skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You get access to the weights instantly if you apply for them. It's basically not a hurdle.

(I've been having fun with this for a few days. https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-... Not sure there's much of a difference with the 1.0 version.)
Soon you'll be shaking your fists at kids near your lawn and opposing affordable housing in your neighborhood
That's not what he means, he's saying the pressure to constantly publish original research (the more original the better!) creates these incentives to become a rat, that is, to cheat.
This model is coming back in a few small ways. Established writers I like Brandon Sanderson have shown that you can crowdsource funding for full length novels. They're also a large number of less established authors that produce chapters and are funded by patreons are equivalent as they go, similar to the magazine model.

Lasting probably at least there is a cool ecosystem of essentially book club podcasts. Some of the more successful have patreons of Their Own and kick back a percentage of donations to the original authors.

I think it's very cool to see some more diversity in literature funding models
https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/contact
>Another issue with tiling window manager is that they place new windows in seemingly arbitrary positions

Well we have Xresources to to solve this, but the Gnome and KDE people ignore a standard that has been there for years.

And Fluxbox solves this issue by having point/click option to allow you to say "Make this window show up here with this size". But as usual, many GNOME/GTK and some KDE applications ignore that to.

So off we go, invent a new standard that will make my (our?) lives harder.
You can't even get your plumber to tell you how much it's going to cost to get your toilet working smoothly again. And you want to get to the moon on a fixed budget? (Which will also require a toilet).

Software has the same problems. An unreasonable expectation of being able to predict the future (except the bits they don't want you to know about), and a lot of whining when we run into unexpected issues.
Academia is zero sum. All zero sum endeavors result in this kind of behavior.
This is great. This one in particular got me:

> Device Farm -
Should have been called
Amazon Drawer of Old Android Devices

And another one

> Mobile Analytics - Should have been called
Spot on Name, Amazon Product Managers take note
Bicycles imply a certain freedom of movement that a smartphone that can’t run arbitrary code can’t achieve.
When they CAPITALIZE it is that basically adding air quotes? In the sense of "The so-called """Fed""" " with a strong tone of sarcasm and distrust?
Audio/video is stored and transcribed locally (https://help.rewind.ai/en/articles/6526621-who-has-access-to...) but they send all your text (including the transcribed audio) to OpenAI (https://help.rewind.ai/en/articles/7791703-ask-rewind-s-priv...)

There is no privacy until they eliminate the GPT-4 dependency.
Released over a month ago.
Ask it to speak in cockney as an 18th century barker trying to convince you to buy a lame horse or to continue the conversation in brolish as though you were two surfer dudes sitting on the beach and then just ask it anything you want like “explain modern monetary theory”. If you enjoy fiction then get it to help world build a new setting and then act out a scene with you playing one character and it playing the rest.

To get it to stay in character use the custom instructions feature to set the requirements.
One huge benefit is that you can keep your own seed to grow next year.

Hybrid seeds usually do not come true to type if kept.

Commercial varieties also often have some kind of IP restriction which makes it illegal to grow from seed you kept.
Copy other peoples design.
Here I thought "for" was a loop.

Thanks for the explanation what the "sub" did (and more).
One thing that hardly ever gets mentioned is that some cultures embrace cheating more than others.

Once you have a critical mass, then cheating becomes normalized and you would be a fool not to cheat.
Here's one: Make a better FOSS browser that addresses actual user headaches, like cookie banners and paywalls and SEO spam and fake reviews and YouTube downloads and blocking interstitial ads, and providing a rotating pool of fake automatic logins for things like TwitterX and LinkedIn. Block all sounds and notifications and tracking requests and all that spam by default. Do everything Big Tech doesn't want you to do.

Polish the heck out of it and don't allow it to feature creep into an Outlook wannabe. Detach it from culture wars and virtue signaling. Solicit public feedback and democratically prioritize new work. Make it your org's sole calling. Don't create conflicts of interest by being sugardaddied by your main competitor. Don't bother with trying to create new standards that nobody cares about, just do better than Apple and Google.

Create sandboxed ephemeral environments for DRMed content so people can watch their shows. Maybe even proxy it server-side and just stream the pixels.

Govern all of this from a non US location so our corrupt corporate owned politicos can't legislate it out of existence.

Essentially just be what Mozilla was before they sold out to Google.
Honestly I don't understand how beings capable of interstellar travel get all they way to earth and crash their spaceships, and we can just tow their technology like it's nothing special.
That sounds to me like a politician's logic: Something must be done, this is something, so we must do it.

