skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Going through the process right now to get a film I made remixed to be on various streaming services. I’ll talk about it more when it’s done and we start getting revenue from those services.
I tried to add more clothing, both with the prompt, and with the clothing tab. Got the same tiny costume each time. Trying to generate D&D character, got chippendale.
Academics should stick to teaching and not telling us how to live our lives.
Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Google
I have a couple of nice leather covers for my composition books. One for personal notes and one for a work notebook. <https://amazon.com/gp/product/B00ITXB8UQ>
Sure and if their intent was to make a tool for money laundering or they attempted to subvert the law, I'm all for it
Is there any scuttlebutt on AMD investing in making their GPUs/ROCm work as seamlessly with the standard ML tooling as Nvidia?

It seems like it would be "easier" now that the path has been cleared and all they have to do is reach parity.
Yeah but I'm a (casual) war nerd and I watch a ton of Navy videos, they interview the kitchen staff for a large portion of every warship video, not just submarines.
“43. If it's stupid and it works, it's still stupid and you're lucky.”

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Quotes/SchlockMercena...
It doesn't work, either.
Tried to find a neutral article. All of the rest of them highlight how ineffective this move by the Biden administration has been.

https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/costly-failure-biden-...
Should never send a resume in doc format. They ask for it so they can edit it behind your back. Used to be .pdf was for that and LO supports it nicely.

However, pdfs are trivially edited today as well. Perhaps need to start sending with a hash or using code signing!
wow this is indeed fast

actually I don't understand why other SDXL services are much slower than SD 1.5 or SD 2.1 models, they seem to be about the same size, but normally takes 2x to 3x time comparing to the previous models
If it were that simple why would anyone need tips for salary negotiation? Even in pro sports, where the skills are extremely elite, all the performance stats and salaries are public, and the athletes have agents in their corner, the correlation between pay and performance is far from perfect, and negotiation mistakes can lead to players leaving huge sums on the table.
Try and buy 10% and see what happens!

Your point stands but in both directions: The market cap is not "the value of the company" as in, you can neither buy it or sell it at that price.
Thank you for not using "woman" instead of "female" as an adjective.
SF bar target of wild extortion text involving bear spray, $20K
> First, we notice the comment isn't an actual question, as there is nothing to actually be answered.

You noticed. My answer got 11 upvotes so far, so I think it was far from obvious without a careful reading, which I did not give it.

> This is a clear indication that its usage is therefore that of rhetoric.

Rhetoric is the art of writing or speaking effectively. It does not mean 'a questions which does not require an answer', which is a type of rhetorical device, but certainly not 'rhetoric'. I wouldn't bother mentioning this except you started the lecturing so I am proceeding in kind.

> This is likely why they didn't respond, as there was nothing informative you could say unless you are significantly updating the premise which is being mocked.

I don't try to ascertain the motives of people's non-responses. Guessing one option out of infinity seems like a losing game if you do it consistently.

> Second, the diction and pattern of the sentence matches a commonly user sarcastic pattern of "wait, you're saying x but y?!"

Sorry that I am not as up to date on meme phrasing as you are. Or maybe you are retrofitting a pattern after you already established it?

> As far as sarcastic comments go, this is about as blatant as one can get.

After re-reading it carefully, you may be correct.

> Even my sarcastic addendum ("Is sarcasm dead?") is less obvious than the comment.

You wrote 'honest question'. That is not sarcasm, not even a little bit. If you intended it to be, then I will absolutely call you a liar for using that terminology because some things should be taken literally and 'an honest question' is one of them. Like the 'biohazard' sign, it should never be used improperly, and if you are trying to press it into use as a non-literal phrasing, then I call you out and ask you to cease and desist.

> Similarly the sarcasm you are employing is far less obvious.

I have employed zero sarcasm in any of this correspondense. Perhaps your meter is faulty?

> I also disagree with your interpretation of when sarcasm works and I would suggest a different strategy.

Cool. I don't care.

> Language itself is compression and if one is to take a literal interpretation of everything then you will be unable to accurately communicate and are likely to frequently enrage and annoy others. Due to the compressive nature, you will always be required to "read between the lines" otherwise even this sentence would be uninterpretable.

And we must also account for non-perfect readings. The compressive nature of language means you are not reading every letter and every word all the time, you are fitting patterns and using previous experience to match them to correlations. This is an imperfect process. If your writing style cannot account for misreadings then I argue that you are doing it wrong.

Your pandering lecture has been noted and discarded.
SQL makes the most sense if humans are going to be programming deterministically, but if we're talking about natural language input I can't help but think that compiling natural language to SQL feels a little shortsighted as a long term strategy.

