skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use Mapbox terrain RGB [1]. A good free alternative is Nextzen [2], but they do not generate tiles past zoom level 15 (Mapbox does it to 20) and there are some random elevation spikes that Mapbox has cleaned up.

I'm looking forward to a LIDAR elevation tile set becoming available because it can be loaded into Shademap without any modification and hopefully display shade from trees.

[1] - https://docs.mapbox.com/help/getting-started/mapbox-data/#ma...

[2] - https://www.nextzen.org/#terrain-tiles

EDIT: For buildings I used OSM Buildings initially, but now such data is directly encoded in the vector map tiles provided by Mapbox
Those are separate classifications, right? A unit test can be property-based and an integration test can be accomplished theough fuzzing, and versa.
Yeah. I remember displaying these on ASCII terminals in 1200 bps connected to a DEC Vax 4000 or a Sun 3.

Digital porn was around even before graphics were common.

Same thing with movies, there's an ASCII art animated star wars somewhere, too.
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That's the right approach. I wish it were the top comment. You should turn it into a blog post.
I've thought about it some more, and have decided to open source the extension at 5AM Pacific Time. I'll also post an update on Twitter+LinkedIn

It will be accessible at this link: https://github.com/netvyne/ext

Just a heads up, this will be as-is ;) so please excuse the commit messages and disorganization.
Apples and oranges anyway. Steno is phonemes, computer keyboards are characters.
Just please give me a DTMF tree as a fallback for voice recognition. I was trying to make a change to a rental-car reservation from a noisy airport, and I spent 15 minutes trying to get through the voice-recognition chatbot...
My grey matter is failing me but does anyone remember a rant about 5-10 years ago about developing software in this era that had some punch line about consensus algorithms that went a little like, "so, there's this guy named Diego?"

edit: found it

https://circleci.com/blog/its-the-future/
I understand your argument, but while we try to change our government we still need a way to save money and get paid without being robbed, cryptos are a way to avoid that, it's as simple as that.

Please understand that people like me who live in third world countries have third world problems, worrying about the climate change is sometimes not in the top of our priorities when we don't even now if we'll have 50, 100 or 30% of anual inflation. And I find unfair how sometimes we are told and scolded by the first world when they didn't get there via green policies, really.
The ratio here appears to be "transactions used for criminal purposes divided by all transactions on blockchains". I'm not sure that's a very interesting number, even assuming you can be definitive about the former (which the reports admits it isn't).

I would love to see, for example, "purchases of illegal goods and services divided by all goods and services on blockchains".
If you think crypto is gone from China, I tihnk you may be mistaken.

Argentina isn't the US or UK. There was a video an Argentinian pointed out to me of a vendor selling black-market goods right in front of the tax office. No one gives a fuck. Violating Argentina's insane tax code is sport for their populace. Once you become big enough corruption and ol boy network with the tax authorities will negotiate what percent of your income you lie about, usually you keep like 70% off the books by the account of one accountant from a large construction company I interacted with.
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yup, computers help us solve problems that we would not have without them
What accent do you have that those two words rhyme?
The source of something doesn't tell you much about its health effects. A lot of life saving drugs are created using industrial processes involving many nasty chemicals. This is not too far from the logic of signing a petition against dihydrogen monoxide because it sounds like a scary chemical.
NIOSH (the agency behind the N95 standard) has not approved any type of facemask for children, so any "N95 for kids" mask would be counterfeit.
That's an intentionally misleading (but technically correct) use of the word structure.
By that measure we ran out of copper a long time ago, yet I can still buy it at Home Depot. It's just crazy expensive.
To be fair, paying someone a volatile salary (for example, mostly or all commission) should be banned as well.
I'd be interested in the % of crypto transactions that are pure speculation. People do use it to pay for goods, sign contracts, etc. Are there more legal value creating transactions than illegal ones?
I wasn't trying to demonstrate that brushing trumps fluoride. I shared my experience in the hope it would spark interesting discussion.
LOL, this sounds exactly like the Dutch tv game show 'Lingo' that's been on tv since 1989. Everything old is new again!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingo_(Dutch_game_show)
Composted leaves will fertilize it somewhat, but if you just let leaves fall on your lawn, it tends to kill the lawn. I recommend raking into pile, and letting it sit for a year or so (fallen brown leaves compost rather slowly), then you can spread resulting compost. But, unless you have lots of trees, the amount of nitrogen in fallen leaves will be minimal (trees don’t like parting with valuable nutrients either).
> What do you mean by can't go? People "can't" go to high-school either if they don't get the minimum grades required in elementary school.

The US lets people go to college who haven't graduated from high-school.

Flunk out or quit, and you can go back.

