skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of the prototypes he shows in his videos are really beautiful, or I'd just be echoing the "just lay out a board" chorus. There are people you will never get away from this kind of prototype/one-off construction and that's OK. You'll still see it occasionally in PCB RF design, too. I.e. if you want to do a bunch of experiments (antenna designs, etc) today and don't have a board mill.

But if you are looking for advice on learning to do this stuff, it's a backwards approach for 2021.
This is just the level of quality to expect from arguments here now.
Yep. I'm glad that didn't hit other spaces, like music, _yet_
The damage control by the Pakistani army is pretty crazy right now. Pakistan is on the verge of devolving into mass riots as Imran Khan has a massive fanbase.
ITYM "udders"

also try "teats"
This is great, thank you!

For reference (and for other great laws): https://github.com/dwmkerr/hacker-laws#goodharts-law
On a Mac, it’s as quick as hitting CMD+Shift+4 and I get a PNG on my desktop.

If I’m creating a CSS framework anyway, I’ve gotta test it. It literally takes 2 seconds - literally - to hit CMD+Shift+4 (I don’t know the Windows equivalent) - and when I publish to GitHub and write my readme, it takes another handful of seconds to add that image into the article.

Since that GitHub page is about a CSS framework, people are much more likely to download, use, fork or contribute to it - if you’ve spent this less than ten seconds to help your potential users out.

There’s lots and lots of utilities and articles for which you wouldn’t need to use screenshots as examples - command line utilities, certain frameworks, etc - but this article is an example of the opposite.

The reason I can’t understand people who would do that - especially in the example of said CSS framework - is if you’ve spent all this time working on something like that, and you’re choosing to share it with people - why not undergo that ~10-15 second long process for their sake?
Kinda like the creation of copilot and it's ilk for programmers, and gpt3 for writers. Ive seen some talk recently around 'prompt engineers'... Probably to some extent, every job will become prompt engineering in some way.

Eventually I suppose the AIs will also do the prompts.

At which point I hope we've all agreed to a star trek utopia, or it's gonna get real bad. Or maybe it'll get way better.
No, it's not just you. When you "times" something it is multiplication, not division. The phrasing is a logical impossibility, where the reader has to guess the intent of the author - of which there are several interpretations. The key here is that this is a language "thing" only and certainly not a construct of logic or math.

In the headline of this page, it wouldn't have taken but a moment to write a phrasing that would be understandable to all readers of the page. It could read, "GPT-3 will be Two Thirds Less," or, "GPT-3 will cost One Third the Price."

This example from a non-native English speaker shows the difficulties of having several possible interpretations, at least three! [1]

[1] https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/%C2%ABx-times-less%C...
It would be more inconvenient, but at the same time it would feel more self-consistent.

It you'd want to limit alcohol consumption (just an example), you don't want to ban tequila but allow gin for instance. You can say ban anything with more than 15% alcohol by volume -- that would feel harsh but more fair.

I'm really not rationalizing, for me and some others there needs to be a perceived fairness in the restrictions.
In what culture is it acceptable to make a "wrap it up" motion to your peer when they're speaking? I'm genuinely curious because in US culture that would be seen as condescending.
FYI, I just get a blank page on Safari for iOS. On Firefox for macOS, the page layout renders, but the largest pane just shows a spinner.

In case it helps with troubleshooting, I’m using AdGuard on iOS and uBlock Origin on macOS. Disabling uBO didn’t make a difference, though.
I’m not aware of any product that Apple stopped supporting as far as hardware repairs for less than 5 years.
Without, personally, as I think I'd have to be completely detached from reality and good taste to opt into wired earbuds.

...but I /do/ think the rest of y'all maniacs deserve a choice, too, even if it's utterly unhinged, so ceteris paribus I'd rather you be able to have a 3.5 than not :P
That's a mostly fixed cost.
That's a pretty bold claim, to say that a company had the motivation to purposely make it difficult to repair. What support do you have for that statement?

And what support do you have on your claim that any EU rule has mandated an approach to make something easier to repair that has made Apple (or any other company) change the way they design their hardware?
"This release is the culmination of many hours of collective effort to create a single file that compresses the visual information of humanity into a few gigabytes."

If something like this is possible, does this mean there's actually far less meaningful information out there than we think?

Could you in fact pack virtually all meaningful information ever gathered by humanity onto a 1TiB or smaller hard drive? Obviously this would be lossy, but how lossy?
My Ford Transit van shows the numerical pressure of all 6 tires. Haven't had a low pressure warning yet so I'm not sure what level of detail it gives, but with a few clicks I can pull up the pressures on the instrument panel display.

