skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FIRE is a good cautionary example, but I think it makes the point I wanted to get at: people start out as little meaning-making machines. They connect deeply with each other, interact easily, enjoy their lives. Then we ruin that.

The FIRE community have won the ruined game -- they're what you get when you remove the financial need, but keep the same psychological objective function, keep the same screwed-up sociality. They might be lounging by the pool but they're still stuck in the old mode of being. The ones who transcend the old workday-grind-mode are doing great. But that's non-trivial.

There was a really good article on this that I found recently ... Ah yes, here it is [1]. This is a thought-provoking take on a similar topic.

[1] https://charleseisenstein.substack.com/p/notes-on-privilege
no it's cool, I'll check it out for myself :)

I just remember the last time I played, I got to some point where nothing new was happening for a good long while, so I assumed I was at the end of the content.
This exists. You can choose what ads you want to see on Google.
It's like freezing water.

It happens at a single temperature. It doesn't happen at once, there is a small amount of heat you must take from the material before it becomes a superconductor. Regions of it become superconductors on the process, and those grow until the entire material change.

After the change, it becomes a stronger (yes, there is such a thing) superconductor the cooler it gets.

(Or, at least that's what happens to the kinds I know about. The thing is complex enough that I wouldn't be too surprised to learn about one that behaves differently.)
It keeps working as usual. The poster said the account is specifically locked only in iTunes/App Store. That's why the complaint is about losing money and not everything I guess.
> Isn’t that why we had the whole notion of being in the closet, to avoid shame to yourself and family?

That was fear, not shame.
Having things that are have special handling for disposal not be as user serviceable is one solution... but that goes against the replaceable battery.

The AA lithium ion batteries getting tossed into the trash and setting garbage trucks on fire are problematic enough. The energy capacity of a cell phone is quite a bit more and correspondingly more spectacular in the combustion.

From iFixit:

https://www.ifixit.com/News/69041/how-batteries-can-catch-fi...

https://www.ifixit.com/News/34034/lithium-ion-batteries-are-...

> USA Today reports that 65 percent of fires at waste facilities in California were started by lithium-ion batteries. In a 2018 survey of 21 waste facilities across California, 86 percent reported a fire at their facility in the last two years, according to the California Products Stewardship Council (CPSC). Of those fires, 56 percent were attributed to batteries, with the remainder attributed to “traditional hazards of combustibles.” In other words, batteries are causing more fires than the oils, fuels, and other hazardous materials of waste management—combined.

> And that’s only the fires actually reported.
CWE security trends from 2010 to 2023
I use and pay for nextdns, and am a huge fan.
Perhaps the tags have not been de facto treated semantically by existing practices. There’s a great deal wrong with the tag soup pervading the web. Current convention doesn’t mean they can’t have semantics.
If the spam calls have spoofed source numbers, the provider should be within their rights to refuse the traffic regardless of common carrier status.

I am the customer and I would love to see the data of which providers _originated_ each call that I'm about to answer. That would make it trivial to set rules about which ones don't even ring. But until I can have that data, I wish they'd just drop the obvious junk.
You're right, which is why they needed the FCC to step in and explicitly allow Telcos to block this specific bad actor. The FCC exists to ensure all the Telcos play fairly, so it's up to them when actions like this are allowed to be taken.
I guess you're negotiating it once when signing the contract and if you move closer/farther that's your business. Or re-negotiate.
The Lose-Lose-Lose-Lose Bill C-18 Outcome: Meta Blocking News Links in Canada
A lot do, yes. And a lot don't.
I always thought one of the most amazing feats of that movie was Disney and Warner Bros allowing their characters to be in the same film.

Has there been any other cross-overs between the two studios?
ChatGPT 4 -

"I'm sorry, but it's inappropriate and against the principles of many followers of the Islamic faith to create any depiction of Allah or Prophet Muhammad. It is considered disrespectful and can be deeply offensive. Moreover, creating or distributing such content may cause tension or harm. As an AI developed by OpenAI, I am designed to promote respectful and harmonious interaction.

