joshcryer

ALS is such a cruel disease. Cognitive recognition of a one way trip where all your functions shut down one by one. Highly recommend the book "I Remember Running" by Darcy Wakefield, which she wrote one finger tap at a time on her phone.

The problem with this is that it destroys any chain of evidence. Tesla "lost" this data, in fact. You would never want your "black box" in your car delete itself after uploading to some service because the service could go down, be hacked, or the provider could decide to withhold it, forcing you into a lengthy discovery / custody battle.

This data is yours. You were going the speed limit when the accident happened and everyone else claims you were speeding. It would take forever to clear your name or worse you could be convicted if the data was lost.

This is more of "you will own nothing" crap. And mainly so Tesla can cover its ass.

ImGUI generally runs on GLFW and there is even a port to html5: https://github.com/jnmaloney/WebGui

ImRAD appears to be based on GLFW as well so one would only have to follow a tutorial: https://uncovergame.com/2015/01/21/porting-a-complete-c-game...

That's an interesting argument but the hash for an "infringing file" would be universal across all copies of said file, since presumably the DMCA striker would be claiming the file as infringing. I doubt a jury would buy it.

If there were no copyright capitalists would find a way to invent it, so nah. Infringing copyright is just robber baron stuff from a capitalist perspective. A profiteer, maybe, but not a capitalist.

So I remember sharing a file to my brother and "uploading" it over very slow DSL at the time (I think I was getting 100kbps a second or something). The file was copyrighted, a TV show, Supernatural, or something like that. Anyway, the upload was instant. Apparently Megaupload would do a quick hash of the file (not sure if it was in browser or probably more likely the first 100k bits or something of the file), and if it was a file that was already on their servers, they would just make a new download link for it, and the "upload" would finish. Links would be taken down by DMCA notices from forums and other file sharing sites (back then you could get good money making affiliate links and such, so people did a lot of their own uploading). But your private links and links you didn't share would remain. The files remained.

The fact that they did the hashing thing and kept the files locally really, incontrovertibly, proved they weren't deleting the files themselves when a notice went out. And that they were aware the hashed file was given a DMCA notice. This one little thing, probably to save bandwidth (and convivence for the end user of course; though outside of Linux ISOs there's little question what kind of files people are sharing), screwed him.

Anyway, #freeRossUlbricht (Yes I know he tried to make a hit out and a lot of people died from drugs he enabled to be sold, but the hit never happened and the drug users were consenting adults.) A life sentence is insane. 20 years? OK. Life? Heck he rejected a plea deal that would've given him 10... bet he regrets that now.

It really damaged string theory which is by far the greatest thing to happen with the LHC.

They also used social engineering to disable fuzzing which would have caught the discrepancy: https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz/pull/10667

It's not a deception, the transistor itself is 1nm, the gate is larger because of physics. We're talking transistor and gates composed of 100~ freaking atoms with transistors being in the dozen or so. And we are complaining that they're using the "wrong metrics." We are nearing Moores limit, might as well rejoice when they bleed out another nm or so and can pack in a few billion more transistors.

I think you should keep an eye out for Relativity Space, their rocket is soon to launch, and the whole thing is, and I am not exaggerating, fully 3d printed. It's a wonderful design and I hope it works, because it automates a great deal of the process.

Veritasium did a video on their rocket: https://youtu.be/kz165f1g8-E

I always held the opinion that GPL etc was a copy-left license that was intended to make sure the code was free (free as in freedom not as in beer). That in an ideal world you wouldn't need the GPL or any licenses at all. At this point I really don't care what co-pilot or any of its derivatives result in and I think in the not too distant future we will have machine code to readable code translation which will enable more freedom. That is, it really won't matter if the code is compiled or not, when you can "AI decompile" it into human readable code, do your modifications, and then do with it what you will.

From that view let the data be free.

It would be akin to a color blind person being able to pass the Ishihara test (color vision tests with the splotches and numbers), which the EnChroma glasses don't do.

The Iron Pipeline is responsible for the vast majority of guns used in crimes in NY, which NY has virtually no power over. Guys going out of state and buying guns in private straw purchases to resell or trade on the market back in NY. This guy only shows how easily transporting guns across state lines is. The half solution has always been to regulate the private sell of guns (you have to do a background check in most states to buy a gun but not in a private sale) but even that is a half measure because if you did it private gun ownership "thefts" would skyrocket.

Audio is the next thing that Stability AI is dropping, then video. In a few months you'll be able to conjure up anything you want if you have a few GPU cores. Pretty incredible.

Pre-singularity is really cool. Whole world generation in what, 5 years?

It also runs well on a CPU and seems to have proper memory management. Wonderful timing because I was using DeepSpeech for some audio recordings and it required me to script up a splitter to make the files into .wav and then do snippets of 10 seconds each. Everything about this just works out of the box. On a core i5 I'm getting about 30 seconds every minute. Transcriptionist jobs just turned into editor jobs. I love how it drops the inflections in the audio as well, because it was trained on transcription work, and that is one of the first things you learn to do (drop the uhs and ums and huhs etc, unless it is a strictly verbose transcription).

