skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Round tripping through conversions to other codesets was always only temporarily needed, and for most non-Unicode codesets it was always limited to one or a handful of scripts (e.g., you could not round-trip text that included CJK and Cyrillic through any non-Unicode codeset). So I'm not sure that having that feature was all that important. However, early on it was indeed helpful to obtaining adoption to be able to convert with simple lookup tables.
Awesome work.

Would you be willing to share details about the fine-tuning procedure, such as the initialization, learning rate schedule, batch size, etc.? I'd love to learn more.

Background: I've been playing around with generating image sequences from sliding windows of audio. The idea roughly works, but the model training gets stuck due to the difficulty of the task.
> A dystopia not unlike the one that led to the "Great Revolt" in the Dune series.

I'm glad you brought this up; I've found the term 'Butlerian Jihad' coming increasingly to mind when I read AI threads on HN. It's interesting to think about a future where we potentially put prohibitions on the use of AI for moral reasons.

https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Butlerian_Jihad
That's not quite fair. They made 1 good design decision (killing pointers).
This is really interesting. I had to give up on Perl on Windows because Windows Defender was forever flagging anything compiled with Par::Packer as a virus and deleting it.

Shame there isn't a portable windowing toolkit you could use with this. I'm pretty sure it's not possible to get the Qt or GTK bindings to work across all platforms from a single install, even if you are using the toolkit's widgets instead of trying to use the platform native widgets.
Your demo/merch site renders a lot of unnecessary scroll bars on Chrome. Did you test it with other browsers?
> Now of course we're a long way away from that.

I am no longer confident of that.
Better! The last sentence still sounds like "magic," but this is getting closer to my mental comprehension of how you get from BASIC and Python to GPT.
Looks like the top comment was spot on. Were HN users the "Avengers" mentioned in OP?
Wow that's actually pretty extreme. I remember my CFI used this to track my solo flights.
I'm looking for work in this space. 4 years of experience as a DS at a 1m customer electric utility, extensive experience with meter usage data, ML, data pipelines. Traditional background as mechanical engineer so I know physics and stuff.
Innovation in nuclear has made it politically viable in the first place. If we still had to use 1970s nuclear tech it would be a hard sell.

In any case, I’m always skeptical of “we can’t do X without doing Y” arguments because they’re usually about making the perfect the enemy of the good rather than X actually being precluded by not having Y.
Spend a week of running the JVM in production without tuning it challenge [IMPOSSIBLE]
Not released this year but I still play a lot of Terraforming Mars which is a good game. From this year I have played Ark Nova and that was great as well.
Getting reps together in a room far from their constituents does sound pretty XVIII at this point. I mean, there will always be some amount of https://youtu.be/p0xg_pu6hMc?t=1027 sausage making, but why privilege reps over their constituents when it comes to communications proximity?

(the first time I ever floated this idea, people were laughing at the notion of politicians typing "A/S/L" to each other, which will give you all some idea of how long I think it's technically been possible)
So you argue that you should increase the risk of death or disability by COVID by not vaccinating. Got it.
It's near the end of the quarter and holidays tends to be less productive time for employees with many taking extra time off anyway. Even with the very generous severance is still makes sense to announce these layoffs before some of the least productive times.

Also personally, I think I'd rather know about being laid off before going into the new year.
He is likely hoping the courts change course if he brings up safety and terrorism. He may not be wrong as the Supreme Court has changed longstanding decisions on larger topics recently.
Yeah, but it's only possible because we, the software engineers, make it so. We could as a collective refuse to work on AI but we won't because it's a pretty, shiny, object with far too much lure for us to resist.
I care more about what happens to the estates and heirs of the 3M less than millionaire regular Americans that die every year and what happens to their estates than I do about the ~15 billionaires that die each year.

> Selling everything you own the day after you die should have the same tax implications as selling everything the day before you die.

