skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Opportunity cost definitely falls in the "something else" range.

On the other hand, there is a ROI on building things either way. Always tough to measure
for the same reason why we have psychiatrist, for when the AI does a mistake, you need to fix it, work around it, prevent it or if all else fail to protect others from it.

it's all fun and games when AI do trivia. when AI get plugged into places that can result in tangible real world consequences (i.e. airport screening) you need to be able to reason about the system so it gets monotonically better over time.
Isaac Arthur / SFIA
VSCode really is a strange counter-example, in a good way. I have 3 IDEs open at the moment, and it is the most lightweight of them, by a factor of three. (And yes, with all its extensions and features, I would say it's more of an IDE than a text editor.) Comparisons to VS itself do not end favourably for the native app.

It's also worth noting that while the overhead of Electron can be considered incredibly wasteful for a note taking app, the ratio becomes much more reasonable for something as resource intensive as an IDE. In this case, I imagine most of the target audience would already be running VSCode for dev work.
Pathfinder and its ilk would breeze through this sort of thing, and are still improving constantly too, because so comparatively little work has been done in the space.

Guessing very roughly based on the figures in https://raphlinus.github.io/rust/graphics/gpu/2020/06/13/fas... (and Pathfinder is integrating some of the techniques there), I’d estimate that piet-gpu and soon Pathfinder, running on Intel integrated graphics, could comfortably draw each frame of this Simpsons sample video in well under one millisecond (for an effective maximum of 6% GPU/CPU usage), probably even under a tenth of a millisecond (0.6%).

(Admittedly you could easily create a more complicated video which would be much more draining, e.g. paris-30k frames would struggle to hit 120fps on integrated graphics. Generally speaking it’s easier to make pathological cases in vector encodings than raster. But let’s forget about that.)

At that point, the hardware separation of video decoder and other graphics stuff (which is a strong point in general, because it’s so computationally expensive) is much less important.

You speak of Pathfinder and Slug as being “very complicated”, and indeed they are; but video decoding is hardly any less complicated, and much more computationally expensive.
It wasn't Germany that had stocks in the copper company, it was the politician who made the decision that had them.
I think this point is addressed in the article: they mention that you can (should?) implement reviews post commit, but before the code reaches production.
What?

If I think stocks are mispriced, I will probably buy an option to maximise the profit from my edge. That will drive the equity market. How arbitrage is derived is irrelevant.
I'm fine with rendering html on the server without a SPA. But Rails view helpers need more love I think, watch Github's ViewComponent talk to see what I mean.
Serious question: What is the ethical argument for watching videos ad-free this way vs paying for YouTube Premium? (as long as it's available in your country, and you can afford it)

By removing ads, you're viewing content without paying back in any meaningful way.
You might say that you give donations to the content creators you really like, but I don't find that very convincing (you cannot donate to every small YouTuber you ever encounter while browsing, not all content creators churn out 100s of videos).

Besides, it probably costs a ton of money to store/process billions of videos each month, and stream billions of 1080p (or even 4K) of videos to all devices.

I understand people are fundamentally against ads (I also find them life-sucking and extremely obnoxious), but there is an option that does just that while fairly contributing back into the ecosystem that produces your content.
Really cool work, thanks !
In some parts of the world mobile data is expensive compared to income and this is likely limiting consumption of services like online video.

Random link with some pricing information for Africa [1] claims prices are up from $0.50/GB.

[1] https://kenyanwallstreet.com/mobile-data-pricing-2020-report...
That doesn't sound right. If I'm consistently profitable and not growing. Prices rise, my inputs cost more, but I can raise my own prices, so my business remains in equilibrium.
Seed word: Donald Trump

“If only stupidity wasn’t the key to Donald Trump’s plans.”

Seed word: Trump

“The best way to educate yourself about Donald Trump's incompetence is to spend twenty minutes reading the Wikipedia article on Donald Trump.”

Seed word: blm

“As a country, we are not ok. We’re not tolerant, we’re not kind, we’re not inclusive, we’re not respectful.”

I wonder which lists of twitter users they used for training.
> There is no reason the device should get in an undefined state

That is impossible to guarantee. It isn't even possible to completely generally[†] test for - what you have there is a variant of the halting problem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem).

[†] added "generically" there as it is possible, using formal methods from the start, to prove that a program is correct so will not error (in an unexpected manner) on any input, but such methods are time-consuming so outside of certain specific fields you'll not find them used
Just invest in the S&P 500. It isn't rocket science.
Read the alt-text. Photo recognition wasn't impossible in 2014, it was impossible in the 1960s and the 2014-era author was marvelling at how far we'd come / making a joke of how some seemingly-simple problems are hard.
It feels like OP has made a bit of a straw man out of OKRs. More charitably, perhaps we did not get our information from the same place - all I know about OKRs is from reading "Measure What Matters" and implementing it in my own company. Reading this article makes me feel like someone took an incredibly simple idea and decided that what it needs is more complication.