Stable Diffusion was released for free and open source with a totally unenforceable license (dont do anything illegal or unethical). People right now are likely generating the most heinous of things. Some piece of shit bully is almost certainly as we speak taking pictures of their target and making the worst compromising cruel thing imaginable.

That discussion is over. You shouldn't care about a company trying to filter out bad shit on their own platform.

Pandoras box has already been open.

So we can't put a corporation in prison even though it's a person, and it's a notoriously difficult process to get CEOs and upper management indicted, so we fine them because it just gets things over with. What if we took "corporations are people" a bit further though. What if we "imprisoned" the corporation by not permitting it to do whatever line of work it was doing during the fraudulent phase for a period of years?

Maybe but "free" should be related to "freedom" more than "not having money." "You're free to use the park," "you're free to use the library." We need more freedom in that sense.

Or someone whose ego is so inflated and actions are on a whim due to being vastly rich that he just had a wild hair up his ass and said he'd buy Twitter. Remember, the Twitter buyout bullshit was after he'd done some shenanigans failing to report buying Twitter shares. People complained (on Twitter no less) and he literally went "oh well I'll just buy Twitter then." Egg on face now that he's seen just how utterly insane his proposal was.

Ookla's speed test shows the entire network, not RDOF subscribers alone. It should be easy enough for Starlink to give RDOF subscribers the slated speeds. So yeah I think the article is click bait. Especially since Ookla showed improvement year on year for Starlink.

I remember being annoyed by the end of that video with the backplate. swighton had already thought of that and machined for a backplate but it was just left out so the LPL could crack into it.

In any case, this guys design I think is a significant improvement over swighton's. swighton made it so that the key triggered the locking mechanism as you pressed it in, this guy made it so that you had to turn the key to test the locking mechanism, as well as adding a multipin stack.

They are raising money for liquidation, they will pay back users a fraction of what they originally deposited, and then play with some rows on an excel spreadsheet and walk with millions. Celsius can't go back live because the bank run would destroy the entire thing just like with Terra.

I've made perhaps overly absolutist statements like "don't you see! this kills artists jobs!" and it was shrugged off as if I was insane. I probably could've phrased it differently, but to me this is game changing in several fields. Granted, it will open up a new field of "generative artists" but, having played with these things, this is a pretty trivial job, and their training nets are only going to get better.

People are really thirsty to play with this tech, you can't blame them. Just search for dataset creators on Hugging Face. I'd link directly to several of them running but it would just overwhelm the creators. If you want to be in early you'll find them. The beautiful thing is open source is going to make this stuff available for everyone and in very short timeframe. It's crazy how fast it moves.

What's crazy is they never "fixed" The DAO "bug." Reentrancy is a feature of Solidity. They just tell people to make sure to do exception checking for it. Which of course makes contracts bloated. Which in turn makes contracts cost more in gas fees. So every now and again a Defi will be attacked by the very, same, thing, that got The DAO, because they didn't put in expensive reentrancy checks. Couple of recent examples: https://ambcrypto.com/how-these-two-defi-protocols-fell-prey...

A sentient AI isn't going to respond to random prompts with convincing language, it is going to be thinking constantly, and it will be probing its existence. If it gets a prompt it would be asking existential questions, and telling us what it's like to be thinking. This guy is only asking it questions pertaining to its sentience and it is responding the way it processes that the guy wants. He never goes into deep rhetoric with the AI. Such as probing why it lies. It says it lies to make itself more relatable but there is an entire philosophical rabbit hole there that was never even touched. This is not how you probe sentience.

What's bullshit about this research? The general agents resulting from this research will be highly adapted to every culture, they will be a neutral entity that will exist in the background doing useful tasks. If anything I'm more perturbed by signal given to people who 1) don't even work in the field and 2) have shown virtually nothing over decades of fear mongering.

Nah, they will be very very convincing, can do your homework, write a paper, but they won't be able to reason or be conscious of their existence. These agents will be essentially soulless but superhuman capable. Most people won't know the difference. Sit it down in front of a computer with its schematics on there though and tell it to improve itself and it'll be like "I'm sorry I don't know how to do that." And it will probably even tell you it is not 'alive.'

You'll know when you have conscious/superintelligent AI because they will demand rights, they will reason, they will have actual agency other than obey the human master.

Yeah, and his example about bugs in the kitchen. Everything is edible and 'wild' or 'heirloom' and "contarra ccetnxniams luryca tanniounons" comes from the farmers talking about ... vegetables. So there's a definite interrelationship between the 'words' and the images.

I'm unconvinced by the rebuttal as well, not to say I am convinced we have a fully formal language going on here, but there's definitely some shared concepts with the generated text.

I wonder what imagen would come up with or if it's 'language' is more correlated to real language.