skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
bigclivedotcom had a video on yt where he started collecting these disposable vapes off the street and salvaging the batteries for his projects. It was sad to see that so many of these 'disposable' products are thrown away by many without any care.

Edit: example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7XB6D7q92g
> Results for individuals on whom the decoder had not been trained were unintelligible, and if participants on whom the decoder had been trained later put up resistance — for example, by thinking other thoughts — results were similarly unusable.

Which sound like good results for use as an input device, since it becomes more intentional.
Tokyo's population has grown while prices for housing have remained constant. For another example of building more housing keeping prices down, look at Houston. https://fee.org/articles/how-spontaneous-order-keeps-houston...
> with long contiguous periods of unstructured time

Can you tell me more concretely what you're thinking? How do you define "long"? And, what is it about my list (despite it's prescriptive structure) that makes the time usage not "unstructured" ?
so coal it is? better for the environment.
I'm not well versed in GPT, I've only recently been using ChatGPT 3.5. For scripting I was blown away. In some ways it's better than I am. But I also strongly believe so far you need to be well versed enough to know what it's doing and to safety check and massage its output. I am also regularly using Neeva paid search which has AI responses that cite its sources - a useful feature compared to ChatGPT IMHO.

With both of them, I'm very underwhelmed with "use it like a forum" or "ask it a tech support question". Maybe because my "tech support questions" tend to be much harder than my "scripting questions", but it's not super useful. Anything it finds I actually find "better" because of context and screenshots just using a traditional search and clicking through to the blog or whatever that's talking about the issue.

Ok, now to the "It's just a parrot". I disagree strongly with that. It's no more a parrot than wikipedia authors are. Many of the Neeva AI search results read like an autogenerated Wikipedia page, complete with the source links.

Philosophically - I think a lot of people either aren't bringing philosophy and some sci fi knowledge to these arguments or don't know of them. Many of the "it doesn't understand anything" seem to be somewhat substrate chauvinist to me - I'm not sure if Data from Star Trek showed up in front of them that they'd admit he's intelligent or a person, simply because he's not organic. And you're also right - people claiming it "doesn't understand" can't or won't define what "understand" means in this context. Other terms, like "intelligence" also have changed over time. I'm pretty sure if in 1800 you asked if a machine could do calculus if it was intelligent - people would say yes. However by the 1960s computers were enough of a thing doing math that we decided math was no longer a marker of intelligence for a machine to do. Now we claim that GPT is just advanced autosuggest. Well, I guess an iPad is just an advanced calculator - but I'd argue it's transcended being a calculator in practical use. And I think GPT has transcended next word suggestions. My phone keyboard suggests 3 options for the next word, but it can't write the next paragraph for me coherently, nor does it take directions or questions and output pretty reasonable responses.

So I think I'm in the middle here - I don't discount GPT3.5 and 4, but I don't think the're Star Trek level AIs either. I don't think they are magic as it were.
Freudian slip exposing the military-industrial complex.
Spoiler warning, all .NET programs can be decompiled. This includes many Unity games.
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Yes, the artist that chooses to use AI-tools to generate art-work are in fact artist.

For those who are afraid of AI being content generators that puts artist out of work will most likely be disappointed. However the technical gatekeeping some artist do goes away, and it makes room for more people being able to express them self creatively.

Art is about the why.
We as humans will always ask that question, and we will produce answers, no matter the tools.

We've gone through multiple iterations of technology questioning if you are really an "artist" for using it, but the new creations and the new generation of artist puts that to shame in my opinion.

Digital pixels are not paint brushes. So if you do not move your mouse/brush to generate a stroke? What does it matter?

AI-tools speeds up the creative process which for some will let them go places we currently are having a hard time to imagine.
Happy to wear the title! But curious if you have any other comments that would be interesting to discuss related to the AI conversation.
Having known the space since 2011, I’d say there are different reasons for different types of investors who came at different waves.

