skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Wow, did it really get that low?

Always has been. I can generate 768x768 with 3.9GB used, and I don't even use --lowvram or --medvram options in Automatic1111. But note that if you don't have an Intel CPU with onboard video, you will need to lower your resolution because because your OS is using a bunch of VRAM for the desktop already, more than the 0.1GB you left free.
Why did you make a new account just for this comment?
I think many of us would love to hear more. Not looking for gossip or anything, just good stories about some technical hurdle you've overcome, or a special moment like this one you've just described.
And how is that supposed to contradict fat acceptance?
SQLite comes up a lot on HN, but it's not PR - it's content that others find interesting, myself included. In most cases it's not even official SQLite content being posted, but rather other projects or blogs around it.
Discriminate against white people how though
Even when it says that it always continues with "but" and gives me an answer.
They can still take you to court for a cost which is negligible to them, but not to OpenMW developers.
>If the only reason something is moral is because an original creator declared it so then I don’t personally see the difference to us attempting to determine our own sense of morality based on what feels right. If it’s just an appeal to authority, why does it make a difference if that authority is god or human?

Well, because the god can stick you in a fire for all eternity if you follow the human's moral code instead. That's not really a great case for the soundness of their moral teachings but nonetheless presents a compelling argument for obedience.
Google Search can now help with trigonometry, calculus, & geometry
Chile isn't playing host to ESO owned and operated telescopes without their knowledge and consent, but ESO still owns the telescopes.
you are on to something: I have never used Facebook even for a second, except to click inbound links and discover they won't let me use Facebook without signing up.
SO you want parents to give their kids a worse education in the hope it will help other kids? As a father (and a single parent home educator) not bloody likely.

Also, my kids would not have done as well at school - they would have been a lot more like the the other kids, so would not have improved all that much.

Not in the US, but some things are the same here in the UK, and in Sri Lanka where we lived for much of my kid's lives.
I have a somewhat controversial opinion about learning that I’ve been slowly forming over the last decade or so. I don’t buy it entirely yet, but I’m getting there. Here it is:

Reading traditional “narrative” books, articles, for information is extremely inefficient and almost entirely a waste of time. I have read hundreds of books in my life, and yet if you asked me to give a dozen facts from one I read a few months ago (for example, a biography of Rockefeller)…I can’t do it. I could tell you the rough outlines of his life, but I’ve forgotten the details. I put maybe twenty hours into reading this book and my return on that time seems to be minimal at best.

What’s the alternative? I’m a big believer in SRS/Anki and have found it to work almost flawlessly. And so I think a better alternative to reading for information may be to make a list of discrete facts from a book and put those into an SRS system.

Side note: I’m distinguishing reading for information from reading for enjoyment. I assume most people don’t read business nonfiction books for enjoyment and mostly just want to learn the information inside.
That's not science, that's scientism, which replaces traditional religion for many, and usually not with better results.
Related - Bertrand Russell’s History of Western Philosophy is probably what this name is a reference to, and that book does have gaps, but it’s also one of the best things I’ve ever read and I highly recommend it.

Russell was opinionated and very, very funny, while still offering sometimes profound insight. You’ll inhale the book if you are interested in this topic.
Phew, I'm not alone
WeWork plans to file for bankruptcy over debt pile and losses
I translated this text to English and what I don't understand is they talk about the Norwegian Data Protection Authority, quickly say something about European Privacy Council, and then go on telling:

> "The Norwegian Privacy Council's decision is an instruction to the Irish Data Protection Authority to place a permanent ban on Meta's European head office in Ireland. Once this has happened, the ban will come into effect."

Either Norway is banning something on their own, or they follow EU regulations, but I don't think a 'Norwegian ban gets extended to here and there'. I have the feeling stuff gets mixed up a little here.
AI: Scientists excited by tool that grades severity of rare cancer
yeah, I'm not saying advertisers don't know what they're doing, just why I don't want to watch their ads, which somebody up above called "relevant".
> My point is that that morality is impossible to justify in a godless universe.

You say that, and it's good that you did because the arguments you're making don't work together to prove your point in the way that you think they do. What about a godless universe makes morality impossible to justify? Is it that god is the only possible source of morality or meaning or value or something? Because you haven't proven that and can't just take it as axiom.
Does it respond in correct JSON?
> Should we also call white people unnatural and abnormal, considering that the vast majority of humans aren't white?

Sure, why not? Looking at the world population, skin color is normally darker than a typical white European. Not sure why anyone should feel bad about that.

Not sure how many different ways to say this. If there is an overwhelming physical characteristic, that the vast majority of humans exhibit, it's not hurtful to acknowledge it as normal, and deviation from that norm, by definition, as abnormal.

