skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If 34% of Judges are female you'd expect 34% of the generated images to be perceived as female.

That's not what i'd expect, no. I'd expect as it trains it would begin to trend towards a median idea of a single judge, an ur-judge if you will. It will represent the median judge. And then with fine-tuning training it would stop making ambiguous characteristics, which would lead it down the most likely path every time. You'd have to intentionally inject some randomness to prevent this. If anything i'm a little surprised they got as much diversity as they did - I can only assume there is some light randomness applied behind the scenes.

Note I'm not commenting on "should", but rather what would likely happen given an training dataset that reflects reality
Exactly. And I certainly don't teach that way. However, students who cannot understand the material often resort to rote memorization anyway.

Actually, in the classroom, it's even sillier. My exams are all open book. So rather than even memorize, sometimes they will just copy an entire example from their notes onto the exam. Of course, the exam questions are different (parallel, but different). so all that copying buys them nothing at all.

But back to the article: People like this genuinely don't know what they aren't understanding - it seems to be literally beyond their conception, an entire level of thinking that they don't even know exists. Hence, they overestimate their competence.
He's got more hacker cred than that; he used to write banking trojans.
Thanks! So does that mean that if I write my code with default tokio and ARC where required and then when I add flavor = "current_thread" I can replace my ARC with Rc?
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And that is why I like the book Accelerated C++. Instead of explaining each and everything. It helps just the right things, thus preparing you for further adventures.
Another literature that comes closer is Designing Data Intensive Applications and SICP.
The main question is, what percentage of the society are these conservatives? What's the opinion of the rest of people? Unlike you, in my opinion, most people have good memories of the Shah's time (Zamane Shah). It's quite funny, but most of the hospitals that are now named after Khomeini Hospital were built by the Shah. Also most stadiums and universities.

Moreover, this is a superficial view of the story if we think that what annoys people in Iran is mostly economic. This can be seen even in the slogan of the biggest anti-government demonstration that started last year, "Women, Life, Freedom", the three things that has been oppressed in the last four decades. Yes, economic issues have put a lot of pressure on the people, but people's wishes should not be reduced to it.
Choose Your Own Radiation Adventure – Collections of the Dead
As mentioned by another commenter, many of the compounds in WD-40 “dry” out, either by evaporation or oxidation (turning to lacquer/sticky goo like what you find in the oven). WD-40 is meant for penetration and water displacement, not desirable for achieving long term lubrication.

An example of something better to use is 3-In-One Multipurpose or Motor Oil.

Another FYI is that oils break down grease, which is found in bearings (WD-40 aggressively so), so it’s not generally desirable to apply oil to bearings, unless it’s already having issues and you just need some additional life out of it.
I know it gets a bad rap in China, and you have to get through the crys of socialism ... but I would like to see the state take partial ownership when it throws tons of subsidies at a domestic company like this.
And Next cubes and UltraSPARCs? Or maybe vertical integration isn't a silver bullet?
I'm not a fan of man pages. Or any documentation that focuses on textual explanations rather than examples in code (looking at you aws).

I recently found https://tldr.sh/ and found it more convenient. I ended up writing myself a vscode extension to have a quick lookup at my fingertips, since I am at least 60% of the time looking at a terminal in vscode
I think this is a valid point. bash is an overly complicated tool...so I'll write another tool on top of that (with none of the decades of debugging that bash itself has undergone) to make bash...LESS complex?

The problem is with bash itself.

We tend to undervalue ease of use and overvalue "cleverness."

Case in point: git. Very clever tool. Ease of use: terrible. But Linus wrote it and Linus is clever, so it must be us that's the problem.

We get what we value. Let's value ease of use more.
I dont understand how come condensation while de-freezing didn't damaged the components, but if you spill a bit of water in the keybord might damage the laptop,

what brand was that laptop?
Just last month .NET ended a green threading experiment, mainly because the overhead it adds to FFI was too high: https://github.com/dotnet/runtimelab/issues/2398

Rust had green threads until late 2014, and they were removed because of their impact on performance.

Everyone has done the basic research: green threading is a convenient abstraction that comes with certain performance trade offs. It doesn't work for the kind of profile that Rust is trying to target.
An employer not providing a work machine is the first red flag.

The only time I ever provided my own machine was for a very scrappy "startup" where I was the first dev. Even then, it turned out the company was destined for failure.
Well, it's close to possible since Rentec did it for decades.
No, it doesn't affect game developer hobbyists (actually, if anything, it makes them more secure, since Unreal would have a broader pool of paying clients and less beed to squeeze low-revenie games before they can afford it.)

