skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to change the subject but point one is such a sticky point that a lot of the non-technicals or semi-technicals get overly hung up on in my experience. It's a very valid concern, and personally in this case I would say even more so because the potential pitfalls of maintaining physical hardware are no joke. However, I keep running into situations where that point is touted out for even compromising, intermediary alternatives like setting up your own build pipeline on a cloud provider or even using a cloud provider instead of a niche SaaS solution at all.

Forgive me if this is just "one of those problems" everyone has to deal with. I'm admittedly still pretty young and naive, and I've found myself in a mentorship/leadership adjacent role at a fast growing company where my relatively small team has a vastly deeper well of technical knowledge and aptitude than the rest of the organization. So I do wonder sometimes if I'm wrong about it, but my intuition, and it seems that of GP's too it seems, drives me to spring to this kind of solution (that we should be doing whatever it is ourselves because it's mission critical for what we do) often and it really gets to me that it's not so readily heard.

It's somewhat ironic because a big part of the point of HN in general is building and promoting these kind of progressive services, but the longer I'm in the industry and the more advanced my knowledge and responsibilities get, the more I keep finding that it's really hard to communicate the gaps in between the marketing claims these SaaS tools promote to higher-ups who don't see the incurred technical debt and wasted time working around their shortcomings. I've found this to be especially true when the issues are ones that one only bumps up against after rigorous use or problems that decision makers try to address by encouraging the addition of yet another third party tool to the mix.
Are we neighbors? My landlord has the same plan.
I just tried to look at the tweet to see where this data's coming from, but "[...] quoth the server: '404'".

But really, forty percent!? For a statistical study that's an unusually convenient/round number, and for a state with the population of California, the chances of that statistic being accurate for any measurement methodology are astronomically small. Sure the dude could've been rounding it, which is totally fine of course, but I also question the validity of that statement because that's nearly half the entire small business segment for the most populous state in the nation!

And that just doesn't sound right, fundamentally. It's possible, sure, but c'mon, really? Near half?! I don't buy it, not without data from well-respected sources to back it up.

So I go to click the link, only to find it no longer exists. Which further casts doubt on this statement.

(18 hours after tweet linked on HN is when I checked Twitter; or in my world, "just now".)
"Even the liberals in Russia are supporting the annexation of Crimea"

- Supporting an annexation that has already happened is not the same as supporting a war.

- That being said, even the liberals in the US supported the various invasions and occupations. Don't forget that Libya happened under Obama.

- Even the liberals in Turkey are supporting the annexation of northern Cyprus, even the liberals in China support the annexation of Tibet, etc. It is not something unique to Russia.

"In Russia there are some good people but they are in extreme minority"

Bush's approval rating was the highest when he declared the invasion of Afghanistan (90%) and when he declared the invasion of Iraq (70%).

In addition to that this is typical racist rhetoric, I have heard exactly the same thing about Mexicans, Blacks, Albanians, Jews, Roma, etc.
You might be interested in this classic article: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/675631

The author argued "yes, definitely", but most computer scientists answered "nah, too much work." People fond of $new language like to claim that if just all major software was rewritten in their favorite language life would be so much easier and bugs and security issues would be so much fewer. So you ask, "how do you know?" They answer: "It is obvious." "Have you tested it?" "There is no point, cause it is OBVIOUS!" "But if it is obvious, shouldn't it also be easy to test?" "We have NO TIME for that and if you don't see that $new language is better than $old language you are an IDIOT! Troll someone else!!" Or they'll argue that tests doesn't prove anything cause it depends on the context (like programmer skill, familiarity with $old and $new language, etc). Essentially, their hunch carries more weight than any quantitative data you could ever collect...

So much of software engineering is just shiny new thing after shiny new thing. No one knows whether the shiny new stuff is better than the old stuff or not. Even the book that introduced TDD & DP readily admitted that the project in which the development method was tested failed! Yet everyone adopted TDD because it was so "obvious" it was better.
I'm describing my own veto there.
It's literally quotes from an article he wrote about Zen for Anandtech cribbed in the patent.
I don't think there's any argument about data; but certainly the interpretation. Thanks for the link, I'll try to make my way through the "policy maker" one.

The reason I made the post was to get some critical feedback on the podcast. I'm curious, how much of the report have you read yourself?
This has sadly been decided about a decade ago. Reversing course would (apparently) be more expensive and take longer than building out renewables, especially considering that nuclear power arguably presents more problems than it's worth longer term.
Remove the .light class from the <body> and apply these userstyles for this domain

.post {
font-family: unset;
}
.wrapper > center,
.site-description,
.site-navigation,
#disqus_thread,
.postNavigation,
.site-footer {
display: none !important;
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>NVIDIA was launching a new architecture every two years

at the peak of nvidia 3dfx war new chips were coming out every 6-9 months

Riva 128 (April 1997) to TNT (June 15, 1998) took 14 months, TNT2 (March 15, 1999) 8 month, GF256 (October 11, 1999) 7 months, GF2 (April 26, 2000) 6 months, | 3dfx dies here |, GF3 (February 27, 2001) 9 months, GF4 (February 6, 2002) 12 months, FX (March 2003) 13 months, etc ...
"Reduction in the standard of living" is really oversold by critics.