I agree with that . That's exactly why the vast majority of family homes would be passed along tax-free, with stepped-up basis (as was my point above: "the basis should be as of the date of death, with any taxes due owed from the estate, not the heirs" [which I thought earlier you "Couldn't disagree more"]).
I don't speak to my neighbors.

My blood family consists of violent homophobes that would shoot my house up if they ever learned I'm gay (or where I live).

I have a dedicated online persona (fursona, really) that I keep compartmentalized from people I distruat.

Some of my friends are trans.

Some of my friends have abusive ex-partners and stalkers.

Some of my friends are sex workers who need social media to find customers but don't want their real names leaked.

How would your proposal serve any of these use cases? From where I stand, it'd be more of a hindrance.
> If the company gives you a lump sum then you may be able to.

Yep, in the case of the lump sum you're not being paid after you're given the lump sum. I was laid off in 2014. Got 4 months in a lump sum when I went out the door. There were no problems applying for unemployment.
how many of them had an existing underlying condition? the broad numbers suggest ~85% https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6915e3.htm
This is just a copy paste of the first 2 lines in the article. Is this a bot @dang?
US real median household income is 55% higher in 2019 than 1990.

https://twitter.com/MichaelRStrain/status/160341481147113472...
Yeah...the thing about the talks (I'm quite good at that stuff), is that they also skew young, and generally, at least around here, they are considered as currency, so there's a lot of competition for them. I could really give a rat's ass about ego, and I'm not looking for work, so I'm not interested in mud-wrestling some hungry young turk, with a syllabus full of Buzzword Stew, for a speaking engagement.

I'm good at Swift and native Apple stuff. I've given courses on it, in the past. I was actually shocked to find out that no one is really interested in that, out here. I could go into the city, but, quite frankly, I'd rather eat ghost peppers.
Been using Reader as my primary reading + save for later app for a few months. It's truly a joy — it's fast, simple, and works really well. There's obviously a cold-start problem where you need to use it for a bit to get most of the value, so I'd encourage anyone here that's interested in a similar app to give it a couple weeks.
> Technically the compiler technically did nothing wrong

I don't know a single language where integers are "promoted" to floats when they get large; certainly no statically typed language. You could argue JavaScript does this, but it's neither compiled nor does it actually have integers. So yes, if a compiler did that it would be a bug.
> Which of them do you propose would cause the American public (and others worldwide; we see excess deaths increased everywhere, whether they required masking or closed schools or did very little to mitigate) to suddenly start dying in significantly higher numbers - again, of any cause - for the last two years - and especially so at the same time large COVID waves are occurring?

I can give one example, which happened to my dad...

"Sorry, we have to reschedule that surgery to remove the tumor because we're anticipating a covid spike and need the bed availability."

Repeat until he died due to cancer spreading.
The paper those numbers are based on is Assessing the age specificity of infection fatality rates for COVID-19: systematic review, meta-analysis, and public policy implications https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7721859/

The meta-analysis is looking at that question that you are asking.

It also has all the papers that it cites for analysis and an analysis of its own limitations.

> The systematic review encompassed 113 studies, of which 27 studies (covering 34 geographical locations) satisfied the inclusion criteria and were included in the meta-analysis.
Is there some other publicly available historical USENET archive that you recommend? I'd rather not use Google too.
Exploring Monads with JavaScript
But of the reasons Books gives, most apply regardless of the project being late, such as the communication overhead and the fact that splitting the project neatly is difficult.
It should say that the notion of intellectual property is nonsensical.
My first job in tech was ~13 years ago and I was making $9/hr. working part-time for a local ISP answering phones and racking servers. I had to commute every day rain or shine. I didn't get to do much until I pestered the network admin enough times to let me have access to a shell so I could learn to write Perl and automate some of my repetitive work.

