skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if these models performed better if they were trained on an other language.
Whilst this is great advice, If you got access to one of those mega spreasheets and worked out the business logic you'd be confronted with a few things.
1. Most business run pretty much the same.
2. Most home grown processes captured in spreadsheets are terrible.
3. Most people don't want to change anything about how they are doing things.

Point 1 makes things easy, 2 and 3 are harder because you have to create and incentive to onboard people onto your product that doesn't exist yet. So actually there's a point 4. You have to do a market scan, and either become an integration expert at some extendable technology or build something new. And then you're developing goes from developing to selling. And then to support.

It's hard to beat excel.
> celebrities and politicians tell me I cant buy the car I want

What are you talking about? When has someone told you you cannot buy the car you want?
Further to your point, a lecturer who has long understood something can find it hard to understand how someone could misunderstand it - the kinds of misunderstandings they night have.

aside/ school teachers are different, they learn typical misunderstandings with experience.
Except they deliberately delay the attribution messaage so optimising ads takes longer for buyers, and hence costs more money.
Bingo. This is also a fair comparison to how todays politics works in a nutshell. Overload a word with a vague context and people immediately attribute their own perspective to come to a conclusion that conflicts with an opposing argument.

Relating back to this headline, using “understanding” creates lots of messages with differing views because everyone has their own take on the word. If instead you said something like, “DALLE fakes understanding of concepts to create new images,” I bet you’d get even closer to the “political message board” style of comments because you are now taking an objective position (yes/no,true/false,good/bad) on a subjective word (understanding).
A Russell's teapot, basically.
To add to this. One of the best thing about this approach is how little computational power it requires compared to NNs. I was able to finish this project in little time without having to get extra hardware approved. One core of our DB is now constantly used to feed real time data to constantly retrain the models but that, plus a partial core doing the analysis is all it takes to analyze billions in transactions per year in near real time and keep our predictions up to date and live on our portal.

I'm also not too worried that I could get better performance using NNs as Bayesian methods are basically proven to be near optimal under some fairly reasonable assumptions and the more automatic methods overfitting or latching on artifacts of imperfect inputs actually have worse performance as the article points out.

Until you get to really high dimensional problems, this is a better approach imo.
Good feedback thanks, I'll try some different colours or ways to mark the originals.
I'd gladly take Apple software on my car over the piles of unbelievable junk that they usually tend to have.
How does LocalStack compare to something like serverless[0], which lets you also have locally run abstractions over services?

While I realize the most obvious difference being that serverless is also a deploy framework that "abstracts" the cloud, I think one of its primary benefits of adoption is that it also does a good job (in my experience, but I have not yet impelemented things deeply with it) emulates services very well where needed, for instance, DynamoDB[1]

If it was without that, I think it would be a lot less useful and way less easier to adopt, so I think its just as important to the story.

Why on earth AWS doesn't have their own first party emulators for everything I still don't understand to this day. I credit that for why Firebase & GCP are easier to use, because they have a good local development story for alot of their services (Firebase in particular has an emulator suite for nearly all their services)

[0]: https://www.serverless.com/

[1]: https://www.serverless.com/guides/dynamodb
By your criteria, no human before the 18th century (when Carl Linnaeus invented the class “mammalia”) knew what a giraffe was.
Love the looks of Zola, have you used it for a personal project yet?

Also, I'm a fan of the concept of decentralization, but I dislike how much it is now associated with the "crypto-bro" demo. Have you seen any projects capitalize on this new wave of decentralization while staying clear of the "Web3" side of the internet?
Instead of using TCP connection as the unit of bandwidth, ISP use "Link/circuit".
Think of it like configuring a guaranteed minimum bandwidth for a VNET.
Into what?
How much of that is recoverable? With a heat engine on the compression side to reclaim the heat, and a turbine on the expansion side to reclaim the work.
I don't think China dictator(s) care much about some part of the country becoming properly unlivable (if we talk about temperature that's centuries anyway). If all relies on this part, it will fail. These regimes view population as disposable tools.

That being said, even west has a lot to lose. Right now where I live its 38 with high humidity, which is a number I don't recall, ever, in past 12 years. You go to alpine glaciers and they are melting right in front of your eyes this summer, big holes in it, drop in thickness 10-30m compared to year ago, rivers flowing on it and many ascents of the mountains are outright forbidden. Old folks die like flies in these situations.
No, I don't upvote nor downvote comments I opt to respond to. The main reason why either One or the Other but Never/Seldom both? Impartiality imo.
Everybody probably believes in at least one or two. Do you believe in an above-average number of them, or are there one or two conspiracy theories that you think are specifically detrimental to your life?
Hydrogen will go through plastics, in fact plastic containers need a metal coating to contain hydrogen effectively.
Not recalling AirTags until the privacy implications are fixed, says otherwise.
There was existing, alternative tech that was a perfect substitute: unleaded fuels. There was no economic loss and no loss of choice (unleaded is a perfect substitute for the vast majority of drivers). Clearly the same is true of ozone depleting chemicals. There are viable substitutes that were created by technology. In other words, these were absolutely technological solutions.

