skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can I ask why OCR, other than to learn something new. From a functionality standpoint you’ve hit the nail on the head. Some suggestions in this thread however start to take away from the appeal of the site. I suspect the target audience will much rather type out the dozen numbers/chars than they will attempt to mess around with taking a picture and having OCR take over. I’d be willing to bet the time to enter data is comparable and if there are any savings to be had from OCR (doubtful) it would be measured in seconds at best.

Identify the audience and build the product for it. A tech savvy audience (HN) would love to see OCR because we have nothing better to do than look for “latest cool gadgets”.
... what proportion of american pickup truck drivers are hauling a fifth wheel camper or horse trailer across country where this wouldn't have practical range? Based on my observations it's a tiny fraction of pickups on the road.

Most people seem to be driving pickups empty 99.99% of the time, just so they can move furniture, some 4x8 sheets, or bags of sand/cement when the exceptional need arrives, all locally - which a BEV is perfect for.
I doubt the move was "data driven". Elon has made it very clear his vision is to make the car automated enough that the driver doesn't need to interact with the UI. If anything, he's intentionally trying to change user behavior and train drivers they don't "need" these controls.
Range. Many people expect towing to severely and adversely affect the range.
The underlying issue is that everyone wants to make money. And the quickest way to make money in crypto is to create a new coin, token, smart contract, NFT, web3, whatever. Thus ever increasing complexity.
Language/education/infrastructure are a lot easier to change that timezone, at least
There's not any execution of the functions occurring here. It's modeled as a sequence-to-sequence problem where the training sequences have been pre-computed programmatically.

I think in this case the attention operation bounds the runtime by the longest possible sequence that can go in at once. Since you have a positional embedding, you can add arbitrarily many more functions without incurring a runtime penalty, although it may begin to interfere with the model's ability to effectively generalize as well, particularly when used with very long sequence lengths (so chains of operations, lists of ints).

Since each operation is mapped to an integer, the maximum number of tokens is bound by the precision of the system.
Okay so how many will they ship in 2022? 2023?

Everyone is coming out with an awesome BEV but no one other than Tesla ship any volume.

Rivian shipped under 1000 in 2021. Chevy stopped basically all shipments due to cars exploding. In 2022 I think the new Cadallic Escalade is coming, which had rave reviews but I am suspecting will be < 10k units.

Almost doesn’t matter how good these EV alternatives are if they can’t ship 100k units in the US.
I was on the board of a company with a product offering on Azure (because one big customer used AZ for part of their stack). Expanding outside was tough: few prospects were interested as few used Azure (and we had a lot of uptime issues with Azure). This was in 2020 and 2021. The devs complained but porting to AWS saved the product.

MS has a nice lock in with the big companies’ IT departments, which gave them nice recurring revenue but pointed their attention away from where the puck was going several times (most notably missing the Internet and missing phones and BYOD).

They are huge, but in my technical life I was never really exposed to them (except Excel and some Powerpoint). That’s why this board experience was such a surprise to me.
> As an end product, I would have doubts that anyone could hear a difference past 24/48. Honestly 16/44.1 is just fine for most people.

On both accounts I agree. But since many can hear the difference between 16/44 and 24/48, and all agree 24/48 is aurally superior, it would be nice to have it available when desired. I somewhat disagree on several points with the author of the article, and I think many of his declarative statements are purely opinion the fact of which he neatly obfuscates with some legitimate scientific facts.
Range will suffer greatly and non-Teslas have terrible charging infrastructure. Even Tesla owners have horror stories of trying to tow a trailer and not being able to make it no the next charger.[1]

MotorTrend tried towing a car with a Rivian R1T. It reduced the maximum range from 314 miles down to 175 miles.[2]

Both range and charging infrastructure will improve over time, but it's not quite there today.

1. https://twitter.com/AlecStapp/status/1376947773967372292

2. https://www.motortrend.com/features/how-far-can-you-tow-with...
> I do have to say, when there are important soccer matches though, developers in Brail were... a bit harder to reach. no joke. lol.

This is absolutely true during a World Cup
> It's difficult to understand why someone would trust someone with a popular podcast so much more than licensed professionals.

I'm less convinced that this is a matter of trust, I think it's more about value systems and priorities.

I trust my dentist to recommend me the best filling or crown material for my teeth, even in the face of financial incentives.

But his advice does not tell me, in an absolute sense, whether it'd be worth me paying $1K for a crown if that means I miss the rent next month. It's not a tractable problem.

