skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My analysis is that the problem is "tech debt is bad". Just like real debt, there are times when you sign your name to it on purpose because it's a good decision. For example, early on in a project when the requirements are fuzzy and undiscovered.

Like financial debt, you pay interest on tech debt, so you do want to strategically pay it down when the stars align, maybe you've recently put out some new features, and you can buy the political capital with customers (and by extension, management).

Debt isn't a bad analogy but an appreciation for the nuance would be nice, I don't commonly see that.
Would I have to implement this myself, or is there something ready to run?
Here it is - the community repo: https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/little-worlds
I don't think the parent was advocating for checking for nil before/after each function, but rather noting that this option pattern doesn't buy you any more type safety in Go because there's nothing enforcing you to check appropriately any more than there is for a pointer.

The salient rebuttal is that this pattern is a strong hint to check, whereas a pointer is ambiguous (it's unclear whether or not a bare pointer may ever be nil, but you would only use this pattern to be explicit that a check is needed). This pattern can also support value types so you don't have to worry as much about unnecessary allocations.
The big thing I’m noticing over DALL-E is that it seems to be better at relative positioning. In a MKBHD video about DALLE it would get the elements but not always in the right order. I know google curated some specific images but it seems to be doing a better job there.
To those who are interviewing these days for a leadership position, the article has details for answering questions related to managing conflicting\multiple priorities
This sort of wokeness is actually dangerous. 99% of the cases in the US have been linked to gay sex. In europe its been linked to a couple of raves involving the participants having gay sex. Its ok for health authorities and people to say "hey there does not seem to be a need to panic as we have identified the infection vector and its gay sex". It calms the general population and it arms the gay community with the knowledge that this disease is currently a risk for them. Why lie about the numbers in order to not hurt peoples feeling and expose people to real bodily harm? I am a relatively left leaning person but this constant insistence of altering the narrative to make people feel better is inane.
Email systems usually have a setting for timezone which was likely set once when you created the account. Gmail has this for example.
Interesting discovery they made

> We show that scaling the pretrained text encoder size is more important than scaling the diffusion model size.

There seems to be an unexpected level of synergy between text and vision models. Can't wait to see what video and audio modalities will add to the mix.
Though the free calls come at the cost of a 55-inch revolving advertisement outside my door and around every corner. I wish very often for the "humble" option to return.
and in europe its been traced to two gay raves.
Perhaps "ignoring" means refusing to entertain it even for the sake of argument.

Bodily autonomy is probably a weak argument, because it assumes that the fetus isn't a living human being deserving of the same protections against slaughter that you and I enjoy.

If it is, bodily autonomy doesn't justify murder.

If it's not, then protecting it from abortion is absurd.

In neither case though, is bodily autonomy a compelling argument.
Writing is photography with a pen
You think so? I'm very high on the Kool-Aid, image generation and text transformation models are core parts of my workflow. (Midjourney, GPT-3)

It's still an unruly 7 year old at best. Results need to be verified. Prompt engineering and a sense of creativity are core competencies.
Okay. Enjoy your alternate reality.
The ironic part is that these "social and cultural biases" are purely from a Western, American lens. The people writing that paragraph are completely oblivious to the idea that there could be other cultures other than the Western American one. In attempting to prevent "encoding of social and cultural biases" they have encoded such biases themselves into their own research.
You don't need the extra VC money, but often financing can get you to the point of addressing a far larger market far sooner. IF (big "IF") that more rapid growth is critical in your market segment, such as to obtain a better defensible moat by having far larger market share sooner, then VC can be a very good tradeoff. But if that is not your market dynamics, maintaining your freedom and growing organically can be best.
It depends. The author should also have the Right to be forgotten, which applies to some jurisdictions, specially in this situation that the matter may have not been set.

But I still disagree with you not respecting the author's implicit wish. For instance, thanks to the various similar links like the one you just sent, I can pin-point exactly who the person in question is. How can you guarantee the information will not be used against the person? I'm not sure if this is on your ethical framework to consider, but that's where I see the fundamental disagreement.

You could have privately read the text (because you know how to access it), while not posting the text per-se here, and you could even comment something insightful about it. It is more about the anthropological aspect of it, the respect of privacy, not about the technical aspects of the public town-square that the Internet is.