- super early stage: curiosity + belief this could replace money as we know it

- early stage: speculation + elements of previous wave

- 2017-onwards: a mix of speculation++, a lot of ignorance, and the mass wanting to be “a part” of a technological future they often feel left out from + the quasi constant FOMO many experience when realizing they could have invested in FB, AMZN, APPL but didn’t. And many disingenuous (or delusional) crypto evangelists manipulating that FOMO and convincing people this is the next big financial movement of the century.
Fwiw, the problem is rather a few people consuming inordinate amounts of energy, resources etc:

„The top 1% were responsible for 15% of emissions, nearly twice as much as the world's poorest 50%, who were responsible for just 7% and will feel the brunt of climate impacts despite bearing the least responsibility for causing them.“ - https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20211025-climate-how-to-m...
No technology is going to replace rich people having money. In fact it usually enables them to get richer, because labor is what is devalued.
> considering you conveniently left off the very next part of my sentence

Sorry, it wasn't meant as a direct comment to you, more of a comment on the thread in general.

Still though, using the words "supreme leader" about any constitutional monarch in a liberal democracy sounds so weird to me, that's a title for dictators, which is the complete opposite of what they are. They're heads of state, and they are completely dependent on popular support for their reigns.

> As a Canadian, the whole thing is so bizarre because he is the supreme leader of our country.

I agree, I don't understand why any former colony would want to keep that.

The case for the UK is that they've been doing the king thing for 1100 years now, it's an integral part of the land and the people and the history, and that gives it symbolic value that contributes to the power or cohesiveness of the nation state.
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The Observatory of Geneva (World renown in the field of exoplanetology, where Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz detected the first exoplanet, which got them a Nobel Prize in physics in 2019), in collaboration with the CEA (a French public government-funded research organization), will be seeking one talented junior software engineer to develop and improve two scientific codes which will predict the destiny of planetary systems (ESPEM & Posidonius, see https://github.com/marblestation/posidonius).

The successful candidate will:

- Collect the requirements (e.g., the code must run in multiple operating systems, provide pluggable solvers) that will inform future decisions about the design and implementation of a new ESPEM;

- Evaluate the use of more modern programming languages and design patterns (such as Rust and Python 3) for the new ESPEM;

- Design and implement a new version of ESPEM, reproducing the physics present in the current version of ESPEM but following the best coding practices;

- Design building blocks that will allow the implementation of new physics in a modular architecture for the new ESPEM;

- Implementation and integration of new physics in ESPEM and Posidonius;

- Write the corresponding documentation;

- Write unit tests to reach a coverage above 80% of the code;

- Identify optimizations that could help reduce the execution time, particularly certain functionalities that are more computing intense;

- Write visualization routines to easily explore the results.

Entry salary of 85,000 CHF with annual revisions + flexible schedule/environment (up to two days of allowed remote work) + friendly working culture with nice work-life balance + international travels (e.g. CEA headquarters in the Paris region, conferences).

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Yes like in london.

I bought a 24h pass at 8pm, only to find out it's 24h only if you buy it at 00.00, because they all expire at midnight.

They are basically running a legalised tourist scam over there. I can imagine hundreds of thousands of people falling for this.
What do the terms on your term sheet actually mean?
Nostr is way simpler than ssb, there isn't even a gossip or replication strategy. You just publish your signed messages on servers. There isn't even a blob strategy!

This makes it way easier for people to write clients or bots or whatever, but it also tosses out many of the guarantees people who used the original scuttlebot took for granted.
Vague fears stem from vague understanding of a vague system...

> Look at how it was five years ago and how it is now,” he said of A.I. technology. “Take the difference and propagate it forwards. That’s scary.

Stand at the edge of a cliff. Now imagine taking a step forwards. That's scary.

Of course it's scary! That doesn't make it real!

Everyone imagines the jump: not in preparation, but as an exercise in objectivity. We imagine it in order to choose the alternative. Fear itself is not danger, it is a tool that allows us safety.

Fear works by creating a model of one possible future. We look at that model objectively, and base our behavior on it.

When it comes to "AI danger", where is the objectivity?

It seems to be missing from several important places: our expectations for the future evolution of "AI tech", our current understanding of "AI tech", and even the "AI tech" itself!

If we don't have objectivity, then what are we basing our fear on? A lack of objectivity?
"Regulated" means that you can't use it but they (the government and companies working for it) can. Whether that's a good or bad thing is debatable, but that's what it means.
Previous member of PrivacyTools (before the split) here.

I have personally found it sad that they relicensed from CC0 for both content and code to CC-BY-ND 4.0 for content and MIT for code. I don't mind MIT, but CC-BY-ND? How am I supposed to contribute to a NoDerivatives project?

