skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completely agree. However, here are some things a more useful study would cover:

- Describe the task creation process, why they are appropriate for measuring X, etc. Preferably drawing from similar studies in people instead of ad hoc. Lots of work has already gone into measuring these things. They may have to be modified for DALL-E but it would be a better starting point.

- Show several variations of the same task and outputs. For example #11, maybe the issue is that DALL-E has a poor understanding of milk sizes as expressed but not size relationships in general. Example #13 with pizza sizes is ambiguous by the authors own interpretation yet they deem it a failure. It would be trivial to construct dozens of similar examples to give a more holistic understanding.

- Narrow the scope of the prompts if you want to see how the model understands a particular relationship. Many of the tasks include multiple ancillary statements.

- Discuss prompt engineering in more depth. We already know that these models are sensitive to the formulation of the prompt. What did the authors try / not try?

- Replace the authors' individual opinions of the outputs with crowdsourced opinions from mturk or even Twitter. As I noted above, example #10 is not as clear cut as the authors suggest.

- Measure how well people do at the same task as a baseline: draw something that aligns with a given text prompt and compare to DALL-E, maybe with a crowdsourced opinion of which is a more accurate interpretation. Even if they're just stick figures this would be interesting to see.

As-is, this article doesn't really add anything substatial about the model's capabilities to the conversation.
It's $100M to develop tech that would allow carbon to be pulled out of the atmosphere at the price of $100-$500 per ton of CO2. Even if the tech is successful then it would still cost $100B-$500B per year to pull out the 1 bilion tons of CO2 by 2050 that the IPCC has built into their models.
The paper complains that some of the answers are not perfect but half the humans I know would have gotten them wrong… (thinking about the octopus one). I just find this technology fascinating. Imagine once you can extend this to video (“Star wars but the Jedis are the bad guys”, “breaking bad but an 80s sitcom” … Netflix should be investing in this…)
Like it best from the series. In a way, each whole volume of the series is to describe one sentence.
A friend of mine prefers longer days. She says that she is too tired getting home from an 8h day to do much of substance anyway so may as well do 10h days and get a whole free day to do stuff with.

Basically instead of using your extra 2h a day to lie on the couch and swipe through tiktok or similar time wasting take a full day and do something useful.

That being said it sounded like the extra 2h at work were typically fairly quiet anyways so I don't think there was much value to the employer over an 8h day.
Summing up, basically Google Pay it's way more practical.
Facebook's real name policy, Youtube's real name policy, Twitter's blue checks..

This hasn't worked. Not once. Full stop.

IRC continues to be the best place to have real conversations. Discord is pretty great too and even has built in alt support.
@dang/mods Please detach the responses here (from people who believed that this is the official post) and attach them to the official post by whoishiring.

Anyone else seeing this thread meanwhile, please check out the official one for May 2022 at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31235968
Innovation? Contactless payment have been a thing for years in the EU. First on physical cards, then on android. Apple locking down NFC access for wallet apps is nothing more than a forced monopoly.
Hopefully a new Deus Ex game might be a possibility again.
This got me looking around at how one would load a luks or dm-crypt encrypted drive from efi without grub. I didn't find anything solid but I've used initram shims for stuff like that before so that might be an approach but at that point you might as well use grub which has some nice features built-in.

I guess I'm really curious what there is to gain by bypassing grub if anything?
Somewhat amusing piece of trivia: the author of Cobol on Wheelchair is currently a Polish MP.
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For Netflix, I think the expectation used to be that they would establish themselves as a long-lasting company that would generate $20bn in profit per year. It's now looking dubious that they will exist in a meaningful way in a decade--that their value is now to milk the subscribers they have for all they're worth until they have no more.
> If you're trying to go around corners as fast as possible in a front-wheel drive car you're going to drive with one foot on the brake and one foot on the gas and will apply the brakes and the gas at the same time.

Sure, but that's not normal driving and even though it should be possible this situation should simply never occur outside of a racetrack, a regular driver will move their one foot from the gas and move it to the brake.
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> If you're trying to go around corners as fast as possible in a front-wheel drive car you're going to drive with one foot on the brake and one foot on the gas and will apply the brakes and the gas at the same time.

