skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think journalists typically prefer nameable sources whenever they can find one. They can't always, or those sources have had bad experiences with other journalists and don't want to bother, etc.

Keep in mind that journalism in the US is itself a very underpaid profession that mostly fails to pay a living wage. Journalists work on tight deadlines with minimal support and don't always have the luxury of doing deep investigative reporting. They might only have a few hours to get a story ready, and if no nameable sources are willing to come forward, well, maybe that anonymous one is better than nothing.

Source: anecdotal only, former journalism major, knew writers in the industry.

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Edit: not defending the practice, just saying it happens. Sometimes there are just lazy or plain bad journalists too. I don't know this writer and won't speculate, but in general it's not unusual to cite anonymous sources.

If we want to discourage that practice, it's not something an individual journalist can fix (short of cultivating long term sources). Most sources have no protection, and even real whistleblowers (like Snowden or Reality Winner) who are supposed to have protections are just left hung out to dry. For a source, talking to the media has a lot of risks and almost no upsides.
I like your prompt! Some results:

https://dalle.party/?party=Vwuu9ipd

https://dalle.party/?party=Pc3g4Har

My intuition says that the "poetry" part skews the images in a bit of a kitchy direction.
I don't think it will disappear entirely. Just like vinyl records, cassette tapes, and CDs, some people deliberately choose to buy dead tree media for one reason or another. Maybe print magazines will go first, and maybe print newspapers at some point in the future, but actual books will probably never go away.
> I don’t think we lost something other than paper and postage.

Popular Science was nostalgic. It was a callback to an earlier time, and it tracked within its pages the series of changes led to today. It's like losing a species to extinction, albeit not quite as drastic or irrecoverable.

I remember the magazine fondly. Once I got into my later teens, it felt a little too general audience for my taste. But it always made me wonder about the possibilities of science and engineering. Jetpack futures, cloud cities, and millennium ships.

> Indie hackers (as well as anyone else) can now cheaply publish their own magazines to the globe.

It won't be long and even blogs and news websites will see the margin set to zero. LLMs will ingest and rephrase (with accuracy) all kinds of content. There will be no money in running CNN or the New York Times.

> Our great grandchildren will not use physical books.

It's sad to think that the libraries will get garbage collected, but the books they store will be little more than anachronisms. Perhaps they can be turned into public internet cafes.
What the money men want, the money men get.
Clairvoyant Remote Viewing: The US Sponsored Psychic Spying
Love the simplicity.

> ”A Learjet at 40,000 feet shows up the same as an AirBus that just took off at London City Airport, however it’s a lot easier to spot the jumbo jet in the real sky.”

When I use FlightRadar24, I actually see different icons for jumbo jets vs Learjets vs prop planes - so they do not show up the same for me.

Maybe the author means altitude is not distinguished per this quote:

> ”I added some simple log scaling to the map annotations using the altitude of the flight so higher up aircraft appear larger on-screen.”

After downloading the app, planes high in the sky overlap/hide planes lower to the ground. I wonder if color coding the planes would have been better than using different size planes to indicate altitude.

Eg brown/green planes mean close to the ground, and blue planes mean high in the sky. Then have all planes the same size, and use different plane icon shapes for distinguishing commercial jet vs private jet vs prop
Yeah, to be clear, I don’t mean that as a “them damned boomers!” post. They’re not to blame for circumstances conspiring to put life on (relatively) easy mode for them. If they’re guilty of anything (at least, many of them) it’s failing to appreciate how much harder it’s gotten to achieve what they’d consider a basic, unremarkable, ordinary, comfortable middle-class life.
You should know that most of the claims of unusual proportions of very long life from these communities turned out to be bunk. Many researchers spent much more effort on present-day cultural and medical study than they did on discerning historical verification, and so got their numbers inflated by retroactively-produced proof of age in communities small and disconnected enough to not make this their priority a whole hundred years ago (Okinawa), or fraudulently-adjusted age in communities with enough lack of national oversight to enable community-wide retirement fraud (Sicily).

