skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This strikes me as a rather odd comparison to make.

4G serves an entire nation of cell phones, using generally similar wireless technology and limitations LEO satellite comms have. 4G towers are closer to the users than LEO satellites, meaning the power requirements are lower, this is a desirable thing for the people in terms of both battery life and radiation power levels.

5G takes it even further in this direction using more towers; shorter distances and lower power levels, AIUI.

Unless I'm utterly mistaken, LEO satellites are at a severe disadvantage when it comes to competing with the cell network for handheld mobile customers.

Satellite connectivity has its place, and it's basically where you won't have cell service, since that's obviously the preferable option if it's available.
I'd only add:

stay off social media
How does this differ from MAMP, other than the fact that MAMP is quite old at this point?
Some cutting-edge stuff is still being made by talented hackers using nothing but a rig of 8x 3090s: https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts

Other funding models are possible as well, in the grand scheme of things the price for these models is small enough.
Found the QA tester.
It is not hard to imagine that paying a settlement is cheaper than going to court to disprove false claims. Look at Johnny Depp right now. He's not the only one
It's hard to fathom how people can think software like Uber is not complex. I have to assume they've never worked in a large software company before.
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What's stopping you from coming up with a DIY solution? It would seem that the dish + the hardware are the hard part, the mount the easy part.

Well, for one, I'm not a satellite communications engineer. I don't know how to source or fabricate the materials to create a custom radome that's transparent at the frequencies needed, nor do I know the thermal emissions of the dish and whether or not any of it needs to be heat sinked or fan cooled.

Plus, I'd feel better with a commercial radome at 70mph on the roof than some home made enclosure I glued together myself.
I think that's unsurprising. With DALL-E 1, for example, scaling the VAE (the image model generating the actual pixels) hits very fast diminishing returns, and all your compute goes into the 'text encoder' generating the token sequence.

Particularly as you approach the point where the image quality itself is superb and people increasingly turn to attacking the semantics & control of the prompt to degrade the quality ("...The donkey is holding a rope on one end, the octopus is holding onto the other. The donkey holds the rope in its mouth. A cat is jumping over the rope..."). For that sort of thing, it's hard to see how simply beefing up the raw pixel-generating part will help much: if the input seed is incorrect and doesn't correctly encode a thumbnail sketch of how all these animals ought to be engaging in outdoors sports, there's nothing some low-level pixel-munging neurons can do to help much.
There are many places in the world that are beautiful, more or less in the countryside, yet have access to electricity and running water.

And hey, if your tech job is just typing along on your Macbook, you're actually not pretty high in energy usage! They're machines that can run on tiny batteries, after all. Same as a fridge, basically.

Dunno how much you can get out of RV solar panels on a good day though.
What is the AI dungeon incident?
I've always thought "little-endian is logical, big endian is backwards".

In LE, bit n has value 2^n and byte n has value 256^n. In BE, bit n has value 2^(k-n) and byte n has value 256^(k-n) where k is the maximum length; it causes increase of ordinal position to not correspond with increase in value, and makes it length-dependent.
The problem is that, were I inclined to do that, anything I would adjust to make it more true also makes it less relevant.

“There exists an ethical framework—not the Copenhagen interpretation —to which some minority of the population adheres in which trying and failing to a correct a problem incurs retroactive blame for the existence of the problem but seeing it and just saying ‘sucks, but not my problem’ does not,“ is probably true, but not very relevant.

It's logical for Google to avoid involvement with porn, and to be seen doing so, because even though porn is popular involvement with it is nevertheless politically unpopular, and Google’s business interest is in not making itself more attractive as a political punching bag. The popularity of Copenhagen ethics (or their distorted cousins) don't really play into it, just self interest.
> Except that's not at all what happened in Portugal (or in other European programs)...?

The Portugal narrative hasn't actually been as positive as initially reported by the Cato papers that were based on the first few years following the policy change. More recent data has shown an uptick of lifetime drug use and an increasing trend of drug deaths that doesn't really support the initially successful picture of their program.

One of the challenges with interpreting the Portugal data is that they had relatively low drug use to begin with. The initial declarations of victory for their decriminalization programs were based on relatively small numbers and sample sizes that wouldn't pass muster in more rigorous analysis.