> > You already said that you/your country won't pay much, so why is it wrong for me to express the same sentiment?

> Uhm, no? In what way?

Your country says "we'll let n people into college." or "we'll spend $x on colleges, which is basically the same thing. The tests are then used to pick those n people.

What happens to the other people, the people you won't pay for?

35-40% of US adults have graduated from college. (Different sources have different numbers.) >10% of US adults attended some college and didn't finish. (Some do go back.)
Do you think that ordinary people are more or less likely to take advantage of a system with such high transaction fees and personal risk exposure than the corrupt elites looting their countries?
You are absolutely right. It's horrifying how often people on the internet just want the government to step in and "fix" everything.
Umm... "curating the data" is exactly what they're doing when they ban the customer for forwarding spam that originated from their system.
your missing replying on hacker news, chatting on slack, chatting on whatever othe rchat program you use, etc.
The chatbot saves money. Simple as that. People get served by chatbots, get frustrated, and majority gives up and doesn't bother the company with the problem.

It doesn't really matter how the chatbot saves the money, they can just see the end results and use the money for bonuses instead.
https://kubelist.com/ is where I found this in case anyone wants to take a look
Choice between bleeding money and haemorrhaging it
Men pay ~95% of the dollars given/taken for child support in this country. It applies to women but only in a very very marginal way. Men going from >99% to 95% of child support costs isn't really a noteworthy change and doesn't align with a prediction that it would be meaningfully different.
> I'm not sure how you can say this, when a giant chorus of experts from all of the world's foremost institutions of medical research have expressed exactly this doubt.

There's no doubt. It's scientific fact that the virus cannot spread when its host doesn't occupy spaces that other people do. Besides it being a "rain is wet" kind of thing, it's also backup up by scientific research.

The discussion is about what flavor of lockdown offers sufficient benefits that outweigh the costs. And if such flavors can be enforced.
Have you tried https://www.thread.com/? That's the closest thing I've seen to what you're looking for.
Then the USA, where the means of production are owned by workers via pension funds, is closer to communism than USSR which basically had everything state owned.
As many lives as (gasp) using hyperboles would, as they slide down a slippery slope.
i love how most of the comments on here are talking about EDI back when they first started and here I am consolidating 6 different systems into 1 EDI VAN and its considered new capabilities -_-
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America doesn’t have enough teachers to keep schools open
At one point I worked on a project where for source control the previous people would just copy/paste all the code in the file into a block comment at the bottom of the file. Some files were three hundred lines of code followed by several thousand lines of block comments containing near-identical code. To be fair, these were non-CS students who had never been taught any different.
One caveat to this is the "Enum with inner structs" version only avoids overhead when using individual shapes. The inner struct doesn't affect the enum size and alignment, so you still will have 12 bytes per shape in collections (8 for the largest shape variant's fields, 1 for the discriminant, and 3 for padding).
I wonder how much of Carmack's time is spent typing. It'd be fascinating to get an idea of that.
> More recently I'm still not sure why, in a language with an extensive runtime and its own VM, they went with async / await rather than fibers or continuations like go and java. It was probably simpler to implement initially, of course.

No one was willing to approve another extension of the old runtime, and a major one at that. If they had already completed the .Net Core rewrite back then they would've probably baked async into the runtime.
yeah yeah, GPT3 is not a chat bot and not intelligent. WE KNOW. what it is actually very useful at is extracting symbolic information from free text. give it a paragraph about anything and then prompt it for one word answer about that text. this it does well and _nothing_ else can do this.
I see large language models as interface to natural language not AGI
> Perhaps the real question is: if a chatbot is powered by a human instead of AI, but I can't tell because the interface is consistent, is it not a chatbot?

The Mechanical Turk[1] was a hoax, not an early mechanical AI, so no. It's a chat interface -- perhaps with some pre-sorting and context-extracting preludes that save the human operator at the other end some time, but still just an interface -- between the human chat operator and you.

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1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk
I was about to post a similar sentiment but I figured I'd see if someone else is posting about Cardano first. If I understand correctly, the Proof of Stake that Cardano (ADA) uses roughly 1% of the energy that a Proof of Work system does, and can still be secure and cool.

IIRC, didn't Ethereum say about a year ago that they're planning on moving to a Proof of Stake at some point?
I am 100% in on this, I use rss notification on my website (temporary.chat) to notify users of new messages, the code is open source, perhaps it can be
used as an easy platform to diffuse content via rss (works for images too)

https://github.com/ba9f11ecc3497d9993b933fdc2bd61e5/temporar...
> ETH PoW is almost dead.

I've been reading variations of the line "Ethereum is only weeks/months away from Proof of Stake" since probably early 2019.

