skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you give humans gobbledygook input – say a Rorschach blot, or some random syllables – and ask them to describe what it makes them think of, or generate art from it, many will do so quite competently.

They'll find some morsels of fragmentary hints-of-meaning in the junk, or just act from whatever's bouncing around in their own 'ground state', and make something interesting & coherent, to please their interlocutor.

So I don't see why this corner-case impugns the level-of-comprehension in DALLE/etc – either in its specific case, nor in the other cases where meaningful input produces equally-meaningful responses.

In what ways are you yourself not just a "very complex & impressive mirror", reflecting the sum-of-all external-influences (training data), & internal-state-changes, since your boot-up?

Your expectationthat random input should result in noise output is the weird to me. People can see all sorts of omens & images in randomness; why wouldn't AIs?

But also: if you trained that expectation into an AI, you could get that result. Just as if you coached a human, in a decade or 2 of formal schooling, that queries with less than a threshold level of coherence should generate an exceptional objection, rather than a best-guess answer, you could get humans to do so.
It definitely seems like they told / scheduled this with their users. There are definite ones based on their comments.

tl;dr, they did not read the FAQ and broke the HN rule are thinking of
I also need clarification on what he means by Modi bypassing parliament to pass his own bills. That’s not how a parliamentary system works. Imagine Tony Blair bypassing the House of Lords and the House of Commons to pass his own bill. Or Obama bypassing the Senate and House of Representatives to pass his own bill. It’s a very strange claim to me.
oh come on guys. "Trust by" sections are pure marketing bullshit. I wonder who really takes a step back and thinks about whether they are real or not. Welcome to Internet.
At a certain point of abstraction, theoretical physics almost never has any direct correlation with empirical reality. It is most often used as a way to give the paradigm lenses that color our thoughts nice little workouts. (One can also apply Wittgenstein's notion of language games here.)

If, by the term "black hole", a person is referring to some object that has the shape of a mathematical point, then it just doesn't make much sense to call it a thing that relates to the world of observation. (The postulates of Quantum Mechanics dictate that physical objects must be fundamentally spread out in the form of wave functions.)

Solutions to simplistic kinds of mathematics come in the form of idealizations called "points". But physical reality is fundamentally spatial, and the necessary maths must involve things like topological manifolds, which brings us directly to the doorstep of String Theory, which is not so much a "theory" but rather a broad category that consists of the entire spectrum of all possible Quantum Field Theories. String Theorists, in fact, are always speculating over the possibility of some given theory's existence, such as when Witten spoke of a mysterious "M-theory" in the mid-90's.
I too moved away from ML after actively pursuing it for many years. YMMV but here are my reasons

- Scientists dont always make the best 'clients'. The requirements you spend months implementing may be completely obsolete by the time you are done and then completely unused.
- You often dont understand or are made aware of the impact of your work.
- Its challenging to compete with Masters/Phd graduates who have spent years delving into ML. Entry-level knowledge only takes you so far. So its more likely that you wont work on cutting edge ML research.
- MLE work in my experience has been mostly around infrastructure management and data security. Again it has interesting challenges and hard problems to solve but with the speed of the AI world, it all boils down to facilitating the scientists and researchers as much as you can
Nah, it was just a typo. But I like your idea!
I agree. But no developer starts writing unshoddy code right away.

There's a lot of really great developers that got their feet wet with dev work because Wordpress is immediately accessible and helpful. They just needed a playground to write shoddy code before they matured and perfected their craft.

In my opinion, I'd rather people write shoddy code and improve it than wait until they've ready enough books to write perfect code, but never actually start.

Doing something subpar now is often better than waiting till it's perfect and not doing it at all.
People say this a lot online in this kind of debate but you can see which areas of the brain light up in people who are conscious and how that’s different from people who are asleep or in a persistent vegetative state. We have a very good idea of what consciousness is and it’s definitely not linear neural net with a discrete input and output. Having said that, the nerve that connects the eye to the brain could be considered similar to a modern neural net.

It looks like we’re beginning to get the building blocks of consciousness together. But we don’t yet know how to combine the wave functions into a chorus necessary to achieve GI
I’m a big train geek and I hate trucks but I also know that we don’t have time to wait for a transport revolution if we want to prevent the climate emergency.
> China is not even close to a top polluter per capita, while Canada and US are top there. That means China sustains a larger population with a comparatively smaller impact.

To anyone reasonably familiar with China, this feels like either propaganda or extreme naivete. First off that number is probably based on official stats, and those were probably based on a sample consisting of a model village or two.

Second, the official pollution stats for China have no more credibility than US inflation statistics from any area (Nixon, Carter, Biden, etc.). And finally, just ask anyone in the provinces where industrial waste is generated assuming you didn't figure it out an hour before your train arrived. They'll give you a very different that sheds a light on your "comparatively smaller impact" notion.

