skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Test suites are not reflection complete!

This is true of all the existing NLP benchmarks but I don't see why it should be true in general. In machine vision, for example, benchmarks like ImageNet were still useful even when people were trying to optimize directly for them. (ImageNet shows its age now but that's because it's too easy).

I hope we can come up with something similarly robust for language. It can't just be a list of 1000 questions, otherwise it will end up in the training data and everyone will overfit to it.

For example, would it be possible to generate billions of trivia questions from WikiData? Good luck overfitting on that.
Does this offer 4x RX and 4 TX channels? Or is it 8x RX channels? Is each individual channel capable of MSPS?
"Don't confuse starting fast with finishing fast."
I figured Aleppo, Syria
And even Debian tries to upstream fixes where feasible, which isn't too uncommon for security vulnerabilities, they tend to lurk in old parts of codebases that haven't been refactored for a while.
It looks like this also affects H.265 decoding.
Except proven has a strict definition here that leaves out other possibilities.

You could find some compound that reliably induces an effect in your own body, but has never been studied by anyone else. By the definition we're using here, that could be something thats working wonderfully but has no "proven" medical effects.

Not saying this is advisable, only that pharma companies and their trials don't dictate reality.
0% interest rates make companies throw money at useless products looking for returns because there wasn't any better use for the money. It's been like that for 5+ years, but this whole NFT/Bitcoin/Metaverse/AI meme series is the peak.

Here's to hoping that these higher interest rates make companies make actually useful and profitable products instead of a bunch of meme products.
> We need to fully understand its safety, nutritional content, and long-term health effects.

This is the same "reasoning" that ultimately led to ban on most GMO foods like actual long-term tasty tomatos.

For some reason we demand significantly stricter controls over anything "lab-grown" than on anything "natural".

Note: I'm not calling for lax controls. I'm callling for controls that are not more stringent than those on "natural" products.

Because honestly there's literally nothing natural about any food we consumr.
Rule 34a

If a format exists, then there is porn on it.
> Do people, on the whole, even want the metaverse?

To answer that, we first need a good answer to the question: "What the hell is the 'Metaverse' supposed to be?"

Because as long as that isn't answered, the question reads: "Do people, on the whole, even want another corporate buzzword?", and I think we all know the answer to that one.
Why is the component-based approach to CSS not working here? Am I missing something?
At an old job, we used probably hundreds of hardware and software vendors. I never had to deal with any of them directly, but I often spoke with those who did. There were complaints about all of them I'm sure, but the only ones that inspired bitch sessions over a drink were Oracle and Canonical. I'm told that both were just thoroughly unpleasant to deal with.
People did elect both Berlusconi and the current government.
Snaps are getting me off Desktop Ubuntu after 12 years of happily using it.
[Author of the linked review here]

I am happy that you like your machine. I have tried lots of them, including X230, X240, X1, X1C, X13s and others.

I deeply and thoroughly dislike them. Lenovo has destroyed one of the main reasons to own Thinkpads, IMHO.
“Middle-school dance”
Right, it saves time. But you have to know enough to spot when it's wrong, and to be able to figure out what to do when it's wrong. To do that, you still have to know a language.
OP has offline build instructions on github.... Props to them for linking there vs a "Sign Up Soon" landing page
I think it’s more like trying to translate the word “petrichor” (that particular smell that occurs after a rain) into a language of a culture that has not experienced rain before. Without the context of rain, how can you translate the word for its smell? The translation is dependent on a something that is not present.

This word is akin to that, maybe not entirely the same, but in that culture clearly there was a context that enabled a word to be created for it.
He has interesting ideas but then presents his alternate views, without a rigorous scientific approach, as settled. Worth investigating though.
No, users don't do it. The application developers do it in their CI pipelines. Application developers should be the ones building and testing the app, not distro maintainers responsible for a dozen other applications.
Nationalism isn’t necessarily bad, it also has many good features [0]. Maybe that’s your point, but the first sentence doesn’t make it clear.