Also doesn't Proof of Stake introduce another set of problems?
OK so you have a economic problem where capital controls on dollars are untenable to you and you can't move them through the traditional banking system without some mandatory and seriously depreciating exchanges. Instead you switch to crypto and hold the USD funds for safe keeping until transferring back out the country. That may not fix structural issues but if it fixes things for you personally it sounds like some sort of win and better than nothing.
It is also one letter off from either EDA or EMI. Which was enough for me to in some superposition of "Electronic design automation can be complicated" and "Electromagnetic interference is confusing."
Chinese pens are hit and miss for me.

Some, like all of the <$20 Jinhaos, I simply hate. I've never laid hands on one that I'd even consider "usable".

Others have some models that are excellent and some that aren't. Some of the Chinese Parker 51 clones are not only very good, I'd actually consider them both more practical and more true to the original than the very expensive modern Parker 51 re-issues.

Oh - and Chinese "brands" aren't the same thing as "companies". "Shanghai Green Stationery Co., Ltd" makes some amazingly great pens around $20-50 that are in all respects better than >$100 European pens. They're usually sold under the "Wing Sung" brand.

They make the Wing Sung 698, which in my opinion is one of the best "budget" fountain pens out there. They're not super fancy, but but they feel substantial and hold up very well to carrying in a backpack (or even a pocket). I've torture tested some of mine in the past by leaving it inked for over a year, and not only did it survive - it wrote instantly without issue when I used it again.

On the other hand, the Wing Sung 659 is pretty much just a sub-standard clone of the Pilot 78g. Their cheap Parker 45 and 51 clones are just bad, and feel like the stamped sheet metal and weak plastic they're made of.
I’m not sure that is the same. Would you consider Venezuela a democracy?
While "banning crypto" is a challenging task, making cryptocurrency useless in your jurisdiction is extremely easy.

prohibit any business to accept crypto as payment, ban crypto exchanges from operating in your country, ban banks of your country to accept transaction that they suspect coming from cryptocurrency exchanges

You can still have your crypto wallet, but what use is it if you can't exchange it in your local currency? You can always meet someone in an ally or travel outside the country and bring cash back in but these are solutions that don't scale.
That's a distinction without a difference.

By their own policy, Twilio's upstream should ban them for "forwarding spam".

I'm guessing they would not be happy if that policy were applied.
What is the methodology behind determining whether crypto transactions were illicit? I thought the whole point of using crypto was that transactions could not be traced.

Edit: The report seems to imply that they somehow identified "illicit addresses", but do not say how. Perhaps I'm too scientific but I would really like to see a "Methods" section in this report. The lack of that makes it very difficult to draw reliably conclusions from that piece.
Even DIE, Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity?
If you're going to hold people responsible for meeting a metric, you need to ensure they have a way of measuring the thing in question. To do otherwise is unreasonable by definition. If Twilio's definition of "sending spam" matched the OP's, where it's about sending messages the user did not agree to receive, then that would be reasonable. But instead it's something more intangible.

And like you say, they do need to prevent their system being used for sending spam. But if they're not going to provide a way for honest parties to avoid sending spam, they need to be reasonable about how they react to spam reports.
> Can't blame Mozilla for openly scraping the bottom of the barrel with their marketing.

Yes I can. It makes them look cheap and corny, and weakens their credibility.

> Dogecoin IS a meme and has/had a multi-billion dollar cap

Sure, for about a month, a year ago. It's old news. Anyone still "HODLing" Doge is just a speculator who missed the last wave and is desperately hoping it'll come back so they can sell out.

Point is, Mozilla is wasting their time by marketing to that crowd. Scraping the bottom of the barrel is a bad look.
This is really frustrating, and sorry you're on the receiving end of this. I don't work for Twilio, but we spend a lot with them (and some other telecoms) so I see a bit further up the chain than most.

The retail wireless carriers are really driving a lot of this with recent 10DLC A2P changes. In particular, T-Mobile is waving around threats of $10k fines per message for messages they deem to be in violation of their content rules. (Which obviously prohibit fraud and such, but also somewhat-arbitrarily anything relating to marijuana.) The way it's written T-Mobile will fine Twilio, who is supposed to pass it on, but knows they'll struggle to collect that.

Meanwhile, on my personal cell phone AT&T can't even seem to figure out that when they get a message from a Nexmo number that starts with "ATT Free Msg" that they didn't send, maybe they shouldn't deliver it. As a consumer I'm glad someone is trying to squash these scams, but they're breaking more than a few eggs in the process.

