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> If you bought the original on iTunes you’ll find it actually has been replaced, after the fact, with this version.

"The Cloud" is the perfected version of the memory hole. If everything's streamed, they'll be nothing to compare the edited version to, and these kinds of edits are always done sneakily. The only thing that could tell you something is wrong is a gas-lit memory.
Always wanted to try it, but have used noscript and strict Firefox for a decade. Am often astounded on the two dozen js trackers it doesn’t load on a news site.

Is there a big difference between that and UO? Thought it might be better for regular folks who may not recognize what js needs to be loaded and which is probably superfluous or dangerous.
>but if it’s not grounded in reality then it’s really not the intended purpose of watching it.
Who cares? If you can't tell whether it is real or not, where is the difference.

AI can generate homosexual couples just as well as others. I don't get what your point here is.

>They help people visualize their future
No, they help people fantasize, which is an extremely destructive behaviour.

>I used YouTubers’ videos to help me choose between different universities. When I moved to a new city, I followed local influencers to get an idea for things to do and places to visit. Definitely less toxic.
Completely unimaginable to me. Also an extremely easy way to get manipulated.
Interestingly enough, the two vim bindings you probably use most, up/down (j/k) are actually positioned right next to each other on a dvorak keyboard. The rest take a bit of getting used to. You'd be surprised how natural vim feels on a dvorak keyboard.
You’re probably right, but nothing you’ve said will convince anyone that you are. If you want people to take your argument seriously, you have to do more than point out the author’s biases. You have to engage with her arguments and say why they are flawed.
The obvious thing it's low in is fat.
Because it encourages people to show up to work sick if they have a vacation coming up, or at the very least do a cost-benefit analysis with regards to taking a sick day versus showing up sick. If you have a sick pool, which most people will never come close to using up, then beings sick just becomes "oh, I'm sick, better take a sick day".
AR city builder would be amazing with hand tracking, where you can pick up buildings and place them, or just interacting with the mini world.
I think it is more of a Douglas Adams type of SEP. These are things that are too complex for the average person to understand, and they might actually know deep down that if they were to allow themselves to understand it that they might actually have to do something about it which would disrupt their lifestyles. So their brains make the situation out as Someone Else's Problem which allows them to stick their head back into the sand.

It's much more nuanced than "nothing to hide, nothing to fear", as it's just wrong. Everyone does something that is against regulations every day. It's just a matter of time before that is truly enforced using this "nothing to hide" data, and then people will be "I guess I did need to hide that".
This is one reason Wikipedia discourages using primary sources (i.e. individual studies) as references. Not that using secondary sources is perfect either, but you can "prove" almost anything by linking to studies as there are just so many of them. Do 1,000 studies on homeopathy and some of them will show a positive effect (even when done well, ignoring there are also many bad studies on these kind of topics).
Things that can be produced and consumed all over seems to have been averaging down (from US perspective) but things that cannot be done somewhere else or have strong limits on their production (services, housing) have inflated a lot. We had inflation with a pool of items I think.
Here's what a third world problem looks like, you don't have power because someone cut down the power poles in your neighborhood to use as firewood, so you walk to the market to buy some cooking oil but the "vegetable oil" ends up making your kids sick because it isn't vegetable oil but instead oil from inside the transformer that used to be on those power poles. You complain but the mayor's brother owns the shop and threatens you, maybe he decides to bulldoze your house on a whim. You have no recourse for any of this.

While no where is perfect, that behavior is the exception instead of the rule in first world nations. As such consumers feel confident in spending money and that trust is seen in the economic results. People come from the world over to join these first world economies and invest in them, fleeing places without economic justice and rule of law.
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Thanks! Yes, for sure - pivoting at the right time is important.
Easy parsing ? Overall I like jinja syntax the most
All of the LLaMA variants like Vicuna are finetunes, hence are tainted by base LLaMA.

Stability AI's model is not good, and generally the LLaMA clones are not ready yet.

There is a really cool model that actually outperforms LLaMA: Falcon 7B and Falcon 40B. But it is extremely new, and not even supported by llama.cpp (the backend many projects use) yet, though it is on the June roadmap. You would have to run the 4 bit variant on an Nvidia GPU, and you might have to finetune it for certain llm frameworks.
Just because its difficult doesn't mean we should take speculation and guesses as scientific fact. It's okay to say "we don't know, we'll probably never know for sure".

Especially because the stakes are so much lower. Ancient Carthage really does not matter. The ancient world is full of compelling stories, but ultimately they are just that. Whether Carthaginians sacrificed babies does not matter to the modern world at all.
It's hardly an ecosystem, think of it more as a turbocharger for your backend. Your customers won't care if you chose one or the other anyway.
This seems to be based on timely dataflow from Frank Sherry, CTO at Materialize.