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[0]: https://archive.ph/O27qG
That's right. But what I really like at Spotify is that I can start a track on my iPhone, which is connected to my music box, and then add tracks to the waiting list or change them from my iPad. I really miss this option in Apple Music.
> The Firefox deb (such as in 20.04) became unusable and tabs crashed when the deb was updated without a restart.

I never encountered that for any previous version of Ubuntu.

> AIUI the new snap implementation gets everything ready in the background, so the update on closing it and re-opening it is quick.

I hope they get it working soon as my experience is that "snap refresh" does nothing whilst Firefox is running and doesn't even notify you that there's updates available.
Ask HN: What Open-Source GPT-Powered Projects Are You Developing?
Hey HN!

I'm eager to learn about exciting open-source projects you're working on (or have heard of) that utilize GPT and other large language models. Let's share ideas and inspire each other.

Personally, I'm a fan of aicommits by Nutlupe (https://github.com/Nutlope/aicommits).

Can't wait to hear about your projects!
Here's the github from the article:

https://github.com/hpcaitech/ColossalAI
Do you hear yourself? You are admitting you have to stop for an hour any time you do a long trip, and apologetically claiming you can find something useful to do in that time. What kind of bs propaganda did you swallow? When I’m doing a road trip I don’t want to add one hour minumum per every few hundred miles, assuming I can find a charging station. Range limitations are the second reason why people don’t buy EVs, behind required home infrastructure expenses (a hidden one time tax).

My partner and I both drive cars that are almost 20 years old, so do our parents. Oil changes, tires, and a monthly fill up for $60 or trip fillup of $120 for about 700 miles. That’s it.

Todays EVs are like cell phones from 1985 with styling that appeals to the Pokémon generation.
You got one job, you'll get another.
At 100% capacity I already have range anxiety, I don't think I'll be happy with 70%.
Eastern Europe is actually the opposite, lower tourism than the west and higher industry: less offshoring + western countries relocated some industries to the east to benefits from lower wages

https://preview.redd.it/fmpg5f0i9bc31.png?auto=webp&s=96ce53...
Exactly.

And while I don't love OpenAI becoming increasingly closed, they really have done an excellent job with alignment that I very much doubt some of the signers of the letter would have.

So I'd much rather have the progress in AI continue to be led by a company pursuing caution than by another company that used those 6 months to catch up and take the lead with even less caution.

This is very much "out of the frying pan and into the fire" territory targeted at trying to stall OpenAI for competitive reasons and getting every outspoken person against AI for years in academia to jump onto signing it.
I actually have tried and unfortunately nothing beats Excel - PowerPoint. OneDrive added a killer feature a few years ago in auto Documents and Desktop backup which makes transitioning computers or using temp laptops painless - no more "re-imaging" and massive workload reduction for Tech suppprt. I assume you could now do this in DropBox as well but it wasn't so before OneDrive made this the default. Outlook client is also the only polished desktop mail client (ie. some mail is actally stored offline on laptop and you can pull up old emails on a flight or when you have poor connectivity) and I understand the server makes compliance easier.

Enterprises don't go Microsoft Suite because they are primarily good enough. In some categories, there is virtually no competiton and in others, the good enough is tolerable.
They must've been in a hurry,

"© Google 2022"
What the articles like this miss is that we understand pretty well how ChatGPT writes code. But what about maintenance, and particularly debugging? How would it make these tasks. And we know that these things take much much more time than writing code.
not really what you asked exactly but this seems cool:

https://github.com/hpcaitech/ColossalAI
I think they're referring to this:

/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/snap
/usr/bin/snap
/home/izkata/snap
/var/snap
/snap
Storing a git working tree in a cloud drive does seem like a bad idea, but the actual .git directory itself might be okay? I think most of the files in there are immutable or infrequently changed.
Instead, we made our cities so unpleasant and poorly designed that walking doesn't make sense.
Capable at the thing which matters, which is getting funding by gaming grant metrics that only look at the (easily measurable) quantity of citations and not the (impossible to measure) quality.
The same pause could also allow time for policymakers to make new governance systems for looking at AI. That would involve creating authorities that can track their development and ensure they are not pursuing dangerous ends.

