skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is my point, and you can disagree, most commercial artists are not producing art, they are designing propaganda for corporations.

Tbf I think the artists most threatened are the ones doing fetish or furry commissions for individual clients paying $100-$300.

Corporations need to be able to make revisions to a style or have artists advise them on where to make changes. AI isn't good at that. (Getting better though.)
Doctors in hospital/healthcare systems are generally limited like the GP suggested. Independent doctors are much more able to do otherwise.
Back when the first Intel SSDs were coming out, I worked with an ISP that had an 8 drive 10K RAID-10 array for their mail server, but it kept teetering on the edge of not being able to handle the load (lots of small random IO).

As an experiment, I sent them a 600GB Intel SSD in laptop drive form factor. They took down the secondary node, installed the SSD, and brought it back up. We let DRBD sync the arrays, and then failed the primary node over to this SSD node. I added the SSD to the logical volume, then did a "pvmove" to move the blocks from the 8 drive array to the SSD, and over the next few hours the load steadily dropped down to nothing.

It was fun to replace 8x 3.5" 10K drives with something that fit comfortably in the palm of my hand.
Same here! One of my dream projects to see happen before I die.

For those that don't know what this is or could mean:

https://www.space.com/sun-gravity-could-help-observe-exoplan...
Sure I am all for that, that's the way it should be of course.
Never focus on Android. That’s a losing strategy right there.
Hmm.. even north korea is building large apartment buildings, it really is just our governments that are unable to do so.
I saw that pink elefant once after a lewd night of heavy drinking and potential hallucinogenics. His name is Frank, and he says hello!

/s
My first thought seeing the video: wow, I'd love to see something like that in person.

Immediate second though: so grateful for our atmosphere
Perhaps my question was worded poorly. I'm saying is: the premise of the article is wrong. It attributes the 29% figure to AI but the source attributes the 29% to new datacenters. It seems unlikely to me that 100% of new datacenter usage would go to AI.
I always find it philosophically entertaining when I see a material in real life that can't be photographed with a phone like this. (Of course that includes gold foil, mirrors, blue LED concert lights, the sun, the moon… so, pretty common.)

But try making one that can't be videoed or 3D scanned with Polycam.
The buildings in the science district look amazing. Everything is so planned it looks like simcity.
I suggest checking out Jaka Parker's video. He's a diplomat that can go to places where most tourists can't.

Channel: https://youtube.com/@jakaparker

Here's a video of him going on a bike ride, you can see a ton of people in it: https://youtube.com/watch?v=CDcfiEX__cA
FWIW, ProRes isn’t a lossless codec (tho it should be perceptually lossless in most cases).

Ffmpeg can encode into ProRes, but it’s technically an unofficial implementation.

What issues do you run into with image sequences?
Did Kim Jong Un hire the architect who did the Generic Alien Cityscapes for Star Trek TNG or something? These are truly odd.
Error details are good.
Building a big thing because you think it would be neat is not really a waste. It's a big thing, everyone knows it's not strictly necessary, but whether it's for the glorification of your nation or your people or your God doesn't matter so much. If people don't have gods they build big monuments to other stuff.
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Ah, indeed, for nothing epitomizes 'avant-garde scholarly dialogue' quite like a prolix disquisition elucidating the inherent inferiority of audiovisual mediums. Forthcoming: an erudite treatise on the unparalleled intellectual profundity of semaphore communication!
Cool, probably not relevant info for modern devs because of all the hosted git providers, but interesting nonetheless.

Got any thoughts on how LLM powered code generation products can use format-patch?

Also, 2009 was pre git?!
I've been working on computatioinal modelling consciousness and came to similar conclusions: there is a continuum between patterns of matter that have consciousness (humans and other animals, maybe a biological enough computer, etc) which leads to all sorts of crazy stuff being possible. Evolved human ethics and feelings of care are incompatible with these amorphous extended possibilities. It can lead to some ultimate copernican revlolution that ends human exceptionalism, to outlaw consciousness tinkering (for how long?), or to put our heads into sand.
About a half dozen times or more being exposed led to worse and worse reactions. It was awful.

I’ve also never heard from others that your body gets used to it. I’ve always heard it gets worse every time, which was my experience. Obviously anecdata.
So what? This doesn't invalidate my argument.
> the censorship necessary for corporate applications can be trivially implemented as a toggleable layer, using a small, efficient, specialist model to detect no-no words and wrongthink in inputs/outputs.