Surely it makes sense for a MVP, but I'm curious about how much we're potentially forfeiting in terms of innovation by anchoring so deeply to it with all the possibilities afforded by generative AI. In holding onto SQL, might we be forestalling the development or adoption of a more evolved language? With Dataherald's proposition, how do you envision maintaining that cutting edge, ensuring you're not just prolonging the lifespan of a fading tech, but genuinely pushing the envelope forward?

I suppose one intriguing possibility in my mind is that Dataherald could serve as a bridge or runtime. As you continue to develop and refine the tool, do you see a future where it might support more abstract querying languages or even emerging data interaction paradigms? This could potentially mitigate some transition pains when the tech ecosystem eventually shifts.
Having seen what happens when you let a toddler start randomly pressing stuff on an Android tablet she was spot on, and if anything every environment should be out through this.
The Mirror
Warnock Hidden Surface Algorithm
This place is such a shithole in 2023. Absolutely no interest in anything of import, because that reality banging down your doors is too scary.

We’re in a revolution, nerds. Wake the fuck up.
Any solutions like this that work with self hosted models?
From your source, chacha20 is used, which is literally not supported by web crypto apis. Again, this makes 0 difference as higher level implementation makes or breaks your crypto.
The brain is an organ like any other and requires nutrition for proper function. Nothing grand about noting proper nutrient flow helps with cognition. It's intuitively obvious that hungry and tired people make more mistakes.
Humans are wrong all the time; especially on complex problems.

There's an amazing amount of things LLMs can do if a human is still in the loop. It's like having an assistant or a junior on your team. They can do the heavy lifting, but you still want to check the summary of their work.
You can look at cost of revenue to get an idea.
Yeah, Candy Crush is harder to reproduce.
That's what I was trying for as well, via Annapolis. I like to say that the reason I got third was during the interview process, I went all goofy and could not remember the element Uranium. I just couldn't do it. They were trying to get it out of me with taunting questions "is it carbon? is it plutonium?" "No, but relevant isotopes are 235 and 239". They did acknowledge that I wasn't trying to BS my way through as I had already answered plenty of other questions. My brain just went night night.

However, in all honesty, it was the fact that I screwed off my senior year in literature class and dropped my GPA which I'm guessing had a much larger factor. Now I'm glad I didn't read any of those boring high school assigned books. It saved me in the end
RAR is the standard way to distribute warez scene releases. If you're getting your releases from a topsite or other high quality sources, everything will be in RARs. Installing WinRAR is the first thing you do when scening. It's like when you install Windows and install Firefox before doing anything.
This kind of strategy seems a bizarre one for a company. "Let's figure out how to systematically pay our employees less than they're really worth." How is that any kind of long-term plan? To really move the needle you'd have to do it a LOT -- but then you've selected on employees who lack knowledge about their own power. Those are going to be systematically different (probably not in a good way?) from employees who are more proactive and entrepreneurial about negotiating. Wouldn't you prefer a whole lot of the latter type? Since they will presumably be better at solving open-ended problems, etc. etc.?
>If you say 210, are you going to absolutely refuse any offer that's less than that?

I, for one, tell the number, which if was given to me during negotiation would result in acceptance on my part.

> You've already hypothesized that the manager's actual range is 200-250

And I have not hypothesized the range, in my example I speculate why people believe they would have been offered more than they asked for if they did not ask first, this is the hypothesis, not the actual range.

>But you're not going to get more, and that's what you should be thinking about

It's trivial to raise it if you suddenly decided you can get more, just say you have another offer for $X+10K, but you like the company so much you are willing forfeit 10K. More so if you can actually secure such an offer. This is why negotiating down from already satisfactory for both sides comp is a bad strategy for the HM.
oh yes definitely need to include licenses!!
> Andromeda was very hard to like and deeply flawed on every level.

The gameplay was my favorite in the series, maybe in any RPG. Thats a high bar, considering how much time I put into ME3 coop.

And... There were a few interesting side quests and lore bits.

But general character/writing quality really made me sad. I get the whole game was rushed, but it makes me worry about BioWare even more than Anthem. Character writing was their bread and butter, and Andromeda was supposed to be a character game, not a coop arcade like Anthem/Destiny.
The current giants have shown that "it" can be done. From now on we can reasonnably hope for massive progress in efficency at the low end - as well as massive capability improvements at the high end. That goes both ways, probably.
The "actual thing out there in the world", at least for the case of psychology, is discursively ("socially") constructed. This fact is the precise problem with the original essay, and with empirical psychology as a field -- it has no understanding of the actual thing it's studying. Dealing with narcissism through statistical surveys is like the blind men and the elephant.
It has to do with the size of the attack surface. in order for things to be client side driven gui elements need to be loaded for different role types. Those elements are often exposed If not directly then by showing which APIs are used to Authorize access to admin areas. That’s the whole point of rendering on the client. To load some Little div you might have an API call that when access by different role types will respond differently. With Server side rendering you never see the different API points for each role type As they get their own.
It's a quality meme but I'm having trouble figuring out the settings that make it work. It looks like RGBA8 would be blue:

>>> struct.pack('f',math.nan)
b'\x00\x00\xc0\x7f'

maybe that becomes green if you composite over white or something? Or maybe there is a common type of NaN that fills some of the unspecified bits? ("Just use the particular NaN that makes it green" is cheating unless you have an excuse)
AI hypes every twenty years.

