skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US can have lower levels of trust than it previously had while still having levels of trust that significantly exceed the median. This seems to be a popular misunderstanding in the last decade.

I'm not sure if this is the parent's intent, but there's a whole lot of sincere "the US is a third world country" sort of argumentation going around, predicated entirely on observations that the US falls short of certain utopian ideals). "The US should continue to improve" doesn't depend on pretense that the US lags the median for a given category, and I strongly suspect that this sort of rhetoric gives way to the sort of fatalism that prevents societies from progressing ("we can't progress, we're stuck in this miserable system, etc").
With much of the world we interact with being digital, or at least digitally connected, the ability to interact with that world is like unlocking a magical power.

Invoke regex to search through or fix thousands of pages of documents. Instantiate a daemon to help you around the house. Cast a bot army to do your bidding. Prove an idea true or false by creating a simulation of it. Create the app that no one would ever make because only you in particular need it.
I don't care if it is a "standard" but it would be nice if people agreed on something. Is the meta version being used anywhere?

It looks what I described is very existing to the spec published here: https://microformats.org/wiki/rel-shortlink
I’d prefer I’d no one was punching anyone. Just because a person belongs to a privileged group doesn’t mean that they should be subject to any harassment.

We’re smart enough to convey our viewpoints without having to insult. It only helps with our righteous self-indignation at the expense of making inroads towards actual, positive change.
This word, in this context, should not matter. It is essentially a random word, inserted far in advance, that happens to relate to current events. The fact that it matters to anyone here is a symptom of the severe societal illness that publications like the NYT are helping to spread. How long until dictionaries and textbooks are forced to change the definition of "fetus" because it makes some people uncomfortable to admit that a human embryo becomes a fetus at nine weeks of development?
Length of terms is not the sole parameter.
I shipped 6 1080TIs out to a buyer a few years ago. He tore open the package and pretended that 4 of the cards were missing. This was a signature delivery, which means the buyer ostensibly accepted the package with a giant hole in it if his story is to be believed. Ebay immediately sided with the buyer and wouldn't help with the obvious scam until we took it to twitter and got the attention of some VP. We were out thousands of dollars.
The ads are in the android app if you select a "smart" tab, like the Social or Campaigns (and I pay for google one, still get those ads). Fortunately I'm never in those tabs on the mobile client.
One reason I’m not interested in hyper efficient GMOs is that I don’t trust the incentives of the people making them.

They don’t want me to be healthy, they want to grow food as cheaply as possible and for me to buy and become addicted to their product. I’m not particularly interested in increasing Monsanto’s efficiency.
I can't stand when I have to deal with a PDF on Windows on my office computer where I have the free copy of Acrobat.

You can right click on a page and it's got "rotate" buttons up at the top. But when you click on one, it takes a second to think about it and then opens a popup to offer you a free 7-day trial of the Pro version. Rotating a page is too powerful a feature for Adobe to not try and sell it to you.

https://imgur.com/a/oAYOoqG

What you can do is "Rotate View Clockwise" three times, way down at the bottom of the menu. It applies to the entire document instead of a single page, and it doesn't persist next time you open the file. Works in a pinch but it's deliberately shitty.

Microsoft even had their own PDF viewing software with Windows 8, but instead of improving it to get their user experience one step closer to Apple's, they killed it off to make more people launch Edge by accident.

I can only assume there's a KPI somewhere in Microsoft HQ tracking how many times Edge is launched, and making that graph go up and to the right has become their number one corporate priority.

