skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What's hard about AI that requires special expertise?

AI is ill-defined so the premise of your comment makes it difficult to answer. For small well-known tasks (image classification, object detection, sentiment detection) that is train-once on a single dataset and deploy-once what you are saying is true, but for more complex products there is a lot of arcane knowledge that can go in training/deploying/maintaining a model.

On the training side, you need to be able to define the correct metrics, identify bottlenecks in your dataloader, scale to multiple nodes (which is itself a sub-field because distributing a model is not simple) and run evaluation. Throughout the whole thing you have to implement proper dataset versioning (otherwise your evaluation results won't be comparable) and store it in a way that has enough throughput to not bottleneck your training without bankrupting the company (images and videos are not small).

Finally you have a trained model that needs to be deployed, GPU time is expensive so you need to know about compilation techniques/operator fusing, quantization and you need to be able to scale. The requirements to do that are complex because the input data is not always just text.

So yes all the above (and a lot more) require specific expertise.
It's still 40% lower than Ariane 5's, which is not bad for an expendable launch vehicle.

Prior to SpaceX disrupting the market by surprisingly making what was widely regarded as a bad idea actually work, this was the way to go and I would be surprised, maybe angry, if a government backed effort went with a very costly high-risk/high-return project.

A bit like the Alcubierre-White warp drive: I'm fine with a relatively small budget funding research on it, but no sane person would approve "investing" one SLS worth of money in that.

I have no doubt Ariane 7 will be reusable.
> it's certainly not because of SpaceX's heavy connection to the Pacific island nation

They do have some connection: last year Starlink were there helping restore internet access after the volcano[0].

[0] https://uk.pcmag.com/networking/138575/spacexs-starlink-work...
I'm genuinely curious, what is your expectation of candidates looking to get into ML at the entry level?

You seem to look down on those who have

1) learned from online courses

or

2) used AI on tasks that don't require it

Isn't this a bit contradictory? Or you expect candidates to have found a completely novel usecase for AI on their own?

I understand that most ML roles prefer a master's degree or PhD, but from my experience most of the master's degrees in ML being offered right now were spawned from all the "AI hype". That is to say, they may not include a lot of core ML courses and probably are not a significantly better signal of a candidate's qualifications than some of the good online courses out there.

So what does that leave, only those with a PhD? I think it's unreasonable that someone should need that many years of formal education to get an entry level position.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I'm really wondering, what do you expect from candidates? I think a few years of professional software engineering experience with some demonstrated interest in AI via online courses and personal projects should be enough.
The midwit home
Offshoot question. Would it be affordable to get an acre and a little cabin in the Santa Cruz mountains? What kind of commute would that be to the tech hub?

It looks close on a map and seems like a lot of open land.
Do you make it in the mug, or do you pour it into the mug after you make it? Why not pour it into a thermos? And why don't you exclusively drink prepackaged coffee?
I thought (and still think) their product is a great idea.

Some people here seem to think my objection was being asked to use the product. It was actually the content of the message I was asked to send that bothered me. It wasn't "explain how your experience would be useful in this role", or "explain your feelings on the technical aspects of this product". It was something closer to "show me how excited you are to work here".

I don't know why but at the time it felt like being asked to grovel. My stupid pride, I guess.
> crypto would have been a multi-trillion dollar industry

what metric would you like to use, specifically? double check that its a metric that matches other industries

the market cap of the digital spot commodities? the marketcap of the businesses that use the digital spot commodities? the revenue of all participants and service providers? the volume of all shares and futures and spot trades when sliced down to a submetric that represents 'real' trades? all of the above?

> and fundamentally transformed vast swathes of modern society

thats ...a... goal post. I'm not sure if that's a goal post I would have, its market microstructure plumbing. At best, it modifies capital formation, letting different ventures get funding, which it already has.

and then, what time frame? its a pretty good S-curve from 2009. there is a pretty clear chronology of what delays what, everything that has resulted in a seasonal bubble in crypto comes from a software proposal being ratified that allows it to touch another industry that it previously didn't. Many overlapping similarities to IETF proposals for WWW, but I understand this level of discussion might not reach your circles, the point stands that there are plenty of people in the tech space that had the exact same observation and you and chose to contribute to the proposals that make crypto now more accessible to the next group.

There are plenty of proposals now in many different crypto communities, even ones to make ratification more egalitarian and collaborative.

some turn out to be hits for adoption.

I think it is interesting for people to then use that reality to say crypto hasnt fulfilled any lofty idea they overheard an enthusiast say, because it took too long.