One of the most obvious impacts of a fight against climate change is that plane travel must get more expensive. Both to reduce demand and to give room for clean alternatives.

So your standard of living is reduced with fewer international vacations. But the alternative isn't "no vacations", it's "more local vacations".
Reading this gave me the constant feeling he waisted way too much time on technical stuff. For an MVP with an uncertainty of success it's important to get it out of the door with minimal effort and time.
Making Go errors play nice with Sentry
I don't get how they can openly operate like that. Won't this cause an instant "bank run" and stop any sane person from moving ETH in the opposite direction?
It’s multidimensional (segmented) with correlations between dimensions.
That's not all there was. I copied and pasted other things from that comment in my other posts.
“So why did you use Mapreduce over other solutions?"

You almost never get asked that in an interview though.
A positive of taking the nix brick road is if you get bored of software development you'll have enough yak fur to retire.
What parameters do you give to your bookmarks to mine gold in books?
extract information.
> I'm just too honest and direct to be a good sales person

You’re going to have a tough time finding a good sales partner if you assume them to be dishonest. Liars aren’t generally good salespeople.
I aspired to learn Emacs but gave up a number of times.

It's in that category of things that I believe would be Good For Me but that have such high activation energy that it never becomes a high enough priority. It's like the documentary I keep skipping over in my streaming queue, the free weights gathering dust in the basement, or the guitar I finally gave away after having only learned a few chords.

There's got to be a word to describe the realization that something is probably never going to be high enough priority to me to be worth the investment.
It would probably be a crime if you manipulated their computers to accept the $10 price. But if you submit you want a plan for $10 and their servers just accept it then what crime could I have committed?
This AI is still a minor. It can start looking at R rated images when it turns 17.
Sleep and exercise. Also, make sure your physical health is sound, get a checkup at the doc.
One of my favorite jokes on Reddit is "Ask Me A Question, Then Edit Your Question To Make Me Look Like A Jerk"

https://www.boredpanda.com/people-edit-original-questions-an...

https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/fo6pki/ask_me_a_q...
Author here

I work at incident.io, where we use Go as our primary language. Getting Go to integrate well with Sentry (our exception tracker) was more fiddly than expected, so we've written up our approach in case it's useful to others.

If nothing else, it notes some popular error libraries and some of the things to consider if you hook them up to exception trackers.
For me, the dark night came on gradually as more and more that I loved was taken from my reality. I've experienced depression and anxiety during the spiritual hardships leading up to the pandemic, but this is different in that it came from a deeper understanding of my connection with it all.

Before, at least I had a scapegoat and could blame other people or trauma or any number of things. But after learning about stuff like manifestation and source consciousness, that we're all one, I had to face myself. That's when I realized that my perceived failures were things that I had largely brought on myself. And that even the trials of life might be teachings that we volunteered for before we incarnated in this life. Like life doesn't happen to us, it happens for us, as messed up as that seems sometimes.

I heard of A Course in Miracles from Marianne Williamson, who is someone that I admire. But I haven't read it yet. With spiritual learnings, it often feels like wisdom comes to us, and then validation when we read that the ideas are ancient. Versus scientific thinking where maybe there is so much obsession with evidence that skepticism rules and sometimes we have trouble seeing the obvious truths before us.

On that note, I feel that "modern" culture is so obsessed with determinism that it forgets that science may never be able to explain something as basic as consciousness. And that all subjective experience comes down to chaos (magic). I believe that quantum physics is an attempt to explain the foundations of chaos. And that any macro-scale stochastic/emergent behavior follows the same rules as quantum physics because it's rooted in the same chaos. Meaning that our thoughts and interactions with others create deterministic effects in the world as surely as our conscious application of scientific principles.

I've just started learning about reality shifting and the application of magic. I've dabbled in manifestation over the years and found that it works, but that manifesting from the ego can backfire. Now when I meditate, I might set an intension like "help me find a more equitable reality for everyone" or something along those lines that is more love-based.