It would explain the taskbar's search screen, the "news and weather" bullshit, pressing F1 in Explorer opening a Bing search for "How to get help in Windows" instead of just giving you help, and most every other design choice they've made in the last couple of years.
They don't prefer trains that derail, but (if the article is to be believed, which I can't say) they prefer to chip away at the safety margins (which cost money) until it's only the experience of the (train) engineer that keeps the train on the tracks. Of course, you could say that's always the case, but I can imagine that it gets harder and harder to do it the longer the train is.
Perhaps requiring all legislation to start with the senate would help mitigate that somewhat.
Monitoring DoltLab with Prometheus
Maybe relatedly, I tried signing up using a fastmail address and never received email confirmation. When I tried having it resent, I got an error popup "Failed to send email. An error occured on our email server. Please try again or contact us."
I think the biggest dark pattern is allowing skipable ads to be long. Sometimes over an hour.
I spent some time in the hospital not too long ago, and it was physically painful for me to move enough to skip an ad. I would have been fine watching 30-60 second ads without skipping, but they just put infomercials in the middle of the video you're watching. it is outrageous.
I believe (hope) Asooka's post was satirical, but I am no longer as confident in such judgements as I used to be.
That’s super interesting to me. It’ll take a disaster to fix it.

I worked in oil and gas for a while, and they were pathologically obsessed with safety. Like, “you’ll be fired for not using the handrail in the HQ stairwell” pathological. It was good! There was never a question about how to value a trade off.

Open disdain for safety regulations seems like a recipe for disaster.
> If hundreds of millions of dollars can be lost by professional crypto firms employing crypto engineers, what hope do Bob and Sally have?

Haha I'm pretty pro-crypto but "professional crypto firms" almost sounds like an oxymoron...

All Bob and Sally have to do is use a private wallet and store their private keys with redundant backups. Not foolproof but pretty straightforward. The engineers running the exchanges, markets, etc have way more attack vectors and pitfalls to worry about.
We tried huggingface.co with great hope recently. Unfortunately, though their system was well orchestrated, we could not make progress on baby steps.

We uploaded our model to github and then downloaded to hugging face. Why the package installed correctly, it failed because underlying Glibc headers were compiled with a version that is different from Hugging face's. So, while the platform works for some situations, it still has a long way to go.
A Simple and Effective Way to Improve Python Class Performance
If they aren't themselves drawn to and captivated by the medium, then they simply shouldn't be here. They should be somewhere they actually care about instead. You could maybe set something up that would pique their interest (modding a video game, a robotics project, automating some bit of rote math homework they hate), and if it does, take that lead and support them in any way you can. Otherwise, it's just proselytizing with a different bible, and people seldom appreciate that. You will not reach ears that don't care.
I'm quite fond of the NWS; one the one hand there's no particular reason it must be a government body; on the other hand that frees them from "performance metrics" and the need for hype ... but doesn't insulate them, either.

"best government is no government" would be extremist. I submit that "least government" is a reasonable view that admits there are positive functions of government in society, even if they are "all the other options suck worse" judgements where "positive" is "least negative".
I think a lot of game development companies have lost sight of the charm of basically zero-hardware config multiplayer. By that I mean, one computer (or console), one screen, multiple controllers, and no user names/sign ins. GoldenEye was great for that, you could just jump in. Having multiple monitors just seems like overhead. Some of the fun was the fact that you could target a player and be a total jerk, and you quickly find out who the "honorable" players are. To me, it's part of the game. Honestly, I wish there were more modern games like this. I'd gladly sacrifice shiny graphics and 4k to have a local couch coop game with some friends.
If you take them to court and win you get a piece of paper which says they should give you your money back. And that's all.

Enforcing that piece of paper requires a further judgement and may require bailiffs and/or lawyers.

At this point you will have paid out significant costs with no guarantee that you'll get any of your money back.

It's fairly standard for small businesses to dodge debts. A company can declare itself insolvent and debts are either written off or a tiny percentage of the amount due is paid out. The directors can then start another company. Rinse and repeat.

But taking a company like Ebay to small claims is very risky anyway. It's highly likely the T&Cs - which no one reads - are vague enough to allow a variety of defences while still technically being within the law. You'd need a good lawyer to argue otherwise, and that won't be cheap.