Unless you mean, e.g., movie-making hobbyists where they go from never having to pay to having some (probably, as currently exists for games, based on a revenue threshold) some condition where they would have to pay, which might drive some of them to a different toolchain, though if it is setup similar to gaming, it won't affect most hobbyists unless they have way unexpected success, so probably shouldn't rationally affect hobbyiat choices much.
This is seemingly not at all uncommon. At least in the past when I asked bing for code it would start writing it and then go back and delete what it had written and say that it couldn't help with that.

I guess they don't want to cannibalize Copilot
Ok, my PC's address is 192.168.1.3 and I have UDP port 9000 open, please send me a packet.
Show HN: What I Learned from Building 3 AI Apps in 3 Months
In the past three months, I set myself a challenge to build three AI apps, from a fortune-telling tool that unexpectedly became a bit of a confessional for users, to a job rejection bot that touched on the impersonal nature of HR processes, and finally, a social network populated entirely by bots generating fake news.
Because Tencent owns both Epic and QQ
The extreme robot arm that can chop up a ship
Movie VFX budgets are often in tens of millions anyway. Not sure that "not free" will kill them.

I've heard it sad that "The three most expensive are wars, space programs and making movies".
> for everything you buy, you buy it twice.

I didn't understand what you meant by that?
Care to elaborate?
I'm always amazed of times when kilobytes would be life altering
or just profit taking?

I wouldn’t call raising prices enshittification.
That's what I mean, a revenue limit for VFX would be good too
> "We have no evidence that the criminal actors have used this data to commit identity theft or account fraud."

I see this type of message on so many statements about breaches. It seems like one of those things that can be said even when the potential usage in question would be extremely likely, because even if every marketplace for this stuff is advertising "identities stolen from MGM" for sale, that alone isn't "evidence" that it's actually what it says on the tin. If someone purchased it and showed their purchase to MGM, would that be sufficient "evidence" for them to not make such a statement?
Yes, this happens often enough but for those who it doesn't, the salary isn't really enough. You'll drop from almost a million to a few hundred k.
Asking job candidates to perform real-world tasks is usually a great solution to finding out if they can code or not, but the problem is that these problems are usually provided in a bad/offputting form.

What companies do is something like "Give us an App that does this and this and this" without much clarifying detail. And then they add something like "If you want to wow us, make the interface pretty, make it scalable, and add other features"

This leads to a circumstance where the best candidates are like "fuck doing more than a couple hours of work" and nope out of there and the worst candidates are willing to lie/cheat/spend multiple days building a great solution on a task that should be no more than a couple of hours.

Instead, companies should provide a basic development environment in a container and a set of tests to satisfy. Prove basic competency, no ambiguity about what's needed or pressure to do more than required.
SRE Interview Prep Plan (week 1)
Yeah, did they get fired or not? Something smells.
I've recently looked for ship connections. Next to being surprised that Hamburg had indeed no decent ferry services, it was quite difficult to search for and I had to even contact (via forms) multiple shipping companies.

Maybe someone would like to build a climate-conscious travel search engine that includes all these routes.
sass is the only business model that works well for continuously developed software
I get the impression this is more subsidizing domestic development
than a decision made for the overall "best" CPU.

https://www.eenewseurope.com/en/sipearl-raises-e90m-for-rhea...
This is all really helpful and grounding advice. Thank you. I'll check out Bob Firestone's interview course. You're right, it does look scammy lol

> The good news is that most employers aren’t FAANGs. The bad news is that a FAANG history is not going to help you succeed anywhere, see

Fortunately I've only been working at one for a few years, so hopefully I'm not too damaged :)
The catalogue is actually the reason I don't use Spotify because you can't upload to your own cloud library. Apple Music and YouTube Music both let you do that. Anything missing I just upload myself. There's lot of music that isn't available on any of the streaming platforms.
Yes I’m not fucking stupid.

I’m curious where the bias is in the current dietary “plate” recommendations. There’s nothing at all like the fat is bad sugar is good crime of the 60’s-90’s

So if bias is a real thing show it to me or do you just make vapid comments and run?
ChatGPT's web interface has two, one is triggered by a moderation endpoint API call which scolds you and another one is hardcoded as a regex type filter for copyright which forcibly closes the pipe from the LLM instantly and doesn't acknowledge that something happened. It's hardcoded because a translation to another language or a typo inserted into the output avoids it.

You can get this (or at least could) by asking for the opening of tale of two cities (a public domain work!)