Something that helped me is, even if we're all one, maybe there's still something more. A higher power beyond us, that somehow created all of this. It's endlessly loving and forgiving and doesn't mind that it took us all this time to even begin to notice it. Maybe that's our soul, or source consciousness, or higher self, or a creator or creation itself. Maybe it's aliens, I don't know. But since it's not deterministic, it isn't bounded by space or time or effort. It just is. It can create an entire universe just to house a single consciousness for any of us as easily as we turn on a light switch. For me, that mystery creates a sense of meaning, bringing me back to the central miracle of conscious awareness.
Obviously IANAL, but it is an interesting thought exercise. Would changing price (and having it accepted) be a financial crime (wire fraud, etc), or a negotiation? It isn’t like you are going into the ATT database and changing your bill. Would it be more like saying, I’m willing to pay X for plan Z? And if they accept, is this the result of digital haggling? Because, this is possible when you are physically talking to a rep (in person or on the phone).

I doubt a “reasonable” person would think of it like the latter case, but for people who think about software agents, it’s interesting to think about.

Disclaimer: don’t try this at home…
I was thinking about that too - kudos to them if they pulled this off, but I hope they're not with the company anymore...
Isn't it a bit naive to assume the planers of these expansions didn't at one point or another had that exact thought themselves? I mean it is certainly not the most far out there idea when it comes to wind power..
In general under US law it wouldn't be legally possible to jail a guy for Photoshopping a fake picture of President Biden killing a priest. Unless the picture also included some kind of obscenity (in the Miller test sense) or direct threat of violence, it would be classified as protected speech.
This a cool, but non-general use of SVG.

I’ve used PlantUML to quickly produce output from scripts.

I love PlantUML, but I yearn for some x where x is to SVG what Markdown is to HTML.
As someone who lives in the USA and is a USA citizen, I'm frequently surprised by how much people don't hold US voters responsible for the actions of the government.

The US has and continues to do some pretty awful things around the world. Turning some parts of Pakistan into hellscapes where an invisible drone could kill you from the sky at any time and regularly does kill women and children with no warning, would be one example.

The vast majority of citizens in the US either pay no attention to this at all, or think it's a a good thing. There is a minority who think it's awful. (I suspect these proportions are pretty similar in Russia).

Since the US is theoretically a democracy, we citizens could, one would think, easily stop these things by voting for different people, you'd think people would hold us more accountable and be really mad at us. But somehow they don't, they're like, eh, most people in the US are good people I don't blame them for their government!

And to be fair, I wish I knew how to get my government to do something different -- or how to get more people in the country to pay attention to the really catastrophically criminal things my goverment does, I don't feel like I have much control over it either. (Although surely more than Russians do, in the really not a democracy of Russia?) I do what I can, I am politically involved where I can find the energy to be. It doesn't feel like enough. I'm not sure I or my country-mates deserve the dispensation to not be held responsible.

I think most governments do awful -- really horrendous, murderous -- things. I think tmost people are fundamentally good people, but many citizens of powerful countries doing bad things have these days been hoodwinked to ignore them or support them.

I wish I knew what to do about it. One thing I am personally sure of is that it starts from not judging people by their ethnicity or nationality -- that kind of thinking is what helps governments convince their residents that the violent things they are doing to someone else are ok. That's the problem not the solution.

But I'm not opposed to boycotting as a tactic. I do support BDS against Israel. The BDS organizers have been very careful (and learning from experience) at trying to figure out how to do it in a way that is ethical and maximizes effectiveness. (I think the BDS campaign has been effective, relative to anything else done to try to support Palestinians, although not nearly as effective as one would like, which goes without saying as Israel continues it's decades-long occupation). But reading what they have to say on the topic of boycotts against invaders, Israel, and Russia, is in my opinion worthwhile: https://bdsmovement.net/Hypocrisy
Water isn't really fungible in that way. You could cut down every orchard in the state and that isn't going to change the water situation of places like Santa Barbara. There really is a huge amount of infrastructure and energy involved in delivering water to cities and most of it is wholly unrelated to ag water systems.
If you look at the geographic economic distribution in Russia, this is already exactly the case. St. Petersburg and Moscow are wealthy. The entire rest of the landmass is quite poor.
The post yesterday about Pharo 10, and the Lisp Curse repost has me thinking about text editors again. I think that some fusion of the introspection abilities of Smalltalk with the good parts of Emacs might allow us to create the text editor of the future™. One that take everything good about Lisps and everything good about programming in Smalltalk. I'd need to actually explore how Smalltalk does its IDE environment to be able to comment more, but I was initially very impressed with the programmability of it during the video I watched about it.
I'm in complete agreement. Sorry if I was ambiguous.
I believe that a GAN could simply create a million irises [0]. Making all claims of defeating the Sybil problem difficult to trust. Someone also pointed out that the person being scanned doesn't need to be alive, which reminds me of some conspiracies during 2020 election

[0]: https://www.thisirisdoesnotexist.com/ (i didn't expect this to exist!)
Navigation of some sort is absolutely a necessary function for any type of UI that references multiple locations in the same domain. There are none there.
I am actually not sure if the investor assessment still stands after Covid forced just about any startup to be remote-work-heavy. I don't think most investors care anymore where companies are based or incorporated as long as it is within reason (don't incorporate in Australia unless you are an Australian company) and has a solid and well supported legal system.

