skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife and I have been playing chess, and I'm usually reading a light book of some kind between moves. We also usually have some relaxing music playing and not many lights on. We even turn all the lights off and just play chess using a kerosene lamp or candles. It's quite relaxing.
I wonder if the main attractors are not eating, breathing, balancing.. any effort toward this has infinite budget in your decision center.
And what happens when you don't have access to the drug?
I appreciate you taking the time to lay that out, I was under the opposite impression for US law.
Right. The entire steak ages and changes, not just the exterior. Even so, some places, like Flannery Beef, will blend some of the ends into their "adventurous" burger blend.
The pedant in me couldn't resist... I don't think that a private spacecraft landing on the moon counts as "the US" landing on the moon.
Google's hidden AI diversity prompts lead to outcry over inaccurate images
Reassuringly anachronistic to use acres as a unit of measure on the moon.
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I think this airplane is not the best way to experience full totality—especially if it's your first time seeing a total solar eclipse. There still should be plenty of opportunities to see the eclipse from the ground in April!
If you rotate it fast enough, you can mount pictures to the outer wall without fasteners or adhesives!
There are ant colonies that grow their own fungi.
A better reason to go was that her research was crap based on bad statistics.

Things like the citation scandal are a signal for the kind of problem that lead to that.
I say this as a programmer: that's such a programmer excuse for an awful UI. I'm not directing that at you, but at the group who decided how to draw circles on the screen.

Option A: Build a function that calls all the appropriate actions in sequence, then stick it on a menu.

Option B: Tell users that they're better off doing it manually.

...which inevitably leads to:

Result C: Why don't more people want to use it?, and

Result D: Appealing to programmers who think that's a great idea because it worked OK for themselves, and building more features with the same paradigm, creating a feedback loop.
Think it's being hugged to death
The talk of "safety" and harm in every image or language model release is getting quite boring and repetitive. The reasons why it's there is obvious and there are known workarounds yet the majority of conversations seems to be dominated by it. There's very little discussion regarding the actual technology and I'm aware of the irony of mentioning this. Really wish I could filter out these sorts of posts.

Hopefuly it dies down soon but I doubt it. At least we don't have to hear garbage about
"WHy doEs opEn ai hAve oPEn iN thE namE iF ThEY aReN'T oPEN SoURCe"
Models have to be trained to understand sound, it's not free.
Show your work.

Show how the productivity per acre of arable land times the amount of land available produces enough calories to keep the current population of the world from starting. If you can't produce enough calories, vitamin content doesn't matter.

(hint: the productivity of small-scale farming is often << 10% of the productivity of large-scale farming and the productivity of garden-scale farming is typically < 1%)
We've had machines that outperform humans at some tasks, which has always shifted value onto other tasks that human workers could do which machines could not. We've never had a machine that could "outperform humans at most economically valuable work". At some point, there is a finite limit to human capabilities, and it has never in history been reached, so there is no historical example to draw on.

We do have a historical examples for horses, though, which was reached somewhere between around 1900 and 1920.
Are those vars discoverable? As in can you infer what they should be? If you can’t, or are building for all unknown possibilities, wouldn’t it be safer to enumerate known var values to perform that?

Why must everything be explicit? Wrap it all up into one var.

cmake -DBUILD_FOR=esp32 .

Then provide your own little runtime.sh.

For other languages and build systems, a runtime run sourcefile is the easiest way to get someone going, leave the edge cases out. Just get it running so they can hack on it.
I'm seeing a lot of conflicting claims about the factual accuracy this thing is able to achieve. If companies really are able to wrangle it into not making up random bullshit, then consider me impressed and my mind changed. If not, then it's a little concerning how it's already being rolled out to teach kids (but not that concerning, since the bar for American public education is already pretty close to the floor).

Maybe blocking the AI from doing math itself and just redirecting those queries to a normal calculator is enough to get the accuracy acceptably high, at least for grade school topics that it's been extensively trained on. At the very least, I'm newly convinced that the whole thing isn't necessarily a doomed idea.
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The day after I left Oslo after Christmas, it hit -20F. 0F is peanuts. I've also experienced above 100F several times. In the US, incidentally. It may be a perceptual system, but it's not very perceptive, and very culturally and geographically limited.

