skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably best to just ignore everything we've both said (including this advice). There haven't been any published and cited papers about this thread yet so it's too early to tell whether there's anything of value here.
Being skeptical isn't interesting. We want to know if the results are repeatable.
Plenty of protests that make people uncomfortable also have no teeth.
Thanks for pointing that out. Corrected back to the USGS historical reference.
One of the best voices of the last half-century. Tragic life. RIP to a beautiful soul.
It's easy in theory to say "oh anti-ccp isn't anti-communist", but in practice, do people actually understand the difference?

Consider the phrase "tankie", what was once a term used by communists to describe a militaristic member who supported the USSR sending tanks into Hungary, has become a general phrase for anyone showing critical support to any socialist project.

Socialists are essentially told they are not allowed to support any previously or currently existing project because bad things were done, are told they're doing whataboutism if they compare the actions to western actions, and are called a tankie if they decide to stop caring about what liberals and right wing people say.

China IS a socialist project, are they strictly a socialist country? No. Did they perform the most thorough and equitable land reforms in the history of Humanity? Yes. Do they wield central power for central planning economic activities? Sometimes. Are they operating on a 100% worker ownership of industry? no, but they have a non-insignificant public ownership of industry, co-opting privately owned industry to steer activities with greater control and hold certain business leaders accountable.

I'm sorry to say, but "current day CCP conforms to the definition of fascism" just isn't correct and goes to prove the point that the meaning of words is mostly ignored. Fascism != Authoritarianism. There was a massive effort post WWII through the cold war to create anti-communist propaganda that simply wasn't true. You had actual ex members of the Nazi party leading anti-communist endeavors. The black book of communism counts Nazis as deaths from communism. The Victims of Communism memorial foundation is literally a mask on far-right thinktanks such as the heritage foundation.

That being said, the West is grossly lied to about China day to day. It is in various interests to have an enemy. To the point where one man can write a report identifying a "future cultural genocide" which was simply a reduction in growth of a population due to 1 and 2 child laws being imposed on a group that was exempt prior, as an actual, in-progress genocide. If you point this out, people call you a genocide denier.

That same man is a director of China Studies, at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.

I apologize for this long winded rant, but yes, if you found an internet presence on being "anti-ccp", you're starting off on a literal fascist foot. The community will deride any left leaning voice, call any voice that says "hey china did a good thing here", as a "tankie", and it will become an echo chamber for right-wing hate speech.
> Established writers I like Brandon Sanderson have shown that you can crowdsource funding for full length novels.

... If you're already an established household name.
Joining a company at that stage as a non-founder is never going to make financial sense. They won't give you meaningful equity, but also can't afford to pay market rate salaries.

The only reasons to do it are to learn from the founders or as a way to grow with the company into a manager/director much more quickly than you could at a bigger company.
> Software is easier to produce, sell, and distribute than any physical product.

This is exactly why people should pay for software: consumption of physical goods destroys the planet. Money spent on software can't be spent on destroying the environment.

Ban ads*, make people pay for content and software and save the planet. Win-win-win.

* most of them anyways
As noted in the article, Google comes up with a scheme like this every couple months. They also can’t seem to identify good sites anymore, based on their search results.

So… fuck it. Let them DRM their part of the internet. It is mostly shit nowadays anyway. They can index Reddit, X, and a bunch of sites that are GPT SEO trash.

We’re never getting 201X internet back anyway, so let Google and friends do their thing and everybody who doesn’t want anything to do with it can go back to the 200X internet. It was kind of disorganized but it it better than fighting them on DRM over an over again.
I do work in an office. My wife is a stay-at-home mom.

The contract I'm working on at the moment has optional telework which is where my experience with WFH comes from.

With that being said, there's no effective way to communicate to a four year old that "Daddy is home, but you have to restrict communication with him to only when it's absolutely necessary".

I also find that WFH is made even more challenging if your home has many pending repairs. The temptation to just take a minute to make some progress on e.g., a drywall patch, is hard to overcome when it's right there in front of you.
> a full scale resurgence of fascism in Europe

This seems hyperbolic. The current spate of "fascist" elected leaders (Orban, Meloni, et al.) don't seem as such to me, though I will admit I'm not keeping a very close eye. Perhaps you know more.

> The thing that’s likely to kill the most people from climate change is how people react to climate change.

I agree. As the human population more than doubled in the past 50 years, climate-related deaths are only a third of what it used to be[0]; not a third of the rate, one-third in absolute numbers. This is mainly due to the increasing material wealth of developing countries that better lets them handle the challenges of climate.

In my opinion, the increasing centralized authority demanded by those that think climate change is a risk so urgent that it transcends legal safeguards against precisely that kind of centralized authority will harm more people than climate change ever will.

