skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't agree that produced images are mostly shitty, just visit that subreddit.

SD is definitely very good in the right hands, and it’s a little unfair to expect to be able to get instant good results without any skill. It’s honestly pretty crazy that we now have things like ChatGPT and SD – and people are already calling them crap because they don’t work perfectly and their productive use actually requires some skill!

But r/StableDiffusion, or any public gallery, is obviously one giant selection effect. 99.9% of attempts could be crap and the 0.1% would still be enough to fill a subreddit.
Disingenuous take. The data itself is ominous. This is not manufactured.
Possible if they go to the same bar, but hard to be used alone by the higher ranks to escalate into an international incident, which appears to be the intent of at least one of the parties.
"obsolete" assumes distillation of art down to output and not the value of expression and enjoyment of the process itself. To not consider this is to misunderstand creativity.

See starving artists who do what they do because they love it.
Perfect pitch is a simplification, it's not really binary like you either have it or don't. People have varying ability, practice, and speed at identifying a note relative to a reference, and "perfect" is how we describe being past some threshold.

When we talk about perfect pitch we're usually assuming 12-tet tuned to A440 but you correctly homed in on the "problem" with perfect pitch. Is that C a little sharp, or did they just tune to A446 for some reason? Just intonation, microtonal scales, there are a lot of notes out there. How do you know they're "wrong" and not just trying to play the note that sounds out of tune to your ear. "Perfect" has to be established against some intention, we just usually assume 12-tet A440.

Anyway the ability is at least somewhat a matter of practice and training, so you can develop it against any consistent reference, regardless of the tuning or intonation system.
this would be pretty nifty. Wondering about the implications for domain ownership - feels like that aspect can be a bit tricky / ownership isn't always clear to non-tech folks. But conceptually very pure.
You can get 3D patterns in water too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9al397N6Tzs
Ah, this answers my question above about “switching modes” to relative. Sounds like that’s not a thing. But can you hear chord qualities independently of pitch? I hope you’re not just getting a bunch of individual notes and doing interval math all the time!
They’ve had significant outages, managed to block their own API, account fraud and reduced content moderation.

Nobody said the system failures would be overnight, they happen slowly in the form of unmaintained rot that’s already manifested multiple times since the layoffs.

I would also warn against the fallacy that new features imply that old infrastructure is also getting the attention it deserves. Elon has been rolling out tons of new things since he bought it, and redirecting people to what he wants.
> Don’t be fooled by the big words attempting to yield big emotion. But likewise, don’t be fooled by the big emotion attempting to yield unquestioned belief.

It was just occurring to me, seeing a headline about the dearth of debate in the schedule for primaries, how little substantive policy is considered at election time.

The government is insolvent, so we get a high school personality contest in lieu of a substantial choice for a corrective course.
Whut?

Give me that sweet digital time stretching over analog pitches up/down on a turntable which affects the tone.

Preference I guess.
Yes, but it's just as "with their assets sitting places"[1] as it was before -- the shuffling doesn't address the problem you raised in your comment[1] and proposed that as a solution to.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35749378
Thought the exact same thing when I saw the title :)
Climate change is driven by increasing atmospheric opacity to infrared. The greenhouse effect: sunlight in, heating of the surface, infrared can't return to space.

This doesn't just warm the world evenly, it disrupts the circulation of winds and currents globally. As a result, some areas now warm will get cold, and vice versa. Some wet areas will dry up, some dry areas will get wetter.

That's the short term, climatologically speaking. Longer term effects are as you say.
Moodys rates mortgage backed security as A when many mortgages lacked proper documentation and underwriting and were not worth the amount of the mortgage at time of issuance. [0]

They were rated as prime but were actually junk.

There was no criminal investigation because the US DoJ decided not to. Civil suits didn’t get far because it was hard to gather information without criminal jurisdiction.

