skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ganguro is associated with a certain Japanese subculture and aesthetic, [...]

Yes. What's your point?

> [...] and not meant at all to represent darker-skinned races.

No one ever claimed that. The question to my post was simply where to possibly get data from for "darker skin tones". Ganguro seems like an option because ... well, darker skin tones? Care to elaborate why you bring up "representation of darker skinned races" up in this context?
Servo should be developed for taxpayers money just to keep Google honest.
That non embeddability is probably also a major reason why there isn't a significant node competitor based on spidermonkey. I get wanting to focus on Firefox as a whole, and that making components more independent can add quite a bit of work. But at the same time, if it was easier to use gecko in other browsers, and spidermonkey as JS environment outside the browser, I wonder if that would increase usage of and interest in the underlying technology.
Congrats to you as well!
We have lots of courses in common.
My most fav. were: HPC, AI4R, Simulation, AI for Ethics and ML4T
This topic aside, I guess I just feel like if the Hacker community is saying “don’t build things! It’s dangerous! What if someone gets hurt! Go DMV! Put a stop to that!”, then maybe I don’t want to be a Hacker anymore.
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> Gecko and Servo are not easily embeddable.

That's right. And the Safari team chose KHTML despite the presence of Dave Hyatt - a key Firefox developer and creator of Camino browser (which did embed Gecko). That's probably everything one needs to know about how easily embeddable Gecko is.
I’d love to do OMSCS, but a masters wouldn’t really offer any changes to my career. I really enjoy structured learning but the time commitment for even a single class sounds enormous
WAs it? I remember debates about it on HN.
There's good and bad ways to develop new technologies. It is our responsibility to champion the good and call out the bad. If not us, the people who actually understand and build the technology - then who?

[edit] I'm pro EPA too btw, its nice that rivers don't catch fire.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29884826
If I give up computers in the evening and alarm clocks in the morning, this type of sleep cycle actually happens to me quite naturally. I prefer it, actually, just a hard habit to keep in the modern world.
It appears that some regions may actually be at risk of driving ratios downwards as they shorten the validity of vaccination certificates for those already "fully vaccinated" but who haven't had additional shots since then.
Haha. Such correlation, such little data. But hey, at least someone got paid.
>> It is exceedingly likely that people just ate more fat instead of sugar..

Why do you believe this is so likely? To be honest I don't see the connection. People notice in the supermarket that their favorite soft drink became more expensive, and decide to switch to eating an extra hamburger instead?
> There isn't any AI either. It's machine learning, i.e., statistical models and algorithms.

I always thaught those were synonyms.
It’s a Level 2 facility, not studying bats or coronavirus.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/head-of-who-team-investigating-...

> “They also reported no storage nor laboratory activities on CoVs [coronaviruses] or other bat viruses preceding the outbreak.”

> The lab is classified BSL-2, a safety level at which air ventilation controls aren’t particularly strict, as they are in more secure labs. At that level, lab workers are usually dealing with pathogens that either cause mild disease in humans or which don’t typically spread through small particles that linger in the air. Researchers at that level don’t necessarily wear masks.

> The Wuhan CDC lab tested all of its staff for Covid-19 antibodies, it told the WHO in February. All staff tested negative, except one who tested positive, it said. That person was infected “due to family cluster transmission,” the WHO-led team’s report’s annex says.

> But Dr. Ben Embarek is the first to so explicitly question the team’s conclusion, published in a joint report with Chinese counterparts, that a lab accident was an “extremely unlikely” hypothesis.

> That wording was only reached after a 48 hour period of intense negotiations with Chinese counterparts said Dr. Ben Embarek, who said he would have preferred to designate an accident inside a lab as merely “unlikely.”

> The lab hadn’t published any work with bats since 2013, he said.

> “As far as we understand, they work mostly with parasites, not as much with viruses, so they have worked on parasites from bats.”

Yet, after fighting to label the lab leak theory “unlikely”, he throws a bone to the conspiracy theorists:

> “It’s also possible that someone is trying to hide something,” he added. “Who knows?”
No, it's not. By default, iMessage messages are stored in cleartext on Apple servers. You need to use an option, to disable iCloud backups, so that this isn't th case. So the messages are only E2EE if you take care to change the options so that they are, otherwise they are not.

I don't think I'm twisting it. Pragmatically, unless you fiddle with the options, iMessage won't give you end to end encryption. So I think it's fair to call it optional.
I used to have the same problem. I have deleted all social apps from my phone. It only has one email address used by servers to send panic messages. My development machine likewise has no apps, no email and the browser doesn't have logins for the various accounts. Then I have an old, crappy notebook running Debian which I use for emails and rare social media updates. It's a pain to use and that is exactly why I minimize my time using it. Besides, its battery is near dead so it needs to be plugged in in order to not stop after 10 minutes. Which in turn means that it is in an inconvenient position with the power pack on the floor behind heaps of stuff.

