skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "creator" of Arcosanti, Paolo Soleri [0], was an Italian-born architect, who then moved to the US, and was a "student" of Frank Lloyd Wright in 1949.

I visited Arcosanti in 2013. Unfortunately it's an unfinished, incomplete project - Soleri's goal was to reach a population of 5,000 people, a number he thought it would make the community completely self-sustainable. I think it reached ~100-150 at its peak.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_Soleri
What are you not getting here? I was willing to believe that you were familiar with survivorship bias before and had just made a mistake, but now it's seeming as if you're not just completely unaware of it, but unwilling to even look it up. And doubling down like this comes across as incredibly obnoxious.

Why don't you write to Jake, Hilary, and Maria and see if they'll explain to you why the existence of their paper doesn't mean what you're now trying to argue?
For me, I know majority of my younger friends use IG stories and have abandoned snapchat.
Ah. Perhaps the issue was ReadDirFS.ReadDir and GlobFS.Glob proposals, both of which are one-shot. I don't write much Go so missed that both os.ReadDir and ReadDirFile.ReadDir support streaming.
Questions:

1) is this your side project or did you work full time?
2) how many years of experience do you have?
3) was it you first big project?
4) have you done previous work that exposed you to ffmpeg or similar problems?
5) what made you think this would be a good idea, does your work require you to make these often?
6) how did you stay motivated?
7) did you plan out everything, how did you refine your idea, did you start with finished mockups?

8) What's your exercise routine?
9) would you classify yourself as someone who has trouble staying motivated or focused?
10) would you classify yourself as someone with high energy?
11) would you classify yourself as someone perfectionist or do as you learn?
12) do you follow any particular diet or diet routine?
13) do you rely on coffee or supplements of any kind?
amiunique.org is just a database of fingerprints (size of which is governed by however much traffic they get).

If you're showing up as unique it's either because:

1. your blockers are randomising each time

2. your blockers aren't blocking everything and what's left is still enough to uniquely fingerprint you against the database of fingerprints they have.

If it's 1 above, that's fine. If it's 2, you may need more (or better) blockers.

Also, it obviously helps from the get go if you're on a bog standard platform like Windows and using FF.
This place is a great visit. It feels quite cultish though and everyone there seems to be working on making bells for tourists. Super weird and interesting.
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Games can be an especially good path to explore for teenagers. There are many disciplines that come together to create something. Even while focusing on one aspect of game development, you can build a desire to pursue another.

For me, it was 3D art that got me hooked. Followed by programming to make my art do something.
That’s what it looks like. There’s a comment in this issue calling that out also. [0]

Considering how inaccessible it is I’m curious why there’s so much hype around it. Just the cost/benefit of cloud compute resources needed to run the model looks really bad. All of these hypothetical use cases being discussed in other threads would be financially unsustainable.

Granted, it’s still yet to be seen how the smaller models will perform. Looking forward to experimenting with those once they’re released!

[0] https://github.com/openai/gpt-3/issues/1#issuecomment-636008...
I would like to put it out there that I'm working on a pathlib library that is attempting to solve a lot of the problems that this design draft is addressing.

https://github.com/chigopher/pathlib
>Their advertisement network is only one and that uses the browser, but there is nothing stopping any one else to create a similar alternative.

Does Brave support a way for other ad networks to integrate into their BAT system? If not, any competitor would first have to popularise their own web browser.
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Ironically, the old King that allegedly lead the change into "democracy" just ran away after accepting millions in bribes from Saudis, and having mistresses in the press gloating how much he loves her, he even let her skim a couple million off the top to buy some luxurious house.
Well, if they did dig it up and it helped them, we wouldn’t know, right?
slightly unrelated but does anyone else find TechCrunch navigation to be absolutely unbearable? Also hijacking the back button on my browser.
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pretty cool! we learned about this in a utopias class I took. one of the interesting books in that class was "Two Hundred Years of American Communes" by Yaacov Oved.
> ...mostly GlobalStar. Spot X and Garmin InReach are the two big ones

These are different though. SPOT works on globalstar which has gaps in coverage, particularly large parts of the Pacific. A coverage map is here: https://www.findmespot.com/en-us/products-services/coverage-...

The inReach works on iridum and claims 100% world-wide coverage.

Personally I carry an EPIRB for the boat, a PLB on the lifejacket and an inReach for texting. Cheap insurance.
I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at, so let me ask a clarifying question.

Lets suppose that we encounter a civilization that evolves independently outside of our solar system. This alien civilization is based on radically different chemistry - whatever it has that's analogous to a brain doesn't resemble any evolved natural brain on earth, it might not even be carbon based.