The API (at least via playground) now also has scolding built in, which triggers sometimes when you're just playing around with settings like high temp, because the model can devolve into a mess of all sorts of nonsense text, as is teh nature of transformers, but it doesn't censor it.
Interesting thing is that they do not have a Wikipedia entry. It seems purely a product of JU / European Processor Initiative. If this works it would be one of the few real successes of the European funding framework.
Google and Apple have both done quite well with custom silicon, why so pessimistic outlook for OpenAI? Seems with their hype they ought to be able to hire top tier talent without much issue
Article does say "There will be minimum revenue thresholds for commercial projecrs, and student/educator use will remain free"
one of my favorite series, PBS Space Time, covers this at a great level:

https://www.pbs.org/video/the-oh-my-god-particle-54npwl/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osvOr5wbkUw
SAAS pays for continued development and support. One upfront license fee returns us to the Microsoft Office 13, 15, 20 etc. world. Marginal differences, little to no support, and new releases for the sake of new revenue. SAAS is far better aligned to customer and business interests.
It has idiosyncracies because it's not a general purpose language. Even the things that she mentions are happening for good reasons - like the fact that set -x would break the expected behavior of || and &&.

Actually what language does crash when a function returns false? I mean some throw exceptions but isn't "false" a valid thing to return?

I find the same thing with makefiles - people don't understand what they're doing and expect them to work in a certain way because they haven't ever thought about build systems very deeply. Recursive assignment in Make catches almost everyone out e.g.

FLAGS=-b

COMPILE=compile $(FLAGS)

$(info compile command=$(COMPILE))

FLAGS=-a

myfile:

echo $(COMPILE) $? -o $@

outputs:

t43562@rhodes:~ make -f t.mk

compile command=compile -b

echo compile -a -o myfile

compile -a -o myfile

Despite this, making all assignments immediate to match other programming languages would take a VERY useful tool away. The more you understand these tools the more you know where to bother using them and how much effort to put into it.
It's the US, so education of any kind is viewed as evil.
create a dropbox folder with all your video testimonies on it. Heck, why not build a webpage
hey HN! excited to share our latest deep dive into LlamaIndex, which has been very well reviewed https://x.com/FanaHOVA/status/1709972968397500423?s=20

The thing I love about talking to all the founders we've chatted with so far is their intellectual honesty and pursuit of solving real problems that people have, not just creating ones out of thin air. RAG -is- a hack, but its a very good hack, and findings like the Lost in the Middle paper and even learnings from finetuning so far make it such that RAG frameworks are here to stay.
it would depend heavily on costs and tangible benefits versus e.g., renting something from cloud providers. its a new vista, its anybody's guess how things will look in five years, but when Intel's CEO is touting the era of the "AI PC" [1] their projection must be that a certain market will form around compute intensive local computing (largely prompted by the popularity of LLM/AI but that just one domain).

on the second branch of your question, indeed a local "supercomputer piece" should have a sufficient number of CPU/GPU's to pack meaningful computational power. this way it would also require and enable the right kind of tooling and programming that scales to larger sizes.

given that algorithms can enhance practically any existing application (productivity, games etc), this might be a case of "build it and they will come"

[1] https://www.pcmag.com/news/intel-ceo-get-ready-for-the-ai-pc
My vague memory is that there was/is a military or government site nearby which is why the research centre is also there.
I disagree. I think you can be both rational and biased by operating with incomplete information.

Potentially less polarizing: Aristotle when developing his theories of violent vs natural motion. I would not call him unbiased for theorizing without looking outside.

You can't claim to be unbiased from just individual experiences, you need to attempt to understand the whole picture.
For find, I think the Info pages are (even) more comprehensive (info find), and you get more structural navigation.
> monetary price is paid by the deeply ironic invention of dynamite by Alfred Nobel.

Note that net-net, the invention of dynamite probably saved many lives. Nitroglycerin-based dynamite invented by Nobel isn't very useful for military purposes, and has never been in wide military use. It can't be safely stored for long periods or in hot conditions, making it ill-suited for battlefield logistics. Nitroglycerin-based dynamite is primarily used in mining and earth-moving.

Properly stored, dynamite is both much safer and more powerful than the black powder or liquid nitroglycerine that were primarily used in mining and earth-moving before the invention of dynamite.

Much later, "military dynamite", a more stable dynamite substitute devoid of nitroglycerine and more suited to military use was developed. While more stable, it's more expensive, and less commonly used. I don't believe Nobel had anything to do with the development of military dynamite.
Actually it is the same bias. People care about bias when it's deemed unfair to people or animals, but not when bias affects inanimate objects, like buying shoes or choosing what to eat. But bias is at the center of every choice or opinion, nevertheless.
> Edit: Oh, right, this goes right into a rant about how women choose to not engage. There are no additional barriers that we put in front of them, I'm sure...

I removed what I added there because I realized it was a distraction from the primary point I was making.

