skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of the examples cut off laughter, surely you'd notice that regardless of language?
I've been involved in an attempt to do this at a smaller scale, for a specific discipline: https://maxfacts.uk/ – which aims to be a complete resource for patients and professionals in the oral and maxillofacial field. Like WebMD, but up-to-date, properly researched, and very thorough.

The linked article here talks about having structured, quantitive information, but I think this might be an engineer's view on medicine. The reality on the ground is much messier. We tried to give people enough information on medical practice, explanations on the biological/chemical mechanisms, and other resources to make their own informed choices about their treatment and care. For example, trying to explain the mechanics of taste, and texture for eating food so that people can understand what kind of adaptations they can make to improve their quality of life. I think we probably fall short of that goal sometimes because our material is overly technical or scientific but it's a work-in-progress.
When is that film coming out? I'm ready to buy now!
While I generally agree about the annoyance with UI changes, and how that grinds on people, I hope we don't just handwave over the "CD for bug fixes is fine" bits.

It varies product-to-product obviously, but I'd guess there is also a significant chunk of folks that are pleased that their functional annoyances/blockers (bugs) can be fixed quickly, without waiting for a monthly or quarterly release.

These folks might not mind the fluctuating UIs, if it means they get the functional value they need asap.
Woah, Paolo Bacigalupi wrote "Water knife" only 7 years ago and I thought it depicts a scenario our grandkids will face.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Water_Knife
Blah. Such a waste of time. I used to do that with this boss after he got upset. I'd say good morning every morning. He'd say good morning back. Woo. It feels like a required check in rather than an exchange of pleasantries. If you're doing this as a manager I'd think about asking people how they feel about it. I would rather not receive messages like that. If I have a message it should be something that is worth pulling me away from my work. Someone saying hi so I can say hi back is just a distraction.
> toy-era seeds

I think what we have is a toy and will remain a toy, just like Eliza was 60 years ago. Academically fascinating, and given the constraints of the era, genuinely remarkable, but still a long way from really being useful.

I'm already getting bored of seeing 95% amazing 5% wtf AI generated images, I can't fathom how anyone else remains excited about this stuff so long. My slack is filled with impressive-but-not-quite-right images of all sorts of outrageous scenarios.

But that's the catch. These diffusion models are stuck creating wacky or surreal images because those contexts are essential allowing you to easily ignore how much these generates miss the mark.

Synthetic AI media won't even been as disruptive as photoshop, let alone the creation of written language.
My guess is Dan tried Imagenet and decided it’s too computationally intensive for the graphics cards he had at the time (probably realized he couldn’t fit a decent model on one GPU) and decided no one is going to do it any time soon.
The linked article touches on this, but this expanded version at CNN has a better discussion of their finances:

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/29/asia/pakistan-flood-damag...
Some people say that, reading all the discussion far few people hope that it fails then that the program overall should get reformed, ie. SLS/Orion should get dropped.
I don't respond to those. If you have something to say, say it.
I used to read Techdirt weekly or more often, but they've really gone off the rails over the last several years. Wilder claims, more politically slanted, and more generally angry, unpleasant, and untrustworthy. Might be due to the original owner bringing in others to generate more content, or maybe they just found that loud shrieking gets more engagement.
Hey, that's a nice case study!

Could you give me some pointers on where I could start studying about the math involved? Are those topics usually covered by good books on computer graphics?
Those “exclusive pieces” are typically not designed for a given brand, but are designed on spec by various ID houses, perhaps with a brand or set of brands in mind as target, and are then pitched and sold, or pulled in by buyers. This has been the way for at least the past several decades, and fashion and furnishings have lead the trend which is now ubiquitous. Crate & Barrel I know do this, as I’ve worked with Otto on some of their other brands, and they consolidated much of their buying years ago - big part of their efficiency.

There are still some retailers who retain some in-house design talent, but they’re few and far between, as it provides little differentiation in the eye of the consumer, who typically can’t tell an in-house from an acquired design - so in-house design is typically an idiosyncratic choice now, as it doesn’t provide a competitive edge over those who claim in-house design.
https://15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2022/faq.html#q7
> people were making convincing edits of street signs, etc. literally 20 years ago using just Photoshop

You needed to have tools, skill, resources and time to do such things. You don't need to have that anymore. Anyone can do anything on any scale.

It's something what SpaceX did. Ofc it was possible to launch a rocket before SpaceX, but few really could afford that. Now that prices are low, that opens infinite number of new space exploration possibilities.
Maybe I wasn't clear. 24 or 32 core CPUs are only useful for the select few who are running a lot of intensive and parallelizable computations. The majority of people buying these mainstream CPUs do not get any more use out of a 24 core CPU than a 16 core CPU and yet would be paying hundreds of dollars more. It would only make sense to have these kinds of CPUs for server-grade or otherwise specialized tasks which do not fall under the mainstream performance line of CPUs as seen and talked about here. That is why I think AMD will go no further. There is no benefit, only cost to the kind of mainstream consumers who are buying these CPUs.