(incidentally I also have far more use for freezing point and boiling point of water, but I don't think it makes a big difference for celsius that those happen to be 0 and 100 either)
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There may be a pro plan at some point for some more complex features. From the FAQ on the front page:

What's the "Pro" plan?

I haven't completely figured it out, but there are a few features I'm working on that I believe would only be relevant to larger teams or professional use. Things like real-time collaboration, advanced media management (e.g., image manipulation), or S3 integration. This not only requires a lot more work but also hosting costs. If you're interested, drop me a line: hunvreus@gmail.com (@hunvreus).
Hunting probably helped a lot. The ability for a tribe to eat large animals is something that likely helped humans benefit from the different tradeoff of brain size/guts size.

I am not convinced that fermented food helped as much as meat.
I've been offered heroin on the street in daylight in Dublin (Ireland), which is hardly desolate
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> At the very least AI can be used to speed up all the paperwork that doctors have to complete.

How much do you know about the healthcare/medical system? Where specifically in the process would AI be used to speed up paperwork?
> I wonder if we just started talking to each other less as well.

We have. Sadly people aren't allowed to be bored long enough to decide that they should see what other people are up to.

It used to be common to call or even drop by unannounced to check on people. Doing these things is now seen as some great sin.

It's like we are all eating plain ramen every day, and aren't getting our vitamins. Sure we are full but we have deeper needs.
Everyone will have their own solution dependent on their own habits and brain quirks. But, some things which worked for me which you might wish to try. I found some things are useful to have, but distracting in other contexts.

As an example, people often text me a tweet. I want to be able to read the tweet, or look up certain sources of information. So I don't want to block twitter. And being logged out prevents reading a thread. But I also don't want to scroll my feed. Solution --> stay logged in, but with my work account which has a dull feed.

Instagram is a waste of time on my phone. But I need to login occasionally to check messages and I like seeing the odd update. Solution --> use nextdns to block on my phone, check on computer in browser.

So on my phone I identified instagram, youtube and twitter as the things where I waste the most time. NextDNS blocks youtube and instagram entirely, and the for twitter I use the login solution above.

On my mac I'm most likely to waste time checking various websites. So I just put anything I want to check into Netnewswire. It gathers it all, it's quick to go through, and then when it's done there's nothing else to check.

I also catalogued "what do I actually want to do on my phone" down to the level of even reviewing the modqueue on reddit in the browser. Then I made homescreen shortcuts for any of it, so I have an easy thing to tap which lowers friction for doing something I want, rather than something aimless.

Also sounds funny but I made an effort to close all tabs and open loops on my mac before starting my day. Have always been the type to have too many tabs, and it sort of takes up mental RAM.

There's no single big solution, but by chipping away at the problem and checking "what do I find unsatisfying" and "what do I want to do, where?" I've made a system that actually works pretty well for me.

I've tried cold turkey before, and it works great, especially if it's only for a single service. But the thing is it's kind of inconvenient to totally block youtube or twitter or anything as they often have useful info. Corraling them has been more sustainable for me.
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> built atop ChatGPT

yawn
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Fun! This is the kind of thing I got back into programming for around 2010. Just to toot my own (and my former employer's) horn, I worked on a bunch of the underlying models behind the Concord Consortium activities here: https://learn.concord.org/

They're aimed more at middle and high school, are "curriculum aligned" and developed into classroom-ready form by professional educators, and then Concord researches how well they work in actual classrooms.

We had been using a Java app (and applet) called Molecular Workbench for some of these, but in 2012 we got a Google.org grant to reimplement the same concept but natively running in browsers.
Yeah but it's also an absurdly rare occurrence that someone would put 100% of their wealth I to the stock market RIGHT before the crash and then never invests again (more than the dividends). These headlines are fun and all but not very relevant for most people
Problem is that even though it might have been a "quick fix", according to LoT it took going public to even be told what the issue was

> "I called and emailed and they aren’t giving me a straight answer. This has been going on for a month."
> I’m so addicted to the internet that when I block social media, I find I get quite the similar fix from work Slack. Like browsing channels I have no business being a part of and constantly checking for validation of my comments via emoji reactions.

Seeking validation from others is very human, and many people do that in real life as well. The difference with the digital realm is that the response is represented as emojis on your screen, so it gives you something direct to focus on. In real life the response requires interpretation, social cues, etc., and is not as immediate.