[0]: https://library.wmo.int/doc_num.php?explnum_id=10989
That was in 2001. It wouldn't happen today - see Apple and their walled garden.
rootless root; master foo
TBH I was hoping the community would take the opportunity to move to the diffusers format...

You get deduplication, easy swapping of stuff like VAEs, faster loading, and less ambiguity about what exactly is inside a monolithic .safetensors file. And this all seems more important since SDXL is so big, and split between two models anyway.
> I also don't have much sympathy for the scientific community that has created this environment.

Scientists didn't create this environment: you did. We, as a society, demanded that some sector produce new scientific research at a rate and level that is capable of supporting our economy, and then we allocated a very restricted set of resources for them to do it. And they've done miracles, too! We would literally not be alive today if the scientific community hadn't developed the improvements that allow us to feed, house, and provide energy to 8 billion people. And that's before we get to strictly optional stuff like the computers and networks that power this website.

It's a serious business and obviously that kind of pressure leads to bad results sometimes. But the correct response is to be grateful that we have an engine in our society that produces this basic research (since industry has dramatically lowered spending on basic R&D over the past decades) and try to improve it, not to be pointlessly angry at scientists for living in the system that society's incentives have built for us.
What “industry” are you talking about exactly?
You seem to be under the impression that a forum with hundreds of thousands of users has one consistent opinion on everything. This is wildly incorrect.
> It may be a person's instinct to immediately blame the researcher, and of course

However as they teach the little kids, trust your gut instinct. This person didn't just plagiarize this work, but also his PhD thesis: https://www.science.org/content/article/plagiarism-allegatio...

> If we want to fix it, simply outing these fakes will not be enough.

Yes, but without outing these fakes and harshly and punishing them as the first step, we're immediately communicating that this is "ok". "Just fake the data and throw it over the wall, if you get caught, just blame it on pressure and the general academic culture".
> It's also possible X/Twitter reached out to the handle holder who told them to pound sand

Techcrunch has a quote from the handle owner, you have a theory.
That doesn't sound like they addressed the criticism.
Mocking protestors feels a bit like punching down. They're just regular people trying to do anything possible to wake people up. Not their fault those with power seem to be doing very little to change things meaningfully.
I've been wondering, with the rocket science knowledge the Ukraine has, are they not capable of designing and building mid-rage missiles for their military, or is that just a much longer process?
Even if nuclear were built as fast as possible it can't replace fossil fuels fast enough to mitigate before major feedbacks kick in. We're left with significant decrease in energy use as the main thing that has to be done and that there's no will to do.
> "I am 53, but I am full of energy. I spent the past couple of days bouldering v8-v9 problems in Lake Tahoe, which is something that not many twentysomethings can do"

He's stronger than most of twentysomethings.

"What makes me tick is not the desire for more money, I really have all I need. "

He's rich.

"The happiest times of my professional life happened when I was in a room with people I liked and respected, thinking about solving problems that mattered to us."

Like no one else, he's kind of an exception that likes to do what he likes to do.

From his website:
"Our focus is to develop and deploy powerful and resilient infrastructure for Artificial Intelligence (AI) software companies, ensuring they are equipped to counter common and industry specific threats and cybersecurity breaches. "

That doesn't mean anything, but at the same time "There is a war for machine learning talent, and the quickness with which people accept our rates make me think we should be charging significantly more! ". So he doesn't need money, but thinks he should be charging more.

"In this context, does it matter that I am in my 50s? Not really, but I thought it would make for a good hook in the title. If I can remain healthy and work sane hours (which is not hard when you had good partners and know how to delegate)"

You're fucking 53, not 80, stop making it seem like you are on the brink of dying of old age. And "to know how to delegate" is just to make people work for you and get the reward.

" I can see myself doing this while my brain remains sufficiently sharp."

What, you are 53.

What a fucking clown.
> to legit wondering if life will be a complete hellscape by the time I'm a senior citizen.

Climate change is one thing, but another is resource scarcity which will also hit (some of) us within our life time. We owe our lifestyle to fossil fuel, and we'll have to reduce it at the time we need it most.
While I don’t want to be defeatist the web was smaller then, we had a common enemy in Microsoft that actively made the web worse.

Google makes it better for ordinary people. Or at least gives them that impression due to sites targeting chrome.

Firefox was an easy sell because it was just better for the user and importantly the dev tools were a quantum leap ahead.

The web was largely still made up of enthusiasts, very few people doom scrolled all day via apps like they do now.

Any fight back that isn’t mobile first is doomed.

