skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of these AI findings are cool in theory. But until its accessible to some decent amount of people/customers - its basically useless fluff.

You can tell me those pictures are generated by an AI and I might believe it, but until real people can actually test it... it's easy enough to fake. This page isn't even the remotest bit legit by the URL, It looks nicely put together and that's about it. Could have easily put together this with a graphic designer to fake it.

Let be clear, I'm not actually saying it's fake. Just that all of these new "cool" things are more or less theoretical if nothing is getting released.
Something like:
"This web site is requesting access to 3D acceleration. This is required for fancy 3D graphics, but can also give the web site more information about your computer than it would otherwise, which may be used to track you, so only say yes if you are expecting fancy 3D graphics and you trust this web site" seems usable?
>I mean, you were being a bit condescending? You're also quite wrong, in that you define "friendship" in a very strict way that doesn't comport with how I use the term.

If we're diving to /. depth here (as you seem to want to do), I'll go with it.

There (see above). FTFY.
I think your two points about Xdebug and PHP naming conventions aren't a fair lense on PHP as a whole. Seems that they're framed around how wordpress uses PHP (poorly) for some of the more basic abstractions.

You aren't likely to find those issues in any modern PHP Framework out the box.
OP here. We had a lot of discussion about where Tech Debt falls on the spectrum of projects to work on. That merits its own post. But the gist of it is that resolving tech debt has value. The challenge is that most engineering organizations are awful at describing and communicating that value.

For example: "If we refactor this code and migrate to a new server, we'll be able to deploy in 15 minutes instead of 6 hours, and we'll be able to ship features faster to customers with lower risk. This means that we'll get back ~90h of engineering time per week (6 hours x 5 people x 3 teams), and our defect rate will go down by 50% (We see 10% of customers churn due to preventable defects).. Therefore, there is $702,000 savings in engineering efficiency (more time available) and would decrease churn by 10%, resulting in [X] more value retained."

Once our engineering team started thinking about the business case for why tech debt should be prioritized, they started to make really compelling arguments for why something needed to be worked on, and we could evaluate it against explicit business/feature requests. This value rolled up into the form of decreasing costs or increasing revenue.

Again: resolving tech debt has value, and the engineering leadership needs to work on figuring out what that value is and how it stacks up against all of the other valuable work that the company wants to do to grow. Engineering leaders who don't understand this often struggle at the executive level and ultimately fail the teams they represent.
If you read the thread, it's not copying, as in building another company with the same premise (like Chipotle and QDoba, or Uber vs Lyft). It's copying, as in replicating the same pitch materials, marketing copy, app flows, terms & conditions, job descriptions, etc.

Honestly, If Bromberg's being 100% about this, it's bizarre. Most engineers I know have so many ideas of their own that aping someone else's whole company without any creative interpretation would feel really miserable. What's their endgame, hire the Eco team and have them continue to generate original ideas?
The "unprofessional" results are almost exclusively black women; the "professional" ones are almost exclusively white or light skinned.

Unless you think white women are immune to unprofessional hairstyles, and black women incapable of them, there's a race problem illustrated here even if you think the hairstyles illustrated are fairly categorized.
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> it feels like there should be a sub-field of “sociology” set on improving the efficiency groups of humans

Yes there is. Its called organisational behaviour. Most b-schools have some faculty specialising in it. Cornell,I think, has a whole department in the school of Industrial and Labor Relations. They’re pretty good.
Or rolling this into Google Image Search to create images that match users' search queries on the fly.

Don't like any of the results from the real web? Well how about these we created just for you.
I use Julia as my main programming language and I learned so much from reading this. I never knew Julia had Base.llvmcall, good to know!

Just goes to show how important it can be to read code in completely different fields than the one you're working in. Some problems are common for others so they've already been solved. Knowing that a solution exists is half the battle.
Any activity that is completely divorced from your extant life stressors and that requires all of your focus for a limited time frame would probably also qualify.

Weightlifting requires focusing on moving heavy things. It's hard to worry about your taxes or your job while you're pushing a significant portion of your body weight away from your face.

That gives you a break from the things that chronically stress you out, by replacing it with a transient acute stress.

That will definitely help your overall stress levels decrease. Plus improving your mood, your aesthetics, and your health all work together to give you more tools to improve your life outlook with.
I keep a mental list of things that are claimed to have won WW2. Some of them are radar, cryptography, oil, the atomic bomb, industrial production, economic power, Colossus, the Eastern front, hydroelectric power, air power, and rubber. (I'm sure I'm forgetting lots.) My conclusion is that you can pick just about anything and explain how it won the war.
If you do a promotion for giving away free food, and your smart contract accidentally allows someone to get a free sandwich every minute instead of once a day, is it so obvious that someone using your promotion more than once a day is "stealing"?

