skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Come on. I'm really not a dogmatic "church of science" kind of person out there trying to burn the antivaxxer heretics or whatever, extremely far from it. Scientists are obviously fallible, it's the whole reason we have the scientific method. But I know a good number of scientists, and generally they're really the type of person that's interested in just figuring things out. And with those people in mind, I'm pretty sure this is not angling for anything except that we need to get on the fucking ball and decarbonize asap, because humans + resource shortage = conflict, and this is that taken to an extreme.
I don’t believe in Zoom fatigue. HOWEVER
We are talking about speeding drivers here. The worst case scenario is that they get a small fine and may modify their behaviour as a consequence. Let's not descend into extremes.
... and batteries are not the solution at scale to that problem. The current global installed capacity of batteries can barely deliver a handful of gigawatt hours of energy. a medium scale grid like the Netherlands will use that amount in a handful of minutes.
> NATO expanding eastwards is scary and destabilizing to everyone in the world.

I call BS on that one. Just for an extreme example, take Uruguay. How is NATO expansion eastward scary or destabilizing for them?

Or take Estonia. Is NATO expansion destabilizing for them? Or is it stabilizing? I claim it is the latter; it keeps Russia from coming back.

Was it destabilizing for Ukraine? Insufficient data. If NATO had never gone past united Germany, would Russia have invaded Ukraine? Maybe. Would it have been this bloody? Maybe not. It might have been like the Russian interventions is Belarus and Kazakhstan. Is it better, or worse to be under their heel for the next N decades, but initially have fewer dead bodies?
From what I've seen, the trend amongst today's same class of user (i.e. startups with analytics/log data) is to use Redshift or BigQuery, or just to farm out the equivalent work to a third party (e.g. Datadog).
Yes.. the U.S. is not NATO.. it just funds NATO more than any other member state, provides more troops to NATO than any other member state, provides arms more than any other member state, and NATO has never taken an action that works against the geopolitical interest of the U.S. But of course, they're completely separate entities. The Warsaw Pact was also famously not a mission by the SU, it was just a defensive treaty that happened to include them! A hegemon founding and funding a military alliance has no impact on that alliance, and all members of military alliances have equal rights under the treaty.

This is so much the case that until the invasion of Ukraine, France and other NATO members states were saying that Article 5 was effectively unenforceable for any member state save the U.S!
Nuance: the solution to all things ever.

I probably wouldn't have spotted this.
As far as I understand (please correct me:)

Sometimes (quite often actually) there are functions that aren't trivial to implement but at the same time it is almost trivial to come up with concrete input/output pairs for them.

GoodGuesser lets you derive a function based on the examples you provide.

Related twitter thread from february: https://twitter.com/lisperati/status/1492165176451387401
> Today we have replaced all of this infrastructure with ease of use and queue buttons and playing online leads to barely beyond any meaningful and short lived interaction.

Yup. Slowly stopped playing TF2 once the Valve server and queue crap started in. I liked community servers and was a paying No Heroes member. I liked popping in and seeing familiar faces and saying hello. I liked community maps (less common as time went on). I loved community quirks. e.g. servers using their own sound packs creating in jokes and seeing people outside of the community. It was fun until the community was instantly paved over by shiny hip new instant play and queues.
I appreciate that, but a large probably wouldn't fit me. I'll just have to keep an eye out for your subsequent projects so I don't miss out on more cool stuff.
IMO startups aren’t worth it anymore if you’re not clearing at least twice the salary of two remote developer jobs (annualized).

Reason being, it is easier to work two remote jobs simultaneously than it is to build a successful startup. It is also far more enjoyable and calls on your direct expertise instead of requiring many skills, some of which you may not do well at all.

Given that two developer jobs will have you clearing at least $300-400k in income per year, this is a sobering heuristic of how successful you have to be at building a startup to consider it being worthwhile.

If the author was working two jobs instead of doing this failed startup, after 20 months he would have roughly $600k+ in earned income to show for it, instead of a ~$200k loss.
It’s not a false dichotomy because he’s not presenting these two ideas as mutually exclusive. Maybe you misunderstood his argument (or what a dichotomy means).

His point was that characterizing the invasion as simply the act of a monstrous, twisted dictator is so simplistic to be wrong; further, it ignores the actions of the US which did provoke a response.
This is great thank you much appreciated!
For GPT-3 it was a combination of both compute and safety. Given the notes in the System Card (https://github.com/openai/dalle-2-preview/blob/main/system-c... ), OpenAI is likely doubling-down on safety here.
> It's a heavily diverged kernel tree, but it's all GPLv2, including the full GPU kernel-mode driver (https://nv-tegra.nvidia.com/r/gitweb?p=linux-nvgpu.git;a=sum...) for those. (there's no binary kernel modules present at all on the platform)

> Firmware, like everyone else, and userspace is where you have the proprietary bits.

