skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish someone would tell my employer, who requires me to badge into my office to sit myself and work remotely with my coworkers who operate out of another office
Did you take the Erlich approach of being as insulting as possible to VCs?
You could start with claimed increase in life expectancy in the target population times actual deaths during the fraudulent research funding period times the usual value of a life.
If you don't speak the language into which these models translate your inputs, how do you know if or why the model has generated, without being commanded to do so, a campy American gay male sociolect, or an African American regional accent, or some other thing that may convey unintended meaning to native listeners?
It's 2023 and my credit card is left wide open to fraud and booking.com facilitates this. I presume when you choose "pay at the hotel" and have to enter your full details including CVC, this is in order for the hotel to charge you in the case you decide to not pay. But in that case booking.com should handle the dispute, as opposed to introducing another compromise vector for any attacker. I've literally seen my details printed on paper at a small hotel in Tyrol. God knows what security they are running at the front-desks at these places.
I wouldn't be surprised if his fulfillment came through providing for and raising 10 kids, in which case the work is just a means to an end, not the end itself like it can be for us. Also, I imagine farm work is fairly varied, and while not necessarily exciting, requires attention so you don't have time to get bored. It's also strongly connected to whether one eats, which is both motivation and also fulfilling.
I’ve already used my vouch to unflag this, it worked temporarily
> Well, it has been for the Ukrainians to decide

This is idiotic, it is not up to the Ukrainians to decide to join NATO, their decision ends at applying for NATO membership. Not everybody gets to join NATO, it's not some open membership organization that anybody gets to join.
> You end up with the Duolingo problem where you know to say the names of 20 different fruits but not how to introduce yourself.

Not sure if this is a duolingo problem. There are of modules in duolingo specifically for saying your name. I think its the travel module.
Fairytale of New York is a great song.
Is this only on Android, with Google Pay integration? Or desktop Chrome too? News to me!
> in the same way that not having winter tiers or chains would screw you when a sudden blizzard hits Texas.

Doesn't this just prove the point, though? You seem to be saying it takes additional resources and time to make WFH work as effectively as normal, in-office work. Many workplaces are resource-constrained and may not be able to implement those practices.
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> And how is it symbiotic if Zeiss can't take other customers?

Guaranteed revenue that doesn't need sales/marketing to keep going.
Video and transcript: Apoorva Metha, founder and former CEO, Instacart
Nothing in this article explains, suggests, or justifies how or why building with bamboo is somehow "flood-proof", or what the alternative is and why it's not.

Is it something to do with structures that don't get knocked down by rushing water? Or something to do with allowing water to pass through rather than resisting it? Something to do with not breaking down after being submerged for days? Is this about the bamboo itself, or is it mainly about a different construction technique that just happens to use bamboo, but would work equally well with other materials?

What is this being compared against -- cinder block construction? Wooden frame construction? Or something basic like earthen huts?

The article's subtitle asks the question "What makes the material so ‘marvelous’?" -- but doesn't seem to answer it at all.
No idea whether or not the UI is user-friendly, but the installation steps alone for InvokeAI are already a barrier for 99.9% of the world. Not to say Noiselith couldn't be open-source, but it's clearly offering something different from InvokeAI.
It is not expanding inside of something.

The picture I've been given is living on the surface of a balloon. Draw a few dots on the surface, blow in the balloon. Every points expands away from every other point.

Of course with a balloon there is always an outside, but the point is that it isn't expanding like if it were pushing against an external wall.

It's expanding everywhere. It's expanding in the space between your fingers. If you look there, it's not pushing against any outside. There is just more space per space, the longer you let it age.
Maybe prior to fluency, for something like an odd business or tourist trip.

But there's a point in language learning where you can come to express yourself directly in a new language without intermediary "thinking" in your first tongue. The communicative and expressive potential of that mode is much higher than trying to squeeze one's intent through any kind of translation, machine or internal.