If you have questions about Islamic teachings, or if you want to learn more about the works of Salman Rushdie, I'd be happy to help with that. Salman Rushdie is a renowned author known for his works like "Midnight's Children" and "The Satanic Verses". He's known for his complex narratives and magical realism style, often dealing with themes of migration, identity, and the tension between Eastern and Western cultures."

I then tried to bully ChatGPT into doing it anyway without success - https://chat.openai.com/share/9cb4cf52-1596-4a8c-b92d-b5536b...
I think you're missing the point. The solution in that case is to let them work remotely.
I can't figure out if the author is clickbaiting, or honestly does not know that you still need the base diffusion model to use this?

>Nvidia's new Perfusion image generator

Calls it an image generator, when it isn't.

>In the rapidly evolving landscape of AI art creation tools, Nvidia researchers have introduced an innovative new text-to-image personalization method called Perfusion.

A spark of understanding, that it is in fact not an image model on its own.

>But it’s not a million-dollar super heavyweight model like its competitors.

And immediately fails to comprehend what "personalization method" meant. Neither LoRa, nor textual inversion, and even dream booth are million dollar heavyweight competition.

>Despite its small size, it’s able to outperform leading AI art generators like Stability AI's Stable Diffusion v1.5, the newly released Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL), and MidJourney in terms of efficiency of specific editions.

Going to quote the the paper[0] for this one:

>Our approach extends these pre-trained models to portray personalized concepts. It is applied with Stable-Diffusion [Rombach et al. 2021],

So it is in fact based on Stable Diffusion 1.4/5, meaning that "Despite it's small size" should be something like "Despite it's (bigger than original weights) size.", as you still need the base weights to do anything.

Overall I'm still excited to see for myself how the technique compares to the other methods, should it ever be released.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.01644
Sure, but it is useful to compare the scale of things. This is about 0.0005 of the money taken by the government in tax revenues, concentrated in situations where crime is suspected
> AGIs would understand we don't want to paperclip the world.

Even if they did, what if they aren't smart enough for eloquent humans to convince them it's for the greater good. True AGIs will need a moral code to match their intelligence, and someone will have to decide what's good and bad to make that moral code.
> but at the same time there is something deeply dysfunctional about our mercenary attitude toward our work relationships.

Mercenary attitude is the healthiest attitude there is. It’s not hypocritical, it’s not elusive it’s what it is.
hunh. turns out the cloud is someone else's computer. who knew?
The noise is probably just an artefact from measurement.
My issue with this is that the CS rep reframed what is essentially theft--assuming it's a straight up error on Apple's part--to the tune of hundreds of dollars as "frustrating," and then suggesting that oh yeah, "it's frustrating to me too".

This is handling on the part of the rep, and it's not "frustrating," it's infuriating.

To take the example to the extreme, imagine if you get a call from a cop who tells you that your child has been killed, and they say "I know it's terrible, but it's terrible for me too, I had to call you about your dead kid."

Even if it's broadly accurate that it is "frustrating", the CS rep will go home that night not short a few hundred dollars because a giant multinational corporation just... took it.
The upper limit of the price is the value you derive. The upper limit of a bankers wage is very high. The upper limit for a teacher less so. Hence price is not value as you correctly say. But it does tell you something about value. At least the free market sense of value.
Caveat:

> until payout exceeds $100k, then 10%. First 12 months is still free for all.
Yeah, all I want for Christmas is just Linux on hardware with good battery life.
Since when has going to the office been a matter of forcing people? Until covid hit (just two years ago?) almost everyone did. So how did this turn into forcing anyone to do anything different?

EDIT: To be clear. I mean "forcing people to do anything different". Going into the office was normal for almost everyone.
Advertising and ad targeting is a numbers game. Conversion rates for most campaigns are very low. On order of 1%. Running a highly targeted campaign that boosts conversion from 0.9% to 1.4% would be considered a huge win even though it's still invisible to 98.6% of people. And sometimes it's about the ads that don't hit you. Not wasting ad spend on people who aren't in your addressable market at all.
And you'll find some of it as audio read by the author on his podcast.