The first rule of finding yourself in a hole is to stop digging. Unfortunately, the world is continuing to pump CO2 into the atmosphere at an increasing rate - we should focus on stopping that before we try untested hail Mary's that are quite likely to cause even greater problems (e.g. disruption of ozone layer).
> they have recovered bodies

My assumption is that they recovered apes placed into advanced test drones. After all, apes were put into early test spacecraft in the 1950s and 1960s. But today animal rights is a bigger concern, and the use of animal test subjects could cause controversy, so they want to keep that quiet. Hence the person testifying would disclose that only in a SCIF.
So I was thinking about how the web is not as permanent as it used to be. Between walled gardens, and dynamic content, it's hard to find things you saw. So I wanted a way to have a screenshot-based "archive.org" but for yourself, so that it works with non-public content too like a Facebook post or if it disappears like all the stuff on Google+.

Philosophically, I think almost everything we see and think about is in a web browser these days. Even private conversations with my friends, I often look up a few things about them. So I've been using irchiver myself to dogfood it, for almost 2 years now. And found it to be super useful already. For example, I've recovered important technical posts that someone deleted, paragraphs on text I lost when submitting a form that didn't save, or found a comic strip that I had at the tip of my tongue but got lost in google search.

And I think it's now possible because of strong+efficient screenshot compression and good OCR. There's an undocumented Win32 hack that lets you capture window content in a fast way (moreso that a typical BitBlt) so I used that to grab the images. And made a standard inverted index search engine for the content. Anyways, the webpage I put up for the project explains it as best as I can to a general audience [https://irchiver.com/].

In many ways, it's like the Rewind startup here. Except it just happens I did it for Windows, and they did it for MacOS and iPhone. And I care a lot about local storage of the original screenshots and text. Would love to hear others' thoughts.
An idea everyone will hate: feed window descriptions to a tiny local language model, which decides how to organize the current windows based on the current context and the content of the windows already open.

Oh, you're coding? Put firefox to the left and keep VS Code focused. Oh, you're messing around with file managers? Bring the new file manager instance front and center. Oh, you've a ton of firefox windows open? Tile the new one side by side with the last one. Worst of all worlds.
I generally agree, but I don't think your comparison between distortion and compression makes sense. Distortion (guitar pedals, etc.) is something the artist intentionally adds to the song, in a specific way, intensity, and time. Compression is something added after the fact, for transit and storage. The artist doesn't really have control over what sort of artifacts lossy compression is going to add, so I don't see how "not enough [compression] will reduce the impact the song has on the listener."
> > Such an answer suggests that Starliner's launch on an Atlas V rocket ... may very well slip into 2024.

> I mean, a few month delay on a brand new space vehicle isn't "OMG, Boeing failed!"

Atlas V . . . is America's longest-serving active rocket. In August 2021, ULA announced that Atlas V would be retired, and all 29 remaining launches had been sold.[ As of 10 November 2022, 19 launches remain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_V
Right. I’ve been thinking for awhile that Mr. Dias must have some sort of underlying mental issue to (apparently) repeatedly falsify research in an area that’s sure to attract loads of attention.

Imho he will surely lose his faculty appointment by the time this is over, and won’t have a prayer at getting another.
It is also that, after all it's part of the fun.
Please link the author, or at least their name
> It is unbelievable that over the course of 3 days, the potential future of the web has been put in such dire straits.

"Move fast and break things." How many here used to cheer this approach?
> Timbre is also less complex thanks in part to the use of virtual instruments and sample packs. Synthesized sounds and samples are intrinsically less complex than sounds recorded in a room. Any two hits of, say, a hi-hat will yield different waveforms and our brains pick up on these micro variations.

You should see how much time EDM producers spend tweaking the waveforms of individual percussion hits. The idea that timbre in modern music is _less_ complex than in the past is just mind boggling to me, given the level of control that people have in sculpting waveforms and samples. There are entire EDM tracks that are basically just atonal explorations of timbre.
I get this but I'm more worried about these super hurricanes feeding on these extremely hot temperatures.
Correct, I was responding to parent writing "At what point does the complexity of CPU architectures become so difficult to reason about that we just accept the performance penalty of keeping it simpler?"

I think we may be seeing an industry-wide shift away from SMT because the performance penalty is small and the complexity cost is high, if so that fits parent's speculation about the trend. In a narrow sense Zenbleed isn't related to SMT but OP's question seems perfectly relevant to me. I come from a security background and on average more complicated == less secure because engineering resources are finite and it's just harder and more work to make complicated things correct.
Hold on, are they before or after the billionaires for the guillotine?
> I don't see how they're "selling" anything. Web Integrity requires no money to change hands.

DRM is the tool that guarantees money will change hands. Without it, there is nothing but a social (legal) threat to prevent people copying and distributing copyrighted content for free.

Forcing users to run the DRM-infected version of an app creates an incentive for Netflix and Spotify to participate on the Android platform; which in turn strengthens Android's position, and the Google Play Store as a market.

This incentive goes both ways for YouTube, because it is owned by Alphabet.

