skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> developers won’t have to wait... can catch bugs earlier [in hours or minutes]

That's what unit tests and mutation testing can help with, which should already be a part of the practice. Integration testing and performance/load testing could take longer, regardless if QA or devs do it.

> shift testing to the “Plan & Design stage”

Kind of wishful thinking. Having a separate QA as a different person has its advantages.

Unless all or most bugs are reported by the developers, the economic reasons fall to either QA-reported--and here through deliberate, systematic breakage attempts or exploratory testing, employing years of accumulated domain knowledge and a nose for boundary conditions--or user-reported, which has its own risks with regards to satisfaction or repeat business.

While such a team may exist, "let's talk about all the ways things could fail" is sadly not part of design talk. It seems like most of the time it's estimate, discuss some possible blockers, and get to coding ASAP.

And, to be fair, sometimes we don't know until we're in tactical programming mode; coding and thinking it through become one and the same.
It's still super illegal to transport cannabis across state borders. This is true even when transporting between legal states that share borders.

It's mostly unenforced on the individual basis, but it is a huge aspect of the legal markets. Being able to do business across the entire country is a very large factor in USA's economic success. Removing the federal criminal laws on cannabis will remove this and many other inefficiencies of the cannabis industry.
This felt like someone intercepted my inner dialog during prototype development.
Yeah, again, how many investors invested in a cryptocurrency company and then not until afterwards realized they invested into a cryptocurrency company? Because that's what the article suggests happened, which is obviously ridiculous.
So I'll throw in some cinnamon. There's no shortage of foods that preserve themselves.
Knowing that there is an error can be as trivial as reading a failed test or a bug report something even someone grossly insufficient to the task could do.

Fixing the problem could be a 5 minute or a 5 hour tour. For some subset of the tasks that fall towards the hard end of the range validation and or adaptation of a proposed solution is liable to be faster than starting from scratch. I don't know how this could possibly be in dispute with capability rapidly increasing.
Deriving pearls from the complex oyster that is our world.
ask first, or respect robots.txt no semantic malarchy
Ikr. So hard to filter thru the trash. I find a nice guided semi-open world game is my jam. Disco Elysium. Last of us. Uncharted series. I do enjoy some of the tight metroidvanias as well. Dead cells. Ori. Etc... Happy hunting!
A fireside chat on education, technology, and almost everything in between
Not true. Check out CompCert, seL4 etc.
Canada has a federal law requiring (functionally; if you don't, you also opt-out of federal funding for your system) every province to offer it, though, with a minimum standard, right? That's very different than California offering it on their own volition, and the other 49 states not.
This post and thread are terrific, and the day I learned common Emacs bindings work in most corners of macOS was momentous, but…

Whenever advanced keyboard shortcuts are under discussion, I’m reminded of something I read, I think by Bruce Tognazzini, on an early Apple study of keyboard vs. mouse. They had set up the usual usability test—run through these common spreadsheet tasks or whatever—and compared skilled users exclusively on mouse with equally skilled users issuing keyboard commands via shortcut. Maybe they swapped them back and forth on the modes, I don’t recall.

When the experiment was over, the mouse and keyboard users agreed: Shortcuts were faster, switching hands to the mouse and issuing commands via the cursor was slower. But the actual measured results showed no significant difference. Tog speculated that there’s some deep perceptual circuitry that’s tuned to notice the cost of mode-switching but submerge into the subconscious the cost of recall.

EDIT: I'm sure he's referenced it a dozen times in a dozen places, but here's a version of Tog's analysis that's roughly what I remember:

https://www.asktog.com/TOI/toi06KeyboardVMouse1.html

We’ve done a cool $50 million of R & D on the Apple Human Interface. We discovered, among other things, two pertinent facts:

- Test subjects consistently report that keyboarding is faster than mousing.

- The stopwatch consistently proves mousing is faster than keyboarding.