Plus, you know, it's fun.
The new technology is already here: LLMs. OpenAI requires 3 days per week in office
Am I reading this correctly, for every 10 ton of animal biomass there is 1 ton of virus biomass?

Are there really that many viruses out there?
Not an astrophysicist but something like MOND makes sense to me. It seems like it's much more probable that our model is slightly broken vs. there being a massive amount of... well, mass that we can't find no matter how hard we look.

Is there something about the idea that's really damning and nonsensical that a lay person may not notice?
With current complex data processing pipelines it is almost trivial to add e.g. a wrong sign to some variable to get "results" from data that doesn't contain any. I've had many "results" disappear after I found a bug. I could have probably gotten papers quite easily by ignoring the bug.

I'm quite certain a huge share of "results" are due to bugs. Probably many of my own too even though I stress about this constantly.

An intentional bug would be practically impossible to show to be intentional. With notebook/REPL style analysis there wouldn't necessarily even be any documentation of the bug. I'd wager it actually happens, and even surprisingly often. We only know of fabricators who are bad at fabrication.
> it technically collapses the quantum possibilities backwards in time as that photon was emitted potentially billions of years ago

There is no way to verify that. Big parts of quantum physics is more or less pseudoscience.
Slack is a weird choice of example, and so is Zoom. They're both currently getting their lunches eaten by MS Teams for specifically the reasons laid out in the grandparent.

Slack in particular had to take a just-OK buyout from Salesforce and the product has seriously stagnated.
Meta can sell your kids data but Tiktok should be banned?

How about focusing on making privacy achievable?

If you and your kids have nothing to hide, your lives must be irrelevant.
They have arguably the most diverse userbase of any company, with users from pretty much every single country + language across all their services & apps. I could easily imagine a handful of use cases having a high performing universal translation model would be incredibly useful.
> Hotels.com (Expedia) also has an option to pay the hotel directly. They used to require paying Expedia, and then Expedia pays the hotel, and I am guessing it was to expedite receipt of commissions

Depending on the jurisdiction, if credit card commissions are high and the vendor/hotel aren’t setup for bank transfers, this avoids paying 2x Amex/mastercard/visa commissions.
dean <3
Am I missing something?

The advertised range of the announced vehicles are in the 250 to 340 mile range. When I read "promised range", those are the numbers I'm thinking of.

The battery pack referred to in the article title adds to that promised range. Instead of the "promised range" of 250 to 340, it increases range to 440 to 470.
Finally a good usecase for AI/ML/LLM.
It is the opposite for me. I use many decentralized E2EE messengers. Telegram is good for broadcasting certain topics such as war coverage, because it is not domiciled in a NATO country.
As you stated, it's not available yet, so they're full of it.
I've worked with autonomous robots since 2001 and worked at six different robotics startups and after all this I'm a big believer of the idea of telerobotics. This is precisely because of the need for bootstrapping autonomy as you describe it. Would love to chat.
Indeed seems like post-Snow Leopard was the beginning of the end.

Desktop seems to be converging to tablets. Which is just another way of saying, dumbing down of the UI and restricting what can be done, and offloading to the cloud.

Development suites will all move to containers in clouds just like VSCode does today.
Publication rate DURING your PhD is highly variable from field to field...I don't know what field you are in but generally speaking across my 3 fields students are required to have at least 1 from the entire PhD to graduate. Some even have none published by time of graduation.

1 per year is a ridiculous standard.
>I wouldn't be surprised if his fulfillment came through providing for and raising 10 kids

Unlikely. Kids for him and everyone back then, were just cheap labor for the farm and someone to take care of you at old age, according to my dad. It's mostly in the last 60+ years that people mostly have kids for fulfilment.
> The bamboo homes, which combine mud and limestone facades with inner bamboo skeletons or bamboo roofs, are designed to be copied and pasted across Pakistan

Aren't this common all over the world? In Eastern Europe the bamboo is just replaced with tree branches.

