skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, and? They're in no obligation to share that profit with the workers. They're bound to providing value to their shareholders. If the firings don't negatively impact profits or share value, then where's the problem (for Microsoft) if this is the behavior that shareholders reward right now?
I really wish somebody had sat me down before grad school and told me just how important it is to sell yourself. So much of research is a form of sales: you have to sell your work and by extension your ability; you need to convince the department that you are a star so that they go to bat for you; you have to convince star professors to co-author with you so that you can get good publications; you need to attend all the conferences in your field and sell your research to potential reviewers and editors. Putting your head down and just doing your work is a terrible strategy and will get you absolutely nowhere.
Quick search reveals anti-AI motivated script kiddies. Also some degen NSFW "art" content on DeviantArt and Reddit by the same name, their likely origin.
The user's reddit profile: https://archive.is/G5GIW

They have a couple of other tools hosted on HuggingFace, both having the malicious dependencies and both requiring entering API keys, namely:

"SillyTavern Character Generator": https://archive.is/gETq3 (requirements.txt: https://archive.is/xqqtA)

"Image Description with Claude Models and GPT-4 Vision": https://archive.is/6Ydgs (requirements.txt: https://archive.is/9Sp5C)

They've also posted some BeamNG mods, and were casting doubt on accusations that some other account's mod contained malware: https://archive.is/zLiaZ

That other account's reddit profile: https://archive.is/r9V1M
Hopefully this will be just the incentive they need to do something safer. Something similar happened before the move from PKL to SAFETENSOR for model files.
Thanks for the clarification. I remember reading Mary Beard's Women and Power, and her lament regarding Greek literature was related to this point. She used examples from the Iliad, Odyssey and other works to illustrate how in the history of humanity, soft power that women frequently exert (politics) has minimized in favour of hard power (violence) that men tend to norm towards.
Right, Next time rust
Slides have three-dimensional form and feel, because light doesn't just pass through the layers of emulsion, it bounces inside. This is also what made dye-transfer prints look so good. Sadly, that print technology is no more.
When I got back into film photography, the first camera I bought was a Yashica TLR. Wonderful camera, and I love the stability that a waist-level viewfinder + neck strap give me.
Most asthma medications aren’t steroids. The types of steroids used to treat asthma aren’t anabolic steroids - they’re corticosteroids and are generally performance-reducing when taken long-term. The asthma medication discussed in the article is also not a steroid, but even if it were, inhaled corticosteroids have zero utility as a PED.

Your behavior in this thread is shamefully arrogant and misinformed.
> Again, you're conflating "how people feel about the economy" and "how the economy is actually doing".

Indeed. And you're suffering from the delusion that there's some kind of distinction here that matters.

There isn't. The economy fucking sucks. It sucks because normal people feel trapped and helpless in the face of corporate power and constant, rampant unethical conduct and cheating that seems to permeate literally every daily commercial interaction. When you ask them about the economy they answer that it fucking sucks, because, it does, for them, daily. This is bad and it keeps making people's daily lives worse.

If you haven't experienced that then congratulations, you're either living a very isolated or minimalist life or you have financial resources that put you above this dynamic. Or maybe you don't live in the US. Or maybe you're building the tools and processes that are inflicting this misery on others. Who knows.

But my argument is that most readers of this article and comment thread should be able to look around and realize what's happening without resorting to regression analysis. I think most people here have cushy employment for the most part so you'll have to look elsewhere. Have you tried to interact with an airline lately? Healthcare billing? A bank?

It's a fucking horror show. Now, extraplolate what that experience would be like if it was every single part of your actual job. Like you actually worked for a company that treats you, the employee, the way Comcast treats you when you want to cancel service?

Ever tried getting someone from Uber to talk to you as a customer? You think they treat drivers differently? What if you're driving for them to feed your children? What kind of mood would you be in? How would you think "the economy" is going?

Did you know that you can apply, get hired, and actually start work at an Amazon warehouse without speaking verbally to a single human being ever? Like you literally go online and fill out forms, go to a building and use a kiosk to check in, and so on, and are on the job without a single conversation.

Can you try to actually really think about what being in this economy feels like to most people?

Now call them and ask them how the economy is doing. Do you think they trust you, an educated social scientist employed at faceless corporation that is calling them to publish some news report on what they think? Do you think they're interested in impressing you with their stock market fluency? To the extent they are willing to talk to you at all it's in the hopes that you'll fucking listen to them when they tell you to fucking do something about this for once.