No you won't.

> As an Arduino enthusiast I see statically allocated (global?) variables are frequently the way to go for an embedded system, the frontier is to be able to prove the correctness of what you're doing.

When you have 2kB of RAM to play with you haven't got a lot of stack or heap to sling function parameters around on, so it's Through The Looking Glass and you do it all backwards - everything goes in a global unless you have a really really good reason for having local scope (loop counters would be a good example).
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Think again. The age of Tinder has made this vastly easier - not harder.
A much more useful approach, in my opinion, is to simply state that you’re using skeletons instead of loading spinners, because of this and that reason.
No need to tell people to stop doing that, do this instead, unless you’re talking about some objectively better way of doing something.
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I always thought that part of the reason that Apple measured energy impact in arbitrary units was because they're trying to take into account the energy used by the rest of the system. So, for example, if a task takes half the energy when running on E cores, but causes the screen, wifi, disk, etc. to stay on longer, then perhaps it really is causing more total power to be used.

But, OTOH, if it's happening in the background while you're already using the computer, then those parts were probably going to be on anyways, so I suppose it's fairly context-dependent.
It is just a super massive graph optimization, don't get confused about it like the OpenAI guys or whoever thinks matrix multiplication is achieving consciousness .
Social security numbers get wrongly revoked and you often end up having to sue the US government to get any redress.

Why in the world do you want them to host your email?
Have you ever had a company refuse to voice call verify a twilio number?
What does this have to do with Toyota?
I have a feeling you DO understand that going back to driver-operated throttles would mean going back to 90s emissions standards, but you just don't care, am I right?
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The Alienware M15 r5 Ryzen édition (amongst others) does support 64GB of RAM, but not ECC.
You can buy a Mac for $1000.
Ask HN: Alternative to Google Maps' schedule explorer?
I really enjoyed the "schedule explorer" feature of google maps for public transport.

A typical use case for me would be to find the shortest available trip from A to B on a given day (when departure time was flexible), the first or last travel option of the day, or the frequency of a given connection.

Unfortunately, all good (google) things seemingly must come to an end, and the schedule explorer feature is being phased out from google maps.

Short of checking individual transporter's timetables, does anyone have an alternative that in particular addresses the above use cases? (Apple maps does not seem to have this option.)

Personally my main interest would be for Europe - even country-specific sites could be very helpful.
I'd love to see some performance metrics and if there are any guard rails against circular dependencies.
I have a laptop not because I want to use my computer on my lap or while unplugged, but because I want to be able to carry my computer between different workplaces.

As an industrial controls engineer, I'm constantly bouncing from my desk to my rolling cart in the shop, to putting it in my toolbag and driving to a local customer's site, to putting it in my carryon and flying to a remote customer's site, to my home office. At each location, I have power available. At some locations, I have external monitors and a keyboard/mouse, so I could easily plug in a Mac Mini or luggable mATX desktop, at others the laptop is often perched on some convenient stack of pallets and peripherals like monitor stands would be highly inconvenient. A 10x15x1.5" slab with a power brick (and a spare power brick can be left at frequently used locations) is just a really nice form factor to carry around, it's superior to separate parts like even a small Mac Mini, SFF, or mATX desktop, an external monitor that probably needs a box of some sort to keep it from being damaged, and a keyboard and mouse.

I use too much Windows-only proprietary software to make the iMac sensible, but I like the idea of the power and legibility of a large display, desktop-grade CPUs, and the larger thermal envelope available by ditching the battery and requiring wall power. Does anyone make an all-in-one or a carrying case for all-in-ones (with probably a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse) that would make jumping between different work locations make sense?