This contradiction between user-experience and reality apparently forms the basis for many user/developers’ belief that the keyboard is faster.

People new to the mouse find the process of acquiring it every time they want to do anything other than type to be incredibly time-wasting. And therein lies the very advantage of the mouse: it is boring to find it because the two-second search does not require high-level cognitive engagement.

It takes two seconds to decide upon which special-function key to press. Deciding among abstract symbols is a high-level cognitive function. Not only is this decision not boring, the user actually experiences amnesia! Real amnesia! The time-slice spent making the decision simply ceases to exist.
Caveat is Congress enjoined the DOJ from enforcing against medical marijuana use. Get a medical card (suuuuuuuper easy) and you’ve derisked. Sucks to have to hack around stupidity wrt federal policy on marijuana, but This Is America. It also reduces the tax you pay (typically, ymmv based on state) vs recreational purchases.

https://www.mpp.org/policy/federal/are-consumers-or-cannabis...

> There are some exceptions. In each fiscal year since 2015, Congress has included provisions in appropriations acts that prohibit the U.S. Department of Justice from using funds to prevent states from “implementing their own laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana.” In effect, Congress prevents the DOJ from enforcing federal law in medical marijuana states. Courts have held up the provisions, and federal prosecutions of state-licensed businesses effectively stopped when it went into effect. However, those same protections haven’t been extended to adult-use (recreational) program participants, who remain at risk.

(not legal advice, not an attorney, not your attorney)
Because these are still inside Earth's atmosphere — there's much less of it up there, sure, but even that little air can have a great impact.
> I challenge you to define this term in a way that is clear and objective.

Thanks, but no thanks. It's highly context dependent. Performance can be a goal. Simplicity (rather, lack of useless complexity) can be a goal. Maintainability can be a goal. Generality can be a goal. Understandability can be a goal. There's a sweet spot where brevity can be a benefit to those goals, beyond which it turns to tortuous code-golf. Taken to an extreme, any of the goals above can become pathological. With experience, you should know the difference between shoddy, slapdash or tortuous code and well-written code.
This tool seems designed to download from many domains at once based on the readme section about optimizing DNS resolution.

Considering that wouldn't a simple optimization be to shard by domain instead of arbitrarily?
The things you feel are Microsoft, didn’t originate with Microsoft. MS-DOS was a 16 bit clone of CP/M for the 8086. CP/M was loosely designed in the fashion of TOPS-10 from DEC. Windows was originally a graphical shell over DOS loosely modeled off of Xerox’s technology, and Windows NT’s internals took very liberally from VMS.

If we compare this pedigree to that of UNIX, UNIX would appear to be the brain dead system. Multics was largely a disaster, and it informed many parts of UNIX’s design, but UNIX was written largely to allow Ken Thompson to play an early video game (that he wrote), Space Travel.

The two systems just have very different origins and very different designs based upon their initial use cases. However, people thinking that DOS or Windows are somehow less-than is just ignorant of history, and I say this as someone who loathes modern Windows.
They push the sets pretty hard. I know someone who ran a toy shop, and Lego wouldn’t sell them plain brick packets unless they bought a certain number of expensive sets.
to "make it difficult for viewers to determine exactly how old the show is", the reason being the older the date the "staler" the material may seem to the audience.

That might be the most inane take I've heard all week. What's his idea, that movie theaters predating the concept of home video were showing old movies and trying to pass them off as new like nobody would notice if they couldn't read the copyright date? Specifically movies the audience hasn't seen or heard of, yet movies new enough their "staleness" wouldn't be given away by the camera technology and dialogue choices? There's like a hundred different reasons this "deception" explanation is nonsense.
How many of the deaths are concentrated in blue cities within the red states?
The algorithm for doing long division in Roman numerals is one of those things that's educational but you're not sure it was actually worth learning, but it probably was.
OK I'll keep disagreeing. It's legal here.
No, no, surely it's Facebook!