Huh. When I first read Neuromancer back in the 1990's, I never thought we'd be getting actual Turing Police[1] in my lifetime.

[1]: https://williamgibson.fandom.com/wiki/Turing_Police
Which is probably itself a consequence of the fact energy is getting more expensive at a global scale since you need a decent amount to make fertilizers. You have to dig deeper/further for increasingly lower returns nowadays. Let's hope that enough of that energy is actually spent on energy transitioning or we're going to have big problems. (Ha, my bad, we're actually having big problems, right now)
The same thing that killed it every time someone writes an article like this, which is a couple of times a year: keyboards. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.
Have done this for a decade and a half... it obviously there is some variations but a few themes:

* Pay is decent, amazing locations like NYC / Manhattan, City of London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, nice buildings, some travel (business class, etc).

* High status... it shouldn't matter, but it does, even really crappy jobs in this sector give you instant credibility with the rest of society.

* Actual monetary compensation is decent... you won't starve, but it's kind of discounted because a lot of people are attracted to the first two items above.

* Code can be ok (at best)... or sometimes really crufty, so long as it does whatever it needs to do, lots of legacy stuff 10, 20 or more years behind.

* Most software is actually not actually that mission critical. Outside of a few very specific areas like high frequency trading, most errors can be undone with a phone call, or roll back and rerun it, etc.

* Some of the most important things are done in excel spreadsheets. All sorts of very sophisticated systems and algorithms send roll up to feeding their data into some spreadsheet for analysis/manipulation.

* It's all about the people, ultimately if the company is in the equity trading or life insurance business, those people will be the key decision makers, and tech is just a cost center. If you can fix things for those people, great, if you can't, nobody cares how good your coding is in an academic sense.
> Norway is largely there regarding transitioning, despite having a cold climate. Took less than 15 years and their grid didn't collapse

[Norway] "Sep 2022: Over 25% of all cars on the road are plug-in electric"[0]

They're just over 1/4 of the way there, I'm not sure I'd call that "largely there".

Persuading people with plenty of money to buy an EV is relatively easy, as one can tell from the tone of the comments here from EV owners, who seem broadly very happy with their vehicles.

Q: How do we propose to persuade the rest of society to switch? Apparently it won't be by throwing cash at the problem if one looks at Germany's take on the issue:

"Germany will reduce financial incentives to buy electric cars next year after an agreement within the governing coalition, as the vehicles' growing popularity makes government subsidies unnecessary, Germany's economy ministry said on Tuesday.

The incentives, or premiums, paid to buyers of electric cars will expire completely once an allocated sum of 3.4 billion euros ($3.44 billion) from the next two years' budget is spent, according to government sources."[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_electric_vehicles_in_N...
[1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/german-coalition-parties-...
cost =/= price
Something can be a populist vote-grab and a good idea at the same time.
> This seems no different than the ridiculous laws proposed in some US states recently that would ban EV sales to protect the oil and gas industries.

Is it not equally ridiculous to ban combustion engine sales?

It appears many want the government to “protect them from carbon”. Why is it bad for people to want to protect the robustness of their food supply?

If you view government as a way to protect the population (as it seems most here do), then it shouldn’t be surprising people use it to protect themselves.

Personally, I think a fair market where regulation is as minimal as possible is best. That said, I wouldn’t want a few corporations controlling my countries food supply. So, please keep the farms active and plentiful.

Similarly, I wouldn’t want car manufacturers of EV to receive any government benefit. Let’s see it produced and become dominate. As oil prices rise because it becomes a scarce resource, EVs would become popular. Of course, we haven’t actually seen a decline in oil production where that occurs, so we do it artificially.
That's what everyone says about my ThinkPad.

