skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, and his example about bugs in the kitchen. Everything is edible and 'wild' or 'heirloom' and "contarra ccetnxniams luryca tanniounons" comes from the farmers talking about ... vegetables. So there's a definite interrelationship between the 'words' and the images.

I'm unconvinced by the rebuttal as well, not to say I am convinced we have a fully formal language going on here, but there's definitely some shared concepts with the generated text.

I wonder what imagen would come up with or if it's 'language' is more correlated to real language.
In practice most computer-based accounting packages only simulate the appearance of a double-entry bookkeeping system. In traditional double-entry bookkeeping one must manually enter the data for each transaction into multiple journals: a minimum of twice, or more than twice for split transactions. This is what allows the journals to be cross-checked for consistency. The reports produced by computer-based "double-entry" systems will always be consistent, however, because they're really just different views of the same set of multi-account transactions recorded in a general ledger rather than distinct single-sided transactions recorded in account-specific journals.

"General-ledger accounting" (for lack of a better term) is superior in terms of having a single source of truth, but not very practical for manual accounting since all the transactions are mixed together. The introduction of computers changed all that by making it easy to generate targeted reports from the general ledger.
“Digital Nomad” Visas Can Boost Local Economies
Yep! I was warned almost immediately and had good supervisors. It doesn’t change the fact that academia is built on wage theft, precious contracts and volatile sources of income. Don’t even get me started on the middle manager bullshit.
At least where I live almost all bakeries have added card payment as an option during the pandemic. So clearly it's financially feasible to at least some extent.
big tech companies are not and have never been far-left
> scarier from a mainstream business perspective

I wouldn't just say mainstream business perspective. Go's small surface area makes it a great language for a team with large turnover. What better example of that than open source, where contributors come in, contribute a change, and then leave.
Costa Rica May Be Pawn in Conti Ransomware Group’s Bid to Rebrand, Evade
Would just reduce incentive to build
> 3. If possible, take some time off between the old job and the new job just to take care of yourself.

This is almost always possible. Even if the recruiter pushes back, it's usually the easiest thing to negotiate.
https://archive.ph/20220531181502/https://www.nytimes.com/20...

fwiw the article is a NYT reporter interviewing another NYT reporter about "tech":

> I asked my colleague Erin Griffith, who reports on tech start-ups and venture capital, to assess the current moment of fear for technology.
This is terrifying, as I've transferred my domains to you some time ago.
But amazon has enough power, enough to win and lose, to be able to actually bring google and apple to court for that.
I would take a look at Wardley Mapping:
https://learnwardleymapping.com/

It's interesting because it attempts to capture domain knowledge isolated from a programming-centric view /metaphor which makes it challenge to discuss complex systems with staff other than programmers.
There is a culture of people in the US who hollow out Phillies cigars and roll blunts that have some tobacco in them.
I mean, everything is easy to predict in retrospect. :) Personally, I’m a bit surprised that it has learned any connection between the letters in the generated image and the prompt text at all. I had assumed (somewhat falsely it seems) that the gibberish means that the generator just thinks of text as a “pretty pattern” that it fills in without meaning. For example, a recent post on HN suggested that it likes the word “Bay”, simply because that appears so often on maps.
The entire premise of that thread is questionable. Sustainably managed rotaional grazing pasture fed beef is a grassland ecosystem, quite similar to what much of the United States looked like when buffalo roamed before european-heritage settlers.

Destroying forests to make pastures is environmentally destructive, but a large portion of our country can be utilized as pasture while maintaining an ecosystem not unlike how the land was before capitalism transformed it.
There is an explanation of what is going on; it might be incomplete, but your account has in some way been flagged for fraud or spam. Maybe someone else is abusing your account, or maybe you have a miss configuration causing this to trigger, but I'd reach out to a service rep.

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I've experienced a near opposite situation: there was a news story about cloudflare providing ddos protection for a number of websites including the site for "The Proud Boys" (if you haven't heard of them, they're an all male far right american political group fairly well known for their physical fights with various other groups). My client, who was often vocal about politics on their public CEO twitter account, made a statement that if Cloudflare did not end their contract with the proud boys and a couple other unsavory groups then he would find an alternative and move all his current and future projects away from them. So it quickly fell to me to move all his legacy properties off Cloudflare and close out their old account... and while they may have lost him as a future customer, after the pain of trying to find similar levels of service for a similar price I am now recommending Cloudflare to most of my clients over their competitors for ease of use and pricing.
baby bay-bay!
Completely false
Except a Java container running a simple REST server is going to be a few hundred megs, while a similar Go container will be around 10 megs most likely.

Which doesn't matter all that much until you're distributing an app made out of 10-20 such services...
> I never meant to claim [expected value] doesn't matter for "anything at all", just not for this envelope game.

