skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AI is not expensive necessarily

What's expensive is thinking AI evolution means deeper networks and the only way to get better results is by throwing more GPUs at the problem.

And to be honest those with "infinite" resources are a bit "guilty" of pushing this research lines.
>Drake used copper pipe two or three inches in diameter and in sections 12 to 14 feet long. https://ethw.org/Beginnings_of_the_Oil_and_Gas_Industry
Rather than using the Adguard local VPN app, you can set your DNS to them.

https://adguard.com/en/adguard-dns/overview.html

Unfortunately this is only possible on wifi on iOS. On Android 9+ you can set custom DNS on both mobile and wifi.
Even in the states, there are plenty of exceptions to free speech.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...

The US definitely has the most free speech, but you're still restricted in various ways.
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Agreed. The amount is right on the edge of legality. Should you report it? Should you make an effort to find someone to hand it to? If the first shopkeeper around the corner says "Could be anyone's. Keep it" for a fifty, does that constitute a reasonable search for the owner?
Not all bagged tea is terrible. I usually use bags from Pickwick, which is okay. Not great, certainly not as good as high quality loose leaf, but good enough when I'm lazy or in a hurry.

I recently used some Lipton yellow label, though, and that was terrible. There's absolutely variation in quality, even among bagged tea.
I work at one of the big 3 credit bureaus so thought I’d chime in -

It is entirely possible to report inaccurate information to the bureaus. Although more often than not it’s on accident, not malicious. Additionally bureaus collect a lot of information from other sources. Some public some private. It’s possible for these datasets to be error prone themselves.

There are however official procedures for disputing/correcting errors in reporting and in my experience they do a pretty good job of validating everything (as that’s literally the business they’re in)
I've been in (psychodynamic) therapy for around 9 months because I was addicted to porn before my relationship with my current gf. After around 1 year of honeymoon period bliss (and lots of passionate sex) the habit and urges came back stronger than ever. I lost interest in my gf sexually and it led to a lot of problems between us. I then started therapy.

I've not yet "conquered" my porn addiction, but I've realized it may have its roots in repressed anger and unable to deal with anger in a healthy way. So I echo the answer of the other comments that mention emotional displacement as the cause. I think the first step is to realize that you're addicted because subconsciously your mind is looking for relief from some difficult feeling you're unable to confront. This makes it useless to try quit by using "will power". Instead I would look for a good therapist who can help with behavioural addictions and with help and hard work you might be able to overcome it. I'm speaking only from personal experience and of course some of these things may not apply to you. But I hope it helps. Good luck my friend.

If you wish to understand more about emotional displacement, depression and addiction, I found two books particularly enlightening on the subject. One is "The body keeps the score" by Bessel Van Der kolk. The other is "In the realm of hungry ghosts" by Gabor Mate. Highly recommend both. The first is particularly great imo.
>As for political will I feel we should first start with the numbers and works out what adds up. If people don't want nuclear but nuclear is the only path to zero carbon then we'll need to choose one or the other.

I've not seen any figures which don't add up except ones which make some rather outrageous assumptions (e.g. no demand side management, no overproduction, intermittency stats based upon smaller, shittier turbines, etc.).

David Mackay's book is good but it's rather outdated - the figures are from 2006/2007 and renewables have plummeted so far in price since then that it rather changes the picture of what's achievable.

>So go all in on renewables and ditch nuclear is a politically easy choice.

I don't believe that's necessarily true. The nuclear lobby has spent a lot of money trying to make their choice politically easier.

The nascent renewables lobby, by contrast, doesnt' spend nearly as much on lobbying.
What does the string "2dmfrb28nu3c6s9j" represent?
There is no unwilling. "It's the job" is no excuse.
First off, why wait until we have an actual emergency to test out a theory?

Second, your statement #2 is true, it caused a mass extinction event and probably paved the way for humanity to evolve. If we however get hit by an asteroid of that size again, chances are high that most of the population will die out.
Probably true, given that governemnt expenditure is the best measure of the level of real taxation.

Though I'm not sure the funds will not just be redirected elsewhere, and how wasteful this is, given that it helps give access to more affordable and efficient direct shopping from producers, and puts pressure on the government to lower spending because of the tax breaks that are given to people buying directly from China.
> in moderate quantities in the context of the right diet

How much grass-fed beef should an average person consume in a day/week/month?
What was your old tactic, why wasn't it effective, and what is your new tactic, and why is that effective? :)
I have a slight problem with all the references to psychoanalysis that authors of that age were stuffing into their books. I mean it used to make some works look very persuasive, but nowadays I keep wondering what of it is truth and what of it is just bullshit.
You used to need separate codecs for MPC, but for a long time now it (at least MPC-HC) ships with LAV Splitters and LAV Filters, removing that need.
Why on earth would you marry someone you don't trust??
Can't you simply deny TikTok access to shared storage? This permission has been part of Android for a few years now.
Yeah. I’m nowhere near this field, but i would only report if the company had a security program, and I had reason to believe they operated that program correctly. Otherwise I would assume they’re likely to reply with legal threats so I’d probably sell.
I believe IQ scores are rising still for lower scores, but falling for the top 1-2%?
> Do you not see any problem with that?

No. I have a set of skills that the market finds valuable. Part of that value is providing health insurance. Any employer I choose will pay me a salary, and have healthcare benefits.

Somebody has to pay for it... and it currently isn't the billionaires like Democratic candidates wish it was.
While uber is a shifty as hell company at best I am not sure if they are wrong here without any mandated reporter requirements.

While it is a bad look one "oops" from something that looks bad could cause harm to an innocent party for what victimized parties usually report already. That could rightfully lead to them being at fault in a multimillion dollar lawsuit and even worse headlines like "Uber got kids taken away from Gold Star father". Seems shitty but the right thing to do at scale.
Could you please provide references to these "pretty well documented" studies?

Thanks.
No. It's from Oxford University.
Instagram shows me puppy pics and untempting ads for tacky clothes. It sounds like you've had a bad experience with it but you should be cautious about generalizing it in such a grand, sweeping fashion.
Of course not. The team exists specifically to avoid police (and then at one point, press) involvement.

It's like sports teams that have their own anti-doping initiatives - not to catch cheaters, but to catch them before the authorities can and sink you.
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Not familiar with that story, but here's a scientist's response to one of Randi's rebuttals.

https://www.sheldrake.org/reactions/james-randi-a-conjurer-a...

Randi's the worst kind of enemy science can have, someone who violates every principle of scientific inquiry for the sake of his own dogma, while claiming to care about the integrity of science.
A Spock-like character always shows up in HN threads like these to claim perfect rationality, cite some figures, etc. You know what? People are emotional creatures. and sometimes, yes, a humiliating and excessive failure on the part of a restaurant is enough to warrant a strong and permanent reaction. This is a restaurant, after all. In the end, who gives a shit? You’re going there to have a good time. If you don’t have a good time, it’s perfectly valid to not go back.

We need to listen to our emotions more, not less in some circumstances. I don’t mean to make a scene, but to take it as a sign that we shouldn’t eat at that restaurant, take that job, date that person, patronize that airline, etc.
State of the art CV models (image, not video) can cost 3-figure dollars per training run.

State of the art language models can cost 5-figure dollars per training run.

There are a lot of variable in play here so your mileage will definitely vary (how much data, how long are you willing to wait, do you really need to train from scratch, etc) and these should only be considered very rough ballpark numbers. However, those are real numbers for SotA models on gold-standard benchmark datasets using cost-optimized cloud ML training resources.

At 5-figures per training run, the list of people who can be innovators in the LM research space is very small (fine-tuning on top of a SotA LM is a different, more affordable matter).
you are aware that they released that as well right?
It makes me wonder if it is feasible to show messages from the most selective people with the highest priority so there's an incentive for men to not spam indiscriminately.
> it's entirely possible (in fact, almost certain) that someone will want to use the character itself in a CSV file.

Our business has parsed and emitted significant volumes of data have never encountered one of these code points in the wild.

My understanding of why not to use these code points is that they don't have printable glyphs and thus don't easily lend themselves to ad hoc data exploration tools.
This is true but we’re detecting that type of interaction a billion lightyears away. I bet if you did the stubby pencil work you would find that the sensitivity is there. I just don’t think the search algorithms would find the signature.
If I understand correctly this warning/explanation only appears for the user sharing the document, not for anyone else who opened it(and whose information is still embedded).
Even though .com isn't specific to the US, it is by default. eg. amazon.com vs amazon.co.uk
Technically yes. Also, technically this is wrong:

« If it works, it will be the first time in history humans have physically changed the orbital trajectory of a space-based object. »

...because that happens every time we launch a rocket or land one.
> A PhD is effectively a hazing ritual required to break into academia.

Your definition is painfully on point.

And the perks of "getting into academia" are getting smaller with each day.

But hey, you get to have those 3 letters next to your name and probably can ask for a higher salary, that is if you don't go back into the academic machine and the hunger games of chasing grants/contracts and eventually tenure (but it is my impression funding a successful startup is easier than getting tenured today)
And yet I cite 3 unrelated sources that all corroborate what I said with detailed analysis and you cite.. Opinion?

> assuming that's what you mean, since you keep using the term "RTX" and it's unclear what you talk about, whether it's ray tracing or DLSS etc.

I use the term the same way NVIDIA uses it. RTX is anything an RTX core accelerates. Still confused? I think that might have been the intention of their marketing team.

> very few people seem to contest that scenes where ray tracing is properly artistically used, have superior aesthetic quality

This is quantifiable bs. Ray tracing as a technique is superior to rasterisation, but only with sufficient flops. And the current generation of hardware does not yield that critical number. So we get 'ray tracing', but so subdued and limited that existing approaches just flat out look better and also perform better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuoER1DwYLY

Or if you want a more approachable comparison of RTX vs. not-RTX. consider Minecraft+RTX[1] vs. Minecraft+PTGI[2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91kxRGeg9wQ

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2WqX6Iu6cU
I speak as a parent of a 5 year old boy.
Going through this on an everyday basis and negotiating with him has taught me so many soft-skills that no 3-day courses by <insert-famous-guru-here> will ever teach. When I look back at this stage of my life twenty years down the lane, I know I was alive :-).
Silver linings and all that....
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> Developers throughout Europe find their salaries regularly pegged to cost of living wherever they are.

Even if that is the case, if you compare salaries for mid-level developers in cities like Miami and Amsterdam, I think the pre- and post- tax situations are pretty drastically different.
I got a weird reverse one a few years back, to the effect of "your result is great, best I've seen, but the code is awful and I think you're not a good developer". What can you do? I just said something like "thanks, if you have any specific feedback please open an issue".

One thing that's nice about getting this via GitHub is, at least the rude comment maybe gets a couple of :thumbsdown:s on it, which can help you brush it off.
It's also that as someone coming in with a PhD you will start halfway up the career ladder. My first job was a 'senior'.
There is nothing about low discrepancy sampling being a recent development. This article is about recent research and suggesting anyone involved would imply that one of the most trivial aspects of rendering is somehow new is total nonsense.

There is a recent paper about generalizing n-rooks sampling to higher dimensions which seems to have been misunderstood by yourself and others. It was written by researchers who already have dozens of high profile papers on many different topics.
Great post but disappointingly few images. It would have been really interesting to see these techniques applied on a standard scene with before/after comparisons.
> inciting hateful action against people shouldn't be illegal.

excuse me?

edit: apparently it was a freudian typo and got fixed.
I had the opposite experience in many coffee shops when asking what kind of teas are offered and the answer was "black and green" as if that told me anything.
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I made no comment(s) on your above mentioned points. I was replying the assertion that "trading gains are someone else's trading loses".
Agree 100%. I spent decades working on improving models of protein folding and design, only to learn that recently, people are using information theory and evolution to produce much higher quality models without as much computation. There are a lot of things I've worked on in the past that used oodles of CPU which got replaced with reasonable, cheap approximations that are good enough to make progress.
> from hard poverty to not being able to afford tutors and SAT prep courses.

I went to a pretty fancy prep school with a lot of rich folks, but I don't think most did any special prep for the SAT. I think we had a class period where they talked about the sorts of questions that appear on the exam, told us about when/where it'd be offered, etc., along with ads for SAT-prep services, but I think a lot of folks ended up deciding it would be best to get a good-night's sleep before walking in on it. (We also debated stuff like if drinking coffee or/and having a chocolate bar beforehand would be helpful.)

Which isn't to downplay the advantages that affluent students enjoy, just, I don't think that SAT prep courses are really the big thing. (Plus I suspect that students who spend a lot of time doing test-specific prep are losing out on their actual education that they'll actually need later on.)
It's an interesting topic, particularly as it relates to employers being women/family-friendly. How do you feel about parental leave, for instance?

Of course, this is a benefit that's within your control: just get a partner/dependent! And the flip side is that even individual employees might value knowing that the company "has your back" as your family situation changes.

Or, more bluntly, your company has to offer disparate benefits, because other employers do, and no employee with a family would work for your company otherwise.

Of course, all this masks the REAL problem that employers and healthcare are so intertwined. Even this article puts some of the blame on employers, when really it's the healthcare companies and the overall rising cost of care.
Exactly. My question for OP was not an attempt at being passive aggressive. I'm actually curious to know what he could do better in that product meeting as he stated. I'm just trying to think what would a better way for Amazon to bring Alexa to people in a more convenient way and can't think of anything else from what they are doing. Just curious to know what OP has to say.
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I met fiancee on Tinder and we are getting married Saturday :) Life is gonna be great. <3
> big consumer tech companies are disadvantaged because they need to deploy something that can scale to a billion people

pretty small group of companies. FAANG + maybe five more. So for everyone else, scaling is not an issue as you have described.
Zoom: it's the only video conference platform that just works without any hassle

Google Apps(Docs, Sheets, Slides): these win over MS Online b/c you can actually work live in the docs with a team.

Figma: I've come to love this, after a steep learning curve, for sharing design ideas in an open collaborative space.

Phone: it's still the best way to break through the noise and get someone's attention right away. With all the messaging apps, it gets noisy and messages get lost. Phone cut right to the top.
I wonder if they ever considered explicitly marking which profiles are paid vs unpaid, and then allowing users to "gift" a subscription to the unpaid / dormant accounts.

Seems like a good potential revenue source, although it might require a little bit too much honesty for their taste.
Repair shops in Apple's Authorized Service Provider program are third parties, but their screen replacements should be fine.

I would have changed the title myself, but I missed the deadline.
The way I see it, tobacco products should be fully banned. If there are companies that truly want to help the addicts, they can work in a controlled manner, overseen by the government, something like a rehab program. There should be deadlines set by when the rehab programs would end when there are no more smokers left. Easier said than done of course, but I see no effort in that direction.
> the U.S. has a much wider range of students taking most tests.

Citation? All countries have a mix of wealthy, educated students, working class students, students whose parents are drug addicts, immigrants who don't speak the local language, etc. In my experience the US isn't that different from other wealthy countries I've lived in.

SAT isn't really used for international comparison; a system like PISA does cross-sectional studies of countries, not elites. The results are not encouraging for the USA:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programme_for_International_St...

https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pisa/

http://www.oecd.org/pisa/
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"Because I can recognize a joke when I see one."

Me, too. But I suppose, you are also not a women struggeling in a sexist nerd IT world? (and after hearing some storys it is not clear to me, if it really is a full joke)

So I can understand, that women are offended by it. Also, the sign is by far not the only thing, people were offended by him.
> What's the point of a stop-gap that's too late?

The point: we should not be aiming for net-zero energy, we should be aiming for net-zero energy, and a ten or a hundred fold increase in generation.
> Aren't we supposed to erase him and his works from history now, then?

I rather think the point is to prevent people who are currently engaging in sexual abuse from being in a position where they can abuse their power to do it again. I don't think very many people think that Harvey Weinstein's extensive library of films that he produced should be tossed onto a bonfire, even if they think he should no longer be in a position to coerce actresses into sleeping with him, and should face charges for having done it in the past.

This author is long dead. There's nothing to protect anyone from.
Maybe this is a good time for university researchers to develop AI algorithms that are not so data and compute hungry. Here's a promising bit of that--https://www.csail.mit.edu/news/smarter-training-neural-netwo.... This is easier said than done but necessity is the mother of all invention they say.
A more interesting statistic would be the (percentage) change in the number of students whose scores indicate that they are college-ready. Increasing that number is, presumably, what these get-more-kids-to-take-the-SAT programs are about.
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> Usually almost all of these metrics come back to the root cause of economic disparities along the spectrum from hard poverty to not being able to afford tutors and SAT prep courses.

Do you have any resources for how much an SAT score can change from studying? In my experience offering free ACT tutoring at the local YMCA, I wasn't able to improve scores that much. Maybe I'm just a bad tutor. I did pretty well on the SAT when I took it, with little prep.
Great to see NASA and ESA working together in this selfish era. The world needs more collaboration between people.
It's a great metaphor but reality seems to be that there are a lot of good practices followed by so many people that it is impossible to keep track of. A via negativa approach to this might be easier. Does someone know of a compendium of bad business practices ? Life would be a lot better if we can first avoid the bad practices , no? :-)
University isn't utopia. Not everyone wants to live there. Also, there aren't enough university research dollars to adaquately fund AI research relative to the current demand.

This is a good thing.
Reminds me of http://www.rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code
> Given this sort of behaviour it's not clear that there's any sustainable way to fund core Java development, other than indefinite cross-subsidisation by other revenue lines.

Wouldn't it move to a model similar to that of C++? Perhaps have a committee that agree to what features get committed and maintained? There are obviously many large companies with deep pockets who heavily rely on the JVM for their core business.
So,you view the image using CV and write down the coordinates of the puzzle, put them in array and use CV to save the puzzle with different name.

Basically, you are cropping the image and saving it - which even a crappy cropping tool does. Do not consider this as a discouraging comment - programming can do better.

I understand you are looking for jobs and trying things. If I'm the hiring manager, I would rather prefer a candidate who found puzzle coordinates from the image bits/pixels and suggest cropping regions.
Dropbox to me seems like a one-trick pony trying desperately to expand their market. It's a cloud storage system. Ideally for consumers, not enterprises (who already have Google Drive, or AWS if you're storing web objects). I know they acquired HelloSign awhile back, but who the heck would want to use both DropBox and HelloSign together?
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