If you work remotely then don't feel so stressed about this behavior. Tools like Slack can be a huge distraction, so you can try disabling notifications when you want to focus on work. Just like you blocked social media, you can reserve specific timeslots to check Slack. I'm sure your coworkers would understand, as they likely also feel the same way.

At the end of the day, like any harmful habit, you have to break it with willpower and sometimes force, but this is manageable with digital tools. You're not _physically_ addicted to this.
What is with these names haha, Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 and now to Stable Diffusion 3??
Nice background music - not jarring.
I can't recall caring about <1 degree increments other than for fevers or when people discuss record highs or lows.
The light and radiation takes 8 minutes (or zero time depending on how count it). But the radiation doesn't cause much trouble since absorbed by the atmosphere.

The charged particles from solar flares take 15-24 hours to reach Earth. The charged particles from big flares can interfere with radio, and huge ones can induce currents and knock out power grid.

It is deceptive to suggest the flares and outage are connected. The Sun is approaching solar maximum. Solar flares, including strong ones, happen all the time.
They should put James Damore in charge of a new ideological red team.
Compared to smartphone users, they were very much early adopters. No wireless sync, graffiti input, etc. They were not really mainstream devices even if they were pretty successful by the standards of the time.
Lisp existed before any of the conventions of languages like C were invented.
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I'm grateful for this extremely detailed article. Great quality here.

The fact that this has been achieved gives me hope that a networkless Synergy / Mouse Without Borders setup might be possible using just a modified USB cable. That's great for people like me who need to operate multiple computers simultaneously.
If high IQ jobs offered in-building day care as a perk this trend would completely reverse.

Convert the parking garage in the basement into a day care and you'll have phd-level employees for life. Changing jobs for even double the pay would be completely unaffordable.

The negative correlation between education and family size is a function of the cost of raising children in a city. If the cost is reduced then the correlation becomes nuetral or even positive. There is no such correlation in a rural setting. This is a bottleneck in the talent pipeline.

Consider this paper (from Indonesia) in which concluded that the relationship can change over time, as a function of policy:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2831397/
The only thing I can add is that if the key was generated by automation then I or the automation tool put the JIRA number or whatever approval system was used for the project so that auditors questions can be answered.
Ah yeah, I do this too. The hostname and current working dir gets its own line, then on the line below I have my prompt sigil (% or $, depending on shell). What I meant was in the new Jetbrains IDE terminal, the prompt is pinned in a pane at the bottom of the window while you view your output doing its thing in the pane above.
>Being able to configure hardware the way you want

Who is "you" here?

Company or People?

Because EU stands behind ppl here
No. You can provide a photos to merge though.
That's an incredibly ridiculous sentiment; you're only allowed to express an opinion once? I absolutely fail to see the value in such a norm; sometimes good ideas need repetition.

Free speech, et al, means I'm absolutely allowed to be annoying if I think it's worth it.
Nope. No crossbars on the capital "i." I don't know why anyone opts for a font with this flaw. If you can't tell a capital "i" from a lower-case "L," the font is no good.
I feel for you, but I would humbly suggest trying to get to the root of this. In all sincerity, therapy is good for this sort of thing. I have similar desires, but I have come to understand them as quite dysfunctional, and not something that should be catered to by the system around me.

Because the real/natural world doesn't work that way. it's very ill-adapted to real life learning. Only in a constructed and false environment can anyone give us the answer to help us learn. The point of learning is not just the acquisition of information, but also to learn how to acquire future information. Leaning into your current tactics (and advocating ppl be supported to learn this way) will leave the learner very ill-equipped to learn in the real world and real jobs, where no one has the answer to give. Learning to thrive (or at least cope) in that situation, that's important
You're so liberal that you made no question, but keep putting lots of accusations in my mouth and deriding them.

Regarding Levada's data -- as they say, don't trust science and the world will be full of surprises.
But the versions are locked right ? Similar to what package-lock.json etc does. So whats the issue ?
I agree with the spirit of this comment, but note that quitting treating people differently requires fixing the school system so that minorities don't consistently start off in second rate schools.

It isn't just one side that finds talking about real solutions politically unacceptable.
Where is the racism? I only see a question about proper categorization.
>Is it acceptable to correct the answer to the query "Eminent scientist" from 95% men, 5% woment to 50%/50% or to the current ratio of men/women in science ? Should we correct the ratio of black to white people in answering a generic question to average across the globe or US ?