When you say "this envelope game", I assume you are also including minor variations of this game?

If you mean specifically this exact envelope game, where the expected value for all actions is zero, then it is strictly true that it doesn't matter how we make decisions - using expected value or not - though it's not a particularly interesting point to make.

I will proceed assuming you mean also including minor variations of this game.

You wrote this earlier:

> That is, the probability is 1/2. That's all that matters to the decision making. Calculating an "expected value" at all is completely useless, whether or not you do it "correctly".

We can make a minor variation to the game such that the probability will still remain at 1/2, but the expected value for switching can be changed. We can make the minor variation such that it will be profitable to switch, or such that it will be unprofitable to switch. We can do this while the probability remains at 1/2. According to you the probability is all that matters, and it's useless to calculate the expected value for a game like this? This would lead to making unprofitable decisions in a game with a small variation as described above.
If you make them cheaper (government subsidy), the wait list grows even longer.

You can't magically create more cars out of thin air. Every EV manufacturer is currently running at capacity.
Conflict Free Replicated Programs
Just wondering, did any of these give you a Minority Report kind of vibe ?
Very cool, but the desktop app for chest CT doesn't work - you can open an image but nothing get diagnosed.
How is the algorithm differ from existing image classification algorithms?
Ugh, I spent an entire shower thinking about this before the method to decode popped into my head. Guess I'm not enough of one.
I prefer the Fairphone option.
This is really cool! I've wondered about exactly this same thing. Showing the valid solutions remaining would be really neat as well, because I'm really not sure how to interpret valid words remaining or when to use my undos in the current implementation. (If it's too computationally intensive, I would think you could memoize it across all users' games and that should make it feasible).

One other suggestion, is maybe the win condition shouldn't be exactly the same as in wordle. Instead of only allowing one game per day but using undos to make it easier, maybe allow 5 attempts per day instead? As a player I think it's simpler to be able to retry from the beginning if I lose rather than try to figure out the optimal time to use my undo.
>to proofread any text before it goes "live".

Not on the internet I use. Even the old school newspapers are failing basic grammar things that anyone calling themself an editor would catch. Mainly, because they are not getting edited at all. Reports get entered into a CMS, a publish button is pressed, viola, first to publish! Yay!!! Only, in the rush, basic grade school grammar is non-existent and makes my brain slow down, and decipher what was meant, and makes me no longer want to keep reading.
I’m a post doc now and it’s as far as I’m tolerating to go. The system is and I personally can have a much better life just not being in it. M
OPEC especially the Saudi could increase output and put an end to this stupidity. Instead they are trying to milk the world as much as possible. They’re not only going to cause the next recession but accelerate EV adoption. I don’t think they’re too smart which is not surprising considering that they’ve done absolutely nothing with all the money they’ve made from oil.

Edit: Note this is the same group of people who refused to LOWER production at the height of pandemic panic in hopes of killing the US energy sector.
it strongly depends on which org you're in, with an average of "boring, with a big steaming pile of bureaucracy" based on my observations spending five years at the seattle-based cloud org. if you had a good manager and skip-level stuff could be pretty alright, if you didn't god help you.
What happened to Val Kilmer? (2020)
Not feeling old yet?? ... next year is the 40th anniversary of PBS science TV show Newton's Apple, with Ira Flatow. (The one with the theme music 'borrowed' from Kraftwerk.)
Eye contact between musicians
Oak Ridge in particular is in DoE Office of Science. They do some national security work, but their primary focus is basic science. Some of the national labs do primarily do nuclear weapons related research, but not Oak Ridge. Frontier is only doing unclassified work, primarily basic science and engineering.
I went to a world class research University (an Ivy, top 15 in my field). The environment is still toxic, pay is low, and still very few got the professorships they sought.
Not particularly hip anymore, but "Higher Order Perl" was great fun and has a bit of that style both in the incremental construction and also a little bit in the writing style. But it's been over a decade since I last picked it up.
Good point, but fraud and theft are different than being unpleasant or cruel.
That was great to watch.

I felt very nostalgic throughout the whole thing, remembering playing this on my PC. Only qbert himself didn't look exactly familiar. I couldn't find in Wikipedia any mention of the PC port. After some digging, turns out I never played qbert but j-bird. I remembered liking the game sound, I guess the sound of j-bird has nothing to do with the original.

j-bird: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWn-XCx7W6A
You need decent public transport and bikable settlement structures. EVs are only gradually more sustainable than traditinal cars and still lead to uninhabitable cities.
What you are describing is very similar to Matrix or Scuttlebutt. Indeed there is no reason for it to have proof-of-work or proof-of-anything to share blogs and comments.
The newton sucked. No offence but it was the size of a large book, washed out green and grey screen, etc.
> At one point they brought in a relatively large team of contractors to work day and night on a critical, time-sensitive project.