> aren’t even the actual use cases for a high core workstation CPU.

I was talking about 16 core CPUs in general which also includes laptop CPUs. Another reason why 16 cores makes sense for a general consumer CPU is because of the power efficiency gains with efficiency cores in laptops.
Anyone who wants attention is motivated to do SEO. Should engines downrank every site that has good SEO? That is, downrank every site that ranks highly?

They already look at things like clickthroughand dwell time and bounce back. If enough people dislike Example.com enough to avoid clicking on it or come back to search after visiting it, the engine learns that it is a bad result.

Maybe the problem is that most people like what you don't like.
This is why it is so important to create healthy societies, to prevent people falling for such ideologies. As horrible incels, other male supremacists, white supremacists, QAnon believers, Trump supporters, Fox viewers and such are, they are the products of a society that keeps leaving behind people, millions of them at the time.
> The effect is stronger for people that have a high need for status (e.g. buyers of luxury products or people in high power distance cultures such as China, Egypt, Brazil, and India).
Your statement is technically true, but there are 33 million today, just from this one event.
Microsoft's Xenix – Microsoft tries their hand at Unix
They just misspelled blockchain.
I keep thinking about AI image models' effects on illustration and comparing/contrasting with things like GitHub's CoPilot for code.

Inasmuch as someone starts with an exact mental image and wants something matching that mental image, then no, it could be quite a while before an AI model is able to do that. Maybe six months, maybe six years, maybe never. As always with AI, it's hard to say. How often is it true that someone insists on something that exactly matches their mental image? I honestly don't know! If I write another novel, how picky am I going to be to be about the cover? If I get Stable Diffusion, or a future version of something similar, to generate a dozen images that match my text prompt, do I just pick the one I like best and lay some text over it? Or do I decide that no, I need something very specific, and hire someone to draw exactly what I want?

I think one of the main criticisms of AI code generation is that you end up needing to be so specific with your "text prompts" that you're essentially writing the code yourself and letting the AI handle syntactic sugar. A sort of "AI IntelliSense™," if you will. But that's because we're developers. Like the illustrator in this piece, we have an exact idea of what we want, and nothing else will do.

What if I were a non-technical person and could ask an AI model to give me code that collects names and email address into a database I can later use for a mailing list? Could an AI model do that? If not today, then surely soon. Isn't that a similar issue? Does it put me out of work? No, not immediately. But it does potentially eliminate an entire category of work, specifically the work that people generally use to learn how to be good developers. Will this cause problems with training future developers, since they have to rise above a certain skill level to exceed AI models? It might!

I wonder if the same is true of illustrators. Maybe existing illustrators have their niche, but how hard will future illustrators have to work before they can exceed AI models?
Fraud detection is definitely something that is a struggle in the overall industry. We have a couple benefits that make it easier for us.

First, is that we hand-approve publishers, so that we are able to tell if they are a legit project or application. We look at some social signals when they sign up to see if their traffic numbers seem realistic, and do some sanity checking.

Secondly, we do capture anonymized IP's & user agents, and create a hash of the original values. This allows us to see trends across browser types and high-level locations, which helps with fraud detection.

The other big thing is that we have feedback from our advertisers. We do pass a UTM code about what publisher traffic comes from when an ad is clicked. This allows us to figure out who is sending junk traffic to our advertisers.

We also have a few other specific technical methods that we generally don't talk about, because we don't want to give folks guidelines. But those are mostly just to stop obvious bad actors which aren't trying very hard :)

Some of these approaches work because we're still relatively small, but I think they will scale to 10-100x our size, maybe just not to Google's size. But overall, our approach to fraud is currently working based on the number of repeat advertisers we have, and the success they are seeing with our network.
Training a high quality image is different than training a high quality image of the specific thing you want. One has substantially more flexibility. It is ridiculous to compare the two.

As for humans, I will give the constant reminder. There are 3 parts to language: 1) what you intend to convey (what's in your head), 2) what you actually say/write (encoding head to physical), 3) what the other person understands (decoding physical to mental). These 3 things can have 3 different meanings. Do your best in the first two, but the third requires the other person to be acting in good faith.
Again, this is highly dependent on many things including how the market is structured.

If your politicians are not concerned about energy policy, you did not elect the right ones. Politicians should have the same concerns as those they represent.

Here (Ontario) we had the liberals who implemented many disastrous "green energy" programs including "fixed rate" contracts well above market rates. This resulted in substantial increases in our rates.