I know the narrative about Portugal was set years ago by the Cato papers and a few authors, but it isn't really the success story that it's made out to be. It did, however, reduce the number of drug-related prosecutions, though that's an obvious downstream effect of removing a class of drug-related offenses.
"Yep" in what sense? The link refutes a "yep" answer. It shows one VC interested in funding them, and they answer to him:

"But we're a non-profit org with no share capital, making FOSS. So there's nothing to invest in :)"
They can absolutely do for it if they charge the public the cost of GPU time.
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Math.
I majored in psychology (very little math relative to STEM) and got into programming after graduating. After 5 years of working as an ML engineer (basically a lot of calculus and linear algebra) I decided to study more abstract math starting with proofs and discrete math. So many things started making sense at a deeper level and became easier. I think discrete math in particular since it’s very important in CS but just like playing an instrument, it just improves your thinking.
Hi, Author of the post here. Thank you for the great question!

The biggest cost comes from managing another namespace with a handful of deployments and pods. There's also all the sidecar containers that are taking up resources, even though not very many. This literally costs more, but maintenance has been minimal.
The pros outweighed the cons significantly and we saw faster responses and lower latency due to the intelligent load balancing. Our pods were being loaded unevenly so when Istio balanced this out our scaling worked better and led to much faster response times across the board.
So far we have not run into any new failure modes or other issues. Istio has been "set it and forget it" so far since we are using a pretty vanilla installation.
Thank you for the great question and I hope this provided some insight!
MacBook won't charge fully to save battery life
What's more difficult than a job that's absolutely soul draining and long hours for next to no pay?

It's difficult to become a software engineer, but the job is relatively easy. It's not hard to become QA, or a fruit picker, or meat packer, but those jobs are fucking hard.
The philosophical wishes of those protected under the law does not change the law.

What if someone wishes for full protection of the law and publicly asks for it beforehand, but then gets involved crypto/DeFi — would they then "deserve" the law's protections while others involved in crypto/DeFi do not?
Voluntarily taking it isn't such an issue. It's when the state imposes it (ie. 10 year sentence for a related crime OR take this vaccine and get out early) or the case of a parent getting their child to take it. Does a parent have a right to take away a child's ability to get high? Irreversibly and lasting into adulthood for said child? Even if it's "for their own good" and in the face of changing legal landscape where it may not be a criminalized activity in future like with cannabis?
This looks like perlre /x.
Writing design docs isn't a bad part of the SWE job.

> that doesn't mean you should make a union to do that.

Usually folks don't unionize until their work consistently fails to deliver good working conditions, so, yeah, in this case you do need to unionize to get that.
I read it as good natured humor - clearly dramatic. Just sharing my opinion, fwiw, I see how you might interpret it differently.
Please don't do this. You're doing a disfavour to all the hard work you've put into Joystick framework. Keep up the effort and try to be positive.
Yeah, at the time, GB was still very big on mixture-of-expert models and bidirectional models like T5. (I'm not too enthusiastic about the former, but the latter has been a great model family and even if not GPT-3, still awesome.) DeepMind pivoted faster than GB, based on Gopher's reported training date, and GB followed some time after. But definitely neither had their own GPT-3-scale dense Transformer when GPT-3 was published.
> shouldn't the math on that work out to nine women?

The average term being a round 40 weeks, a pregnancy “month” is 4 weeks by convention.
> actually they do but it's a trivial amount.

That depends on the type of battery. There are battery technologies that aren't closed systems (e.g. iron-air batteries are pure iron when charged, and iron oxide when discharged, pulling the oxygen from external air).
When learning next recently I was immediately wondering how to do accomplish certain routing patterns that I had used in a previous project… routing to a specific tab of a modal that pops over a particular page…

Luckily that level of deep linking hasn’t been asked for, but this sounds really promising for adding some flexibility
For top management, sure. For regular grade employees? No.
The AI ethics thing is just a PR larp at this point.

“Oh our tech is so dangerous and amazing it could turn the world upside down” yet we hand it to random Bluechecks on Twitter.

It’s just marketing
the main idea behind the language (TEA, for "the elm architecture") has caught on pretty well though, and can be found in a number of other frameworks.
"Shameless plug" We're all shilling something. Be proud of what you've made
> We could supply the entire country's heroin/fent supply for probably 1/1000 what the average street user is paying for their doses

Nonsense. It's not that cheap to manufacture (under regulated conditions) and distribute opioids like that. 1/1000th of the price? Even the cheapest, most easily manufactured commercial opioid medications aren't coming anywhere near that after decades of optimization the manufacturing processes.
Vaccines either produce side effects in 3-6 months or they don't.

There's no hidden time bomb in all the people who were vaccinated last year.

The FDA doesn't require long term safety studies for vaccines, and all the coronavirus vaccines have met the requirements. Nothing has been rushed.

We have a good understanding of this because the side effects are entirely dominated by autoimmune conditions, and we understand from the field of rheumatology how those arise.

