forgingahead

We need to be able to "pin" sub-comments like this as "top comment" in a thread. Very well played!

Didn't Putin explicitly say he preferred Biden in a recent interview?[0][1]

[0] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/putin-says-biden-better-r...

[1] https://apnews.com/article/russia-putin-biden-trump-fb2fece0...

The correct phrase should have been "Hallucinate!"

It's not recent - I have been using it since the mid-2000s, it's fantastic. It might have been shut during COVID, and just re-opened though.

Nice work! Been looking for a good standalone photo manager for a while.

Three questions:

1. Can we do multiple person search? Eg: photos with Person A and Person B?

2. Any plans for descriptive search using CLIP or any of the existing neural networks out there?

3. I see we can edit the exif description, but maybe can we have a custom caption box? eg: "Mum and Dad in 1993". Ideally that would also be available for search, and it would appear more explicitly when browsing photos (kind of like a real album with the notes written next to each photo).

gotta stick to the rivers and lakes that you're used to

Fascinating article on his website (there are many!) about a WSJ reporter playing a fool during an interview with him:

https://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/e5/?chapter=chapter2_99

Fake news always gonna fake, eh?

Is "treatment" really the right word? Sounds like they're just exploiting them to sell invasive, irreversible surgeries that cause even more longer-term mental health damage.

> Every time I bring this up, they go all defensive. They would not change their habit a little bit.

This is the biggest issue, and I'm honestly shocked that so many supposed adults in positions of authority have basically taken the position of "I like to smoke, so it's not that bad, I'm ok right? Don't insult me by saying I'm negatively affected. Of course we shouldn't control or ban this."

It's incredibly....childish. I picture 5 year olds tucking into ice-cream, and with the sugar high, just throwing absolute tantrums when you try take it away from them.

Drugs are bad, marijuana needs to be controlled like all drugs, and harsh actions need to be taken now to arrest this slide otherwise there is no turning back already.

Sadly this does not seem like hyperbole[0]. I wish it was not true.

[0]https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1625378887617363968

Banking apps are the worst. They make us switch on notifications, else we can't get any confirmation notices for us to confirm transactions, then they proceed to spam me with credit card offers and other rubbish I'm not interested in receiving.

Merry Christmas to all!

What I would like is for ArXiv to have an LLM to rewrite all papers away from the stodgy, stilted language prevalent in every paper. Just write clearly gang, use proper paragraph breaks and stop with the run-on sentences.

England, not Massachusetts, for anyone who was wondering.

I was thinking about this the other day as well, I wonder how much pet ownership in general also has a direct impact on fertility. Not fertility rates (as in, couples choosing not to have kids get pets instead), but rather toxoplasmosis effects. One counterpoint is that in previous decades, many families in certain western countries had some sort of pet but also had many children, but I wonder if living spaces becoming smaller (esp in cities) has amplified a minor effect.

Anecdotally (tiny sample size of course), we know several couples trying without success, but those without pets seem to get pregnant moreso than those with.

Any tips on similar tools for Postgres?

Have you looked at your Southern border recently?

Yes. Don't do drugs kids, some things shouldn't change.

No peer-reviewed paper that parachutes help make sky-diving safer either.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC300808/

His daughter is getting discriminated against, and you have word salad justification for that?

Did Microsoft just effectively acquire 100% of OpenAI without actually needing to cross the 49% regulatory hurdle? Depending on who follows them to MSFT, that might actually be the outcome here. And OpenAI is suddenly Xerox Parc.

Is he, though? Genuine question - I am sure the Chief Scientist (or equivalent) of Xerox Parc was a brilliant person, but if we take our engineer blinders off, a successful birthing of products that millions benefit from is from more than just the genius of the tech/product person.

The press conference from Gavin Newsom is also pretty incredible to watch, based on these snippets:

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1724093441519341573

https://twitter.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/17241686730766050...

Why are locals defending this? Don't you feel you have a right to a clean and safe city and community to live in, all the time, instead of just when fancy people turn up? Especially given your tax and cost-of-living burdens?

Is this just an information problem? If SF destitution defenders actually had lived experiences in other global, world-class cities, which are clean, safe, and good to live in, they wouldn't be so forgiving of this? Or is it cognitive dissonance and just circular, SF is the best so SF is the best?

The article seems to be talking about an outage that happened in Oct 2023, but then references a LinkedIn post that was written in 2021?

One of the banks, DBS, has had several outages in recent years, but this seems like sloppy writing.

A total work of fiction basically, like almost everything else written in the NYT.

Simon, just wanted to say thanks for all the great content and writings you've been putting out - it's been super helpful to help digest a lot of the fast developments in this space. Always looking forward to the next one!

All the quoted talk show hosts you mentioned are terrible. Unfunny, pandering, nonsense that aims for clapter[0] instead of comedy.

[0] https://www.vulture.com/2018/01/the-rise-of-clapter-comedy.h...

Nice to see this - also, looks like one of the primary authors is jbetker, who built the best open source TTS model that I've seen yet (TorToiSe):

https://nonint.com/2023/09/23/dall-e-3/

https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts

Every public company, once they get to a certain size and scope, end up "financializing" some or all parts of their business to keep chasing those quarterly profits and never-ending growth. It's just a lot easier to generate magic coins from thin air to collect & store / earn interest on, than to keep building and innovating new physical products.

How about open drug use? Or open defecation and other antisocial behaviours that have been plaguing certain cities?