For half a dozen cycles in a row voters have picked the person they thought was least in service of the assholes who are in charge and inflicting this on everyone, increasingly agitated that nobody actually fucking does anything about it. They'll be doing it again later this year.
this summary is 20 times longer than the post title without adding any information. not helpful.
Why not? We have reflective materials that these excitations bounce off, right?
[dupe]

Some more discussion earlier in the week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40579104

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40576018

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40574355

The letter site: https://righttowarn.ai/
Lesson for the people who run and execute stuff without looking at the code first.
The person who created the custom node is the same person who "hacked" it. Whether or not the account is technically owned by some unrelated civilian is not important, because there is no other activity on the account.
I do know that people do not like me. Don't get me wrong, my coworkers all get along with me and I think most enjoy working with me but in general people outside of work don't want to be around me. Hell I couldn't even keep my wife interested enough to stick with me.

So how could we study what makes me turn off other people and have it make a difference in my life? It is unlikely that I would be able to change myself and there is almost zero chance that whatever it is about me that disgusts others will change their natural reaction.

In addition, I am not sure that this isn't how things are supposed to be. This may be part of social evolution that just makes the world tick.

I would prefer we stop classifying people and just let them be who/what they are without pointing fingers at them.
Their idea of AI safety is pretty heavy-handed anyway, so I’m glad they’re focusing on it less.

LLMs aren’t gonna take over the world, the worst they could do is tell you something you could find with Google.

I just want them to make a useful, reliable product and sell it to me for a reasonable price.
> Turning it around a little: if some members of a mainland species move to an island and eventually become incapable of interbreeding with the original species, then it is always a new species. True or false?

I think people would basically agree with this; true enough.

> So "no-interbreeding" is sufficient but not necessary?

Not quite; the example of bacteria, above, disproves the sufficiency of "no-interbreeding".

(Bacteria do mix their genetic material, but they directly exchange it with each other, and then their children are clones of themselves. Imagine if, whenever you had sex, your partner took on some of your traits, and you took on some of theirs. This would obviate the need for your children to draw their traits from more than one parent, and that's how bacteria work.)

There are asexual higher organisms, like some lizards, and they follow the taxonomic example of bacteria in that when two of them are genetically similar enough, we call them the same species despite the fact that - since they can't breed at all - they cannot interbreed.

The fossil example is also incompatible with "no-interbreeding" being a sufficient criterion, though this is a bit less clear than the bacteria example; we can't determine whether two fossils were or weren't able to interbreed. We can be nearly certain that there is some pair of structurally similar-looking fossils out there that we have labeled as belonging to a single species, despite the fact that the individual organisms wouldn't have been able to breed with each other. You could make the argument that this is simply a mistake on our part, and that would have a lot of validity, but even viewed that way it's a mistake that cannot even theoretically be corrected, which causes some conceptual difficulties.

The reason there are so many species concept is that species are just a reflection of the idea that two organisms are "the same". What it means to be "the same" varies in different contexts, according to, without claiming to be exhaustive, (1) what you care about; (2) what is possible in the space you're discussing [pigs can't do the direct genetic exchange that bacteria can]; and (3) what it's possible for you to know.

> I do appreciate this and I hope you don't perceive it as "arguing."

Don't worry about offending me; you seem to be in perfectly good faith so far.
A lot of the hype around LLMs and the unfounded promises of them solving complex tasks autonomously seem to stem from a lack of understanding on how these models actually work.

The tech is impressive and has its uses, but we shouldn’t pretend like a token predictor can somehow reason and plan.
Except we're not going to triple it. It needs to be an order of magnitude large to deal with the EV push, as well as bullshit like whatever-the-next-GPU-mining crazy is, as well as industry discovering that with cheaper electricity, manufacturing that got offshored because doing it domestically was too expensive suddenly starts coming back as a viable domestic industry. Like aluminum smelting.

And an order of magnitude is conservative given the effect of "finally having pentiful and affordable power" has on the industrial landscape. The target isn't "what we're using right now". That's how you build failing infrastructure before you even got started. The target is "heaven forbid we succeed, and everyone jumps on the band wagon, how much power are we going to need".
For the longest time I thought the zeta curve was some kind of sophisticated equation, but it is astonishingly simple. The "magic" of the zeta zeros only happens because of the 1/2 term in the exponent of the equation below. Any change with this fraction, and the zeros do not converge.

You start with a line segment. You then draw another line segment that starts at the end of the previous line segment, and whose length is shorter than the previous segment. The length of any segment is (1/n)^(1/2) where n is the number of the segment. These segments approach a limit (think of Zeno's paradox).

