skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The goal isn’t to be more or less useful than a person. It’s to expand the capabilities of computers. And computers are exceptionally good at mathematics tasks already. Why do we care if LLMs are good at things that are already exceptionally well done with computers? The point is they’re exceptionally good at things computers to date have been exceptionally bad at. The rest is weird goalpost moving noise - I wouldn’t use ChatGPT to solve a quadratic equation, I would use Mathematica, or any number of numeric libraries and runtimes. But I challenge you to get Mathematica to summarize a book, carry on a conversation, or even call an api based on natural human language without a rigorous specification apriori. These are holy grails of NLP, which is a capability that is enhancing of the existing capabilities offered by computing technologies today.
This is a perfect starting point to learn about Concorde. The care may come afterwards when they learn more about it.
It’s still not clear what your point is then, do you assert Lego can only sell to kids?
Flown twice is still pre-existing---the vehicle had been in development years before the award. If your point is that the Falcon was pre-existing and it still took a long time to get to crewed flight, that's true. But note that the adage doesn't say the launch vehicle is the only source of delay, only that it is generally the most significant one.

A better counterexample would be a crewed program that developed its own launch vehicle and still completed on time and within budget. If you treat the Falcon 9's development time as part of the overall project (which you should if you're maintaining it's a new vehicle per the adage), then you're looking at something like 15 years just to get a crew to orbit. Which is consistent with the rule.
> On my gigabyte fibre:

*gigabit

Get it right already.
True. Some of them watched a TikTok for example of someone who got sad after they broke up with their boyfriend and then took antidepressants to “calm” them down. These drugs are overly prescribed along with a cavalier attitude about using them amongst the public.
Launch HN: Rubbrband (YC W23) – Deformity detection for AI-generated images
Hey HN! We’re Jeremy, Abhi and Darren from Rubbrband (https://www.rubbrband.com/). Rubbrband is software that evaluates the quality of images generated by Stable Diffusion (or Midjourney, DALL-e, etc…).

We actually stumbled into this idea while working on solving a different problem. While helping a few companies use Stable Diffusion in production, we found that these companies needed to use QA analysts to manually evaluate their images to make sure they were high quality once in prod. This process often took days just to go through thousands of images, so companies that have a text-to-image product with PMF couldn’t guarantee that their images were of high quality.

From our initial set of customers, we found that evaluating the quality of their outputs at scale was an even larger problem than just using the model itself. So we pivoted our company into working on solving this problem using our skills from CV research. All three of us did computer vision research at UC Berkeley, and Abhi worked with John Canny, who invented many CV techniques like the Canny Edge Detector.

We built a product that automates this process using computer vision. We’ve trained in-house several computer vision models that grade images based on different criteria.

These include: - Detecting human deformities, such as a person with 7 fingers on a hand (image generation models generate deformed hands over 80% of the time when generating a photo of a person! This includes the state of the art: Midjourney, SDXL, Runway, etc…); - A score that rates how well the image aligns with the prompt(we do this using our own finetuned Visual Question Answer model); - A composition score (how well composed the image is according to photography “rules”)

Using Rubbrband is pretty simple. You can send an image to us to process via our API or our web app, and you’ll get scores for each of those criteria back on your dashboard in less than 10 seconds. Here is a quick Loom demo: https://www.loom.com/share/961830347b3643dcbb92dfe80f8ca1f0?....

You can filter your images based on certain criteria from the dashboard. For instance, if you want to see all images with deformed eyes, you can click the “deformed eyes” filter at the top of the screen to see all of those images.

We store images generated by your image generation model. We’re like a logging tool for images, with evaluations on top. We currently charge $0.01 per image, with your first 1000 images free.

We’re super excited to launch this to Hacker News. We’d love to hear what you think. Thanks in advance!
I understand understaffed although I think that's when siloes should be broken down so technically apt people across the company can reduce the workload (like by advising on a list of safe software that shouldn't be questioned.)

I don't appreciate the deterrent culture because it's hard to get to point A to point B without some exploration if the company isn't used to trying to improve how work is done, or improve its thinking. The opportunity cost of preventing bright people from exploring is enormous. I understand, though, that compliance and uniformity are high priorities in some industries. (My experience with this kind of IT comes from aerospace and finance.)
> who's going to carry on their values?

It's natural selection, applied to values/religion/etc...
Same. I'd also like them to throw all of my objects with locks on them into the nearest lake.
Why the FTC’s Lina Khan Is Taking on Big Tech, Even If It Means Losing
>are you saying that people who don't want… are behaving in an entitled manor?

It’s not about entitlement, justice or any of that. This is capitalism.