I did that for a few years, then worked somewhere making slightly more, and slightly more, a few times to an entirely new city, and increasingly gained experience, resume cred, and made more money each time. Eventually I got to FAANG, and then even left that for a FAANG-related company with better pay. My coworkers are all college educated, have multiple degrees from prestigious universities. I barely graduated High School, failed more than a few classes, and never considered myself a super intelligent person. Years later I have designed and built a number of large and complex distributed systems for the largest companies in the world. Learned a dozen programming languages. Mentored and hired countless engineers, including a few from MIT, Stanford, etc.

I'm sure luck played a big part, but there are a LOT of us who went from nothing to a pretty great career and are self-taught. The idea that you need a "High IQ" or a formal education is bunk. A little bit of self improvement and motivation can go a long way.
Doubling prices in the face of a recession, especially where tech companies are cutting back is undoubtably a company-killing decision.

How many months from now will there be a "I take full responsibility for these 25% layoffs" email?
Toyota to outline 3-year EV plan changes to suppliers
It's foolish to think that lack of religion makes you experience any less of a dirty game.
Almost certainly not the one you're thinking of.
Besides u/ipython's comment that Unicode did not exist when DNS was designed, consider too that Punycode is not the problem here. The problem here is the surfeit of homographs (similar looking glyphs w/ different codepoints and semantics) in Unicode. Punycode is not the issue. IDNA itself is not the issue either.

Punycode is complexity, for sure, and it could perhaps have been avoided by just decreeing that non-ASCII labels are UTF-8 on the wire in DNS. This was considered, and you can imagine the lengthy threads that that topic produced then and still occasionally produces now at the IETF!
Thanks for the link! $15 is a reasonable price where a company hyper focused on lowering the cost of manufacturing of C02 extraction machines, could become very competative withing a reasonable timeframe.
I claim pipe dream, otherwise AIs can program themselves and we will have the singularity. Will it be good or evil?
wow, I never contemplated before whether that kind of language design could be evil, but you make me think it might be. Maybe not in the ordinary course of sensible use, but in some horrible "I didn't think of that". Then I feel a bit hypocritical because I'm sure I've relied on a hundred more problematic abstractions without worrying about it.
Just an FYI but your link 404's. I assume it is a private repo.
Message Matthew[at]cloudflare.com and explain the issue. He should be able to help, question is if he has time to help. Good luck.
Beyond parody:

https://twitter.com/JoJoFromJerz/status/1603432720062976001
Nobody ever likes these announcements. Half the comment thread would rule at your “can barely sleep” comment. They’re too human or too detached, too brief or too prescriptive. At the end of the day, there are fewer things that matter to a firm than the text of their lay-off announcement.
Wow, I just learned so much about spectograms, had no idea that one could reverse one into audio waves!
> As far as I know the types in Rust are never silently coerced to anything.

There are some specific coercion sites and kinds: https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/type-coercions.html
If I were in your situation with the knowledge I have now, I'd say, in order of priority

1. Make sure you understand and accept the position you're in

2. Try and understand that changing ourselves is done 1 thing at a time

3. Exercice (very important)

4. Write down some realistic goals and set up a few hours each day to work towards them.

Don't beat yourself too much, enjoy the little things in life (for me, beer, eating, and coffee), and stay kind with your fellow humans
The only thing that affects whether you have a job is the Federal Reserve, not how good productivity tools are. You always have comparative advantage vs an AI, so you always have the qualifications for an entry level job.

There will never be a revolution and there's no such thing as late capitalism. Well, not if the Fed does their job.
If it does what I think it does, then you've found the holy grail.
> "Converting this to micromort language, an individual living in New York City has experienced roughly 50 additional micromorts of risk per day because of Covid-19. That means you were roughly twice as likely to die as you would have been if you were serving in the U.S. armed forces in Afghanistan throughout 2010, a particularly deadly year."

This is highly misleading. The average individual may be at such risk, just like humans have ~1.9 legs on average, but that doesn't mean that everyone walks around with their 1.9 legs.

So those statistics are based on the risk to the general population and therefore have approximately zero relevance to any single person.