I can't speak to the US situation, but in the UK in my peer groups most coronavirus-related argumentation doesn't revolves around whether e.g. wearing a mask reduces the spread of coronavirus, but around whether wearing a mask is a net positive for the society and/or the wearer. The former is a matter for epidemiology, the latter is nowhere near clear cut.
Is it though? And by how much?
Regardless of who's reporting on it, what do you think of the electric F-150? Looks like roughly the same towing capacity as the gas F-150 (for heavy loads, wouldn't you want a tractor anyway?), and by nature of being electric it's going to have way higher torque than basically all the current gasoline trucks.

What's not to like? Honest question.
After reading TFA, I have learned that Operation Warp Speed essentially bought the risk and supplied scaling capital to bootstrap domestic biomedical manufacturing. OWS supplied capital for hardware, people, project management, brokered manufacturing agreements and organized large scale trials.

Article mentions that moderna had a big weakness: Inexperienced at executing clinical trials and large scale manufacturing of its vaccine technology, it could produce a prototype vaccine in several days but had no existing pipeline to deliver industrial quantities.

>It seems to me that once the initial vaccines were out, the mission became "we have the solution, now make everyone accept it" rather than continuous improvement.

The vaccines were out in a couple of months. Amazingly, it turns out that the hard part is scaling to global quantities of a new product line. Re-engineering a global production is way hard, too.

I agree that we should continue to fund the scaleout of domestic biomedical manufacturing.
Range is the problem. 100 mile range for a small tow, and with the lack of fast chargers… it’s not enough for a lot of use cases. We need trailers to start having batteries or something :)
Those are all things you can try, though. In crypto, again, the money just instantly disappears.
Trek had an 'affordable' hybrid composite bike, the Trek 2100, that merely twice as expensive as any reasonable hobbyist would pay for a bike instead of 5x as expensive. It was carbon tubes (they had patents on making them) and aluminum lugs, but the bond wasn't always good and so they would crack, chip, or delaminate. Big recall. The one guy we knew who had one rode it until it broke and then sent it back. That was a pretty long day for him (I can't recall if he rode it back gingerly or had someone pick him up).
The last mile distribution wasn’t well considered at all. Between tweets denying he lost the election he just said it would be up to the states to furnish last mile.
This brings up an interesting point I was thinking about but didn't feel like typing until now.

I think the problem could be "science communication", not bad communication or anything like that, but the existence of it in general. There's a casual interest in scientific stuff in the public, there's an entertainment market for it, and so now we have a scenario where people that publish research have to weigh this impact when publishing, including it's benefits. But most people interested are only casually interested (and most vendors of the entertainment have incentives not necessarily aligned with presenting fact, but that's not my point, only a secondary problem). I think it's possible that it might be better if, when someone was interested in something, they had to dig it up online. If we get rid of the whole "science communication" thing, truthful or not you get rid of all these problems.

I know it's impossible to do that, but it's interesting to consider that the problem isn't bad communication, but this drive to communicate everything all the time skewing the incentives and public perception.
Exactly, it'd be like omitting the "methodology" section of the paper. There's no way to verify or prove wrong a paper if you don't know how they reached their conclusions.
> Catholicism endorses a peculiar idea of social justice founded on commutative justice, viz. paying the pre-determined "just" or "fair" price as opposed to whatever most efficient price might be set by the market - far more strongly than it might endorse property rights. Property rights are really only acknowledged to the extent that they might tend to preserve a rigid, authoritarian social order.

As a Catholic, this is news to me. Is this some peculiarity of Latin American Catholics? I'm not seeing anything supporting this view in what appears to be the relevant portion of the Catechism[1]. Sure, it says that wages should support human dignity, but that’s hardly price-fixing.

[1] https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P8D.HTM
Thanks for the explanation. So presumably the person involved was intending ultimately to do something involving some market that uses WETH rather than ETH, and was unwisely testing how the system works with ETH worth half a million dollars rather than five dollars. (Or possibly they changed their minds about using WETH for some purpose, and so just wanted their ETH back?)
Way ahead… or way less experienced? I was a programmer for 35 years (still am) and I do not rely on this fine publication for knowledge about the tech world either. They are equally qualified on both topics.
I don't follow how (1) is an indicator(?) of inequality.

Aren't all the students capable of learning more with tutoring?

Measuring by percentile seems like a problem if everybody improves.

It's a good thing to try and make sure everyone performs to some minimum standard for their age, but are you suggesting equal outcome as a goal?

If kids are learning at home, are you suggesting they should receive fewer school resources?

I'm lost on what the goals are here and what you'd consider success to be?
while I agree with what you are saying, Gladwell's example may not be very good http://askakorean.blogspot.com/2013/07/culturalism-gladwell-...
Nothing is cheating if it works!

Absolutely possible to get a display. I remember the single color Textronix display we had in the lab in college. The computer club managed to get a Mandelbrot Set renderer distributed across the Sun 3 computers in our lab, plus another dozen or so at a lab at MIT, so we got display -- in color! -- in a matter of seconds. It was amazing.