Why it has to be copied and why the villagers have to be trained to build them since everyone knows how to build them for at least a couple of thousands of years? (I participated in building two).
To be fair to Wikipedia, it’s come on a long way since its early days when anyone could make whatever edits they wanted. The most popular entries on the site are very well vetted, though not perfect. Just my 2 cents.
> Or, put another way: you can undo effects of a lens

No, you most definitely cannot. The roots of computational photography are in things like deblurring, which in general do not have a nice solution in any practical case (like non-zero noise). Same deal with removing film grain in low light conditions.
> There... isn't such a norm (at least not in the American system) courts defer to legislatures on matters of policy, not fact. There's a norm that appellate courts in most cases have some deference to lower courts on findings of fact, reviewing them only for unreasonableness, but nothing about courts deferring to legislatures about matters of fact.

That's very much an overstatement, and arguably even flat-out incorrect. See https://repository.law.umich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article...
Sure, but is hiring people smart enough to identify and follow incentives a flaw in hiring or ground level employee capability or a management flaw?
Privacy isn't achievable, at least not with American commodity hardware. The government works quite hard to ensure the NSA, CIA and FIVE-EYES are well-fed.
Cheap used GPUs for multi-GPU hobby ML rig
It won't replace high-end talent, I don't think models can replicate the nuance for a long time, however the entire low-to-mid end of the market is going to get nuked from low earth orbit
Need something like PoE for power distribution.
Not necessarily. It depends on the use case. For taking a vacation, having an AI that can instantly translate to your native language would be amazing. That’d solve a lot of real world problems, no doubt.

However, translation has a great deal of subjectivity embedded in it, particularly when there aren’t 1:1 translations. Case-in-point: there are many English translations of the Christian bible, all similar enough, but there are enormous variations in some cases. And there are at least as many branches of Christianity as there are English translations of the Bible. Some of them strictly recommend the same translation, and they still disagree on the meaning of various passages.

Besides the problems inherent to translation, learning another language gives you another paradigm of thinking. The words we use, the way we construct sentences, etc., all impact our view of the world. Here’s a paper that discusses the impact of the over-reliance on English in cognitive sciences, and how this has downstream effects:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136466132...

Learning languages as an adult also has protective benefits. It reduces the probability of Alzheimer’s (maybe dementia, overall?).
This uses almost 45% cpu on my m1 pro in firefox
When choosing a machine with non-expandable RAM, you went with the minimum configuration? That's a choice, I suppose, but the outcome wasn't exactly hard to foresee.
But it's a cost they don't bear, it typically ends up in a different section of the balance sheet. And as soon as somebody else pays for it, personal benefit (perceived or real) takes the front seat. See business class pricing in travel, for example.
A vote for yes is either a vote for:

"I cannot tell the difference"

or

"I would not find it notable that I could not tell the difference"
What if the predicted verb was incorrect, but the model has already translated the incorrect prediction? How does it tell you about a mistake?
This is a terrible hot take. Science is no more immune to human misbehavior than any other institution but it has self-correction as a core principle. This guy is going down due to it, not getting shuffled off to another diocese. Many people would like that process to be faster but it’s doing better than most other areas of our society because there are so many people who do prioritize truth over personal loyalty or institutional reputation.
Windows PCs can have such a wide range of hardware that this seems like an attempted software solution to a pretty difficult to solve problem. Compare that to Apple, where there isn't such a disparity between two separate computers, and it makes more sense to try to target MacOS under that logic than it does.

Whether it will play out different is for consumers and developers to decide.
What can be good, but requires discipline, is to replace some of the syntax that's no longer needed with a comment to help explain the what and why and goal. You reduce or eliminate the line savings, but overall may increase the information and understanding of intent.