What's really funny is they all have "jailbreaks" that you can use to make then say anything anyway. So for "corporate" uses, the method you propose is already mandatory. The whole thing (censoring base models) is a misguided combination of ideology and (over the top) risk aversion.
On the internet, I'm a wolf. So synthesising a persona from my digital presence would be…

well, 100% on brand for how weird everything else is, honestly.
That is better expressed than my rambling! The futamura projection is satisfied by passing the "program" directly to the interpreter without optimising either, which is sometimes useful as a packaging exercise and does look somewhat like a non-optimising compiler.

If you want this trickery to make a useful compiler, the partial evaluator picks up global value numbering, dead code elimination, loop transforms - the effective partial evaluator is very much the optimisation passes of a compiler. It can still be a win if someone else wrote said partial evaluator.

Point 2 is the usual "my compiler is not sufficiently smart, I must annotate the program" problem, with the slight twist that you're annotating the interpreter in the hope that it does useful things with the end program. Interacts with hoping someone else built the dependency well.

And yeah, generated compilers in this fashion have a reputation for being slow, and for not being great optimising compilers, where self application might dig oneself out of the hole. Very like adding optimisations to your compiler to make your compiler faster when building your compiler.

All in all the compiler for free tagline (not specifically this post, it's written on a lot of futamura references) feels a bit like an inside joke. It reminds me of the sad discovery that a metacircular interpreter can't interpret itself after all since what you've written is a heavily obfuscated infinite loop.
There are too many papers throwing transformers on everything without thinking. Transformers are amazing for language but kinda mid on everything else. CS researchers tend to jump on trends really hard, so it will probably go back to normal again soon.
Western propaganda apparatuses have strict policies on what is "fit to print" regarding state enemies like North Korea, so you simply are getting a cherry-picked narrative.

Reuters could post TFA with the headline "quirky Scandinavian socialist city scapes!" and no one would bat an eye.
Aqua - Barbie Girl (with lyrics) 3m14s:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7FrLagBXng

(cackling laughter....)
Heyo! Have been doing this for a while. SSMs certainly are flashy (most popular topics-of-the-year are), and it would be nice to see if they hit a point of competitive performance with transformers (and if they stand the test of time!)

There are certainly tradeoffs to both, the general transformer motif scales very well on a number of axis, so that may be the dominant algorithm for a while to come, though almost certainly it will change and evolve as time goes along (and who knows? something else may come along as well <3 :')))) ).
To be fair, it's easier to make them if they're mostly facades for show.
Surely convincing two others to spend their time and money this way is more important work. And if they in turn convince two others than he has done the work of four people. If those four people each convince two more and so on then he’ll have convinced everyone to do the work. Not sure who will do the actual work though.
I have worked with Urushi, aka Japanese lacquer. You get a rash, some people never get over it. Others do get over it, and I did. Years ago I was in the black thumb club. I could stick my thumb in Urushi, and not get a rash. Since Urushi was a big thing in Japan (and other places), people who worked harvesting or packaging or using it either got over or did not. I have a friend who did not. He said he could walk down the street and detect if there was raw Urushi anywhere near by.

I still got a "tingle" even when I did not get a rash.

The way to tolerate the adaptation is hot water - spray water as hot as you can stand (without damage) on the affected area and you will get substantial relief for about 12 hours. The relief of hot water on an affected area cannot be understated. A friend used the word "orgasmic" and it fits. I can almost imagine someone purposefully getting the rash just to take a shower.

Finally in this bizarre world of Urushi - when it is cured (warm & humid), NOT dried, the chemical properties change so the coating does not cause problems. If you see photos of Chinese or Japanese rice bows ls that are red or black they are probably wooden bowl coated with Urushi and cured. Urushi as used to make eating utensils.

There is more. There are an incredible number of decorative techniques. Supposedly each village had its own. One of the best is Rankaku. Tiny chips of quail egg shells are placed to form a pattern.
I think the core concept is pretty simple, it's meta cognition. A feedback loop of observing oneself for the purpose of understanding which part of your observations is yourself and which is the environment. Just like inteligence, its scales from rudimentary in animals to overdeveloped in humans.

The only way to know if it's genuinely occurring or not is to observe the internal state... which is a bit problematic for biological organisms since we tend to die in the process. But for AI it should be fairly straightforward to verify once DNN analysis progresses enough.
On the topic of AI web browsers, a feature to audit the people whose comments I read would be an interesting feature. Also made me think of: https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/94638i/what_i...
yes without elaborating
My personal experience is quite the opposite. Repeated exposure to poison ivy resulted in worse symptoms each time, leading to a scar from one particular welt that lasted years.

Something similar happened to my father (we had moved to a new house that had a large patch that kept coming back) and the year before he finally managed to get rid of it, his reaction was so bad he actually couldn't eat cashews for a long time, since they can have traces of the urishol.
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Simply because you’re both right.

