skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Turing Test (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test) for artificial intelligence required the machine to convince a human questioner that it was a human. Since then, most AI methods rely on a human reference of performance to showcase their prowess. I don't find this appealing because:

1) It's an imprecise target: believers can always hype and skeptics can always downplay improvements. Humans can do lots of different things somewhat well at the same time, so a machine beating human-level performance in one field (like identifying digits) says little about other fields (like identifying code vulnerabilities).

2) ELO ratings, or similar metrics are measurements of skill, and can be brute-forced to some extent, equivalent to grinding up levels in a video game. Brute-forcing a solution is "bad", but how do we know a new method is "better/more elegant/more efficient"? For algorithms we have Big-O notation, so we know (brute force < bubble sort < quick sort), perhaps there is an analogue for machine learning.

I would like performance comparisons that focus on quantities unique to machines. I don't compare the addition of computer processors with reference to human addition, so why not treat machine intelligence similarly?

There are many interesting quantities with which we can compare ML models. Energy usage is a popular metric, but we can also compare the structure of the network, the code used, the hardware, the amount of training data, the amount of training time, and the similarity between training and test data. I think a combination of these would be useful to look at every time a new model arrives.
It was the most stupid and naive implementation possible, classic reverse raytracing starting from a distance from the center of the virtual camera plane and branching a few times to get the basics of reflection and a light model to work, then adding other features bit by bit. I don't really remember all the details, but I do remember that it was agonizingly slow on the CPU, the DSP made all the difference and allowed me to add a couple of features. The main loop was on every pixel of the virtual camera plane. I no longer have that code (or the DSP, for that matter) but it was a fun exercise and it taught me a lot of matrix/vector math.

The dithering code was also interesting, because my graphics card could not do true color I put 3x64 RGB shades in the palette and then cranked up the brightness for tetris like sets of pixels to simulate a true color display. Worked pretty well.

This was the DSP board:

https://www.signalogic.com/images/Ariel_DSP32-PC.jpg

I managed to gently overclock it to 24 MHz without problems, it did get a bit warmer but nothing too bad.
It's the natural outcome of the EU's chosen policies.
Was the comment "bad" because it got the extremely homophobic response from rabite? I'm in the same boat as GP - I don't fully agree with him, but at the same time I don't see how it was any different in tone or substance to many other acceptable HN comments.
Facebook is facing competition from TikTok and will have a very hard time breaking their momentum. Always go long Google and short Facebook.
We know that Amazon has a max salary of $160,000 or some such
Probably means it's going to pay off in spades.
Thanks for this. When the-eye.eu went down it broke a ton of my Colab notebooks and it was impossible to find a mirror.
>I prefer to use software where the designers and developers are bold and put forward their vision on what the right way is

This is stupid, why do games let you configure the controls? Is it because the developers are not bold to impose the right way and force the people into it? Are the people changing the controls "using it wrong"?

I assume you mean themes, there is no right way there, there are people that need larger contrast, larger fonts, different colors so give them the option. So if you are forced by accessibility reasons to offer diffent sizes and colors(even iPhones offer this) then IMO you are a bad developer/designer to hardcode your theme and your are an ashole if you do extra work to prevent teeming by the community.

If you mean missing functionality as a feature , most of the time is because other reasons, like GNOME missing file picker thumbnails and their fake defense of it like "you are using it wrong, just DND the files because this is the right way"
I see. I wasn't aware that the UK EU constituencies were an idiosyncratic deviation.

Of course, we no longer have MEPs! I often forget this - that's how much difference the MEPs made to my life.
I personally value an interesting daily work life over money. Unless you are woefully under paid, my advice is do what interests you.
After college I lived with roommates for a while. One went on a joyride of sorts and damaged a bunch of parking meters, crashed and injured themselves. They had a friend drive them home and repaired the vehicle with no reporting.

