skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is exciting to me to see a company that is willing to spend $billions$ on research and allow it to continue when it is doesn't lead to immediate profits and any visible gains.

It is depressing to work for a company that seems immune to wasting $billions$ and countless human resources wandering around lost.

When there are no consequences for failure there can be an amazing culture of innovation. There can also be a dumbfounding culture of negligence and mismanagement. Sometimes we only distinguish between the two based on survivorship bias.
They won't. Acting already isn't a viable career except for around 4,000 people. This won't change that.

These people who work for scale are doing it for prestige, not money - because there is no money in it. The union is kind of taking advantage of people and making them think that acting is an actual career, but it's not unless you are in the top 0.0001%. (Yes that figure is accurate.)
Please say more about this “great ideas aren’t worth it”; sounds interesting.
Is there any quicksand on the map? What about Lil Terry, is he on the map?
I think young democrats and old democrats are increasingly misaligned with each other. It seems to me that today if you are:

- an old optimist you're liberal

- an old pessimist you're conservative

- a young optimist you're conservative

- a young pessimist you're liberal

I have no idea why or even if this is really true but it is my impression.
Sure its startup SpaceX that has massive amount of money from other programs that the can smash into Dragon. Its not like the were not also working on 5 other development projects at the time.

It Eric Berger, not "Ars". And he absolutly did report on all the SpaceX delays. After the testing explosion he even said SpaceX might be behind. Stop spreading your conspircy threory nonsense.
You are familiar with the Rwanda Plan, I take it?

And maybe the Madagascar Plan?
It boggles my mind that this obscure, quasi-theological view of race has gained such purchase among supposedly mainstream Americans.

Among the myriad problems with this ideology is that it projects the experiences of (some?) black people with race onto a society where the majority of people who are not white are also not black. For example, the passages you quote above use “race” and “ethnicity” as synonyms, but they’re different both in theory and practice.
> nor can they create a PR

https://github.com/chromium/chromium/pull/187
> It's just hidden behind a clunky UX.

That's part of the "problem" with Firefox's support of profiles. It feels more like an afterthought and less like a primary use case the product wants to surface. To approximate the functionality Chrome has, I had to bookmark "about:profiles" and make it my home page.

Chrome also added this nifty feature that lets you open links as a Profile, making it easy to switch.

These may seem like small issues, but the end up mattering.
Gene X. Hwang's @x account appears to have been paid, hence "verified" according to Twitter/X. So taking a so-called "verified" account and re-assigning the identity behind it is deceptive. So that's how it's unethical.
>It provides a uniform service for ensuring a client has desired properties.

I see that as a downside, not a benefit -- who decides whether or not a client (i.e., my software running on my hardware) has those "desired properties" and what might those properties be?
Why diamonds erupt from Earth’s depths
Why not include the whole text though?

> Later that month, O'Connor stated that her remarks were made in an attempt to force Twitter to close down her account.[99] In September 2019, she apologised for the remarks, saying "They were not true at the time and they are not true now. I was triggered as a result of Islamophobia dumped on me. I apologize for hurt caused. That was one of many crazy tweets lord knows."
given the state of society, why do you think everyone is thinking well?
At least for me ebikes are a bit of a menace on the sidewalks. I think they are great and they are very popular for food delivery people but they end up breaking every traffic law out there swerving onto sidewalks and through pedestrians crossing the street. I have seen a handful of accidents.

Luckily the smaller weight and better maneuverability means that all of the accidents I have seen have been minor but I'm sure there are some good injuries from time to time (especially more at-risk people like the elderly).

Having a license that can accumulate points and be revoked for unsafe driving may be a good way to help promote good behaviour. Personally I think ebikes are great, they provide far more throughput than cars downtown and consume far less energy. But currently they are used very unsafely leading to stress and injuries for other people trying to walk the streets.
This sounds like something happened to my deceased brother.
He was a very very lonely person, and I'm pretty sure his daydreams were a coping mechanism.

I wish I could have shaken him out of it.
I was worried about the same actually. I have an old crappy website that I have not updated in years and I was wondering if it's acting as my business card, which wouldn't be good. My doxed online presence is minimal otherwise.
Despite the fact that every single one of my family members remembers 8 foot tall snow banks every single winter from 1960 to 1990, and we haven't seen anything even close to that basically since 1990, and they STILL claim climate change is a hoax.....

Remember, a convincing argument to these people was a Senator bringing a snowball onto the senate floor and claiming climate change can't be real because it still snows in DC. They do not give a fuck about the facts, they aren't stupid, they just don't care and think they will be able to survive, and they will enforce that belief by continuing to push for an insular US that shuts out the rest of the world and will likely have to start firing on desperate climate asylum seekers after about 30 years and eventually even that won't prevent the US from suffering under climate change so they will have to find scapegoats to blame the suffering on as things just continue to suck.