It’s a great question, and one where you won’t find consensus. I believe we should aim to avoid arrogance. Rather than prescribing a world view, prescribe a default and let the users overwrite. Diversity vs. reality should be a setting, in the users’ control.
Well. Aged beef is a thing. And aged poultry has been a thing for a long time.

And if you ask the northern people and some in Africa, aged fish is a delicacy.

Aged means controlled rot. Pretty much like fermentation for cabbage etc.
thank you,
the thread looks so much nicer now with interesting technical details at the top
I would be pretty annoyed if I were paying for Gemini Pro/Ultra/whatever and it was feeding me historically-inaccurate images and injecting words into my prompts instead of just creating what I asked for. I wouldn't mind a checkbox I could select to make it give diversity-enriched output.
The perfect icons library in the market, I use it in all my projects, specially their different styles of the same icon is just awesome.
I thought it was a meme too, but tried it myself and literally impossible to make it generate anything useful involving "white" people or anything European history related.
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> ...when users are able to adapt models to their liking.

Therein lies the rub, as it were, because the large providers of AI models are working hard to ensure legislation that wouldn't allow people access to uncensored models in the name of "safety." And "safety" in this case includes the notion that models may not push the "correct" world-view enough.
Yes, but my comment wasn't directed at that point. It was just that we can't reliably say that being a (theoretical) top 3 live game poker player allows us to isolate the most important (differentiable) skill at that level being live tells.

Further, I disagree with your point that the mathematics of poker (implicitly top tier highest level poker) are not complicated.

(edit) to your top line point:
> My intuition having played recreationally is that the absolute optimal move in poker is relatively trivial to calculate compared to chess/go.

While the branching factor of Go is between 10^250 to 10^361 (and chess is ~35), poker is 10^17 to 10^165 depending on the game variant: ""Thus, the game tree for no-limit has a much larger branching factor and is significantly larger; there are 10^165 nodes in the game tree for no-limit, while there are around 10^17 nodes for limit (Johanson 2013)" - Sam Ganzfried, Reflections on the First Man Versus Machine No-Limit Texas Hold ’em Competition

...though it's the hidden information component which ratchets up the complexity and leads to a game tree size that's many orders of magnitude higher. If you're curious about that, there's some great info here on other aspects which add complexity: stack depth, multiplayer scenarios, etc: https://poker.cs.ualberta.ca/publications/billings.phd.pdf

That said, I do agree with a relaxed version of the point you're getting at: some subset of high level poker skills can generalizable quite well to other jobs.
"Sounds like it's time for @x to build its own payment processing software."

....

I haven't been on twitter in a long time, people really haven't been exaggerating. That thread is .. concerning.
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Would be really interesting to hear the actual decision makers about this try to explain it.
Prior to industrialization, there wasn't much affordance in commumities for fully idle people. Give or take toddlers and people troubled by striking physical or mental disabilities, everybody had social duties (i.e. work) and played some role contributing to their community. Even most aristocrats and nobles that lived on the backs of othes's labor had community obligations of some kind.

Now, though, we aim society towards 5% of people who want to work not having some opportunity to do so, while doing some paperwork magic to exlude an order of magnitude of other non-workers from that measure. Meanwhile, we recognize widespread depression and anxiety that makes sense in a society where most people have no clear, constructive community obligations to give them direction and we struggle to reconcile liberal ideas of universal life, liberty, and happiness with the intuitive collectivist expectation that everybody should be chipping in (even when they have no opportunity to do so).

One can argue it's all been worth it, or that it's surely the road to some future utopia, but "completely wrong" is maybe not the right word choice for the opposing view.
Absolutely, we saw the eclipse in rural oregon, near Bend, and it was life changing. I still remember the moment quite vividly and I totally got why people chase eclipses all around the world.
I’d imagine Google’s culture is more Mao-ist public shaming. Here at Mozilla, we like Stalin. Go against the orthodoxy? You’re disappeared and killed quickly.

We have hour long pronoun training videos for onboarding; have spent millions on DEI consultants from things like Paradigm to boutique law firms; tied part of our corporate bonus to company DEI initiatives.

Not sure why anyone uses FF anymore. We barely do any development on it. You basically just sit here and collect between 150-300k depending on your level as long as you can stomach the bullshit.