I think these examples do point to something important: the funding and incentivizing of R&D and tech.
Certainly when you get the QAnon people it looks like a cult. The unusual thing is that in a typical cult, the leader is very involved in peoples lives. Trump doesn't directly get involved, but they still put him on a pedestal and think that he's secretly on their side and sending them messages.
There aren’t directly substitute near equivalents for private aviation. It’s common to be able to make 6 site visits in 2 days and 1 overnight. Or fly parts from a tier 1/2 supplier to avoid a factory line shutdown.

Sure, you could make 6 site visits across a week and a half using commercial airlines, or accept a four-shift shutdown because of a parts supply issue while the parts are trucked in.

To me, those aren’t really “valid alternatives” in the most meaningful sense of that phrase.
Right, but they care about how much advertising dollars they make, and they can make more dollars if the pool of possible advertisers is larger.
The Fair Witness was a job that Heinlein made up for Stranger in a Strange Land. Fair Witnesses were supposed to reliably report what they saw without judgement - including their subjective judgement in their report. The example exchange is: "Is that house over there brown?" "It is brown on this side."

Dall-E (and other ML systems) feel like fair witnesses for our cultural milieu. They basically find a series of weighted connections between every phrase we've thought to write down or say about all images and can blend between those weights on the fly. By any assessment it's an amazing feat - as is the feat to view their own work and modify it (though ofc it's from their coordinate system so one does expect it would work).

In one sense - asking if the machine "understands" is beside the point. It does not need to 'understand' to be impressive (or even what people claim when they're not talking to Vice media or something).

In another sense, even among humans, "understanding" is both a contested term and a height that we all agree we don't all reach all of the time. One can use ideas very successfully for many things without "understanding" them.

Sometimes people will, like, turn this around and claim that: because humans don't always understand ideas when they use them, we should say that ML algorithms are doing a kind of understanding. I don't buy it - the map is not the territory. How ML algorithms interact with semantics is wholly unlike how humans interact with them (even though the learning patterns show a lot of structural similarity). Maybe we are glimpsing a whole new kind of intelligence that humans cannot approach - an element of Turing Machine Sentience - but it seems clear to me that "understanding" in the Human Sentience way (whatever that means) is not part of it.
Peru’s former presidential secretary surrenders after four months in hiding
how do you even check 900 pages of dense hard math...nuts. goes to show how top math and physics people in whole other leauge compared to college level
Are there pricing options for developers that aren't in this position? The platform looks great, but $80/month on a personal subscription feels really steep.
The article reads like they wanted Cadence to do the work for them.
Just use one of AWS's medallion contracts and stake a large amount of money on it. At a big enough scale, the bank can do way better KYC and identity verification than you. Plus there are more bank offices around.
Agency&active engagement predict decreased pain intensity after music listening
This is another resource which carries useful tips along the same lines: https://skerritt.blog/make-popular-open-source-projects/
I can't speak to trends, but this hasn't matched my experience personally. The generation just changes. Back in the 80s and 90s, my immediate family would go gather at my aunt's house for Christmas Eve to see my mom's family, then my grandma's house for Christmas to see my dad's family. Today, we trade off between seeing my wife's parents and siblings and their kids for one of either Christmas or Thanksgiving, at her sister's house, and then we visit my parents and siblings and their kids for the other, at my sister's house. Those sisters had to step up and become that next generation, though. There was a gap of a few years after both my mom's parents died when we no longer visited that extended family, but started to have our own as my sisters started having kids old enough to be worth visiting (in the sense that they'll actually form memories) and for us all to be in fairly stable living arrangements.

Once that happened, though, as in we started having kids, stable houses to visit, and enough money to make those flights a few times a year, we picked back up just as the previous generation had. And social media and smartphones weren't really a widespread thing yet during the gap, so that clearly wasn't the cause. It was just the older generation dying off and the newer generation not having immediately stable lives and their own younger families to share.
Lmao, people make mistake dude. Because they're human. What is seen here is a failure of multiple people, an organisation.

I remember AWS S3 went down in 2017 or so and the key point I took away from their article about it was that they didn't blame the junior dev that caused it, because it shouldn't have been able to happen in the first place.

Ah here we are: https://aws.amazon.com/message/41926/
"We are making several changes as a result of this operational event..." basically boiling down to "the employee in question is not at fault because our tools should not have let him do that".
50% of current H2 is used for refining fossil fuels.