The "Blue Zone Diet(s)" is still probably better than the American Big Mac and Sugar Cup diet, but it's unclear if they're actually living longer than people on other potentially wholesome diets.
Blocking obnoxious servers on the lemmy/kbin network works well enough, same as on Mastodon. There aren't Mastodon-like lists as yet, but there are some servers that just aren't worth talking to.

Blocking obnoxious individuals from your server helps keep them from crapping up the home versions of the groups.

Our only worry about the software is that it's run by weird tankies. But if they become intolerable we're pretty sure there will be enough people to maintain a fork. Probably with our admin as a main guy, lol. Nobody actually wants that to happen, to be clear.
The task LLMs are trained on is "predict the next word", which elegantly is included for free in your training set of text. Typically no annotation is provided, since that would involve a ton of human labor doing the annotations.
Not being facetious, but you aren’t exactly reading me correctly. I’m not saying that I don’t want kids because of the costs. I’m saying I never wanted kids (having thought about this a bit I think it’s mostly because of my inability to believe in religion; I don’t have any happy stories to tell children around life’s difficult questions), and as a result, I have saved a lot of money.
> half the weight, twice the generation efficiency, and half the charge time is better overall

The Prius Prime is approximately the same weight as the Model 3, more expensive than the Model 3 after the rebate, and only gets 2.9 miles/kWh vs 4.1 miles/kWh for the Model 3. So it takes at least 33% longer to charge for the same distance of travel while slow charging and of course doesn't support fast charging.
True. I'm lucky to have a perfectly symmetrical square living room with great acoustics. Well, I think that's beneficial. I have no idea really, but it does sound good.

And I'm quite sensitive to acoustics. In a lot of modern "minimalist" homes I'm upset by the sound bouncing around endlessly, sometimes it's so bad I can barely hear conversations.
> You're saying that the lawsuit is meritorious, while conceding that there is no legal basis for the lawsuit? Am I missing something?

No. Twitter is suing under the “who cares”, “shut up” and “no u” doctrine, which you can do in courts that do not have anti-SLAPP rules in place.

>The company filed its lawsuit in Texas, which is neither its nor Media Matters’ primary place of business. As legal blogger Ken White noted, a Texas filing protects X from claims that it filed a strategic lawsuit against public participation (or SLAPP), something it might face in its home base of California.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/20/23970274/x-elon-musk-med...
It was created by uploading the previous picture to GPT-4 to generate a prompt by using the vision API and using this prompt to create the new prompt:

"Write a prompt for an AI to make this image. Just return the prompt, don't say anything else. Replace everything with corgi."

Then it takes that new prompt and feeds it to Dall-E to generate a new image. And then it repeats.
oh sure. As I said, it's good enough to do the one job.
> I really just think there is no consumer market left that would support well written, long-form science journalism

Nautilus is trying to be that. It's honestly not very good writing or editing, but I still enjoy the experience of getting a science magazine in the mail every once in a while and skimming through it.
> stolen goods aren't stolen because someone stole them;

They literally are, the act of stealing a good that makes it a stolen good. There is nothing circular about that, its linear from A to B, with no loop back.

It's perhaps not helpful, because what you really need is not to just to define "stolen good" but to define "stealing", and so the definition is unsatisfying. But, that's solvable, "stealing", or "theft", is the act of intentionally taking the personal property of another without permission and with the intent to deprive the owner of the property.

> You can however contingently be sold a good, which means you are only allowed to have the good if you agree to certain conditions. Once you violate those conditions, you are forfeiting your ownership of that good if that's what you agreed to (and it is in the case of most digital content).

That's not a contingent sale, its conditional license where the original owner remains the owner. (If the original owner has the right to claim the property back but it does not automatically revert with an action to exercise that rgight, then it is still probably a conditional license, and that is the most simple way of doing that, but it could nearly-equivalently -- but for the additional complication in execution -- be a sale, part of the consideration of which is a commitment made to the original owner and secured by a lien against the property.)