Another project I’m excited about in this space is VMware’s steaming database processor https://github.com/vmware/database-stream-processor

EDIT: I said that after checking the cargo.lock for Timley/Differential, but the author says those are just around for benchmarking! Nevermind :)
Photography is a valuable skill, but stock photography and footage have been too overvalued for a long time. I'm not surprised that they're having a rude awakening in the face of things like Stable Diffusion. For most purposes, stock photos and illustrations don't have to be perfect, but just good enough. Or good enough for an amateur to make finishing corrections to.

That said, it also seems like the industry needs to be disrupted. Not by AI per se, but by competition that wants to sell itself as stock photos without the bullshit.
> The thing is, FB or Google don't employ people with guns and can't throw you in prison.

They SELL YOUR INFORMATION to people with guns who can throw you in prison AND they gather far more of it than the people with the guns.
>In many cases, Instagram has permitted users to search for terms that its own algorithms know may be associated with illegal material. In such cases, a pop-up screen for users warned that “These results may contain images of child sexual abuse,” and noted that production and consumption of such material causes “extreme harm” to children. The screen offered two options for users: “Get resources” and “See results anyway.”
>In response to questions from the Journal, Instagram removed the option for users to view search results for terms likely to produce illegal images. The company declined to say why it had offered the option.

What in the actual Fuck
Get Cube's answer to this question.
Not even that. I was a grad student that reviewed a paper submitted to a well-known journal from a heavyweight in my field. The paper's own data showed that the authors were reporting 95% noise. My advisor rejected the paper only to see it published a few months later (in another famous journal) after the authors removed the data that allowed us to detect the noise throughout the data.
I honestly don't remember how long it took. I know it took a couple of tries, but when I went "all in" it didn't take long. My speed is still not fully up to where I was, but I haven't been trying to improve. Specifically, I got up to 70ish and then just stopped caring.

I'd hesitate to say I notice much of any difference. It makes me a little happy to have made the change. But, in the same way that moving a mouse to my off hand makes me happy. And is something I do every so often.
I learned colemak for the same reason (RSI) but it didn’t help much, it was especially hard because I use multiple computers, RDP and other remote management systems and sometimes other peoples computers.

I don’t know what the status is now, if all the OS have built in Colemak layouts but I don’t think they did at the time.

I got rid of RSI by using a Kinesis advantage keyboard for a year (with qwerty layout). This must have gotten rid of any bad habits I had, I focused hard on not bottoming out hard on the keys too.

After a year I switched to a topre keyboard and it hasn’t come back, it’s been over 10yrs.
I understand why people are making this argument about drawing/painting – I don't really agree with it, but I understand how it coheres – but it doesn't follow for photography.
Even with a "if you don't like it don't buy it" attitude you still acknowledge that this should have clear labelling that this isn't the original product right?

Otherwise how can consumers know they won't like it before they buy it?
As long as the technology is good enough...but it's not, so quit shilling
To be fair, the article says, right at the beginning (emphasis added):

> selling self-generated illicit sexual content

There are at least three things going on here, done by three different entities:

1. Someone creates the material (the “SG-CSAM”). Let’s refrain from nitpicking about the A in CSAM there.

2. Someone operates (usually for profit!) the forum on which the material is transmitted. And some of these forums (accidentally?) help match buyers and sellers.

3. Someone buys (and I guess requests?) the material.

I think it’s pretty clear that #3 is frowned upon and is quite illegal in most jurisdictions.

The article is largely about #2.

#1 is interesting. It’s not the same thing as the usual concept of sexting. The article does not argue that #1 is or should be a crime.

I personally find online content recommendations systems to be deeply problematic, and the (emergent?) behavior of Instagram’s that the article discusses is rather distressing.
The way I would play this is use my potential skills in open source to boost my reputation, experience, and credibility, and then be able to charge more for consulting gigs after the fact. Not profit from the OSS directly, but build up my image and business from it indirectly.

I’m assuming Rui could get some sweet contracts now that his skills are plain for all to see, that would afford him the lifestyle he may be looking for that a salaried job couldn’t offer.
Is there a longer-form piece that would be helpful for me to read giving more of this perspective and showing receipts on it? As someone with little knowledge outside the Wikipedia article, it seems to me most damning that Shift JIS is still so popular in Japan.
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Everyone can't do it all the time.

Ideally it's like stock pricing where some people put in their knowledge and other people can get a reasonably accurate price most of the time.
On the contrary I found it quite amazing to get such insight here. The author put himself out there both with his company and this blog post, admitting failure. I don't find it unprofessional. Those opposing the director's post don't seem to grasp business very well (nor did the blogger, seemingly).
That would have been a good space for experimentation if the Wikipedia monoculture hadn't stopped it from happening. One idea is you could mark specific articles or categories as forked, so that your changes in those wouldn't get pushed upstream. Overall it might be something like the Linux kernel, where there are tons of forks out there for particular device families or whatever.