Clearly the author did not know any of these either, nor about what a PhD actually entails. But still, these are mistakes that can be part of someone's life.
Restating your claim is not an argument.
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similar experience with an applied quantum computing course in my own program
I give it a few years before Google makes stock images irrelevant.
They do say this -- often. But, efforts to tax them always end up mostly targeting the rank of people below them on the hierarchy. The Davos set have enough wealth and power to be able to avoid all the taxes -- but the up-and-comers who would replace them generally don't.
Agreed. I think being able to predict what is likely to change is heavily dependent on knowing the business domain well since that is going to be the driver of change. I think it is a specific application of curiosity. It's also a matter of being forward thinking in general. I think both are skills one can foster and can apply more generally.
I am claiming that institutions made counterintuitive claims (e.g., seeing only masked faces will not delay babies' speech development) based on no evidence. These claims were made to shore up support for various pandemic response policies, including masking, lockdowns, and remote schooling but have turned out to be false.
FUCKYY whomever downvoted me
This is super cool and I want to play with it.
Pages without a large visible (z index) canvas don't need this info.
I am biased but I think the US approach is much better. You start the MS and PhD at the same time. You get real research experience during the first two years, while also doing coursework: if things don't work out, you have an off-ramp in getting a terminal MS (usually for no financial cost.)

If you keep going, then ideally you have a good sense of what research you want to do. You may have one or more publications/near-publications under your belt. Now you write your proposal and finish out the dissertation over the course of 2-3 years, which is realistic. I may be missing something about the UK approach but this seems much more reasonable to me.
Honestly, he lost me pretty quickly when he was complaining that a competitor was checking them out and asking them questions and figuring out how they worked. Seems like a smart move from any company, if you have competitors check them out. Learn from them and build better than what they have. Not knowing your competitors seems like a foolish move.

Later on he talks about the tag line being the same. If you both have the same features and benefits then the tagline is going to be similar.

The job posts were super obiviously copied. But they talk of copied terms and blog posts. Which seems super odd. Having your legal docs from a source other than a lawyer seems super likely to cause legal disputes you lose. And I couldn't even find a blog on pebbles.us.
Considering that people are generally imperfect in assuming the underlying emotion of others based on their actions, I find these sorts of studies highly suspect. You can't equate animal activity to human emotion equivalents.
What makes you think the authors are all American?
That's probably why rational and open discussion works best with people you know and trust and not necessarily with random people on the internet - at least when the stakes are high.
I want to know what kind of contracts people entered into before this where they thought they were being abused by a big corporation?

This seems like a noble endeavor, but not an entirely practical one. Both sides of a transaction have to agree to these smart contracts, so where is this an advantage (outside of internal crypto trading)?
> pandemics... between 1920s and 2020s

1956-58, 1968, 1981- ...
Short Getty images?
Different take on my sibling commenter:
When VC has the choice to invest in two startups.
Both on par, the one is already profitable, the other burning money, which company to invest in seems clear…
Every deal is independent.

In short: no, going forward it makes the same amount of sense as it did yesterday and also 10 years ago. Prevailing market forces aren't what makes a good investment.
The funny thing is, based on the architecture of these types of systems, they aren't the operators. Arguably the miners are the operators, otherwise only the users are the operators.
> And the Arduino codebase could use a healthy refactoring.

So could Nim's stdlib and compiler backend, but the leaders have no intention of doing that, and never have, which is why there is a hard fork.
Does it do partial image reconstruction like DALL-E2? Where you cut out part of an existing image and the neural network can fill it back in.

I believe this type of content generation will be the next big thing or at least one of them. But people will want some customization to make their pictures “unique” and fix AI’s lack of creativity and other various shortcomings. Plus edit out the remaining lapses in logic/object separation (which there are some even in the given examples).

Still, being able to create arbitrary stock photos is really useful and i bet these will flood small / low-budget projects
Great idea. This would be dramatically lighter weight in terms of client download and more performant. I believe color variation logic could also be offloaded to a fragment shader.
But if they have no means to support them then they will.

and as a result you traumatize everyone in that family for life.

So because they aren't receiving any financial assistance for shelter, food, and clothing then they will rely on having a partner. We have now incentivized that type of behavior.

no, you haven't.

how do you think this works? all you are doing is forcing people to stay in relationships that are not healthy. do you think people separate because they got bored? they separate because they can't support each other. but you are forcing them to stay together, which creates environments ripe for abuse.

Adopted kids do great.

you were talking about an institution. and where are you going to find all these adoptive parents?
already now there are not enough of those.

we incentivize them to create a supportive environment

that's not what i meant by a supportive environment.

a supportive environment is a community that helps families who can't make it on their own.

We will teach them how. They will be so removed from their environment of shattering poverty, drugs, abuse, etc.

they will also be removed from the love of their parents, which is the most important thing that they need.

Or we can continue to double down on the same bad ideas we've been trying for the last 60 or 70 years

we could also look at how other countries do it, and listen to people and learn what they actually need to make this work for them.