And mobile first takes resources and taking on Apple and Google at once.
Humans on a large enough scale are basically toddlers, it seems. Nobody is willing to give up the slightest luxury today in order to have a better tomorrow. It's incredibly disappointing.
I think we should make a POPA/SIPA style explainer/protest popup JS script that webdevs can drop in just like before.
There have absolutely been published and cited papers in this conversation (I cited one and then cited a book with literally hundreds more), the fact that you don't realize that should make it clear to anyone left reading this what's going on.
I think a bigger thing is the transition from labor oriented work to intellectual work. Not hard to roof a house drunk. But its pretty hard to make spreadsheets drunk.
I think the actual comment is this one? https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...

On my phone this is collapsed and hard to find by default.
Neither of those options made Anthony Bourdain https://youtu.be/jSB53vfz2Oc
Based on what we know it's highly unlikely/impossible but what if you don't have to accelerate?..
> To be fair it's only a matter of time until CV and NNs replace Webdriver/Selenium as the goto for scraping. First using accessibility APIs and later on imagine something you plug into USB C that emulates DisplayPort and HID devices.

*exactly*. The analog loophole is where this cat/mouse game must end. Since we already know how it'll play out, can't we invest our time into more useful endeavors?
Instead of intruducing "Presents Clause", I think you can extend the "Santa Claus" concept to have several layers of meaning. Presents is one of those layers, but there is also tradition, coziness, familiarity, excitement and playfulness.

While some kids may become very vocal about it when they suddenly stop believing in Santa Claus as a literal being, they children (and adults) can continue enjoying him for as long as they're not embarrased by it.

Having a small child in the family believing (or pretending to believe) can be a way for everyone else to enjoy him. And some families continue to have him even when nobody believes.

The same is sometimes true about religions. People can continue to value them even if they stop believing in the literal Sky-Father.
Firefox was not faster than IE. We lost on pageload, cold and warm start, new window, pretty much everything.

Firefox was better because it had tabbed browsing, integrated search, pop-up blocking, and extensions, but I was responsible for monitoring our perf back then and I can say for certain that we were not faster.
Still can't draw hands correctly it looks like.
But the regulators have certified SpaceX's Crew Dragon.
> often it's largely a one-time setup - and then you focus on ... Get The App Done

That's what success looks like. Not everybody is successful, and from how people talk about it, it looks like a lot of people have never experienced it at all.
Again, that's not how it works. It's your job to substantiate your hypothesis. Whether I can come up with alternatives or not it is immaterial to whether Napster caused it or not.
Poll: Do you disagree with the idea of Web Environment Integrity?
Mass panic. IMHO it is the only rational reaction to various climate systems (and associated biosphere ecosystems) starting to break down.
It makes up for all of the "your browser is outdated" banners I see when using Firefox.
I like to explore maps a lot, and its simply better on a full desktop screen compared to a phone.

So its a regular drag for me. If I really need to move quick to find something, I'll begrudgingly open chrome.
Great stuff, at some point I feel like Google is going to have to try to extract even more revenue out of maps than they currently get and it will really empower these sorts of collaborative map systems.

I wish there was a way for people to fund satellite imagery that got pushed into these systems after purchase. Sunnyvale, for example, paid for a lot of imagery of the city that they use/used in staff discussions about traffic, zoning, etc. It would be nice if they could then push those images into the open data set.
This ignores the impact of wildfire smoke on people, which affects a much larger population.
Use Rumble instead of YouTube? Even if it's more ethical, do I want to see Russell Brand and Jim Jordan on the home page?

Edit: Ah, here's something about it from a degoogling perspective: https://www.reddit.com/r/degoogle/comments/x1610t/what_are_y...
> I mean that's the literal point of this website, no? In the real world, a sale is a sale. Imagine going into BestBuy, leaving $100 at the front, telling the clerk to put it all into Sony (because Sony is 4 cool kidz) and then just grabbing a nVidia graphics card and Apple AirPods.

Ok, I see what you mean now. I think the distribution of who gets the money in 1Sub would be similar to donations, with two remedies:

- The owner of the paywall that made you subscribe gets a 10 credits bonus as described in [0]. This will lead to more money to the people who make the things that you actually try to use.

- If someone is popular, they will either run out of subscriptions to sell, or they will sell them at a higher price. In either case that makes it possible for the less known developers to sell more subscriptions.

[0] https://1sub.dev/about/how-it-works
> it could also be considered able-ist biggotry to judge Elon by the standards of someone without Asperger's, no?

Elon may not have realized it is a misstep, and may have good reason for not realizing it, but that doesn't make it any less of a misstep.

Edited to add: it's also very probable that this is not a detail Elon personally had a hand in.
the idea is that mentats in dune combine human and computer skills to assist others

but yeah it is funny
The complaint is that there were already perfectly good 1Pw "backends" that didn't need any reverse engineering at all: wifi sync, and dropbox. But they took them away. The complaint is: why the fuck did they do that?
I think these are the related threads to date—have I missed any?