In some cities currently even if you want to have police respond to a traffic accident, you'd need to wait a VERY long time - they will tell you that unless you need EMS to try and get a safe spot and call for a tow. Some folks aren't willing to wait hours for police to show up to do what, take a report?
Good luck, broseph!
This is pretty much what I hoped would emerge. Many thanks.
I think this has become less prevalent in Oil and Gas - it's my understanding that both BP and Chevron have gotten rid of this relatively recently.
Georgia does italics better and is more widely available
You make an interesting point - the article is not comparing apples to apples - but I think that the issue is different. It's not that CGI looks fake. The latest Dune is impressive in every sense and I don't think the CGI looks fake.

I think the toughest thing about VFX facing a director is the temptation to abuse it. They have to remember the effects are there to tell the story. They should resist to making everything spectacular/shiny/tridimensional/hectic where not everything needs to be. Compare the dark Los Angeles of Blade Runner with the lower levels of Coruscant.

And yes. Darkseid is a ridiculous villain, with a lazy design and even lazier lines. No amount of CGI could save it. Not even if he were blue and lived in a Roger Dean album cover.
I didn't mean to come across confrontational, I really don't think that you can do much either way. For example:

> I'd double my job-searching efforts, to have to option of leaving within a year or two.

Job searching doesn't work that way - if it goes well you'll end up with a bunch of offers that you'll need to accept or reject within some time frame; you don't get to bank all the offers you get and use them in two years.

It's always good to be employable, have relevant skills, be able to interview well etc. - this applies to good and bad markets.
Words are important to me. And OP did in fact mean something different. Props to both of you.
I like the spirit and want to :), but my life has been stressful in the last few years, so I'd like to delay the jump. I value stability and staying close to my current friends in the short-term.

Unless there are significant opportunities I'd be missing out on by not leaving right now. That's why I asked.
Webassembly has 64-bit locals and instructions.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/001872081664096...

> A high level of Web accessibility led to better performance (i.e., task completion time and task completion rate) than low or very low accessibility. Likewise, high Web accessibility improved user ratings (i.e., perceived usability, aesthetics, workload, and trustworthiness) compared to low or very low Web accessibility. There was no difference between the very low and low Web accessibility conditions for any of the outcome measures.
I find it weird that people think settings are only for power users.

Good defaults are very important for non-power-users. But if a non-power-user can Google their problem and change a setting to fix it, then that's a lot better than said user being left with no options at all.
The Tilt5 looks fun but seems like an expensive toy. But the simula I would actually buy. This was the exact usecase I wanted when the first headsets were coming to the market. Hope they succeed
XFCE is pure awesomeness.
> See, the Palestinian leadership needs to have an enemy too. And you say of the far-right in Israel they are "expansionist and racist", well Hamas/Fatah are arguably worse.

I'm not discussing that. But only one side has the power of destroying the other and is instead keeping it alive on purpose. That's why I blame the Isreali government: Hamas is an evil terror group, and they deserve to die.

> And it's not like there would be no enemies and no need for a powerful military once Gaza is conquered and Hamas neutered (Iran? Hezbollah?).

The more enemies an army have, the better for their budget (the US DoD is really good at keeping multiple enemies relevant at the same time). Also, the other actors you mentioned are threats, but Israel is arguably not at war with them right now, which reduces their impact.

And the army is only one side of the coin, the other is the far-right politicians, who really need Hamas to justify everything they do to other Palestinians inside Israel or in the West Bank, neither Iran nor Hezbollah makes good excuse for destroying Palestinians homes for instance.
Scientist accused the supplement industry of fraud. His own work is under fire
When someone sits down to use an app, the app will have higher utility if it makes whatever task they're aiming to do, easier to do. When designing an app's UI, making something easy for users is a matter of understanding what their expectations are and matching what they look for by default when they try to do a thing in your app with what you show them in the UI. That the thing they look for is the thing you show them is both the manipulation and the thing that raises the utility.
Wouldn't brain drain strengthen engineers' position by causing even more labor shortage?
>The most frustrating aspect of HN is that there is no easy way to have meta discussion about the rules or the actions of users.