> as capitalism introduces the concept of artificial scarcity

Artificial scarcity is older than capitalism.
Coming for the comments is a pretty normal HN usage pattern, many people read comments first to see if the the original post is worth going to.

Your comment adds even less value, so maybe not make it
And fill it with even more ads and clickbait articles.
Can confirm. I wrote an OS library once for a thing. It started getting popular, then suddenly a large, well known project shipped an alternative solution (competitor?). It was the best thing ever to happen to my project. I got what I wanted (what my library aimed to solve) and no longer had to be the maintainer for that thing.
The phrase "home ownership" elides a lot of detail. What percentage of income is spent on the home now vs then? Probability that current owners will default due to major unforeseen cost, etc.

Edit: nice formatting
ACE (Altamont Corridor Express) appears to be missing as well?
> We’ll never find each other because the universe is too damn big.

Intra-galaxy is certainly not too big.

Even at slow, sub-relativistic speeds, our local galaxy should be fully colonized by now--whether by self-replicating automation or life. This is the paradox.
This and the precursor article in Science were very informative to this novice. Yet both articles seemed, by the halfway point, to devolve into marketing literature for Thermofisher.
I wish the votes in the comments were public, so maybe you could actually get a grasp of what the community really feels like!
blame the unions
That might be easier and more sustainable for the kids than relying on a prompt injection. Those are moving targets and might give so-so response.

I would target local voice cloning if I was a teenager.
So I can then have the cloned voice say exactly what I wanted.
Ok I'll try to be more civil.
The typical "performance review" process involves writing pages of BS that nobody really reads or cares about. I'd much rather a simple rating and a quick conversation.
>Maybe just think about this from an armchair standpoint

Why?

>Before 1900 heart disease was extremely rare. And what were people eating before 1900? A whole lot of beef, bacon, butter, and eggs. Saturated fat consumption per capita was basically unchanged from 1900 to 1950. But heart disease skyrocketed. Look at this data: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FmhBUOpagAA-9Mj?format=png&name=...

Do you think the scientists and doctors that have examined this issue professionally for 8 or more hours per day over decades haven't seen or considered this data?

I am not going to "just think about this from an armchair standpoint" because, quite frankly, that's stupid. I don't know what the confounding variables in the data you show might be. I don't know the nuances and complexities. I would guess you probably don't either.
I’m saying that neural networks are so different from brains that anthropomorphizing them runs a real risk of glossing over important differences.

Terms like “free will” and “intelligence” are too fuzzy to talk about precisely unless we’re on the exact same page regarding what we mean. And applying our imprecise definitions to machines is not doing us any favors.
> Stolen goods are also not in the possession of the original owner.

Right. Unauthorized use of property that does not deprive the owner is trespass [0], not theft.

[0] to land for real property, to chattels for tangible personal property; trespass to intangible personal property is usually a whole mess of specific statutory torts and/or crimes with names that don't have "trespass" in them for particular classes of intangible personal property.
From TFA:

> Numerous lawmakers, including 16 Republican attorneys general, have called on the SEC to ensure Shein isn’t using forced labor in its supply chain before it’s allowed to start trading in the U.S.
Sucks (.. maybe?) for the creators, but I'm so glad this is being done.

How else are you going to know which of these GPTs are garbage or not without wasting all kinds of time and energy on them otherwise?

Personally, more than happy to use anyone else's GPT to support them if it's good and clear that they've put good effort into it. OpenAI should create an interface like Github that lets folks collaborate on prompts instead of this derivative black-box concept.
Last time I did the math on this using median incomes, median home prices and mid year interest rates for 1980 vs 2022 it was something like 24% vs 28%. I’ll see if I can find the math and sources
Every single media source is pumping out negativity. All sectors and all industries are constantly reported to be failing, a bad future ahead and wildly disconnected from reality.

