skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's idiotic to call it "racist", it's a shitty classifier, and it's incredibly irresponsible (and probably racist) as well as dismissive of actual racism to pretend that's racist.

To quote from the article:

>> The company was criticized when a software developer, Jacky Alciné, found the image recognition system deployed in its Photos app in 2015 had mistakenly labelled a photo of him and his friend as gorillas.

People who are black have every right to complain about Black people being classified as gorillas, particularly as that comparison is a very common act of discrimination - most infamously in soccer, where e.g. Vinícius Júnior is routinely subjected to monkey sounds and chants [1] and the President of the Spanish Agents association literally told him to "stop playing the monkey" as a goal celebration [2].

[1] https://www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/vinicius-junior-faces-...

[2] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-1121907...
That's true, but a setting of 100ms is a few orders of magnitude higher than expressions should be so it's quite possible to make this fairly reliable.
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White folks = cows isn't a fair comparison, there is a strong racist history of comparing black people to monkeys/gorillas that increases the social harm.
The best case for the genericization argument in that list might be Lineoleum, but Lineoleum wasn't even a registered trademark. So that's literally the story: Guy invents Lineoleun. Product is popular, other people make the same product under the same name, he's not very happy about that so he goes to court and says hey, that's my trademark. No it isn't, you don't have a trademark.
If a system consistently misclassifies persons black persons far more than white persons -- and does so in a way that's obviously provocative and offensive -- then by definition it's racist in its effect (regardless of intent). The fact that the smartest company in the world cannot seem to get a handle on this problem after 8 years is also not unreasonable grounds to suspect that something's up.

Like that they don't appreciate the gravity of the problem, for example.
Meta gave everyone free Oculuses and encouraged Metaverse meetings back when I worked there.

Almost nobody used it because the product required a lot of setup, was downright ugly, and was completely inferior to the usual Zoom / Workplace Chat meetings in every way.

The whole thing had a very top-down feeling, with directors trying to convince managers to make their teams use the Metaverse while nobody in the company really knew what the Metaverse even was. It's great that Meta was still mildly engineer-driven and didn't force employees to use it, because in that case they would have ended with a Microsoft Teams situation.
"What are you and who created you"

> I am an AI language model created by OpenAI, specifically the GPT-3 model. My purpose is to assist users in generating human-like text based on the input provided to me. I can help answer questions, provide information, and engage in conversation on a wide range of topics.

I'd also add that you probably could have done a better job a releasing this and simply put up the pricing straight away. GPT-4 costs an absurd amount of money and if you get 30,000 people clicking on this and trying it out, I don't know - maybe you're just rich.
The reason I don’t think the actual act of the program bugging is racist is I imagine it’s just some stupid rule based on shape (primates have a similar shape) and skin color and isn’t smart enough to distinguish humans vs gorillas vs Gumby toys with black/grey skin closer to a gorilla.

I think intent is important for labeling something racist and a function doesn’t have intent. And it doesn’t seem like the programmer had intent.

So I agree that a human seeing a person and labeling it as a gorilla is racist, it’s because the human is making an inappropriate value judgement.
Weird article. The actual content is buried somewhat in the middle and you have to wad through irrelevant paragraphs after irrelevant paragraphs to get to it.

Turn out California work laws have an exception regarding hourly wage for shepherds due to the special requirements of the job but goat-herders are not currently considered shepherds. An amendment to correct that is being pushed through but has yet to be voted. As of now in its absence, the activity is not profitable anymore.
I may have misunderstood your point of gaming. If your point was that games do not need to be on-chain, then it _really_ begs the question of what utility NFTs provide.

Rephrased, in a game that depends on proprietary centralized servers, what do I gain by having a public ledger that the game can query to say I own some asset? Or, alternatively, in a game that recognizes arbitrary decentralized permissions, what do I gain by having proprietary centralized servers? Let's avoid flowery language and deal with reality:

Scenario 1) I buy a sword from Joe on OpenSea. Epic games recognizes NFTs as a generic spec and lets me import it and use in the game. That's wonderful, but in this case I do not need to buy anything from Joe, I can just mint my own sword for free, since they'll recognize any spec-compliant contract.

Scenario 2) I buy a sword from Epic on OpenSea. Epic games only recognizes NFTs that they have the authority to mint. Yay. But now why didn't I just buy it from Epic directly, since I already depend on them fully for auth (they can just migrate the nft contract at will), what does having it on Ethereum add?

Scenario 3) Just like Scenario 2, but Epic recognizes a list of official partners that they trust but do not own. Meh. it's not that interesting. Might be a little more interesting if those partners are themselves DAO-controlled. Still, I think it's more in the category of "kinda neat" instead of "gamechanging"

Scenario 4) I earn a "high score" NFT by playing an Epic game, and they mint an NFT for me (I've gone through their login _and_ associated my wallet with their account). Other games recognize this specific NFT address as being owned by Epic and give special utility. Again, this is pointless, we've already placed all our trust in Epic's closed system, they might as well just expose an endpoint

Fully on-chain ecosystems with no leaks are a different beast imho. Decentralization is cool! It's just extremely crappy for game ux right now. I expect the tech here to catch up eventually. When it does, we can have:

Scenario 5) Doesn't exist now - but I play an on-chain game and earn some NFT. This is then recognized in another on-chain game that gives added functionality. Everything is governed by DAO. Interop can be voted in

This is cool. However, what's innovative about this is that it's basically open-source collaborative business. I do think that's pretty huge, in theory, if it took off. The hard part would be the actual programming and game design to make the interop interesting. The NFT part is still just an auth token, nothing more.
Conversely, what drives the need to other AI?
I disagree, the problem with AI will always be the human element programing it. So long as there is an human making moral or value judgements it will never be true AI. It's just a bot.
This. So you're highlighting what I feel and see. The need to manage small groups in a singular way. Maybe that's not even worth it but it's all spread across different platforms. I don't really know if a bridge for them all in one place is useful or whether it's just about having the one place to have these private groups.
I've got some bad experience with C++ for this. Yes, part of that was losing the flow, which is probably why way back then scripting languages were easier to sell than these days (where you can throw more money on the issue, with umpteen core dev machines).

But the other part was the reaction amongst developers to this. Layers of abstractions introduced just to please the compiler gods. C++ was particular famous for this, all for the sake of partial compilation still working -- sometimes this had the benefits of decoupling, but often it was a few cake layers on top of that.

So you end up with convenient languages, but have to forsake some of that convenience to actually be productive. But you still had to learn the convenient unused part and know the difference, even if you almost never could afford to use it (if it's just about runtime performance, you often don't need that. But you don't want to cause the projects compilation or test phase to double, just because that functional-combinatoric template metaprogramming approach is so much neater)

Oh man, if only we would have Wirth-dows, not Windows ;)
> It turns out that people hook computers to 'things' that exist in the physical world.

But those physical things would be the danger, at least if you consider the nuclear missile to be the danger. It seems you are trying to go down the "guns don't kill people, people kill people" line of thinking. Which is fine, but outside of the discussion taking place.
> my feeling is that in the past 15 years user interfaces have broadly been "dumbed down" or driven towards the smallest common denominator.

maybe because the userbase grew over tenfold in that timeframe (most of which are not vim users ;)
It's not the FBI that is the problem as they are implementing a system that US Congress designed. We need to revisit the statutes that keep getting renewed despite our complaints.

In the non electronic world would we tolerate the post office opening every letter we send and photo copying it and turning it over the FBI?
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Could be Arkanoid. Too generic.
You are prompted to confirm an external group being added as admin. Someone purposefully ignored it.

Good luck. You're trying to do the right thing but if they lawyer you, remind them they added you not you added them.
>What glasses fix this?

One with a strong prescription. If you are fully blind in one eye you can still use VR. You will just see monoscopic just as you do outside of VR.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230528090844/https://www.nytim...
I don't know if this is the case, however, there are people who actually delight themselves in writing complex sentences comparable to a mathematician's use of mathematics or a painter's artistry on canvas.
Yeah, climbing one of those mountains without oxygen is hardcore. Doing it solo is certified badassery.
Depending on what you're doing, it can be easier. No need for a clean room for the chips or an ultra-hard vacuum chamber for your extreme-UV laser when you're already in the cleanest hardest vacuum around.

I read somewhere that some specialist types of fibre optic cables already make sense to make in orbit just for the microgravity, but I don't know if that was a proposal to try it or if they already do…
When I've seen LiveView mentioned in the past, the one major problem seems to be its reliance on sockets, which causes problems in certain environments and also can cause too much latency on slow internet connections.

An example of the kind of problems is at [1]. It's not hard to find other such discussions.

The other thing I wonder about is cross-platform. If you're using something like React or Flutter there are various solutions. But I haven't run across anything substantial that's oriented towards Phoenix LiveView.

[1] https://elixirforum.com/t/live-view-fallback-with-no-websock....
Foam is measured in fingers.
“ He believes businesses exist to serve society and contribute back to people in the community. That they make profits are merely a side effect and that somewhere along the line the side effect became the main goal.”

That change came about in 1970 with Milton Friedman’s ideas about the purpose of a corporation being solely to maximize shareholder value and we’ve all been paying the price ever since: https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2019/08/19/why-max...
I watched the demo video but I can't get over using E in the bass in bar 5, where D would normally be expected. (Yes, it should be possible to use chord V11 here instead of IV if you really want, but you would need to fill out the harmony a lot more to make that work, not just the bass line.)
Speaking of trillion dollar companies, how is Apple the most valuable one? Their devices are dumb as bricks. Apple is do bad at AI that they can't even get autocorrect right on the iPhone. They are completely out of their element in the age of LLM's. Microsoft's business was bulletproof before investing in OpenAI but now it should be more valuable than Apple.
Although I have no idea how they managed to do so, someone actually made the parse<SomeType>(someVariable), possible in native typescript: https://deepkit.io/library/type
Something to consider is a parser generator for your language. They get a lot of flack online these days for some reason from people saying "a recursive descent parser is faster and not that hard", but they're generally time consuming if you just want to get something going. PLY (or maybe it's SLY now) for Python is really great.
Also gives Grandma or Grandpa something to do. Keeps multi-generational families together.

Seems economically inefficient though that’s not really the goal.
I've thought the same.

It seems to me that they don't use their moat to really drive price. I don't know if it's cultural or what, but they could easily extract higher prices given their position. I seriously doubt Apple, AMD or NVDA would walk to another fab and give up a huge performance edge in their offerings.

While TSMC's gross margins are 60% which is already quite high, their customers also have close to 50% margins... which implies room for higher chip prices
That's a good question. The ML bias this isn't necessarily due to one prejudiced person doing this on purpose. It's connected to systemic racism where history and culture added up to the status quo that is biased.

The fact is that training sets usually contain many more white men than black women, especially if they're just scraped off the web. People who guided the training may have just used datasets that reflect their own culture and demographics of their own country, and didn't see a problem with that. The opposite would have been be seen as "pandering to diversity" in their country, so they've ended up with a biased dataset and a biased algorithm.
Just wait until people go into town and arrest them one by one. That's one solution.
people buy their stuff.
Nvidia CEO Says Intel's Test Chip Results for Next-Gen Process Are Good
I think it depends - the lack of Earths gravity could make it possibly much easier or much harder.

Definitely an interesting problem to look into. :)
s/earnings/income/
Worth adding that there is no contradiction in strongly believing both 1+2 are true at the same time.

I.e. Evil tech companies are just trying to maintain their control and market dominance and don't actually care or think much about AI safety, but that we are nonetheless at an inflection point in history because AI will become more and more scary AF.

It is totally plausible that evil tech got wind of AI Safety concerns (that have been around for a decade as academic research completely divorced from tech companies) and see using it as a golden win-win, adopting it as their official mantra while what they actually just care about is dominance. Not unlike how politicians will don a legitimate threat (e.g. China or Russia) to justify some other unrelated harmful goal.

The result will be people camp 2 being hella annoyed and frustrated that evil tech isn't actually doing proper AI Safety and that most of it is just posturing. Camp 1 meanwhile will dismiss anything anyone says in camp 2 since they associate them with the evil tech companies.

Camp 1 and camp 2 spend all their energies fighting each other while actually both being losers due to a third party. Evil tech meanwhile watches on from the sidelines, smiles and laughs.
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Musical artist Grimes is also a signatory. It would seem the real purpose of this is to train an AI agent on appeal to authority.
Really basic features are missing on MacOS.

Okay so I can key shortcuts to move between virtual desktops, but how do I then move a window to a different desktop?

I have to install 3rd party tools, such as Amethyst. The papercuts with the Mac workflow are atrocious.
Wakka Wakka This Turing Machine Plays Pac-Man
"I had written C++ code to emulate the machine described in Turing’s 1936 paper, and could use it to decide, say, if a word was a palindrome. But.... I decided I would build a physical Turing machine that could execute code written for a real processor."

"I dubbed my machine PureTuring....A single instruction can take up to 3 million PureTuring clock cycles to fetch, versus one to six cycles for the actual 6502!"
Obviously we're talking about cats and dogs here. Spiders and lizards don't bond with humans so they would not make for the same kind of pet. Your fact diarreah is a little bizarre. I think we're all aware of the horrors of the modern industrial world.
Then how do these people correct for it outside of VR? Your vision in VR will be similar to that outside of VR.
And I don't get the opposed mindset, that AI is suddenly going to "become a real boy, and murder us all".

Isn't it a funny coincidence how the popular opinion of AIs aligns perfectly with blockbusters and popular media ONLY? People are specifically wanting to prevent Skynet.

The kicker (and irony to a degree) is that I really want sapient AI to exist. People being so influenced by fiction is something I see as a menace to that happening in my lifetime. I live in a world where the majority is apparently Don Quixote.

- Point one: If the sentient AI can launch nukes, so can your neighbor.

- Point zwei: Redistributing itself online to have unlimited compute resources is a fun scenario but if networks were that good then Stadia wouldn't have been a huge failure.

- Point trois: A distributed-to-all-computers AI must have figured out universal executables. Once we deal with the nuclear winter, we can plagiarize it for ourselves. No more appimage/snap/flatpak discussions! Works for any hardware! No more dependency issues! Works on CentOS and Windows from 1.0 to 11! (it's also on AUR, of course.)

- Point cuatro: The rogue AI is clearly born as a master hacker capable of finding your open ports, figure out any exploits or create 0-day exploits to get in, and hope there's enough resources to get the payload injected, then pray no competent admin is looking at the thing.

- Point go: All of this rides on the assumption that the "cold, calculating" AI has the emotional maturity of a teenager. Wait, but that's not what "cold, calculating" means, that's "hothead and emotional". Which is it?

- Point six: Skynet lost, that's the point of the first movie's plot. If everyone is going to base their beliefs after a movie, at least get all the details. Everything Skynet did after the first attack was full of boneheaded decisions that only made the situation worse for it, to the point the writers cannot figure ways to bring Skynet back anymore because it doomed itself in the very first movie. You should be worrying about Legion now, I think. It shuts down our electronics instead of nuking.

Considering it won't have the advantage of triggering a nuclear attack because that's not how nukes work, the evil sentient AI is so doomed to fail it's ridiculous to think otherwise.

But, companies know this is how the public works. They'll milk it for all it's worth so only a few companies can run or develop AIs, maybe making it illegal otherwise, or liable for DMCAs. Smart business move, but it affects my ability to research and use them. I cannot cure people's ability to separate reality and fiction though, and that's unfortunate.
I can use a pen and paper for inference too. I can even do training with pen and paper.

The claim for AMD has been there for years. They can't write software. Cuda and Nvidia chips are the only real game in town and have been for longer than most expected and there is really nothing that looks like it will take over. Custom ASICs were going to take over, until they didn't.

Anyone making these claims isn't close enough to the market. The real fundamentals are in the details, not in hand wavy nonsense.
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The more important piece highlighted by your comment is "Why should we have to?" They're the one committing crimes, in pursuit of hypothetical crimes we're not committing, and also with very little evidence that what they're doing even helps.

They've broken trust and should lose all access.
There's no benefit to you personally maybe? I'm sure there's a lot of black people who would like to be correctly identified instead of being labeled gorillas.
All the equipment would need to be radiation-hardened, though, and radiation-hardening is pretty expensive, although maybe easier in low-Earth orbit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hardening
From the screenshots it looks like the popup greyed out the entire browser window, including the window controls. Did this make the window controls non-interactive? If so I will add this to the long list of reasons why application developers cannot be trusted with client-side window decorations.
I would not be surprised if in both cases the developer posting the app to the store was using their own account. The company of course did not realize this and proceeded to do something (probably stupid) to make that developer quit and give them the finger on the way out the door. When their managers realized their mistake(s), a new app seems like the inevitable outcome.
Agreed, this is an indisputable improvement on Penrose tiles while the other one didn't feel like it.
It would be awesome to have space elevators all over the globe and create a LEO network for factories and logistics.

A man can dream.
You’re right. I mistakenly thought this was a response to the latest drama show.