skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most of this generative AI is NOT about using AI for boring tasks, and have you ever even tried to draw clouds? Not easy. Everyone draws clouds differently, which you would know if you ever tried to draw anything.

Perlin noise on a plane, can be either in line with the camera or off at an angle. Nice effect. Very easy. I don't even count myself as a proper artist.

Clouds can obviously be hard when you have a specific cloud formation in mind — but "just" a random cloud, to the standards of most who will observe it, is much easier.

And of course, there are plenty of free photographs of clouds, and Photoshop has had plenty of filters — even from the days before people had broadband, let alone what people now call AI — to turn those photographs into different styles.
The amount they have accomplished since buying PA Semi 15 years ago is mindblowing
The only financial statements I believe are those signed of by external auditors. And even there my trust only goes that far.
At this point selecting good screenshots for git readme's should be a profession of its own, it's baffling how many projects' appeal could be really enhanced by simple informative screenshots.
Saying "Willis Tower" in Chicago is akin to saying "Voldemort" in Harry Potter, it's not done without gasps and dirty stares.
Is there a course that includes the math pre-requisites?
Not entirely. Under the Apache license, everyone can contribute to the Apache-licensed code and mix that code with proprietary code as they wish. Under AGPL-only that's not possible, only code that was contributed under Element's CLA can be relicensed by them and then mixed with the proprietary code. That makes contributing code under AGPL-only less attractive if you need to use the proprietary code.
cortana plays me star wars imperial march. pretty please
Gmail has recently become extremely slow for me in Safari on a well specced M1 max
Twelve billionaires' climate emissions outpollute 2.1M homes, analysis finds
To my not-a-lawyer understanding, it is fraudulent. Fine print is allowed to clarify an offer, but may not substantially alter the offer as originally made.

I could see an argument made that a reasonable person would know an offer to be limited to supported platforms, and that the fine print clarifies which platforms are supported. To me, though, I’d draw a line between unsupported due to underlying limitations (e.g. can’t serve 4k video on a NES) and unsupported due to seller-side limitations (e.g. won’t serve 4k without remote attestation). I’d see the former as a reasonable clarification of the offer, and the latter as an unreasonable alteration of the offer.
Regan’s group did a great job of successfully rewriting the narrative. Knowing Carter would never argue in public they pushed everything off on the former administration, while keeping the warm and fuzzies for themselves.
Key OpenAI employees posting "OpenAI is nothing without its people."
OpenAI is nothing without its people
Philips brought something as abhorrent to production and it sucked.
> 'Luxury Software' hasn't become a thing

And yet, arguably, that's exactly what most app store subscriptions are, priced at several multiples of what that lightweight utility would have cost to purchase before the subscription model.
The prevailing developer discussions going from "Load speed doesn't matter, stop complaining about useless stuff" to "load times matters, but here we choose to make it slow for other reasons" is a massive improvement though. Today speed is valued, it wasn't back then.

There are many such tests being written about in blogs today. So now a developer can get time to optimize load times based on those blog posts while before managers would say it was worthless.
That’s actually not true. The Sphere was only open for two days during that quarter.
So I suppose your need to create AI diversions is more important than the need of others to feel a sense of purpose through their work through their actual talent that you don't have? Good thing you have a full-time job....

Big Tech will benefit immensely from AI. Even if Stable Diffusion is free, it will spurn the development of new computers and new technology to run models like Stable Diffusion, so even not immediate things benefit big tech.

Fully automated luxury communism is a rather bleak future, and it will take us away from being stewards of the environment, and instead consume as many resources as possible.

Finally, even if you are doing something relatively harmless with Stable Diffisuion, many other people will use AI for malicious purposes.
The richest species probably accounts for more carbon emissions than every other species combined too.
> There have been a few stories which sound like he may have had the opportunity to come back but that negotiations over board control etc (which is pretty unsurprising) broke down[1].

Thus disproving your point, in my opinion. There may now be consequences to the board's decision that make their company less powerful in the future, but it won't be because they lacked the autonomy to make their own decisions. Getting to discover the consequences of your preferences is what autonomy is.
Can we have some fucking facts already? We have seen other reports of this same issue but people were using Chrome. This seems like an over-reaction. And the Reddit herd is known for being unstoppable over false-assumptions.
These concerns are in the hands of voters and their representatives in governments now, and really, they always were. A single private organization was never going to be able to solve the coordination problem of balancing progress in a technology against its impact on society.

Indeed, I think trying to do it that way increases the risk that the single private organization captures its regulators and ends up without effective oversight. To put it bluntly: I think it's going to be easier, politically, to regulate this technology with it being a battle between Microsoft, Meta, and Google all focused on commercial applications, than with the clearly dominant organization being a nonprofit that is supposedly altruistic and self-regulating.