A friend of mine here was one of the first CDC-6600 system operators and programmers at University of Texas at Austin. A few months before I was born. He learned to really get a feel for the program flowing through the machine, hours of starting into those two huge round CRTs.

The original Textronix 4014 was a single-display version of that, and there was another standardized display like that for air traffic control. Monochrome.
From memory it was approximately:

1a. $2M for something. Maybe a messenger/important app?

1b. $3.5-4M for zero click in default install (sandbox escape + local privilege escalation)

2. $20M for high level individual talent for a firm like NSO with a $250M revenue/$150M expenses.

3. $400k for a senior engineer. $250k-500k spot bonus for a person in the team who finds a zero-click. Some other words.

4. 500% to 1000%. Some other words.

5. 0-2 zero-click on-hand or maybe per year. 1-3 lesser ones in messaging/browsers/etc I think? Some other words.

6. The answer to 5 is sparse enough that statistics do not really apply.

7. 7-15 months.
Non-Fungible McDonalds
Chinese AI team claims big win in battle to teach dogfights to drones
Looks like you’re in Venezuela. How do you get paid by Americans?
Do you also have a responsibility to speak out against redlining? Or Banking deserts? Or keeping Afghanis from starving due to sanctions both external and internal? How about 0% savings accounts? Or being denied a mortgage from the only game in town? How about being put in prison because you cannot come up with the egregious fees larded onto your account because "reasons"? Are you prepared to defend us from all of that? Or just this? The one thing that has come along in the last few decades that we can use to empower ourselves with no interference necessary "from those who know better."

Every single payment method that has been invented has suffered from frauds, scams etc. People have found ways to remove mailed checks from mailboxes, wash the ink from them and make them out to new payees. Should we stop using checks now too? Should we go back to trading rocks and shells? Corda is already doing great work in the European insurance industry at lowering costs and increasing transparency. We won't be lucky enough to get it here, likewise moving the bond market to the ledger should do the same thing. No advancement is perfect, but going by what you have written here we should all go back to living in caves and running from sabertooths. I think I'll pass. And I'm not a techie....and I still feel like this post is nonsense.
> Good questions

I noticed you didn't answer any of them :-)

I also never said that 100% of inequality was caused by crime. I said that crime is a cause of inequality. Just like smoking is a cause of death.

It's pretty obvious that crime causes a reduction in the standard of living of the criminal, his family, and his community. I understand that obviousness is not proof, but you seem to thing it doesn't. Why do you think that?
There has also been a huge emphasis on institutional misdeeds, driven by the outrage economy.

Nobody takes note of the hundreds of life improving drugs developed in the same time period as opioid epidemic. Nobody takes note when cops arrest the right guy and saved the day. Nobody takes note when a country doesn't militarily threaten or invade the US.
I did as well! I also shared a lot of crazy driving cities online.
Am Brazilian, used to work in a very big, well-paying company. It's astounding the amount of amazing talent that left the company during the 2 years I worked there (myself included [not that I'm amazing talent, I just got lucky]). There's no way Brazilian companies can keep up with the talent evasion going on in tech right now, specially because of the exchange rate of USD x BRL.
You could still appeal to the developers, it has been done successfully in the past.
You either have a location problem or more likely a CV/keyword problem.

If you're still breathing and have more than 2-3 years of dev experience you should at least be contacted.
Is that simply your impression, or is there trip length data to support that?
They inflated assets wjth the money printing, and now we are all slaves to our huge mortgages and corporate overlords. Money printing and immigration have all helped the capitalist class, and yet the politicians claim they help the common man
The lower half of it houses a kitchenette.
> In reality what our society now does is says "_you must accept conclusion X, and if you don't you're an idiot_" with absolutely no real justification.

I don’t agree with the “no real justification” part. But even if we set that aside, context matters! We are almost 2 years into a global pandemic with multiple vaccines widely deployed and extremely well-tested, yet a significant minority is still denying the vaccine’s efficacy.

To be quite frank, after witnessing how the world has reacted to this pandemic, I am now much less surprised by the ignorance depicted in zombie movies and shows :)
They used a fixed size transformer, where the vocab determines the functions and input/output range. So unless the model needs more 'memory' for your class of expression there wouldn't necessarily be a big change in performance. They have experiments in the paper with bigger/smaller vocabs.
> For a long time Microsoft pushed Office adoption by forcing the “viewer” to have licenses to access the data

There have been free, no-license viewers for MS Office files since the early 00s, if not earlier.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/supported-versions...
I think you seem to be confusing what is available in the public cloud and on Newegg for what companies use internally. Custom silicon is extremely prevalent and it doesn't all run on AMD/Intel.
A CGo-free port of SQLite
1) 150K/year production rate by mid-2023 just for the Lightning.