The media has very few positive news stories and they are channelled along specific activities in life.

I can't imagine anybody valuing media now. Media is fundamentally worth less to read and participate in, than ever before.

Old school media now, is nothing like old school media then. Online media outside of a few places, is heavily manipulated and poisoined.
we're finding federation is great fun, fwiw. Our groups have lots of regulars we'd never have met otherwise.

The other fun thing about federation is that when you ban an idiot coming in from another server, you never have to see them again and they can post their last word out there in the ghost version of the thread that you never have to think about.
You live on a different planet than me.

None of what you are saying is supportable by any data or statistics.

The boomers had everything worse. When they were born, something like two thirds of them had indoor plumbing. And a third of them did not.

My parents, my grandparents, they grew up the same way everybody else did back then. They worked on a farm from the age of like 5 doing manual labor.

When you are talking about your parents, you are talking about the luckiest people in the country. Nobody got a pension back then. Maybe if you worked for IBM, but that was not the norm.

What you are saying, "every plausible life-path got downgraded a couple notches since then" is completely false. Every plausible life-path has been upgraded since then, the things you are saying just aren't true.
Whoa, really? Their answer was pretty spot on to your question. Why take such a hostile attitude when it’s your own inability to understand? I’m shocked to see such an ignorant and condescending comment being upvoted.

There’s nothing wrong with not understanding a technical explanation and asking for it to be simplified to your level of understanding, but this is not a simple concept to explain because it is ACTUALLY complex and counterintuitive. How is it their fault?
“This is great for AIs but bad for interpreters. We hoped we could figure out what our AIs were doing just by looking at them. But it turns out they’re simulating much bigger and more complicated AIs, and if we want to know what’s going on, we have to look at those. But those AIs only exist in simulated abstract hyperdimensional spaces. Sounds hard to dissect!”

“Still, last month Anthropic’s interpretability team announced that they successfully dissected of one of the simulated AIs in its abstract hyperdimensional space.

(finally, we’re back to the monosemanticity paper!)

First the researchers trained a very simple 512-neuron AI to predict text, like a tiny version of GPT or Anthropic’s competing model Claude.

Then, they trained a second AI called an autoencoder to predict the activations of the first AI. They told it to posit a certain number of features (the experiments varied between ~2,000 and ~100,000), corresponding to the neurons of the higher-dimensional AI it was simulating. Then they made it predict how those features mapped onto the real neurons of the real AI.

They found that even though the original AI’s neurons weren’t comprehensible, the new AI’s simulated neurons (aka “features”) were! They were monosemantic, ie they meant one specific thing.

Here’s feature #2663 (remember, the original AI only had 512 neurons, but they’re treating it as simulating a larger AI with up to ~100,000 neuron-features).”
Yep, it is not worth it anymore. I got mine for my trip at the end of the year on literally the last day it was on sale :). End of an era.
I don't trust security people to do sane things. - Linus Torvalds (2017)

Specifically, if you have a happy client paying you monthly who has established a functional workflow and no problems, how is forcibly breaking that based on a series of bullshit assumptions (eg. customer has a static phone number in one country that they have continuous SMS access to, customer wants to install your extra app, whatever) for the nominal benefit of some theoretical attack category a smart idea?

It's fine to offer the migration, even to encourage it. But to insist is both wrong and bad for business.
If "tech", as you define it here, was doing things that were good for people, would a party-apparatus publication be necessary?

This is obvious, of course, but rarely do socially valuable innovations require captive media to substantiate them to the body public. When the body public actually wants to hear about them, there's money to be made by educating them.

Real "are we the baddies" energy here.
It currently seems smarter than trying to use non-union mechanics in a country where the vast majority of mechanics are unionized.
I really miss the internet where that level of quality was expected of a well-trafficked reddit thread (at least when sorted by top/best).
I don’t think it really matters where they go, as long as they enjoy themselves there.