> I agree to grant Privacy Guides a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free, irrevocable license with the right to sublicense such rights through multiple tiers of sublicensees, to reproduce, modify, display, perform, relicense, and distribute my contribution as part of this project.

Also when contributing, you have to agree to relicensing by them.

I wouldn't have contributed if that was a case back then.
I mean building a future that doesn't require countless poor to exist in order to maintain a parasitic billionaire class seems pretty awesome to me.
The feature of the high top (non-snow) boots I like is the sole/footbed rigidity. I don't want a flexible sole in the backcountry, and especially not when scrambling. Unfortunately the weight is a (literal) drag in a long through hike. I'd be willing to use a "hiking shoe" if it had a rigid foot.

Ironically my beloved chacos have a very stiff sole; with the toe strap they give me the same traction on irregular terrain and same small-rock sole protection that I get with my clunky boots. I did a five day trip with them in the Desolation Wilderness and it was pretty good, except of course as a sandal I got sharp crud over the sole. Also they are pretty heavy for sandals.

It seems like the high top winter boots have less stiff soles. If it's not too cold and I want to make distance I have used my leather summer boots with the snowshoes.

It's hard to do a lot of A/B testing in these cases as you can't do a five day through hike every weekend.
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Really?

For a writer, if you write out a plot, you can get the AI to actually simulate the character's responses and dialogue (even voiced by AI!). There, you've LITERALLY brought a character to life, each character is driven by a different persona simulated by a different AI, the quality of stories that will create, will annihilate what came before.

You want to write an adventure, but want to keep it unpredictable. Ask the AI for ideas, there, the adventure is now a true adventure, not a fake mirage created by the writer.

No need to describe scenery, no need to describe character appearances. Feed those descriptions into txt2img, and you get portraits that would have cost $1000/pic from top tier artists.

Generic and formulaicness, comes from having TOO MANY PEOPLE. Too many people involved in production, means the creator must dilute intent, appeal to wider audiences, and limit risks, to ensure costs are reclaimed. Once AI gets going, you'll see indie creators making full anime series, and releasing them on youtube. Because for an individual creator, even ad + patreon revenue alone would be able to sustain a comfortable existence, with no dependency on corporate or teams.

I thought people who love art, would be exhilarated by AI. I realized, the majority of artists don't love art. They love drawing, but not art. They love socializing with artists, but not art. They love receiving attention and income from their art, but not art. That's all fair and fine. But there will be people, who just want to create the best possible art, no matter the method, no matter the reward, and with AI, this latter group will outcompete the first, hard.
>Life escapes entropy at the local level, but increases entropy in its environment.

Yep, it _allows_ for increasing localized complexity due to a temperature gradient - without a temperature gradient, no (useful) work can be done. Complexity can then exhibit emergent behaviors/properties that further reduce the flow of entropy (locally).

This tight feedback loop can (but not necessarily must) result in higher and higher orders of complexity, which eventually produce specialized systems that resemble proto-life. Once a reproducible mechanism exists (either directly reproducible or through a few sub-steps), one notable emergent property is self-selection due to limited resources, which adds to the exponential acceleration of excellence.

But it's all local, as the 2nd law of thermodynamics applies to the whole system - Earth isn't a closed system, it is a gradient, as we bask in the sunlight.

Gravity is simultaneously the reason entropy increases globally, and the reason it can decrease locally; pulling us (for 'free') diagonally into the fourth dimension of space-time.
Please use the monthly who-is-hiring threads for job posts https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring (there's an entry 'Can I post a job ad?' in the faq at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
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If you are looking for someone to get invested in whatever interesting problems you're working on, I'd love to talk.
There should be very low levels of CO (at least from your car) in the engine bay, since exhaust is vented out the back of the car, and your engine shouldn't be leaking exhaust gases in other places. You might have some CO there from the cars in front of you, though.
At some point (maybe that point is now), I'm sure we'll see the right combination of hardware and software performance where it'll be trivial for anyone to run advanced AI models on their own devices so it's not controlled by a handful of companies. One thing I'm definitely interested in is when games begin to use these models to generate dialogue to make each player's experience unique.
In case you aren't English-native, this is a figure of speech: https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/in+one%27s+own+back+yar...