Honestly, HN seems worlds better than any other forum in this regard. Just the fact that dang responded to this post with information about the moderation process rather than banning the guy shows far more restraint and respect than any other internet moderator.
I tried to finish the original article but I was just too tired...
The driving public knows when it can't take such calculated risks. Does the ML classifier know what it isn't seeing?
It's probably not worth going much past something that's also super popular like an ODroid. Otherwise you'll just be spending an inordinate amount of hours trying to figure out obscure bugs that the non-existent community hasn't yet fixed for you.

I once made the mistake of buying a Banana Pi M2 Zero. Specs were great, support looked decent, I thought I'll be getting a Pi 3 in a Zero form factor. What I instead got was a thing nobody uses on which barely anything runs properly with such flaky wifi that it's practically useless. Never again.
Salesforce globally does 1 Friday off a month (adopted during Slack acquisition). However it's not enforced and the expectation is if you're meeting with someone external (eg customers) you move that date.
Company has been fighting a union drive led by its tech workers for months
In cryptography the math is almost always the strongest part, and it is the side-channel attacks and implementation mistakes that let the bad guys in. When it is the math, the flaw is often that the algorithm has all the desirable properties proved in a number of papers, but has some exploitable structure that analysts can turn into an attack.
I recently re-watched Spider-Man (2002), not having seen it in over a decade. I watched it in 4K on a 100" screen from my JVC DLA-RS400 projector.

I was pleasantly surprised that the movie was as good as I remembered, and that the special effects held up remarkably well.

I enjoyed its first major fight scene than the one you linked:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiaTyUcu5VM

The frozen people effect in Amazing Spiderman 2 reminded me this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OANHfaJW3IM
I’d suggest adding captions or titles to the screenshots. At present it’s just 4 screenshots. Not at all clear that some are with/without, or what each represents.

I like the idea and would use it. But the readme doesn’t give me that context, only the additional comments made here.
...crazily I had a pretty good one the other day ha
For the same reason, I use a 3278 terminal font. Everything on the terminal seems more important, more imposing, with it. ;-)
> Also the vagueness of our hacking laws probably make what he did a crime.

I think it is likely North Korea could charge him with a number of crimes that may be extraditable, like cyber "terrorism" (the quotes are necessary, right?) The US has extradited at least one Russian hacker [1] P4X is also likely now featured in intelligence summaries in countries with security treaties with North Korea, like China and Russia. Also, it's possible P4X has violated the Logan Act.

[1] https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/russian-national-extradit...
Is 8h sleep from 22:00 to 6:00 qualitatively equivalent to 8h sleep from 00:00 to 8:00?
I'm not advocating for _no_ settings. I'm saying a limited selection of settings are useful, putting just about everything behind a setting like many FOSS programs do is bad. Accessibility is the biggest one where people have certain strict needs which go against the usual. Font size is an example of this accessibility requirement.

I don't like settings for UI, there usually is one correct or best UI. I don't want to see settings to configure the drop shadow amount. I use an iPhone because its generally just exactly what I want. And in the few cases it isn't there is a setting for it or its not actually important and I deal with it. Moving from android I was upset there wasn't a setting to have the keyboard use the vibration motor rather than a click sound but after a week I didn't care at all and I'm glad there aren't 2 billion settings to make iOS work like Android.

I leave my IDE theme on the default, my wallpaper on the default, ringtone on the default. None of it actually matters for getting work done and living life.
It's more traditional sampling bias than Simpsons paradox
That was never said. GP could doubt both.

I don't think his request is out of the ordinary here:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
> What happened for you in the 2nd, 3rd, etc. years?

