skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their position (and also mine, even though I have otherwise lots of disagreement with most SV folk in other areas) is that for those ML purposes, no consent need be sought or granted. If the work is publicly accessible, it's usable for AI. This is legally supported by fair use (to be determined by the courts, keep an eye out on the Andersen v. Stability lawsuit)
It's stunning and completely unacceptable. This is a product that is not fit for purpose. I hope the developers are embarrassed by what they have produced.
"Quite a lot of draw calls are used for the Gameface-powered UI elements, though ultimately these calls are very fast compared to the rest of the rendering process."

Literally quoted from the article. Standard 2D UI like that can be done in as little a single draw call (or so I have read, never actually done it)
> The ability of AI to produce the content that it does actually will be reducing potentially hundreds of thousands of jobs.

You mean like tractors, electric motors, powered looms, machine tools, excavators, and such?

Yeah, and? In the limit, those things are why our population isn't 90% unfree agricultural laborers (serfs or slaves), 9+% soldiers to keep the serfs in line, and < 1% "nobles" and "priests", who get to consume all the goodies.

This same basic argument about "putting artists out of work" was made when photography was invented. It didn't work then, and it's not going to work now.
Non metric units are a nightmare! I find them terribly interesting, but if you're looking for an unambiguous unit of measure, the metric system is the way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mile#Comparison_table

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pint#Other_pints
Is that a big deal? That's easy to avoid if you don't pre-order games and just wait for the day 1 reviews. Even if you did end up with a shitty situation, Steam lets you refund the games with minimal hassle.

On the other hand, there are players who'd rather have the game earlier (like me) than a few months later, despite its launch issues.

The alternative approach -- Baldur's Gate 3 being in Early Access forever -- is fine too, but damned if that wasn't a long wait.

Maybe the compromise is bigger companies being willing to release in Early Access more often. That shouldn't be limited to just indie companies, but any publisher that wants early and broad public feedback.

Especially for a city-builder game (where there isn't really a campaign or spoilers), I don't see why not...
Other languages write e.g. 6:00 instead of 6:00 am, and 18:00 instead of 6:00 pm. When you talk about analog clocks you can presumably say something like "it shows six o'clock in the afternoon". (What's the opposite of afternoon by the way? Morning? But isn't that the opposite of evening? Or just ante meridiem? But that's Latin.)
I cannot get paid by my company without a bank account. No company would pay me my salary in cash. A bank account is no longer optional if you want to live a normal life.
It makes one wonder what their internal employee incentives are and if they're problematic.

Microsoft has a similar problem where nobody gets promoted from fixing bugs or maintaining stuff, everyone gets rewarded for new innovative [thing] so every two-three years there's a completely new UI framework or similar.

Although I feel like wanting to start-a-new is a common tech problem, where there are problems and everyone wants to just reboot to "fix" it rather than fixing it head-on inc. backwards compatibility headaches.
Perhaps it would work better on a cluster of these.
> AI outputs should be regulated, of course.

Why "of course"?
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> For the record, I find your comments about the future to be incredibly pessimistic. The advent of AI has allowed a lot more people to be creative without needing to dedicate hundreds of hours to it. It's not all about money. A lot of community models out there, for example, are free in both meanings of the word.

And I read this whole portion as incredibly naive and idealistic. Wow, you can click a button and get some shitty artwork and some robotic copy text, incredible. And you know how this is being used right now, which is only going to get worse as this tech matures? Spammers have an easier time than ever flooding the frontpage of every search engine with machine generated garbage whose sole purpose is to trick people into interacting with it. Scammers can generate infinite fake but convincing material with which to target everyone and trick them. Oh but it's okay, you can click a button and get some pictures!

Let's also just ignore for a moment what these AI Shenanigans will actually lead to down the line, which is the mass replacement of anyone and everyone possible for the sake of lining the pockets of some psychopathic C-suite whose 1 and only worry in the world is how to make the maximum possible amount of money. We're already living in a world where some shitty language model is examining every letter in everything you post and decides whether it's a no-no for the corporation controlling it before banning you with no recourse, this is only going to get worse and worse and soon enough will start flooding into real life, where the course of entire lives will be decided by some decentralized black box. All with 0 recourse, and 0 consequences for the sociopaths that implemented these things in the first place.

Yeah that's some real hopeful future we're looking at, all so that talentless people can click on a button and get a picture out of it. Such "progress" indeed.
I guess I’m just suspicious of any community or movement that labels itself as “effective,” because it is hard to believe that they were the first ones to think of the idea of not being ineffective, haha.

What do people donate money to charity for? It's certainly not all to the poorest or desperate people amongst us. It get donated to a church, or to an art museum. Beyond a certain point, they don't really need the money.