Instead of moving goalposts, let's accept that each one succeeded at mechanizing intelligence. Including boolean algebra, writing and arithmetic.
Starship Command 2022 Edition (For the BBC Micro, Master and Electron)
$165!
It only takes like 5 minutes to teach someone to play Fluxx, not decades.
A few weeks ago I found myself wanting a speech to text transcriber that directly captures my computer's audio output (I.e. not mic input, not am audio file), but I could not find one. The best alternative I found was to have my computer direct audio output to a virtual audio input device, but I could not do this on my desktop because I do not have a sound card. I found software that did this, but it did not allow me to listen to the audio output while it was redirected to a virtual audio input.

Has anyone else tried to do something similar? How did you achieve it?
How I Mastered the Art of Ventilating My Home
This is a rather superficial take that seems to only consider the aspect of querying a database, but, nevertheless, I'll jot down a few quick counterpoints:

1) A middle layer, such as SQL, offers a vital introspection point to understand and fix LLM mistakes. Without it, we will end up with a "black box" that could lead to errors in data queries and manipulations, making debugging and correction much more challenging.

2) Mathematical properties and data integrity: Databases are built around principles like 3NF and BCNF that are pivotal for efficiency and data integrity. It is highly doubtful that these essential principles could be as effectively replicated in a pure LLM-based system without losing critical aspects of data management and efficient query planning & execution.

3) You mentioned "translational losses" without clarity on what these might be. SQL is a specialized declarative language with clear structure and syntax, while human language often leaves room for ambiguity. Relying solely on an LLM could lead to interpretations that are likely but not necessarily correct. This ambiguity might actually increase "translational losses" rather than reduce them.

I understand there's a lot of excitement around generative AI at the moment, but DBMS are an extremely complex topic and this feels like another case of "when you have a hammer everything looks like a nail".
Glad to see SDXL models becoming more and more accessible, the images are much better
The specific claim I was responding to, clearly, was "It you want to claim the handful of suspicious deaths around Putin".

The question isn't how many other parties have killed, though if you're going to go that route, we can add the the 300+ dead in the 1999 Russian Apartment Bombings,[1], the 3,404 civillian mortalities of the Russo-Ukraine war on Donbas (prior to 2022) and the 9,000 -- 40,000 UA civilians killed since 2022,[2] and the 30,000 civilian dead of the 2nd Russian-Chechen War.[3]

Note that I'm specifically referring to civilian rather than combatant deaths. Many of the specific acts of violence against civilians by Russian-allied forces constitute war crimes.

And yes, I'll anticipate that the US-Iraq War (2003--2011) in which the Lancet estimates over 600k excess violent deaths, and which was in my view a crime against humanity which I opposed then and now.

But that wasn't the question.

It was whether or not Putin is directly, through policy, and/or through practices responsible for only a "handful* of direct opportunistic deaths and assassinations of a principally political nature, in a way that none of the killings listed in the Wikipedia entry you submitted for US actions can be ascribed. And again, by no reasonable interpretation does that claim bear out.

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Notes:

1. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Russian_apartment_bombing...>

2. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Russo-Ukrain...> citing <https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/over-9000-civilians-kil...>, <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Russo-Ukrain...>, and <https://www.ohchr.org/en/news/2023/08/ukraine-civilian-casua...>

3. Comprising the period 7 August 1999 -- 30 April 2009, and specifically excluding the earlier first Chechen war 1994--1996 with ~100k dead, but not on Putin's watch. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Chechen_War>
This would be so easy to solve with the right software. I'm amazed that even after years of pandemic all the solutions I'm aware of are still such crap.

Discord is pretty good at this (channels, not calls), but there are probably even better paradigms (there still has to be a way to participate in multiple conversations at once).
Video calls are like the fast food of social interaction. They are fine in small amounts but when you replace your whole connection to other people with calls and instant messaging, that’s where the deficiencies become noticeable.