My 5yo regularly flies across the world back to my home country, but it’s just another place to him. The important thing is that his uncle is there, not that it’s on the other side of the world.

There’s no concept of going to the other side of the world, beyond it taking ”a very long time” to get there. And why would it? The plane might as well be a teleporter.
Automatically, after 30 years of pain. There is no easy answer. I'm about the last person ever to pay full tuition while working, no loans or other help. In 30 years we can make that normal, but it will take that long to figure out how, and I pity any youngster stuck in the middle while we work on it.
Watch Wolfhall if you haven’t
yes myself had to deal with this in 2009.
In your opinion what is the “really bad thing” that React/Angular have resulted in? Is it just the fewer full stack devs? I mean I’m a full stack dev still while using Vue. But also specialization (at a certain scale) is nearly unavoidable.
Between this and today's news about Sports Illustrated using AI-generated authors, today marks an unexpected decline in two the defining magazines of my childhood!
Do these numbers include homes owned by businesses like investment firms?
Submillisecond differences for audio > 1 KHz tend to show up as phase differences (after all: 1 ms period == 1 KHz) which allow you to figure out where something is located.

The difference between your right and your left ear is indeed on that order and so phase change really starts at roughly that frequency and below that it all just blends together. That's why bass speakers aren't directional and you can have a single big woofer in the middle and it won't make much of a difference in what the sound is like in the stereo image. But if you collapse your high or mid then suddenly all sense of position is gone.

So anything below 1 ms is negligible, as long as it isn't so long that it starts to confuse you. Not rare in church organs, where the lag can be so long that you wonder if you've depressed the key at all, you get used to it after a while but it is a very weird experience.

It's interesting that you can spot an out-of-phase wired woofer fairly easily by just moving around the room, if the sound of the bases cancels out in the middle that usually a good sign that either woofer has its polarity reversed from what it should be. The sound will be 'hollow' (I have no better term for it, that's what it sounds like to me).
Ironically, it was copying google's chrome LAF that led to the decline in firefox since v57.

They had to kill XUL to be able to keep up with the Chrome UI changes, and at that point killed off a vast amount of plugins, leaving firefox with no real advantage over chrome, but all the speed disadvantages compared to chrome.
Note that 50,000 yen is $335. So that’s a ceiling on how much you’ll spend for 7 days of Shinkansen travel.
A French hip hop singer and producer had a imitator redo his voice from recording of him.

So he can talk to his wife and kids without a robot voice.

That was a couple of years ago. I believe they mention AI toward the end, but that he preferred working with a human that is expert at imitation of other human voice.

For a layman like me result where good. I wonder if random recording of a voice is sufficient to create a voice model those day.

( like family vacation, that what the imitator worked on mainly )

( can’t remember the guy name, he was singer of the funky family )
Clicking start over selects the default prompt but it seems like you are right.

Starting over by removing the permalink parameter gives me much more consistent results! An exampe from before: https://dalle.party/?party=Sk8srl2F

I wonder what the default prompt is. There still seems to be a heavy bias towards futuristic cityscapes, deserts, and moonlight. It might just be the model bit it's a bit cheesy if you ask me!
Correct me if I am wrong, but, if impedance is the ratio of capacitance to inductance, so 50ohm coax, Z = sqrt(L/C), then C/L = 1/50^2 so the inductance is 2500 times less. For a short length, he may be choosing to ignore the L as it probably not significant for the exercise.
I only pocket about 20% of my paycheck after mortgage and other expenses. 4 paychecks is 20 months of extra pay.
The Internet wasn't a good thing for Microsoft early on. They made money selling CD-ROMs with an encyclopedia on it. Their business model ties people to one license, one machine. FOSS was anathema to them, but ruled the Internet.

Only after Microsoft eliminated most competitors and figured out how to make money without selling artifacts like CDs did they declare The Internet as useful.
If you're a leftist of any kind, my favorite is this parody shirt called OurSQL: https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/OurSQL-red-and-yellow-by...