Nonetheless this alien civilization presents with language, culture, history, art and science. Would you argue that this civilization also lacks consciousness? How would you know these aliens do or do not have subjective experience, compared to human beings?

I'm wondering how particular you think the experience of consciousness is. Do you need to have carbon based, biological neurons to possess it? How do you determine if something has "subjective experience" or not?
Ask HN: What are the least competitive consumer and enterprise markets?
My experiment in working backwards from market to problems to solutions:

1. Start with listing markets that have a low degree of competition, but don't have a mega-monopoly owning them. These will mostly be small markets.

2. Examine the problem space within each and see if new technology (SW / HW) can deliver 10x improvements.

3. Determine whether these markets are a short enough hop away from deeper ones.

It's surprisingly hard to get a "map" of existing markets, but am curious about those the community can readily identify.
I'm actually building that: https://www.calla.chat

I'll eventually add VR support, but for now I'm working on this 2D version to focus on just the conversation aspect.
I 100% agree on this. But it's been pretty hilarious on how obstinate tool makers are about changing to Python's new pyproject.toml [1]

Python packaging is a bit of a mess already, so when I recently started a new small package I wanted to choose tooling that would not clutter, but a fair amount of tool makers were reluctant to allow code into their repo that would use the unified toml rather than a ton of separate file.

.config is probably a better solution than a single top level toml, IMHO, but far more important is doing something unified rather than continuing the pollution of the top-level namespace, which merely obscures the project structure.

[1] https://snarky.ca/what-the-heck-is-pyproject-toml/
Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24049676

https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2020/8/3/tiktok-and-the-sorti...
I worked on a website for them in the 1990s. The same people who hired us to help on that also invited us to a "digital be in" where we meet Timothy Leary (who had released a CD of Haight Asbury history at the event) and we got to play with an Apple Newton. That was my first trip to San Francisco.
It isn't great but imho it's better than Chrome which confuses me each time and feels super limited:

1. Open settings

2. Privacy and security

3. Scroll down to find the tiny "See all cookies and site data"

4. Use the search box for the site you want

5. Then you only have the option of removing everything from that site?? There's a little X icon to the right of each cookie but clicking it does nothing

Unless there's a better way I haven't seen (I use chrome infrequently)
I read this as "Instagram reels" from the fact that Facebook launched a rival...
The South Pole starts out way more terraformed than Mars can ever be. It has air, water, gravity, and is warmer. You can just put up domes and it's already way better than Mars. Mineral wealth is only a mile down, under the ice.

Under the sea starts out way more terraformed than Mars can ever be. It has water, gravity, and is warmer. Mineral wealth is right at hand.

The cloud tops of Venus start out way more terraformed than Mars can ever be. It has air pressure, gravity, water, carbon, sulfur, and shirtsleeve temperature.

What motivation does Mars provide that those don't?
HA ! Of course there is, that always happens to me, I think I am the first to think of something but then of course, a bunch of other people beat me to it :)
CNN has more before/after images from Plant Labs:

* https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/05/world/satellite-images-beirut...

Non-governmental access to near-real time satellite imagery is really interesting.
Some nuclear bombs were specifically designed to detonate at ground level.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laydown_delivery
5000 IU is high dose. 10,000 is really high. A more moderate dose would be 1000 to 2000 daily.
If you live in a northern state, your Vitamin D level will vary with season. And with increased use of sunscreen (which is a good thing), it can be hard to get enough Vitamin D. I'm not opposed to anyone taking Vitamin D (I take it actually). I just want people to take it in moderation unless there is a very clear reason for taking high doses (and there are indications for that).
I stayed at Arcosanti on a cross-country trip and it was amazing. They're on Airbnb[1]. It's pretty far out of the way but it's worth the trip.

[1] https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/33518175?source_impression_id=p...
Sounds like a heck of an experience.
I use it as a benchmark for how well my blockers etc. are working. Yes you are unique initially but you can then tweak everything until you start becoming less unique.

For things that should always be unique (like a canvas fingerprint), just make sure to randomise it each time.

Basically, you want to appear as mundane as possible (user agent, screen resolution, fonts, platform etc.) and be able to change on demand as much of the remaining entropy (as is feasible) that would normally be expected to be unique.
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Also these "backpack bombs": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Atomic_Demolition_Muni...

> It was also intended that the munition could be used against targets in coastal and near-coastal locations. One person carrying the weapon package would parachute from an aircraft and place the device in a harbor or other strategic location that was accessible from the sea. Another parachutist without a weapon package would follow the first to provide support as needed. The two-man team would place the weapon package in the target location, set the timer, and swim out into the ocean, where they would be retrieved by a submarine or a high-speed surface water craft.
>> The authors experimented with 200-word news articles, to see whether 80 human judges could tell the difference between human-generated and GPT-3-generated ones.