2) Millions of non-Tesla EVs are sold every year. Tesla is not the market leader in all regions.

3) The US is not the world's largest EV market. We're less important than Europe or China to car manufacturers when it comes to EVs.

4) GM EVs outsold Tesla EVs last year in China.
That won't just happen. We have to make it happen.
>>pickup truck drivers are hauling a fifth wheel camper or horse trailer across country

You would not get a ICE F-150 for that anyway... you would get as F-250 or F-350 for that kind of hauling.

F-150 is for Utility hauling for small campers, or Utility trailers and general work, not for 5th wheels, and horses *except maybe one of the small single horse trailers.
The people in charge were given evidence, face much less risk, and it's their job to put a stop to it. They deserve the criticism.
These are guesses:

Sales Engineer, Developer Advocate, DevOps Engineer, React Developer
Maybe one day, in the distant future, we will have AI bosses and AI doctors and AI judges who make very important decisions entirely on their own. And there's nothing wrong with that. Any bias, moral crises, lapse in judgement that AI has, humans have these as well. There are plenty of real-world bosses and HR who respond in a similar manner to the AI "bosses" described in this article.

But not today. Because AI is not at the level where it makes mistakes at the same rate as humans. AI is better at chess and maybe driving cars, but it's not yet better at critical thinking, empathy, and solving open-ended problems like "how should we address this employee's performance?" Not necessarily because it can't be better, but it isn't yet at that level. Even if Amazon actually tried to make their AI bosses lenient, without some human holding the final decision or appeal, there will be blatant mistakes like the ones the article describes.
This is interesting, but it stops right as it was about to pay off. It identifies and describes a problem, but that's it. Other posts didn't provide any more insight into the issue either.
Here’s one better: show people how to reproduce the same results given the same set of controls. Reproducibility should be the standard, not committees of debunkers.
https://www.amazon.com/History-American-Homeopathy-Academic-...
Yep, that’s a whole other can of worms! As if having a PhD in field X makes one an expert in all other fields..
Driver developers would like for it to be their concern and their concern only, but this doesn't scale when an application developer needs their app to run on hardware from vendors with different levels of driver quality. Vulkan and DX12 were built with the assumption that application developers would take on more of the burden that the driver developers were doing for them (or not doing, in the case of some vendors). The problem is that hardware vendors will always build a lower level as long as it's economical to do so.

AMD GPUs starting with GCN 1.2 include a microcoded hardware scheduler for virtualizing queues. NVIDIA also has a custom (slightly different functionality) control processor (https://riscv.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Tue1345pm-NVIDI...). NVIDIA is certainly the worst of the two for this, but in both cases they're convenient places to shove proprietary secrets while still keeping the driver open source. But even if you see an open source driver on one platform, you have very little guarantee that similar optimizations are running when you use a closed source driver on an entirely different platform.

But, honestly, open source driver/firmware is a low bar. Some of the nastier secrets are in _hardware_. Things like instruction X halving the throughput of a seemingly unrelated shader only on hardware Y might not be obvious unless someone tells you, and they won't tell you in public because it might give away IP. These are the kinds of things you'd hope to find in microbenchmarks, but the search space at the API level is so large that I doubt anyone could come up with a reasonable model on their own. Smaller (or even larger) devs just can't microbenchmark at the scale needed to find these issues.

I don't think hardware vendors are in the wrong for this. Hardware vendors have very understandable motives to guard their IP for competitive and forward-compatibility reasons. Honestly, I think most of the development in graphics APIs has been for the better overall, but that doesn't change that using these APIs is undeniably miserable. With CPUs, we dodge the problem by recommending that people minimize context switches (an IP boundary between different layers of the computing stack) so that most people can assume that most of the code that ran is theirs when they measure things. For the same reasons, I recommend that most people minimize graphics API exposure.
For it to be useful the trailer would have to be more than just a battery, it would need to supply power (as in have an electric motor) as well.

Which would be an interesting concept,
For a Chrome 'bias checker' similar to this see https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ground-news-bias-c...
> I’m in the Seattle suburbs

Probably not what the new F-150 is aimed at then. I think they’re trying to show they can break into a rural off-road user. Not suburbia.
My experience with my kids going through school in the US is that cursive is not taught. When I expressed surprise at this to the elementary school principal he told me very few parents could write cursive either.
Time zones don't matter as much s youd think. Most of my oversees vendors are working the equivalent of 2nd and 3rd shifts and prefer not to have earlier meetings as they aren't working yet. It surprised me too.
Because they all lived long healthy lives I'm sure /s