Obama got almost $50M from Wall Street for his 2008 election and it paid off well for his donors. [1]

With that much fraud, there should have been more criminal convictions rather than bonuses as usual.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_rating_agencies_and_the...
[1] https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/recips.php?ind=F&cycl...
Also looking for an invite :-) My email is my username @gmail.com

Thank you!
Good thing we are decades from actual AI.
I find this temperature chart puts things into a proper perspective https://xkcd.com/1732/
All you need for a bill of sale is a simple sentence saying on x date I xxx, sale vehicle xxx, with vin number xxx to xxx person. Then write the driver's license of both parties and sign. A lawyer is extreme overkill for such a simple transaction.
I’d love to see data, but anecdotes suggest reliability has declined and the company is addressing it by charging (a lot) for formerly-free features as a way to reduce load.

https://news.yahoo.com/nyc-subway-stop-tweeting-because-1324...
I guess my hope was that I could get people who disagree with my views to engage substantively with them by hinting that I have sufficient knowledge to weigh in here. However, that doesn't seem to have been very effective, and your point that posting here may simply be a waste of time is well-taken.
I thought he was in prison
I agree that it is unknown when such an AI will come around. But hardware limitation problem is more nuance than just GPU power. The brain is analog and in a way, the current LLMs and neural networks are an approximation of an analog computer. There are current research into making an AI dedicated chip or even an analog computer specifically for neural networks. Digital was easy to work with but when it comes to fuzzy stuff like AI, there are better ways.

We used to think 100mph was the fastest speed we could achieve even with machine (back when trains were the cutting edge). New tech will change things quickly, all we need is one breakthrough and things will fall into place.
That's a really freaky story. Merits a thread of its own.

--He was a senior CIA analyst of Russian nuclear capacity during the Cold War.

--Ruled a suicide, but shot in back of head.

--Not positively ID'd as him. Bunch of funny business with the fingerprints.

--Cremated, but the FBI kept his hands. Grisly.

--Had a high-powered CIA radio rig on his sailboat, and "documents."

--Good friends with a senior KGB defector.

--Live 9mm shells scattered about. No big deal nowadays, but it was back then.
Is it necessarily something like "turned on h24 in every single sound"? I would be rather surprised that it would be the case in general.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=451xJqNGFqU
the solution is legalisation if that was not clear from my post.
Is it on the iPhone too?
ChatGPT will delete its response if it is severely out of line.
But why not heavily tax it?
While I appreciate the sentiment behind this, managing and organising a local collection of digital files is a lot of hassle which is why I was happy to ditch it for streaming.
With good enough sense of relative pitch it's almost a non-issue as one is usually only a half step away from in-key and that can be played off as deliberate.
I wonder how many of these fans without record players call them "vinyls" [sic]? Seems like that Venn diagram might be close to a circle.
Just because there are legitimate reasons for bulk mail to exist doesn’t mean it should be discounted. Most bills are electronic nowadays, and for the smaller number of people that live in rural areas and maybe still rely on snail mailed bills, I’m sure another 30 cents isn’t going to break the bank, when the bank is making 20% interest on the credit card bill.
Related discussion: "MRSK vs Fly.io" (162 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35263886

Also here is the MRSK introduction blog post: https://world.hey.com/dhh/introducing-mrsk-9330a267
Most kids are exposed to language a lot in their childhood, they don't automatically learn to produce "perfect words".
I reserve “hard” for skills/knowledge that a person who is average can succeed doing/knowing with significant motivation. Very few things are actually hard in the sense that it requires intelligence or motivation way beyond that. Iron man races are hard. Getting a CFA is hard. Becoming a software architect is hard. Electricity is simply not hard. Anyone can learn it. We should democratize these skills so we’re all more capable people.
we should spend the money to help all humans, its already going to be bad. We need to move faster and prob manhattan project carbon removal tech
The YouTube videos and screenshots look incredible for a hobby project! Are you still working on it? What’s next?
https://istwitterdownyet.com/

Personally I don't really see much of a difference tbh.
This sort of thing fascinates me - more or less ordinary folks doing stuff that used to earn someone a PhD. Goes to show you that having some critical mass of participants leads to good things. The design is interesting and the writer seems to be doing a great job!