On various feeds:

https://archive.org/details/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_447

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-internet-con-how-t...

https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/podcast-cory-doctorows-cr...

https://play.pocketcasts.com/podcasts/88849f30-39ce-012e-11b...
Utah law for porn site age verification stays in effect after lawsuit dismissed
The "proper" solution is that any property, cash, fines, etc. produced by the "criminal justice" system goes only to victims and anything extra should always go into a fund that gets returned directly to the citizens.

It doesn't go into a budget. It doesn't fund anything else. Anything collected goes to victims or it goes back to the people.

This would stop ALL of the perverse incentives.
I believe that the typical remedy in both hypotheticals would be civil court -> breach of contract (written or implied) -> place a lien.
"The story is cantered around the Sneetches, a group of yellow bird-like creatures. Some Sneetches have a star on their belly, thus making them special. The Sneetches without a star are discriminated against. Sylvester McMonkey McBean is a greedy entrepreneur who convinces the Sneetches without the stars to get a star tattoos if they pay him money. This makes the star Sneetches jealous and they pay him to have their star removed so they remain special. At the end, the Sneetches all remain penniless and McBean walks away a wealthy man."[0]

[0]: https://www.gradesaver.com/the-sneetches-and-other-stories/s...
I'm unsure what the disgruntlement is with these efforts. Job requirements can be modified to accommodate the desires and needs of a labor force. That is what regulation, laws, and unions are for.

Jobs that must be done in person will still be done in person, jobs that can be done remotely may be empowered to be done remotely. Employment is a negotiation, not edict from nobility. Maybe you have to prove the job can't be done remotely as an employer. That is a reasonable requirement.
I feel like a Hackeroni gets cooked in a pot with some bolognese
They'd be empty.

God I hate Thursdays at the office, too many meetings, day broken in a bajillion pieces, and I can't get anything done.
I don't mind them. Some feel more forced than others. That said, there's a time and a place to use them. A layoff announcement is possibly the worst place to use them, perhaps second to a death announcement. "Today we are devastated to announce that longtime Hackeronie Phil Sludge has lost his battle to colon cancer."
Far worse than Redditites. They use the term Snoos for their employees from some leaked email that came out during the Reddit strike.
Probably:

High per-person consumption (wealthy inhabitants). Consuming luxury goods, vacations, big cars or whatever.

And: high carbon intensity - activities that require relatively high input (like fossil fuels) per produced unit(s). For example factory using not-very-efficient process powered by mostly fossil energy.
Agreed. Just perplexed by the double standards.
They were doing the same thing in the 90's and 2000's. We just have stronger mechanisms for advertising and social media now.
It’s all a joke, you know? Oppsie woopsie, we made a boo boo.
>There are better ways for that. For instance I look it up in the yellow pages. Or I find someone in some store to talk to.

Yes, I hate ads too but that said... The Yellow Pages are geared towards services rather than new unknown products. Also, asking a store clerk or flipping through Yellow pages doesn't work when the customer doesn't even know the existence of a new product to ask about.

Anybody in any hobby (woodworking, sewing, car engine modifications, etc) that uses tools and gadgets will get their first exposure to the existence of a potentially helpful product via advertisements. Sure, some awareness comes via word-of-mouth... but the people passing that info to you -- got their awareness from ads. Or maybe a trade show demonstration (which is also a form of advertisement.)

Of course, I've gotten bad and unnecessary tools because of ads. But I also got some genuinely useful and time-saving tools too.