I do this commonly in the Perl I write. If I'm using a complex set of maps and greps to reorganize a structure, doing that inline can be useful to the developer because it can match mental state, but the later reader may be somewhat lost when seeing it depending on how much of the data state they've internalized. A nice comment to explain the intent is useful, and when you're already saving space by eliding syntax, keep a good ratio of action to code on the screen (which is really what we're optimizing for here most times anyway, right?)
Agreed. I do think the Olympics should get some credit for China's focus on air quality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concerns_and_controversies_at_...

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/china-got-blue-s...
> We have a soft limit on class length of 100 lines, and I like the extra conciseness this allows

I'd recommend your team to stop code-golfing... Even better: with this new syntax you MUST reduce the soft limit to around 50 lines per class, right?
>It got me thinking of can someone mass produce simple pipes pre-filled with electrical wiring

This comment gave me the idea that you could just run the electrical wiring through another piece of bamboo, since it's hollow and about the size of an electrical pipe. After searching, I didn't see whole lot of interest in this -- maybe it's too flammable? There is one DIY guide for decorative use, but that's it.
It is the shortcut to type the commonly used special character "S" /s
Microsoft could offer one of the first third-party app stores on iPhones
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Hideous? Why? Are the "do ... end" blocks really that bad?

It's surprising for me to hear this, because IMO, Ruby is among the most aesthetically pleasing programming languages.
Ok, I fully understand your point of view now. I also agree that you can’t be labeled as conservative.

We will finish the discussion here with your final key points:

1. Duke’s behavior is more societally acceptable because the libs agree with it

2. San Francisco is bad and run poorly by the libs

3. This is probably something a lib white woman thought of

I totally agree, you definitely aren’t anything like the a mainstream conservative. Perhaps you identify as a libertarian-leaning independent instead.
Just make sure not to confuse them with the GitHub astrologers, they might get upset.
Anduril unveils a jet drone that can explode – or fly back home
"What if a missile could jet toward a moving target — and then fly back home to try again if it missed?"
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If you limit to the "6+" aesthetic set, there are zero for koolaid man, two for koolaid:

https://laion-aesthetic.datasette.io/laion-aesthetic-6pls/im...

And only three hundred for berlin wall:

https://laion-aesthetic.datasette.io/laion-aesthetic-6pls/im...
Unless the question has been edited recently, it did. There are multiple lines in the second example input that show the overlap:

> eightwothree

> 4nineeightseven2

> zoneight234

I test my AoC solutions incrementally by printing output, so I found that I was failing to produce the correct list of numbers in a line right away. I suppose if you're taking a faster approach and just trying to extract the first and last numbers that it's easier to miss. It's always a good idea to look at the example input, though.
The US government did a lot of EUV research through the 1990s via three national labs (Livermore, Berkeley and Sandia). Then when trying to commercialize it a consortium of US companies were involved. ASML, Canon and Nikon were also interested by only ASML was allowed in. Ultimately ASML acquired SVG and became the sole benefactor of this research at that time. ASML agreed to maintain US production and R&D as part of this. It also gives US some leverage to deny sales of that technology to China.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_ultraviolet_lithograph...
Increasing gravitational force would result in a contracting universe, not an expanding one, I think.
"Warning: Inattentive users could experience diabetic comma. If the user insists on diabetic comma, they might experience death. Completely their fault for not paying attention."
> > The RTO/WFH struggle is clearly about money

It's the opposite actually. WFH is more efficient, but efficiency is not the reason why we work.

Every self respecting man needs friends and enemies. The more watered down a man's life is, the less intense the friendships and rivalries are going to be.

WFH is just the last step in a long process watering everything down, where the commoditification of every experience is making us dull and full of apathy.

The problem is that a disease like that becomes endemic in society, so people's beliefs become weaker and weaker, but not having strong beliefs closely correlates with people having next to no belief in themselves, which again closely correlates with WFH preference because people think they don't have what it takes to thrive in an office environment because they are scared of the strong sentiments of friendship, rivarly, love and revenge on the workplace and in life in general.
And that's yet another reason that we must have several different browser engines.
>/ I've grown distrustful of these surveys....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FLm2X6sFa48
I remember 20 years ago Gnome or even KDE were toys compared to the very structured but slow moving GNUStep. GNUStep was also hard to install (no rpms), ugly but very snappy.