One is correct in that repeated exposure to an allergen can upregulate IgE production, especially in cases of severe allergies like bee stings or peanuts. This is due to the immune system's sensitization process, where each exposure can lead to more intense reactions, driven by the Th2-mediated immune response that promotes IgE production and allergic inflammation.

However, one is also correct that controlled exposure through allergen immunotherapy (SCIT or SLIT) can downregulate IgE and mitigate allergic responses. This therapy works by gradually introducing the allergen in controlled doses, which shifts the immune response from a Th2-dominated profile to a Th1-dominated or regulatory T cell (Treg) profile. This shift reduces IgE levels and increases the production of blocking antibodies like IgG4, leading to long-term desensitization and reduced allergic reactions.

In particular environmental allergens (pollens, dust mites, animal dander, molds), insect venoms (bee, wasp) may respond well to immunotherapy but we’ve had poor success or disproportionate risk attempting to mitigate food allergens (peanuts, tree nuts, and shellfish), certain medications, and latex .
Some useful context that is not apparent from the linked page:

https://www.paulgraham.com/bel.html
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Find myself resenting my big tech job and wondering if it is worth it to look at doing more noble work like non-profit or even government services. Is the grass just greener?
I agree, learning stuff like that is a dubious value add.

But I'm less hungry to learn all sorts of new things. I still like learning, but when I was young I had to know everything.
>Sometimes I read deeply, but the majority of my nonwork surfing involves inattentively scrolling through clicky articles to find the morsel that catches my eye, or pecking out some typo-

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Having your publisher's flawed monetization strategy dash the attention you've so carefully built, in the middle of a paragraph about how difficult building that attention is, is... something, for sure. Yes, I see the archive link. That's beside the point.
2024 is the year that most of us are collectively growing out of the early social media era all-lowercase thing, but everyone hasn't gotten the memo yet.
Probably this was obvious to many - but for me, the connection between prompt injections and blue boxing is inspiring. Thank you for making me aware!
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Fans of UK road-numbering may enjoy Billy Bragg's A13 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McCHIK_yBJo
Solar eclipse, auroras, and now a meteor: space weather has been a lot of fun lately.
> should be easier than the author's attempted workaround of disabling SIP and installing while offline

Disabling SIP wasn't an issue, because I had already done it to eliminate slow app launches: https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2024/2/3.html

On my second attempt, I managed to update without an internet connection. See the new addendum to the article.
>average

Lies, damned lies, and statistics.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_damned_lies,_and_stati...
Tldr: how reliable are sociology papers
> as much as you can't have a single type of cheese and expect it to be good in all meals

You clearly haven't tried Kerrygold's Dubliner cheese, then ;)
I feel called out by that first paragraph..
I have never heard anyone claim "we are nearly there" on fusion. It's always "it's decades away if we get good funding" and then there is not good funding.
The WAF Swiss-Knife
I’ve quit looking. I found myself dragging my butt out of bed and to a coffee shop to spend all day fabricating new versions of my resume in order to not get jobs that I didn’t want anyway.

If you know any black hat tips, feel free to send them my way… lol
And the reason that it is overrated, is because it has to feel special for the bearers because it makes them prioritise their survival.

Consciousness is largely a way to have a reward function for set of behaviours that keep you alive through reason.

It appears at a level where reasoning is intelligent enough that you need a more complex reward function.
I found his first appearance [0] in Rupert Spira's show to be a good introduction to his arguments.

For a more thorough examination, his book "The Idea of the World".

[0]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MQuMzocvmTQ&pp=ygUNa2FzdHJ1cCB...
> All human creativity are points ON the SAME Curve.

That's what they said about mathematical proofs.

> If you come up with an algorithm that can traverse that curve you've found the algorithm for human creativity.

And that's what they said about programs that take finite time to prove whether or not other programs halt.

Neither of those turned out to be true though. (In particular, because the curve you're talking about is infinitely large and so you cannot compute on it in finite time.)

Also, real world things cannot be reduced to their bit descriptions because they have metadata even if their descriptions are identical: https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
Eh.... it's creepier than that and the not many cars thing doesn't explain everything. There are no people: there are no pedestrians on the sidewalks, no bicycles, no... life. It's much more suggestive that these cities are not productive at all and therefore no reason to be there (or allow people there as might be the case). Simple minded vanity projects of the powers that be is more what these photos suggest to me.

I suppose it's also possible that (I think I saw it suggested elsewhere) the streets were cleared for the photo... and I didn't try to find out how these photos came to be.
You are exaggerating, there's always less people out at night in residential areas and its not easy to clearly see furniture inside apartments unless you are firmly into "stalker" distances.

Compare to this picture of Seoul:
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/riverside-apartment...