I know the foregoing is extreme. It is a form of aversion training. But it works for me. My productivity has greatly improved since I adopted the above drastic measures 3 years ago.
Love the RSS feed link!
Not that common anymore.
If they still eat as much, at least they don't get the additional sugary calories from the soda. So a big win, wouldn't you say?
> Such as?

> What’s the next step

Stop trusting sources or information coming out of china, if western sources contradict it. Thats the next step. Update your informational priors, to disregard them. And then also convince other people to disregard them, and make fun of people you know, who uses those sources, if there are contradictory western sources.
Maybe the title should be changed to uppercase "SAGE". The first thing that came to my mind was the enterprise software company: https://www.sage.com/
Well, at the least the US could refrain from supplying further funding to the WIV, and any other virology labs.
If true, this would be insane. Covering up the leak, hiding early treatments, killing millions of us. And I'm not implicating CCP in this, those docs point to USA origination.

At the moment I feel like it all just fits too easily. So skeptical about whether or not it's a convenient plant.
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Can't the build system already detect what changed? Is that not what ninja does?
Here's an excellent video covering the data on the mice/omicron hypothesis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH1u1GIPU2A It's by Dr. John Campbell who I just discovered and his coverage of the pandemic is by far the most informative and evidence-based that I've found so far.
Come try Kagi Search and get both upvote and downvote!
i don't see why i'd ever spend time on any particular platform when i could avoid it. I don't like any of them, but i still want my software to work on them.
I understand math is optimized for writing, but honestly I've always felt it would be better if we just used long variable names instead of single letters.
Sparkling water is also a concern for dental health. Carbonation becomes carbonic acid.
Signal integrity is becoming a serious issue for these higher speed links. So it's a compromise between how many traces you need vs. the signal speed.

For the server market, GPU's and other accelerators, high speed NIC's and SSD's have an unending appetite for bandwidth, so there I expect a lot of interest. But I think we'll see an increasing gap between this and the consumer market, for better or worse.
Can you point me to a time where $BIGCORP leveraging mass public testing of 5,000 lb heavy machinery to get around actually having to pay for testers was considered part of the hacker ethos?
> ... documents should have two representations - human-friendly and machine-friendly until AI gets so good ...

when I download papers from arxiv I sometimes choose the LaTex version because it often comes with commented out ideas that didn't make it into the paper. The author thought process becomes clear. The Metadata helps me understand the whole thing quicker the same way the semantic web helps the machine.

Perhaps there is a clever philosophical analogy in there somewhere about "us becoming the machine" or "the map becoming the territory", but I can't put my finger on it.
Or, y'know, altered lab mice for further GoF...
Every time someone vocally claims that a well-targeted tax won't reduce the effect of something harmful, one can be pretty sure it will - those people would not be complaining unless it directly hit their wallets.
You're hungry, so you eat something. When you run low on food, you go to the supermarket. Soda has increased in price, so you spend your soda money on something else. The next time you're hungry, that's what's in your kitchen.

This is only better if the thing you replace the soda with is better for you than the soda. Without any data on what that is, you don't know if that's true.
That's simple. Gecko is awful to embed and use independently of Firefox.

Now my question would be why not WebKit, as that is also easy to embed. There are browsers that use WebKit, just not that many.
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Congratulations, well done!

Did that a few years ago, started when I was 47, completed with 50.
Was easier for me.
Distance Learning University in Germany.
And I had the opportunity to do it at work.
One could call it a side project.

Since about two years I try my hand at a bachelor in mathematics at another Distance Learning University in Germany.
Guess I will pull that stunt around 2025.
> OK so I wouldn't call React "stable", hopefully it has undergone its last major redesign for awhile (LOL), but there is tons of tooling for it.

I'm not sure what you're talking about. The last major feature addition to React was Hooks in 2018. But that didn't break stability at all - you can still use all of the old React APIs and ignore that Hooks exist entirely. The React team has actually been incredibly thoughtful about introducing new APIs, rarely break backwards compatibility, and it's a library I generally trust _not_ to break anything on updates.