I have sympathy for people who think that all sounds like a bad outcome because they are skeptical of politics and trust the big brains at OpenAI more. But personally I think governments have the ultimate responsibility to look out for the interests of the societies they govern.
It’s been like this for years on Firefox for me, even before they cracked down on adblockers and such. I’ve also noticed it messes with the history functionality and often breaks the back button. Getting sick of googles nonsense.
Chrome has been the new Internet Explorer for a bunch of years already.

And even people who lived the horror days of "We need to support IE6 because the client wants so" and "ActiveX is a good choice for web pages" are complacent.

Please, for the love of all that's good in the world, use ANYTHING but a Chromium-based browser if at all possible.
> We should apparently read every function's specification carefully.... These are unrealistic assumptions in modern software.

Lol
Huh, if your electricity prices are low enough, it can quite worth it
I've uploaded Excel case studies on data analysis meant for assessment for investment bankers and consultants. It tries multiple times to understand the data and clean it before finally starting on analysis proper, it's pretty good

Pushed to extreme, what knowledge work can't be done with large context autocomplete? Accountants, lawyers, consultants, programmers, does it take knowledge, reasoning and experience? Most would say yes, but if we can scan a 100 page document, retain it and come to conclusions based on past experience and heuristics, isn't that just glorified "autocomplete"?
I don't, i use Youtube for listening to music or livestreams that i already know the title of.
I manage multiple teams all across the world. Other than being able to lock ourselves in a room to fight a fire, why do I need to have my onshore people in the same building as me? Its nice to have them close for when things get sporty, but at the end of the day, its all about theory X managers wanting to get their Taylor on.
Microsoft is were studios come to die, they will be crushed by MS hierarchy struggles.
Most people suggesting that has either not ever read the 3GPP Real 18 Spec or ever done anything with RF engineering.
No, it does it on Chrome too.
What Google's Multibillion Payment to Apple Says About Privacy and Power in Tech
I wonder how does that compare to waiting for taxi. If you add up time from ordering taxi service to getting in. And then waiting to get dropped off when vehicle has arrived.
There is also that Star Wars is quite loose in its narrative, requiring a significant amount of suspension of disbelief.

Star Wars, if you look at it closely, has many inconsistencies, and it is rather shallow. But it does a great job at letting our minds fill in the gaps. The trench run is, I think, an unwanted result of that. It is almost set up as if they want us to believe that the final trench run happens at the equator, so that's what we believe, because we have been trained for the entire movie to ignore small details and think big.

This is in contrast to films like, for example, Inception, that clearly encourages the audience to look at every little detail.
People keep forgetting that Google is an ad company first, everything else just supports that.

And what's better for distributing ads on the internet then controlling the software people use to view said ads - the browser.
Absolutely agreed overall, Half-Life's dedication to maintinging the player perspective is something many modern games could learn from. So many games are too focused on providing a cinematic experience of their story that they end up taking freedom away from the player with cutscenes where the character acts exactly like the designers want rather than how the player would. In a sense, cutscenes are a crutch that is too often used to force (or skip over) story developments that make no sense.

> You load up the game, watch an intro (for games after HL1)

HL1's train is also an intro that you more or less watch even if you can move around a bit and choose what to look at. Same for Opposing Force's helicopter flight but you are even more restricted: no more movement, only limited camera rotation. Kinda sad that they stripped away even that in the later games but I guess HL1 had the benefit of not having to show what happened previously.

> It makes the games feel grounded and more cinematic, IMO.

I don't think cinematic is the right word here - rather the opposite: HL feels much less like watching a movie.
People say "Tristate Area" and "Metro Detroit"? Don't necessarily need to tack "land" on there but there are colloquial terms for these large metro areas.
That assumption hasn't worked with the cigarette, oil, or pharmaceutical industries. Why would it work here?

It doesn't take a cartoon supervillain to keep selling cigarettes like candy even though you know they increase cancer risks. Or for oil companies to keep producing oil and burying alternative energy sources. Or for the Sacklers to give us Oxy.
IIRC it's an open secret among preservationists that species often are widely known to be extinct before being declared as such because many protections hinge on their status as "endangered" and would be lifted once they're declared extinct, thus risking further endangering other species sharing the same habitat.

It's essentially a choice between losing protections for other species and painting a rosier picture by undercounting what has been lost.
Big discussion on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38344196
That just means he is popular in HN, doesn't say much more than that in regards to leadership, etc.

Being popular doesn't mean someone is efficient, or even has any merits apart from being able to become popular (Kardashians come to mind).
The dark side is seductive, leading individuals down a path where ambition and desire overshadow empathy and moral judgment.
I live for this type of vindication. They lay off their best of the best because the money is not coming in, so GM is gonna GM instead of pivoting and going through pain to make it better. No perseverance, no discipline, no inspiration, just corporatism À la carte.