And, much like solar, it's not some random efficiency or capacity stat that matters, it's cost. Low cost electrolizers are the next big thing that will prompt Americans to ask "Why is China the world leader in this technology we've been ignoring or actively spreading lies about?"

https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insight...
I'm not a conspiracy theory type of person but know a few people who are.

My advice to them is to practice "critical thinking". A fairly easy approach should be to recognize your "confirmation bias' and curiosity and feed that by actively looking for contradictory evidence.

Too often conspiracy theory types seek out evidence to further support their views, without looking at anything else.

I know it is easier said than done, but it is a start.
How fast/performant is it in comparison to tailscale, nebula, and wireguard (kernel module) ?
I don't think there's much web you can visit with those browsers anyway. Windows XP with IE and no SNI support, maybe sites from that era without JavaScript would work?
I suggest reading Good With Words. The book good for any professionals who depend on effective communation. It is originally for created for lawyers, but it helped me tremendously at work as a software engineer.
URL: https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/1v53jz538
In the sense that you’d see a big sign for Duncan Donuts if you were standing in front of the store, yes.
I do enjoy the fact "conspiracy theory" is a pejorative, although it's how we interpret the world as humans. The term only started to become a pejorative because the news / government started pushing the idea as a pejorative in the 50's.

https://www.routledge.com/The-Stigmatization-of-Conspiracy-T...

The term was particular pushed in a negative light onto those questioning the murder of JFK.

https://history-matters.com/archive/jfk/cia/russholmes/104-1...

My favorite modern conspiracy that's true, not a theory. Is that there is a ring of elite pedophiles in washington and around the globe trafficking kids. We have confirmation of that with Epstein. Ghislaine Maxwell is currently in prison for the sex trafficking of minors... of course, they failed to prosecute or even mention to whom they were being trafficked; although there's a lot of politicians and wealthy business men who've been seen / visited their island (where the sex trafficking was taking place).

The point I'm making is that the negative connotation with this term comes directly because people in power want it that way; its a way to dismiss criticism and belittle those identifying failure. Identifying what's wrong with the world is good for us.Then sharing and discussing that belief builds a community and a shared identity. There's obviously a benefit to that.
Well considering current hydrogen is produced from methane and release CO2, you need to solve that problem either way.
AGPL seems problematic here. If a company uses this as their captcha system does it force them to open source their entire code base?
That sounds like a feature to me, the end user.
>And yet probability theory has a lot to say

Would love to see your experiment design for testing with the null hypothesis "there is no god" ... personally, I'm an atheist, but that's still a belief-based position.
Batteries, not cells
Another psychological benefit not mentioned in the article, is that a conspiracy theory alleviates the anxiety of uncertainty and allows one to feel safe due to understanding one’s environment.
Is this all humans or computer stuff?
The all-knowing-entity theory was popular. Belief was a simple matter of conformity. Conformity is the rule. Even for us.

The all-knowing-entity theory was conveyed by authority. In theory subject to scrutiny but in practice not really. Exactly like our "scientific facts".

So let's not succumb to the temptation to believe that we are special in our wisdom. (That's another belief shared by every culture.)

If you want to consider yourself wise then you'll probably want to stray from what's "modern and popular" first.
> Why just focus on cooking?

You're absolutely right. It would be silly to just focus only on
cooking, much as I love it.

> Do you give up other creature comforts that you can afford

Absolutely yes. Instead of being enslaved to comfort I find that many
of the things one "gives up" create vast swathes of opportunity and
freedom in life. Walking instead of driving creates precious thinking
time. I also find that being less 'available' by digital connectivity
makes people value my time more and the more opportunity I obtain from
fewer meetings - paradoxical perhaps, but it's sometimes odd how
things work. Once you start "giving up" things it's amazing what
riches the world offers up.

> Do you also farm or is that beneath you?

It's behind me. I lived in a village where we grew more than half our
food and kept small livestock. Definitely miss that. But I was a kid,
and so most of the hard work was done by my parents and neighbours.
Obviously though, it set me up in life with a mindful relation with
food. Never give names to the ones you're going to eat :)
What are other meaningful ways to spend that money? All i can think of are rare wines but that also needs some taste which by far not everyone can develop. At $1M, you can already live anywhere, or nowhere in particular, you can already afford elite school for your kids and luxury cars. There's little left to strive for consumption-wise.

At $10M? A very large house/mansion and lots of personal servants? That's hardly environmentally better than a jet, and is very much out of fashion today, people don't like to be tied to one place like that. A Manhattan penthouse? I don't even know. Art collection? A way to be tricked out of your money by 'advisors'.
"AT&T – once part of the mighty Bell System – is advising them by text message to use ..."