People treating each other poorly is a completely separate issue. And you shouldn't treat someone poorly, just because they're not normal in some characteristic. Most of us aren't normal, in one way or another. And it's okay that we're not all the same, and there's no reason to pretend we are.
In other words, you're claiming that we may have built-in biases, invisible to us, which cause us to mistake certain premises for conclusions, and now we've got a definition of something like what a "unit" is, or what identity means, that work well enough to solidly discourage further investigation.

yet if we just tried, oh, making the unit circle a unit... ellipse... all of the epiphenomenal complexity that comes from remediating the pervasively accumulated 0.01% error in that fundamental assumption would instantly vanish.
I care not for this explanation and opinion.
If someone is unable to work on practice problems without just looking up the solutions that is really their problem, not mine.

> And you’re supposed to have teaching assistants or similar available when you really remain stuck.

That just translates to giving the middle finger to self learners.

I have not yet seen a decent explanation for withholding sample solutions/explanations. It usually just boils down to "I want this to be only for university professors to give homework from and I am of the opinion that university students lack the minimal discipline to work on problems in their own"
So what? It’s still calories in, calories out. Whether you feel full or not is another discussion.
Yeah well, I'm part of society and I've said my opinion on the matter. :P

Sure, it's a continuum. I'd say it's more that, viewed as a continuum, my opinion about the ends of the spectrum is binary, in that I want one end to go up and the other to go down. That doesn't mean I want to split it into two cases so much as that I want to consider it among other things on an axis between two points, "private" and "public", and my opinion is a function of placement between those two points.

Artists are frustrated about fanfic too! They feel genuine ownership of these characters. I've seen people have borderline breakdowns at fanfics. The idea that people are doing things that they didn't intend to "their" characters can be genuinely traumatic to a writer. If you make that a question about consent then fanfic becomes comparable to abuse, and I just don't agree that those should be the terms. Any work placed before the public is inherently participatory. Copyright splits the world into "creators" and "consumers" and I think that's problematic, because there's no such thing as passive consumption of a work. The listener or reader recreates the experience of the work in their head, based on their own assumptions, preconceptions and personality, and if they have an experience or viewpoint that diverges from that of the author, they must be able to share that in turn. So I have a genuine values disagreement with some of what we currently call "rightsholders" in the matter.

What's that got to do with deep learning? Very little: I just see where it leads if you phrase the topic about consent, and it's not a world where unwashed readers can get their dirty mitts on their characters.

(My personal favorite is... closed-source Minecraft (Java) mods. "Do not decompile against my wishes!", the description said. Minecraft mods, meanwhile, are only possible in the first place by decompiling Minecraft's source code against Mojang/Microsoft's wishes. You were this close to learning something!)
Why the hell is gender on a passport anyway?

It's an unnecessary data point for the purpose of a passport
It is very possible (if not usual) to have better socialisation home educated.

IMO meeting lots of different people, of a mix of ages, in multiple different places is better socialisation than going to the same place with the same people every day.

I have had many years of compliments from people about how good my children's social skills are.
I know the situations look superficially similar - big state rattling its sabres at smaller state, then actually going through with it - but when you dig deeper, they're not really comparable.

There's more than 100km of sea between Taiwan and China. Not China (nor anyone else) has anything close to the blue water amphibious assault fleet it would take for an effective invasion force to cross it. It would take multiple years to build such a fleet, impossible to hide, and while they built it Taiwan and her allies would assemble the world's largest anti-shipping missile arsenal. During the hours it would take to sail across, every single one of those huge, slow-moving, landing ships filled with thousands of men and megatons of materiél would be targeted with dozens, maybe hundreds, of missiles apiece. I doubt a single ship would make it even halfway.

Or forget amphibious assault, say China tries to go airborne. An even longer period unmistakably building an unprecedented heavy cargo aircraft fleet. An even longer period for Taiwan and her allies to build her already impressive air defences into an impregnable shield. Again, not a single aircraft makes it even over Taiwan's territorial waters. In fact, once war is declared and it's game on, it's a valid question if any of these large, unstealthy, slow cargo aircraft even survive long enough to be shot down over water.

The Russian experience has indeed been eye-opening, but not in the direction you assumed. Developments in missile technology have totally changed the game. Even today, the vastly superior Russian air force cannot fly over ukrainian territory. The Black Sea Fleet has been driven away - and Ukraine does not even have a navy! And even given their massive advantages in size and military strength, and the 100x easier task of invading and resupplying over land, it's far from clear that Russia will prevail.