But it's also kind a dead end. Essentially nobody will use this. The two most important file systems are FAT (dating from a floppy disk file system in 1977) and NTFS, clearly a direct descent of DEC's ODS-2 which has roots in TOPS-20 and RSTS operating systems of the early 1970s.

I mean, every single USB thumb drive has a FAT system on it. Booting an ARM CPU requires a FAT filesystem. Windows, the standard corporate operating system, uses NTFS. Gefs will get installed on maybe 1000 systems if it's lucky.
Meatspace human brains work on 20W. This is enough proof that we have ways to go to optimize silicon.
Yeah, IDK, of all the things an AI can do for us, code generation seems to be the one I'm actually least interested in. It's anecdotes like this that sort reinforce that feeling.

I would much rather have a "rubber ducky" that I can try and explain my thought process to, and then it can try to question me and poke holes in my thinking. I think my expectations on AI are pretty realistic and I don't really expect it to ever be ever *thinking* in the way I associate with the word, not with today's SoA at least. In that respect I'm just not particularly interested in it generating code, but that also may come down to our individual preferences for how we write code.

At any rate, my issue is that it fails at the "rubber ducky" position I mentioned earlier. It's not really able to follow a train of thought that I have, in a reasonably competent way, and every time I have tried to do work with it I just end up feeling silly for anthropomorphizing something that I know isn't really, even if for a second. Just my $0.02 though, I'm glad so many people seem to like it and am happy for them.
Fair point, but reading the story critically, it doesn’t really say what you’re interpreting.

Frank, a board member of another failed bank, certainly has an interest in a position that everything is fine.
If you enjoyed reading this, I recommend checking out The Creative Act by Rick Rubin. Reading that book has changed my approach towards work and it has become more relaxed and I have learned to tap deeper into my intuition when engineering.
It has additional keys above the standard keyboard for tabs, Ctrl, arrow keys etc. It also has good scroll support, even in vim. Definitely fine for quick jobs.
Reddit's proposed API changes, and the continued existence of RedReader
What solutions are available?
I'm all for end to end encryption but the fact is most employers need access and have a right to access these chats.
Nearly every purchasing manager i knew did it, maybe on a smaller scale. This guy was just dumb enough, or unwilling to share the proceeds with the right people, to get caught.
Many people have absolute pitch for certain well known sounds.

Who can't tell if a sine wave sound is higher or lower than the emergency broadcast tone. That tone is 1000 hz.

So, that is absolute pitch, just low resolution. I'm assuming if you can add in a lot of reference points that you know well, you could get better resolution.
Ask HN: "Considered Harmful is All You Need” and other viral paper titles?
The "Goto Statements Considered Harmful" and "Attention is All You Need" papers are two examples of
Those are just stories that made it to press and that I was able to dig up quickly. Durov did visit St Petersburg from time to time, it was an open secret when I lived there.

As for the last story: I was a bit sloppy about that link, the story I was referring to is better covered here [1] (that's a disgruntled employee spilling beans).

The fact that Telegram was still being developed in that Zinger building in St Petersburg was not particularly secret either, VK'S HR was not coy about the fact when showing me around the office. I also heard the same from multiple people working in that building.

[1]: https://medium.com/@anton.rozenberg/telegram-telegraph-durov...
Things are definitely noticeably degrading, but not in a way that keeps you entirely from using the site(most of the time, anyway, they did block their own API tokens once or twice). Anecdotally, it's things like bookmarks being stuck 4 days in the past, and then suddenly updating with everything you've bookmarked in the meantime. What you would expect from huge distributed systems slowly falling apart.