It is about raw power and pragmatism and what one can get away with. When the employee has the upper hand as in a hot market, they have some wiggle room. When the employer has the upper hand, the landscape shifts accordingly.

Unions are unpopular in our industry, but are typically how employees in most sectors have increased their power.

Employer cartels and the state are how employers increase theirs.

Adam Smith covered it all about 250 years ago in the Wealth of Nations, a fantastic read if you can stomach the archaic writing style.
But it's not in SVG format. It's just a bitmap image that copied the style of a vector image. The Unicorn output from ChatGPT is an actual string of text, that can be rendered into the unicorn image on the page.
The statement is correct to an extent. Yes, there are extra information you can give to a compiler that can enable some optimizations.

What’s not true is that just having more information automatically means better optimized.
Fuck y'all, all y'all?
I'd say a regular will, sealed at a notary is just okay.

If you are really paranoid, why not write a service that works like a dead mans switch and when you don't trigger it for n days it sends all the keys to the kingdom to those who should receive them.
I live in NYC, and I think this is a weak argument, because these coping mechanisms are not viable for people with families. NYC has the long-standing problem where people can scrape by if they are a single person with a good job and no dependencies, but as soon as that person wants to form a family, their options are to be very rich, or to move out of the city. In my case we moved to Queens, which we like well enough, but even here the Rent Is Too Damn High.

It's not good for the health of a city to be continually pushing out all but the richest families.
Ahahaha, I love this! I love how this new fandango thing harkens back to the earliest days of MS-DOS when it ran on a 086 or 286, back in the early (very early) 90s.

Have to respect MS' backwards compatibility fanaticism. Impossibly as if a native port of MS Teams would be created for MS-DOS 3.1 (hahahaha). When more plausibly the MS Teams servers run on an ancient crazy proprietary MS-DOS 3.1 mainframe (still implausible, but hey).

I know that this device name restriction also applies to Windows file names, so it's not that surprising (if you are inclined to be less fun than possible), but if you like fun, you can pretend the former.

Relevant frag link: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/limits-spec...
> Russian corruption doesn't generally touch Western governments

Russia has an asset in British goverbment, in the hoise of lords!

Have you neber heard of Baron Lebedev, of Hampton in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames and of Siberia in the Russian Federation??

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

Current Government was taking political dotations from Russian oligarchs, officially, but somehow thos gets postes

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-58711151
Python is quick and dirty and always has been. The language designers have regularly papered over design flaws using hacks and magic syntax.

Which is acceptable. Python is a valuable tool I use on a daily basis. But I find it annoying when Python programmers are snooty about "Pythonic" code.
Conservative's children!

(it's a joke, sorry).

Nobody owes you to make children. It's your own choice.

But it's quite fun (and not that expensive in my country).
Never before has there been such large amounts in both varieties of utilizable items and of similar or identical items, where the limits most often come from how much is in stock at a store, and how much you can afford or salvage.

It is remarkable that with a species which has undergone scarcity so often that a strong instinct isn't activated in more people and that when it has, more people haven't succumbed.
In my experience, keeping packages up-to-date is a great idea but really hard to do without adding ton of overhead, especially in the cloud space. As for the argument of security, it's mostly legal. Security teams can basically said, we keep our system up-to-date, there isn't much we can do about it. This will pass muster in court, the board and general public.

In cloud space, every team and numb nuts spin up endless EC2s, pip/node/apt-get install god-knows-what packages from god-knows-who developer(s) and build applications off that. No wonder security audit and keeping systems updated have become a nightmare.

Back in the days when we keep our servers like pets, we can easily update and manage them because we squeeze out max performance, and carefully select packages that are applicable to all apps. It's a wonder we could get anything done fast enough.
Anything would be better than "grokking".

From what I gather they're talking about double descent which afaik is the consequence of overparameterization leading to a smooth interpolation between the training data as opposed to what happens in traditional overfitting. Imagine a polynomial fit with the same degree as the number of data points (swinging up and down wildly away from the data) compared with a much higher degree fit that could smoothly interpolate between the points while still landing right on them.

None of this is what I would call generalization, it's good interpolation, which is what deep learning does in a very high dimensional space. It's notoriously awful at extrapolating, ie generalizing to anything without support in the training data.
I commented on this because I had to stop and sound out the word "alakablam." Simple writing wins every time. Better to learn that as a teenager than as an adult.
Have you tried looking in the sofa? I found some change I had lost last week.
The US culture was very much oriented around this model just a generation ago.

What makes US culture change faster?
I'm not sure. All I can say is that speedtest.net and fast.com both show 800/
900 Mbps for download/upload.
> The cognitive load in remembering shortcuts is nightmare.