I recently moved to the city where the company office is and I feel like a few days face to face with my team was a stronger connection than a year of MS Teams interaction. Suddenly my coworkers became real people rather than just emotionless icons on a screen.
That is a funny way to signal their commitment to HPC! But compared to other tooling (non GPU) CUDA is still really clunky. Way ahead of everything else in the GPGPU space but still surprisingly clunky. Also I don't get what they are fearing with all their "Account required for download" (e.g. for CuDNN) what are they fearing? And is it really worth the trade-off for the pain it causes for dev environments and CI pipelines? It really seems like Intel and AMD have to step in to break this monopoly to force them to improve the situation for everyone.
We’re talking about where dynamic variables get populated either on the client side or the browser side. If you put invalid input, it doesn’t matter what side it gets surrendered on. Input validation and rendering are separate issues
How about handling a large transaction without internet access? Say you want to transact in the middle of space. What now? Wait until you get back to some connection?

As silly as it sounds, this system is not scalable.
> The idea that "you can breathe this way and get this effect"

You are not exercising when meditating, ergo your CO2 levels will drop.

I'd love to put a top meditator in a hyperbaric chamber and change the gas levels to something like CO2 @ 600ppm and then see how relaxed they are, unless they have high levels of myoglobin.

The higher the CO2 levels the more stimulated the body becomes. Its why some athlete's take a heaped teaspoon of sodium bicarbonate for asoda boost that has a stimulating effect on the body. Sodium causes the release of calcium from the bones which is stimulating, alters the metal profile in the blood, and the bicarbonate is double the CO2 which also stimulates the body and immune system. People who have trouble breathing used to be told to breath into a paper bag, as this increased the CO2 they rebreathed, which was useful when coal use was high.

So yes meditating can be relaxing, mainly because they are increasing oxygen levels in the body which is less stimulating than CO2 levels from running around.

The vagus nerve runs all the way down to the rectum in many animals, so be careful about stimulating it. One might have to suddenly evacuate in more ways than one, and this article seems like someone's idea of a joke, on the unprepared.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2952396/
Effects of autonomic nerve stimulation on colorectal motility in rats

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15074355/
The role of the rectal branches of pelvic plexus in defecation and colonic motility in a canine model
I am the person y'all replying to. This is a good prompt for my mental model on interviewing.

I assume that the answer in any interview process I go into will be "no" 90%+ of the time. That's not some defeated pessimism, it's just reality that the process is hairy (how many people do you go on dates with before you get married?) and every single instance can fail for reasons that have to do with you (how you did that day, fit for the role) or not (hired internally, headcount went away, etc.)

While obviously it's frustrating to fail a round / not get an offer, there's less sting to it when you manage your expectations as above, and then add to it that the frequency of at-bats + the learning process can lead to a better outcome despite - and in fact - because of - the rejections.

So yes, there's a big mental/attitude component that helps you engage with this productively and see the process as something you're doing for yourself - and thus even the fails are part of the plan - versus stepping into some sort of meat grinder.

And to be fair to your comment about "offered riches and status" - I would not put it that way and the 90%+ fail rate is very real. That said, I definitely feel positive about work and have been lucky with opportunities and there's no question that extensive experience interviewing - and learning from the fails - has been key to that.
If you contribute to a Free software project under a GPL, unless you sign over your copyright they won't be able to relicense it, other than to a later, more restrictive version of the GPL. The reason open source gets relicensed is because it can be, by anyone, as long as they follow whatever minimal attribution rules are associated with the particular license.

It isn't just Hashicorp that could relicense all of their products from now forward - you could too, for your own personal editions.

So, mostly no need to add the F to OSS when talking about this particular danger. Although moving to later GPLs has definitely upset people in the past, moving to proprietary (or ideosyncratic) licensing is different. The disputes about moving to later GPLs are about what code people will be forced to share in order to continue using the software in the way they're accustomed to, not about making competition a license violation.
Rest in peace John Warnock.
All I ever wanted was a way to short NFTs
I noticed this as well! Its surprisingly hard to get a fully clothed female with certain combinations of body type, posing. Even when I explicitly ask in the text box for "modest" or "fully clothed".
> hungry and tired people make more mistakes

This is true. But even non hungry rested people make more mistakes when they underestimate a task. Which is what happens when you attempt a hard skill with a “eh this is the easy part” attitude.
How did you elicit that maximum?
Many such apps exist. I use Hello Transcribe from the App Store, $7 across all iDevices, with CoreML optimization.
The approach I've taken throughout my career when asked about my salary expectations is to say: it depends on the details. There are some jobs I would do for free as a volunteer or purely for equity (e.g. advising a startup or teaching kids to program), and there are some jobs I would do only if I were making a ridiculous amount of money (e.g. being a mid-level project manager at a large company), and a lot of possibilities in between. So I can't tell you what my compensation expectations are because they depend too much on the details of the job.

It has the added benefit of being the truth.