We don't need to study pregnant women for another 5 years to see if any more babies pop out after the first one. Pregnancy is done in 9 months. Autoimmune side effects from vaccines happen in 3-6.
Not very frequently. I’d say I charged with ChaDeMo 2-3 a month max, and only if I was really in need. The chargers aren’t very common to begin with, so I can’t imagine many people using them daily.

For me it was a “drive into town, and back, and back in, and back” situation where I didn’t have the luxury of charging for hours at a time.
Fittingly, your comment fails into the same criticism I had of the model. It shows a refusal/inability to engage with the full complexities of the situation.

I said "It is reasonable... to avoid sharing models". That is an acknowledged that the creators are acting reasonably. It does not imply anything as extreme as "no model should be shared". The only way to get from A to B there is for you to assume that I think there is only one reasonable response and every other possible reaction is unreasonable. Doesn't that seem like a silly assumption?
> What I don't understand is how they do the composition

Convolutional filters lend themselves to rich combinatorics of compositions[1]: think of them as of context-dependent texture-atoms, repulsing and attracting over the variations of the local multi-dimensional context in the image. The composition is literally a convolutional transformation of local channels encoding related principal components of context.

Astronomical amounts of computations spent via training allow the network to form a lego-set of these texture-atoms in a general distribution of contexts.

At least this is my intuition for the nature of the convnets.

1. https://microscope.openai.com/models/contrastive_16x/image_b...
Bit-endianness is only relevant for serial transmission. You only have to worry about it in circumstances where you have hardware that assumes a different bit order than what you're communicating with. Otherwise, the internal layout of words is abstracted and you can ignore it.
Hahahahaha. Having worked in the industry for years, developing games is way easier than QAing them. It just requires a lot more initial training and skill development.

I was an engineer, and I don't think I ever saw anyone work harder for less reward than QA.
> And that was transmitting at or near the speed of light. Somehow, I doubt bouncing on a roundtrip to a satellite is worth it.

That's the thing, the speed of light in fiber is actually significantly slower than the speed of light through air, which itself is slightly slower than the speed of light through a vacuum.

Over long enough distances this adds up to the point that high frequency traders already have built radio relay networks between New York and Chicago. You can't easily build radio towers across oceans, but a satellite relay network that could follow a nearly line-of-sight path is almost the same thing.

Also fiber isn't run as the crow flies, sometimes it has to take a winding path which adds even more distance to the run than you might think, on top of the reduced speed of light.

If Starlink manages to get their satellite to satellite laser link tech working, which is a MASSIVE if, they're in a very good place.
If it's M1 with a slightly better GPU, then it should work out to be a smidge more powerful than a GTX 1060. In other words, it would be equivalent to the minimum-spec PCVR systems of 2014. Fairly imaginable, to me.
> dense/populated areas
Not even that. Verizon is so congested in a lot of areas that you can have a very strong signal but literally data just doesn't work.
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I wish that when two different fact-checkers disagreed with each other, there was a higher level calibration/arbitration process that could hear out both sides and find a consensus.

My intuition is that there are fact-checkers that focus on catching dubious claims made by people with right-wing perspectives, and fact-checkers that do the same for left-wing perspectives, but rarely do they take issue with each other's findings, so this process wouldn't need to be exercised that often.

A panel of experts chosen in proportion to the voting patterns and demographics of the relevant population would hopefully see no benefit in producing two contradictory reports, knowing that readers could easily compare the two and read expert counter-arguments that exposed any partisan bias.
Python doesn't have regex literals.
Have they told the contagions that?
> The government will be the same no matter who I vote for.

"Both sides"/"my vote doesn't count" fatalism is boring and unsupported by evidence. Australians just strongly voted their support of mitigating climate change, and it wouldn't have happened if millions of them thought like you.

> Voting is just a way to feel like you did something without any effort

So what's your solution? What's your alternative to voting?

We know the historical alternative: killing, dying, suffering, or (most likely) a combination of all of the above.

The dramatically lower instance of tyranny in post-democratic societies proves that you're wrong.

The irony here is that whining about the government is the ultimate "feeling like you're doing something without any effort".
Voice synthesis has been going steady. Lots of commercial and hobbyist interest: you can use 15.ai for crackerjack SaaS voice synthesis in a slick free UI; and if you want to run the models yourselves, Tortoise just released a FLOSS stack of remarkable quality.

Music, I'm afraid, appears stuck in the doldrums of small one-offs doing stuff like MIDI. Nothing like the breadth & quality of Jukebox has come out since it, even though it's super-obvious that there is a big overhang there and applying diffusion & other new methods would give you something like much like DALL-E 2 / Imagen for general music.
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What real product is there in web3 or defi? Explain without using abstract buzzwords and handwaving explanations.
His "0.8 is enough" idea is close to an observation I made a few years ago, that the Dunning-Kreuger effect seems to reflect an ideal breakpoint for social stratification.