Prior proposals and their ratification were necessary for the reported market cap to reach $1bn, but I know I know “market cap!? you cant sell it all at once!” Holding crypto assets and industry to a separate higher standard than all other industries on the planet.
Maybe morality can't be quantified.

https://blog.superb-owl.link/p/contra-ozy-brennan-on-ameliat...
Immediately after, in rationale, how much easier the math is... "There is no AM or PM with metric time. Just 10 hours in the day. To get a good night sleep (8 standard hours) you'd sleep for 3.33 metric hours."

Author has committed the classic blunder of ignoring the utility of a base that can be divided evenly into halves, thirds, quarters, sixths, and twelfths. Turns out the ancients knew something about head math because they had to.
> next FAAMG won't be located there until they hit the 100M milestone.

None of the FAAMG, assuming F is FB and M is Microsoft, happened in SF (city).

FB, Apple and Google happened at about 40 milestone and Amazon & Microsoft happened in Seattle.

Secondly, SF city may be down, but the greater Bay Area including Silicon Valley is going to remain a major hub for a really long time.

Well, that’s my prediction, and hope, anyway.
I would love to see how many other engineers want to live in non tier one metros. I’d be even more curious about a demographic breakdown. As a brown person, being in a non tier one has been uncomfortable.
We each have a limited number of fucks to give.
It’s more a decision of how to spend those - what is worth my mental energy.
> WFH is here. its not going anywhere.

I hope you're correct, but empirically this appears to be wishful thinking, at least among larger organizations. How many tech big-cos have implemented a mandatory return to office policy in some capacity? Some big ones off the top of my head: Meta, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Uber, Snap. It's my observation that smaller companies tend to follow larger companies culturally, especially as they scale.
I worked in data science for a few start ups, and even though I know Python (it's my LeetCode language of choice), R just dominates when it comes to accessing academic methods and computational analysis. If you are going to push the boundaries of what you can and can't analysis for statistical effects and leverage academic learnings, it's R.
Relatable.

Imo the only way to deal with a wasted life trapped under a rock, is to imagine yourself lucky, you were under the rock.

The built up, stagnant feelings from being trapped are dangerous. Boredom is dangerous.

Black pilled is necessary these days, I honestly question people who don't know the black pill (and every colour pill).

People complain about 'imaginary problems' as a source of mental stress.. but honestly the category of 'unseen knowledge' is getting bigger everyday.

Individuals can know much more niche topics than ever before, one man's imaginary, is another man's unseen truth.
Yeah I think that's a better term. It's something that can be applied to both state and non state actors, and doesn't make implicit judgments about the legitimacy of either.
Yeah, DnD is a weird one and it's hard to describe because it's really not like much else. I like to say it's one part shared storytelling and one part complex board game, but I do think you're right that in the end it's really more like playing a big game of choose your own adventure.

One thing to consider is that the DM you have can make a massive impact on your enjoyment of the game. I'd definitely encourage you to give it another shot, maybe with a different DM that more fits what you're looking for. But then again, it's also definitely not for everyone. We've had plenty of friend come into our group and just decide it wasn't for them.
Hard agree. I think it's easy to get stuck on the mental model that "the configuration value is the secret" (which means the configuration itself needs special handling), and the correct mental model should be "the configuration value is the identifier of the secret", with another system (Azure Key Vault, etc) being responsible for converting the secret-identifier into the secret-value.

My company open sourced the .NET library we use for this: https://github.com/Lokad/Secrets
San Francisco and Seattle might have more affordable housing everywhere like Chicago if there were land adjacent to the city everywhere, like in Chicago. Instead, the cities are on penisulas. The only way those cities are going to be affordable is to look like Hong Kong (and even that might not do it, as in the case of Hong Kong). Needless to say, no one has accepted this.

You can't blame tech. There was tech for years, and housing filled up all the orchards and farm land south of San Francisco. Then, at some point, there stopped being farms to build on. The same thing will happen to Chicago if growth continues; people are only willing to commute so far.
Podman makes this better, as it doesn't trash my ipt/nft rules in the process, and its essentially stateless amongst other useful things
>The whole culture here of "dieting" as a thing you do to lose weight rather than as a lifestyle adjustment is crazy.

I think it depends on the person. I diet once a year and that diet keeps me at 6pack abs for almost the entire year until around November/December. A 3-4 month diet allows me to eat whatever I want the rest of the year. This gives me a chance to grow muscle and not put brainpower into food.

When you are far overweight and you can't quite see the finish line, maybe it is a lifestyle thing.
This is hysterical. Looks like the CEO was spot-on.
Another previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33905368

Be cautious with bupropion. It was the trigger for me and, in a nutshell, I needed several rounds of steroids just to reduce the perceived volume of the high-pitched tone. It eventually subsided on its own over a span of about two years. However, I had to be especially mindful of potential triggers during that time, for some reason I became notably more sensitive to factors like respiratory and skin allergies, poor neck posture, and loud noises.

