skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn’t a given and not everyone’s view. Doing a thing and choosing what to do with said thing is that person’s prerogative. The specifics will matter but I don’t agree that someone else’s idea is something someone else must push and profit of if they don’t. The idea of patents also agree with this too.
In my experience this only happens when I am using Cloudflare DNS. Something about their geolocated resolvers is incompatible with how the archive team thinks they should be.
Literally never watched any of these because they seem to be oriented towards women. These are not even remotely close to the best shows on the platform.
For the constitution to work citizens really have to participate and insist upon the constitution. So yes in a sense “it” needs us more than we need it. I’d argue though we stand to gain a lot by insisting upon it than letting any slack and ignorance into the social compact.

The alternatives from ignorance to that compact (laws/institutions as set out in the constitution) are far, far worse.
I was under the impression that the transformer is the tech making openai function, and that Ilya's name is not on the 2017 paper introducing the idea.
>One hundred and thirty days looking for parking.

No one spends 8.5 hours a day looking for parking. This person is out of touch.
You’re right, I shouldn’t have gone absolute. However many Googlers also thought many other things were possible that weren’t, so from here maybe we devolve into discussions of the relative cost/value of Type I vs Type II error.
Congratulations Javier Milei.
The article makes an argument about black holes to get to r^2 instead of r^3. It seems a bit surprising, but then I don’t know that type of physics.

Thinking of the more classical geometrical point of view, I agree that between 2D and 3D seems right. If nothing else, I’d imagine there aren’t many wires going diagonally through the layers, haha. Maybe a cylinder would be the right model.
Simply put your money where your mouth is.

Framework laptops come with expansion cards that are on sturdy rails and serve as the world-facing USB-C/A/HDMI/SD card/whatever connection. The inner connector on the mainboard is well protected.

https://frame.work/assets/pdp/expansion-card-9240577483dc9e2...
To me, the issue is it's not enough to merely say "this job is unethical", unless your point is actually "the economic relationship between the first and third world is unethical". The first is true if the second is, but it's a small and weak part without the second explicitly stated to back it up.
Sounds like you just like movies, but longer.
I think he's talking about two different countries he's lived in. My guess is an Eastern European country in the 90s and Turkey in the 2000s.
Don't invent a new format, but create a credit card-sized adaptor for microSD — like the microSD to SD adaptors but bigger. Call it 'macroSD'. Build NFC into the adaptor.

Edit: smart cards would be ideal if they had more memory. AFAIK they only have a few MB.
There was an interview going around online:

They are talking to a woman that's about to go into a public bus, she says "I can't live without the transportation subsidy, I would literally not be able to afford the commute and I need to commute to go to work. It's essential to me" so the interviewer asks her who she's voting for then she says "Milei. I'm voting Milei".

Funny thing is, one of the promises of Milei was precisely to take away the transportation subsidy. And it's not something that people weren't aware of. Of course, everyone knew.

What goes on in the head of someone that clearly relies on a government program and has decided to vote for a politician that will take that away?

I think, obviously, asking what goes on in the head of voters is a silly question. You're presupposing that voters are rational and logical, and they're not. Representative elections are all about feelings, not thoughts. People are voting for the outsider candidate because they're sick of the same politicians doing the same things that always lead to nothing. But hey, turns out voting for the outside candidate is not going to make things better at all, in fact, it's just gonna make things worse and when this happens the opposite side will come back with their "we told you" message. Just for the cycle to repeat again.

So, I think you have the wrong framing. People are literally not thinking. But obviously our political system only works if people "think". It's a systemic failure, voting for representatives this way just doesn't work. It doesn't work in Argentina, it doesn't work in France, it doesn't work in the US. Our representative democracies are collapsing, and it's not going to get better.
Isn’t the point that if MSFT had a board seat, this whole problem likely wouldn’t have happened in the first place?
both Google and Meta have extremely competitive LLMs

No they don’t. Both Bard and Llama are far behind GPT-4, and GPT-4 finished training in August 2022.
That’s only one participant of 58 in the study.

> The 58 participants had a week of being studied with their normal car usage to establish a baseline, before going four weeks driving one less car. Two-car households went down to one, one-car households went down to no cars, and there were six participants who never owned a car in the first place but who were there to compare behaviours with the newly carless.

Also, while he “has had” up to four cars in the past, it sounds like they currently only use two:

> So he and his wife left the Australian-made station wagon in the garage for the month, during which they only drove their eight-year-old electric BMW twice.
The title is misleading and it is not the translation of the original one in Spanish. There is no dollarization in Argentinian economy "on the way". Milei should build consensus to move forward because he just won the executive branch in the referendum.

For the ones here that does not know the Argentine culture, one thing is what you say, the slogans, and another what you do.