No, you can't really compare the two. Russia could always have invaded any of their neighbours if they decided to. China literally can't invade Taiwan, not if you assume even the most basic preparation and competence of herself and her allies. The best they could do is perhaps a blockade, and hope for capitulation. There are pretty much no options for a traditional invasion that do not, with rather high confidence, lead to the fastest, most deadly, most expensive, and most total military defeat in history.

All of this in my own non-professional opinion of course, but I'm not completely uneducated on the topic. There's more - far more - information laying things out much better than I ever could, I encourage anyone overly concerned about an imminent conventional war over Taiwan to seek it out.
What is the expected effect here? Are you saying you can’t gain extra weight by consuming alcohol? Well that is simply not true - you just haven’t applied yourself enough
Nobody will blow the whistle on whether that's true or not. It's a fact that we can't trust companies like Meta. Not because it's engineers who implement dark patterns or because all the people in a business earn more money if they disregard human or environmental wellbeing but because leadership literally lies to congress, judges, the public, their users and their customers all the freaking time.
Surprised they let you pick something without defining the aggregate as it seems really dangerous.

Not entirely sure how far it extends but I’ve noticed that Postgres will let you select any rows from the table that way if you’ve included the primary key in the group by. Back when I used sql server / MySQL you needed to specify them all in the group by.
True religion at its core is about insuring happiness, and a big part of being happy is having a way to explain the world around you so your mind is at ease.
Oblig quote:

"It’s like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black."
But how would they then keep up their profit margins to keep shareholders happy? Their first obligation is to the shareholder, not to the customer.

(I think it is ridiculous that the system works in that way, especially for a company that hasn’t needed investors in over a decade, but it is what it is.)
Easy. It is already forbidden by GDPR without consent. Contrary to popular believe the GDPR does not mandate anything about cookies, it talks about personal information, if you collect it through cookies or some intricate system of pulleys and levers doesn't matter at all.

Simplified it says: if you collect personal information, you need to ask for consent. If someone doesn't consent they must not receive degraded service. Now there has been a ruling that the Do Not Track info users send you shall be honored by you (duh).

This is true regardless of how you technically do it. So UUID URLs are okay, storing which IP adresses shared an UUID link with which other IP without consent is not.

I think some in the IT world need to finally stop making excuses and stop coming up with new illegal ways of tracking users on a personal level. Just use the same creative energy for finding ways of pseudonymizing and anonymizing users (where possible — depending on what you are collecting deanonymization might always be possible).
Norway has a ton of publicly owned oil, on an industrial scale. You aren't establishing that that isn't the explanation for all of it.

When Europeans come to the US, they largely behave like Americans, they fit right in. What Europeans need to stop doing is telling themselves that they're different.
The food thing - and a lot of the other cultural appropriation touchstones - is more about double standards than anything else.

So if you’d be worried about hiring a black man with dreads, but you wouldn’t have the same hangups about a white woman with dreads, that’s an example. Or if when you make Foul Madras it’s very cultured and experimental and basically laudable of you - but if someone from Egypt brings it in, it’s more like a “oh isn’t your culture quaint” kind of situation, if not flat out “why did you make food that smells so bad.”

Like the enduring nonsensical racist gripe that people from indo/pak background smell like curry… while the UK had simultaneously made tika masala into a national dish. It’s brave and adventurous when white people do it, it’s separatist and foreign when brown people do it, even though it’s what brown people grew up with. That’s the angle.
The one building strawman is then accusing others of intellectual dishonesty, the poor man's argument playbook has been followed till the end and we can now stop this conversation. Thanks for making everyone lose their time.
I agree with your general point, but it is worth noting that chess is functionally a “randomly generated puzzle” and yet chess players do memorize patterns in order to perform better at these puzzles. Even if the activity isn’t entirely predictable, it’s still helpful to memorize patterns that you’re likely to encounter.
It’s also over fifty years old and history as a science has developed a lot since then.

The books can be considered primary sources by now, as examples of history writing in the 1920s to the 1960s. I wouldn’t bother reading them to learn about the past anymore though.
I tried my standard "trick" question I use for LLMs:

"Give me five papers with code demonstrating the state of the art of machine learning which uses geospatial data (e.g. GeoJSON) as both input and output."

There is no such state of the art. My hand-wavey understanding is that GIS data is non-continuous, which makes it useless for transformers, and also contextual, which makes it useless for anything else. Will defer to actual ML people for better explanations.

Point is, LLMs invariably give five papers with code that don't actually exist - it's a guaranteed hallucination.