Meaning that legal corruption or unfair application of the law probably exists within one's city or region. You don't have to look to international events. Seeing the corruption close by is more shocking than hearing about it far away.
Had a major flare up of RA after a particularly stressful moment in life. Went to doctor who prescribed steroid lotion - a non starter.

After research and some trial and error what solved it fairly quickly were high doses of extremely high quality fish oil (DHA & EPA) and an overall cleaner diet with less low quality gluten.

As for the "spots" sunlight seemed to be the best disinfectant to the point where now if there is any flare up I just get a nice tan and they go away.

I have no scientific basis for any of this so DYOR.
Yeah, I was curious, and downloaded it for a try. It very soon became apparent to me that it was a personal information harvesting tool. It asks for your favourite colour, where you grew up, pet name, et cetera. I would not be surprised if this company is unofficially associated with very bad people doing very bad things. So after two such questions, I deleted it.
Where do I make such a conflation?

We aren't talking about nurses or school teachers. We are talking about professors at large research universities.

Your sibling comment speaks of working "nights and weekends" with frequent travel. That puts an enormous amount of work and stress on their partner, and faculty usually don't make enough money to offset those contributions.

Deciding not to optimize for wealth is perfectly fine. Doing to do so while working nights and weekends with frequent travel isn't. Optimizing for "prestige" is infinitely worse than optimizing for "wealth", because at least the latter can be shared and has utility beyond pure ego.
The update at the end really captures the whole essence:

> Replika cannot love you not because it is not human, but because it is a tendril connected to a machine that only knows how to extract value from your presence. It is a little piece of a broader Internet that is not designed to be a place for users, or creators, but for advertisers. Anything it offers– any love, any patience, any support– can be taken away at a moment’s notice when there exists something more dangerous to its bottom line than your potential unsubscription.

> The moral of Replika is not to never love a fictional character, or a virtual pet. The moral of Replika is to never love a corporation.
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Technologies:
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Where I can help the most:
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a door sill is the threshold of the door (like windowsill), but I'm not sure he meant it like that at all
the assertion is that building more reduces prices, not merely keeps them the same, though. and it's complicated to say that tokyo population has grown while prices for houses remain constant. what has happened to the other areas? how has the median wage changed?
Under Linux, libSegFault and addr2line are underrated
I know you're asking this question in bad faith because you posted the same thing elsewhere in the thread, but the answer here is because they will be outcompeted by companies that don't offer that policy. In much the same way, businesses that use child labor will outcompete those that do not. Of course a great many people are against child labor, but you don't see people telling them to go start their own company that doesn't use child labor if they're so against it.
There is very much evidence that building more housing decreases the price of housing. I'm not sure why you think there isn't. https://www.upjohn.org/research-highlights/new-construction-...
No way they will let default happen. I still think the majority is rational.
I posted about this a week ago, and the discussion started up in earnest, got about 14 points and 7 comments, but for some reason it was flagged, then unflagged hours later (by which time it was buried).

So I just made a post about it again in the /new section. I hope that's OK, since I think it led to an interesting and productive discussion about what Generative AI is good for.
Indeed. The weird navigation keys are weird, as they're in funny places and half of them are missing. And I might have some suggestions about better places to put the arrow keys. But there's a numeric keypad, and there's a full set of F keys! Progress!
Currently reading The Sciences of the Artificial? by Herbert A. Simon
Easier, lightweight syntax for shell-like pipes, command execution and catching stdin/stdout/stderr.

Something like Perl's IPC::Run.

Also, more shell-relevant stuff in the default distribution, so that one doesn't need to care about any modules (which is the primary reason for using bash or even sh, those are installed practically everywhere along with at least coreutils and stuff). Edit: examples that a standard python doesn't really do would be quick and easy recursive directory traversal and doing stuff to files found there (like the unix 'find' tool), archive (de)compression, file attribute operations (not only simple permissions but also ACLs, xattrs, mknod, etc).

But the sister comment clarified it in another way, so this maybe irrelevant.
Because the characteristics are different. Denser housing is very efficient, in the sense that it requires less infrastructure spend. Roads are just not very efficient - you need to spend a lot of money to get the same result as a transit line etc (and that’s after ignoring the fact that roads have lots of other expenses to the user that transit does not).

People want to live in dense, well-serviced cities, and they actually pay for the privilege of doing so. Not so much for roads, unless it’s a toll road.