The current government is at a level of corruption that you will find impossible even in fantastic stories.
Yeah, tell me about it. The thing that sickens me the most is that Swedes in general are still very keen to pat themselves on the shoulder about what a great country they live in; even though it's mostly memories by now.

Been there, done that. Getting a bank account once I moved back was a major pita. I still haven't been able to renew my drivers license since I've been moving around without a fixed address. That part isn't new though, it's been like that as far back as I can remember.

But at least back in the days, the system worked, you got something back for your troubles.
I feel like the core problem with Netflix and similar compared to traditional TV networks is Netflix wants to provide you the bare minimum. Once you are subscribed everything else is just a cost, their ideal customer watches just a few shows and keeps paying. This is different from the old ad based model where they wanted you to pay as much as possible. Netflix and Amazon video don't compete against each other like CBS and NBC o.
In broad strokes the libertarian split on abortion comes down to the right of the unborn child vs. the right of the mother. A very rich vein of debate.
lol no - eg. Ryanair does split you up for “reasons”.
I remember when I first saw one of those aux to cassette deck adapters, it was amazing to be able to plug in into an mp3 player or laptop and have your entire music collection available.

The newer cars that only had a CD player seemed like such a downgrade.
I think you mean 1300GMT, I don't think the UK owns enough of the world these days to futz with UTC.
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27re_So_Vain
> Social Security is going bankrupt and combined with the national debt pose a HUGE economic problem for the US over the next decade or 2

Funny how conservatives have been saying that for many decades now. Everyone was yelling about it back at the start of the 1980's, how it would never make it to the year 2000.

Yet... it hasn't gone bankrupt yet, and indeed shows zero signs of doing so. And indeed, pretty much all developed democracies manage something like it, and it goes just fine. And the debt continues to be a perfectly manageable amount relative to GDP, which is the only thing that actually matters.

And the ACA has been a godsend to many people I know, people who otherwise couldn't get private health insurance at all. There's an incredible amount to be proud of. Not to mention the ACA has worked to rein in health care costs, not increase them -- though sadly it hasn't been able to do enough.
> Participants estimated they spent around $4,500 a year on their car. When prompted to include maintenance and insurance, they upped their estimate to $5,900. Whereas Uber says industry data estimates the average annual cost of owning a car in Australia is more like $16,000 to $19,000.

I am in New Zealand. Our car fleet is old (median car is something like 15 years old, but don’t quote me on that).

There is no chance the average New Zealander is spending even close to Uber’ estimate. Australians, I am told Australians have nicer cars than NZ but I really doubt Uber knows more about what the average Australian spends than they do.
Not really, the video and extensive commentary is from 2019.
The argument makes sense once you think of memory as a hierarchy of different sizes. The log of the size of the set of registers is smaller than the logs of the sizes of Li caches, which in turn are smaller than the log of the size of main memory.
https://frank.petril.li/posts/dialup-adventures-1/ explains it all!
> I'm half kidding, I get what you mean

I mean yeah, I'm not saying that they shouldn't be able to use the name. There's no control of "StyleX" but it certainly is a poor choice that can lead to confusion. That's all I'm getting at. 100% this is an opinion (would be insane if believed to be anything else).

I don't think it is just a "sub-field" as you mention and it definitely isn't like StyleGAN isn't known by nearly every person that learns ML (I have seen very few courses that do not mention it, but those tend to be ones that don't discuss generation at all). StyleGAN is one of the most well known models that exist. Up there with GPT, YOLO, and ViT. Realistically we use these names as a style of model now rather than the actual original model themselves (or somewhat interchangeably).

The original StyleTTS's abstract has the line

> Here, we propose StyleTTS, a
style-based generative model for parallel TTS

And I certainly would not blame anyone for thinking "Oh, they're using a StyleGAN". That's all I'm saying. Their style encoder looks nothing like the StyleGAN's style encoder. It looks a bit closer to the synthesis network but that's just because they're using Leaky ReLUs and AdaIN, but like we said before, that's not really a StyleGAN specific thing. There are also other parts we could say look similar but they are pretty generic sections that I wouldn't particularly think uniquely pertains to StyleGAN architectures (or StyleDiffusion ones that do make this callback).

It other words, it's like naming something iX. Sure, Apple doesn't have complete control over a leading letter but I also understand Apple's claim that such a naming pattern can confuse people. Certainly a name collision. Hell, I'll say that the authors that made this paper knew what they were doing https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.01452

I just think they can come up with a better name that has worse chance of collision. It's not like StyleTTS is a particularly creative name or even that apt of a description either. Names are important because they do mean things. You may think it is not a poor choice of naming and that's okay too. But we also work in different fields too and I'd argue that research papers are aimed at other researchers, where I would be surprised if anyone works in generations (image, voice, language, data, whatever) is not well aware of the Style based networks. Because I can use that sentence and it make sense to most ML people.
50 years ago, Skylab's accidental rebels put Mission Control on mute
Javier Milei is:

- Against abortion (except when mother's life is in danger)

- Against sex-ed and wants to eliminate it (says it deforms people's minds)

- Denies climate change (says it's an invention of socialism)

- Anti-vax (But got vaxxed in Nov 2021 because otherwise he would not be able to work in other countries)

- Wants to fuse the departments of Social Development, Health and Education into a single department of Human Capital.