I joke, I joke.
We have given it extensions, and really the extensions do a lot of the work. The tool that judges the style and correctness of the text based on the embedding is doing much of the heavy lifting. GPT essentially handles generating text and dense representations of the text.
Of course mathematicians also think in terms of logic. It’s what you learn when you study mathematics, you soak it up automatically, although few study logic explicitly. And before 2015 a machine beating worlds best go player also seemed pretty unlikely.
> It's not based on my feelings
> All the smartest people I personally know
> I also looked up the top 10 AI researchers at Yandex
> in the hottest industry at the (arguably) most innovative company in the country.

All of that is actually based on your feelings that (1) the people you know are smart enough to be qualified and counted among the brightest, (2) the AI software research and the researchers you personally know are more relevant to the points you make, than other research and the researchers you haven't met in other industries that Russia is excelling in.

> Sure thing, let's take two, scientists and entrepreneurs as their accomplishments are the easiest to quantify. The unit of measurement would be the influential papers written for scientists (measured by the number of citations) and for the entrepreneurs the market cap of the companies they started.

I disagree with the market cap metric because it's useless to compare without other constraints on the kind of businesses we're allowed to compare directly. For starters, a hypothetical company involved in the derivatives market may easily be evaluated higher than a profitable energy-producing company purely because of a higher speculative capacity of the former, since the markets allow for derivatives to exist as assets in the books. I disagree with that premise purely on a basis of the 2008 crisis that showed that those had never been assets manifested in reality.

I disagree with the influential papers' citation count too, because that measure would be subject to interpretation of influence. Are AI papers influential? Are all AI papers influential? You could get thousands of meaningless citations for a parroting AI architecture for every single meaningful citation of Perelman's proof of the Poincare conjecture. Which one of those would you value as more influential? I assume no one could seriously suggest that citations for AI software papers would have the same nominal value as citations of the fundamental proofs in mathematics or physics.

> Do you think the million people like the "MIPT, MSU and HSE graduates" that have left the country that the other guys are mentioning will do better on those dimensions versus the ones staying at rosatom/roskosmos/etc?

You are conflating two groups again: the million people left aren't all the kind of "MIPT, MSU and HSE graduates". Not all of them are the Techies in the first place. The right question to ask would be if I think that those who left have better chances to excel at science and business (regardless of their qualifications) than those who stayed. My answer to that question is no, I don't think so, because there's no hard evidence for that. There only is a hint that they might be better off financially if they dedicate their lives to making money in the industries that are known for generating loads of cash, like finance and tech. That's about it. Switch the roles and try comparing artists and less technical folks in their respective places at home and abroad, and the odds are suddenly opposite.
>I don't understand this argument at all. I have everything on my desktop (laptop). Tax forms, credit card statements, bank statements, financial info, photos of all kinds, emails, ssh keys, etc., going back many many years.

Too bad. You shouldn't. Or maybe you should, but most people shouldn't.

Their desktop are horrible security wise, they have no expertise to secure them, and they don't even have backups for losing data.

Those people (and many more, who don't even need or have a laptop/PC) still have a mobile phone.

>The lesser of two evils is still evil.

That would only matter if life wasn't all about tradeoffs towards the lesser evil all the time, and if "perfect" was practical.
I think you might not have read my bullet point that mentioned rust very carefully.
This is fabulous.

Just want to add that there are efforts to impove training speed, like this: https://github.com/Lightning-AI/lit-llama/issues/62

So the practical cost/dataset size for language finetunes is bound to get better rapidly.