Ever use a different email address to sign up for a different free trial, say? Let alone people sharing Netflix accounts... where do you draw the line around "stealing" here?
Looks like no, "The potential risks of misuse raise concerns regarding responsible open-sourcing of code and demos. At this time we have decided not to release code or a public demo. In future work we will explore a framework for responsible externalization that balances the value of external auditing with the risks of unrestricted open-access."
I did note your ":)", and I agree that compared to a total of 63kb, a 23kb addition can be quite large, but search is too important a feature, and I think it will be worthwhile.

Thank you to the GP for the suggestion to use https://fusejs.io

I wasn't aware that it's easy to implement one's own search engine.
Sorry, I should make it clear - it is very very absurd. Can't edit comments after some time sadly.
Translation: AI has the potential to transform society. When we release this model to the public it will be used in ways we haven’t anticipated. We know the model has bias and we need more time to consider releasing this to the public out of concerns that this transformative technology further perpetuate mistakes that we’ve made in our recent past.
I learned about the history of the space (between words) recently. It is such an integral thing nowadays, but it was not obvious before it existed.
The YouTube video linked in that post (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGHbOckpifw) is probably the most hilarious thing I'll see this week. Thank you for sharing that.

Also is Zuckerberg for real? Half of those snippets look like it is a NPC from from a game. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
also agree, great content well complemented by their product. well done to the team, it is a fine balance.
This interview with him is interesting. Seems most of his colleagues are not changing their views.
https://twitter.com/BBCSteveR/status/1528805745738801152
There's a huge amount of unused housing supply that's already built in the form of large single family homes that can't be split up into duplexes due to zoning or by-laws.

You might need some plumbing for a second kitchen, installing a new front door, or perhaps putting up a wall or two.

> Because, fact is, nobody wants to give up their single family home that's been appreciating

Critically this solution would be a win-win for a lot of existing homeowners.

There's a lot of people at retirement age whose kids have left the nest who'd happily go for turning their house into a duplex, but the bureaucracy isn't giving them that option.

They might not want to "move", but would happily give up half their living space for extra retirement money.

There's a lot of ways to dramatically increase the housing supply practically overnight.
why? it doesn't matter. that'll will only get you so far, as you scale, you'll still run into synchronization contention.

Maybe going from 16 to 64 threads you'll get some nice wins, but so what? What are you going to do when you need to double the number of threads again?
> Prompt engineering and a sense of creativity are core competencies.

It's funny that people are also prompting each other. Parents, friends, teachers, doctors, priests, politicians, managers and marketers are all prompting (advising) us to trigger desired behaviour. Powerful stuff - having a large model and knowing how to prompt it.
The difference is that the ATM provider did not explicitly promise that the “code is law” which directly implies that they want to and aggressively argue that they are waiving their legal recourse as long as they were valid user inputs.

In contrast, basically nobody outside of the blockchain space would waive their legal recourse in such a manner and thus would have legal recourse if the intent of their system was bypassed.

To go on to then argue that a legal system should not allow one to waive those rights as it would be idiotic to do so is a perfectly valid legal/moral/justice position, but also directly contradicts basically the entire purported value proposition of everything in the blockchain space whose primary “positive” differentiating factor is that “code is law” and they have waived those rights. To not allow them to do so basically invalidates their entire purpose.

Essentially, either let people bind themselves to “code is law” and suffer the consequence of their choice, or ban it at which point you lose decentralized trust and censorship-resistance making them no different than traditional implementations except that they are slower with higher operational costs.
> big corp offered them a nice position in their innovation branch with much more freedom (and financial security) to work on their favourite problem

I'm going to pick on Timnit Gebru, or at least what became more obvious with that debacle. Both the directional freedom and financial security are there, but part of your job is PR, and you don't have the same freedom a professor with tenure gets. If you have a paper that is critical of your employer or they don't like it for any reason, they can kill it. That's the deal.
It seems like the PhD admission process is mismatched with the goal of admission. Phd students are recruited based on application rather than research interest. A candidate can easily go to an are which they have zero interest in.

Why not match students with professors pre admission? Phd from mit doesn’t mean much if you can’t work in your chosen field.
In this case it's likely mostly paranoia - but level 3 card data I assume by now is every single major retailer in the US. This would include CVS and Walgreens, as well as Target, Walmart, etc. In that case an insurer could trivially get this data simply by a common data subscription available on the market. Not sure if HIPPA would cover retail (OTC) sales at all, I'd guess not?