The price of electricity became a major election issue and when an election year came, the Liberals were decimated. They not only lost the election, but also lost party status.

Our politicians have a lot of influence over electricity rates including direct intervention:

- January 18, 2022 - Fixed Electricity Price
The Ontario government has announced that electricity prices are to be set at the off-peak price of 8.2 cents per kilowatt-hour, 24 hours per day for 21 days starting January 18, 2022, until the end of day February 7, 2022, for all Regulated Price Plan customers. Read the government's news release and our FAQs.

-June 1, 2020 - Fixed Electricity Price
The Government of Ontario introduced a fixed electricity price of 12.8 ¢/kWh for consumers paying time-of-use prices to support them while Ontario plans the safe and gradual re-opening of the province. Read the government’s news release and our FAQs

If your government has zero control over your markets, maybe you should ask if this is in your best interest?

Your chart proves very little. on the opposite end of the scale (expensive power) are many countries with questionable politicians as well?
>“ Which makes me wonder how VidAngel ever thought they could get away with that business model.”

Doing a thing, but with Jesus branding, can get you very far in America beyond all logic. See also: nonprofits participating in politics, nonprofits doing public performances without proper licensing, nonprofits advertising to children in public schools, etc.
It dropped the bar to the other side of the planet. There are so many people computer literate that can pull this off. You could pick 5 people off the street that can follow these instructions and 3 of them would. VS the old way, you would have to pull off 400 people off the street and you probably wouldn't get this result unless you got really lucky.
Raspberry Pi alternatives should soon be easier to find – TechRadar
Web of trust, not web rings.

Post your bookmarks, share to your friends, encourage your friends to do the same. Import those bookmarks into a search engine site fliter extension.
The author mentions using GIMP. There is also Krita
The last good OS made by Microsoft... Sigh...
I doubt computers are gonna be good at physically using pencils or paintbrushes. Art will have value long after every commenter here is rotten in the ground.
I looked up a “how to change guide spark plugs” for a vehicle.

First hit was SEO garbage that started off “Before we explain the steps, let’s first examine what the proper stoichiometric ratio is!”

… I closed that site while grinding my teeth.

The internet kinda sucks now.
Cigarettes are for old people all the cool kids use vapes. Check mate statistics!
More than chemo?
- but used laptop at the flea market, bonus points if out of town

- log to your crypto.scam account from 'behind 7 proxies' using free wifi

- transfer funds to some crypto mixer, then multiple private wallets

- delete account or change password

- zero fill storage, throw away laptop

- few days later report losing access to your crypto.scam assets

- wait couple of years
Same, I've done some weddings for family and I don't think I could actually do it as a main job either.
How far advanced as a country do you think Pakistan would be without colonisation?
> I have a sort spot for the folks at Twilio, because they were actually the ones who convinced us to do ads on Read the Docs originally, with a hacked together campaign way back in like 2015

This sounds really interesting! I find it fascinating that Twilio was willing to do such a personalized project with a relatively small company. Would you be willing to share the story?

Specific curiosities:

* Did you reach out to them, or did they reach out to you?

* Who were you working with there? (someone in a business unit, or someone in engineering?)

* Twilio is huge with (I imagine) big reputation risk. Why were they okay with being such early adopters?

* What was the process like working with them through this campaign?
> How DeSci, DAOs, and NFTs will change research funding, intellectual property, and collaboration.

Unlikely, the most important thing science needs is easily reproducible results, methods and data. Unfortunately, the current incentives discourage this. Would be nice if they got back to publishing negative results too (I tried this and it didn't work)
I'd love to be a fly on the wall in the meeting when reputable businesses decided it was in their best interests to sell random garbage they couldn't vouch for.
I wonder if a bounty or information-bridge would work?

Make there an incentive for medical knowledge to dump on there, or have people who are incentivized to go get that data and deliver it.
Yes, exactly. Basically everything is method calls.
Google chooses to rank "authoritative" sites based on its own notion of authoritativity (which they don't share, but they decide).

They implement it as agnostic tuning as much as possible, avoiding single human chery picking sites. They use panels of humans (mturk style) for quality ratings.

Could you imagine the outrage if Google said "The government is always the best source about everything?"

What even would be the point? Use the government search engine for that use case.
Does it achieve the same outcome, at least on the quality side of things? Instead of a brand sending specs aligned to what their brand should represent, the seller creates spec to match what it expects target brands to look for.
I think they mean to say that comparing the Pakistani figures (which include low population mountains and deserts) to Belgium (which is pretty much entirely arable and flat as a pancake) is a bit silly.
Look for them.