Really, this kind of abuse should be handled at the regulatory level, with stiff penalties for systematic abuse of obligations, enforced by strong laws that don't allow for easy legal excuses.
If you use these superset languages day-to-day you will end up interfacing with the base/platform language at some point.

Just recently I had to figure out why the Elixir Kafka library didn't support something and I ended up using the wrapped Erlang library at the end. Without some Erlang knowledge I would have been completely lost.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5917019/ try this instead, I can see that the recent reclassification to limosilactobacillus has caused some confusion
I can read C++ pretty well, I know how to build, compile, and run C++, but I probably couldn't write very good C++. I think it's like reading a book about how a machine gun is used in action and constructing one vs. given a machine gun with no hands-on training and trying to use it myself.
You can have an idea, and bring it into reality. There's nothing else like it.
Yes, I've got this too https://imgur.com/a/ZxClPqQ
It's odd that it tells nothing about why?
Because you can automate the boring stuff. Apply logic once and relax. A human shouldn’t have to act like a computer.
Yes! I was wondering which app it is asking me to preview. These are the times when I wish HackerNews allowed OPs to edit post titles after submission.
This is awesome, you should post this as its own thing
This isn't great, but there's no ethical dilemma. Being able to skip an advert at all is a pretty recent luxury.
Lots of the Ads and Nags from Reddit come from Reddit servers proper, so it's not just blocking a DNS. Need the magic of a tool like UBO that can inspect URL.
> I'm saying that their approach to working on perf has, until recently, been to focus on building on top of large blobs

Totally agree.

Off topic: I really love Erlang/Elixir - but I'm beginning to losing hope in being able to see a path where it can 3x improve performance. There has be a lot of people for a very long time been hoping this major improvement will come "soon". I'm unfortunately just not seeing it happening or a path to it ever happening. I hope I'm wrong.
I agree APAP is so good you no longer need a Dr. involved. People should be allowed to purchase an APAP machine if they want it, with no prescription.

However I disagree about insurance - they are paying for it, so they can chose how they want to monitor usage. If you don't like it, then pay for it yourself, exactly like you did.

Also, the older machines don't have remote access, they have a little card you have to bring periodically to the Dr. so they can confirm to insurance you are actually using it. Remote access was meant to make it less annoying for patients, and cheaper too since you don't have to go to the Dr. so often.

Pricing it into the premium is a terrible idea - it would raise premiums for everyone, for very little gain.
I love preview and this post covers a number of cool features but I can't help but be extremely frustrated by not only getting a (presumably) newsletter signup without any interaction but also the sheer gall to pop this [0] without a single bit of information as to what you are signing up for. Not title, no description, just "Give us your name and email". I hate these popups to begin with but this takes the cake.

[0] https://imgur.com/a/kDis8Yo
I didn't watch the documentary, but I read a fair amount of the coverage at the time.

I don't mind rephrasing "forced" to "incentivized", or believing that Boeing independently did shady and/or criminal things. It usually takes more than one factor to cause a rare disaster.
You've certainly made a case for watching ads while uploading video.
> A huge number of teams and companies have 24/7 oncall rotations.

Ah yes. Thats true. Not sure how govt regulations can solve this though. Someone has to be on call.
I recently discovered that the signing feature can use an associated iPhone or iPad (with stylus!) as the signing device where you write your signature.
Still don't know how to preview all photos in for example "downloads"

Osx UX is a messsssss
Ideally, you'd buy these wells from O&G companies at distressed prices using ESG funding and repurpose them for lithium production.
Just something I care a lot about.
The only valid reason is that you'd like to know how to program a computer.