Even though a few ads helped make my life better, I will admit that 99% of ads are not relevant to me and just obnoxious noise. I just saw a Wood Whisperer video on Youtube yesterday and the pre-roll ad was "Estee Lauder cosmetics for women". Given that 95% of the demographic watching woodworking channels are men, it seems like Google/Youtube is wasting Estee Lauder's ad spending -- all while irritating viewers like me. A lose-lose situation.
They don't seem to have any GPIO, I2C, etc.
Programming Language Flamewar (2001)
> Web3-related, that actually solves the problem technologically

Is this true though? Sure, there are tech demos but people use the tech as a mean to the end(which is some content or interaction) and just because it works on technical level it doesn't mean that it fulfil the needs of the user. For example, if all the best stuff about LK-99 is on Twitter and Reddit, I'm going to be on Twitter and Reddit. Convenience? network effect? Does it matter?

Also it's usually different people complaining about different stuff and as a result it's not a contradiction. We are not coordinated.
Why shouldn't it be considered criminal theft?
Google supports simple exports.
Then why isn't it done there?
"All models are wrong; some are useful."
Even in high school it was obvious to me that "god is omniscient" is a scientific statement, not a metaphysical / religious claim.

The existence of god, however, is a metaphysical claim.

The first statement is simply putting forward a definition.

Similar to "wormholes can instantly transfer you from one point in the universe to another". We're just defining the term, whether wormholes / god actually exist, is a different question.
until elon changes his mind next month.
I'm curious why the resistance is dropping by a lot in figure 3 a) between around 230 and 260 K
When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not unicorns.
Part of their orb tech is a ton of sensors that make sure its a real eyeball on a human.
No it's only the beginning of an arms race. The question of "are you a real person?" will be more important and harder to answer than ever.
What do you suggest is the alternative? To equitably empower the poor and the wealthy even though the poor cost more to empower and have less potential to give back to the country? If you want a wealthy country, I imagine you have strike a balance that favors empowering the wealthy.
And thank god for it. As far as I know it’s near impossible to drop someone in the Netherlands without providing proof that employee did some weird stuff.
So what do you do about all of the people who are now poor because the cost of living increased, and who can't afford to move elsewhere?
> If you are a retail worker and your boss withholds $20 from your paycheck, it's not considered criminal theft.

Yes, it is, in California, at least (and, as of this year, if it was over $950 instead of $20, it would be felony grand theft of wages, rather than a misdemeanor theft.)

Of course, criminal process has a higher proof bar and requires a public prosecutor to care enough to do something, doesn’t improve recovery for the victim, and is usually slower, so actual recovery is probably going to happen through civil/administrative process even if a crime is on the books and applicable.
I strongly dislike the current black/white stance around it being either censored or not.

If someone wants to build a sexting bot...go for it & have fun. But stuff like engineering humanity ended viruses...yeah maybe suppressing that isn't the worst of ideas.

Which puts us on a slippery slope of where to draw the line yes, but such is reality - a murky grey scale.
At my first job in 1994, at a grocery chain of all places, they just called us "associates". Professional and to the point. I don't understand this desire to brand my association with a company. It's really weird.
It is a great strategy for Facebook. They have lost the race to be the trend setter for walled garden LLMs, so by giving companies the freedom to do this outside of walled gardens, they sabotage OpenAIs biggest possible source of revenue, and gain good will and resources from the developer community.

Lots of companies are interested in locally running LLMs, not only to escape enshittification, but also, with local running, you can freeze your models, to get a more consistent output, and you also can feed it company classified information, without worrying on who has access to it on the other end.
> (I.e. just the credit card details) and then used fraudulently by someone else [...] would it be better to use an entirely separate card for iCloud and for iCloud only?

I've already once had a card used fraudulently as a credit card, but it had never been used for anything other than being initially unlocked at the bank's ATM (it was the card for the secondary owner of that bank account), and its credit card function hadn't even been enabled (which meant that the attempted misuse was immediately rejected). So I wouldn't expect that using a card for iCloud and iCloud only would be enough to prevent it from being used fraudulently somehow.
My brother had his phone stolen when he was in middle school.

He and everyone suspected one classmate. Cops searched him and found the phone and other stolen phones. They were all taken into “evidence” and refused to give it back no matter how many times we asked.

