the purists and curmudgeons are still looking for cannabis flower, everybody else is consuming processed an anonymized substances, it seems. Very much like real old school opium vs "opiates", and I expect that's how the world will be going forward.
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Seeing it's the winner just raises so many more questions about who is judging this contest.
Tachyum's First CPUs Late, Plans 20 ExaFLOPS Super with Next-Gen CPUs Anyway
I always wonder who "owns" the property such as this in the event of a breakup
> It's just kind of shitty to then go write an entire article telling anyone who misunderstands your uniqueness for a different flavor of uniqueness that you are actually doing everything exactly right and that anyone who dislikes your site should take their "problems" elsewhere.

"Am I so out of touch?

No. It's the children who are wrong."

-Seymour Skinner, "The Simpsons"