The issue in Europe from an investor perspective is that scaling is tougher than in the US. You have to most likely make changes to your product to cover a sufficient number of European countries due to a combination language, currency, regulation, customs, etc.. Your sales and marketing materials needs to at least be in different languages. Your German sales rep needs to speak German and most likely be German, your French sales rep needs to speak French and be French, etc. Add to that the fact that in B2B European companies tend to be less open to innovation. Also, you may encounter workers-councils at your potential clients discouraging changes to processes, etc.
What's the specific crime being committed?
They all have good replacements, but if their competitor is allowed to pollute without paying for externalities, they'll struggle in the market.
Life is too short to spend hundreds or thousands of hours learning a tool to save you time. Nix might give you 'perfect' reproducible builds but does the time saved from this beat the time taken to learn it? I'm skeptical.
Sex workers can't order DoorDash because of cross-platform surveillance
> Someone like you I'd assume as some sense of normalcy of being a functional human being.

Nobody who knows me in real-life has ever accused me of being "normal." That being said, there certainly are different levels of "weird vibe" that one can give off so I won't say that your weirdness doesn't trump mine.

Also for interests of full disclosure, I'm above average height (182cm) and blonde haired, both of which probably help to tilt things in my favor for a first impression.
I care less about speeding and more about other traffic violations (running red lights, turning right from a lane other than the right lane, ....)

Have you talked to the law enforcement agencies? Will they actually use the footage?
A few comments by someone who's spent way too much time in the AI-generated space:

* I recommend reading the Risks and Limitations section that came with it because it's very through: https://github.com/openai/dalle-2-preview/blob/main/system-c...

* Unlike GPT-3, my read of this announcement is that OpenAI does not intend to commercialize it, and that access to the waitlist is indeed more for testing its limits (and as noted, commercializing it would make it much more likely lead to interesting legal precedent). Per the docs, access is very explicitly limited: (https://github.com/openai/dalle-2-preview/blob/main/system-c... )

* A few months ago, OpenAI released GLIDE ( https://github.com/openai/glide-text2im ) which uses a similar approach to AI image generation, but suspiciously never received a fun blog post like this one. The reason for that in retrospect may be "because we made it obsolete."

* The images in the announcement are still cherry-picked, which is therefore a good reason why they tested DALL-E 1 vs. DALL-E 2 presumably on non-cherrypicked images.

* Cherry-picking is relevant because AI image generation is still slow unless you do real shenanigans that likely compromise image quality, although OpenAI has likely a better infra to handle large models as they have demonstrated with GPT-3.

* It appears DALL-E 2 has a fun endpoint that links back to the site for examples with attribution: https://labs.openai.com/s/Zq9SB6vyUid9FGcoJ8slucTu
Yup. Resume Driven Development is so rampant.

The worst one is when that engineer shoehorned completely unrelated technology just because it is hip.
So if I were the President, and I attempted to appoint an unqualified judge and was denied by Congress, you would argue that I don't hold power?

Power is not a binary quantity, and there isn't just one type of power.
This is why the Founders (in America) made it clear that the human rights have an ontological basis that transcends any law (rights are granted by God, whatever that means to you).

Rights that are granted by laws are not rights at all, which is why the proper understanding of human rights is that they can neither be granted nor taken away by any human law, as any law that would do so is just a coercive force belonging to whoever happens to be in power at the time.

The Anti-Federalists were so concerned to make this clear that they even viewed enumerating basic rights in the Bill of Rights as dangerous / likely to be interpreted as exhaustive vs. transcendent, which is exactly what has happened over time, of course.
Germany did some crazy energy re-work during WWII, I recall.
It is compositing as final step. I understand that the Kuala it is compositing may have been a previously un-existent Kuala that it synthesized from a library of previously tagged Kuala images... that's cool, but what is the difference really from just plucking one of the pre-existing Kualas into the scene?

The difference is just that it makes the compositing easier. If you don't have a pre-existing image that would match the shadows and angles you can hallucinate a new Kuala that does. Neat trick.

But I bet if I threw the poor marsupial at a basket net it would look really differently than the original clipart of it climbing some tree in a slow and relaxed manner. See what I mean?

Maybe Dall-E 2 can make it strike a new pose. The limb positions could be altered. But the facial expression?

And if the basketball background has wind blowing leaves in one direction the Kuala fur won't match, it will look like the training set fur. The puddle won't reflect it. 'etc.

This thing doesn't understand what a Kuala is like a 3-yr old. It understands the text "Kuala" is associated with that tagged collection of pixel blobs and can conjure up similar blobs unto new backgrounds - but it can't paint me a new type of Kuala that it hasn't seen before. It just looks that way.
> give it another shot on my new M1

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/download.html#nonfree
https://emacsformacosx.com/