- In favor of Austrian school of economics
- Wants to remove the central bank

- Adopt the US dollar

- Homosexuality is a personal choice and compares it to zoophilia

- In favor of drug legalization and to opening up immigration as long as it doesn't cost the State.

- In favor of people paying for sex

- In favor of gun ownership without governmental limitations

- Wants to freeze relationships with China, Russia, Brazil because they're communists.

- Wants to align with the US, particularly Trump's party.

- Against the Pope because he represents evil on Earth, and because it promotes communism which goes against the holy scriptures.

- In favor of animal cloning

- In favor of organ selling

Good luck Argentina
I've just watched Blue Eye Samurai [1] on Netflix - season 1 was released early this month and I honestly hope they continue with this show. I highly recommend it, but I'm also writing this hoping we can boost its signal, so they don't cancel it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ciOn_4XFfE
Argentina is effectively on the USD anyway. The peso has lost so much value that people quote prices in dollars for real estate and other large items, and convert dollars every day to pesos to buy ordinary things, but not from the official channels because they do not give you a market rate.
Scaleway Ampere servers promise AI smarts without breaking the bank
"No humans were fired in the making of this film"
>That doesn't show in the data until it's too late and the trust is gone.

Yes, this seems to be a problem at this point that stretches across many entire sectors at this point. I know there have been plenty of observations over the years around the dangers of hyper optimizing towards measurables while completely discounting immeasurables yet it seems to be a hard thing still to avoid long term. And in cases like this, or Google say for an even bigger example [0], it can also easily turn into a real doom loop. Initial engagement with services/platforms always entails risk on BOTH sides of the equation. Yeah the business is taking a risk that it won't sell, but the users investing their limited time/resources are taking a risk on its long term support too. Part of bootstrapping is always the business being willing to eat some of that and develop are reputation around doing so, such that people can jump onto v1.0 even if it has flaws and feeling trust that it will have a solid run. Which in turn gives the business the ability to iterate and refine and figure out what it truly is, and then there's a positive loop.

But when businesses forget that and start expecting hits day 1, it can all go into reverse. If everyone expects inevitably to have the rug pulled out from under them, then they won't invest in the first place even if it's promising (short of a monopoly situation where there is literally no choice). Which then becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, not enough "engagement", product gets killed, those % of those burned swear off doing it again and tell others too, and next time it goes even faster. I suspect an exclusive situation in some ways could make it even riskier long term by blunting signal: people feel locked into continuing to buy which looks good on numbers, but immeasurably anger is building up. Which means as soon as something else comes along "all of a sudden" people will bolt for it.

I don't know, seems to be a sort of midlife crisis thing that is particularly true of very successful firms that have only ever known major success. They somehow lose the institutional DNA of how they built their customer base in the first place, and then just cannot seem to manage to recover it until it's too late.

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0: https://killedbygoogle.com/
> Moderation in all things, but nothing wrong with a little here and there.

Would you say the same about rape, violence, and murder? Those seem like "natural instincts". Nothing wrong with a little here and there?

I would dispute that racism and sexism are "just like" sexuality, and I would also dispute that all "natural instincts", you might call them animal instincts, ought to be accepted and encouraged. One of the great accomplishments of humanity is to rise above our animal instincts and become, at least temporarily, rational and enlightened.

Sex is necessary for the propagation of the species, and when done right, it's consensual to all parties and also pleasurable, harming nobody. Can you say the same about racism and sexism?
Former OpenAI boss Sam Altman pictured at firm's HQ amid reports of return
An earlier edition of this book was the textbook for a computational linguistics course I took back in ~2002 (!), it's amazing how much has been added
Yes, the servers are on public cloud providers.

Its designed to work on many cloud providers. And so its easy to add new locations and new cloud providers.

Currently Linode, Digital Ocean, and Hertzner.
> But you might want to question why you’re so sure that’s the case. People talk about that a lot but it’s pretty rare to actually see that happen.

Difference here is OpenAI is not Google or FB with tens of thousands of employees bulk of which are engineers most likely not be able to get current level of compensation in case of mass layoff/resignations. OpenAI is couple of hundred people and are highly rated due to perceived level of success. So it is opposite of risk to follow the leader who has gotten them high level of compensation so far.