From TFA: "most companies are not set up to effectively apply this technique". Yes. And if you read the above book, you'll learn that this is sort of the point. You WILL fail at your first few OKR cycles, but you're supposed to use those experiences to change your company into one that CAN set and achieve objectives.

If you think your company is one where OKRs won't work, all the more reason to do them.

OKRs are about creating and communicating strategic short-term objectives across the company, so they remain top of mind. And that's 80% of what you need to know! The objections to OKRs mentioned in the article don't make sense to me, because it seems to follow a different definition of what OKRs are.
It's refreshing to see somebody stop and evaluate what they actually want, rather than just doing what they think they people like themselves should do.

Places like HN tend to come with the expectation that you should be building a company rather than working for one. That's a "thing you need to signal" if you want to be here. But watching discussions here, it's clear to me that most people just don't want to be entrepreneurs. And it's also clear that many of those people don't realize it.

Pull up a discussion thread on an article about bootrapping a little SaaS company. You'll find all these people coming out of the woodwork to explain how nobody could possibly build a software business today, listing three or four reasons that those of us who have built SaaS stuff never even considered, never ran into, or addressed on the day it came up. It doesn't really matter what the reasons are. The important part is that Building A Software Company Is Impossible So Nobody (Inclucing Me) Should Try (Though Note That I've Correctly Signalled That I Would, Were It Possible).

You'll get whole threads of people talking themselves out of trying, and congratulating themselves on not believing anything the author said because clearly his success was some fluke combination of luck and influence that could never be duplicated by anybody else.

Meanwhile, people who actually are interested in building a business will nod along to some bits of good advice, maybe comment about some of the less good bits, then get back to building something.

I wish it was more acceptable here to simply not want to build a business.
>That sucks; I really wish people would make a better effort at staging-production parity. Like, it's one thing to run dev on a smaller cluster or older hardware (

I can't speak for everybody, but, honestly I've always fought for parity of dev and prod; usually it comes down to cost though. If infrastructure is 10% of the operating budget of something and you need a dev environment for every team (or, ever dev!) then that cost is going to explode.
The space of all uuids is larger than the space of all shakespearean uuids. So by definition you can't biject them. You may be able to on able for your subset of uuids in your project, but there is less entropy when using the latter.

edit: It seems the shakespearean uuids are longer than uuids so I may be conpletely wrong
I had a nespresso-compatible coffee machine that also accepted its own compostable pods. Moreover there are many machines (including nespresso machines for offices) which work with pads, i.e. pressed coffee wrapped in a paper filter.
> Nespresso do have a recycling program

That they have a recycling program isn't that interesting. Nespresso creates a waste/problem, they should be ensuring the waste is minimized. Meaning, not just a recycling program (I doubt it's used much), but also do something if it appears customers are ignoring the recycling program. It feels too much like an easy excuse otherwise.

In Netherlands the industry used to also point towards largely ignored recycling programs. For some cases (plastic bottles) the government actually did something with that, then ensured it was used. Basically the measure taken by many countries, small fee which you get back as you hand it in. Handing in is the same place that you get the bottle from. This continues to work with Internet (delivery only) supermarkets; next time they arrive you can hand in the bottles + plastic delivery bags.
Or a layered system. The surface instance takes the question and produce an internal "thought" out of it, a statement or question itself, and submits it to the layer underneath. This second instance works out a response / text extension to the statement/query from the surface, submits it up, and the surface layer generates the final answer by answering or extending the response of the sub-layer.

This can be extended down or wide, with several instances representing different thinking modalities and the final answer being generated from all of them. Basically reproducing a neural net architecture but at the higher abstraction level.
How the developing world can prepare for future disruptions
It's likely that most uses actually enjoy autoplay and PIP (I certainly do).

You're saying that you don't pay for Premium and use an unofficial client that does not pay content creators just because it's too much of a hassle to change the two settings that bother you.
Well, people do expect YT/NF level. And sadly we've trained everyone to expect that everything starts playing instantly.

So if your income depends on people not rage-quitting your page, you'll have to provide something that satisfies their "needs", or more appropriately "desires".
> You and Cloudflare made a business decision that supporting the DNS standard was too costly,

No, I made a decision that it was time to fix an obscure feature that was impossible to use correctly, and caused real damage to the internet - see firefox ANY saga.

Fun fact. We kept on supporting ANY until the RFC was ratified.

> You have forced changes in the DNS standard based on your own personal value judgment

No, we worked on the standard in the working group. I'm not the one assigning RFC numbers. This is a process.
I swear I once saw a special encoder format built specifically for compressing south park episodes, but I've never been able to find it again.
How about driving a car without killing people in ways a human driver would never kill people (i.e. mistaking a sideway semi truck for open sky)?

