skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Generally new admins tend towards creating physical or virtual machines, logging in as root, editing files, starting services, and backing them up.

Which is fine, a great way to learn, a less great way to be in production. Upgrades can be painful, it's easy to break things is non-obvious ways, and there's no easy "undo".

Generally I'd recommend either using containers and maintain your build scripts in git, or use some configuration management software like ansible or puppet (there are many others as well) so you can install a new OS (virtually or physically), then have ansible/puppet/whatever add config files, packages, services etc to get things working. Of course then you keep ansible/puppet/whatever files in git AND back them up.

That way if there's some major upgrade of OS or software you can spin up a test env, test it, and then decide to promote/replace an existing machine ... or just ditch it.
You’re wrong. They discovered an algorithm with fewer multiplications for 4x4 matrices.

They also discovered better algorithms for other dimensions.
Not only pleasing managers. I feel as well a certain envy from people who can’t work remotely, that find pleasure in seeing such articles.

And I say that as someone working in tech missing the office.
Stanford’s Carolyn Bertozzi wins Nobel in chemistry
I'd wager 90% of adults would say that at any point in history. There has never been a time and place where the average adult wouldn't go "everyone around me is crazy".
Audio is the next thing that Stability AI is dropping, then video. In a few months you'll be able to conjure up anything you want if you have a few GPU cores. Pretty incredible.
> How do you identify the end of a Unicode text stream

"Why not just a zero byte?"
Hardly comforting, but okay.
The ethical implications of this are huge. Paper does a good detailing of this. Very happy to see that the researchers are being cautious.

edit: Just because it is cool to hate on AI ethics doesn't diminish the importance of using AI responsibly.
Huggingface hosts the stable diffusion stuff, seems hard to miss over the last 2 months ;)
Attack of the Dead Men
I'll imply numbering:

1] Tests are written in many different ways. There is no regulatory body controlling pedagogy across institution at the college level. At best you can assume an invisible hand of the market for hiring graduates influencing student enrollment decisions, and you'll be introducing too many confounding variables to continue a productive discussion of individual tests.

2] I mean the bulk of students fail the test before the curve is applied. If even the highest cohort didn't learn enough material to constitute getting credit, I would hope they are not simply curved into a passing grade relative to each other and passed along. I would hope they are able to retake the course, learn the material, and demonstrate that learning.

3] The blame for poor performance necessitating grading on a curve to avoid bulk-of-class failure being placed on students for failing to learn, rather than an educator failing to teach.

4] Testing is not what produces learning. Testing attempts to measure competence. Receiving feedback from testing enables students to use the measurements in their learning, but the data point 'we all failed' hardly seems useful. // Grading on a curve evaluates student performance relative to each other. Grading without a curve evaluates student performance relative to the test. You can argue either is more fair if you want, but simplifying the task of the professor writing the exam is hopefully not the goal of college education. Hopefully the goal is to train students into highly competent graduates, who can perform across uneven difficulty in different material.

(edit: testing attempts to measure learning -> testing attempts to measure competence)
Amazon Ring Security Outage: App Not Loading / Multiple System Failure
Ask HN: What am I supposed to do after I’m “disrupted”? Work in video and CG
I work in video / filmmaking / ads in London. Most of the work in this space is short form video for YouTube / Instagram and TV.

Now I am seeing the video generating AI (imagen video from Google on the front page) and I’m 100% sure a good percentage of the work will vanish. There’s loads of work that ad agencies will just hire an AI prompt guy to generate for ads. Big companies will still make ads, of course, but smaller gigs that keep the whole industry afloat? What about even 10 million $ shots with CG characters that will now become commonplace?

I’ve retrained before. I started off as an editor, then did VR video, now moved into CG. I’m pretty good at my job - I’ve worked on stuff for Dell and Apple, including stuff you’ve probably seen.

It’s funny to think I might have to retrain yet again. I didn’t expect image generation AI to be the next big leap. I was already moving into more storytelling content (ie documentaries) because that’s more defensible against AI. But I expected 3-4 years before video generation would just come out.

Now it seems like it’s happening so quickly I’m not sure they won’t have good stuff out in 6 months to a year.

So - HN - what do I do now? And what about the other fellas in my industry who will be out of a job? In my estimate, we are talking about tens of thousands.

To counter the obvious: I have learnt web dev at one point I thought I’d make the jump, even started learning React but I found the work to be mind numbing. I just love making images. But I feel like Pierre Auguste Renoir’s who was a plate painter in France and did a good living out of it - until the process was industrialised and he struggled (maybe for the rest of his life? I don’t quite recall).

To counter the second suggestion: AI prompt design is not image making as far as it would interest me. I also don’t think there will be a huge learning curve. Becoming a filmmaker on my standard requires about 10 years experience or an excellent school (of which there are maybe 10-20 in the world). I would imagine AÍ promoting will be done by the lowest paid interns available.

What do I do HN?
Well margins are good because they build cheap and sell expensive. Isn't it?
> $

It is observed that sovereign borrowers that inflate their way out of debt find their ability to borrow in the local currency reduced. They may still be able to borrow USD, though. Argentina in particular comes to mind, with something around 50% of total government debt denominated in USD [0]. Even Russia appears to have $40B in USD or EUR debt (private borrowers in Russia have another $100B or so) [1]. Of course, they can still outright renege on this USD denominated debt but it removes the option of inflating it away.

[0] - https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2021/august/dollar...
[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/15/business/russia-debt-bond...
That's the kind of things I'd try lol

Wonderful writeup BTW!
Of course, the cost tradeoff is quite different. All I'm saying is that a telescope, ground or space, does not suddenly become irrelevant because it's not the latest and greatest, so the expected value of the Hubble may remain positive after newer scopes are launched.
I feel like in a not so far future, all this will be generalized into "generate new from all the existing".

And at some point later, "all the existing" will be corrupted by the integrated "new" at it will all be chaos.

I'm joking, it will be fun all along. :)
At least a PDF isn't going to try to do some infinite scroll thing that screws up all linking and makes it nearly impossible to find something again.
> > While that statement may seem discouraging, it has been borne out in modern chess.

Totally unnecessary sentence that just leads to derailment (like in this subthread).
Way higher up in Africa than SA?
Could you say more about it? Do you mean, we are going back to text based terminal? Sorry. Cannot follow.
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That's deep within the uncanny valley, and trying to climb up over the other side
Cloudflare's IPFS gateway has fully censored the Tornado Cash app bundle
> you'll typically get people like me who close the tab and leave.

You're not the target audience, why should they appeal to you? This is a website accompanying a paper about reinforcement learning.
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As far as I can tell it’s mostly related to the increase in the money supply that was generated/caused by the strict Covid measures, I’m talking both about the US, through the Fed policies, and Europe, through the ECB policies.

That increased money supply was at first not really felt because of the decreased money velocity caused by lockdowns and restrictions, but once things started getting back to “normal” in terms of lockdowns and travel restrictions and all that then money velocity got back closer to its pre-covid levels, and coupled with that increased money supply left us in the current situation.

Of course, the increased money supply is not the only explanation, there’s also the war in Ukraine which has put a tremendous pressure on energy prices, plus the supply crisis, but imo it’s still one of the main causes of what we’re going right now.
PSA to all YC companies: never send an email from a “noreply” email address
Also if you send STOP it confirms that someone is reading the text message and its a live number.
if you're not texting me or emailing me i am ignoring you...most of the calls i get are from recruiters talking about a stupid java job or something that i don't want
The US can borrow, print, and export as many dollars as it feels like because the world still settles contracts in dollars, and US Treasuries are still regarded as the gold standard for central bank reserves.

A reminder that the US told the world go to fuck themselves (Nixon Shock) in 1971, and they never learned their lesson. When you take a look at the DXY in 2022, it's clear they never will.

Which is fine with me, my global purchasing power is phenomenal at the cost of literally 7 billion people who love working much harder than I do, for my benefit.

I couldn't be happier. Thanks, world.
Your eyes 100% do several other things to give depth cues to your brain. That's why you can cover one eye and still judge depth pretty well. In fact, maybe two eyeballs really are all you need to do safe driving, but 2 CCD image sensors are NOT an adequate replacement for all the other things eyeballs give you.

Your eyes know the distance of something because they know how they had to move to bring the object into focus. Your eyes also have to be at slightly different angles to look at a distant object, which also is a depth cue, as well as all the temporal depth info you get simply as a byproduct of having an insanely powerful and robust object classification and world simulation engine in your skull.
Are they not offering you the chance to enter one of your 2FA Recovery Codes?
Just stop and think about what you are saying when you do that.
That's super cool ! Also, with D1 coming, I can't wait to see an alternative to BigQuery built on CF workers!
A lot of remote workers on here seem to expect to be paid the same salary regardless of where they're working though. So they would indeed be more likely to get laid off, as they cost the same amount but haven't developed those in-person relationships with the decision-maker.
> He has blamed the vaccines for causing spikes in severe illness, by pointing to data that actually demonstrate their safety and effectiveness.

It always blows my mind when someone makes a claim and then cites a source and their source actually proves the exact opposite.