The cognitive load is no greater than it is to remember that Ctrl+C is copy and Ctrl+V is paste. Once you learn them, you don't think about them.
I have seen this numerous times on Twitter explicitly with almost the exact phrasing you are indicating.
I have 500 Mpbs, and the only noticeable difference versus a connection like yours is that you can download a Ubuntu ISO or a 1080p movie 1-2 minute. That's about it.
There are some really good piano samples available for free--why put in the work for the physical modeling approach?
I joined a company that claimed to be awesome only to be laid off within the year. It's weird to think this, but the layoff was not a surprise and it was kind of emotionally gratifying. There were a great many warning signs of impending doom screaming at me from the background suggesting either team/product failure or eventual job termination.

My learnings from that last job that I will carry forward to my next interviews are:

* How do you conduct test automation?

* What is the standard process to manage risks for a refactor?

* How would you describe the central architecture of your primary application? (I expect to hear about a few deliberate decisions, not something about a framework or obscure business logic isolation)

* When a defect arises is the solution or code location expected to come from memory, as in will I be expected to memorize a significant majority of the code base?

* How do you monitor for regression?

* Will I be expected to regularly manually copy code from one environment to another?

* How do you make determinations about performance? (I don't want to hear some nonsense about doing it one way because JavaScript, or whatever, is slow when you have measured neither approach and especially when you have no idea how one or both approaches actually work)

If the employer cannot answer most of these questions there are only two options:

1) Empower you to address these concerns

2) Don't work there. I would rather change careers than be hired as a senior, treated like child, and then get punished for the result.
Nowadays, the cheap knock offs are so good that you’re basically only getting the Lego for the name. I was impressed when my wife got one for the kid, but also I somehow don’t want them to mix with the „real“ ones, it’ll be hard to separate them later.
How much money could they have made?
I worked with Clojure professionally, and one of the things it forced me to unlearn was reliance on frameworks and lots of little libraries for everything. It's just not necessary when your language is so expressive and simple.

I know nobody believes me when I say this, but I really mean it.
Directly, openly, and quickly.

"Our competitor has accused us of using the heads of Venezuelan children in our product. These are the receipts from our suppliers in France proving all our meat is sourced from Morocco" and so on. Stick purely to response in the first post.

Then, in a later post, explain how the competition is guilty of all the accusations they've thrown at you, and worse: "Their product is actually made of sawdust with plastic skulls and inferior spices"
Yeah, every part of this was a “don’t incentivize doing this”. I doubt anyone would ever be caught for that since there was nothing in writing but it was a complete farce of management. I heard those details over a beer with one of the people involved and he was basically wryly chuckling about how that vendor had good engineers and terrible management. They’re gone now so that caught up with them.
Reputation is something companies manage, which introduces bias.

If people get a worse impression than reality they can release more information, but if the public has a better impression than reality then they have zero incentives to say anything.

Information asymmetry isn’t about people knowing nothing. If you’re offended a job at some salary you know roughly how much they are willing to pay but you don’t know the minimum you can negotiate for. Similarly, companies don’t know the minimum you’re willing to accept but they do know quite a bit about market rates.
This is an interesting perspective. Do you easily detach from work at the end of the day? Like many others, I built my life around the "hard-working immigrant" trop but I also really love tech.

On the train today, though, I found myself thinking a bit along your lines - "who the hell cares that I solved a tough problem for company X in 2005. Company has gone bankrupt in 2011". It may as well be the healthiest way to go about it.
Supports IPv6 too. That's a nice surprise.
I have a better way to frame this. A hostile country is less interested in low profile users and is not as able/willing to use the data it collects against the user. Committed tax evasion / breach of contract / fraud? Russia is much less likely to care than your own government.
I can understand selfishness. The part that is incomprehensibly bizarre to me is that the only long-term 100% positive experience in my life has been my children. I don't think it could possibly be otherwise.

How do these people invert that so thoroughly, that they believe that it's not just negative from time to time, but overwhelmingly so and constantly? I hate to stoop to pop psychology, but that's some sort of profound multi-generational trauma going on, isn't it?
I made piles of similar stuff (e.g. network cables, connectors, crimper and tester), got a bunch of quart and gallon ziplocks tossed the stuff in them and put 'em in the box. Easy peasy.

No need for an organizer for me as I go into the box maybe 2x a year so it is easy enough to pull out ziplocks until I get to the right one.
But it's a fallacy to see the concern being about them having your individual data, right? The concern is the power of the information they yield when they have access to our collective data.
It is actually a problem everywhere except Sub-Saharan Africa. For example, Germany, Italy, South Korea, Taiwan, China are going through a massive demographic decline. India will likely be there in 15 years.