I disagree with tsimionescu that this is a good counterpoint. The comment you reply to says that "GPT-3 is not saying anything". The figure you refer to shows that human judges could not tell the difference between human-generated and GPT-3 generated text. That's apples and oranges. That some humans weren't able to detect autogenerated text doesn't say anything about whether the autogenerated text said anything.
Games were may path into tech too. Though I don't think it's generally applicable. Having tried with nephews and other kids I think it takes a certain combination of desire to create, grit, and community feedback. And/or I'm just a bad teacher.
> the agreement with the EU was negotiated by multiple democratically elected governments and confirmed in a referendum.

Excuse me? Syriza reneged on the referendum result! The people spoke, and Tsipras did the opposite!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Greek_bailout_referendum#...
Great read. I love this part, in particular

> Yes, I’m very fond of fermentation. Besides the fine flavors and health benefits, there’s the satisfying confusion of who —microbe or person—is domesticating who, a perspective shift that I find to be good medicine for my human-centeredness.
Reminds me of the Farside comic: https://imgur.com/r/TheFarSide/hQAT2Go
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Anecdotally, I applied to only 2 UCs: Berkeley and UCSD. Several of my friends that applied to (and some of whom who attended) Berkeley and UCLA also applied to UCSD, UCSC, or UCSB.
I do see people get high calcium levels after being on this dose for years. But not always. You may be able to handle that dose. If you are getting "routine" labs done, then there is likely a calcium level in there. If your calcium is normal (under 10.0 mg/dl for adults over 40, younger adults can be a little higher), then your Vitamin D dose is ok... but I would still recommend coming down a bit on that dose. It is a high dose, and Vit D builds up in your body, since it is a fat soluble vitamin.
My mistake, I was on a Mac and I intuitively look for app settings in the main menu bar, which is what I was describing. I should have looked up the process on other platforms to determine if it was just as intuitive
If you read slowly (which is not an insult, you clearly need to read and think about what you're reading before responding, because it's clear your just sending kneejerk reactions to every line I've written and not actually digesting them)

You'll understand that the crux of your misunderstanding, which I've clarified twice now is:

> they made a horrible UX, and then patched it by adding more horrible UX. It's decidedly not what consumers want.

It is what they want.

Go and look at which automaker is worth almost 1.5x Toyota's market cap after launching a car that gets you fined for changing your wiper speed since it's all on a touch screen.

Go look at which car people tout as the most futuristic.

Go look at which interior is shown rubbing shoulders with Bentleys in interior design rankings: https://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/g22496899/best-new-car...

See which car everyone drools over setting the bar for form and function: https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-model-3-interior-is-a-...

I mean seriously, you'd have to be blind to not see that automakers are now chasing Tesla because people have convinced themselves, maybe through Musk's charisma or some misguided aspiration that this is the future:

https://robbreport.com/motors/cars/leaked-images-of-the-new-...

https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-model-3-interior-is-a-...

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I said it very plainly, you seem unable to divorce your personal preferences and views from reality of what people want.

I hate the giant touchscreens but that doesn't mean I'm going to ignore the fact people rant and rave about the interior that started this trend.

It also doesn't mean I'm not going to give credit where due as a manufacturer kowtows to demands, but manages to pull some additional function out of the burning wreckage that is now "what is in, in car UX".

Maybe if you read my comments through that lens instead of acting like this is some kind of high school debate team practice, you'll finally understand why I'm saying you're missing my point (repeatedly).
Yes, at the end of the day, one can see why there are UI frameworks like Qt, GTK, Cocoa. It took many, many, many years and people to develop them and they are designed for complex desktop interfaces.

I don't like this constant reinvention of wheels. Look at Blender, it also has its own, mice UI and many other specialized graphical, image and audio apps have. Flutter also renders its widgets.But none of them is as universal and flexible as those big, battle-tested frameworks.

They are no shortcuts, proper UI is a complicated thing.

For quick, simple UIs, you may like Tk or Python's module Tkinter [1]. It is capable of creating pretty fast UIs with little code. Gitk [2] Git UI is written in Tcl + Tk.

[1] https://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/python_gui_programming...

[2] https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/gitk
Yes, the argument in the article seems to revolve around it is harder user to verify a build that it is to simply build it themselves. If they build it themselves there is no need to verify it of course - so what's the point of verification?

You could apply that same argument to lots of things. It's hard to verify things adhere to standards in general - whether it be flammability of children's clothes, or additives in food. Bu that logic I should be making my own clothes and meals rather than relying on the manufacturers claims.