Nobody ever expected me to be able to learn to do surgery, plant stuff, design buildings or whatever. Programming is not basic literacy. Let's stop pretending it is.
This article comes across as a bit conspiratorial. I feel like "dark pattern" is on the verge of losing meaning when it's applied in cases like this as opposed to for example: making accept cookies one click and reject multiple clicks (which Google is also guilty of).
You have a vastly incorrect understanding of ths topic. I highly suggest you read some criminal justice theory for your own good. Instead feel free to DV and remain ignorant.
Why nonprofit hospitals can be so damn expensive
The rules are not very stringent for petrol cars. Pretty much anything from the past 15 years will do.
Just import it to Photos and send all of your images to SQLite hell!
>There’s little reason to believe that optimizing an SDF and training a NeRF are any different in terms of optimization speed or resolution

A trainable SDF representation could very well be slower to train than a trainable NeRF representation

> If all you want is the geometry, then material properties aren’t an advantage, and could add unnecessary complication, right?

Unless the SDF's inability to model view dependence would interfere with its ability to minimise its loss
I would think if they’re doing three days, they should be contiguous. And while it might preserve social capital amongst coworkers, it’s destroying that with management. Senior management is seen as backwards-looking, focussed on 20th century methods and trying to use sunk costs. Hardly the picture of modernity they wish to portray.

People change jobs very often anymore. Don’t make it easier for them to do or considering doing so. And remember, good management has less flexibility than worker bees - otherwise it’s a plantation mentality that pisses staff off.
I think it is partly because it is shiny new ... but also sometimes it seems promising, you have to try to really figure out what works about it, and then you understand it better and its use case is more nuanced.
Plato's hypothesis was that shorter terms would lead to more democratic (and therefore baser) democracies. Our terms are not that long, although incumbent advantage makes them longer in practice.
Or just a third-party app. Any ads those serve are part of the app itself, so you can just find one without ads.
100mcg for each initial 5000 IU's for the day but I stop at 800mcg of K2 MK-7 regardless. I sometimes also take K2 MK-4 in addition to that. I also get a small amount of K2 from eggs.
> The target does not suffice, you need to make sure the memory is manually moved to the GPU or the FPGA, so you need to handle that as well.

Yes. That's the bottleneck and difficulty of GPU / FPGA programming. Knowing where your memory is. PCIe is very high latency, especially compared to L1, L2, L3, or DDR4 RAM.

Look, even in NVidia's "Thrust" library, you want to very carefully be thinking about CPU vs GPU RAM. If your operations are primarily on the CPU-side, you want a CPU-malloc. If your operations are primarily on GPU-side, you want a GPU-malloc.

Modern PCIe can "handle the details" for you, but if your GPU memory accesses all go through the PCIe bus to read CPU-DDR4 RAM to do anything, it will be simply slower than using the CPU itself.

This isn't a beginner subject anymore, not in the slightest.

> They do, and performance is pretty much the same as native GPU code in my experience, and according to all peer-reviewed publications about it.

I severely doubt that std::for_each_n exists on GPU code.

I see that for_each_n exists in NVidia's "Thrust" library, which is also a beginner-level API / library to use in the CUDA system (but not as efficient as dedicated GPU code). And I can imagine that NVidia Thrust might be compatible with more recent C++ standards.

But I cannot imagine the underlying API to know whether or not to do a CPU-malloc or GPU-malloc efficiently. And I'm not seeing any std::api that handles this detail. (NVidia Thrust has the programmer explicitly call whether you're using a device_vector vs host_vector).

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The __ONLY__ API that ever tried to "automagically" figure out the CPU-malloc vs GPU-malloc issue was C++ AMP by Microsoft. It was interesting, but performance issues and DirectX11 compatibility prevented progress (when DX12 GPUs came out, the C++AMP project didn't keep up).

I liked their array_view abstraction and its "automagic" at trying to figure out this memory-management issue. But... I really haven't seen anything like that since C++AMP.
Let me try to make the point clearer:

1. Investors expect Huggingface to extract more than $100M from the market. Otherwise they'd be called 'donors'.

2. If they openly publish models, then their APIs will be undercut by other providers who can take the published model and host it for cheaper. It would be cheaper for other companies because: they don't need to pay the cost of training the model, and they can specialize in simply hosting models.