The main difference is I'm actually trying to help the kids.

and i am trying to help the parents. so that they can actually take care of their kids themselves.
Thank you in turn, I hope you find something soon!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_relativism
That's really not quite true. There are thousands of lecturers in the UC system, and many thousands more where it is a career choice. Because tenure track is simply just not possible at many places, especially if you want to teach and do not want to do, or do not have a research background. The UC system especially has a career progression for lecturers, though it is somewhat challenging to make it through.
OpenAi really thought they had done something with DALL-E, then Google's all "hold my beer".
Transformers are parallelize-able, right? What’s stopping a large group of people from pooling their compute power together and working towards something like this? IIRC there were some crypto projects a while back that we’re trying to create something similar (golem?)
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> He quoted Altman, who apparently ran some rudimentary data analysis based on his own emails while working at Y Combinator.

... which would mean "Fast responses to email from YC Partners was just cited as a key factor in founder success" ...
This is a silly take. The "true" cost of an employee is _always_ higher than their salary. Often by 50-100%.

Your argument here is like saying the minimum wage needn't be increased because the "true" cost of an employee is already $15/hr. They should be grateful for those administrative costs! And doubly so that we don't tax them!

TFA is literally about the take-home cash.
Are you serious? Is your argument that large groups of homosexual men don't engage in risky sex with multiple people or that we just shouldn't mention it? Because Monkey Pox doesn't care either way. The disease has been linked to gay men having sex with each other in 2 continents, why deny this? Why not amplify it so the population at large can avoid a panic and the affected community can arm themselves with this knowledge and take precautions?
It's generally useful, not just in SQL. Any time you have a type that could be multiple things, you have to choose between a reference-based implementation (e.g., interfaces) or a tagged struct (a struct with a flag field that tells you what its runtime type). The tagged struct version is guaranteed not to allocate, while the interface version very likely will. Most of the time it will only matter if you're in a tight loop.
I agree it's far from perfect, but I'll happily take the hivemind over SEO spam, especially if I know very little to begin with.

Anything "non banal" and I'm more likely to go read a book or consult a professional. Tradesmen on reddit don't owe me answers for my hard to google DIY question.

It is frustrating navigating the sea of people who want to help but are also just googling, but you get an eye for that after a while.
Is it more secure to run Lambda functions inside a VPC?
OED: "The state or fact of being mentally conscious or aware of anything" ( (https://www.oed.com/oed2/00047729, #3).

This jives more with my intuition that a toddler is conscious, even if they aren't really aware of themselves as a perceiving entity (aside, I wonder if such self-awareness is even binary or more continuous). And given this framing, it's very reasonable to ask whether insects may be conscious.
Is it? Or is taking a penny allowed, but not taking all the pennies (which feels more code-is-lawish...)
This looks like a list of 100 motivated reasons to not go to graduate school.

For example, Reason 74: Academic conferences. Really?? Academic conferences are the best part about grad school! They're held in beautiful locations, you get to meet all kinds of smart and amazing people, spend all week steeped in your favorite research topic, and best of all it's all expenses paid by your project.

The author's main complaint seems to be that the audience
doesn't pay close enough attention at session presentations... okay? That doesn't seem like a reason not to go to grad school. A lot of these seem like they could be reframed as reasons to go to gradschool, actually.
I've had really great success from engaging with the Locally Optimistic Slack community.

Also, Cristophe Blefari has an excellent data newsletter. https://www.blef.fr/

And Modern Data Stack has a newsletter, tool information, Q&A www.moderndatastack.xyz
Translation: we need to hand-tune this to not reflect reality but instead the world as we (Caucasian/Asian male American woke upper-middle class San Fransisco engineers) wish it to be.

Maybe that's a nice thing, I wouldn't say their values are wrong but let's call a spade a spade.
It may just be me. But I see this too (as well as 504 gateway timeouts), sitewide at least for en.wikipedia.org. I reported my issue to https://downdetector.com/status/wikipedia/ but we shall see if it's just all in my head.

EDIT: 2022-05-23 17:53 EST - she's back for me, Jim.
Billionaires need to be taxed more, not just millionaires. Therein lies the rub.
> From a startup engineer's POV this is a non issue - a 18-24 month tenure is pretty standard.

This assumes there's another job waiting for you at the end of it. Raises and job offers remaining plentiful at the same time funding is drying up would require quite specific circumstances to continue - namely, that none of the companies driving today's offers depended on cheap money to get to where they are. If a substantial group of them did, there may not be much of a next round.