I'm back on Tinder and Bumble lmao. Short term relationships and casual relationships can be fun and I won't discount that, it's probably all I will be pursing for a while just because of my own personal life situation. But the flip side is they all have an expiration date. You might luck out and go on a 3-4 month streak with someone, as soon as you feel like you've reached a good rhythm with someone, she will decide she's ready for more, or that she wants to continue her "hoe phase" by finding someone new and repeating. And you're back to spending your long coveted free time swiping through the treadmill of flesh again. Go to r/tinder or r/bumble if you want a taste of what most days are like that. There's pros and cons to it, but just don't assume the grass is greener.
It only just showed up for CA (in 2021) and mostly only along the border (eg Victoria). Granted a lot of population is lower.. but current ETAs (from the starlink "Order" page) for the 5 biggest cities are all tbd:

- Montreal late 2022 (4.2M people)
- Vancouver late 2022 (2.6M people)
- Toronto 2022-2023 (6.2M people)
- Calgary 2022-2023 (1.6M people)
- Edmonton late 2023 (1.4M people)
Technically true, in Seattle, but a large portion of comp comes in RSUs above that mark. You can see on levels.fyi that new hires in the 5-10 YOE range are getting total comps in the 3 or 400s pretty consistently.
Aren't programs generally more complex than math proofs?

Like, the more accidental edge cases people produce, the less they understand the program.
You can't buy these. All pinebooks are out of stock due to chip shortage or what stock is there is reserved. So no, that suggestion isn't good for basically everybody.
> Payload is technically open source and completely free forever for up to one admin panel user.

Can you explain how the licensing works here? If it's open source, couldn't you modify it to allow more admin panel users? Can you self-host with no reliance on other hosted services or paid licenses?
Went into this with an indignant "failures in telemetry should NEVER bring down core functionality!" feeling, left with a more nuanced understanding of the fault and impressed and reassured by the mitigation steps being taken. That's a great post-mortem.
Sounds like a trap to me - in theory, most programming jobs "don't" work Saturdays or Sundays or after 6 PM either. On paper, anyway.
Imagine making this same point about books: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_published_per_country_pe...
Exactly, I can't understand what the author was thinking. If a paper shows that 2+2=4, what would the replication problem be? You write the paper out again and 2+2 turns out to equal 5?

"The results can't be replicated" is different from "the logic here is wrong". So different that this article starts from an entirely invalid premise.
> Most people don't love fiddling with settings.

Passive consumers don't.

Power users, domain experts, creators, engineers, and owners love settings.
I work for a super awesome fully remote startup that does this. First Friday of every month.
System76-Scheduler Is a New Pop OS Rust Effort to Improve Desktop Responsiveness
That's because most math proofs are treading on well understood grounds and only extending them slightly. E.g. it would be like a psychologist asking how an results of a well proven result would be different if all participants wore red shoes.

When you enter truly new grounds mathematicians don't even agree if the distinctions being made have a meaning, let alone if they are true.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_airship

Like a blimp but with a rigid balloon filled (ha ha) with vacuum instead of a light gas.

The article is saying it's a polymer so I'm guessing it doesn't have the right rigidity, ie, the stronger than steel bit must be with respect to a different strength measure
> That 1% on 50% of the market can be a downright gold mine.

Or a quick death spiral into bankruptcy in response to any disruption in business as usual.

This is a manufacturer of heavy industrial machinery, not a software startup, or a grocery store. You can't just turn down your burn rate by 1% in response to a 1% drop in demand, and you don't have a magical firehose of VC money that will smooth over any rough edges in your quest to improve the world by conquering the industrial machinery market, and driving all potential profits to near-zero with zero vendor lock-in.

Hell, the VCs will run away screaming when you get the 'zero vendor lock-in' part of your pitch.
To glom Buzz/Salmon/OpenSocial (the great intertwingularizing era, circa 2008) & Google Circle together is to marry night & day. These are opposite ends, opposite realms. Buzz, Salmon Protocol, OpenSocial: these were hopeful, strong, API oriented, pro-value-creation protocol-based interoperable ways of connecting the world, making new system creation possible. Engineers doing internet engineering things, trying to build an ecosystem for interconnection.