Most of the features he's added are retooled old things or very small things, so I wouldn't necessarily say that it's an indicator that things are going well on a technical level.
- Your doctor has the incredible ability to understand your symptoms without even listening to you

- Your 40 minute in-depth appointment is finished in an amazing 5 minutes

- They can do this amazing appointment time compression because of an encoding technique called "one size fits all"

- The physician's assistant is so efficient that they've already scheduled your follow-up appointment - for three months from now, because they know you just love the suspense.
An Update on Evernote Pricing and Upcoming Features
Wrong kind of pitch. Read the article.
Twitter didn’t need any additional pressure beyond what’s monumentally implicit, they had an FBI spook running the other side inside Twitter.

Not to mention that the requests constituted a gross 1st amendment violation.
The Indian government is funding implementation of Dense Plasma Focus devices which harness energy from a Plasmoid. Apparently, these power generators can fit on a large truck. I wonder what the current status of this is.

https://asiatimes.com/2020/07/focus-fusion-is-the-hottest-id...
My bad for being unclear, I was referring to the institutions, not the faculty. Tons of money in administration roles though.
Old people tend to be the wealthiest people, pay the least in tax, and benefit the most from services
so actually i've built digital signal processing software :) the argument becomes a little nuanced at this level -- we should define what we mean by "quality".. and i think the explanation for "why/how" the sound is affected in the digital vs analog case is quite interesting for anyone with the time to explicate! that said, agree my choice of words was too strong. really just mean as far as what is accessible for an average listener, there is no comparison to the simple analog control of a vinyl record.
If nothing other than 1 Gbit fiber will satisfy you I guess Starlink isn't that great. But, honestly, my wired broadband 50 miles outside of one of the largest cities in the Northeast isn't 100% reliable and near-infinitely fast either.

As in your case, my brother's house basically didn't really have Internet before though was finally get able to get a Verizon hotspot which "worked" but you couldn't really stream video, for example, because of data costs. Now, it's completely practical to work from there as well as have access to Internet entertainment etc. options which simply wasn't the case before.
It seemed like the latter to me too, and if so, it's an interesting example of how easy it is to subconsciously anthropomorphize these AIs.
It was incubated within a Ruby project I was working on.

And extensions do exist so you can still get the same performance, but have clustering that is as accessible as Ruby.
Equal temperament strikes again.
By the same logic, a hallucinating LLM is also overkill versus just doing the simple task yourself and not needlessly adding risk to it.

The point still remains: let's see what the LLM delivered that the user actually used. Either it's legally binding and an appropriate use, or it's not fit-for-purpose.

Equally, why not an interactive form using conditional logic? No hallucination possible. Much more simple and reliable.
But that marker is not really indicative both ways (you can have it without the marker and be healthy with it) - find a good rheumatologist who usually sends you to a good radiologist and have some MRTs that identify it certain and quickly.
It seems to me that private fields are a feature best handled by a compiler. Such a runtime check will only be useful in very limited situations.
Pardon my ignorance on this matter but if the processing unit isn’t displaying graphics shouldn’t it just be referred to as a cpu?
My theory and composition teacher in college went through this same thing 100 years ago. I noticed she had a perfect pitch and asked her why. She told an identical story: that, at the kindergarten level, her entire class was taught how to recognize pitches. She was not impressed by her own ability, however, because her sister could identify the pitch of anything IRL, whether you kicked a rock, or you were listening to an exhaust pipe.

I also had a classmate who could identify any pitch to the exact frequency, so A443 versus A440, for example. Of course we tested him.
Even without notoriously disagreeable players like China and Russia at the table, reaching consensus becomes almost impossible past a certain number of parties involved. If global consensus were required for anything almost nothing would ever get done, and what little did happen would be design-by-committee’d into ineffectiveness.