EDIT: And there is also this for JAX finetuning. https://github.com/young-geng/EasyLM/blob/main/docs/llama.md
I returned many times to the Piranesi exhibition in my town showing, among other things, his imaginary prisons. It took me embarassingly many hours to realize the staircase together with the colums in number XIV forms an impossible object / optical illusion. I wonder how much else I missed.
Who said every parking space? I didn't. Even at the coastal FAANG offices, EVs are still the minority. And not everyone will be charging every day. It's still fine to have a lot of non-charging spots - some people have short commutes and can be perfectly fine charging for 8-9h once a week (at 3.8kW, that's around 100 miles in 8h of charging). My experience from the early to mid teens is that the Leafs fought for charging, and the longer range BEVs charged if they could, and otherwise didn't get in the (damned near literal) fistfights over charging, but if someone showed up early, they'd plug in for the day.

If you look at grid demand curves, that "late morning, early afternoon" time spot is the mid-day low for most grids. So there's excess capacity anyway, and if you look at the "duck curve" sort of graphs, there's a ton of solar on the grid then anyway. This is only increasing with time. So we may as well make decent use of it.

You could also have some lower power, 1440W charger slots (15A @ 120V) for those who don't need much power - it'll still make up an average day's driving in 8h of charging, but since it's literally the same wiring cost and such to run 120V as 240V, I'm not sure you gain much with it, and it's now perfectly valid for chargers to coordinate regarding total circuit demand anyway.
or usually just try again with backoff.
The lack of ownership transparency is an absolute failure. Reddit should not have been for profit anyway
YouTube’s video player is the best and most responsive video player online. I don’t think I want any UI changes around it.
> Why isn't it reasonable to call them the largest tire manufacturer?

Because they don’t make the largest tires?

(Joke)
Good to know, thanks. It is kind of buried and something which is difficult to find in a hurry.
FERPA doesn’t apply when the person has a signed agreement to allow disclosure. Same way you can request that one college send your grades to another (for grad school apps for example).

Doing a background check is the same thing. It’s authorized by the student.
That is absolutely the link I recall, and I definitely just sort of misremembered it into something else entirely.
I guess the "solution" is that sites detect abuse and ban the ip for 24 hours. When enough users of this tool get banned, they will fill the github issues tracker with complain and the maintainers will have to learn how to write a polite spider.

We have the inverse problem in the university. We are all (many thousands) behind a proxy, so some popular sites detect the avalanche of request and add a captcha or other anti abuse tool to everyone.
You're making me think what the price-demand elasticity curve for murder might look like ("Would you off someone for $100K? What if we told you they were a bad person"). Kind of like Bridget cold-calling in "The Last Seduction", making outrageous propositions in calm language.
Blue cities are generally subject to the same gun regs as rural areas in red states; if not, state legislators are more than happy to take away cities’ legal ability to regulate.
They should, but that train has left the station. At least phones have more accepted security than the "anything goes" that are desktops.
So nostalgic to watch!

I had a very similar job at a retail store called PC Club in Santa Ana, CA from 1995-1997. It was my first job, started when I was 14. I had a blue PC Club polo shirt and a pretty rad pony tail.

I was also a purely technical “sales” guy, just like the guy in the video. Could talk specs all day and repeat anecdotes about the differences between different vendors’ components. Had the worst sales numbers in the company because I only sold people the minimum of what they needed and did not understand the concept of revenue or profit margins. My adult colleagues were sometimes making 10X more than I was in commissions.

It was fun being in a small computer store during the era when the 486DX was hot stuff, SIMM RAM was transitioning to DIMM RAM. The Pentium was coming on the scene. Burning MP3s to CDs was popular. We played music at the store all day via a demo PC that was running WinAmp. Our tech support guys in the back were real techies. US Robotics 14.4 modems were cutting edge.

Luckily for me I found my way to a technical IT role when a PC Club customer hired me to help him with his local IT business. And then came full circle 14 years later to find out the hard way how important sales are when I started my first company.

Thanks for sharing this video.
I mean - this is the obvious conclusion. Because the metaverse is a stupid idea. Nobody needs the full VR movie theatre when they can go to youtube quicker and easier.

If they received push back from dogfooding, that just means they need to knock those sharp corners off. I'd suggest what they want is a meeting application and making VR easy to put on and off, and combining the two worlds.