The documentary Birthgap tries to seek a cause.
Vim's major benefit is that commands are composable. For example, `d` means delete -- but delete what? Well, that's based on the motion command you supply, from lines, to the end of the file, or even looking for a specific character.

Perhaps a better discussion: https://ferd.ca/vim-and-composability.html

Edit: Another benefit: vim works very well over all sorts of connections, even ones that do not support the full set of Control/Shift/etc. For some of us, this is very handy. (Also, vi, the ancestral editor to vim, is very small and often available in environments other editors do not fit into -- and the commands are much the same.)
I feel like this whole neo-cold war against China & Russia was never put up for a vote. Where can I vote against it?

Please, let's all just get rich together. Governments democratize over time - the UK wasn't a democracy when it started out but over 1000 years of governance transitioned into being one. I suspect it will be much faster nowadays, but in the meantime - please no war.
Why would they have to?
Additional links:

* What to Do Before You Die: A Tech Checklist – https://archive.is/6vjqQ

* Cheat Sheet For If I'm Gone – https://archive.is/lnWX6 –https://github.com/christophercalm/if-im-gone/blob/main/exam... (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31748553)
that's what would scare me the most. to forget my passwords due to some accident. if i pass away it wouldn't matter to me, but the thought of recovering from an illness but then not being able to access things that i had before is horrifying.
Side note: This is an extremely well written question. Thanks for covering all the bases and organizing it clearly and logically.
If you use vim every day, the common operations become muscle memory, I don't even think about jumping through the file, find and replace, block edits etc, they just happen.

For me personally, the context in which I edit files changes constantly - sometimes it's inside a Docker container, sometimes it's on a server, sometimes it's on my personal Linux machine, sometimes on my work Mac... Vim is easily available on all of those, and I just use the default configuration.

I do see my colleagues benefit from VSCode. If my work environment was very consistent (same computer, same language) I think you're right that I would possibly gain in productivity from using VSCode (with Github Copilot, perhaps). But my work environment is not consistent, so Vim it is.
Do you have any source for that claim?

I had a coworker who swore that X was the fastest way to do Y. Turned out it wasn't and X just made him very busy hitting keyboard quickly.
A few years back I read through The Art of Discarding by Nagisa Tatsumi and I'd highly recommend it. It's a short and light read that breaks down our habits of keeping things and has a handful of strategies to get rid of what we don't need, and I found it pretty useful with decluttering a good chunk of what I don't need, and I found that a lot of the stuff I had for sentimental reasons I didn't have much of a true connection to.

But with that being said, winding anecdote: Last month I was helping my folks clear old boxes that pretty much contained my entire childhood. Aside from 3 books there was nothing I'd remotely thought about keeping for well over a decade and I was happy to give or throw away whatever I found. Old toy cars, action figures, way too many PS2 cheat book and magazines to count, I had no connection to anything as we sorted out charity deposits.

I'll admit the Lego was a fun nightmare (I admit that I never should've opened the box!), I'm still scrounging through a mountain of bricks putting together which sets I can, but I won't be keeping this myself.

But then there was a box containing a wooden train set.

The last time I saw it I was ~4 years old. And there I was, looking at something so innocent that hadn't crossed my mind in over 20 years and I immediately broke down in tears on the spot. It felt raw and even thinking about it is still overwhelming. I was laughing with tears streaming down my face as I talked to my mum about it, and even though I won't touch it ever again, I can't help but feel thankful that she decided to keep it for me.

I wish I could make some poignant point about memory and the human condition, but it's weird and odd the way we can have such different emotional attachments to things, and don't take it too hard if some things are too hard to throw away.
LTE was like this for a year or two also, in the areas that got it deployed first before handsets using it were widely available. It was several times faster than wired consumer internet at the time, though I also remember the latency not being great.

Then within a product cycle or two everyone's phones had it and it went back to normal. I'd expect a similar thing here enjoy it while it lasts I guess.
Image generation "in the style of SVG" (which DALL-E did) has nothing to do with generating actual svg source code (which GPT does) and then rendering it.
I think this explains it very well https://learnvim.irian.to/basics/vim_grammar. You stop thinking about doing specific things tied to a specific keymap and you start to interact with your code using vim's grammar. Besides that, its nice having a consistent keymap between the different IDEs, text editor, browser and shell.
Personally I hate if theres a keymap that uses more than a two keys at the same time and I much prefer having a sequence of keystrokes like vim does, I do touch typing so it's natural for me to type a sequence, but if you introduce any modifier key I have to move my fingers from their position.
Also, you can find vim in most unix machines that you are going to interact with.
randomly opens a "history of lynching" academic paper while thinking about this...
I wouldn't have much of an issue with a 7ft long lego model, though the 3 foot wide delta wings would make it really, really hard to find a place to put it.