Almost by definition, the disease will claim those most vulnerable first, so questioning whether vaccination is worth it for those less vulnerable is valid.

What're the risks of vaccination vs covid for a healthy 25 year old who works from home?
+1 for Pangeo. We use these toolsets heavily (Xarray, Zarr, Dask) to run our service, which is essentially what you described as taking the larger gridded datasest to ARCO format. I think this is still a bit too heavy for casual Excel/GIS analysts so we try to make it as simple as possible for them to get climate data in CSV or NetCDF format for their work.
Offline Speech Recognition in Android (2019)
You are demonstrating that lack of empathy. Artist's works are being stolen and used to train AI, that then produces work that will affect that artist's career. The advancement of this tech in the past 6 months, if it maintains this trajectory, demonstrates this.
This sounds really interesting. Would be really interested to work around these things. Thinking and working a lot with similar-ish systems. But not sure how to enter the related green-tech space when living in Europe. Would love to try to build a product myself but then I need a customer to try ideas with.
I was able to view the content without logging in ... ?
You can also apply clustering or train a classification model based on embeddings.
If copyright laws don't catch up, the sampling industry is cooked.

Made this: https://soundcloud.com/obnmusic/ai-sampling-riffusion-waves-...
What compiler does that? What you're describing sounds like a weirdly designed type system, not a compiler that implements it.

That said, this is an example of the compiler being wrong.

If a value is changed to a data representation with different comparison semantics, and later compared to a different value of a different representation, it means the original optimization (hand wave over the definition of that) was unsound in the first place. AOT compilers would classify this as a bug that needs to be fixed imminently, and JIT compilers that do this kind of thing use something called dynamic deoptimization to remove the change once its been invalidated.
Your domain's registry's policies do not affect labels below your domain.
I apologize, when I said your choice of demographic I meant your choice of demographic that encompasses "young" as per the topic of your original comment.

Yes, when including the elderly, cancer and heart disease are greater causes of health-related deaths. Is COVID-19 not the #1 health-related cause of death for "young" people?

> accidents, suicide, drug overdoses and homicide

Not long ago this discussion was about health risks, such as infectious diseases or medical complications. But yes, young people can be pretty reckless.

We were doing arithmetic, such as multiplying the risk of myocarditis and hitherto uncorrelated medical complications by 1.0, and then a number that is likely several orders of magnitude larger (death by COVID, not even the much, much more likely disablement of "long covid") by a number you erroneously claimed was 0.25 and was perhaps around 0.6 almost a year ago (anti-body study, 9/2021-2/2022).
That ejection has https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornfield_Bomber vibes.
Apparently it means the process of Spain and Portugal claiming Mexico and Brazil, and how Mexico and Brazil were created the same time the Russian Empire expanded to its current size. (I'm not familiar enough with the geopolitical history of Russia/Ukraine to know how well that analogy truly works)
I disagree. Yes, the specific website is for engineers and manufacturing businesses, but everything discussed here and in the article applies just as much to any e-commerce store. The core idea is: the store doesn't waste your time.

> And in the end we're left with: make a fast website, clean UI, intuitive flows.

That is what almost all e-commerce platforms fail at, on top of abusive, adversarial design.
Yep.

Fuck authoritarians!

Never forget.
Telemetry: The Precursor to High Performance
> The OpenPGP preferences are not applicable to symmetric encryption. In that case the implementation has to guess what method will be supported by the decrypting implementation. In most cases it would make sense to use the most widely implemented method. That is always going to be the one that has been used since forever.

I agree, if you don't know the capabilities of the implementation decrypting the message then it makes sense to be conservative, and wait until AEAD is widely implemented before using it.

> I have already been involved in a difficult usability issue caused by an implementation producing one of these new incompatible encryption modes.

I also think that generating AEAD encrypted OpenPGP messages today is irresponsible, since the crypto refresh is still a draft, not an RFC yet. Even if the decrypting implementation can read the message today, the draft could still change (although now that it's in Working Group Last Call it's unlikely), and then you'd have an even bigger problem.