I am Looking forward to watch Tesla kill all the legacy business competition in this sector. Legacy auto cannot contend because they don't have the talent. You don't hear GM, Ford, Mercedes, or others having millions of resumes sent to them or people clawing to work for them. Tesla on the other hand...If you remove Elon out of your algebra and just look at everything they are doing from cars, grid power, solar, powerwall, AI, optimus, there is no way they won't come out on top in these markets or eventually be the only player(not the best thing to be fair).
I hope this Google Map link: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Braithwaite+House,+7+Forre...

works and demonstrates why all the local residents are hoping that this doesn't get approved.

TL;DR the site is has residential areas on 2.5 sides within 50-100 meters
Concerning the reason why Cruise was stopped and its CEO deposed, the lying to regulators:

The startup culture is really reluctant to work with regulators, and imho, it's a mistake.

There is reasons for that: a lot of startup/small companies exists only to fix an issue created by regulation (the first company I worked with did that), and arbitrary changes in details each time break our process (which is why 'startup mentality' is good there). The company/startup wants to avoid setting itself out of business so it's demands of more stability are poorly argumented/explained, the regulator is quite dense (or rather layered) and each time it ends up with either regulators or startups stonewalled, which isn't an issue when it doesn't involve people's lives.

But I had to work a few years ago with European regulators. First the CNIL, French gdpr's watchdog, then on a h2020 project, that isn't pertinent here.

The CNIL was really helpful. They understood our issues allowed us a research exception, and helped us design a better data architecture.

Since then I'm not as wary, and I think even for new-ish small businesses, it might be a good idea to be as upfront as possible with the regulator. They won't put you out of business, and probably help you.
> We have art galleries displaying things like empty canvases or toilet bowls that make a statement, it's definitely not about difficulty

You're under selling the difficulty of using a toilet bowl to make a convincing statement.
It is not very obvious but the first image was a link to youtube video. The developer should put a play button on it, using his tool perhaps!
We don't know the structure of their new unit, do we? Sometimes "startup in a big corp" may really bring the best of both worlds (although in reality, 90% of such initiatives bring the worst of the two worlds).

For many years, Microsoft Research had a reputation for giving researchers the most freedom. Probably even that's the reason why it hasn't been as successful as other bigcorp research labs.
Important to note it's not planned for Central London, but Stratford, where it makes a bit more sense, as it's a commercial hub with huge shopping malls and modern developments.
List of Mergers and Acquisitions by Apple
No, but most will at some point in their career hear about it in comment sections on HN and the like, or in many different forms hear the adage that adding more people to a project makes it later.
So you think that politics solve weather changes?
That economic growth wasn't an absolute necessity that had to be powered, it was a choice based on the assumption that creating new stuff is always a positive and that we have functionally limitless natural resources that we should use before someone else does.
>The origin of the Celsius scale is arbitrary,

True – but the origin of the Kelvin scale is not.

>“25% hotter” has no meaning whatsoever.

It absolutely does have a physical meaning. It means that the system has 25% more energy at the microscopic level. (Or, you know, substitute in a more precise physical definition of temperature – it will be some kind of measure of energy, even if it's not exactly that.)

It's not necessarily wrong to suppress the zero in a graph of temperature changes, but by doing so you are making bars in the graph proportionally larger or smaller relative to other bars by an arbitrary amount. That could potentially be misleading, depending on what point you are making using the graph.
Like Mastodon, Peertube should not aim to "Do everything people think will be good to get audience". It should create a philosophy.

I’m quite sure that lot and lot of people are tired by all those algorithmic suggestions. People are sad to see creators doing videos to get likes/subscribers/views instead of really creating.

This is a new model. And the winners of the old models will either adapt or not be winners any more. And that’s good if the premise is that the old model is broken in the first place.
What's the educated view?
Related - Kaiser Fung has a long-running blog on bad graphs:

https://junkcharts.typepad.com/
What's your opinion on the location of the site compared to the location of the residents of that area? Hopefully you're not calling the locals amoebas.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Braithwaite+House,+7+Forre...
>A torrent isn't going to load as fast as what you paid YT for.

Unless you want to rewind the video without it re-buffering...
Something I did not see in this article, and please excuse me if my thinking is errant on this, but would not pharmaceutical drugs be ones that can be patented? I understood that a drug can be anything which has a deliberate chemical interaction with the body, but so can smog in the air, bad water, etc.