Source: Investor in China, most family is in China, knowledge of internal politics from staff
Only takes someone to challenge it again in court after the other avenue is cut-off

Not really involving political pressure to an unelected executive branch entrepreneur
IMO Apple is pro-privacy from competitors and 3rd parties. They are not pro-privacy from Apple itself and the governments that force them to disclose things.

There is a lot of tracking from apple you just cannot opt out of from apple straight out. A lot of logs are just uploaded and you can't stop it from the device itself as a setting, such as battery analytics and more. Just investigate what comes out of your iphone & mac still data wise even when you opt out of things you are given as an option.

You cannot open an apple id without a phone number or other strong identifying information, even if all you want to do is download free apps. iPhones are mostly unusable without an Apple ID.

Apple does not give you an option to not have any encryption keys kept in escrow by apple, like they do with iCloud and iCloud backups. And backups are on by default, including the contents of your iMessage logs. They don't keep your iMessage keys in escrow by default, so they've always been capable in not doing that. They keep iCloud data within China, so the Chinese government probably has continuous full access to whatever is on iCloud for Chinese users, because apple keeps the iCloud keys in escrow. The same goes with the NSA in the USA, because we all know those governments invest enough to fully compromise apple's data centers. Apple could chose a design that allows users to avoid the key escrow and make these government spy agency jobs much harder. The examples go on and on. But they are very good in not highlighting these facts.
Whether if they're ads or not, these preferential display recommendations also end up entrenching the top apps, which doesn't exactly help discoverability for new players.
Walmart learned that if people (in general) had a choice between cheap and good they would pick cheap. It made them billions.

Amazon is just following that playbook, but it is even worse. At Walmart manufacturers at least had to vie for physical shelf space in Walmart so there was a floor on how bad things could get. If the product caused damage you could go after Walmart or an actual manufacturer. Amazon has completely turned that system on its head. You can hardly contact anyone for issues (although Amazon does now have a $1000 damage claim guarantee and an okay return policy for many items) and the manufacturers are just fronts. I still shop at Amazon for certain small items or very niche items, but for big ticket items I usually just go to a physical store.

Best Buy has been rather good these last few years with price matching, store pickup (in-car or in-store), and fast shipping.
Personally anytime some one replies to me, I upvote as a thanks to them.
>German premium manufacturers also don’t use 800V

Taycan uses cree sic, bleeding edge. GM signed up for those too.
> Frequentism is not the null ritual. In fact, it's almost completely compatible with bayesianism, the one large difference being the freedom to set priors before doing your analysis.

This may be true of "frequentism" in a strict sense, but many statistical methods in common use that are often described as such (including, arguably, NHST) are not consistent with reasonable versions of the likelihood principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likelihood_principle . In a sense, one might feasibly argue that these methods are not even properly frequentist.
Seems like a lot of commenters like it, so there's probably an audience.

I don't think it'll be a hit with the main crossword community because the crossword constructors put a lot of humor and cleverness in the clues, which is a major draw. The personal touch makes it seem like you're in a community of clever people who are trying to entertain each other.

I suppose this would be a good learning aid for students who are learning vocabulary.
I’d personally have a hard time calling real-time something that doesn’t react to changes, ie if you need to re-run the query in trino on a schedule to get updates then it’s necessarily near real time (as near as your schedule interval allows). But other people may use it to mean something else
I don't think that would deliver a comparable education. Speaking as someone who majored in math, got a doctorate in anthropology, and later became a software engineer.
Isn't Zig not to hit 1.0 until 2025 or later? Looks like you will be waiting a number of years.
#2 is exactly what Walmart and other big brick and mortar US retailers did.

At least there is some hope that the rebranded products will share one brand, and so the critical mass of consumer anger will be reached faster. It's still all a wrong approach to doing business, however.
I also use "Prime Only" to filter out items shipping from China. If I'm okay waiting a month, I'll buy it from AliExpress for less.
You will probably ban a lot of VPN users as collateral damage. VPN providers often use these small and relatively cheap providers for their endpoints.

You may be fine with banning those VPN users, or even want that - lots of bots will try to hide behind "legitimate" VPNs - but one has to be aware of this consequence at least, especially considering that more and more people seem to use them - probably also thanks to the aggressive "sponsoring" certain providers such as ExpressVPN do on e.g. a wide variety youtube videos.
On the topic of "compile time optimization" ... There was once a merry bunch of very excellent and brilliant crack smokers at Google who created a project called GWT. The raison d'etre of the project was simply "We know you can write JS but Java has more guardrails - why don't you write Java and we'll transpile it down to better JS than you're smart enough to write because JS basically sucks and is always changing and browsers are F'd".