That said, a lot of what we see right now appears to just be crowd-following, a lot of what really happens will depend on if businesses see substantial customer exits, not just funding tightening. But if, say, there's a big enough startup crunch to hit AWS's bottom line in such a large way that they start laying people off, suddenly you can start seeing potential feedback loops pushing salaries down and difficulty of finding a job up.
Not everything can be bootstrapped. Hardware is the obvious example.
The big labs have become very sensitive with large model releases. It's too easy to make them generate bad PR, to the point of not releasing almost any of them. Flamingo was also a pretty great vison-language model that wasn't released, not even in a demo. PaLM is supposedly better than GPT-3 but closed off. It will probably take a year for open source models to appear.
Rolling this into Google Docs seems like a nobrainer.
This looks incredible but I do notice that all the images are of a similar theme. Specifically there are no human figures.
Would be fascinated to see the DALL-E output for the same prompts as the ones used in this paper. If you've got DALL-E access and can try a few, please put links as replies!
Is there a way to try this out? DALL-E2 also had amazing demos but the limitations became apparent once real people had a chance to run their own queries.
It seems you've got it backwards: "tendency for images portraying different professions to align with Western gender stereotypes" means that they are calling out their own work precisely because it is skewed in the direction of Western American biases.
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I was hoping your conclusion wasn't going to be this as I was reading that quote. But, sadly, this is HN.
Mycroft's new Mimic 3 TTS engine can run locally on a Raspberry Pi and sounds surprisingly good.

https://mycroftai.github.io/mimic3-voices/
Many pre-modern apprentices never became journeymen and even fewer a master.

In 17th century Leiden, 40% of surgeons' apprentices dropped out. In Utrecht's Coopers' Guild, only about 10% of apprentices became Masters.

On the other hand, getting rid of the guilds in the 1820s and replacing it with less formalized vocational training during industrialization didn't change the system for better:

>A lengthy contribution in the journal of the Dutch Society to Advance Industry in 1891 criticised the condition of Dutch training in detail: ‘Nowadays boys leave one boss after the other for the greatest triviality . . .. The boss continuously fears that the boy will leave him to use his acquired skills with another boss. Bosses therefore slow down training by putting boys to work at specialised repetitive tasks, so that they bring in the highest profits.’

https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/391011
And it's back online...
503 in the UK as well. Not good. This might be a helpful alternative: https://www.openzim.org/wiki/OpenZIM
I can't even begin to imagine the sheer power of an M2 chip built into this thing.
Why are Monkeypox cases suddenly emerging and could the virus have mutated?
Nice to see another company making progress in the area. I'd love to see more examples of different artistic styles though, my favorite DALL-E images are the ones that look like drawings.
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I'm experiencing the same.
>He used logic endogenous to the contracts, with no exogenous control of the systems running the contracts

The same description can be said for using XSS to steal someone's cookies. XSS doesn't escape the JavaScript virtual machine similar to how you aren't escaping Ethereum's virtual machine. Technically the code allows you to inject arbitrary JavaScript, but that behaviour wasn't intend to be possible by the designers of the site.
Yes, the posted results are really good, but since we can't play with it we don't know how much cherry picking has been done.
Is the source in public domain already?
Only if you want it to.

#[derive(Default)]
struct Foo {
…
}

struct Bar {
…
}

fn do_something(foo: Foo) -> Bar {
# do something with Foo and return a Bar
…
}

fn main() {
let opt_foo: Option<Foo> = None;

// panics
let foo: Foo = opt_foo.unwrap();

// panics, but with an error message of your choosing
let foo: Foo = opt_foo.expect("foo was supposed to be there");

// converts the Option (Some or None) to a Result (Ok or Err,
// where Err can contain an error type or message and then passed
// around or returned or whatever)
let foo: Result<Foo> = opt_foo.ok_or("foo was supposed to be there");

// replaces it with a value of your choosing if it's not there
let foo: Foo = opt_foo.unwrap_or(Foo { … });

// replaces it with the default value the type defines
let foo: Foo = opt_foo.unwrap_or_default();

// keeps it as `None`, or if it's actually something then
// replaces the internal contents with the result of the
// function call
let bar: Option<Bar> = opt_foo.map(do_something);

// does arbitrary logic in the match arm if foo is there
match opt_foo {
Some(foo) => { do something with foo },
None => { do something else },
}
}

There are a few dozen other things you can do with an Option that handle the rarer use-cases, but the above are like 95%+ of what you want.
OpenAI*
That was fast :)
> If did have an owner, that person is probably violating all sorts of securities laws in countless jurisdictions.

That's probably what upsets me most about this story. These developers want to have it both ways: it is decentralized finance and nobody owns the contract as long as we are making money, but we want all the laws and regulations of traditional finance to protect us if things don't go our way.

I am saying this as someone who is pro-crypto. There are trade-offs to this technology. We need to pick a lane be prepared to deal with the consequences.
Totally—Imagen seems better at composition and relative positioning and text, while DALL-E seems better at lighting, backgrounds, and general artistry.