> If implemented, Netflix + Spotify would owe Google nothing.

Yes, but that's not the point. Google wants Netflix and Spotify to have Android apps. Netflix and Spotify want DRM infecting their apps. Without this system in place, users can disinfect the Spotify app, and listen to music without paying Spotify money (or watching ads to pay them indirectly).

Without providing the environment for functional DRM, Netflix and Spotify can simply refuse to make Android apps. That would be a pretty weak threat, except that YouTube wants the same thing; and that incentivizes Android to play ball.
Even iPod owners filled their hard drives with pirated MP3s. And every smartphone can support any DRM music software just as much as every PC can support something like Steam. The admissable reasons for piracy have long ceased to exist, yet people still don't like to pay for music. The revenue is still not on 1999 levels. It should be much higher by now if piracy wasn't a possibility.
Well, it is just someone on the internet posting a rebuttal. But, I do believe the doc is probably not trustworthy.
Mozilla spends a very large majority of its revenue directly on Firefox. Cut Mozilla's budget by 90% and you cut Firefox's budget by nearly 90%.
It’s even worse. 86% of statistics on the internet is made up on the spot.
A fundamental problem with research academia is that we scaled it up massively without introducing more division of labor.
The next major advance will be autonomous drones using AI to identify targets and call in air strikes without any human being in the loop. This ability has been proven in theory... I'm curious who will deploy it first in the field.
These are a few things I can say as one of the Expo cofounders. We've worked on the Expo framework for over eight years, and did R&D for a year or two before that even before React Native was released. Many other companies and frameworks, even from very large companies, have come and gone in that time and Expo has endured. Paul Graham wrote he found determination "to be the most important quality in startup founders" for what you find that to be worth.

Also from the beginning we believed the Expo framework needs to be free and open source. Introspecting as developers ourselves, we thought people would be a lot more likely to try out and recommend open source frameworks and incrementally build up an ecosystem of modules and StackOverflow answers. Expo gives developers much more agency because it is open source. And it is really hard in my opinion to make a business from licensing developer tools, libraries, and frameworks. There are so many free alternatives.

The goal of the Expo framework is to be the ultimate way to build universal, native application software. Universal apps have builds for Android, iOS, the web, and future platforms. And the user experience is truly native to each respective platform, often by using the native system UI components and not a replica. It does take significant effort to maintain the Expo SDK's set of convenient APIs. It's also just one part of Expo overall.

Separately, the way we are building a business is by offering hosted services for React Native apps, called Expo Application Services (EAS for short). These are optional services for building and updating your apps and using the Expo framework doesn't require EAS. We find developers often use a combination of EAS for some tasks and their own hardware for others.

We work to build developer trust. We are a small company but try to serve developers and our customers well, sometimes better than the companies that have endless trunks of money (we've all seen killedbygoogle.com). So, that's some of how we think about things at Expo.
Well if you want to take money from the general population and give to people whose ancestors were harmed by slavery, you need some way to differentiate between ancestors who were harmed by and ancestors who benefited from slavery.

If that isn't part of the discussion, then people are just proposing a welfare system to give money to people based on the color of their skin.
> The internet is made by big companies. Not standards bodies.

Yes. However said companies may want to avoid too much scrutiny from governments.

As long as they can pretend the web is an open standard, they are good. If Google were to leave the w3c, it would expose them to antitrust laws and so on.
I'm not extremely optimistic either but at least in the US Lina Kahn is already on the right track with antitrust and the FTC already has two antitrust cases against Google in process. However, it's still an uphill because antitrust enforcement was either asleep at the wheel (or corrupted, depending on your perspective), which is partially why Google is in such a dominant position to begin with.

IANAL, the EU is also on the right track with antitrust but unfortunately seems very weak in terms of penalties and enforcement.

At this point, anything we can do to slow them down in any jurisdiction in a win. Even if antitrust enforcement is weak making Google at least have to defend this in a pro-forma way I think helps.
I guess we'll have to disagree about whether I'm capable of investigating their claims. Maybe you aren't and that's well and good for you. If you cannot investigate their claims, I don't think there's much more to discuss on this topic.

Thanks for the lively discussion, Zetice!
Slowly working through them, but you can only do one try every couple of days ;)
Netflix offers $900k for AI product manager while actors strike for protection
You can do this if you select the `pipe.enable_model_cpu_offload()` option. See this https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-...
It's not a wrapper, it works offline :)
I have felt like there has been a drop in quality recently which is frustrating. Last I checked there were still Vue 3 things that didn't work well that work in VSCode from what I can tell. I don't expect them to have everything perfect at launch but it's been 2-3 years and Vue 3 is still worse than Vue 2 coding (I do both) in a lot of little ways. Some of that is Vue 3's fault (don't get me started on them abandoning class components) but some of it really should be handled better in the IDE.