Before it was all said and done you could enable a "deep compile" option that would even look at your java code for cases that would never execute - rarely execute (you're a dumb human right?) - etc and build an opinionated JS runtime around it for performance and size (size complexity? Space-Time-Trade-Off).

I was enamored with GWT for quite some time and developed a high level of skill using the tool. I still miss it frankly. People who seek to write one language and execute another are fundamentally insane. Even though this is basically necessary with a lang like C (one step above shifting bits and understanding instructions etc) those people still amaze me.

I'm glad I wasn't born with the requisite intellect to go down such rabbit holes myself. This makes me feel dumb and be OK with it at the same time.
I didn't check every user but I did find a couple that had not posted anything in years until now. Makes you wonder.
> The Iceberg table serves as the only schema definition for the ingestion process. In various alternative architectures, the schema is often stored in multiple systems, requiring these disparate systems to be kept in sync with each other.

> Here, the continuously running Flink job parses the JSON data source directly following the Iceberg table schema definition. This means future schema changes can be facilitated through just one source of truth.

This is the most interesting point. I'd love to take this implementation out for a spin - could solve a lot of pain I know other people deal with too.

Most of the pain (or even grunt-work) of managing data pipelines is updating, validating and managing schemas.

In the past the common approach people suggested was to have each application write the data with the same schema but in practice it's never possible unless it's a greenfield project and the services don't need to talk to other external or pre-existing systems. What ends up happening is that a translator (or validator) service comes up whose job it is to translate across the various schemas. 2x storage in Kafka, 2x compute for the consumers and probably 20x more maintenance and ways things can go wrong.
A few things. Pride, hubris, challenge-seeking, unwillingness to turn down an "opportunity", and, maybe more than anything else, I thought I'd do a better job than any of the other potential candidates (see: pride).

In life in general I seldom back down from a challenge. I even play video games on the hardest difficulty. [1] It's bitten me more than once, but I still seem to have this almost pathological desire to really go for it rather than leave well enough alone.

It was also an opportunity to see behind the curtain. In my time I've had to deal with a lot of boneheaded decisions handed down from on high, and I wanted to see if I could get a glimpse of where they came from.

My job now consists almost exclusively of being handed boneheaded decisions from higher up the chain, fighting tooth and nail for something realistic, and coming to an unsatisfying compromise only to have upper management go around me and communicate their boneheaded decisions to the team directly.

[1] And yet I don't much care for Souls-likes. I just don't enjoy the core gameplay enough to want to climb the mountain.
In a parliamentary democracy, if the elected party in power has a majority, they can do what you're describing.
I've found recently that walking into the local Walmart, Costco, or grocery store is a better experience than shopping on Amazon, and I increasingly try to do it instead.

Need a spatula? You could look on Amazon and hope you get something relatively sturdy and that isn't filled with chemicals harmful for cooking/eating. Or, you could walk into a local grocery store or Walmart where they probably have 2 or 3 to choose from, they've already researched and selected the best items to stock, and you can feel and see the item before you buy it. I like to think that if enough people realize Amazon is selling garbage and start doing this more, Amazon will need to respond to consumer demand (or will fail).
Spark in Scala, Pytorch, Docker, bunch of infra... We run in AWS and have a ton of proprietary tools.
I read about 800 pages of his writing ("Better Angels ..." book) and there were passages of absolute beauty, like the part about Alan Turing.
It's immoral to impose your opinions on what is and is not productive on what other people do with their land and money, even if those opinions are correct.
> There is one country where most of this garbage comes from ...

... as well as most of the stuff in people's homes, including their cherished iPhones.
With semiconductor manufacturing, you are in a dance where customers need products now but your lead times can be weeks or months. This has always been true, even pre-pandemic. Customer demand forecasting is a huge deal in this space, since they still pursue "lean planning" and "JIT production" as much as possible to out-compete on delivery times and volumes.

Inventory costs are necessarily minimized in this framework, with all the supply hiding further back in the chain. Once the products are done, they're packaged and shipped; there is basically no buffer. So you don't have resilience of that sort, though you do have a significant off-ramp (in terms of the products still in process) to help adjust to market shocks if necessary.

Instead of this kind of inventory-buffer plan common in Western economists' and analysts' assumptions, you have instead resilience in the relationships between you and your customer and the stability that confers. Because the supply chains are so long and complex between semiconductor manufacturers and their customers, it pays to keep good relations with your supplier (and with your customer). So account managers and supply planners are very careful not to cancel orders or adjust delivery dates so as to maintain that congenial relationship. This is the main lesson higher-ups learned from their time spent playing the Beer Game[1].