An insightful article but raises more questions than answers.
HRM was personally disappointing because of both the lack of depth (no appeal to programmers) and the sudden difficulty hike (no appeal to non-programmers). Also it had (or still has?) some game-breaking interpreter bug that made me lost my code and ultimately give up.
Big discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38344196
For Microsoft , 2% loss in stock value on this news on Friday was $60 billion, so writing off $10B and giving another $50B to form a team is still a great deal.

For Sam , he got more than what he was asking and a better prospect to become CEO of Microsoft when Satya leaves. Satya lead cloud division, which was the industry growth market at that time before becoming CEO and now sam is leading AI division , the next growth market.

Ilya still lost in all of this , he managed to get back the keys of a city from sam , who now got this keys to the whole country . Eventually sam will pull everyone out of the city in to rest of his country. Microsoft just needs a few openai employees to join them . They just need data and GPU , openai has reached its limits for getting more data and was begging for more private data while Microsoft holds worlds data, they will just give a few offers to business or free Microsoft products in return of using their data or use their own. I think it’s the end for openAI.
So this book is... not for people with a tech background, AND not for people without a tech background? Should I put the cat in the box now?
Office Landlords Can't Get a Loan Anymore
It's commoditization again: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25765864
It's radically different.
To hell with nature, we need a giant spherical video screen!
I think I get your theses.
What’s the evidence behind “they got the best part of their team?”

It seems to me roughly all of the value of OpenAI’s products is in the model itself and presumably the supporting infrastructure, neither of which seem like they’re going to MSFT (yet?).
Not sure it makes sense to build this thing so far away from where the tourists normally go
I am confident the dealerships will be fine.

Manufacturers will find new ways to break "your" stuff, unless regulation is put in place to prevent it.
It’s a solid advice, but bear in mind that neurosciences and our understanding of perception has improved since then.

It’s very interesting and relevant, just not the final word on the subject.
Now that OpenAI is the leader in the field, it has a lot of monetisation avenues above and over the existing income streams of parterships, ChatGPT+ and API access.
Apple is big enough they could cut out huge swathes of the spec and just tell carriers to cope with it if they want iphones on their network.
Deep NN aren't the only path to AGI...
They actually could be one of the worst paths

For Example, check out the proceedings of the AGI Conference that's been going on for 16 years. https://www.agi-conference.org/

I have faith that Ilya. He's not going to allow this blunder to define his reputation.

He's going to go all in on research to find something to replace Transformers, leaving everyone else in the dust.
Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime. That's why I poop on company time...Love to have someone else clean up the empty bathrooms at work every day or so; shame that job was almost two hours away for the 2 days a week I had to go.
Thanks. In British English it means something like "debatable" or "contested".
I don't think C standard library particularly wanted to be problematic to use, but they just weren't prepared for multithreaded general programming, and tried to patch it with e.g. the _r() version of methods.

An example where I recently made a change is localtime() where I changed to use the _r() variant after wrongly just calling localtime(), but only later realised they were using a global per-process buffer which might produce wrong results in my logging code (e.g. if another thread calls localtime then my time buffer would be updated after I populated it 2 seconds prior).

Now the clib could have made a per thread TLS slot for each threads' time values without too much overhead, which would have automatically fixed any careless uses of localtime() in multiple threads, but instead opted for the separate thread safe function calls.
There's a high likelihood that MS is going to start poaching top AI talent aggressively, with Altman's help. This will be to the significant detriment of OpenAI.

If this is how it plays out, OpenAI's board will be famous for decades to come for their boneheaded handling of this situation.
I know about many companies that have turned countries, and even continents, upside down while having shareholders' profit in mind.
https://github.com/po5/mpv_sponsorblock
I interned at Exxon during the gulf oil spill and saw two interesting actions play out while there.

Exxon was responsible for the oil spill response that coagulated the oil and sank it. They were surprisingly proud of this, having recommended it to BP so that the extent of leaked oil was less noticeable from the surface.

Exxon also invested heavily in an alternative energy company doing research to create oil from a certain type of algae. The investment was all a PR stunt that gave them enough leverage to shelve the research that was successful enough to be considered a threat.
Then how do civil engineers get their degrees?
So true. On the other end of the spectrum... I just got denied an interview with a company for an SVP Product (!) role because "they are looking for someone with hands on ML experience". Why you'd need that in a leadership role where you don't code anything (as a Product SVP) is beyond me, but hey. Anything AI related is just odd nowadays anyway.
I can't imagine how horrible that would be for residents. They've spent the best part of a decade building building building flats, only to plop a giant advert into each and every resident's eyeballs 24/7.

I don't live too far from Stratford and I'm wondering if I'll be able to see it from here
This music video would have been prophetic, huh ?

Delta Heavy - Ghost (Official Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4taIpALfAo
I bet you can only name one...