You can find more here, but most are from further away: https://www.shutterstock.com/search/seoul-night-landscape-re...
B2C or B2B? As a buyer of SaaS software for enterprise I have to fill in a bunch of risk assessments and procurement forms to get SaaS products onboarded. As such I normally find it much easier to get it signed off if there is an upfront budget expectation - so subscription pricing. Just a small point.
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Me on toilet reading the first paragraph: well played sir, well played.
Yeah sure, but a cherry picked narrative is still better than the official narratives in North Korea, which happen to be completely divorced from reality and made up on the spot to make the ruling class look good.
Nice project - just tried it out. Works great!
The only thing that has changed since 2018 is the most popular network structure to play with. The code looks the same as always; python notebooks where someone manually calculated the size of each hard-coded layer to make it fit.
Agreed. ViTs are better if you're looking to go multimodal or use attention-specific mechanisms such as cross-attention. If not, there's evidence out there that ViTs are not better than convnets for small networks and at scale (https://frankzliu.com/blog/vision-transformers-are-overrated).
Whether or not there are copyright issues depends on the laws of specific countries. In general though it's a lot more legal than currently legal things like Google Image Search, because it's much more transformative than making thumbnails of other people's images is.

But if you don't want it to be legal then just pass a law saying it's not.
Well, not really a ton, but certainly the streets aren't empty.
In order to make any of these interstellar dreams at all useful, we’d need to master the ability to explore the full gamut of what a solar system can offer. It’s just not sexy enough to make headlines.
I haven't done any image filtering a a good while, so I'm pretty much just speculating here. But maybe you can work on patches instead of the whole frames to save memory, since it's not a real time application anyway? I think a moving truncated mean would be better than an average of medians. Or maybe you can do one pass over the video and calculate the mean and variance for each pixel over a moving window, and then in the next pass filter out pixel values that are more than one standard deviation (or whatever you choose) from the current estimated mean and average the remaining values.

Doing linear combinations of values that aren't linear does indeed sound problematic, values from one end will have a disproportional influence over the result, although maybe it's not a big deal since the same pixel in neighboring frames will probably only vary slightly in an approximately locally linear fashion.
I think some people think science rejects mystical explanations because science is rigid and stubborn and has it's head buried in the sand.

But no, it's because there's no proof. If we had evidence that something mystical was happening then it would be a huge breakthrough and it would eventually become science.
Modern power structures, especially for a publicly-traded company, incentivize short-term profit over long-term viability.

That is because they have a responsibility to the current shareholders, not the future ones
It's made in Flutter, well done!
looks like a great article. thx for posting.
The breadboard itself has a bit of capacitance too doesn't it?
Not OP but check out Closer to Truth on YouTube. PBS show hosted by a former neuroscience PhD, they have tons of recent interviews with leading thinkers on consciousness (among other fascinating topics).
I would expect that it could provide significant benefits for your long term health. Altruism can work that way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altruism
It's a scary potemkin country.
Do you have an actual instance of something like that happening? I'm not saying it never has. An MD ought to know his/her patients well enough to judge what kind of idiocy they're likely to go off and try.

One thing where I do not have a link is but I recall it happening is: quackery is impossible to kill with research. Someone does a double- blind study showing that peach pits are worthless against cancer, and the peach pit "doctors" just say "studied by legitimate science!" or "more research is needed!"
Of Cometary Origin. Seen over Portugal and Spain:

https://news.sky.com/story/blue-fireball-flashes-in-night-sk...

Some beautiful images:

https://x.com/esaoperations/status/1792106330267799685

https://x.com/travolax/status/1792004429173916132

https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/1cvtfuw/b...
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If we take this argument at face value, disabled people should be shunned too.
I completely understand wanting to support products made in countries that have treat their workers or citizens better. If I can buy something from Sweden, for example, instead of China count me in.

However the all Chinese products are crap meme needs to die. All our MacBooks and iPhone are made there. Your high-end hard shell rain jackets are all seam taped there. Arcteryx, the undisputed champion of seam taping, has successfully moved products to China. The list goes on. If anybody has weird quality problems it’s the automakers out of Detroit.

I think a lot of “crap” comes out of China because it’s easy to. It’s not worth paying American wages for garbage that falls apart. And with real wages falling in the long term, junk has supplanted quality for affordability reasons.
>An article I read mentioned them taking a 1.5 ton bomb from 1965 (!!!) and putting a glide kit on it - thus adding a microcontroller, gps, wings, and electric motors.

As the article says, this is the Russian counterpart of the US JDAM. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Direct_Attack_Munition>
Everything sourced as "KCNA" is North Koren state media, maybe they just like the empty look in their architecture photography.