Source: worked in Infineon's logistics and supply chain department

[1] https://beergameapp.com/
AI Facial Recognition Systems Work the Worst for Black Women
This is more of a definitional thing. The default parameters provided in the blog example provide roughly a 60s time-to-query latency. For most folks, this is probably effectively real-time, but for others it might be too slow for other use cases. That being said, this time corresponds to the underlying Flink flush interval and this value can easily be tuned to whatever value you want it to be. For example, you could make it 10s if you wanted. However, if you do reduce the flush latency, you may want to increase your compaction frequency to balance that out.
There’s a similar race to the top for brands that are focused on luxury markets. Brands that have a hold on this market now charge exorbitant prices.
No. Neither ever downvote anyone.
https://hack.org/mc/blog/no-more-x11.html
They advertise in Apple News too. I don't think they've ever released a real number but estimates are that they did $3-4billion in advertising revenue in 2021. Not big by the standards of GOOG or META but growing fast.
I don't remember when I signed up, but I'm a fan. Love when the emails come with the regular updates. I need to do my monthly data update. <3
A majority in a parliamentary system still allows some room for debate and dissent since MPs are, in principle, representatives of their constituency and not of the party. However, in India, it is illegal for an MP to vote against the party line - that is grounds for their disqualification - due to the anti-defection law. Any debate is pure theatrics at this point and the party leadership is free to pass any law they want.
Really nothing disingenuous here. “Trusted by top companies with learning budget” is pretty damn clear and accurate. All in the same font, so there’s no “fine print” argument to be had either.
The article talks about the reverse direction however. i.e. Data from Kafka being ingested via Flink for Trino to query as Iceberg tables - everything with a single consistent schema.

To be pedantic though Flink also operates on a flush interval so not "real time" by that definition.
You're doing what the parent comment says, which is conflating Apple's pro-privacy behavior with "anti-advertising" behavior. You're far from the only one, to the point that folks like Tim Cook regularly talk about this.

"We’re not against digital advertising. I think digital advertising is going to thrive in any situation, because more and more time is spent online, less and less is spent on linear TV. And digital advertising will do well in any situation. The question is, do we allow the building of this detailed profile to exist without your consent?

"We think that some number of people, I don’t know how many, don’t want to be tracked like that. And they should be able to say they don’t."¹

Apple has never disparaged advertising as a revenue model for developers. They even have regular WWDC sessions on the topic². What they have been very vocal about is user control.

¹ https://www.thestar.com/business/2021/04/12/apple-ceo-tim-co...

² https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2022/10038/
I agree that there's a lot of junk on amazon.

Is it really that hard to filter out? I very rarely end up getting something from amazon and have it be completely worthless and not even returnable.
>Once you realize you only work for (aka being bribed by) BigCo to snuff out their competition it pretty much removes the guilt of not working.

Yes. Exactly. There is no real innovation. All that I see nowadays is corporate drama of passing the blame around, climbing the ladder with politics and all the wrong people put in interesting and important positions. There are a lot of cult like people who take pride in this fake drama and I am definitely not one.

All I want now is to retire with a good enough corpus by coasting so that I have enough to work on my personal projects, eat healthy, sleep well coupled with some sports and exercise.
A handful of rich countries could agree to a minimum fuel tax for domestic flights and flights between those countries. Then they could agree to charge more of planes arriving their airports from non-signatories of this agreement to also get an international effect.

Just the US+EU would be a big chunk.
I recently got an email from amazon saying they are charging my card again for items which I have already returned to them (via the whole foods store). I even have confirmation email of the said returns. Now the email claims they haven't gotten it (which I don't care about as I was only responsible for dropping them off to whole foods).

I am sure this is a glitch and I can contact them and get this fixed. However as a new dad this takes time away from other stuff and I would rather not have to deal with this. Will be more wary of purchases from now on.
Time for brands again? I remember when Amazon first started it was great that you could avoid the big, reputable but expensive branded product and buy some alternative from a smaller company. I guess now we should avoid the unknown brands and stick with an established manufacturer.
Aerodynamics are important but unless all the roads are flat like a railway (which, of course, is infeasible) they really only impact trucks driven at high speeds with light loads. Of course any 5 or 10% savings on fuel is very helpful, and most North American companies have used aerodynamic skirts and shapes to minimize resistance, but when you're hauling 80,000lbs the density of air in front of you is dwarfed by the rolling resistance of the load behind you.
> Well, those countries also have huge masses of people, and they are already well below the per capita emissions in the EU

This has actually been untrue for almost a decade. China has had higher per-capita emissions than the EU since 2013, and is still climbing, while the EU's is declining.

The US is still 2x china, but has been declining for 50 years, and is currently declining drastically.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?t...