Phind was able to give me five links that do in fact exist, as well as contextual information as to why these five links were not papers with code doing ML with GIS data. This is by far the best answer to this question from an LLM I've received yet.
I don't think the above comment disagrees that much with you. As far as paintings and poems go those are also pulling off of patterns that humans naturally have given off too right? An LLM is a bit more than a stochastic parrot sure, but it's also a large part of how it functions. The real surprise, or maybe not a surprise, is how formulaic everything is.
"But a former partner poisoned the documents"

So basically "protocol breach involving tampering that could be EXTREMELY severe in 99 non-AI ways could be made to be potentially problematic in a fictional generative AI scenario which is already suspect as using a product prone to accuracy issues in preparing accuracy critical work without adequate checks is a bad idea to begin with."

I appreciate your effort in coming up with a scenario. Let me try my hand as well:

"China's APT team gets unfettered access to Microsoft's servers and buries deep for three years. Eventually they modify PDFs of client financing agreements - not changing the visible information, but changing invisible instructions to alter how an AI might read credit limits. This results in an AI's unaudited review of credit agreement compliance to deny sales to large customers and allow sales to clients with low credit worthiness. After a year of this flying under the radar, Microsoft has lost business or had unpaid debt totaling over $100 million dollars."

I'm sure Microsoft's CSO reading that paragraph would be most concerned about the PDF reading AI, out of everything listed.

How does this not already have a CVSS of 'severe'?
Not wait for third party calls, but wait for third party calls from _remote_ third party websites?

Your logic is utterly flawed.
What the Goddamn Hell Is Going on in the Tech Industry?
Is it USD or is it the local currency with a $ in front of it. i am seeing some $50000 places in japan..
Most papers out there are not reproducible because either the code or the data is not publicly available.

Somehow this is perfectly acceptable.
Well operating a highly custom and very expensive is going to have astronomical operating costs as well.
Does it have any significant changes/improvements compared to the original version? Does it compile “easily”?

Ah, nvm, it's all mentioned in the README: https://git.robbyzambito.me/mirror/re3.git/tree/README.md?h=...
You would know in a similar way to a colleague of yours having done this code the previous day, or you joining a company with legacy code. It either has tests or you can't really trust it anyway regardless. You can ask the AI to also write tests for you, inspecting tests is usually much faster than understanding all the nuances of the code.
My wife is still rocking a 2012 Mac air and uses it regularly. Apart from never rebooting it - WHAT ABUT MY TABS - its a sturdy little fellow.

Shame to hear the build quality in the latest is so poor.
The book is a vehicle for the former too. The source of knowledge is whoever had the revelation or who ever sent/was the revelation.

Not all religious people have the same views as American Christian or Middle Eastern Muslim fundamentalists. For most the books are not literal, and personal experience (of self or others) matters more.
Some people have a weird habit of creating a throwaway account for every comment they make, no matter how mundane. I’m not sure what the rationale is, something privacy-ish i guess?
behavioral marketing is about more than making money. you are nudging millions and billions of people in certain directions. It has completely changed majorities of brackets of the current and last generation.

laws will not be enough to stop this
easy to check

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=%22never+try+to+catch+a+fal...

the plurality of results are references to investment markets.
I'm just visiting fewer websites/pages, i.e. those with no ads at all (like this forum) or those with less intrusive ones (such as old.reddit.com). As for websites like YT, I ended up just watching fewer videos (because of the ads).

All in all I see it as a net positive.
If you’re saying blogspot is in the same ball park as generative AI I just don’t know how we can continue.
Why do you care what genitals people have?

The strongest argument about why it matters is women's sports which conservatives always derided and still deride. But weirdly now people like you care about the purity of women's sports.

Maybe ask yourself why you give a s** about putting people into category A or B?

Or go read one of the famous blog posts about the assumptions that programmers make about people's names and then apply that to gender
"A lot", compared to what? A single household? Probably. As a percentage of overall global electricity consumption? Probably negligible.

Some math with conservative estimates:

* power consumption of mobile processor: 5W

* daily ad use: 1 hour (assume it's 100% cpu for the entire time)

* smartphone users: 7.8 billion (world population)

Total yearly electricity consumption given the above: 2.8 TWh

World electricity consumption: 23,921 TWh in 2019
And say getting a job, when everything is through LinkedIn?
tried this out and it works extremely well! Brilliant product.
On the cosmological scale, it's all nearby.
Email senders are trying to solve a problem no one asked them to solve. Me unsubscribing from emails from my grandma is her problem and eventually someone should/will help her find another way to share. Let's not pretend that email senders care about my grandma.

Email providers autoclicking on links, is the recipient's problem. This is the same flow used for account verification links and yet you do not see them adding an additional step to it.

And then we have the large number of users complaining about this, and yet they feel they simply know better and reserve the right to impose themselves on us?

This decision is purely self serving, let's not pretend otherwise.