I'm aware that's sort of what a gaming laptop is, and it's pretty similar to the Lenovo Thinkpad, Dell Precision, and HP Elitebooks that I've used in the past...Especially after a couple years of 24/7 charger connections while baking the battery with a Quadro GPU running Solidworks, you barely have enough battery capacity to carry the laptop from one desk to another. Unfortunately, all those workstation laptops make concessions to try to pretend they're a Macbook Air where you can do...something? apparently some people do some kind of work with the laptop running on a battery and balanced on their knees. It's just a foreign concept to me. I'd rather they were 2" thick with a 120V socket, no battery, and 400W of CPU+GPU.
Ultimately it comes down to gradient-based descent (which is pretty magical in its own right), but what's most surprising to me is that the loss landscape is actually organized enough to yield impressive results. Obviously the difficulties of training large NNs are well-documented, but I'm surprised it's even that easy
Honestly at this point it kind of is magic. These things are knocking out astonishing novel tasks every month, but the state of our knowledge is "why does sgd even work lol". There is no coherent theory.
Make a feature request, there is even a feature request label in the QEMU issue tracker - https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/?label_name=ki...

And pick a bounty platform like https://app.bountysource.com/ (top bounty there is also a QEMU issue) to post your bounty
A shifted American perspective on what food is actually for might help the rest of the world as well.
Hey, it looks great, i will probably give it a try as i want to practise my writing skills.

Just out of curiosity, I was wondering what is the context for no-nonsense in the platform description heading? I suppose technological nonsense like tracking etc?
Who eats the animals?
NNs are just glorified logistic regression.
People should simply understand that neural networks cannot emulate a dumb calculator accurately, this simple fact is enough to realize being an universal approximator is in practice a fallacy, and true Causal NLU or AGI is essentially out of reach of neural networks, by design.
Only a brain fidel architecture would have hope however C.elegans retro engineering is underfunded and spiking neural networks are untrainable.
Being friendly: Strategies for friendly fork management
Indeed, spaghetti code is bad, but spaghetti data manipulated by spaghetti code is orders of magnitude worse.

The thing that I never got is why there are plenty of high level languages that have 'global' more or less as the default. This is asking for trouble. Side effects should be very carefully introduced and reasoned about and kept to an absolute minimum, not be the default sauce to sprinkle across your codebase, the possible number of states increases very rapidly if you do that.
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You have it right, although "clock in" sounds a little formal; I'd probably just say "start work".
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Actually, I'm increasingly finding that because my work on these types of projects happens sporadically, it's easier for me to get stuck not remembering what I did or need to do.

I don't have anything resembling an issue tracker, but I've begun collecting brain dump style notes in either a gist or the Apple notes app.
"Investments in blockchain, AI, and the cloud" sounds like they have absolutely no idea what they should do, and will spend most of the money paying very expensive consultants who produce delirious slideware about web3 metaverse opportunities.
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Cover letter gets the hiring manager to read your resume. Your resume gets you an interview. Interview gets you the job. Simple process.
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You know that we share the earth with every other species right? How about we let that stuff we cant eat be food for wild animals?
Life lessons I learned from being a programmer.
I tend to float around the "Electronicity" and "Digital Hackerspace" discords. Other than those there's subreddits like r/AskElectronics, r/electronics, r/esp8266, r/esp32 etc.
Sometimes people advertise their discords there and I like to pop in and see what they offer (how I found out about the previously mentioned discord servers)
My campaign world covers about 2000 years. Most campaigns start towards the latter end of previous game’s longer lived characters’ lives but the exact setting usually isn’t made clear to the players up front. Sometimes it’s a prequel. No characters are immortal except one vampire, some zombies, and some gods but there’s some non linear temporal locations which occasionally feature. Most campaigns start with new characters who have little to no knowledge of the previous games characters and go through the process of meeting them and filling in what’s happened in the past few hundred years. Characters come and go, but CURSED ITEMS are eternal which is fun.

Most important is that everything is canon. Sometimes a campaign fizzles out. Still canon. The end of that adventure is free for the next DM to write out as they wish. Often these campaigns are considered to have had the party fail their quest.
Apple to bin apps that go three years without updates
"almost" is doing a lot of work in that sentence
My (minimal) understanding of telecoms is the future is always a very long way away if you relying on complete rollout for usability.

Skimming that page, it also looks like possibly this is only replacing commercial long code users, not commercial short code users? But I didn't read carefully enough to be sure.
Not everything you can SSH into that produces logs is necessarily a "server". Small embedded systems may not have the RAM or flash space to aggregate locally, and setting them up for remote logging may be problematic or at least inconvenient for one reason or another.