> He seems incredibly good at ingratiating himself with extremely powerful people

You seem to think it is negative. For most people including OpenAI employees it is great advantage to be working for/with him.
Apple's quest for modem independence from Qualcomm is going nowhere fast
The basic pitch seems to be that you get Medicare PLUS all this additional stuff at no additional charge which doesn't make a lot of sense. It may work and work out for some but you're obviously giving up something.
The terminal seating at LAX has both 110 VAC plugs and USB-A plugs where the cable falls out as soon as you let go of it.
The larger the corporation the harder for it to keep up or innovate.
I reckon that estimate must be over an 80 year lifespan.

> (130 / (80 * 365)) * 7*24

Translating it to per week, that comes out at 45 minutes per week.
Let me clarify: This wasn't intended to contradict the root-n limit. Both limits exist.

* The root-n limit is based on physics of a 3d universe.

* A log n limit is based on computation, and would apply even in a infinite-dimensional universe, where everything is one unit away.

The root-n is a stronger limiting factor, obviously, but both are helpful to know since they talk about different limits from different premises.

Both disprove O(1). Both are (1) quite theoretical (2) not the limiting factor in most scenarios in practical terms (3) still apply in a limited set of cases.

The log n argument is helpful, for example, for network addressing for the internet and network topologies (and issues like 32 bit versus 128 bit addresses, NAT, etc.), were distances are well above the limits of physics, and the root-n argument doesn't apply. It's also helpful to know since it also applies to storage, and not just speed. If I have twice as much storage, my pointers all get longer by a bit.

(I'm intentionally omitting square root versus cube root, since that's tangential to the above, and a rabbit hole I don't want to go down right now; perhaps another post)
Those sound incredibly good.

Though would def like to clone a pleasant voice on it before using. Those sound good but not my cup of tea
The "waters of immortality" are certainly more than just one discovery away; they won't be easy or simple at all, because they require re-engineering human biology.

However, the idea that aging is somehow necessary is purely a religious belief. There's absolutely no physics-based reason why it has to be this way.
I have no reason to believe Sam Altman's a similar case, but have you heard of Nick Calandra? He was editor and chief of the escapist. Last week he got fired, the entire video department (~20 people) resigned and they immediately started a company together called Second Wind.
GPT-4 is a magnitude larger and not a magnitude better. Even before that, GPT-3 was not a particularly high watermark (compared to T5 and BERT) and GPT-2 was famously so expensive to run that it ran up a 6-figure monthly cloud spend just for inferencing. Lord knows what GPT-4 costs at-scale, but I'm not convinced it's cost-competitive with the alternatives.
This is the restult of driving your business with short-term metrics. These series probably didn't hit the right taste clusters [1].

People are only willing to get burned a limited number of times with getting invested in a show and having it prematurely cancelled. At some point this will impact viewership of new shoes as people don't want to get burned. In my case, I will never forgive Netflix for cancelling Mindhunter. Even Ozark, which was very good, was rushed to finish in a 4th season, to its detriment.

I saw an author complaining about people doing this with books, arguing readers were the problem because this affects what gets published. Readers (and viewers) don't owe you a living. I got burned on book series years ago, promising to only start finished series. I started a trilogy called a Song of Ice and Fire in 2002 (of course not knowing it wasn't a trilogy) after the whole Robert Jordan decade long saga.

Google has the same problem with new projects: people expect them to get cancelled. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Apple does this much better. Apple keeps plugging away at Apple Pay and it's a payment powerhouse now after many eyars. How many iterations have we had of Google Checkout, Google Wallet, Google Pay, Android Pay, etc have we had?

IME HBO is still th eking of seeing things through. It's had some series cancelled prematurely (notably Deadwood, Rome and the abomination that was the last 2 seasons of Game of Thrones) but it has a good track record. Some Netflix series have had a satisfactory ending (eg Bojack Horseman) but so many don't. Even Prime is better (eg Bosch).

Netflix is using metrics that'll turn it into a cheap reality TV content farm.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktAbh39aoU8
This is an interesting example of a highly intelligent person actively convincing people to remove some alignment constraints.
no. it's anti-openness.
the true value in ai/agi is the ability to control the output. the "safe" part of this is controlling the political slant that "open" ai models allow. the technology itself has much less value than the control that is possible to those who decide what is "safe" and what isn't. it's akin to raiding the libraries and removing any book or idea or reference to historical event that isn't culturally popular.

this is the future that orwell feared.
1899 was my cutoff, too. They had the nerve to recommend the show to me after it had been canceled, which I didn't know at the time. Got invested and looked for a season two release date, which is how I learned it was canceled. No longer a subscriber now.
Alan Wake 2
> is starting to get old lol.

If it's starting to get old, then this means that an LLM like Copilot should be able to do it for you, no?