While they are clutching their gaudy HP laptop.
I had him as a teacher for my 2nd CS class in 1976, I think it was data structures using Pascal. I don't think I had another class which we laughed so much. Enough learning and fun that I considered switching my major from EE. And then he left to be part of the project that became Ada. It was still a good class, but it became a normal class. I stayed with EE. Thank you, Prof. Wulf, for that glimpse of something bigger. It stayed with me.
It hurts your credit, but you can forgo mortgage payments for over a year without risk of losing your house. Won't you be getting unemployment?
Rice won't cause you to have diabetes unless you're fat generally speaking or unless you already have diabetes type 1.. the most common type of diabetes is really diabetes 2.. you get diabetes 2 when you are obese and at the same time you eat high glycemic index foods..
As far as what kind of foods will cause you to become obese, rice is probably not on the top of the list because it's a low energy density food... Problem is once you become obese and and you thereby get insulin resistance, if you eat rice then your blood sugar will go up and that's called diabetes..

So the problem is eating rice if you're fat, but if you're skinny eating rice is not going to make you fat not generally unless you eat a lot because rice is a low energy density food relatively speaking
Does the potential for artistic beauty of a language decrease with increasing encoding efficiency?
I didn't demand anything, but merely ask if you'd like to provide a little more detail. I see that you're not open for intellectual discussions that question your beliefs though, so I guess we can cut this thread here.
But exactly this example got fixed! I maintained "inofficial" debian packages for quite some time, but since Debian bullseye came out `sudo apt install nextcloud-desktop` just works :-)
Do they really change though? The car example from the article feels stale, yet every single new car looks exactly like the cars on the picture. The stupid instagram face has been a thing since before covid. The movie posters go back to 2001, and I've seen a fair share of bleeding, crying, creepy eyes on the horror movie posters since then.

It feel like we're stuck in a global, homogenized, test-group-approved fashion loop.
We literally turned streets from areas for commerce and recreation in to killing strips.
It's so interesting to see the tone differences when SVB was on the edge vs Binance

I my speaking in general here because I have no idea what you're opinion may have been on the SVB depositor bailout. The large majority of commentary I saw over the weekend after SVB failed was how it would wreck average customers and how the government had to step in to make them while. I'm not sure if it's because this is Binance or crypto in general but it seems like people either don't care or want to see it fail regardless of their depositors' investments
That’s a wildly misleading take on nutrition.

Basically all foods are cells so they contain all the normal cellular machinery like DNA. As long as lab grown meat is just normal animal cells nothing new is going on.

Where you need to care about each individual molecule is if we where creating food one molecule at a time via a replicator or something so we could have wildly unusual ratios of these individual components. In that context sugar is actually less “natural” than lab grown meat because it’s so concentrated.
This. Also void and alpine. Which have simple, no-nonsense package formats. We get it that deb and rpm are a hassle to learn and write, but it's completely a false dichotomy to say snap or flatpak are the only alternative. In fact they push a widely different model of software distribution, one that completely destroys "user unions" which is a crucial aspect of what distributions are.
8x ADCs and 2x ADCs @ 153 MSPS -> 4x RX I/Q pairs and 1x TX I/Q pair. The way the math works, you can sample a 153 MHz signal at 153 MSPS using I/Q, or you can use each ADC line to sample at nyquist, and in that case you get 8x RF channels, each sampling 80 MHz at most. All untested, of course.
Those name protections also tend to protect established players and regions even if they ultimately may produce utter garbage.

I come from a small wine-producing country of Moldova. It produces or produced anything from wine to classical champagne to port to cognacs to...