It also sends the data to Ford so I can see the last read tire pressure on the FordPass app.
Wilmott.com is a good forum for financial quants. Learn C++ and Python (and OCaml if you have an eye on Jane Street). There are books such as "Heard on The Street: Quantitative Questions from Wall Street Job Interviews".
> 20 years of inflation has not be accounted for in that price

With all due respect, the inflation argument sounds good but is not based in the reality of the market. Other folks have gone into a lot more detail on why this argument is badly flawed.

But to pick a single argument: if the inflation argument was valid, companies - both AAA and indy - would be unable to make a profit without selling microtransactions. But those games and companies they are turning profits. Even companies selling games with microtransactions are getting record profits when you discount recurring revenue - microtransactions.

See Digital Devolver. See God of War.
Hoax — we all know birds aren’t real.
If I recall correctly both Greece and Turkey claim Cyprus.

Greece and Europe in general need natural gas.

Turkey needs natural gas.

Methinks this isn't going to go well at all.
It is fair to critize that some workloads on Snowflake are expensive.

What I found however is that Snowflake is indeed super cheap if we look at Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Compared with other cloud data warehouses it is even easy for to cost control (warehouse size with autosuspend and resource monitors).

I work with many Snowflake customers and the biggest cost they are concerned with is usually training users so they don't shoot themselves (wrong joins, external programs "pinging" the service, ...).

Snowflake is mainly expensive because of usage, not because of bad query optimization.

(Co-Founder at https://www.sled.so/)
I think the conclusion is good but it was a bit wooly how they got there:

> What do we focus on if we want to get healthy if it's not losing weight? Focus on health promoting behaviors like quitting smoking, moving more, sleeping better, stressing less and eating the foods your body is telling you that you need, Larmie said.

Was expecting a bit more about how building (or losing) muscle can be seen as the opposite of progress if you measure only weight.
Sidewalk is not wifi, it's their own networking based using LoRa, which has its own wireless spectrum and its own limits. For example bandwidth is limited to single digit kilobyte/s in best case. Of course real world usage is going to be worse.
Search “M1 MacBook Air LCD” on Amazon, eBay, or aliexpress and there are dozens of options around $250
When you want to buy oil from Russia, Russia forces you to perform the transaction with Rubles. Which means you have to buy Rubles from Russia in order to buy oil.

I don't think there's a big pile of Rubles outside of Russia. If I had Rubles I would've offloaded them many months ago because there's a chance they could be completely worthless in the medium-term.
I'm not sure about GPT-3 specifically, but often these models are trained with an explicit "stop token", which the model can output when generating text to indicate that no more text should be produced.

That said, there's no reason it couldn't go into an infinite loop, just that the models are pretty sophisticated and therefore are less likely to do this than earlier generations of models (like predictive text on smart phones in the past)
Voyage of the Southern Sun – Solo circumnavigation on an amphibious plane
Yeah, this drives me crazy. As a DC local, the worst for me are subway scenes that are supposed to be inside Metro/WMATA stations. Underground DC Metro stations have a distinctive architectural style.[1] They also regularly get the look of DC suburbs wrong. "This character lives in Falls Church" but is shown in a neighborhood that could only exist in Great Falls or maybe McLean.

1 - https://ggwash.org/images/posts/201410-012227.jpg
I agree it is fully ambiguous as to which above refers in this case.
Yes. This changes everything.

Until this point, you really cannot believe any image you see on the internet anymore.
There is the dystopian version of always connected, but it'd be nice to get firmware updates (supposing those updates mainly fix bugs, add features, improve performance).
While I think it is definitely in a company's best long term interest to implement features that benefit its customers; it might not be in the best interest of those who are currently running the company.

We have seen many, many examples of executives who are willing to sacrifice the future of the company to get a personal short-term gain. Jack up the revenues (or slash costs) in ways that alienate customers is a great strategy when you plan to jump off with your golden parachute in a couple years when all your stock options vest.
The gaslighting by companies is pretty sickening. There's nothing acceptable about ads on a device that I did not ask for.
My experience has been that if I adjust my diet to remove all carbs, which is close to the diet that human beings evolved on, then any alcoholic beverage tastes like poison to me and the hangover comes on faster. The buzz is also worse -- just woozy and sick feeling. Once you clean up your diet you'll lose your taste for alcohol. Your body really can't tolerate alcohol in any amount and once you've eliminated the other junk in your diet and have a pure system then you'll notice how miserable alcohol makes you feel and how terrible it tastes.
With financing through ads comes a dependency of the content provider aka publisher. And this leads to a lower quality. Its about getting attention, not about quality content. It does affect you, you just dont see it, I dare to say.
I just tried it via this link. I'm not sure what I'm looking at here but the results were extremely underwhelming. I've used Dall E 2 and Midjourney extensively so I know what they're capable of. Maybe I'm missing something?
Is Blade Runner included in that or does having flying cars and the Bradbury Building sort of accepted?
That's your choice, which is 100% irrellevant to those who prefer to bulk-view.
You can freely stop watching after one episode and return next week if you want. Your preference holds zero bearing on whether you can still do what you want, so you should fairly and similarly do nothing to interfere with others getting their way too, regardless of your choice being different.
Rather, unless you want your options constrained by others, do not support, encourage, or permit the constraint of others' options, then deign to imagine that your preference matters one iota to them.
https://i.imgur.com/x8JPkGO.png
Toward the end of the article the author moves on to "compression" of 4K HDR media as another factor affecting the aesthetics. I find this just as baffling as what you’ve pointed out.
However topology may be restricted.