Most of them just DGAF because they are 80 years old and won't see any of the repercussions so they are happy to borrow value from the future to enrich themselves in the now. Even plenty of the Democrats don't seem to care to do anything because they'll be dead by then. Fuck, Feinstein refuses to vacate her seat seemingly because she needs the damn health insurance, which is probably the closest to being a normal american she has ever been.
Python Quirks
Ok I got curious too and texted him asking what he thought of his happiness level compared to an average person.

And his answer totally destroys everything I just said about him. He thinks he is less happy than an average person. He is happy but thinks average person is happier.

(I will stop now, and continue this discussion with him when we meet in person).
> and have your bot synthesize keypresses and mouse movements

Is this truely going to work though? Captcha provider already monitor mouse and keyboard movement while on the page. Can you really "synthesize" human-like mouse movements around the page? I'm not so sure.
I guess it depends how far the certification goes.

If even extensions can be detected, why wouldn't selenium be detected?
Granted, I don't know how it works exactly.

In addition to the 5$ robot arm you need to add 200$ for the device it is operating.
Drastically raising the cost to run a bot farm is key. You can't fully eliminate inauthentic behavior, but you can make a lot of it unprofitable.
Imagine getting a congressional hearing and coming in with "never saw anything.. no aliens nor their crafts, just a bunch of rumors which I can't repeat here, soz all"

That was a complete waste of everyones time.
> Happy, well fed, cared for animals are the tastiest and healthiest

Surely you don't think the masses buying big macs give half a crap? Meat just needs to be cheap and edible, and apparently animals raised in horrible conditions are the best candidates on both counts. ~99% of U.S. meat comes from factory farms.[0]

[0] https://www.humanesociety.org/news/facts-about-factory-farms
are you trying to suggest that the tories are "promoting leftist social values"? considering their mediocre at best treatment of minority groups, [citation needed]

also one of their most controversial bills would lead to "illegal" immigrants being sent to Rwanda

skewed American perspectives aside, I genuinely fail to see how anyone would interpret them as anything left of centre-right
> Security people hate features and creativity.

Not all of us. _This_ security guy just didn't like having to patch an entire fleet against a new critical exploit in the flash VM every week.
1. The first few paragraphs define the term by example.

2. Who says an article must define a solution to be tangible? Oftentimes just identifying the problem and giving it a name is a worthwhile contribution.

So my question back to you is, what in your comment is tangible, and what solutions would you offer?
That would clearly be an antitrust violation or deceptive business practice in one or more countries. Though by the time they get penalized for it, the damage would have been done.
Precisely. And if you can convince your rabid supporters that you aren’t “the other lot” they will let you do unspeakable things.
The author is a professor at Ohio State University, specializing in condensed matter theory. His CV list two works on superconductors and a dissertation on supercapacitors.
Watch this video, and tell me that there is no objective difference in quality between pre-2000 and post-2000 songs.

With a few exceptions, modern music is autotuned-to-death, boring, indistinguishable crap.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uMW2XsMx8Q
Undocumented is a better term for the MOS 6502 in my opinion, because these opcodes aren't invalid, they can't be trapped and they don't throw an exception.
The contract is with NASA, any private launches would just be a cherry on top.
Yeah but Boeing brought the Delta into the marriage and LM brought Atlas. Pretty clear who brought to good stuff.
Ironically it looks like Boeing's stock soared today on some positive news about aircraft sales
Still[1]?

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36883262
Do you mean you don't use NVLink or just use one that works? I am under the impression it is being phased out ("PCIe 5 is fast enough") and some kits don't use it.
By that logic, people should really value my review of the Bible where I excoriate it for encouraging a belief in invisible beings.

Critique works of communication or argument for failing to communicate or argue what they wish to communicate or argue. Don't critique them for not communicating or arguing for your values. Engaging with the argument is fine, but don't mistake it for engaging with the work itself.

The work has succeeded when it gives you an argument to engage with. If you have an argument against turning the other cheek, or religion in general, take it up with one of the other billion people who agree with the author, and choose the one who has presented their arguments with the most ability.

Tbh, I'm not confident in the ability of the average American to make a coherent antislavery argument. Because it's a lot harder than pointing at someone who says something nice about a slaver, or makes an observation about the reality actual slavery that isn't a vapid re-condemnation, and saying "slavery is bad folx, glad I could help."
Anyone interested in going whole-hog with this, forking Java, and making char utf8 too?