Obviously, no one does. The point is someone has made a verifiable statement, in public. There is no need to go to the effort of testig that statement a zillion times. In fact needn't be done at all in many cases - just the treat of doing the test with something goes wrong suffices. In the case of food where I live, a recent recall of strawberry's devastated the industry. No one was testing if strawberry's contained needles until someone eat one, no one got seriously hurt when they did. Well no body except the strawberry industry which was on its knees for months until once again people started to take them at their word their product was safe to eat.

Similarly if you care about security (and I do), if there was a choice between several several Signal like programs that all claimed verifiable builds, and then it was shown one was in fact lying about verifiability I'd drop them like a hot potato. And I wouldn't be dropping them for just months like the strawberry's, it would likely be forever.

In one line: the idea that every user has to test a verifiable build does in fact verify in order for it to be useful, is seriously flawed.
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Evidenced precisely by all these ransomware attacks where victims have to pay up because they didn't invest in backup resources (maybe they had some tapes, but didn't find the staff or process to test any of it.. because they haven't needed them so far).
OK, I'm convinced. Not a great interface, should just return an iterator.
Yes exactly what I was thinking, it is as if you mentally picture and weight each move, but what if you could actually represent that somehow and play out all the variations of a game like a multiverse. Sometimes when I play against a computer I will try different things by trying something then going back using undo, but then I wonder, wait maybe the other fork would have worked out, etc. This way you could have many versions going at once. I have look at source of various open chess engines and they do something similar, the idea is what if there were a way, maybe with shading of the pieces or some other way of representing the super positions of each possibility. The UI would be interesting challenge.
"you can use a broadcast channel"

That is not part of the threat model, and in any case is basically an out-of-band channel.

"like a Linux distro to communicate the tools and required knowledge in a way that doesn't give a strong signal that you're using it."

Again, the threat model is that the adversary controls the network and can block or modify messages at will. So unless all linux distros included the software, the adversary would simply block those that include the software. The threat model of steganography basically implies that some out of band distribution is needed.

"encoded values are a pseudorandom linear combination of a huge number of bits from the image and end up being extremely uniform"

That has nothing to do with what I was talking about. The "time domain" of the image is where the noise lies and where the bias exists in the bits. Even if it can be encoded in some way that looks uniform, that does not mean that an arbitrary change to the encoded image will have the correct bias when it is decoded.

"you can also remap from them onto any other required distribution in a fairly straight forward way."

In the forward direction, but the reverse direction is not so straightforward. This is a classic problem with doing ElGamal encryption on elliptic curves -- some curves do not have an easily invertable map from bit strings to the EC group. I do not know how hard this is to do with images, but when I last looked image stegosystems relied on heuristics and needed relatively short messages to remain secure.
I'd be tempted to create something like a reddit clone with less moderation, but I'm wondering:

1. How many unsuccessful reddit clones are out there already?

2. How much would regulations be a problem nowadays? You can be held liable for the content you host, and there's things like GPDR. Would that make it much harder to start a new social media platform?
> AFAIR in France nobody sent out paramilitary units to quell the protests

Only Benalla, the president's personal praetorian.
If you come to different conclusions from reading some of these, I'd love to hear about it! These were the sort of papers that gave me a looooot of hope a few years ago. Since then I have found the non-tech challenges to be the biggest concern for an interchange to a low- or zero-carbon economy.

As I understand it, the only really hard part is that one week of really bad combination of weather for wind and solar in the winter. Because of that, we need to keep around a ton of backup fuel-based generation (which includes nuclear).
My uninformed guess is legal "engineering", such as tariff engineering. Discovering the cheapest way to manufacture goods / run your business given the most up to date legal landscape. To some respects, privacy companies that help you navigate GDPR/CPA are in this category, but there's plenty of space here (immigration, copyright, zoning, etc).
I'm taking those demos with a grain of salt personally. Historical precedent suggests this is very difficult to get right.
I highly recommend https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim for IDE if you can use neovim. It is so far the best autocomplete tool for neovim.
Reminds me of https://hopin.to/ ! I’m a huge fan of what they’ve been able to build. Their user experience is bar none for this kind of stuff!
uBlock Origin and/or Privacy Badger block Intercom. I suspect it's not chat bubble blindness, it's chat bubble blocklist.
Other way around: edges are a good place to try to hide stegotext because of the high frequency components (the edge effect, which is also why JPEG artifacts are worse along sharp edges).
I'm curious what they do to the garbage collector; over the last few years we've made quite a few optimizations to our Lua 5.1 codebase to reduce the impact it has and yet just last week I was in there again squeezing blood from that stone.
Port Chicago munitions explosion (~ 1800 tons TNT):

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