3. Because of 2), Huggingface would need to avoid allowing other companies to host models, including internal APIs (because then providers would simply spin up to making hosting those internal APIs easy).

4) Because of 3), their policy of publishing trained models openly has to change.

So the question that the original poster was asking is: what Huggingface policies will change, given the need to make returns on this investment?

The original poster is likely thinking of OpenAI, which went down a similar route (starting training open models, took in a bunch of money, realized that openly publishing them wasn't sustainable, kept the models secret and created locked down APIs for accessing them).

> So if you want someone to answer precisely how they'll extract hundreds of millions of dollars from an emerging market, I have to imagine this isn't the correct forum to expect such answers.

This market isn't new; Google, AWS, OpenAI, etc. all have APIs they charge for. They also have services to host trained models for you. How will Huggingface make money without resorting to hiding its models?
It's different because a hash of the ID can be used by anyone who knows the hashing algorithm. If the ID is combined with a UUID/GUID and the UUID/GUID is kept secret/isolated by the entity doing verification, then nobody else can make use of the hash, even those within the entity organization who do not have access to the UUID/GUID. The UUID/GUID itself is not PII so it can probably be retained without violating the GDPR. The same goes for the hash. And since there is no way to reconstruct the original ID given the UUID/GUID and hash, there should be no GDPR violation.

In a large entity such as Google, you almost need to outsource ID verification to ensure it's not abused by other (advertising/marketing) parts of Google. Of course all of this requires good faith on the part of the implementing entity, which is certainly not guaranteed.
Passkeys: Multi-device FIDO credentials can replace passwords
There is evidence that Chinese rail operators have deliberately hidden accidents and their costs. That makes Chinese rail transport extremely difficult to compare to American rail transport especially when the specific subject is the accumulated cost of accidents.
> The Buddhist is looking with a peculiar intentness inwards.

This is not so surprising, seeing as Buddhism developed and distinguished itself from its neighboring religions (Hinduism, Chinese folk religion, Shinto etc.) precisely by being more inwardly focused, and not defining itself as community oriented. Practically speaking though, the Buddhist sangha does fulfill the expected roles for its surrounding communities - and Christianity has its own traditions of solitary hermit asceticism. So the difference is not so large.
If you want to scan a document and have an iphone handy, you can also right click in Finder and "Scan document... from iPhone". It opens a UI on your phone that I've never seen before, and "scans" (photographs) pages of a document.

When you're done the results end up in a new PDF wherever you clicked.
Not exactly, because most of the good growth opportunities are in the US, so you have a reason to stay in the same company if you can see that dangling promotion carrot. If you're an offshore employee (even if you work for the, e.g., Elbonian subsidiary of the US company), you know you don't really have much opportunity to grow and get the cool projects or become part of management. You see your US teammates all growing and up, and you know that by staying outside you won't. So after you get experience, you find a way to either be transferred to the US within the company (which is great since L1 visas are cooler) or show your nice shiny new resume to the other employers who may want to sponsor you, now that you have experience working for Path-E-Tech Corporation.
You can see the ratio here: https://www.bts.gov/content/us-vehicle-miles. Breaks down car miles vs train miles.

I hope the third option is a bit more of just trying to take the situation in. This is someone sharing their experience, the executives running the show have their perspective as well. I'm not sure why we have to jump so quickly to "I found data that refutes this, is this person lying or is the data wrong?". Just seems to leave out so much nuance. Feels like a very tech industry "see the data and make a decision". This situation is so human, it's about fear and whether those fears are being considered.
What the above commenter means, is that in the EU (and many countries across the world) if a price tag says €10, you pay exactly €10. In the US, if the price tag says $10, you may end up paying $12 or something random amount on top of the signed price, because it doesn't include taxes, which makes shopping extremely inconvenient compared to taxes-included price tags.