In any case, I consider pretty much any credit card transaction I do with a major company as 100% public information down to the SKU and qty purchased.

More likely here though is that this is a controlled substance treated like Pseudoephedrine is. There your ID must be scanned, and it is enrolled in a national database. This is a federal statute and I would be stunned if insurance didn't mine this information.
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As always the root of most disagreement is actually not disagreement about the issue itself but the terms we’re using to discuss it. I think we have a word for your definition and it’s awareness. Perception might also do. If we say consciousness is the same also, then we have a pileup of three words all for basically the same thing, and no word for the strong sense of self awareness and internal reflection I prefer.

I would be absolutely fine accepting your definition of consciousness, as long as we have a clear widely accepted unambiguous term specifically for awareness of your own mental state and thought processes. IMHO we need a term for that, and that’s actually the interesting subject.

I think toddlers are conscious in the strong sense I prefer, based on my discussions with my own children when they were toddlers, as I was interested in this question at the time.
Annotated tags are a good idea, they also happen to be a requirement when signing tags. You can create empty message signed annotated tags with `git tag -sm "" v123-my-signed-tag`.

I once made a blog post / video around signing and verifying your commits and tags at: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/signing-and-verifying-git-com...
The largest models which generate the headline benchmarks are never released after any number of years, it seems.

Very difficult to replicate results.
You can delete a random commit, but if anyone references it transitively, it'll immediately detect that breakage. E.g. you can't modify or remove commits "in the past" on your main branch. And "moving" a commit creates a new commit, with a different sha.

Tags do not do that. Moving or removing a tag retains no history about the move, nor is the old value left hanging around somewhere (after pruning), nor will anyone who had not yet pulled the tag notice the removal, as with branches. Most configs will complain about the tag disappearing or moving, as with branches, but that depends on your config and the command you ran.

(annotated tags do have their own sha and creation date and whatnot, which is great, but next to nothing references them. and removing them from a commit leaves no evidence that it ever was on that commit, as the commit is unmodified)
I'd take one of these issues and start doing some research.

https://www.medifind.com/news/post/problems-us-healthcare-sy...

Then start researching that particular topic. Take something like Healthcare Billing, and all the issues with it:

https://www.collaboratemd.com/blog/the-top-10-challenges-ass...

Then you take one of those issues and see if you can find a problem worth fixing. Develop a program or application around solving that particular problem. I'd also start looking at attending healthcare conferences and focusing on that issue and going to see what industry people are complaining about and see if you can get more insight from them. Start networking with people at the conferences.

It wouldn't take long to get an inside track through networking and research to find a niche where you can build something that will really get a companies attention.
Interesting! Could you provide some more info? Seems to work on Safari on iOS and Mac for me.
It may be an interesting exercise to divide the non-teaching administrative budget by the number of students.
Depends on your lifestyle. If you spend all that money, it will be a problem. If you enjoy a bit of luxury while it lasts and save 50%+, you'll enjoy riding the wave and won't mind the inevitable crash as much.
What's the point of this? That article is so paywalled it only shows the same title as the post. It's literally not worth clicking the link.
improving on the c64 is obvious - better graphics, sound, RAM, chip speed, etc. etc.

"improving" on a food/drink is highly subjective. In fact, Coke tried it themselves, ending in the "New Coke" fiasco: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Coke
This is how I've thought about the issue, put much better than I could say it. We are conscious because we need to think like other people, and to do that we need to understand (as best we can) why we ourselves do what we do.

Interestingly this leads to consciousness as simply an awareness of our own mind, rather than necessarily being in control of it as most people believe. However, many studies provide evidence that our conscious mind is not the only or primary decision maker in our heads.
Compare the size of a raw image file to a raw music file, to get an idea of the complexity difference.
>They're already not working for the same money they could be getting in industry, now they also have to eschew prestige in their own communities, or else they're not driven by the pure intellectual pursuit of knowledge and science?

I think the common form of the complaint is that the prestige-generating mechanism has is too decoupled from the scientific advances.
Took a while, but email is sent - thanks again, and I hope shipping will work itself out!
Oh, interesting, indeed could have been php.
Certificate is expired, anyone have a mirror?
No use. Gullible people do not believe they are gullible.
Generating at 64x64px then upscaling it probably gives the model a substantial performance boost (training speed/convergence) than working at 256x256 or 1024x1024 like DALL-E 2. Perhaps that approach to AI-generated art is the future.
Tags in git allow just about the same naming options as branches, and "v" prefix is just a convention not a requirement. So rather than applying a tag v1.3.2 you could use a "folder structure" such as library1/v1.3.2 and library2/v3.1.2. Today I learned that you can use `git describe --match="library1/v*"` to get the version relative to just "library1" if you are versioning this way (in a monorepo, for instance).
I created a decorator for validating arguments for functions that are receiving arguments from user input. It eliminated _so much_ boilerplate code.