It's entirely realistic to dogfood here, people are just reacting to the obvious reactions from the first iteration. You don't stop there though.
> Working with our data partners Motivf, we used data on homicides and suicides from the Centers for Disease Control for the period 2010 to 2020

Just to clarify a bit, over half of all gun deaths are due to suicide.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/aug/21/jason-miya...

https://theconversation.com/54-of-firearm-deaths-in-the-us-a...

https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/26/politics/gun-violence-data-wh...
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I don't know what happened this year specifically but DDG results in general have abismally tanked in quality. A majority of the first 10-20 results are entirely off topic. It's become impossible to make specialized search. Negative queries no longer filter all unrelated results.

Lately I've been using phind but for general knowledge or ambiguous problems. I'm afraid I'm being forced to go back to google for searches...
Come to think of it, that's probably going to happen eventually. There's no future for internal combustion ground transportation, and eventually most of those gas stations are going to be closed. I wouldn't be surprised if, when parts of the country begin to be unreachable by ICE vehicles because of lack of gas stations, some irate ICE truck owners block the roads in protest.

It doesn't happen now because petroleum is available basically everywhere. "I had trouble locating an open gas station" is a problem that's happened to me I think once about twenty years ago, and even then we didn't have to go all that far to find an open gas station. (That I remember it at all had to do with the circumstances of the event. I was on a road trip through the deep south, and the police showed up at the second gas station and questioned us because someone apparently thought we were trying to rob the first gas station we stopped at which was closed.)
I think there's a massive difference between when you're Linus Torvalds and you' gatekeeping Linux from the interests of billion dollar companies, versus you're a tech lead at said billion dollar companies. I think being a grump has it's place and time, but cargo-culting Linus without bringing his skill and expertise is detrimental.

The actions of Linus will have ripple effects on millions, and he doesn't have too many levers to pull. Being grumpy is just one of his levers to pull against engineers backed by billions. Compare this to a grumpy tech lead, who's actively throwing a wrench in things by insisting on a nebulous "quality" just to justify their own existence. One is just a pale imitation of the other.

Obviously, Linus has promised to reign in his grumpiness, and I'm not smart enough to even sniff his wrath, so I probably don't have perspective.
Would running one of those off a gas drum be possible? Most petrol stations around me stock them. Need to match brands to return a drum though.

I assume the 11-ish litre butane capacity wouldn't be enough to be practical.
I think caloric restriction is the big one.
As someone who develops software using Stable Diffusion and gets sold for money, I'm well aware how simple Dreamstudio is. No professional would use it. Doesn't mean they are not developing it to be a real product, that they'll try to get people to buy for real money.
I normally don't like engaging in these things but think should step in given increasing fud.

Stability AI lawyers never contacted HuggingFace requesting an IP takedown. You may ask HuggingFace themselves.

RunwayML agreed not to release 1.5 for safety reasons in writing and then chose to anyone presumably leading to confusion by our tech team who let HF know it couldn't be them.

You can ask them why they did that, Runway being a private company https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrickcai/2022/12/05/runway-ml...

Three of the 5 authors of latent diffusion including the two lead authors are at Stability AI.

On the Discord it was Discord themselves that did it to the puzzlement of Kaarsetun and I, we are good with each other.

On the Subreddit that was our fault completely, for which I did a public apology around the issues with Automatic1111.
The first link also calls out how to deal with said bloat. It’s part of administering a Postgres DB yourself (which may or may not be something a team should be doing).

> I wouldn't want an average development team to pursue that approach without good reason, especially when the alternatives are so easy to do right.

Agreed. Good reasons I’ve had in the past are:

- wanting transactional guarantees across your DB data and queue (which you don’t get if your queue is external)

- not wanting to add more stack complexity (this has been an issue when you have to support on-prem deployments that you aren’t allowed to interact with).

I’m sure there are others.