"Connection oriented service is available in some cities, usually based upon a central hub topology."[0]

[0] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1149
But even today, we deal correctly with it. Fakes and real photos are mingled together in 9Gag/LatestNews reports about Ukraine. Under the fakes (and the real), people ask for confirmation. Someone says it’s true, no-one believes him, until a link to a newspaper is dropped. And 9Gag isn’t the highest IQ community around, so yes, general population does distrusts photos by default until proven.

They are laughed at anyway if they tell a story coming from a forged photo.

Sure, newspapers could forge stories, display pictures with, I don’t know, Biden’s son with a crackpipe, and make the populace believe untrue stories. But guess what, they already do it anyway, newspapers already “spin” (as they say, i.e. forge, suggest without literally saying) stories all the time.

The world deals correctly with fakes.
While I do believe a generally healthy, active lifestyle is important, all this focus on just weight has over-simplified health to almost be detrimental. Your body can change it's mass and viable bulk for a wide range of reason other than body fat. Muscles add weight and bulk. Water from proper hydration adds weight and bulk. Winter adds weight and bulk (albeit the bad kind). Hell, I'd even imagine someone going hard on milk is some percentage heavier than average from their denser bones. BMI tries to compensate but still ends up doing a horrible job of correlating what ratio of your weight is actual dead weight, versus the weight of just more going on, and makes some skinny fat coach potato starving themselves on hot pockets look healthier than an Alaskan lumberjack who has to eat 5 meals a day to sustain the energy needed to throw 200 Ib logs around in the freezing cold.
When you say you're an empath, do you mean to claim that you have psychic powers? An empath is a being from science fiction with the psionic ability to sense emotions, like Counselor Troi on Star Trek. The term originates from the short story "Empath" by J. T. McIntosh, published in New Worlds Science Fiction #50, August 1956.
They can, but you need to speak pigeon.
Yes, good point, I don't typically think of that as spyware, but it is.
Don't make me start using sarcasm tags. Sigh.
The license does seem impossibly vague and broad. Usually what happens when software projects use custom & demanding licenses like this is that large companies refuse to allow the software to be used because of the legal uncertainty, small companies just use it and ignore the licensing constraints, and there are never any lawsuits that clarify anything one way or another. If that's fine with the authors of the project, they can just leave the license vague and unclear forever.
What's the difference between recruiting and hiring?
We do a decent job of banning child pornography.

And bringing the two ideas together, is child pornography that is provably created by an AI still illegal?
It cannot be a Ponzi scheme; if it can print unbounded amount of money there can be no risk f money running out.
> Pigeon is completely immune to cyber interception

Have you considered drone attackers?
There will be a huge and unkillable market for non-AI generated pornography, even if people cannot tell the difference in an AB test. The demand will be too strong and I don't think there will be much outcry to ban it if it's all consenting adults.
I would say though, that twitch is one of the worst offenders in terms of bloat, of all websites I have ever visited, so I guess, if one visits it with not a good machine and allows all the bloat to load, it can make for a crap user experience.
And “not near the top of spending per GDP” is not really an accurate assessment. From this data https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/defense-s... we can see that the countries with higher spending per GDP fall into one or more of the following categories:

- smaller, poorer countries

- countries involved in active military conflicts or with active military conflicts near them

- petrostates
anecdotally there are two kinds of people, the people who break their phone twice a year and the people who break one maybe every 10 years. It'd be really interesting to see a probability distribution function of failure rates.
The keyword is “puritan.” I don’t see how you can not blame a school of thought that labels most human activities as “vice.”
Lapham’s Quarterly: A World in Time
excellent history books podcast
Why bother use a GPT-3 model when you can use the free BLOOM model? Large "foundation" models will become a commodity -- a race to the bottom.
Investigation of $1.4m cyber theft from city of Portland
Yes, some cars use the abs sensors to detect rotation differences and estimate a low tire pressure scenario.
Ha it can be a challenge, yes. I even have a really hard time with the plastic clip on the GPU's PCI Express slot sometimes!
pigeons don't tweet.
You'll need a GPU. One with a LOT of RAM, like an RTX 3090, which has 24 GB.
If you move permanently, I think you need to tell them.