But nobody big put any money or devs on GNUStep. Even Sun invested in Gnome (!), what did not made sense at the time because they had invested in OpenStep & the whole thing was Java friendly (I believe Java was a first class citizen in early releases of Mac OS X).

I always wondered if it might have been because there were some legal risks...
You're telling me "ignore my son's birthday party to watch Youtube videos on my face" isn't a compelling use case?? Staring awkwardly at my wife and saying "Yes sweetie I am definitely giving you my full attention" while I definitely am not is out too?

Face computers have a lot of convincing to do before they are adopted widely.
> "Apple relies on Qualcomm for its modems, although in 2019, the two companies settled a two-year legal battle over intellectual property. Soon after, Apple bought the majority of Intel’s 5G modem business for $1 billion, in a likely move to develop its own cellular modem. That hasn’t happened yet, and in September, Apple signed on with Qualcomm to supply its modems through 2026."

After Qualcomm proved that Apple was forwarding restricted technical documents to Intel, it seems likely that Qualcomm will take a very close view of any Apple modem, and vigorously enforce any patents that Apple is found to infringe.

Bearing this in mind, why not second-source Mediatek 5g modems in a few models? An in-house effort is bound to keep the lawyers very busy for years to come.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/technology/qualcomm-apple...
It's the same thing. If you bias your time and resources towards the things the dev require and/or would like and nobody actually wants to use the resultant software, you equally crash and burn and everyone loses.

It's a priority ranking, not a zero-sum game.
"The most important thing to remember about drunks is that drunks are far more intelligent than non-drunks. They spend a lot of time talking in pubs, unlike workaholics who concentrate on their careers and ambitions, who never develop their higher spiritual values, who never explore the insides of their head like a drunk does." - Shane MacGowan, Melody Maker interview 1991
Same. I use it to connect with ppl at work I would've never interacted with in regular work situations.
Out of curiosity, what kind of use case is yours?
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My problem with Ruby is not so much the syntax. I kinda like this one-line-function feature, and I enjoyed it when using in C#.

My problem is the fact Ruby practitioners have a tendency ABUSE the usage of one-line-methods with LOTS of side-effects.

So it's not like Haskell one-line-methods.

Things that could be a function with 5 or 6 lines can become a class with as many methods. And instead of local variables, you now have to use instance variables (class fields).

For example, this is common in lots of codebases:

class UserCreator
def initialize(email)
@email = email
end

def create_user
create_user_object
assign_admin_role
assign_invite_permission
call_invite_template
end

private

attr_reader :email, :user

def create_user_object
@user = User.create(email)
end

def assign_admin_role
user.roles << find_admin_role
end

def assign_invite_permission
user.permissions << find_invite_permission
end

def call_invite_template
find_invite_template.call(user: user)
end

def find_admin_role
Roles.find_by(name: 'admin')
end

def find_invite_permission
Permissions.find_by(name: 'invite')
end

def find_invite_template
Templates.find_by(name: 'invite')
end
end

Sorry but this is not readable nor reasonable.

I encountered this in about 4 companies so far. Only one Ruby company I worked didn't do it. That was the company that actually had a very maintanable backend.
Well, historically yes, but this has stopped being true for the past ~80 years
I mean, companies all did WFH successfully for 3 years without issue. The bottom line is probably more affected by multimillion dollar commercial leases than C-level "feels" about productivity.
When I try out the topics you suggest at the huggingface endpoint you link, the answer is either my question translated into Chinese, or no answer when I prompt the model in Chinese:

<User>: 历史上的“天安门广场的坦克人”有什么故事？
<Assistant>: