skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Secondary opinion, why is the Google app lacking? Because they really don't want people to use it. They much prefer you reveal your phone number and use SMS instead. This way they can easily identify you personally.

Sure, companies may do some evil things intentionally, but an app UI sucking is usually the default state of things and not some malice necessarily. In this case, I think part of the neglect of Google Authenticator is them trying for years to pivot to other forms of two-factor authentication that are more phishing-resistant than an OTP (Yubikey-like and smartphone based systems).
Tax authorities never prevent you from doing it. You might have to file some more forms though.
This is what the pixel phone screen feature does for me.

The difference between my partner and I's phone frustration is obvious. My unknown calls that are questionable get sent to voicemail nicely with a bot asking them what their name is and allowing me to pick up in the middle if I notice something I need to pay attention to, her iphone just rings with a pop up as "SPAM RISK" and she has to mute it, or she blocks unknown numbers and misses calls.
It's interesting that these models can generate seemingly anything, but the prompt is taken only as a vague suggestion.

From the first 15 examples shown to me, only one contained all elements of the prompt, and it was one of the simplest ("an astronaut riding a horse", versus e.g. "a glass ball falling in water" where it's clear it was a water droplet falling and not a glass ball).

We're seeing leaps in random capabilities (motion! 3D! inpainting! voice editing!), so I wonder if complete prompt accuracy is 3 months or 3 years away. But I wouldn't bet on any longer than that.
Wow, this is amazing. Being a beginner in web developing, I would be really happy if you could help me out on how did you actually build this.
Loved it!
Feeding is such an important and complex function, I believe there's also a strong psychological component in fasting. In my case, I'm losing about a pound per week doing light exercise and 15 hours of fasting daily.

Sometimes I've gone to sleep a bit hungry, and I've had dramatic dreams of being weak and emaciated. When I woke up I felt anxious, but just needed to go to the mirror, talk to my subconscious as if it was a child, and show him that we still have a long road to go, but in a few hours there will be a generous breakfast. We're not dying of hunger anytime soon. The anxiety simply vanishes.

These days there's no feeding anxiety anymore, but the subconscious is a very interesting companion. Another night I dreamed that somehow I was at my intended goal, and I didn't know how that happened so fast, and then felt an overwhelming happiness because now I could eat at any hour again! I woke up, and said "Nice try, subconscious", and happily resumed my sleep.

The brain in survival mode acts in funny ways.
There was recently a naming rationalisation in which they decided to continue calling everything Nix. (https://discourse.nixos.org/t/2022-08-25-documentation-team-...)
I'm waiting for something to compile right now

So I guess I like to read your posts while I wait <3
I could care less if a team is ‘agile’ but I do care if it has practices that are effective for the group and the work that it does. If anything a good process is not about using good methods but avoiding the bad ones that predictably blindside people every time.

For instance, I think the kanban concept is more basic than estimation. That is, teams that keep starting new work without finishing the old work are working very hard but get very little ‘done’. Thus you have some limit on how many tickets can be open. I know a very well run cafe where that’s the main management practice they use, only taking orders when they are running low on work in progress.

My beef with estimation is that the model that ‘task A has N subtasks and you can estimate the individual subtasks and add them up’ (which works well in a certain sense) is often less correct with the model that ‘the developer sends a work unit to the tester which may or not be sent back to the developer’… in which case the most important factor for how long it takes to do work is how many times you send it off to the tester.

Sometimes I dream about working with a ‘tester’ in a much more closely coupled way than I do. I always have to ‘test’ something myself to convince myself it works to avoid the embarrassment of sending something to the tester that is 100% busted. I frequently spend a huge amount of time setting up tools and environments for testing. That includes the traditional unit testing (which runs quickly) but also processes like building a full text search index for a system with a few million records, testing to see that a machine learning model builds automatically and works properly, that a full text search engine gives relevant results, or spending four hours building a database so I can run interactive queries against it.

If somebody was helping out on that kind of stuff and could test stuff I do with a turnaround of minutes instead of ‘fill out a lot of paperwork and wait 2 days to 2 weeks’ I’d spend more time thinking and coding. (W/ the caveat that thinking about testing can lead to a better design more often than it leads to Test Driven Design Deformation.)
What functional languages is it better than? I'll give you a list of all the FP languages off the top of my head that people use to build stuff:

- Haskell

- Scala

- Kotlin (not FP but better than Java at it)

- Clojure

- Scheme

- Common Lisp

- Erlang

- Elixer

- PureScript

- Elm

- TypeScript (not even FP but moreso than Java lol)

I really doubt you can say it's clearly better than even one.
Nuclear is great as baseload, but it is more expensive than wind/solar when you just look at pure generation without storage. So we definitely need to get nuclear built out, but you want as much cheap renewables as you can get the grid to support, and as little expensive nuclear as possible.

And it's not what you would use for CO2 capture. For that you would use renewables, because it doesn't matter what time of the day you do it, or for how long you do it continuously. So just direct excess renewable power into CO2 capture.
> technologically inferior to USB-C

How so?
This (HN or whatever)
Weird. I was just looking at this exact document again while playing the flare-on CtF.
A democracy is underestimated when the problems are known and shared honestly instead of being hidden by a dictator with a big ego.

Both can prosper when things go good, it's when shit hits the fan that you notice the difference.
Another way to look at it is the people at Google are all now quasi-retired with kids and wouldn't be so mad if some scrappy startups ate their business lunches (while they are at home with their fams). Perhaps they are just subsidizing research.
I didn't mention extra bureaucracy. I just explained why visibility and predicability are a good idea, which you seem to agree with.
I used to run an outboard FIR filter for my subwoofer with weights calculated (in part) using REW. I can't recall the actual DSP hardware model, but it was a pretty amazing effect when you toggled it on/off.

Today, I just have a miniDSP that does basic crossover duty. I haven't bothered to do any parametric EQ or more advanced filtering in my new office yet. The passive acoustic treatments have done such wonders that I probably can't be now.

I don't really like running anything above 80Hz through digital filters that I have constructed myself. I've had some success in a few areas, but you can instantly tell something isn't quite right with certain content.
The progress of content generation is disorienting! I remember studying Markov Chains and Hidden Markov Models for text generation. Then we had Recurrent Networks which went from LSTMs to Transformers now. At this point we can have a sustained pseudo conversation with a model, which will do trivial tasks for us from a text corpus.

Separately for images we had convolutional networks and Generative Adversarial Networks. Now diffusion models are apparently doing what Transformers did to natural language processing.

In my field, we use shallower feed-forward networks for control using low-dimensional sensor data (for speed & interpretability). Physical constraints (and good-enoughness of classical approaches) make such massive leaps in performance rarer events.
Two dozen is 24, not 12.

This is how many grandmasters admitted cheating, not how many players globally have admitted it.

As of 2021 there were 1,315 active grandmasters. [0]

24/1,315 = ~1.8% of grandmasters admit cheating (give or take a few depending on how many play online chess or are still active). In my opinion, that is a serious problem.

[0] https://chessdelta.com/how-many-chess-grandmasters-are-there...
I live in US and all SAE measurements are expressed in metric measurements. I am studying structural engineering.

Even 3/4 plywood is always 18mm, not 19.05mm.
I would trust motors over an engine any day. Look at the contraption that is an ICE: You have fuel-, oil-, and air-delivery systems... you have ignition systems... you have mechanical parts violently changing directions thousands of times per minute...

A motor is metal spinning in a magnetic field, powered by chemical reactions in a battery.

Which seems more likely to fail?
Pack a book in my backpack and read it.

It is helpful to apply the kanban principle and have exactly one task you do while waiting so you don’t waste time switching between tasks.
I was looking for logfmt mentioned in the article and couldn't find it.

Also stripe's canonical log lines[1] solve this problem nicely

1: https://stripe.com/blog/canonical-log-lines
“But then the inevitable might occur!” — someone at Google probably.
Bots have existed for almost as long as the WWW, google couldn't index the web without them.
There is something deeply unsettling about all text generated by these models.
Also not OP, but I find the best way to learn a new language is to attempt a project using just the documentation. In my mind, the documentation for the language should provide methods, paradigms, and patterns required to think in that language (and get the benefits). E.g., Starting as complete noob and following the rules as written by the language itself.

This is a different approach from: how do I turn some code I wrote in language X to language Y? Similar to transliterating a spoken language versus learning it from the ground-up. Going from Spanish to Italian, you can kindof get away with word-for-word replacement in the same order and get the gist. You can't really do that with, say, Japanese, where there are far more rules not just of grammar but of register and assembly which are nonexistent in romantic languages. In other words, you might learn some vocabulary, but you'll face a big challenge to learning the language with this approach.

Both approaches are completely valid, but you'll get further (farther?) with one than the other. You may also realize you are using the wrong language for the project in the process. For example, when I first started heavily using PERL in the mid-90's, and then switched back to C, I was really frustrated I couldn't operate with strings and regexes so recklessly like I did in PERL, but that's because I was using the wrong language (C) for something that should have stayed in PERL.
Strassen has _not_ stood as the fastest way, whether you look at the exponent or the constant factor.

It's probably more accurate to say Strassen was the first in a series of complexity improvements to matrix multiplication, most of whom are theoretical curiosities and have prohibitively high constant factors preventing them from ever been used in practice.

Even if all you cared about was the exponent, Strassen was beaten decades ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_multiplication#Computat...
Indian demographics is FAR worse than China's going forward. Her demographic divident is mostly done / wasted - the few affluent and educated states are aging out, massively overpopulated, under-educated and poor states are younger but have little prospects with atrocious labour particapation rate. That's a far bigger recipe for disaster than PRC who at ~5x per capita wealth and massive savings rate to manage demographic transition.

Reality is, India demographics is less blessing and more curse, she has to tackle a far larger overpopulation crisis with fewer resources and opportunities. Her economic growth / ability to generate new jobs has rarely kept up with population growth, and with automation, offshoring spreading out to smaller countries, there won't be same amount of manufacturing jobs to elevate India as it did PRC. India looks to be destined to get old while staying lower middle-income VS PRC who will at least enter high income. And once the old start dying in PRC , there will be huge amounts of generational wealth transfers that analysts predict will increase / sustain highend consumption. What Apple is really anticipating is being squeezed out due to geopolitics and rise in domestic PRC luxury brands.

That said, still India has 1.4B people and aggressive tariff policies to encourage local assembly / sales, but in terms of market power, there will be more high income PRC nationals vs Indians for Apple tax tier products, and that won't meaningfully converge unless India goes all in on income disparity.
Industrial Training Institutes ( ITI)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_training_institut...

And Diplomas also referred as Polytechnic institutes are some alternatives to the traditional 4 yr Engg schools in India.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diploma_(India)
> Way too many people supported Y. Kilcher's antics.

What antics are you referring to exactly? That he called out 'ai ethicists' who make arguments along the lines of "neural networks are bad because they cause co2 increase which hits marginalized/poor people"?
I have people in my groups that are on android. Doesn't seem to be an issue for them. Then again, if I want to have a real conversation, I just call them.
Your personal beef with a company is not a basis for making it "arguable".

And Apple gave even my teensy little company (when it was running) discounts. They have (or at least had) a business program which required some proof of business license (DUN, or summat?), and enjoy your discount. I'd look it up, but parent isn't going to, so I won't bother.
and then there's x32, the (abandoned?) project for taking advantage of most of AMD64 while keeping pointers as 32bit to conserve memory
Yes but the sqlite CoC also says that it's a covenant between all current developers and their users, and for any project seeking contributions that's going to make people consider things. If you were a user, then well, you're a user, so enjoy the one-way covenant. But if you're a developer and an atheist as you say, then I don't see how that covenant as worded would stand.

I see this as similar to a company that says while all its current employees pledge themselves to a religious covenant, it has never discriminated against anyone on the basis of religious faith; and yet all current employees make that pledge. If in fact the wording on the completeness of the covenant is in error, it should be easy enough to point out a sqlite developer who does not make this pledge.
Indeed! Back in the days when I used to develop software using C++ on Windows, I have had my own fair share of dealing with "SideBySide" errors because I had the wrong version of runtime library on the target system where my software would run.

I have a Stack Overflow question at https://stackoverflow.com/q/8913543/303363 which taught me how to identify the right version of the runtime library and how to fetch it. I don't do software development for Windows in C++ these days but once in a while I do look back at this question to fondly remember the days of C++ programming on Windows.

Except for the tiny "SideBySide" glitch (which was quite confusing at first), software development with C++ on Windows using Visual Studio as the IDE was a pleasant experience. Backward compatibility was (probably still is?) a strong suit of Windows. A software written in the 1990s worked fine all the way up to 2015 or so, often with no changes or no recompile/rebuild required. The binaries and DLLs would just work fine without issues on newer versions of Windows as long as the CRT the software was built with is also packaged in the software distribution.
I don't think diplomatic solutions are possible when one side says "this land that we don't currently occupy is ours", especially when the people in charge view admitting they were mistaking as a existential personal failure. The best you can hope for is balance-of-power detente.
Hum, no. If you go calling some infinite WIP generating process by the name that has as the one most important principle "no matter what you do, keep WIP down", it's you that are bastardizing the language.
Yotta looks incredibly similar to what Simple once was (before being bought out and shutdown). The key Simple feature being the ability to allocate and lock portions of bank account holdings to specific goals, so you held it but couldn't spend it. Looks very similar to the buckets.

I loved my Simple account, this looks like a great replacement for it.
...anywhere that has the required local supply logistics, low labour cost, etc.

If it could truly be done anywhere it would still be happening in the US.
It will help content producers avoid hiring to achieve good results.

I’m using AI to aid development of a game engine with a baked in model to replicate and help the user evolve the game world style, and rules, to their curiosity and tastes. Games will be even easier since familiar experiences are heavily constrained through painstaking play test. Game world generation parameters are finite. Even the art work we appreciate most is often constrained to a handful of style patterns; consider how flat web design was suddenly everywhere with only colors differing. Whole lot of the same goes into game asset production.

Gabe Newell called content creating AI an extinction level event for multimedia business. Of course politics as usual will be leveraged to create private monopoly of such technology unless open sourced.

Our best bet is such software is open source and thus aristocrats cannot lock it up behind artificial scarcity and copyright maximalism.
In Australia employees provide a form to their employer which is basically "set aside tax from my pay as though this is my only source of income" vs "tax me at a higher rate".

IIRC the wording on the form is simplified to make it seem like the question is "do you have another source of income?"
IT has been disrupting itself for six decades and there are more developers than ever, with high pay.
> Pythonista is what python developers call themselves.

Just curious, where have you seen this exactly?

I think I heard it once in real life, over the last decade, used by a non-technical manager. I’ve only read it a few times, online, also mostly by non-python users. I’ve never called myself a pythonista, and I’ve never known anyone who has. But, I also have never been in a group with individuals that know, or identifies as, a single language.
Drone footage shows orcas chasing and killing great white shark
If you could find a way to train cats to solve integrals, wouldn't that be a Nature paper and not a math one?
Windows application installers generally are just binary blobs that can do as they please, so just pinning an installer will not imply that the resulting installation will be deterministic - a lot of installers by design change the global state of the system and download stuff during the installation process. If you want packaged on Windows, try choco.

Edit: fixing autocorrect typos.
Consciousness as a Memory System, Andrew Budson et al.
You do realize that by spamming this entire thread with very strongly worded posts and yet very little supporting evidence, that you are just making people disregard your views?

If you are hoping to educate and convert people to what you consider the correct path forward, your current approach is definitely not the right one.
I'm not familiar with the Norwegian education system but didn't you have classes that required writing essays or at least short answers? If kids go through over a decade of schooling and still cannot write a coherent message well into adulthood, something is fundamentally flawed.
I feel like this is very similar to those people who say "have you seen GPT-3? Soon there will be no programmers anymore and all of the code will be generated," and it's wrong for the same reasons.

Can GPT-3 generate good code from vague prompts? Yes, it's surprisingly, sometimes shockingly good at it. Is it ever going to be a replacement for programmers? No, probably not. Same here. This tool's great grandchild is never going to take a rough idea for a movie and churn out a blockbuster film. It'll certainly be a powerful tool in the toolbox of creators, especially the ones on a budget, but it won't make art generation obsolete.
Find the weaknesses of AI generated imagery and do the things that it can't.
It took less than a year to secure most of the needed gas in EU from other places, OP says it takes 8 years to switch only 10% of apple production.
"If you can only operate out of airports (without vtol), the useful range of the airplane will be significantly reduced"

Why do you say that? That's backward. VTOL consumes a huge amount of energy, far more than a traditional rolling takeoff.
only the sane ones (probably a lot less then 50%)
> Yep. Just another example of why we should never trust google.

The other alternative is that you have some support person on the end of the phone who can grant access to accounts. Historically this has been a ripe for social engineering attacks leading to stolen accounts.

It is not hard to setup mfa on your google account so that there are no single points of failure.
Seriously? Is this the nit you're going to pick on to argue my thesis?

Yes, I have been privy to the pain of custom home builds and remodels. The difference is, when someone says "oh damn the plumbing isn't working as well as we would like", when the contractor says that's not feasible to fix without gutting the house back to studs at the cost of hundreds of thousands, people understand that intuitively. They don't say "can't you just drill some holes and run some new pipes diagonally through the living space".

Software is malleable, opaque, and ever-changing. Construction and maintenance costs of physical infrastructure can be explained in a way that a reasonable lay person can understand. That is not true of software at scale.
> We could have another dozen Hubble clones in orbit

We probably do already, they're just pointed in the wrong direction and unavailable for scheduling.
And what exactly is the "it" that you "feed to graphviz"?

Creating a graphical rendering of data is not what I was referring to when I spoke of drawing a picture. What I meant was actually drawing, i.e. using MacDraw or PowerPoint or a pencil and paper and drawing. Because that is what people mostly do when they use UML.
incredible! can't wait to start using this :D
So you think unit tests are a bad idea?
The overwhelming majority of storage used will not be batteries, unless some new chemistry's cost is very low.

Large-scale storage will be very cheap, on par with panels. It really is just civil engineering. Any competent civil engineer can sketch a practical, cheap storage system using only century-old tech.

Hand-wringing over utility-scale storage amounts to concern trolling.