Since becoming a software engineer I've worked as a Tech Lead for a coding bootcamp (gave mock technical interviews to new grads), a coach for levels.fyi (gave advice for folks interviewing with fang+ companies), and a tech coach for Outco (gave advice and mock interviews for folks preping for interviews). I also did some consulting work for a small dev agency.

The first and last I found from calling people I'd previously worked with, sharing a bit about my move into swe, and asking if they have any advice for me. Both of them said I have a job you might be good for.

The other two I found from emailing founders about their programs. Hey I saw you do x. I do x. I'd love to chat.

A lot of companies are dying to hire anyone who is halfway decent.
So to summarize: a good version of WebMD would have:
* structured, quantitative information
* real-time updates
* summaries of supporting evidence

So why hasn't anyone done this yet?

They have: https://www.clinicalkey.com/ However, it's for professionals, and it's not free. Only a professional has the knowledge, experience and context to use the information properly. For patients there are separate products/resources that clinicians can use to give patients more information about their case. But the patient can't just diagnose themselves. And certainly the effort of curating the dataset and developing the toolkit to power it isn't free.
I'd describe this as a "live map" not a "recent map"

Certainly not worthy of being called "misleading" but I would say it's misnamed
Well, Telegram is my main messenger and I don't associate myself with any of the mentioned groups. I think most of your impressions are bit bit over the top. That's not your fault as the media likes to paint Telegram in that light. Sure, there are these channels and yes Telegram tries to be light on censoring them, focusing only on the public and dangerous ones but still, claiming "Telegram is considered a platform for people, which do not respect the basic values of democracy" is a bit much as you could replace Telegram with the name of any social media/messenger platform.
Migrate from Heroku to Render
Why would you find it hard to believe Joe Rogan has an actual registered nurse RN working for him? Not like he can't afford one.

My wife currently works as a nurse at a hospital. She's tired of the poor working conditions at the hospital so she's applying to work at an infusion center for better hours and pay.
Yup, that’s the stuff right there that makes this the radioactive topic. It’s just one teeny tiny step from it will happen to it should. A seemingly rational ideological conclusion. It has been tried before. A memorial stands on the spot in my Polish city and the ashes are still in the soil.
The AVX-512 instruction set has never been a flop. It is much a much better instruction set than AVX.

Most AVX-512 instructions have 3 variants, with 512-bit registers, with 256-bit registers or with 128-bit registers.

When using the 256-bit or the 128-bit AVX-512 instructions, there has never been any disadvantage versus using AVX.

The only problems have been when using the 512-bit AVX-512 instructions, especially on the CPUs derived from Skylake Server, due to the way how Intel has implemented the clock frequency control.

Using the 512-bit AVX-512 instructions requires more power than when using the 256-bit AVX-512 instructions, the same as when using e.g. 4 cores instead of 2 cores. In both cases, when doubling the operation width or when doubling the number of active cores, the clock frequency is reduced.

When a program has a large proportion of 512-bit instructions, then the throughput is higher despite the lower clock frequency.

On the other hand, when a program has only a few 512-bit instructions, the execution will be slowed down for almost a second after 512-bit instructions are no longer used, until the CPU decides to power down the upper half of the 512-bit units.

All this problem is caused because the Intel CPU tries to be too smart and decides automatically when to power down the unused units.

In the similar case when using more cores, there is no problem because when the core is no longer used, the program has a halt or a MWAIT instruction which powers down immediately the core, restoring the higher clock frequency.

If Intel had provided an instruction like "end of 512-bit instructions" to power down the upper halves of the execution units immediately, there would have been no problems with the slow down caused by sporadically using a few 512-bit instructions, exactly like there is no problem when launching some extra execution threads, because the clock frequency is restored when the extra threads finish or are suspended.

Because Zen 4 has the same execution units as Zen 3, using AVX-512 on Zen 4 will not cause any kind of slow down that would not have also happened when using AVX on Zen 3.
I think this might be the first time I've genuinely seen something and though this quote applied: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”.

Don't get me wrong. I'm sure there is a skill and what I'm seeing in demos is the happy path where it all happens to work well. But damn it's impressive.
My daily test and benchmark suites are very cpu-heavy.

Between my gaming laptop’s 11th gen i7 (desktop cpu) with 16 virtual cores and my M1 Pro (16GB) from March this year, the M1 is silent and cool, while the gaming laptop splurts and hisses, and needs to be connected to power always. The performance is incredible, and the drawback is practically none.
As you will find, climate change is unfalsifiable.
D2: A new declarative language to turn text into diagrams
I've never actually been able to order anything off Walmart. They always cancel my order after a day due to 'fraud' alerts on the seller. I guess that's good?
No site can escape the clutches of the deadly HN Hug Of Death x_x
Buried lede: it's yet another problem caused by systemd.