Meanwhile, halfway around the world people lives in abject poverty or they're dying to famine or war.

I certainly don't act like an effective altruist. My money goes to things I cared about, like open source projects, but not necessarily to people who need the money to live another day or help people who could help other people live another day.

Let's put it this way. Is it wrong to not save people's lives, especially when it is of no inconvenience to you? I am not talking about donating so much money that I am a beggar on the street, but donating a substantial enough money but still retain a 'middle class' lifestyle.

Then the next question is whatever you doing effective or counterproductive? I think it should be no surprise that a large amount of people don't give such thought to the questions. Imagine the vast scientific illiteracy that pervades our world, like anti-vaxxers asking for money to help spread their messages.
it should be illegal imho. You straight up shouldn't be allowed to tell reviewers what they can and can't review
Second Apple should be lowercase
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Because it can be about facing the problem, with assistance of an altered state opened by the psychedelic. They are tools in the right context.

(Disclaimer, working at ayahuasca retreat centers for the last 3 years so maybe biased as to what that context actually is :))
Most people doing big donations aren't particularly interested in effectiveness. The Susan G. Komen foundation, still the largest breast cancer charity in the US, had a big controversy about this around the time that Effective Altruism started to get big. According to their annual reports (https://www.komen.org/wp-content/uploads/fy19-20-annual-repo...), if you go to their site and donate $100 towards their promise of "ending breast cancer":

* $5 goes towards breast cancer research. (IIUC, cancer researchers are somewhat skeptical of the idea that cancer could be "ended" as such, but that's a minor quibble.)

* $8 goes towards treatment and screening. Not exactly what was promised, but still saving lives, so close enough.

* $14 goes towards administering the Susan G. Komen foundation.

* $22 goes towards raising funds for the Susan G. Komen foundation.

* $51 goes towards "education". They say this includes patient support services, not just telling people about the Susan G. Komen foundation, but don't offer a further breakdown.

And my understanding is that, in non-EA philanthropic circles, this breakdown isn't considered particularly egregious. At least they're doing something! An ineffective charity would be something like One Laptop per Child, which raised money and press attention from a fake crank-powered laptop and accomplished nothing of note before technological innovation outpaced them.
What products or services does Meta sell on FB marketplace?
Chess has a very straightforward definition of objectively correct and incorrect moves; there is no such thing for art. Though I have to wonder how many rounds of looking at random garbage and rating it you'd have to do for some kind of supervised learning to eventually yield coherent output...
Not having to constantly apply a ton of micro-corrections for keeping the speed, keeping the car centered, slowing down to cars in front, ... takes away a TON of mental fatigue, even if you're still supervising.

Over time you learn the 1-2 situations where the car potentially messes up and you increase vigilance, otherwise highways are usually a smooth ride.

The first time I took the trip to my parents in my Tesla, I almost did the entire trip without stopping (~300km), whereas with my old car, which had no assistance systems at all, I would have to stop after 1h from being too tired already (Switzerland has lots of speed limit changes and frequent traffic jams near the weekends).
But when used in the way you're describing, valve forcing it in a developer instead of a developer opting in, it becomes a form of punishment.
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There is! You can click and drag on the review date graph to any custom timeframe you want. Then it'll calculate the overall rating of just your selected date range for you.

I wish I could post an image here for you :( But basically just go down to the reviews, expand the graphs (with "Show Graphs"), and click and drag a box on the left hand one.
It's actually impressive that Weird Al has made it as far as he did now that I think about it
I’ll give that a try tomorrow! I normally put scrambled eggs in a cold pan and whisk while heating because either I’m a masochist, like creamy eggs, or both.
Does anyone do this in Australia?

There's a "lost" apple variety around the corner from me.
I’d like to see numbers backing up this assertion, because everything I have seen suggests the opposite at grid scale. Sure, remote towns will have backups, but the major metro areas do not run at substantial overcapacity ratios. (Else, peakers would not be a thing.)
> Is there any Paradox game that doesn’t have lots of obvious bugs and terrible UI at release?

It's not a Paradox game, they're the publisher. Colossal Order is the developer.