They never acknowledge the self-own.
If this forum were to live up to its name, you would be laughed out of here after that comment.
That's what the GP is saying. You can't really tell a priori what encoding to use for a stream of "text" (bytes). Without some sort of metadata about the stream you just have to guess. Convention will help you make an informed guess but it's not guaranteed to be correct. Then stuff breaks in unexpected and stupid ways.
What everyone is missing is that these AI image/video generators lack _taste_. These tools just regurgitate a mishmash of images from it's training set, without any "feeling". What you're going to tell me that you can train them to have feeling? It's never going to happen.
Where is the line between GUI and TUI? Or TUI and CLI?

Also, where does a system like Genera fits? Was it CLI, TUI or GUI?!
You are only saying that because you assume they were telling the truth.
You'd need 4 of them to avoid ambiguity. The C string delineation model has a lot of issues we probably don't want to keep. :)
The by-line caught my eye. The author is the roon that coined the terms "wordcel" and "shape rotator".
covid did not result in 2 consecutive quarters of negative growth? that seems improbable
You can't just retrain workers from the jobs they replaced to new jobs.
How long do you think until the horse looks perfect? 12 months? 5 years? I’m still 30 and I don’t see how my industry won’t be entirely disrupted by this within the next decade.

And that’s my optimistic projection. It could be we have amazing output in 24 months.
YAML is fine at deeply-nested configs (where TOML kind of falls over), support for multi-line strings in a variety of formats is nice, and the ability to use references and anchors makes it good for things like defining a schema with reusable components. Mistakes were of course made with the "friendly" booleans (yes/no unquoted strings).

The Docker Compose and OpenAPI formats, are good uses of YAML that would be cumbersome in any other format.

Is HOCON better? Maybe. As far as I recall it doesn't have any affordance for multi-line strings, which I see as a valuable YAML feature. It does have its own merits, though, and is probability a better default than YAML in a lot of projects.

But at least if you want an INI-like format, use TOML instead of an ad-hoc underspecified alternative.
Imagine how barren a sport/hobby/field is when you feel compelled to point out that you had sex two times during your stint in it.
LibSQL is an open source, open contribution fork of SQLite
My experience with NixOS is: if whatever I want to do is covered by the documentation, I just need to add the necessary enchantments (often verbatim) from the documentation and things _just work_. It certainly takes way less time to do compared to any distribution I've ever used. It's trivial to undo mistakes and I don't have to write down what I did - the code replaces my notes entirely.

However, if I can't find what I need in the documentation then it can be a problem. That's specially true for installing software. I'm not too familiar with the language to make entire new packages. Most things are using flakes and I haven't wrapped my head around them yet. Other things are not really compatible with its philosophy (like software packaged as Wine bottles).

Nix itself: same problem when the package doesn't exist. But when it does, it's wonderful. I'm even using it in OSX, instead of homebrew (with home-manager).

Hopefully this team will help smooth some of the rough edges.
Devil’s advocate:

People like libertarianism as an abstract ideology but not as a practical one.

In a practical sense, it may require access to good information, across all domains, to be acted upon by rational agents capable of synthesizing all that information into a decision. That may work with a yeoman farmer society, but is incongruent with modernity. Creation of institutions like a government and regulatory bodies may be the natural reaction to facing the complexities of modern society. As an example, I don't have the sufficient knowledge or information to assess the air-worthiness of an airplane and even if I did, fear may bias my decision toward the irrational. Instead, public institutions like the FAA create a system of regulations to standardize that decision. Same with electrical codes, drug quality, and a bunch of other common risks.

People can’t get all the information they need to make good individual decisions in a complex environment. Even if they could, assuming people are rational may ironically be an extremely irrational assumption.
that's not byte alignment, though- those constraints are what can be held in GPU RAM during a training batch, which is subject to a number of limits, such as "optimal texture size is a power of 2 or the next power of 2 larger than your preferred size".

Byte alignment would be more like "it's three channels of data, but we use 4 bytes (wasting 1 byte) to keep the data aligned on a platform that only allows word-level access"
It's 100% rational from the manager's individual POV to choose to lay off someone you don't know so well vs someone you see every day in person and consider a friend.
No, write unit is not a single INSERT.
A single INSERT will take around 0.01 write units.
My new personal favorite headline/intro (I have only ever heard it):

"SCARY SOUNDING GOV'T AGENCY declined to comment on X"

I heard this and read all the video comments (all 1000+). Not a single mention of the language.

There is a serious problem here and it needs some rather forceful correction.
The only thing proved is that the authors chose python. It likely had more to do with necessary library/functionality availability than anything.
You could use this too. The project is hosted at github [0] and the sound for each button can be customized in a configuration file ("config.json", [1]).