_ <- segment 3
segment 2 -> /
/ <- bend alpha between segments
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segment 1 -> |
|
|

Finally, you bend each segment by an angle alpha. Technically this angle is in imaginary space, but the visual in Cartesian space just looks like a spiral, where each bend adds an angle, like a bull whip, so that the whole curve spirals back around (after creating other, mesmerizing sub-spirals). Amazingly, this curve always intersects zero (per Riemann Hypothesis). As I mentioned in my other comment, it's very useful to see this curve in 3D space.
No, it's not a "share invite codes" -- no one has codes to give out. You have to add yourself to the waitlist and wait for the company to send a code
Which is everybody in the world except for a handful of people.
The issue with the ScarJo case, irrespective of the facts behind the development of OpenAI's voices, is that a) ScarJo's team indicated an intent to sue and b) legal precedent exists that can give the performer ownership if it's uncannily similar.

It's not as clear cut as non-lawyer tech people say it is even if it will be an uphill battle for ScarJo, which is what makes it more interesting. She did fight Disney and won, after all.
I've had my fair share. I know the stories. In the end I just started not tolerating the bull and told them go away.

As I said, I trial them out if they can't obey the first warning than out they go.
Yeah, a Kiviat diagram, or radar graph

https://blog.onepatchdown.net/autism/2023/01/13/autism/
> How is this stance different from one that says the same thing about your race or being deaf or requiring regular injections? Seems to me this is saying that some forms of bigotry are OK and the victims of it just need to deal with it.

I never suggested discrimination based on mental health conditions is okay or encouraged. I'm just pointing out that you shouldn't put it on your resume and you can't expect it to exempt you from having to do your job. It's simple.

I don't understand your analogy to race because that doesn't make any sense and certainly isn't relevant to what I said.

As for your example of being deaf: The reality is that any disability that prevents someone from doing a job, in a way that that cannot be reasonably accommodated, means that an employer doesn't have to hire that person for the job. This makes people angry in the general sense, but the truth is that there are jobs that require certain abilities to perform. If someone was, for example, confined to a wheelchair then they would not be considered for a job loading trucks. That's "discrimination" in the general sense of the word, but it's certainly not bigotry.

I think you've either misunderstood what I was saying, or you're upset that the world isn't as idealistic as you want. The reality is that if a condition prevents someone from doing a job and it can't be reasonably accommodated, the employer isn't forced to keep paying that person and ignore their inability to do the job.

Having ADHD is a hurdle, but not something that prevents most people from doing jobs. It makes them more difficult, yes, but not impossible. If the condition is so bad that it becomes disabling (legal definition) then that's a different story, but again you're not required to employ people who have disabilities that prevent them from doing the job.
Hey it works for github pull requests: base <- compare

Merge the right into the left. Sure, totally intuitive.
std::vector<bool>.
Are there any text editors that use LSPs for non-coding tasks?
Alternatively you can enable reduced motion in browser settings and its code won't run.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...
I do not and I'm likely misusing the word subsidized.

My concern is that as a newer product (R2 in 2022 [1] compared to S3 2006 [2]) R2 has deliberately priced itself to compete with egress pricing of S3 in order to gain market share and developer mindshare. I am not confident Cloudflare will maintain this competitive pricing indefinitely as I expect it to follow well established industry trends of jacking up prices once a walled garden has been sufficiently establed.

Further its my opinion cloud costs have grown at an absurd level as engineers and executives made poor and frankly lazy technology choices for the last decade.

Ultimately I like cloudflare a lot but I think we need more discipline and lower operational overhead if we want infrastructure development to remain practical to individuals and small businesses versus mega-corps. Cloudflare with its free pricing tiers is often a default choice for these organizational sizes but it should not be viewed as a panacea and carries tradeoffs as with everything in life.

[1] https://www.cloudflare.com/press-releases/2022/cloudflare-ma...

[2] https://hidekazu-konishi.com/entry/aws_history_and_timeline_...
If it’s partitioned this should be even faster.
I think for a "weird nerd" to be successful, they need the support of someone (a manager, a mentor, a project leader, department head, etc.), who does have political and social savvy.
it's autotune
I'm a Forth dabbler too, but its opposite number in the Lisp world also deserves
a mention: Racket. Like Forth, Racket can be extended to describe languages
radically different from the 'starting point' language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racket_(programming_language)#...
I know Sam Altman is revered as a tech god in this forum and and I will likely get downvoted, but there's something deep within his character that doesn't seem genuine or sit well with me. It's almost a tinge of elizabeth holmes (the aspirational part) and likely stems from his desire from a young age to emulate a bill gates, elon musk, or the cohort of silicon valley VC and founders that came before him. I believe this deeply drives his speech and motivation. He pulls certain levers that he knows will shape his persona and plays the tech visionary role. As an outsider, it seems manufactured and disingenuous.
If you've taken a compilers course, it's pretty similar to register allocation. You want to make sure you're using as much of the processor as possible.
If only he were qualified. He apparently does good work in Linguistics?

Manufacturing Consent was tedious.