I don't think they support devices during holiday/business trips, but I could be wrong. (I don't handle the laptop/desktop support myself, only the servers, and they rarely move.)

https://i.dell.com/sites/csdocuments/Legal_Docs/en/us/prosup...
Forgive my ignorance but What about the file system store? Is that the same thing?
Well, this certainly looks like a great bridge into the world of surface mount parts for me. I was doing PCBs using paint programs back in the 1980s for the few boards we needed to repair 1960s vintage control systems.

I'll get my $200 cnc mill going for the next step, some day.
Learn how to deploy and End-to-end ML Model by building it
Sadly, the thread list within teams still looks awfully much like a Skype chat, and people end up using it as such. The New conversation button should open the expanded new thread view that looks more like sending an email and has a title field to encourage proper threaded use. The Microsoft employee who manages to push that through will be an unsung hero of productivity.
So what would you have them do? Send you a kit with some janky aluminum foil, tools bought off Ebay, and instructions on how to scrounge around your kitchen for stuff that can be used to pry off the screen?

For fucks sake, it's like they can't satisfy you no matter what they do. You wanted to be able to repair to the quality and assurance that the manufacturer does and now are griping about the cost of it. (or did you? and now are having 2nd thoughts?)
This is clearly a joke website but I think we could make this happen with gps neural link to pigeon translator. China will probably beat us to it http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2049569,00...
Why was that?
TPMS sensors. A solution to a problem you never had. Congratulations. They have batteries, so it's a gift that keeps on giving.
No I switched job to a in office.

And I didn't have to because I had a nice boss but wfh made me uneasy. I made up the need in my head that I had to be not "away" while working. So I did it out of habit ... not too strict though.
I really got the sense that this was written by and for film geeks. That said, as a minor film geek, I enjoyed the piece and agree with their message.

I think the example image at the top of the article does a perfectly fine job of showing the "something" they're refering to, but it's only going to help those few who have already noticed that something, and haven't put their finger on what it actualy is. For readers who haven't noticed the effect, a few comparison images wouldn't hurt.
Depends on your perspective I guess. The visual artists I know are super excited about AI art.
I have a friend who works as an artist and he's excited and nervous about this. But also he's trying to learn how to use these well. If you try these AI out, there's definitely an art to writing good prompts that gets what you actually want. Hopefully these AI will become just another brush in the artist's palette rather than a replacement.

I hope these end up similar to the relationship between Google and programming. We all know the jokes about "I don't really know how to code, I just know how to Google things". But using a search engine efficiently is a very real skill with a large gap between those who know how and those who don't.
The Biggest Obstacle to Building Offshore Wind Farms Is Government
Now that StableDiffusion is released, I expect that to change, unless there is a (certainly ultimately doomed) attempt to Hold the Line.
Is it possible to customize / extend? Apple? Twitter? Facebook etc?
But making an effort to increase accessibility is valid, right?

There’s a limit, of course, you expect the reader to be alphabetized, have watched a couple of Netflix movies, etc. but this one may have gone a bit too far on the reader’s assumptions.
Who Needs Religion?
Title elided from original on clickbait grounds.
I do want a long and healthy life. Yes, I am happy about the world I'm sending my kids into. I'll tell them the world is a wonderful miracle and our purpose is to contribute to its flourishing as much as possible.
Yep especially considering the motto is always databases are slow. Of course they shouldn’t be unusable but the database isn’t meant to be your clients data model
If we get to the point where we can't tell AI generated images from reality, I'm not sure "body shaming" will be on society's collective radar anymore.
Social media, politics and helicopter parenting.
Wait here, this shit hasnt hit France yet :)

Those models are trained on artists work and put those same artists out of work. When people will register I dont think this is gonna fly.
Hi Philip1209,

Thanks for your response, we are considering your response and of others who have pointed this out, we are in process of legal consultation and we will act accordingly. Thanks for your response, really appreciate it.
Do they need an army of salespeople, or just a finely tuned GPT-3 bot?
> The issue is a lot of people try to use Snowflake as a database or to support frequently executing queries of the same kind. This is bad and it will cost you.

It seems totally natural to expect these use cases to be well-supported & cost-efficient. That they're not I think is likely to be misunderstood by a great many people, even technical folks.
My impression is that Electron can wrap whatever backend you want to use. Is that not the case?
Very cool, love the idea of JS/WASM extensions. In the past couple of years I've seen other new entries in this space - CockroachDB and Planetscale come to mind. What would you say makes SurrealDB unique, if you don't mind me asking?
OsmAnd doesn't seem to get many updates nowadays. I get that it's open source and we can't demand anything for free and all that, but they have some monetization options that should bring in some money, but aren't really worth the price IMO. The issue tracker is full of bugs and feature requests marked as nice to have, but almost nothing happens.
I agree. Seems like most of the world doesn’t share our sense of wonder
Especially when it comes in an update months after you bought your device. Looking at you Android TV.