Now it's only wine that can be called wine (thankfully it's been around for longer than most civilizations). And for the rest they had to come up with their own rather awkward names. And now it doesn't matter if a Moldovan "divin" is superior to a French Cognac. Because branding.
The grid argument is especially spurious since the power required for driving is so low. At a typical 10 kWh/100 km that a daily city commuter will draw, with most such cars charged overnight at home, you will add a grand total of 100 kWh to your monthly power bill for 1000 km.

This will cover the great majority of cars and city tips with essentially no grid upgrades. The other part of transport needs - commercial fleets, long distance hauling etc. - will have dedicated charging infrastructure paid for the businesses that operate them, since it will make economic sense for them to switch to electric.
It is also much easier to integrate any renewables or other power sources for that.

The big problem is mining the battery metals, involving worst kind of worker exploitation and danger, which is why we need ethically sourced nickel-sodium (also known as sodium-ion) tech to catch up with lithium-cobalt.

That's not going to happen under capitalism though.
Am I right in that these were fixed (at least in iOS), some time ago?

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-42856

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-30900
He came to D.C. as a Brazilian student. The U.S. says he was a Russian spy.
The description here is a huge put off for me — no substance. Generated by AI probably?
TLDR: The Italians only want to participate as a control group in a study of the long-term health risks of lab-grown meat. And they want to preserve the Mediterranean diet.
I'm sorry but Italy produces some of my favourite foods, I find it ridiculous to call this a doomed industry. Italy has basically developed some of the best foods for humanity through hundreds of years of craftsmanship, from parmesan to mozarella to pasta, or crudo ham.

If anything this should be protected just from a heritage perspective, like you protect an ancient castle or temple.

This might mean that food is more expensive, but I for one would pay more for it.

We don't have to burn everything good and old to the ground to make way for tech bros of HN creating fake meat.
That would definitely be better, although you're still only capturing part of what's available, or at least a biased sample of what's available. Different form factors come onto the market at different rates - some may never be on the market, or not in an easily accessible manner (sold locally, or via word of mouth, or via private auction etc). I think perhaps that's a distinction that the article fails to make, it's easier than ever to access goods and services from all over the world, but that ease also favours mass market products. If you put as much effort into doing whatever you're trying to do as someone would have pre-internet, you probably have access to at least as much variety as they did.
Ironically, writing with a stylus has many of the same issues as fountain pens, making cursive useful for writing on tablets.

The issues I notice: the stylus must be lifted far off the screen to deregister the touch. It’s also bad at registering where a pen down motion touches the screen if it’s in motion. Cursive writing makes the results neater.
Hiring Engineers in the Age of AI and ChatGPT
This is contrary to my experience: trends and fashion were short lived, trends lasting maybe half a year, and the fashion of the last season was definitely "out". Nowadays, there's a previously unknown stability and trends shift just minimally. Which enables this "everything looks the same" phenomenon as there is minimal variation over time and lots of room for aesthetics to spread and eventually engulf and embrace everything, there is.

(I've been observing this for at least the past 15 years or so. This feels more like the "post-history" of fashion.)

Edit: Regarding the speed of communications, mind that there were much read, trend-setting magazines, which came out periodically, every week or every month and that they had to make a point, relative to the previous issues. And, as a reader, you wouldn't have referred to a past issue from half a year ago. Moreover, past issues were hard to come upon, as they weren't sold anymore. Now compare this to websites, which keep lingering around (you wouldn't discard last month's posts) and platforms, where trends gradually gain momentum, until they eventually become ubiquitous. (At this point, a trend would have been "out" and "uncool", previously, but now this is when they are really enforced by algorithms.) I'd rather argue, for things like fashion, the speed of communications has decreased considerably and stability has increased, thanks to technology.
Man plans. God laughs.

I'm calling Bs on the whole cow industry being bad for the planet because of their bodily functions. Any cows, any animals, any living creatures are never going to be bad for the planet.

There is more resource consumption and harm in transferring the livestock as meat and farming livestock than there is in the methane gas. And lab grown meat is not going to change that.
> not really what you asked
indeed, but interesting.

Thanks for sharing!