People low on the curve drift towards evaluating themselves at ~0.75 (round to Knuth's 0.8), and those above that marker drift towards it as well.

So when we are actually around the 80th percentile of anything, we're in the sweet spot everyone else's self-image trends towards.

It makes sense too - we're very social beings, and being an outlier is inherently isolating.

To Knuth's example - if he were 100% happy all the time, that could actually cause more social integration issues than being mostly happy (80%). For example, "Congrats on the funeral, it looks awesome!"

Typically, good enough is perfect.
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This video[0] seems to disagree with this. In particular it seems like there's a lot of recurring costs involved and this infrastructure is not super stable (the video talks about satelites having a shelf life of 5 years. We're not rebuilding fiber out every 5 years!)

The videos "has an agenda" but it seems a bit easy to accept the idea that constantly launching satelites into space is pretty expensive. Infrastructure on the ground is expensive, but most people tend to not move around so at one point just building out lots of wires everywhere can work pretty well.

Having great coverage across the globe is great! But especially after seeing that (super crappy!) satelite internet providers getting the same shit done with 3 satelites.... you're looking at the intersection of people needing access to fast internet who can't somehow take advantage of existing infra, _and_ who won't eventually get covered by ground infra (and I guess don't have trees around their house).

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vuMzGhc1cg
Tbf, if it's not a lab-based PhD, you'll usually manage to work on the side. I know several people who were in full-time employment throughout pretty much their whole PhD (aided by supportive employers and sabbaticals). Even at (elite) universities that had explicit rules against it, and cases where the university and the jobs were in different countries. I even know one guy who did a lab-based engineering PhD and continued doing a bit of consulting work for his old employer. It's not even that uncommon among people with prior work experience and skills that fit well with consulting/freelance work. You'll see it on LinkedIn. Internships are also common in many disciplines like Math and CS, and good advisors can even help you get them (I know a prof who sends at least one grad student to intern at Google every year).

It's not advertised and usually not recommended, but it's definitely possible. The key is to find a supervisor who's fine with it, don't even bother asking the administrators.
3G/4G/5G are generations of protocols for cellular communication, they can run over many different physical frequencies.

Their standards committees agreed on certain bands of frequencies, some with more capacity than others.

I'm not an RF engineer, but given 5G can operate on frequencies higher and lower than 2.4Ghz, then I don't suppose there's any reason you couldn't if you were hacking up your own transmitters/receivers. A regular phone wouldn't, though, as they don't have 5G radios that can talk on those frequencies (or they've got hardware filters of some kind to ensure that they don't).
Want to cite sources?
It's obviously the....well could be....I don't know
I got off the waitlist and live in the bay area -- possibly im not doing something right or Starlink is extremely spotty; it gets "offline" most of the time and very rarely gets online so I can actually use it. After 4 months of unuse I canceled my the $99/mo subscription which is more than the internet I actually pay for

It's good for rural areas it seems.
It works great.
This might probably happen a few years down the line. But I’m curious, is there a compelling use-case for this?
Do people use a mono repo approach with different parts of the repo having different version numbers? The way I thought of it, the whole point of mono repo is not that.
The future of ai generated content and entertainment is going to be wild!

How long before we have ~unlimited high quality entertainment? Before an AI can generate infinite episodes of your favorite show, podcast, comedian, and so on.

Going to be an interesting thing to watch unfold.
Not all property is legal to be sold (see: drug possession vs distribution). Thus, it being illegal to sell children does not imply they are not property.
If I understand your question correctly, the search term that will bring the answers you seek is "labeled data" [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labeled_data
starlink aims for about 20ms of latency - its good enough for video calls or gaming.
At my brother's house in coastalMaine for example, there is marginal cell coverage (which is better than it used to be). But aside from downtime now and then--which is pretty good in my and his experience--I could actually work from there which I couldn't with cell.
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You'll gain massive adoption if you promote this as "Local development for Serverless".

</sarcasm>
Sometimes I think people who are writing these dumb articles are living in a parallel world. Nobody in real life would use these expressions, the word they are looking for is junkie or addict. Are they trying to sound fancy or what?
Why oh why does C# still not have sum types? It is by far the most useful feature still missing from C# and one of the key reasons why I prefer F# over C#.
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There are visible “alignment” issues in some of their examples still. The marble koala DJ in the paper doesn’t use several of the keywords.

They have an example “horse riding an astronaut” that no model produces a correct image for. It’d be interesting if models could explain themselves or print the caption they understand you as saying.