[0] https://github.com/brouberol/pico-mixer

[1] https://github.com/brouberol/pico-mixer/blob/main/config.jso...
This is true not just for science, but for engineering. The Wright Brothers did some fabulous engineering work and documented their work thoroughly, and none of the other claimants to first flying are nearly as well documented, but let's say that some day conclusive proof turned up that someone else built a heavier than air flying machine that did get into the air and was somewhat controllable before the Wright's did it on December 17th, 1903 at Kittyhawk.

But whomever that was, was necessarily a dead-end- they inspired no one to build and no improvements came from their work. It was the Wright's work in 1905-7 with their demonstration pilots doing their airshow flying in their Model A's- that was what inspired thousands of other people to get into flying, into building airplanes, and into aerodynamic research and led to the rapid improvement (65 years and one day between Kittyhawk and Apollo 8 leaving Earth to orbit the moon). So even though we trace flying to the 1903 Wright Flyer, it is really the Flyer III and the Model A in 1904-6 that we trace all modern airplanes to. Therefore, it was what the Wright's did in 1906 that makes their flight in 1903 matter. But in a lot of cases those two steps were different people- someone makes the very first, another person or team makes the first practical one you can sell. And so who is more important?
Another Tech Startup Fails: How Aaqua Did Its Singapore Employees Dirty
Time to put the ESG/political posturing of major financial firms to the test, I suppose?
At some point, the "but can it do?" crowd becomes just background noise as each frontier falls.
Being proactive is always a good thing. Use the AI as a tool in your process.
Apple not giving you business discounts doesn't affect how critical it is to the US from economic and security standpoints.
> Why not ask experts instead???

Because this is a story about public perception. While you may find it alarmist, a plain reading suggests that the people surveyed are alarmed.
Contrarian view:

1 - Hire assuming people work < 8 hr day.
2 - Don't overburden them.
3 - Don't try to drive hyper-productivity.
4 - Do manage people for results; counsel those who are not performing at level* and yes, fire them if you can't help them get going.

* See point 2

Results (in my experience):

A - Less turnover
B - Better quality (because people have time to think; less technical debt because less "I'm exhausted so let's just ship it"
C - People have useful ideas because they have some time to think
D - Customers happier; revenue more dependable
E - in the inevitable but rare times there is a crunch people are more likely to have the energy for it and understand why/how it happened.

At least, this has always worked for me, as some other HN commenters can corroborate.
I like your optimism but OP's job is to take text instructions and turn them into video, for advertisements. If Google (who already control so much of the advertising space) can take text instructions and turn them into advertisements, what's left for OP to do here? Even if there's some additional editing required this seems like it will greatly reduce the hours an editor is needed. And it can probably iterate options and work faster than a human.
"Pure" ASCII would be 7-bit US-ASCII derived directly from the teletypewriter command set. It consists of exactly 128 character codes, of which roughly 30% are unprintable. Anything beyond that, such as code page 437, are not "pure". It should also be noted that the first 128 character codes of UTF-8 are "pure" 7-bit US-ASCII...
A single INSERT takes around 0.01 write units.
I assume you meant just "parameters" since "hyperparameters" has a specific alternate meaning? Sorry for the pedantry lol.
Why is symmetry so important in particle physics?
there are IT security vendors that provide static code analysis and scanning for known signatures, that can detect and block malicious packages. Just target SCA at local artifactory and this will be a solved problem. CISO just needs to buy solution and IT admins just needs to deploy that software once and it will keep scanning. Absolutely no extra work from meatbags is required
That's purely subjective. We can definitely model AI to give a certain mood. Sentiment analysis and classification is very advanced, it just hasn't been put in these models.

If you think AI will never catch up to anything a human can do, you're simply wrong.
>> Should I use flakes or not? Every single library I find is a Nix Flake, but insists that Flakes are experimental.

> In this case, "it's experimental" should be read as "maybe the team will decide to make changes", rather than "it's not going to work half the time".

This I think is part of the problem. People see the "experimental" label and don't understand that it's not "experimental" in the sense they're used to. Maybe labeling flakes as a "beta" feature and featuring the documentation more prominently would ease the confusion.
This sort of AI related work seems to be accelerating at an insane speed recently.

I remember being super impressed by AI Dungeon and now in the span of a few months we have got DALLE-2 , Stable Diffussion, Imagen, that one AI powered video editor, etc.

Where do we think we will be at in 5 years??
Thank you! I'm happy to stop repeating/worrying about this and dive in more, and you've given me a great starting point.
This statement makes no sense. You're putting out political opinions on the lives of people without any idea of the reality.

The caste system was a part of India but every Government since independence has made attempts and continues to make everything possible to make the lives of the historically lower castes better off.

Not to mention India was forced to become a USSR ally because the USA had sent their aircraft carrier in a India Pakistan war to support the Pakistan side. And then the USSR sent their aircraft carrier in India's defence.