I'm guessing it's not worth it, even aside from legal costs.
Free markets do a fine job of justifying their value with straight facts, no need to reach like that. Apply whatever you're considering free markets to other places & times, and it wouldn't have had the same outcome. It took a lot of things coming together, but most of them were scientific advances or just luck (new world plants exist and are awesome, was a really big one)
Arguably her protest was the pebble that started the avalanche of investigations of the catholic church that resulted in abuses coming to light and the Pope apologizing in 2005.
People love their absolutes. Makes it easy to understand complex topics by breaking them down into "rules of thumb", and in the case of "sugar is poison" has double-reinforcement via a emotional element.
I was trying to argue “the open source models can’t do it in their current state”

I’m curious what could be done time investment wise by a single person like myself that could “tweak” LLAMA2 into being able to do a task it by default can’t
Transform selfies into AI-generated headshots
When the overton window shifts, and you don't shift with it, by definition you head to the right towards the center.

I myself find myself careening to the right for a laundry list of reasons, and I live in a major city.
>Why does everything need to be secure now?

>I can understand shopping. And reporters of hot news. But why everything?

So Google can capture more ad revenue by refusing to "attest" clients who run ad blockers?

And so other attestors can dictate the "approved" software that can be used.

What could go wrong? /s
DO NOT DENIGRATE THE SCIENCE!

The Science is settled and the science is holy, it came down to us from the anointed scientists and anyone who disagrees with or questions the science is a dangerous heretic, wishing to spread misinformation and promote hate.

You aren't qualified to ask questions, the science is settled the science has spoken, you are a lowly non-government non-scientist and you are not to get out of line. After all you know who else questions the science, climate deniers, and anti-vaxxers and Neo-Nazis and transphobes. So don't question the science it is settled, and you better no longer talk back to your betters.
Not sure if this was an edit, but the post says "entertainment industry"
honest question: is the "frisson/goosebumps" thing not called ASMR now?
Hey Google, how about removing that "feature" because of lack of interest as with Jpeg XL?
It takes a couple of minutes to setup services like these (be it netlify, vercel, Cloudflare, etc.) You connect your repo, tell it what command to run, and then which directory to grab. If you’re using a popular framework like Hugo they’ll often auto detect all of those settings for you.
The Ford Mustang is going in that direction starting in 2024. It will look almost exactly like a Tesla product. By comparison the current 2023 model has a full complement of standard switches, gauges, and buttons, in addition to a few LCD screens.
US bulk agriculture exports are what keep vast swathes of the developing world from starving. GMOs, herbicides and pesticides are how the US produces immense quantities of cheap food for the rest of the world [1].

I don't really care what the rest of the world whines about, when the US is the country actually keeping millions of the global poor alive.

[1] https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/international-markets-u-s-tr...
absolutely huge if true
> Anyway, containers are nice, but they're not a replacement for profiles.

This, so much. Anytime I've brought up profiles on Firefox, I'm told about this alternative that isn't a replacement for the feature.

Safari is (finally) bringing this, so maybe the folks at FF will begin to see this as a feature worth investing in. First-class profiles support is one of the main reasons I stick to Chrome, despite trying to switch.
I had, and to some degree still have this daydreaming "problem". But it didn’t really affect me in any significant way. Pomodoro helps while working/learning.

Social Media was a much bigger problem for me. Which I got rid of after reading Deep Work.

And I, from my childhood have had, what is often called "directional disorientation". Everyone who knows me considers me smart, I have achievements to demonstrate that. But, I can never remember how to navigate to an address. It takes me about 6-7 times navigating via Google Maps before I can visit it without Maps.

I am sometimes confused about some streets of my home town!

I don't have problem focusing for longer times. I can work hard and learn quickly, but familiarity with physical spaces has always eluded me.

Edit: Over the years, I have talked with at least half a dozen people on the internet who told me that they believe that they have this thing, if it is a thing.
The West is not against surveillance, apparently, everyone wants to do it! It's been a market for a good while now. UK is just wsocialising it.
> for ensuring a client has desired properties.

There's nothing about payments that requires testing client properties though. What you want is the ability to test if there's a corresponding payment, that has nothing really to do with the client's device. It just seems like irrelevant information, what are these "desired properties"?

You want a corresponding token with the request that matches a payment. And WEI seems like a strictly inferior way to get that instead of just... asking a payment provider for the token. What does my hardware/OS/browser have to do with a payment token?
Pretty much everywhere? The tories are shifting further right. In the US the republicans have been on a path straight to totalitarism (some of their members are calling to forbid Democrats from voting when they move states), Israel, many European countries have growing far right parties who are typically just a thin layer of legitimacy on top of far right ideology (take the AFD in Germany or the FN in France who have significant contacts with Neonazi activists).
I've been playing with 0.9 and it can generate nude people so it seems not.
Ah, just do something completely nonstandard (sans incognito) and the website will stop working.
large properties are interested to keep their content locked from scrapping, so they will for sure be interested to implement this.
Do you have evidence that it's a "very large majority"? And what percentage leave because they can't afford it with children, not because they want to?
Apple watches?
> A very large majority of homeowners with babies move out of dense cities. These also tend to be more conservative.