If you work somewhere that insists on flavor of the month development using the shiniest libraries and the newest features, yeah, there's a lot of churn, but that's a very different complaint from "I wouldn't call React stable".
"exceedingly likely"? Are you taking the "right" thing from these "equivocal" studies? Sounds like you too are mainly expressing your personal and unsubstantiated beliefs. Anyway, it would be pretty weird if decreasing consumption of sugary liquids on average increased the consumption of solid fats. I could see if you were a person doing hard daily labor you'd need to get crazy amounts of calories from somewhere, but you seem to have a theory that there is a caloric balance people will naturally maintain one way or the other, even when they are obese because of excessive consumption. If you know of a study that does show that consumption of fats increases when sugary drink consumption decreases, OMG, that would be really interesting, please share a link since I've only heard of studies suggesting exactly the opposite.
Try ccls
The price elasticity of demand (i.e., the amount someone changes purchasing decisions based on price changes) depend in part on how much of your budget the item takes up. For wealthy people, soda is a rounding error on a rounding error. For lower income folks, soda could be a small but noticeable percentage of their budget. So 20¢ is not 20¢ to everyone.

For my part, I know that teenager-me would have absolutely noticed this price increase, but adult me would not.
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I wouldn't be this cynical if everyone said the same thing to the Firefox OS back then. It turned out that Firefox OS did have much potential to countries with less mobile penetration, as observed from KaiOS's success in India.

Was the Firefox OS less future-focused than Servo? I don't think so, and given that Servo actually did survive long enough to give back to the mainline Gecko (in the form of WebRender and so on). It might or might not make actual sense to conclude that as the ROI shrinks, but it is always easier to claim the decision was wrong after that decision.
Yeah, but falling asleep was way easier in my late teens, so I couldn't say for sure if I would be able to do it now.
To quote myself:

> or normalize to yet another join table

This is also semantically incorrect. There needs to be exactly 2 rows there. You cannot in a declarative way, prevent that if you use this approach.

It's also a known dilemma, so we don't have to rediscover the wheel here.
"Within the port range, enter the starting port and the ending port to forward. For the Nintendo Switch console, this is ports 1 through 65535."

How on earth can someone seriously have this as a requirement?
Naïvely I thought Waifu generator was just “some guy having a laugh” fine-tuning a model off of hugging face, but reading through the comments here, it is obviously a much, much bigger enterprise.

Can you talk a little about team size, work process, funding and revenue stream? I think the effort required for such an undertaking is vastly underestimated by readers.
Yes, such as fact checking from real journalists. They’re not asking for less journalism, they’re asking for more
also within time constraints, building an electron app in the scenario outlined is probably a lot quicker. Normally building something quicker implies that later maintainability is adversely affected, but in this case the tradeoff is not time vs. maintainability, but time vs. performance.

Performance has generally been getting the short end of the stick since early Windows days anyway when Gates had people build not for what a computer could handle when the application was built, but rather what it could handle a year down the road.

>When you build software, you're not given 10 years, a research team and infinite money.

So actually you don't need all that to identify when there is a bird in the picture anymore, what's the new bird in a picture requirement? https://xkcd.com/1425/
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There's potential for visible-light networking but the Li-Fi people in particular are complete garbage. They claim visible light travels faster than radio waves and say Li-Fi is a hundred times faster than wi-fi but their thousand dollar router can only do 100Mb/s. They also rip off the Wi-Fi Alliance logo.
The causation here seems very vague and hard to establish as confidently as this article tries. But even if the causation was there, I don’t know if I would count this as “working well”. People can’t access a product they want to access because of an artificial burden imposed on them. That doesn’t feel like the system is “working well”. It feels more like the system is restricting the agency and self determination of those with less money.
A computer is a device where you can work on, unlike a tablet, unless you are in a band or paint digitally.
I have a sodastream and use it daily, and I've read articles going both ways on this. It seems that carbonated pure water is not nearly as bad as soda for teeth, but that perhaps it's not that great (especially for kids). Have you seen definitive guidance on this? Does carbonating less make a difference? Using a straw? I've heard that drinking plain water after is a good idea, but don't know if that's grounded in science.
so if people being fat is the problem, why not target it at the root - a fat tax?

i'm jesting of course, but the modern tax system tend to be both a revenue generator, while also being a behaviour modifier, often to the detriment of each of those objectives. I think root cause targeting, rather than try to "incentivize" at the edges, is more effective a social policy.
As a casual observer trying to follow the conversation and learn more, I would prefer to hear just the facts with the data to support it, rather than the personal attacks regardless of whether you think they’re fair or not.
Fascinating... Thanks for sharing

A couple questions:

1) I didn't really understand how you went about identifying what vectors of the latent space stand for various things, like pose or color. Did you train one of the AIs to that effect, or did you manually inspect a bunch of vectors, twiddling through them one by one, did to the outcome?