I use decorators quite a bit. The feature is incredibly powerful. Once you find @lru_cache, you start realizing how many ways you can take advantage of the feature.
I haven't looked at the entire dataset, but looking at the major schools that are close to me:

Expenses: 12M, 25M, 13M, 70M

Revenue: 6M, 30M, 13M, 44M

1/4 is making a slight profit. 1/4 is breaking even. 2/4 are making a major loss.

A Kennesaw State University (00157700 )| Total Enrollment: 27,300

B Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus | Total Enrollment: 14,476

C Georgia State University | Total Enrollment: 22,276

D University of Georgia | Total Enrollment: 27,877
You could do that in Go, but it's not what database/sql's API supports. You read columns out of each row with "row.Scan(&col1, &col2, ...)". The types of col1 and col2 are declared at compile time, and they don't have to be able to represent the concept of null. So there would be no way to store the state that represents that something was null.

You could of course have an API that just returns a slice of "any", and conditionally check whether a value is of type "string" or "mylibrary.NullValue" after the fact. This isn't clearly better to me than the Scan API. You are going to have to eventually cast "any" to a real type in order to use it; with Scan the library does that for you.

Your own types can implement sql.Scanner to control exactly how you want to handle something. (Indeed, your "Scan" method receives something with type "any", and you need to check what the type is and convert it to your internal representation.)

Also wanted to throw this out here; you don't have to be satisfied with lossy versions of your database's built in types. Libraries like https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/jackc/pgtype@v1.11.0 will give you a 1:1 mapping to Postgres's types. (I'm sure other database systems have similar libraries.)
> the risks of unrestricted open-access

What exactly is the risk?
Privately owned by the Getty family.
'Not to be confused with Wittgenstein's poker' https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittgenstein%27s_Poker
Which I found to be a great read of an awkward event but with a fascinating prologue in the form of a double biography of two influential intellectuals with a very similar life story but vastly different views on life.
It depends on whether you'd like the model to learn casual or correlative relationships.

If you want the model to understand what a "nurse" actually is, then it shouldn't be associated with female.

If you want the model to understand how the word "nurse" is usually used, without regard for what a "nurse" actually is, then associating it with female is fine.

The issue with a correlative model is that it can easily be self-reinforcing.
If your query was about hairstyle, why do you even look or care about the skin color ?

Nowhere there is any precision for a preferred skin color in the query of th user.

So it sorts and gives the most average examples based on the examples that were found on the internet.

Essentially answering the query "SELECT * FROM `non-professional hairstyles` ORDER BY score DESC LIMIT 10".

It's like if you search on Google "best place for wedding night".

You may get 3 places out of 10 in Santorini, Greece.

Yes you could have an human remove these biases because you feel that Sri Lanka is the best place for a wedding, but what if there is a consensus that Santorini is really the most appraised in the forums or websites that were crawled by Google ?
I think implementing this yourself is likely not doable unless you have the computing resources of a Google, Amazon or Facebook.
Interactive audio-book for Ukranian children, open-source, made with Svelte
it's... not that radical of an idea...
> it will be used in ways we haven’t anticipated

Oh yeah, as a woman who grew up in a Third World country, how an AI model generates images would have deeply affected my daily struggles! /s

It's kinda insulting that they think that this would be insulting. Like "Oh no I asked the model to draw a doctor and it drew a male doctor, I guess there's no point in me pursuing medical studies" ...
Except "reality" in this case is just their biased training set. E.g. There's more non-white doctors and nurses in the world than white ones, yet their model would likely show an image of white person when you type in "doctor".
> The US has a lot of legal policy that is based on spirit of the law

Yes, but that's a wrong and unfair way to define and apply laws.

> humans are imperfect

Smart contracts and "code is the law" mantra don't contradict this. You're imperfect and you commit a mistake, you lose. You find a mistake in someone else's code, you win.

This is much better than the current legal system where we are all collectively forced to adapt to, or even pay for, someone else's mistakes.
It's not a summary of what happened to google (as far as I can tell), but an example of what it's become.

I want to know what happened. What were the individual things that made sense in isolation, but added up to this steaming turd.
I'll be skeptical until I see it in action, vice pre-selected results.