To me that is a huge red sign that something is seriously wrong with the company. Bringing in a bunch of new people and having them work long hours does not seem conducive to good code.
Hard agree.

History is littered with dead startups that designed for scale before they had enough usage to justify it. Within reason, having users knock your site over resulting in failures like the Twitter Fail Whale is a good problem to have.

With that said, you need to be prepared to scale up quickly once you have this problem. There's a reason Facebook counts its users in the billions, and Friendster is a footnote in internet history.
Although each of those companies is made up of 5 to 50 mini-companies, each with more business units/products/services. You have to understand which of them you're selling to, what they need, how they will use your product. Are two completely different tiny departments gonna hem and haw over trying your product, or will the whole org use your software? You might end up supporting a dozen users or 500,000. Will you still have to support the same features, or can the tiny teams get away with less? Is it even worth supporting the enterprise features if your product fit is smaller teams and you wouldn't get a large-scale contract anyway?
> I find is super odd that a country that gave us free speech spends so much time working on a way to police the words their people use.

What does America have to do with this?
Eat up martha
AWS EC2 Stop Protection
https://clickhouse.com/learn/
Two XKCD comics come to mind.

First this one [0], which is the problem and then this one [1] how we solve it.

[0] https://xkcd.com/1810/

[1] https://xkcd.com/927/
I developed SAML/SSO integration for an application used by the Swiss UBS which initially relied on individual accounts, not even AD. Tricky stuff.
I thought Gone in 60s was the movie about stealing luxury cars
The US is not an island, we produce a lot domestically. I have to look at oil industry equipment daily. At the beach I get tar on my feet from oil spills (some if from natural seeps but not in all places). And I pay some of the highest gas prices in the US.
Capacity is a laggy function of demand and finance, if demand goes up then a smart manufacturer will increase capacity.
Agree on this. Some "give up" button that compares how far you got — for example: 3rd guess × 20 valid words remaining = your score — would make this easier to share and compare with others. Right now it's a fun toy but if you can't play together irl there's not an obvious compare method aside from giving the game state in a text message.
Expected after the fact, somewhat. Before hand it would not be unreasonable to expect that the output text and the input text aren't necessarily that kind of connected, though, especially as as I understand it, DALL-E was not given input labelling explaining the text in various images. To it, text is just a frequently-recurring set of shapes that relate to each other a lot. This may yet be a false positive, based on other discussion.

That the model would have a consistent form of some kind of gibberish would be a given. Even humans have it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect And I'm sure if you asked native English speakers, "Hey, we know this isn't a word, but if it was a word, what would it be? 'Apoploe vesrreaitars'" you would get something very far from a uniformly random distribution of all nameable concepts.
"In short, machine learning methods are in place, but accessible data is not."

"Finally, one must address the concerns of various commercial stakeholders."

"A few chemical databases of reactions do exist, but these are commercial (e.g., Beilstein/Reaxys [Elsevier], SPRESI [InfoChem], and CAS [ACS]), and even when a license is purchased, the underlying data are accessible only through a narrow, one-query-at-a-time interface, completely stifling the application of powerful artificial intelligence and machine [...]"

This seems like the first point of approach, not the last. Can anyone comment why these data gatekeepers have not made a business model to give programmatic access to nerds?

And if they have financial reasons for not doing so, how will governments sweet talk shareholders into supposedly losing money?
I think a _part_ of the problem is due to being confined to the dimensions of your screen. If I'm reading code in one file which relies on context from another file, I can bring them up side by side in my editor, but the value in doing that diminishes with the more files / context I need in order to understand something.

Sometimes I wish I could project my IDE onto the wall behind my monitors. Programming in VR would probably achieve the same thing, but I'm not ready to move into that world yet.
I was referring to "hidden knowledge", see Wikipedia's entry on "esotericism":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_esotericism#Esotericis...
Back in the BBS days, I used to "collect" BBS file transfer protocols. I shared the source code for some of them on GitHub:

* JMODEM: https://github.com/cpeterso/jmodem

* SEAlink (System Enhancement Associates): https://github.com/cpeterso/sealink

* WXMODEM (Windows XMODEM): https://github.com/cpeterso/wxmodem

* ZMax: https://github.com/cpeterso/zmax

I also remember "Leech Modem", a file transfer protocol that was compatible with XMODEM and YMODEM but designed to bypass a BBS's download quotas. The protocol would NAK the last packet and then abort the file transfer. The user had successfully downloaded the file, but the BBS would mistakenly not count the aborted file transfer against the user's download quota.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeechModem
That's not even remotely similar to Joe Rogan though? He has a podcast where he invites a wide variety of guests, and mostly lets them tell their stories without interruption or argument. Sometimes those guests say things people don't like, sometimes Joe himself says things people don't like (eg, alternative medicine for covid), but his controversies are because he's open-minded to a every perspective rather than intentionally shocking.
HS/Link was also the only protocol I remember that also included a chat between sender and receiver during the download. For the first time you could actually continue your conversation while sending files to one another, instead of having to go dark like you were flying around the moon or something.
That would be the case if the bulk of the cost was being used to address negative externalities that are currently absorbed by the commons. As things stand, high prices are just high profits. Taxes are the same or lower.
as is caffeinated soda
This machine could mine lots of Bitcoins.