It's a small developer out of Finland, 30-50 employees.
Sure. Who is gonna prioritize that? Engineers likely have no discretionary time left and are even working weekends. Even on a web project I've been on, I had PM complaint every meeting about loading times of a admin interface. I told them every time that they should than prioritize the pagination ticket I had written. After a months of this shit, I took time out of my Saturday and just added it. I wouldn't have done that if I had already had to work nights and weekends.
The EU also has a much stronger regulatory framework than the United States does. American corporate-friendly policy decisions make litigating anti-trust more difficult. Not to mention congressional inaction means regulatory policy is stuck generally in the last century. The case against Google has seemed the strongest yet, but we shall see how things play out.
Agree. We are 100% on stainless steel and cast iron now for a few years. Teflon is not really needed.
Perf issues also basically killed the SimCity franchise on PC. Hope they are able to fix things up
Haha, I see how I wrote that weird. I mean “hard to beat” like “it’s so good at being non stick to eggs compared to anything else”
And you got downvoted. I guess the guideline only matter to people when it doesn't comes to their favorite foods.
>> 'Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed, will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten. Already, in the Eleventh Edition, we're not far from that point. But the process will still be continuing long after you and I are dead. Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller. Even now, of course, there's no reason or excuse for committing thoughtcrime. It's merely a question of self-discipline, reality-control. But in the end there won't be any need even for that. The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect. Newspeak is Ingsoc and Ingsoc is Newspeak,' he added with a sort of mystical satisfaction. 'Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?'
Dynamic pricing and load shedding can reduce the need for peaker plants and storage systems. But as a side effect it will also drive energy intensive heavy industries offshore. Certain types of industrial facilities can't just start and stop, and every minute they're offline they're losing money. Major countries have to keep certain strategic domestic industries operating regardless of the cost or environmental impacts; it's just too risky to depend on imports that could be interrupted at any time due to a war or other geopolitical crisis.
I agree Utilitarianism is a crock, largely because of the obvious impossibility of agreeing on what constitutes total utility. But to claim Utilitarians equate utility with pleasure is an unfair caricature.
That's incorrect. The translation quoted by Oppenheimer is actually more accurate than yours. The other two, more popular are:

"The Supreme Lord said: I am mighty Time, the source of destruction that comes forth to annihilate the worlds. Even without your participation, the warriors arrayed in the opposing army shall cease to exist." [0]

"Bhagavān Śrī Kṛṣṇa said: Time I am, the mighty destroyer of worlds, and I come to vanquish all living beings. Even without your participation, all the warriors on the opposite side of the battlefield will be killed" [1]

[0] - https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/chapter/11/verse/32

[1] - https://asitis.com/11/32.html
AI parameters are at least theoretically ownable while physical collections of neurons are not ownable as per 14A. So long as AI researchers are going to assert ownership over their network parameters, then they also need to conform to the ownership rules over the things they train the parameters against.

Of course, those ownership rules are garbage, but the tech industry stopped caring about copyright reform back in like 2004.
Weird Al explicitly seeks out the permission from the people whose songs he's parodying, despite not really having to (legally), and he compensates them in kind as well, so kinda the exact opposite of what the AI crowd wants to do.
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I agree with that. Neither mailing beanie babies nor sending Bitcoin is "circumventing banking regulations". That was pretty much my point. What's yours?
Did you ever try windows? There are loads of weird ui things going on there.
Mac also has it's quircks but fonts usually do look decent.
> relaxed memory semantics are exceedingly difficult to reason about

People say this but I don't understand how? They're basically just like ordinary variables. Except even better, because you can use them from multiple threads. And it's guaranteed that a given thread will only ever see values that were actually written by the program (like it's guaranteed the compiler won't introduce spurious writes during optimization). There's no ordering guarantee, just like there's no ordering guarantee across threads for ordinary variables. If relaxed atomics are too hard then aren't ordinary variables too hard?

You can certainly use them in a way that's confusing, but that's not because they're themselves complicated - it's because you're writing confusing code. You can do that in a single thread too, with ordinary variables. It's not specific to relaxed atomics.

In fact, in my experience, the most confusing atomics are the sequentially consistent ones! I never know when I need to use them in practice vs. acquire/release.
Light correction: hexl-mode is the hex editor proper. hexlify-buffer called by itself just does a transformation to a side-by-side hex/chars view; it doesn't set up for hex-editor navigation or transforming back to binary on save or anything like that.
“However, generating text, audio, or images in the specific style of an individual creator seems like a slippery slope that ultimately deserves some kind of renumeration.”

Human artists already do this, extensively. We handle it by making their output the part of the process which holds relevant copyright protections. I can sell Picasso inspired pieces all day long as long as I don’t sell them as “Picasso.”

If I faithfully reproduced “The Old Guitarist”[1] and attempted to sell it as the original, or even as a version to copy and sell prints, I’d be open to legal claims and action. Rightfully so.

I personally haven’t heard a convincing argument as to why ML training should be handled as if it’s the output of the process, rather than the input that it is. I’m open to be swayed and make adjustments to my worldview so I keep looking for counterpoints.

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[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Guitarist
>Maybe it’s a cultural thing but adults just need to be able to cook in my society. No place for hefty emotions. Just a fact of life.