Wrong. The current corporation that calls itself AT&T never had anything to do with the bell System. The AT&T that was a part of the 'Bell System' started selling off all it's assets at the turn of the century until the only thing that remained was the name. Then one day, a miserable excuse for a cell phone company managed to finally buy themselves a new reputation for quality and customer service by purchasing the AT&T name, and now several years later they still try to make people think they are the old Bell System AT&T.
Simple:

Read, Write, Speak.

These are the foundational skills to any other skills talked about on this thread. They are easily practiced each day as well.

You don't get "better" at interpersonal communication or high level strategy. You get better at articulating your thoughts through reading, writing, and speaking.
> So... you agree it's transitory?

No, transitory implies that it would go away on its own, without action by the government. I think it's going to end because the policies that I think caused it have ended. If the policies that were in place when it was first called transitory were still in place, then I would take the bet.

> Inflation isn't "damage"

I was referring to the decline in real wages, sky high house prices pricing out the working class, things like that. Not inflation per se.
I think you can say they built the first huge, impactful non-classified pile of surveillance data dedicated to advertising, and thereby set the bar for corporate behavior with this sort of thing. Of course it is inevitable that slimier outfits came along later and were worse. That's a predictable and expected outcome in any market niche.

So in that respect, I can agree.
Sure, but It's the reality of it.

Also - you already live in this world but it's fueled by low cost copy writers and ghost accounts on fiver, I'd bet you are going to see the low water mark for content increase quite a bit in quality and volume over the next few years due to GPT3 being leagues better than the current state of content mills.
The Milwaukee chainsaw and mower do what they're advertised to do, and you could use them "professionally" assuming you had enough batteries laying around.

California has already banned the sale of small gas motors and others will follow suit; but it will take years and years for the existing ones to die off.
Apple is better than other big tech for sure, but don't let them fool you into believing they actually care about your privacy, because they don't, and they often use privacy as a an anti-competion weapon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r38Epj6ldKU
To them? Obviously yes.

To anyone in the West using computers? Also yes.

Best scenario of course would be if China came to its senses and let peace flow over these two separate countries. They won the whole mainland, why is that not enough? Why cannot they give peace a chance?
Never say never (so the story goes), but I doubt it.

Internationally, regular (monthly) eSports viewers number about 250 million, while regular football/soccer viewers number about 4 billion and the estimate for the world cup this year is 5 billion viewers.

While there has been tremendous growth in eSports, I'm not sure the masses will jell with it the way they do with football/soccer, cricket, or field hockey.

Speaking personally, the whole experience of watching eSports needs to improve. Commentators tend to either be clueless or too niche. Spectator camera work tends to be terrible and frenetic. I just don't see the appeal and I have never been to a sports bar with an eSport match playing on any TV.
Sale attribution wasn’t critical before the internet.
Only if they're being paid to show it - which I'm not sure is the case here.
> For context, to provide the electricity demand for kansas would require about 35% of the total geothermal flux into kansas. New Jersey's electricity demand is 7 times higher than what its geothermal heat flux could provide. For the whole US, electricity consumption is about 75% of geothermal heat flux if you ignore variations like the yellowstone hotspot.

It would be great if you can provide a bit more details on those assumptions. Thanks
I was starting from scratch at one point. Cheapo mower was $115 and weed whacker was $100. The greenworks combo that would have done the equivalent job was $~200 more for a smaller mower. This is comparing new vs new. I would up watching the internet classifieds and getting a free gas push mower making the cost discrepancy even more. I have yet to have starting issues with any of it and I don't do anything special other than do my last mow in October and first in April/May

I could do without the noise but I own fancy Bluetooth hearing protection for other reasons so that's really a non-issue. A little bit of exhaust every 3-5 weeks in the summer is just a non-issue in practice. I'm sure if I had some ideological reason to care a lot I'd find it more annoying but I don't so...

I have a friend who has the whole 40v kit. In retrospect I definitely made the right decision because his stuff doesn't have the requisite power/duty cycle for my "it's been a month and I have company this weekend, time to mow the lawn" use case and the noise of the gas stuff is less of an issue when it's a monthly thing and not a weekly thing.
> I think it'll start by removing the need for editorial illustration and photography for a lot of blogs and websites, starting with the less reputable ones.

Stock photo sites and Google Images and basic graphic filters did that a long time ago. Sure, DALL-E has certain creative possibilities that those don't, and the niches like satirical memes or "first pass" concepts in agency brainstorming meetings where it could be absolutely revolutionary tend to not be deliverables the creators get paid for. The publications giving illustrators a reliable income are usually after their consistent style, fantasy world coherence or novel ideas which isn't exactly where DALL-E shines.