That's a valuable benchmark loads of companies are aiming for, but it's not a full AGI.
I don't really understand the requirement for public-traded companies to make the results of such preliminary tests "public" before publishing them in peer-reviewed journals.

Doesn't that sound a bit backward ? As in, the company is incentivized to disclose very optimistic preliminary results, so that it appears in the BBC newssite, and make it's share price go up ; and then, much later, to submit an article in much more obscure academic journal where all the buzz will be toned down, hopping that Joe-The-Trader does not notice ?

(Honestly curious, I'm not familiar with the legislation here.)
this is personal. doesn't apply to me.
I founded my first company 10 years ago. now in my second company. I enjoy it very much.
I am in contact with many happy founders.
So you would like to watch that 30min 4K video on slow 2G, which then will (probably) download for 3000 hours before you can watch...

Or you will just get a lower resolution and you can start watching in an instant.
Digitalogy Hire pre-screened and vetted dev teams
Hinged Recursion
From the gpt2 code release[1]:

> We are still considering release of the larger models.

Is there something I'm missing?

1. https://github.com/openai/gpt-2
We're specifically talking about clinical trials.
You are missing my point. Any kind of leak means they are logging regardless of the leak size.
With GDPR and other new privacy laws, consent to collect data is required.

If you stop watch history, that must mean no watch history is collected.

Is your hypothesis that a large company would consider violating important privacy laws for minimal gain (very slightly improved ad tracking)? It's possible but unlikely.
Seed word: my name

“Christof's calling, inherently driven by passion, not expertise, is exactly what we need.”

I feel personally attacked
I think that exists, or at least that’s the impression I got from this product being discussed on Hello Internet.

https://www.aarke.com/
A neuroscientist writes about his experience of police brutality in the US
No, it's not necessarily a bug but rather multiple systems working as designed, yet coming together to produce incorrect results. `D3DXMatrixInverse` makes use of hardware-implemented fast math routines by design, for performance reasons. These implementations may differ depending on the CPU model but they are all valid, provided they remain within the IEEE 754 spec.

What has happened here is that a new implementation of these fast math routines appeared that returned results that were unexpected by the game engine and the engine was not robust enough to deal with these variations. This is not too surprising as these AMD CPUs did not exist yet when the game was developed so QA will not have tested the game's compatibility with these CPUs.

The solution was to divert calls to `D3DXMatrixInverse` to another matrix inversion routine that makes use of more accurate floating point math, which produces identical results on all tested hardware.
One thing that frustrated me about this conversation at the time was that OpenAI explicitly stated right in the initial release announcement that that part of their rationale for the staged release process for GPT-2 was to force the conversation around releasing a powerful capability to the world. Basically a fire drill for the real thing. This was rarely acknowledged or discussed, it was almost entirely a combination of dunking on OpenAI for overhyping the product and excoriating them for interfering with open research.

I don’t know that GPT-3 is at the level of material damage but it’s clearly moving in that direction. Watching someone interact with it that has a good sense for composing the right kind of prompt is a spine tingling experience.

Given how poorly the PULSE demo that hallucinated fuzzy black folks into tan white people was received, it also makes PR sense not to release pretrained models that are obviously going to be easily tricked into saying terrible things. Exposing that as an API gives them the ability to police it a bit and study how the model behaves in the real world.

Or it could just be a giant sellout and cash grab.
There is a reason why "recycle" is last in "reduce, reuse, recycle".
Ask HN: How to make hashtag, mention features like Twitter, Instagram?
Should i parse the #hashtag @mention at the time of rendering the page or should i parse before saving into database and store it as some markdown. Thank you
Quote:"So that's how I moved off Vimeo and started hosting my video content myself"

No, no and no. You still don't host your video content yourself. You simply found another cheaper service and despite your claim this isn't some paid ad (quote: "This really isn't any sort of paid or sponsored content crap for Bunny."), it's exactly that.
Maybe it has something to do with us using the macOS hosts/agents? For deprecating things, I know that they sometimes do brownouts, see https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/removing-older-images-...
I live in the US, I don't think my highschool had windows in any of its classrooms. They're may have been one or two that I don't remember, but the majority only had a "window" in the door that was a small rectangle, about 6 inches wide and 2 feet tall. Some didn't even have that, or the teacher had it covered with poster board.
This minimum card payment is not uncommon in Switzerland at mom-and-pop shops, in my experience. Chain stores and larger businesses always accept card payments, but I still need cash once in a while. I haven't actually seen this in restaurants in the US in a long time, although I have at some other small businesses, so maybe it's also somewhat regional.
> it is still quite common that research published in some of the "top" venues does not disclose the underlying source code.