As for Fleet... it's shit. It's just a slightly nicer VSCode but I have zero interest in editing JSON files to configure my plugins. I think in the end it's just going to be a less popular VSCode. I see it as a bad distraction for JetBrains and it worries me quite a bit. Stop chasing VSCode and improve your IDE.
This is just how it is. How it’s always been.

People need to believe in something. Multiple things. Anything. It’s why thousands of religions exist.

Most people have mundane lives and are wage slaves. This gives people hope. People want to believe there is more to life. Americans in particular want to believe their government is all powerful.

It should not be so shocking how easy it is to get people to believe this, or the fake moon landing, or anything else. People desperately want to believe, and the government is happy to enable it because it provides stability.
> this article just reeks of subjective opinion, more so than objective neutrality

The comments section of any Ars Starliner article is a must-read for me. These guys were devout Boeing haters and would endlessly praise SpaceX - that is, until Elon become public enemy #1 last year and they suddenly and abruptly shifted their hate and derision the other way. Not a single independent thought on that entire forum, unless you sort by most critical and painstakingly weed through the hidden comments. The articles are crafted to be red meat for their core readership. At least The Register is unashamedly a tabloid and doesn't pretend they're not. Interesting to see how they spin this.
Any system that relies on individuals adhering to the honor system will be abused. History has shown this repeatedly. We have created an institution that has all the wrong incentives in place. This institution will continue to churn out bad actors who will just get better and better at hiding their trails.
Interesting. I'm not sure I fully understand what you are saying though. Can you expand on that?
I don't want to be pedantic or argumentative, but I think you've created a straw-man of the comment you're replying to.

scientific institutions != scientific method

Academia is the most prestigious scientific institution.
I believe the meeting transcription is Mac only currently and can be set to automatic (via syncing your calendar and it detecting the meeting automatically) or manual (toggling on and off mic recording).

I do think this type of thing probably drives compliance and security folks mad and will be a barrier to adoption in many companies. All of my work is client-based rather than traditional FTE which largely gets me out of that sort of thing.
For 1.0? Where do you apply? Or are you talking about 0.9?
Right, and as another poster pointed out, that's academia, not science.
I grew up during that time and I simply had no proper options to get music in a convenient digital way long after it became technologically possible. When something actually appeared, it was either DRMed or unacceptably lossy for the price (or both). How can anyone be surprised that people stopped giving money when it was made so hard for them to give money?

I ended up with a personal collection of CDs for other reasons anyway, but the music industry simply did nothing to meet the demand and gave up the playing field to Spotify and Apple on their own chord. Look at last.fm for what happened when someone wanted to step into the XXI century while respecting the music industry rules.
Welp, I have a semi decent profile on Github. Recently I applied for around 100 small startups based in EU/UK, Got a total of 1 callback. In short, I followed all the steps mentioned but still fell flat. Really curious what are your thoughts on this.

Here's my Resume for reference: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u9F8_2m2W1mcKIoFs3hwUEn5Kgf...
As Gandhi said, "Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."

Historically, many people making "insignificant" actions over time is the primary way that things have been improved.
From every lawyer I spoke to about this, this was not a win for Ripple but the SEC.

They were found guilty of unregistered offerings to institutional. There's no way that the jury/judge won't take that prior decision into account with the non-institutional tranche. Somehow this was spun as a good thing?
Even experiencing phones in school 15 years ago, I can say they 100% sapped attention and left me worse off than any benefit having a phone on you would do. It probably went on to lead to poor sleep habits outside school as well. Certainly a few people probably got into car wrecks from cellphone use, texting and driving was routine.
> based on people he talked to

So it's a complete nothing burger.
Not only that, for some reason UFOs are supposed to have actual alien pilots. Maybe they're here to steal our drone tech.
I have a personal vendetta against almost all modern UIs, coffee machine and printers included, like the sibling comment joked about.

The lag on key/touch presses. The stupid and overcomplication of the controls. The simple made difficult. The hard made impossible.
> There are so many serious people saying basically the same things for years - at a great cost for their careers

Because they've consistently failed at providing proof, every single one of them. I guess aliens have galactic-level OpSec, defeating every whistleblower so far.
It's powered by GPT-4 so it's not "private by design" by standards here:

https://help.rewind.ai/en/articles/7791703-ask-rewind-s-priv...
Experimental science is much more prone to fraud. An experimental scientist can misled the whole community knowingly for decades before anyone bothers to replicate their studies. The self correcting loop of science can be very slow.

A theoretical scientist will be caught much sooner and it will cause an irreparable damage to his/her reputation. Who will ever take them seriously after that?
I think small things that become habits are great counters to "not doing anything"

Another example is using a standing desk (and actually doing the standing bit).