Google is already pushing WEI into Chromium - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36876301 - July 2023 (705 comments)

Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36875226 - July 2023 (439 comments)

Google vs. the Open Web - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36875164 - July 2023 (161 comments)

Apple already shipped attestation on the web, and we barely noticed - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36862494 - July 2023 (413 comments)

Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36854114 - July 2023 (447 comments)

Web Environment Integrity API Proposal - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36817305 - July 2023 (437 comments)

Web Environment Integrity Explainer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36785516 - July 2023 (44 comments)

Google Chrome Proposal – Web Environment Integrity - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36778999 - July 2023 (93 comments)

Web Environment Integrity – Google locking down on browsers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35864471 - May 2023 (1 comment)
I think they absolutely do. The more serious question is, do the general public realise?
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Good points. It's also difficult for parents (even the "techie" ones) to stay in control. Say what you want about screen time and monitoring apps, kids know enough (and will happily share tips) about TOR, DoH, VPNs, etc. It's kinda cool on the tech front, this whole cat-and-mouse game, but NOT as the expense of our children's mental health.

There's a reason the creators of these toys don't allow their own kids to play with them.
And if Google decides later that adsense from untrusted browsers doesn't count? Youtube and gmaol refuses to run at all on untrusted browsers? Is it still optional, realisticly?
Well the penalties will be enforced, by Mother Nature.
I remember being outraged at her tearing up John Paul II’s picture. The media in the U.S. did a great job of hiding why she did it. I was not outraged at her when I found out her justified reasons for doing so. That was the first time I became consciously aware that news is a business and that that business thrives when it generates outrage. I no longer fall victim to this.

She’s far more the saint than that bastard John Paul II.

EDIT: Ironic this is flagged. I’m proud of this actually. I feel a slight kinship with Sinead now. In honor of her death would that we all, in our own way, tear to shreds the image of John Paul II!
Do Xresources and friends make sense now Wayland is finally usable for many folks? Maybe having some sort of environment agnostic config would be good - even with Wayland - but I don’t know that a suitable one exists today.
Surely proponents of the guillotine must know that eventually the revolution eats its own?
> they would love to extend this to all computing devices to remove control

That's not really true. Apple is encroaching freedom of software choice on their devices, but they know that they can't extend the same kind of security policies to the desktop. You can disable secure boot on Macs and even run Linux if you like. Additionally, it's a bit difficult but if you disable SIP you do get access to the entire systems file system. They're a shitty company when it comes to repair-ability and their walled garden, but they know they can't extend this to the desktop, or else they would disqualify themselves from the developer market (where they are quite popular).
This was the first explainer of LoRA that actually "clicked" for me.
People used Firefox because their nerd friend or family member helped them download and install it. We got to 100 million downloads almost exclusively on word of mouth. It's not enough to have a better product, people have to learn about it and we did that with SpreadFirefox and other efforts I helped initiate so I'm very familiar with this. You don't have to trust my appeal to my own authority here, but I doubt you've got anyone closer to Firefox's early growth than me so maybe worth listening.
By that logic, the only criticism we can ever make is an accusation of hypocrisy. "Sure, the book says some heinous things, but what did you expect? It's just a heinous author expressing their beliefs." Not to say that it's heinous to advocate turning the other cheek, but worthy of critique? Sure.
Sorry for the late reply and you aren't the person I responded to originally, but good for you! Have an upvote
I'm out of date on the image-generating side of AI, but I'd like to check things out. What's the best tool for image generation that's available on a website right now? Ie, not a model that I have to run locally.
shoutout for doing it her way.
>In this context, does it matter that I am in my 50s? Not really, but I thought it would make for a good hook in the title
> I usually assume drugs or suicide.

And sometimes it's hard to discern one from the other.
It seems that the wasted space issue is somewhat addressed by the switch to a tiling mode when the screen becomes “full”?
your reasoning is basically "it's not popular enough"

your flaw of reasoning can be trivially pointed out simply by explaining that once upon a time, Python was NOT "the language for machine learning". Essentially, NO "X is the solution for Y" started out that way. Which is why appeals to popularity are a fallacy.
Elixir has always been a well liked language on here and in general. The past year there has been a lot of work on building data and AI/ML libraries in Elixir.

Explorer, Nx, Axon, Scholar, Bumblebee, Broadway, Livebook and now EXGBoost.

You can get pretty close to building a full stack AI application in Elixir now.

From data ingestion and processing all the way to serving the model in a Phoenix web app. All in Elixir.

I think it's great more languages are becoming alternates to Python in data and AI/ML, more options the better.
I think your comparison to SSL is actually important, because encryption is a discrete problem with a discrete solution. But this WEI proposal is designed to detect botting, which is a cat and mouse problem without a clear end game.