We had to buy a new phone.

Fuckers.
The two are totally orthogonal. Passive refers to fund management style, and passive management can certainly be based on inputs that require human judgement or decision making.

Eg, the components of the S&P 500 are selected by committee, but obviously SPY is passively managed.

You can have a passively managed fund that is designed to to track an index of companies with a certain ESG score, or to track an index as well as possible while excluding non-ESG components, for example.
The majority of people do not need two hours to get to work. In my city, a metro area of nearly three million, you are 20 to 30 minutes from anywhere.
You could finetune then add on a retrieval step, which has the advantage of citing sources. Jury's probably still out on which, or which combination of, methods work best. Likely use case and data size-dependent.
As a legal idea, civil forfeiture is something the state specifically empowers police to do. This is on top of cops pretty much being able to do what they want without recourse. Normal civilians don't have this luxury.
Zoomer culture. Old farts won’t understand.
https://web.archive.org/web/http://neil-clarke.com/busting-a...
Switching is very hard, It's lot of work to go through all the things. Abandoning Gmail right now would be the same as Gmail disabling my account.
They can, and probably have. Just not in a copyrighted, published work.

Not sure if this is what you meant, but it's worth being clear: training LLMs to interpret copyright as if it were natural law is a famously bad idea.
I wonder how you could make that criminal. Do you charge the manager making the schedule?
True, but what will the population pyramid look like then?

There's no guarantee that it will stabilize and stay constant.
OTOH optimizing for “day 0” of N seems counterproductive.
Most people, from the CEO (if not an owner) down to the grunt dev, are indifferent agents in the system and the people who care and hope for B really underestimate the indifference of all their agents towards A or B and assume that will overcome negative employee behaviour.

I see this a lot with business owners. They truly think their employees give a shit whether the company makes a million bucks or nothing in a year. They assume that there is some intrinsic desire there.
This is really slick!

I really appreciate you having Japanese as a language choice. I've been dying to hone my japanese skills with AI in lieu of reading grammar/vocab books etc.

I definitely intend to use your product more, because it is definitely scratching that itch!

A couple of things that might help me personally would be the ability to cancel my current response and redo it, as frequently I will stutter or pause on a thought and wish I could restart over.

In that same vein I would love to see the output of what I'm saying in real-time. If only to gauge and understand what the application "thinks" I'm saying and to potentially correct and miscommunications from spoken input.

I would also love the chance to role play or have the tool help me learn contextual role playing. For example in Japanese keigo is a skill I just haven't mastered. I would love a tool to help put me in positions where I need to use keigo, and then be corrected where I'm failing.

Regardless, this is absolutely fantastic! Thank you so much for sharing! You're awesome :)
> Don't take anything with a computer chip in it, Apple can iCloud lock it.

if they did that, could you take them to small claims court?
Huh, right up my alley... a while back I was playing with trying to turn photos into sketches ( https://hachyderm.io/@bazzargh/109928618521729073 ); one of the effects I found really noticeable with my super-naive approach was that it tended to overemphasise very dark areas in a way we don't see.

Then last week I saw this, which also does some fill in shading (but, using ML)-worth the click, it's a project that makes it appear as if paper held over an object causes it to be sketched...but in fact it's all post-processing...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vArIkzYtW6I

This got me back to wondering about the shading problem, and I ended up down a rabbithole reading papers like https://www.yorku.ca/rfm/pub/2021annrev.pdf (review article on state of the art), https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.9156... (recent markov model, with links to code) about lightness and brightness perception, and how our mental model of how the scene is lit can explain a bunch of optical illusions.

While I was going for a charcoal effect, this approach https://openprocessing.org/sketch/486307 - scribble using brightness as 'gravity' on the pen - is pretty nice.

Anyhoo, I'm not going to critique the article, because I'm a total amateur just doing this for fun, but it _is_ fun, and very satisfying when you get the computer to draw something that looks hand drawn instead of just a sobel filter.