Wouldn't it make sense for Government to do some of that with it?
Immediately after the Oracle/Sun acquisition, there was a huge exodus of senior engineering talent (e.g., most of the core Solaris kernel development team). This writeup of why James Gosling left has some of the obvious reasons (e.g., he was asked to take a significant pay cut), but also this anecdote, showing Oracle managements' general attitude toward the talent:

https://www.eweek.com/development/java-creator-james-gosling...

[quoted]:

Making his point about the “creepiness,” not only with Ellison but with Oracle’s power structure, Gosling said he sparked a notion to try to improve morale amongst the Sun faithful who endured the Oracle acquisition. He said the company decided to rent out the Great America amusement park in Santa Clara, Calif., and allow the Sun folks to have a day of fun. Scott McNealy and Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz signed off on the project that came in well under budget and all systems were go, Gosling said. Except a few days before the event was to occur, Oracle Co-President Safra Catz got wind of it and put the kibosh on the thing.

“Safra found out and had a fit,” Gosling said. “The word came down that Oracle does not do employee appreciation events. So she forced the thing to be cancelled. But they didn’t save any money because the money had been spent – so we ended up giving the tickets to charities. We were forced to give it up because it wasn’t the -Oracle Way.’ On the other hand, Oracle sponsors this sailboat for about $200 million.”
Update: Just received an email from CF.

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Not much info lol, but guess its fixed now?

Thanks HN for up-voting my post and helping me get the attention of CF. Time to go figure-out how not to get in to this situation again, and a way to mitigate this incase the AI gets angry again. Funniest thing about this is, I wanted my own email because I was afraid of this scenario, getting locked out of everything, what happens if big G or M decide to close my account down?

Again, thanks HN. Really appreciate you folks for helping me get the attention.
> I’d argue 3% savings is better than nothing, and you have to keep in mind that that 3% figure is in the US we have right now where very few people use transit.

I agree. In general, I'm finding that people underestimate the importance of small improvements here. I remember people saying that Russia provides 10% of the world's oil as if that were a small amount.

No, its actually a pretty critical amount in terms of price volatility. But the good news it that all it takes is a few 2-3% improvements across the board to effectively negate it. It "only" requires our willingness to take those steps.
I like to use code coverage tools to understand how things work together. Its especially useful with unit tests. You can see every line that was hit all over the codebase for a particular function or api call, with a heat map of line counts. Makes it easy to know what’s important and what’s cruft.
I was thinking of exactly the same thing.

Using

F = (G)(m1)(m2)(r^-2)

m2 = 70 kg (a person, let's say)

m1 = 0.016 kg (weight of a DVD)

r = 10 cm

You get 7.48 nano-Newtons..so a decent bit above the minimum resolution, supposedly.. hmmmm so it may not exactly be outside of the realm of imagination.. maybe with a couple of these things..? Wow!
> We should temporarily abandon car safety requirements, to reduce weight and complexity and get EVs to people earlier.

Nothing says short-sighted like "we have a problem now, so let's create a 10-year scourge of death-traps."
As many alluded in the comments , here is what I envision 10 years from now.

best programmers will be in still in demand in 10 years.

Best programmers (who understand requirements well and write concise code, etc..) are only less than 1/3 of total programmer population as of TODAY. What 2/3 of the total programmers doing today can be done by 20% of this current 2/3 group at similar ( or better) quality with the help of COPILOT like tools.

This tedious task of finding answers will be the job of GPT Codex/Copilot in near future

Future of Coding is AI pair programming

Between 2025 -2030 GPT-8 Codex/Copilot kind of tools enable developers write "better" code, regardless of their SKILL LEVEL ( this is with the 2/3 programmer population as of TODAY).

Even in 2030 we still need best programmers, whose programming patterns will be still be input to GPT-10 kind of tools.

Like "Peak oil" , "Peak automobiles" ( we are almost there), we will be reaching "Peak programmers" in few short years, then decline from there onwards.
Red Hat makes a Linux distribution. It was not their choice whether to be charitable or not, they are the recipients of the initial charity of the Linux founders and are bound by contract to continuing making their code open as a price for building on open code.

If Red Hat could change the license, would they? Maybe. (Not now but you can’t say the leadership won’t make that decision during financial crisis).