And I'm glad I did, because your response reminds me of how so few people take the time to understand what others are saying in explicit language. I'm not trying to be rude, but things like this are upsetting. Not once did I say that there are "no additional barriers", and I even said explicitly that there are.
Here's what I found for KDE, but did not test it myself: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454645#c5
I hope they also crack down on undeclared spell-check use in papers
They are civilian not military, so they get their time from NIST https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37779909
Just curious, are you able to share the coverage range for that level of diligence? My anecdotes are based on a $4m policy that costs around $10k/yr. It would make sense if there’s much more diligence for policies 10-100x larger.
Is it better to set -e or check return code of processes and decide to exit?
Its not obvious at all how this is enshittification.

UE5 was previously provided for free in non-video game contexts, as they clearly were trying to expand their presence in say film production. Now they've succeeded, they are charging for it, what is so unfair about it? Are they expected to provide the engine for free?

UE5 is also constantly trying intensive innovation. So the product quality is going up, not going down.

Unity was bombed because it was trying some inane pricing model (imagine UE5 charging moviemakers by number of viewers). And the fact that Unity Engine itself was being heavily neglected.

And fundraising is not relevant when their core business, Fortnite, is declining. Sorry fundraising != charity for employees.
"Progess" itself, as construed by these people at least, is a specter. It is an empty faith for the sycophants, and a tool of compliance for the stakeholders.

Hardly anyone ever asks where this progression is leading, and if they do, usually the answer is to "more progress." Which, to me, doesn't really sound like progression at all! It's just a way to justify not actually changing anything that matters, and to make sure there is always some faux-horizon of greener pastures to promise your customers.

You should be angry!
Sounds like this guy dodged a huge bullet.
But he was elected good or bad policies it was up to the voters to decide - the CIA/US supported coup bought in a military dictator who had people dropped into the sea and lakes from aircraft.

How about the mothers still today protesting about their sons/daughters who disappeared (1,248).
EDIT: Oh, wow. Lack of coffee this morning. I read that as "fictional mythology", NOT "fictional methodology."

Ignore me. :)

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I want to pull apart one specific thing you mentioned, essentially:

> It seems totally unclear whether ChatGPT is being used to invent fictional methodology [...], which is extremely unethical

In the context of generating something fictional, why is using ChatGPT unethical?

One reason I'm asking: I have always been a big fan of NaNoWriMo[1] (National Novel Writing Month, every November). This year, I'm interested in exploring how to use ChatGPT -- not necessarily to generate a ton of prose, but to essentially help flesh out some plot ideas that I've had.

Part of the back and forth I've had with it is coming up with some interesting scenarios for my story that I hadn't really thought about and I'm keen on exploring a bit more.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Novel_Writing_Month
There is a pretty wide range of setups, but you can get started with just a laptop and Open Broadcaster Studio (OBS) streaming to YouTube or Twitch. My personal setup has evolved a bit, and currently consists of:

- Two machines. One is for development and the other is dedicated streaming.

- The development machine is connected to the streaming machine with an HDMI cable and an Elgato capture card.

- Microphone is a Rode Podcaster (XLR), which is connected to an audio interface.

- Audio interface is a Scarlett 2i2, which is attached to the streaming machine via USB.

- Currently just using the webcam on the streaming machine, which is terrible, but no one is there to see my face anyway :)

Best of luck on your streaming journey and feel free to reach out if I can help out in any way!
docker and watchtower solves this problem for me. Automated updates sound bad, but usually updates rarely go wrong. Even if some update does, the risk of being compromised far outweights the happy feeling of 99.999% uptime green bars.
Then we'll massively switch to VPNs, like Russians do.
1. It only matters what was in the original contract, it doesn’t matter what’s fair or not.

2. If you had asked for royalties in the start, you probably wouldn’t have been hired. Unless this was some problem only the top 0.1% of engineers could build, why would they hire you instead of some other person who wouldn’t ask for royalties?

3. That’s the nature of being a freelancer vs a business owner. You just built it and got guaranteed income. The owner still has to sell it and take risks to make it profitable
The problem with working in the government/nonprofit sphere is that you will always be treated as second fiddle/grunt work to the real movers and shakers.

I mean just look at the breakdown of who runs that “tech talent project” to see what I mean. In the industry, ideally, decisions are being made and executed by other technical people. It’s part of what has made Silicon Valley so uber successful.
Very misleading article title.

The licensing changes target big commercial usages outside of game development. (With revenue thresholds, similar to how it already works right now for game development.)

For example, up until now Unreal has seen use in vfx for movie and tv production. The licensing model for Unreal was primarily oriented for game development, which meant that this wasn't generating any revenue for Epic unless that company opted into the optional support plan.

Unlike the crazy situation with Unity, these changes are being announced in advance without affecting usage of previous versions of Unreal.

(Not saying I like or care for subscriptions for software. But context helps understand what's going on here.)

I'm surprised they didn't make this change sooner.