That’s not to say that individuals should necessarily be able to do whatever they please on things of this scale, but trying to make everybody happy is a great recipe for endless stagnation.
> arrogant jerks who didn't listen [and would] not take you seriously

Pride goeth before the fall. I wonder how many arrogant jerks will be humbled to see that they too are now inferior to a computer ("soon"). Humans will always be better at being human though, perhaps they will learn empathy is more important than they thought.
I was referring to the institutions, not the faculty.
Quickcheck is a Haskell testing library which allows the programmer to write propositions about how a function should behave, and the library will try to find cases which falsify the proposition.

If my understanding is correct, it can't "prove" any properties, only disprove them.

For concretely proving properties of a program, you would need something like Idris's dependent type system, where you can prove that a function always returns a sorted list, for example.

https://github.com/nick8325/quickcheck
https://www.idris-lang.org/
The SQLite developers seem to be experimenting with a solution to that:

https://sqlite.org/hctree

The announcement blog post:

https://sqlite.org/forum/forumpost/d9b3605d7ff40cf4

HN thread about it from a few months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34434025
MacOS and ChromeOS.
Made this one in the past.

Named it anycast.fm folks where not amused
What reasonable action could they take to satisfy your skepticism?
No, "GPU" is a specific piece of hardware. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_processing_unit
Except for the fact that if it could use language and has an Internet connection, it could manipulate people into doing things. People who have hands. And it could also make copies of itself, or convince people to do so, so that one copy being deactivated by unplugging a socket is not a big deal.
Not to mention knock-on-effects of teens trying to decide what to be when they grow up. Some would-be-docs are going to read this and go, huh, maybe I should pick a professional field that AI won’t take over. And bam, in 15 years, there are slightly less docs.
The urban legend is, the weather reports hide the actual upper temperatures (replacing them with lower temps) because the true numbers would drive more farmers to suicide...

At least the fact that the heat/dryness lead to suicide is true, although I can't verify if they would give up after hearing the weather predictions or after their crops failed:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=india+hot+weather+farmer+suicides&...

Well this was a morbid comment...
appreciate it :-)
you are the only one mentionning "best" and "closedt to ideal".

That's not what everybody's looking for otherwise people would stop listening to music in cars, public transports, even eance clubs or wherever there is the tiniest noise pollution.

Quality and being closest to original rank very low in people's media, location and equipment decision when it comes to listening to music. Heck we even pay a whole lot more to listen to imperfect music played live in a concert than their studio production counterpart.

And when making music digitally, most daws and sequencers come with a "swing" function to add a bit of imperfection otherwise music feel a bit bland.
its also the people made speed of this change... natural selection works over a really long time period, requiring it work in a x years not so much :)
That sounds like a race to Instagram-ify the moon. Nothing sad about preventing that.
I can highly recommend it. Also, it's worth using f-droid to install because otherwise you can't get the latest version.

Until I discovered termux, I would have always be on the lookout for new git client / ssh client apps. Now I have a fairly good dev env on my phone. Git and vim get me pretty far in that regard. Python and node were easy enough to set up. Recently, I set up nvim so I can use GitHub Copilot and I think it's particularly helpful on mobile.

Most of my personal projects run in containers. I know it is possible to get docker set up on Android. However, it is apparently pretty slow and it doesn't look totally straightforward to get working so I haven't tried that yet.

A few years time and hopefully I'll be running docker containers and maybe VS code will become a solid option on mobile too.
One of the defining characteristics of LLMs is that their knowledge bases are shockingly wide. Anyone who has played with GPT (or similar) has experienced that the width of its knowledge is beyond most if not all humans.

Medicine, and in particular diagnosis, is particularly difficult due to the width of knowledge required due to the span of possible diseases.

It completely makes sense that GPT, or similar, would simply be better than doctors at diagnosis in time, and it is very plausible that the time is now.

This is fantastic news for humanity. Humanity gets better diagnosis and we don't put high IQ people thought a grinder that is medical school and residency to do a job which is not suited to human cognition.

It's an amazing win.
There are much better literary feuds than this:

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/09/18/typing/

Anyhow, some words I'm dying to use in my own writing aren't big at all. Like "louche".