2) If one were to train an AI to the same level using commodity cloud services, what's the order of magnitude cost that you would pay for the training? More like $100, $1,000, $10,000 or $100,000?
Wait, people still drink soda?
It's an interesting pattern with academic HCI work like this. For instance, Shneiderman (who did legitimately innovative design work!) often claims not only Hyperties's hyperlink styling as an academia -> industry success story but also the iPhone keyboard: his group had done a series of usability studies on various tiny keyboard approaches. And yet Ken Kocienda, who actually created the iPhone keyboard, has told me he was unaware of this work (and in fact never surveyed prior work). I've heard the same story for CSCW interface elements. Not encouraging!
Yes, MSVC STL implementation is dog-slow in Debug. I solved the problem by creating a new build configuration called "RelNoOpt" that builds with "Release" runtime-libraries and STL, but turns off all optimizations. I get debugging experience of "Debug" build with none of its performance penalties. (Though the extra checks -- esp iterator invalidation -- in Debug STL have saved me tons of debugging time a couple of times on another project.)
Both the A and the I in AI are debatable terms.

The sole definition of intelligence is under heavy load of reconsideration the last decades with the emergence of a better knowledge of animal cognition, for example.
I’m calling bullshit to most of the comments here and to Mozilla.

First, why cannot we have a multi-platform single click, no chrome/ui with fullscreen capabilities, firefox launcher that has prepackaged web app that is self contained? You think Major Tech Dudes can’t implement this?

Second, it’s all probably to do with bureaucracy and politics. For all we know FAANG blocks such ad ventures otherwise its bully time.
True, that's another sense of being sourced from a journal
Eating sugar makes your body/mind crave more sugar though… regardless of consumed calories.
> If that hypothesis is true, then we have a fine example of something running in the background in a reservoir and then Hey, Presto! suddenly appearing to be mutated specifically for humans.

Isn't this the case with all zoonotic viruses? The reservoir is all the other species? HIV was also found in monkeys. We are all affected by the reservoir because we are also part of the reservoir.
The problem is that the lab leak was dismissed as a conspiracy theory as are many of the things that have now come to pass, e.g.: ineffective vaccines, side effects.

Pair that with the disinformation coming from once trusted institutions, e.g.: 5 vs 10 day quarantine, sending health care workers to work while still positive.

It's no wonder people are giving more credence to these fringe groups. The government has nobody to blame but itself for such poor messaging.
There isn't any I either. It's biological learning, i.e. neuronal models and feedback loops.

/s?
It's possible, and I know first hand it is. It requires quite a bit of work though.

It might be easier to just have quick compile times though!
The title of this HN post is not based on what Fridman's tweet says: "My @YouTube
channel received a strike. I'm guessing it's an error of automation."
Agreed, that’s more a failure of the system if there are too many obstacles put in the way of an motivated individual to enter college
You don't even know that the replacement thing isn't still sugar. People can't spend their soda money on candy?

What if they spend it on cigarettes?
There is a related video by minute physics about how the RGB color space stores the square root of the brightness of each color channel, because human color perception is roughly logarithmic. Bad color blending is therefore pretty commonplace because it uses the average of square roots instead of the square root of the average of the original brightness values. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKnqECcg6Gw
That's kind of a click baity interpretation of the study. What really happened in that study was that the subjects were given a diet vs regular soda, then allowed to eat as much as they wanted. In the case where they drank diet soda, they did eat more calories, but the total calories consumed including the drink itself was still lower for the diet soda case.

For further discussion on this study (and others like it) I highly recommend the stronger by science podcast [1]. And [2] is a link to the study details (to avoid whatever misleading spin npr might be giving it).

[1] https://www.sbspod.com/episodes/reverse-dieting-bodybuilding... (starts around 1:49:39, it's the second last topic)

[2] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...
I find odd that no one is tracing back portions of generative arts back to publicly posted sources. Internet horde of bored people were used to be good at finding where an unattributed pieces come from. Are these really generalized and stored in highly abstract forms? I doubt it...
I think the clearest article on topic is from Zeynep Tufekci https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/25/opinion/coronavirus-lab.h... who says , repeatedly what we do not know and what is disturbing.
Congrats on the launch! Your team's execution is really impressive.

When I tried Surface in the browser there was noticeable sluggishness if I intentionally added a lot of elements on the page. This reminded me of reading about how Figma leveraged WASM to improve their performance on the browser. I wonder what your thoughts are on WASM and web side performance in general.
I didn't realise part of being a hacker was being okay with endangering lives.
I've been critical of so-called web apps for quite a bit more than a decade now. It's not the hate that was pathological, it was the obsession of taking a platform designed for displaying documents and transforming it into an application distribution platform.

And after untold man hours and billions spent, the results are still inferior. That's where the "hate" is coming from. Seeing such an incredible waste while at the same time being lectured on the greatness of the web is intolerable for anyone that has seen what a quality piece of software looks and feels like.
Enjoy the echo chamber!
We all endanger lives every time we get behind the wheel of a manually driven car.
I just see a huge parking lot. What do you see?
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