I'd echo the advice to get off the SMS channel for notifications if at all possible, unless you're sending enough and spending enough to have named support contacts. The rules are being written for people sending thousands of messages per day. We serve small businesses who send maybe 100 messages per month, and it's been a mess trying to get carriers to recognize that these businesses exist and need a solution that works for them too.
Yes, but things like regular keyboards, or hitboxes already exist. How does this new thing improve on those?
What's impressive about this conversation? I don't feel like it is very complicated at face value. You're telling to program to start pulling facts from the life of a public figure, and then it does so. You can get the same out of Google.
Yes, the majority of US equities is held by the upper class and corporate debt dwarfs consumer debt (including mortgages).
To be fair on the hiring side, reality is that many job postings are open ended on comp depending on who shows up. Even at large (>10K people) companies, certainly in startups.

The posted job might be for a senior engineer, but if an extremely promising recent grad shows up maybe I'll take a bet on them instead, but they'll start on a lower salary. Or sometimes an extremely experienced person shows interest and they're a perfect fit so they end up getting hired at a distinguished level which wasn't the plan but the stars aligned.

It's not useful to post the job with a range of 50K-400K, but it's sort of what the range really is.
Or Loopring, Arbitrum, Polygon, Optimism. Complete Ethereum L1s move to Proof of Stake, and use one of the above for actual transactions and you have a super fast decentralised way of making transactions that's orders of magnitude more energy efficient than Bitcoin.
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There is a fundamental difference between AI Dungeon-type chatbots and chatbots you typically encounter on websites e.g. for customer support.

The former does not really have a goal and is unconcerned about responding with factual information as long as the conversation is coherent. It makes sense to use large language models that are quite good at modeling next word probabilities based on context.

The latter however is goal-oriented (help the customer) and constrained by its known actions and embedded knowledge. This often forces the conversational flows (or at least fragments) to be hard-coded and machine-learning is used as a compass to determine which flow to trigger next.

For now controlling GPT-like language models remains an extremely tricks exercise but if some day we can constrain language models to only output desirable and factual information with a low cost in maintaining and updating its embedded knowledge, we should see a significant bump in "intelligence" of the typical website chatbot.
This seems like a article that is intended to be misleading. The report itself acknowledges a huge level of inaccuracy.

> As always, we have to caveat this figure and say that it is likely to rise as Chainalysis identifies more addresses associated with illicit activity and incorporates their transaction activity into our historical volumes. For instance, we found in our last Crypto Crime Report that 0.34% of 2020’s cryptocurrency transaction volume was associated with illicit activity — we’ve now raised that figure to 0.62%.

A more correct summary is: .15% of transaction activity was with addresses identified by Chainalysis as associated with illegal activity.

There are huge assumptions here about Chainalysis's ability and criteria for detecting illicit activity.
I've been using AIDungeon (and its successors like NovelAI which are more for advanced users) for years now and have been involved in a lot of the community around it. You are definitely using it wrong, but you are forgiven because AI Dungeon is terribly falsely advertised.

Your main mistake is not writing proper sentences. AI Dungeon is not a Zork simulation where you type truncated commands like "get torch" and receive a response from the computer. It is more like a Choose Your Own Adventure novel generator.

You need to write proper sentences, so instead of "You inventory", try "You double check what items you have in your rucksack." Instead of "You get longsword and bow", you should be typing "You pick up the longsword and the bow." Instead of "You health", you...just don't do that. Maybe try something like "You look down at your body and survey your wounds." If you're really feeling confident, try switching from "Do" mode to "Story" mode, and just start writing a fantasy novel and see what it generates with its next output.

For reference, this is a snippet of an old story of mine I saved:

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As I approached the kobold stealthily, it looked up with its beady, reptilian eyes. It could not see me yet, but I knew it was only a matter of time before it sensed my presence.

I decided to act first. "Let's go!" I shouted to my companions, before rushing towards the small monster with my dagger drawn.

The kobold yelped in surprise before pulling back its bow and firing an arrow at me. I moved to dodge it and barely managed to avoid it. Now in melee range, I raised my dagger into the air before plunging it towards the kobold's torso.

It struck the monster's heart, and blood spurt out of the wound as it struggled, before going still.

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Nearly every sentence there was partially AI-generated in AI Dungeon, retried a few times, edited, and truncated to fit the story. This is how most people in the community actually use this sort of software. It's more like having a buddy suggesting the next sentence in your personal story than a virtual dungeon master. Those who expect it to be the latter generally don't understand it, while those who see it as the former immediately understand what the hype is about and get really passionate about it.

AI dungeon might advertise itself as a game, but in practice it's used as a more general storytelling aide. And it should be noted that it has been rendered obsolete by competitors made by disgruntled fans like NovelAI for a while now (which is a whole other story).
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