As a Wikipedia example, look up Joy Milne (the lady who can smell Parkinsn's disease) with a web search, then look her up on Wikipedia. Wikipedia says nothing or almost nothing. That's not an oversight, that's Wikipedia bureaucracy in action. You might be able to get an edit through by battling the bureaucracy for long enough, but if you have an interest in this illness and wanted to gather and share info about it, it would be simpler to just fork the PD article. Et cetera.
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Well, the total market for Commercial Real Estate in the United States is about $20 Trillion. That's pretty big.
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What have we learned?

* That the U.S. Government is above the law and no one will ever be held to account.

* Privacy in the U.S. for citizens is dead, but alive and well for corporations and government.

* That 50% of Americans would glady kill the other 50% so that they can be little racist Nazi shitheads.

* That things will get much worse before they get better.
They also seem not to notice that government is never benign.

If the thought of your political adversary having a specific power makes you shake in your boots, it's not safe for your own side to have it either.
I train people in web, and here's my observation.

Younger generation is comfortable with ads, paying for extra items in their games, purchasing stuff from those ads, installing apps from the ads etc.

They also are comfortable in knowing only their scope of work and they get only that much done.

Older generation people, they very rarely will pay for items in games online, will curse when ads are targeted.

They also tend to work better if they understand overall scenario.
Hmm I never consciously learned to touch type, just got into it in time. Not being an actual practiced touch typist, I use like 3 fingers on each hand on average. Last time I took a speed test i could do like 50-60 wpm.

Thing is, this speed is more than enough for a developer. What do you write? Code and some communication with your co workers. In both cases you need to think about it, except the rare cases where you churn out yet another for loop.
The kinds of freedoms that your family members don't remember worrying too much about often only become visible along the edges of behavior. Sure, if you're an average person living an average life of non-political, squared-away activity, you probably won't notice many of these absences. This applied in the USSR as it did in Nazi Germany. But if you do anything to stand out, move against the system or complain outside of official channels, and especially complain very publicly, then you'd quickly notice the repression. In the west, you'd have and still have far, far more leeway for doing all of these things. Insinuating that a country isn't so bad on authoritarian strictures just because someone can visit relatives or go grocery shopping and enjoy a vacation is flatly disingenuous. These aren't the qualifications that really matter for definitions of freedom. They're a blandly complacant sideshow for distracting from what does.
You two are talking past eachother. You did not address his argument.
It really is that simple, but certain people benefit from muddying the water and describing any increase in price as inflation.
Can you explain what we are looking at here? Why measure energy usage in kilowatt hours? Wouldn’t watts be a more useful way of measuring consumption? For it to make sense to me for something to use X kilowatt hours, you would have to tell me how long it took to consume that much electricity.
I think your question is asking about the fundamentals of how an LLM works, which I'm not really qualified to answer. But I do have a general understanding of it all.

Fine-tuning is like having the model take a class on a certain subject. By the end of the class, it's going to have a general understanding on how to do that thing, but it's probably going to struggle when trying to quote the textbooks verbatim.

A good use-case for fine-tuning is teaching it a response style or format. If you fine-tune a model to only respond in JSON, then you no longer need to include formatting instructions in your prompt to get a JSON output.
This looks great. It would be great if it would be default for HN :)
Was that "Value City Furniture's Third Annual Going Out of Business Sale"? I remember those from my childhood, though I understand that one of those finally stuck.
Homeless people have cell phones. Why do you think great advancements bringing down the price of computing would solve housing?
I've also seen what seems like a lot of companies retroactively calling the remote work setup a "pilot program" as they cancel it, as if to say "it's not our fault you thought this was permanent!".
Yeah, all this means is you'll get to hear everyone else's team calls 3 days a week.
Yeah. As chungy said, one of the reasons for Chrome removing JXL was a lack of users.
It is useful to remember that copyright abolishment, that some people want, would imply that these sorts of edits would be open for anyone to do with total impunity. At least with status quo the owner of the work is required to authorize these changes, and the concept of artistic control still holds some legitimacy.
> the instructor would call out "J-J-J Space, K-K-K Space, L-L-L space, sem sem sem space"

That nicely demonstrates the poor Qwerty layout. The very first keys you learn are among the least used, especially semicolon. Adding the left hand (ASDF), we can then type 44 words from /usr/share/dict/words, like "salad", "salsa", "flasks", "falls" and "alfalfa".

For Dvorak, the instructor would be calling out "H-H-H Space, T-T-T Space, N-N-N Space, S-S-S space" — and then U-E-O-A on the left hand. We can already type 467 words! So the instructor would soon be calling out "Season, Tenant, Hushes, Taunts, Outset, Sunset, Assent".
Do you honestly think the NSA would have replied, "Dang, you're right, these mass spying programs are immoral and illegal! We'll launch an inquiry into ourselves immediately.".
It's worth asking before anyone loses their mind about this, who made this change and why? Licensors like Criterion can't and don't "re-edit" (if you can call removing 4 seconds re-editing). Others can and do pretty frequently.

It's decisions about market fit by executives, not a moral crusade (as we have seen, Hollywood execs aren't really the type for that). Sometimes the whole film is affected, as in Blade Runner, Brazil, Once Upon a Time in America, or Kingdom of Heaven. Those movies were "butchered" (to use the language of the histrionic Forbes article). Yet in Leon (The Professional) the director supposedly intended the titular character to sleep with his underage protege. I'm glad someone overrode the sacred "artist's intent" there, and I wish someone had done the same for George Lucas's ill-advised Star Wars editions.

Here someone probably looks at a report and says, OK here are the movies in our pile with more than 20 slurs in them. Let's try to get that number below 10 so we don't have to add a "the language in this film represents the time in which it was made..." warning, that turns a lot of people off.

These decisions get made to maximize shareholder value, and the original film is not lost (except in the case of Star Wars), it's just one of a dozen variant cuts — you think they show the same exact movie everywhere in the world? Ever been to China? Believe it or not art is flexible and resilient. A film can survive a temporary blip while some VPs try to minimize complaints from sensitive viewers. If you disagree with those viewers that is another issue in my opinion.
If I want to know what an era was like, I don't necessarily start with fiction. I would look at primary sources.
I agree that USD forms a very powerful (and suffocating) global jurisdiction, but I wouldn't describe it as a weapon (Russia seems to be getting along just fine). It's somewhere between soft and medium power, on countries that have committed to the USD empire.

> That's when possibly we will see a mass adoption of cryptocurrencies where powerful countries will search to dominate mining, innovation, etc.

This is cryptocurrency maximalism. I used to believe in this before Bitcoin was even a thing. Now almost twenty years later, seeing it mostly play out as a vehicle for speculation (most of the popular coins are still non-fungible!), I'm not so sure.

> As long as we have a single country policing the world, adoption will be incredibly slow and mass adoption will not happen unless we have some visionary politicians ...

Visionary of what? It was plausible to handwave this multipolar desire back when other countries weren't starting major wars (so countries could exist independently) and the whole world seemed to be democratizing. Now with openly aggressive Russia plus a looming seemingly-competent China, the demand for US military support, and by extension USD, has drastically increased.

> Republicans seem to have a more open minded approach

Don't confuse entertaining foreign interests as "open mindedness". Republicans are further from the incumbent US power structure, and are thus more willing to sell out to foreign power structures.
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Deepmind shouldn’t be part of a for profit entity. There I said it.

They are clearly focused on moving technology forward and helping humanity. That’s great. However, pulling down 1M+ salaries (for L6+ developers) and using hundreds of millions or billions in borg resources while adding nothing to the bottom line is not in the interest of Google. Not to mention the negative effects on productivity as other Googlers attempt to replicate the “publish everything to support my brand” strategy of Deepmind.

I know Google is not a normal company in that Larry and Sergey have complete control of the company, but sooner or later they have to realize that Deepmind needs to be spun off, and further that Demis is entirely the wrong person to run Google’s AI. He doesn’t care a whit about Google, it is only a vessel to fund his research.

Products. A company is about products and customers not research papers. Academia or non-profits are about papers.
McDonald's was notorious for that. The Cheeseburger/Double Cheeseburger was often cheaper or included in deals&promos, while the Hamburger/Double Hamburger wasn't.

I was challenged once as to "why don't you just buy the hamburger if you want to hold the cheese", I asked them to ring it with the hamburger and it came to a higher total, so I asked to ring it as I originally asked instead.
Hi, I'm one of the authors of the report. You have pretty significantly misread it.

> You might as well say, "Private unmonitored housing and properties implicitly allow the trading of CSAM."

The issue with Telegram is that they explicitly disallow the posting of "illegal pornography" on public channels, but not privately. We are not calling for any additional monitoring, but private Telegram groups (which are not E2EE, btw) turn out to be a centerpiece of the commercialization of online child sexual abuse.

> Going to ban cash then too?

Nope. The paper makes no recommendations around banning gift card platforms, but we do think they might want to take steps when teenagers are publicly linking to their payment wallets next to a price list that includes bestiality videos or content created when the child was pre-pubescent.

> This article is shallow, ignorant self promotion of their dept. to get more funding. It's almost offensive how they're exploiting chldren's safety for this purpose.

Thanks for reading!