The whole point of "OpenAI" was to share their innovations openly. They were a non profit. Now they're a "capped profit" and not sharing what's needed to reproduce their results (full code and training data).

They acquired talent on a bunch of good will and shifted into a for profit.
It is definitely hard and stressful, but when you have your own company, it is up to you to decide how you want to run the company.

You don't have to have co-founders, you don't have to take VC money. You don't have to do anything period.

It is your company, you run it and if somebody else wants to run it, they can either fire you if they have means to do it or buy you out.
>I got a buddy who works for DSCO, a company which, among other things, sells software that makes it easy for brick-and-mortar stores to sell products online and have the products ship from the retailer's warehouses.

I always wondered why more stores didn't do this. I had Best Buy have another store ship directly to my home when phones I wanted to buy weren't available in the local location, Bealls Florida fulfill an online order from three different retail stores, and I think I read a while ago of Walmart planning on doing this to fight Amazon Prime 2-day shipping but, otherwise, any online order would come from some warehouse somewhere no matter how many or few retail locations that company had near me. Your friend's experience of companies trying (and mostly failing, obviously) to build such capability inhouse would help explain this.

Such capability would also help retail customers by improving the accuracy of in-store inventories that appear online.
I don't get a rush from gambling, because I know the math and know I am doomed to lose.

Stocks, on the other hand, have an upward bias. Of course, there could be events like losing a war where your portfolio will be vaporized, but in such cases you're going to lose anyway, so there's no point in worrying about such catastrophes.
Ask HN: Let's talk gpt-3 hype. overblown or justified?
I've counted between 3-5 GPT posts on the front page all today and yesterday

Not to mention 74% of my twitter feed.

Don't get me wrong, I was at peak hype. Top 10% of gpt-3 hypebeasts.

But now I'm thinking: "it's good, but what are the practical use cases that is effectively a babbling machine"

In other words if it's 95% believable, with the amount of nuance required for high skilled use cases or jobs, well, that's still not enough.

Your thoughts?
Management has been extremely flexible at my current company, and at one of the two companies I worked at before this one. It's been fine if people shift their working hours forward or back a few hours to avoid commute traffic or go off in the middle of the day to take care of personal stuff. This sometimes included things like "I need a lift" where one cubemate would go pick up another cubemate. Other times it would be phone calls, medical stuff, mental health breaks, double lunches an hour apart because someone was extra hungry/anxious/restless, weird errands like banking, walks outside around the block with coworkers, anything involving children, etc. In general at my salaried jobs I've found management to be more focused on team and individual output than input.

In exchange, I've had no personal qualms responding to coworkers if they emailed or messaged at 11pm and I happened to be awake to see it for whatever reason. Management certainly never expected people to work at these hours and generally actively discouraged it except during strictly-defined emergencies. I'd certainly have pushed back on any kind of expectation like this, and in all honesty I think when people work odd hours sometimes managers strongly question their time management skills. But some colleagues seemed to have odd working hours and I both enjoy my work and enjoy helping / chatting / troubleshooting with my coworkers. So if I wasn't doing anything else I'd usually respond and provide the info they needed to get past their blocker.

A key part of this though, is that I'm doing this with/for other employees at my level who happen to have asynchronous working hours, not at the insistence of management.

Also notable, was that the company that was very strict about clocking in/out using a fingerprint scanner when arriving, or while taking lunch, also never saw any employees working before 8:15am or after 5:15pm. In their case this seemed like dysfunction, due to their overall poor culture. But I could see in a hypothetical healthier culture that this could be a strong positive for many employees.

I think at the end of the day, employees should feel comfortable ignoring pretty much any communication they receive outside of working hours. I also feel like they should feel comfortable responding to off-hour communication if they find it rewarding, engaging, or simply not a hassle.
It is unhelpful to only look at risks due to covid without looking at those risks in comparison to others. Optimizing for least covid problems may cause death or morbidity due to other things to actually cause more damage.

Hospitalization rates in the US for covid is:

0% for 10 and under

.1% for 10 - 20

In the US, the number of deaths for covid is:

20 (total!) for 0 - 14

125 (total!) for 15 - 24

By comparison, suicide caused 514 deaths for 10-14 year olds, and 6500 deaths for 15-24 year olds in 2017.

https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/suicide.shtml

By comparison, the CDC estimates that around 600 children died of the flu in 2017/2018.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/highrisk/children.htm
> consider using access to other accounts as reinforcement

But then you gain in immediate effect but all those accounts will immediately say that they have been hacked. And since it's many uncoordinated and adversary accounts, people will have less trouble believing in a hack.

While if you do it with a single tweet, the suspicion it was in fact authentic will linger.
What the hell is that page even about?