But I think that's the fault of the implementation, not of the (proposed) standard. If we eventually want to have the security and performance benefits of AEAD, we have to specify it today (well, or yesterday, but that's a bit hard to change now ^.^).
What makes you think that? Serious events for regular covid was heavily skewed towards the elderly.
Switched over from instapaper and it's been great
Thank you for reminding me of this film!
I think it is different because you don't need any pictures to create a paintbrush or a pencil. You can still have the AI code as tool, but without the dataset (images), it won't go anywhere.
At no risk for what?
Trump lends his legitimacy to NFTs!
> I can't imagine the amount of corporate brainwashing needed to get to this level of thinking.... Not having to be a wage slave to survive is a good thing for humanity.

Corporate brainwashing, why? That is just realistic. I mean we know earlier people with much harder lifes actually had more free leisure time.. and even Ford imagined with all the automation we may be able to work much less and have better lifes.. still here we are: A few people making tons of money, some soing very good to okayish, but the vast majority doing 2-3 low paying crap jobs to survive.. and we all even workong more than decades ago. How?
CRC32 is fine for kilobyte-sized data packets.

For files, it is useless. Even if that was expected, I have computed CRC32 for all the files on an SSD. Of course, I have found thousands of collisions.
It was never a pandemic of the unvaccinated. That was just propaganda.
One existing water heater innovation:

https://www.mixergy.co.uk/products/mixergy-tank/

Has both stupid innovation (Alexa integration) and sensible (working with the grid to balance demand, innovative design that saves energy and heats up faster when you need it quickly)
I had completely forgotten that I'd switched on the CloudFront logging. The map is really cool - really interesting to see all the places people are.
> Honestly though why would anyone have this attitude

WHAT? I am paying for a service. I expect that service to be completed well. And it typically is. The service I am paying for does not include nor warrant "small talk", why should it?

> has zero downside

Incorrect. I have to pretend to be interested in whatever inane topic they want to discuss, or ones I don't have any interest in or care about. I have to use my brain power on a useless distraction.

> a meaningful conversation

I don't want a meaningful conversation from a haircut. Nor do I want it while shopping, or a mechanics shop, or any other random ass place where I am trying to get errands done. Service, money, done. Nothing else needed. Not everyone wants to deal with -you- or your fake ass pleasantries. I don't want to deal with someone pretending to know me, or like me, or be nice because _its literally their job_. I want to pay for my services and go away.
Isn't light bend more or less falling apart? I thought they announced they would no longer publish changes to play
Explicit types are useful in some places. Type inference doesn't mean you can't use them, just that you don't have to spell them out everywhere even when they aren't useful.
Scrap peer review and slash research funding. Saves taxpayer money, and saves science.
One of the professors, Dan Stefanica edits a book series on mathematics for financial engineering http://www.fepress.org/fin_eng_background_series/

I've been waiting for the probability and differential equations books for a while :/
Pointer Events in React Native
Safari suffers from the way it’s released. Updates are tied to OS updates.

A lot of the stuff going on with Safari is positive for users. I don’t want Chrome on my computer, let alone my phone.
Strange, I always get presented with a login page and no way to bypass. Maybe it's a chrome thing.
Can you expand on this? Is this a generic criticism of GraphQL? Apollo server? Client? And what do you mean by opposite track?

I really like GraphQL but agree that it‘s not trivial to implement well.

I also think it recently became a bit less relevant for web applications (React server components come to mind) but it‘s still very useful for some web apps, mobile apps and generally for designing nice APIs.
I tought the same.
Oh, Joe, you went there!

>President Joe Biden took a jab at Trump on Twitter, noting that he, too, had had some “MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENTS,” over the last couple of weeks, including signing the Respect for Marriage Act and securing the release of basketball star Brittney Griner from a Russian prison.

https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1603455603606798378