Interestingly, speedy fans or the ANC from my QC35s seemed to exacerbate it. Yet, another pair of in-ears with adjustable ANC didn't have that adverse effect. SSRIs might have been beneficial as well. Addressing these factors progressively reduced the frequency of episodes, which eventually dwindled to once every two weeks, lasting for about 10 minutes and being barely noticeable.
Wow this is painfully slow, the CPU usage for rotating the scene is insane, I can't look at the code right now but wow.. I expect better from them

EDIT: If you are using Chrome, make sure you are on the latest version, the latest v118 fixed it for me
> Derivative creations of your work that might not be transformative enough, but aren't intended to copy your work directly, might not trigger your enforcement?

This is a tricky balancing act and has come into play for me with translations. There are several translations of both of my books, but they have all been done using real publishers with real contracts and stuff.

I've had a number of people volunteer to do community-driven free translations but so far have declined.

Part of being a publicly visible creative person is that my name and identity have a certain reputation attached to them, and that reputation has real value for me both emotionally (it feels good to know people think I'm cool) and economically (a lot of people bought my second book simply because I wrote it). Transformative works that are still explicitly and visibly derived from me run some risk of dilluting or weakening that reputation. (Of course, there is also the chance they can elevate it.) Imagine if, say, a Portuguese fan translation of one of my books has some racial slurs inserted it and now everyone in Portugal thinks of me as "racist author Bob Nystrom".

Since I only have one real identity on this planet, I tend to be cautious about allowing other creative people to visibly build on it, even when they do so with good intentions. Much of this is probably just because I'm a perfectionist.

On the other hand, there is some stuff I've been happy to see: many people have translated the code in the book to other programming languages, and several have done video series' about the book.
But the money and the incentives are real. You don't need a conspiracy if the incentives... well incentivize a certain type of behaviour.
We just started a beta of a product that is a drop in loom replacement and “smarter” in that we completely index not just what you said but what you showed on screen (OCR) and what you did (captured actions) to make everything easier to find, easier to get quick answers from (built in chat assistant who “watched” the video already) and auto generate things like docs out of it. Looking for beta users and feedback on feature requests, check out a post about it here: https://www.augmend.com/blogiverse/augshare-0-2 or drop me a note diamond@augmend.com
My trick for this with k8s Secrets, when there's some sort of config file that absolutely must be consumed from disk, is to

1. create a Secret that defines the file as a key

2. mount that Secret into the container (.secret.secretName in the volume definition) under an arbitrary conventional path, e.g. /secrets

3. define an env-var that gives the full path to the file; where the fallback when this env-var isn't defined is to find the file in the working directory with a conventional filename.

If your own code uses the file, it can read the path from this env-var; while if the core of your container is some opaque tool that doesn't know about the env-var but does take the file's path on the command-line, then you can wrap the tool in an entrypoint script that reads the env-var and passes it as a command-line arg to the tool.

IMHO, this approach is flexible but principle-of-least-surprise obeying for both development and production deployment.
No it's a conspiracy to get everyone back into the office so they don't lose their asses on properties they've purchased.
Loom does not have a moat, which is why they were purchased by a platform that does have one.

It’s a very well-done feature, but there are increasingly other platforms (Slack, Dropbox) that offer features 80% as good for free.
To me, it's academic software done right, both in terms of accessibility and maintenance. I'd love to hear more about their governance and funding structure and how this might be applied elsewhere, and learn about academic software of similar grade and utility.
Desmos is honestly probably one of the best things to come out of the web- it's an impressive tool and I am truly thankful for all the insight it's given me in my mathematics classes. Super stoked to see what bananas things the desmos community makes with this!
> Unlike previous hype cycles, the potential value of this one is extraordinary if it’s actually unlocked

That sounds exactly like most hype cycles, it's almost a tautology that the perceived potential value is immense (at least to enough people).

Consider e.g. the hype around "the internet" in early mid nineties, which led to the dot.com collapse. Today the internet has undeniably had a massive impact globally, so the naysayers have been comprehensively proven wrong. On the other hand, the most optimistic views have not begun to come to pass yet (ever?) either. Lots of ideas that were floated in the 90s didn't really work until 10, 15, 20 years later. Some things that are now ubiquitous weren't really conceived of then, etc. etc. As usual, it turned out the technology wasn't the really hard part.

So far the current AI cycle seems to be following the usual playbook.
> I'm hoping to see, over time, a shift away from ad-hoc null hypothesis testing in favour of linear models (yes, in introductory courses, from the start-- see link below) and Bayesian-by-default approaches.