Google didn't realize building healthy, interoperable, internet technology wasn't their core strength & drop it. The story is much sadder. Their new head guy showed up & personally demanded things go his way & that everyone build his pet project, Google Plus. A vanity Facebook competitor with a real name policy, with no extropic/network benefits, no connection to the rest of the net (although you could send some data in to it: literally it's only api, one method): just another shitty little social app.

Google eventually realized this product was trash & insisting every team creatively find ways to interoperate with it was a mess, and canned this shitty little social app. (One I used & enjoyed, but which was of scant real enduring value, was deeply disconnected.)

There's two eras here. They look like opposite ends, to me.

As for Meta. Well. There is a lot of the vanity project bent, judging the book by it's cover. But I also think it's good to increase the engineering challenges, to go big. To find new hard problems. Google Plus was just a cheap knock off, a facsimile, with some narrow twists (Circles). Facebook is at least trying something. I have sincere doubts about headsets, but the idea of virtual place, & of re-materializing the virtual makes a lot of sense to orient & re-ground (what a pun) computing - could do a lot. But Meta could walk either of the two Google paths I just described: they could walk the open, interoperable, ecosystem path & kickstart a new era in computing with a buoyant healthy technical ecosystem, or they could walk the Google Plus era path & create a closed, proprietary product or series of products that try to succeed so strongly on their own that they inflate a new market singlehandedly.
The salary is reduced but the actual hours you put in stay the same.
> But what if the market shifts and salaries go down?

If youre making decent pay & enjoy your job that sounds like a dream.

Enjoy your life, work isn't everything. Bay Area isn't that nice. You are likely able to live somewhere better (or can move somewhere nicer). I regret moving away from family & friends (albeit I do like the area I'm in now). Spend time with them.

You won't be worrying about your paycheck on your deathbed, but rather whether you lived a fulfilling life. I am certain more pay for less interesting work doesn't match that description ;)
Unless they correct the wording of their comment, the 2 days part of the schedule is Saturday and Sunday, and this result in a 0 days off schedule.
I'm not sure how much this will do to change anyone. Sure, it's bluntly stated but, well, most people realize quite well that lack of sleep is awful and dangerous. People don't usually do it because they want to do it. Long hours at work, deadlines, stress, occasional bout of Netflix addiction. Out of all of those, there's only one that's easy to resolve and I'd wager that Netflix isn't usually the biggest contributor to chronic lack of sleep.
Newly Public Docs Allege Allstate Algorithm Overcharged California Customers $1B
Shaping policy is making policy, practically.
Not quite the same, but got me thinking: Could we theoretically power and refuel car in the following way:

- Take a cube of X elastic material and squish it really dense with a big machine.

- Power the car via the pressure of the material trying to expand.

- Once it's nearly depleted (fully expanded), take it to another squishing station.

I imagine you couldn't store anywhere near enough power that way today, but then that's also the kind of problem the linked material is trying to solve, right?
SLOW5 file format helping researchers reduce DNA analysis time
If they aim for "delightful", but achieve "pretty good", that's still a success and worth the effort.
Won't this require years of busywork? The various intrinsics, function attributes, C compiler args compatibility, ABI profiles for various platforms/systems (including the Windows GCC/VC ABI idiocy?)

upd: Also, I'm not sure that implementing -funsigned-char in 2022 will be all that great for morale!
I will make it simple: they need to buy Stripe/Shopify. They really need to own e-commerce vertical.
Concerns are just sentiment: 0.25% is still very low. Need to see sample size.

Won't be surprised on how today's exaggerated and manipulated media will impact employee outlook and fears.
U.S. Energy Facts Explained
Even wood is supposedly quite much stronger than steel for the same weight of material.
Apply your last paragraph to your own perspective of the protestors. The hypocrisy lol.
"Product Spec: Surprise and delight users by displaying their birthday on the settings page"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