I have an impaired sense of smell, as do 20% of the adult population. Most foods are utterly bland or actively repulsive to me. Sweet tastes are mildly pleasant, but otherwise I do not enjoy eating, I just do it to avoid hunger. I maintain a BMI of 19, but only because I actively monitor my food intake to avoid becoming clinically underweight.

Cooking is a chore that I will perform in the most perfunctory way possible in order to keep myself alive, but it is also something I will avoid wherever possible. Any effort I might put into making a delicious meal is wasted on me, because I don't have the sensory apparatus to perceive deliciousness.

From my perspective, the world seems almost pathologically obsessed with food. People often struggle to understand my complete indifference to food ("surely there must be some foods you enjoy"), but I struggle to understand how vast numbers of people eat so much that they become disabled and die prematurely. I can only make sense of it through the lens of addiction, which would raise all sorts of questions about the way in which we think talk about food versus other addictive substances.

My experience is obviously atypical (although not as uncommon as you might imagine), but I can't help thinking that the rest of you would be better off if you took a slightly more functional and utilitarian approach to eating. Obviously you can't just all pretend that you don't enjoy eating, but maybe you could all spend a bit less time talking and thinking about food?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15064632/
I love meditation and practice daily, but not everyone can do 1 hour a day (Goenka recommends two) and one ten day retreat a year.

If one or two guided trips can transform someone's relationship to death, that's hugely valuable.
> taking money from the rich and distributing it to the poor

There is zero evidence that this was his intent.

There is a lot of evidence that he intended to maximize trading profits and use those profits to help people.

The fact that he failed does not mean that he intended to steal from the rich.
Well yeah, anything is easy if your server isn't doing the work.
1. Store of wealth for ordinary people in badly governed countries (Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka) - provably beyond the control of any government, easy to conceal, easy to transfer. See real examples of how individuals are using it - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32406095

2. Store of wealth for countries who do not want to keep their reserves in other countries fiat currencies. Gold is one alternative and Bitcoin is a good second option.

3. International settlements - if Pakistan wants to buy cheap oil from Iran, what currency do they transact it? Neither one wants to keep each other's currency on their hand because of a low level of trust. USD/EUR was one alternative but it is increasingly weaponized and anyway one cannot buy Iranian oil with it. That leaves only Gold, which is too hard to transport.

Happy to engage further if you want to discuss in good faith.
> needlessly prioritized passenger safety over commercial innovation

There's a phrase that should go down in infamy. "My desire to make money is more important than your life".
I'd agree there's room for debate on the viability of the option. On my side I'd just say that it would be fair for Tesla to not give everything away as a total freebie... on the other hand perhaps manufacturers saw Tesla's offer as so odious as to be untenable. Or maybe they were just sincerely skeptical about Tesla's survival and plans. Hard to know without being privy to everything. But again I appreciated getting reminded of and learning some of the details.
FWIW I don't think there's much reason to use paket and FAKE these days. FAKE just shells out to msbuild (and usually via dotnet) and it's pretty easy to use targets/props files if you want to factor a few things out of project files. Although even that is of minimal benefit. Paket is still different, but it's not 2016 anymore. The default nuget client is stable and fast. IMO these tools served the community well for a decade or so, but it's not worth bringing into a new project.
The argument is akin to saying bank robbery is a feature not a big when the thief donates his or her takes to charities of soup kitchens or what have you.

It’s a ridiculous high school level argument.
> When found during development, developers need to write a fix; the time spent counts against “development time.” They are blamed for missed deadlines (Newspeak “Sprint and Goals”). They are asked why everything takes so long. Ironically, they are blamed for creating high-quality code. Sad, I know.

Hahaha, I have been penalized for going steady enough times that I reached a point where I have no incentive to make services any better. I found it better to sweep issues under the rug and switch teams before it blows up.

It pains me but I am not going to care about it if I am going to be penalized for it.
How the heck did you get a kubernetes cluster to run on a esp32?!
I was answering that commenter's question about the original, which they stated they had not played.

But I could have made that more obvious, in my reply.
Nobody sets out to make a bad game or "waste effort" on "useless" features.

Things like this happen because the people giving you money have a hard deadline and you ship what you have.

Or you decide to use a game engine that was more difficult to use than expected.

It's insulting to say "well, just make the game better first, duh". I promise you, they know.

But they have to balance a lot of things you don't see.

If you ever find yourself saying "why don't they do [obvious thing]", stop and assume you don't have all the facts.
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Cancer cells are just mutated normal cells which focus on replicating themselves instead of following the rules of the system.
Mobian et al is the alternative, not surveillanceOS.