Where they homeowners that moved out or moved out to be homeowners?

Where they more conservative then loved out or became more conservative once they had babies?

No one is static
If they don't involve you at all, perhaps you can convert it into a LitRPG novel - something like CivCEO [1]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/CivCEO-Lit-Accidental-Champion-Book-e...
All of the big defense contractors do this, it’s kind of astounding. Lockheed, Raytheon, etc. their offices are spread out over the country to give enough coverage in congressional districts where no one will be willing to kill funding for a project at the risk of their local plant closing.
Well, the man clearly wants to kill the thing so crossing it out is not anything unusual.
The real causality is more like "urban areas have different needs and cultural norms than rural areas/exurbs, so they tend to form separate political coalitions."

Tangent: my biggest political pet peeve is thinking of the country as red states versus blue states, when it's really cities versus surrounding areas.
Here's an SNL clip from way back where Chevy Chase and Richard Pryor trade racial slurs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuEBBwJdjhQ

I'm not a big fan of the whole, "you couldn't do that today", but you sure couldn't do that today. I think you weren't supposed to do it then either which made it subversive comedy.
So, if a company has no profit, they would pay nothing for software engineers or ask them to pay to work there?
Do you have a link for the 300+ discarded babies? I'd like to read about that.
I can't really say I feel bad about pirating content from media empires.
Wasn't this somewhat true of VPNs say 10 years ago?

My perception back then was that people who used VPNs were generally dodgy people who wanted to illegally download things online or mask their identity while doing various other illegal things.

But in recent years geo-restrictions, ISP blacklists, and data collection have forced more and more users to use VPNs to the point where their use today is fairly common.

Obviously I'm not in favour of this legislation, but I would hope that the more the governments seek to censor content and attack encryption online the more people will use services that are un-censorable and encrypted.

Short of requiring spy-ware on all of our devices there's fundamentally very little governments can actually do to prevent this. In fact, the harder they fight the more they'll push people out of their reach.
Whoops. Helps when one reads the instructions. It should be there now.

brandonmittman@gmail.com in case I messed it up in some other way.
> The new and fresh

But that's just the point. New music all sounds the same. Half-spoken, mumbled lyrics- check. Autotuned to death- check. Forgettable tunes- check.
You know, that looks scary to be in the capsule for, but far less scary than the Saturn V's Apollo Pad Abort Test, where the rocket was ON TOP of the capsule: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_escape_system#/media/Fi...
It's not coercive because there are other options. I grew up in poverty and took the free money given to me to go to school (then dropped out, went back later - it's a whole ordeal). My friend from grade school did the military -> college route.

We both landed in largely the same spot. My friend just gets a ton of extra benefits from his service that have really added up over time. He hated being in the military, but he straight up says it's the best decision he's ever made.

My younger brother took the Navy enlisted -> retirement route (just hit rank where he can get 20 years, E6 I think), and while it's been hard, he says the same thing. Despite the injuries, moving constantly, deployments away from family, pay fuckups, and garbage housing, he loves it. And he'll retire at 42 or something with a pension and paid health care, after which, he'll get paid to go back to school then get a cushy tech gig at a DoD contractor.

Having seen people go through it, I think it's a good deal. Not just for people in poverty, but middle/upper class people too. I'm the last person you'd take for a "support our troops" guy, but I'd absolutely encourage my kids to do military service.
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That's not how it works, because the GPT SEO trash is being generated by the people on the server.
Ever wondered how we can make our deep generative models respect causal structure? This is key to creating authentic "what if" scenarios in our images!
In our latest research, we deal with high-fidelity image counterfactuals, the generation of images based on "what if" scenarios that align with a specified causal graph.
Why is this important? Causality gives us the tools to carry out principled counterfactual inference, which - among other things - is useful for maintaining subject identity in image counterfactuals.
Principled counterfactuals of structured variables like images have great potential for:
(i) Generating causal explanations
(ii) Providing targeted data augmentation
(iii) Evaluating fairness & robustness
(iv) Protecting your privacy
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Check out the paper, code, and Huggingface demo!
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.15764
https://github.com/biomedia-mira/causal-gen
https://huggingface.co/spaces/mira-causality/counterfactuals