And then there's the whole: "Deny a genocide because too dumb to keep his mouth shut":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_genocide_denial#Left-w...
> If you believe they should never require accommodations and are always expected to conform to the rest of society

That's not what I said. The amount of toxic projection happening underneath these comments is wild.

Anyway, I did not say they shouldn't get accommodations. I said those accommodations do not exempt them from having to do the job.

The mistake being made is to confuse accommodations that help people do their job with "accommodations" that exempt the person from having to do the job.

Two different things! You can expect the first in the workplace. You cannot expect the second.
I don't feel the ScarJo story was debunked. Those are OpenAI's counterpoints, sure, but it's a huge leap to accept they just completely, coincidently hired the one voice actor with an eerily similar voice, all the while continuing to reference the movie and continuing to reach out to Scarlett Johansson.
Google C++ guide says to put mutable parameters last, but I've seen other style guides say the opposite.
(Personally, I am partial to the "alien chef" metaphor for AI: AIs are just reacting the way a chef from Earth would if transported to an alien planet where all the vegetables look the same (and ingredients) but are in reality very different from Earth, and have different effects, including poisonous. They think they are coming up with dishes fit for consumers, but the chef has no understanding of what's going on ...
Michael Mosley: TV presenter found dead on Greek island, wife confirms
Well consider consistency. In assembly's case. Using to from order makes it consistent with C. Consistent with manuals. And in the case of arithmetic instructions, consistent with the order used in mathematical notation.

On the other hand for shell scripts, using from to makes it more consistent. With what? Pipelines read a from-file process it and then write. from to.
Lisp suffers from discoverability when it comes to finding functions in a global namespace.

But indeed, when it comes to looking at a prewritten statement in lisp, it is very easy to grok.

For this reason I will always choose Guix over Nix for my declarative OS statements, simply because it's so easy to extend the statement just from knowing a basic lisp structure.
Disagree on the probability bit. The important part is the severity of the negative outcome.

And if you can't afford to lose the toy you couldn't afford to buy it in the first place. Thus toys should never be insured.

(That is, of course, assuming they aren't mispricing it. I've seen a situation like that where I considered it: There are companies that offer small-appliance warranties at approximately an x% of price model--reliability doesn't enter into it. If you know that with your use case the product is likely to fail within the warranty... But some searching shows the real business model is to make it nearly impossible to actually make your claim.)
It's more and more true, though, that the physical condition of your CPU and heatsink affects performance. Because under heavy workloads they're often thermally limited, and every 0.01 K/W of thermal resistance makes a noticeable difference.
Neanderthal fire pits offer an extraordinarily precise snapshot of ancient life
I drew an equilateral triangle and it floats flat on top.
Not really, and it takes a few minutes because most of these packages (including npm) are small. You don’t have to read the WireGuard codebase because it’s reputable enough, but for obscure or unknown add-ons/package code, it’s on you to double-check, just like reading the ‘readme’.
Yeah the bulk of the time it doesn’t matter. The only places it really matters are if you have stronger perf requirements, or dislike stupid amounts of UB.
DNSBL are good to have in addition to checking SPF+DKIM+DMARC. This is because spammers now mass produce domains with valid SPF+DKIM+DMARC using Cloudflare and GoDaddy for domain registration, WHOIS and DNS because neither company gives the slightest care about abuse (and actively go out of their way to make reporting abuse arduous), and the source IPs could be anywhere in the world.

One thing that does work to combat these SPF+DKIM+DMARC valid sources, I've found, is to reject all email from supposed email servers which either don't have working reverse DNS or which have reverse DNS which has a name that differs from the HELO / EHLO name.

It used to be enough to just insist on working reverse DNS that has matching forward DNS resolution, but recently I've been testing requiring that "Return-Path" has the same domain as the HELO / EHLO.

Another thing that I've noticed but I'm not sure how to check in sendmail is to reject email that has a "Return-Path", "From", "To", or "Reply-To" that's a Gmail address when the email isn't from Gmail. I'd like the same test with Outlook / Hotmail and Yahoo. I've found almost no instances of legitimate email sent this way.

Many things to consider, now that SORBS is one less tool to use!
Howant people are writing nee assembly languages such that this matters?

Why would anyone even write in an assembly language instead of a human friendly language that has a simple compiler to to goofy assembly?
I’m sorry, no one is going to bend their whole life to fit whatever accommodation you require. If you have a covered disability and a company legally must provide some minimal accommodation, then sure. If you are a weirdo who needs their emotional support stuffed animals surrounding the office or you break into a panic attack, you will discover life isn’t fair pretty quick.
Great concept! Which AI tool was used to build this app?
Not sure who are you arguing with. I compared learning on your own with learning in grad school. To prepare for real world jobs. Grad school is better imo.
Missed exa.ai! Embeddings-based search engine with its own index
A fun target to fuzz