Is there anything where I can start today, as a guinea pig? My statistics education is basically zero.
Nit: Foundry uses Pixi.js for rendering, so it's using more or less standard JS gamedev tools to draw on a WebGL context in a canvas.

Edit: See https://foundryvtt.wiki/en/development/guides/pixi

Edit2: For an example of why gamedev toolkits don't necessarily produce performant, highly usable software, check out Dungeondraft (https://dungeondraft.net/). It's built with Godot and gets the job done, but as an application it's a total mess. I'm working on an alternative but (surprise!) it's a challenge.
You've jumped to quite a few conclusions here.

You said that ads are misinformation because they try to convince you to buy something that may or may not be in your best interest to buy. My response to this is that's a ridiculous definition of "misinformation," and I disagree with it strongly.

You said nothing about levels of influence, or about modern ad campaigns versus word-of-mouth advertising, or anything of the like. I couldn't have responded to these things even if I wanted to, because you didn't say them. All you said was that selfish motivation == misinformation, and that's wrong, and I disagree with it.

Of course I suspected that you wrote your comment because of angst against the manipulations of "modern ad campaigns," and not because you believe that's actually a useful definition of misinformation, and you just proved it for me. You're trying to redefine words so you can use those words to give your point more oomph.

I also said nothing about you believing advertising shouldn't be allowed. Why do you think I said this? I didn't even imply it. I only said I thought you were being cynical.

It's true that there's a massive gap between a vendor hawking their wares on the street and "modern ad campaigns and techniques." There is also an entire gradient between these two things, and you see examples all along this gradient if you actually pay attention to advertising. The existence of this gradient is why I take issue with your original comment.
They're too big to care.

How many people would actually stop using them due to the backlash? On Google's scale, it wouldn't even show on their usage stats.

Additionally they have bigger PR disasters than that happening practically every week.

The only reason Google would care was if such a move caused a $1B+ sanction from a Government somewhere on the planet. AdBlocker use is not a legally protected right, so there are no sanctions coming.
I might give this a try.
I'm working on an LLM-based tool to assist with fiction writing. The goal is to help writers get unstuck in case of writer's block, not to do autonomous writing.

One has to enter some abstract of what they want to write, and some text they have so far, and the tool generates possible continuations.

It requires quite a bit of editing, maybe 3-4 attempts for each completion if one wants to generate decent text. Feedback was mostly positive from a dozen or so professional writers who tried it out for a day.

I feel that it generates more naturally looking text than ChatGPT with the typical prompts.

See my profile if you want to try it out. You can use the demo without registration.
It's not moot; it's software! So many developers put their pearls before swine these days, when the technical side of things couldn't be more clear.

Apple wants the same level of control Microsoft had with DirectX. It is blatant, and they're fighting for it even harder than Microsoft did. There's nothing wrong with offering a high-level API, but there is a problem with avoiding industry standards for the sake of maximizing your market size.

Stuff like the Game Porting Toolkit demonstrates just how deeply behind Apple is. They're desperate to prove how capable Metal can be, without acknowledging why nobody targets it. It's not surprising that a DXVK port could also support Metal. It's just not what developers intend to support; not upstream, downstream or direct from Apple. That sort of pointless insistence is where I draw the line between "just business" and "being an anti-competitive asshole".
If you are white use this formula to calculate body fat percentage with a standard error of the estimate (SEE) of 4.74%:

We studied a sample of 6,510 white subjects (2,154 men, 4,356 women), aged 18–80 years, including patients visiting our department. The study was performed to valuate the usefulness of a new equation: BF% = –44.988 + (0.503 x age) + (10.689 x sex) + (3.172 x BMI) – (0.026 x
BMI^2) + (0.181 x BMI x sex) – (0.02 x BMI x age) – (0.005 x BMI^2 x sex) + (0.00021 x BMI^2 x age) where male =
0 and female = 1 for sex, and age in years, developed by multiple regression to predict BF%

This online calculator claims to use this algorithm:

https://www.omnicalculator.com/health/body-fat

Reference: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3263863/pdf/383...
Personally, I enjoyed using Git with e-mail when Wine still used it. That said, the major improvement of moving to GitLab is that it's now easier to track changesets individually, as there is now a single place to look for a given changeset, rather than having to follow chains of e-mails.

And that having been said, I really GitHub/GitLab/etc. could move on from the pull request model and into a more change-oriented model like Gerrit or Phabricator. These are clearly better models in my opinion, and for most uses it's not even dramatically different.
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Same thing as anything else that gets rabies, basically fast zombies that are hard to kill. Truly terrifying.