My experience with this, is moving away from the Nvidia kernel isn't practically feasible. Userspace may be a refuge, but even trying to upgrade away from the Nvidia/Ubuntu 18.04 userspace was always going to bring up general incompatibilities and small problems. The long awaited 5.10 update targets Ubuntu 20.04, just as 22.04 is progressing through beta. Backporting PCIe device drivers and modules was painful enough that I eventually gave up on my jetson adventures.

The nullr0ute URL even notes:
> it’s not perfect yet and we’re actively working to fix and improve the support for the Jetson Nano
[] https://nullr0ute.com/2020/11/installing-fedora-on-the-nvidi...

In my experience, perfect was too lofty of a goal for running a mainline kernel on a Jetson/Tegra. Similar to these users as well.
[] https://lists.fedorahosted.org/archives/list/arm@lists.fedor...

[] https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/installing-centos-on-j...

In the end, I spent enough time trying to get the platform to work normally, that I realized I was wasting time when I could just get an x86 board for similar cost or get a Raspberry Pi CM4, and quit trying to grow the Jetson Nano out of its embedded system roots.

Nvidia needs to step it up, big time. Jetson Xavier users are finally going to get a beta for Cuda 11, when x86 and SBSA arm users had Nvidia's official Cuda 11 for almost 2 years now.
I think the most transparent way to handle edits is to show the latest edit but have links to previous ones. You can still delete a Tweet. I suspect this would work ok with Twitter’s infrastructure that is probably built around immutable tweets, but without any insider knowledge who knows.
I want a cognitive dissonance app where I can report people who are for strict enforcement of some random laws that deal with one issue but want lax enforcement of laws that deal with another.
Who gives a shit what the world cares about?
If you don't already, practice consuming zero intellectual content now and then, to give your brain time to synthesize. Let yourself be bored. Instead of swimming in the (highly engaging) sea of ideas, drift in intellectual deprivation awhile, at least breathing, perhaps doing something tangential like walking or physical labor (without music or other distractions from the important work of giving yourself mental space). Also, accept that you'll never learn it all, and that it's okay to keep learning despite that--it's the journey, and you're writing your book, which has a final chapter. Good luck!
This is how Russia separates from the EU/USA/West. It won't end with this. The title presupposed that the West is "indispensible" - it's NOT. As is already being seen as the Petrodollar teeters and other currencies are being adopted for oil. In terms of dollar value - it's a self-created disaster.
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Yeah, I didn’t look at them at all today. I’m still alive. As a user, I don’t care about how punctual they are since I don’t look at them until the end of my work day.
I wrote my thesis (not PhD) with Pandoc, Zotero, and the Better BibTeX Zotero extension, and found it very enjoyable. Pandoc lets you use Markdown for content and a LaTeX template for styling.
For a much more interesting and community led effort I suggest you see https://www.proofofhumanity.id/
I think the critical difference is that their backend API is not meant for public use. The situation is akin to forging an internal email to your customer service rep, tricking them into changing your bill.
If you know of any bands like Sun O))) that are touring still, I'd love to have their names. I'm in the Seattle area and very much interested in interesting live concert experiences! (With earplugs)
>I believe the ideal use case for this app is on residential streets where the chances of impact with a pedestrian or child playing are sufficiently high to warrant a low speed limit?

Case in point. Many neighborhoods have 15mph limits and speed bumps. Everyone drives 25-30 plus and it's far from mad-max. We live in a world where exceeding this particular "limit" by 60% is not only safe, it's common.

On first glance it just seems stupid, but on deeper inspection the real goal of these systems becomes obvious. If everyone is speeding, you can arbitrarily pull over anyone at any time with legal justification. These types of selective enforcement schemes are how bias slips in to what should be deterministic systems.
The other repos (mentioned in the `Dockerfile` and `build-dev.sh`) seem to be open on @nibdo's profile: https://github.com/nibdo
It is a big challenge but there are far better experiments like https://www.proofofhumanity.id/
Most of western Europe has an electricity grid to distribute power. When the wind is blowing it covers domestic needs or exports, when it's not blowing it imports nuclear power, or Solar etc.
'art' comes from 'artem' which means 'skill', which is the root of 'artificial' (https://www.etymonline.com/word/art and https://www.etymonline.com/word/artificial)

your teacher was wrong

i had a friend who didnt get credit for his design work because he used photoshop instead of using pen and paper for similar reason, i still find it amazing that a teacher would say such a thing
You're making my point — Worldcoin's business isn't to collect biometric data, as alleged by many comments here.
Since I got CFS (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome), it seems like that is mostly what I have been doing, within my limitations. I am at peace. I write about lessons learned, things that help me, and about many things that I think are important, at my web site (linked in profile, nothing for sale unless I get healthier then do consulting/programming later). Happy to discuss if someone looks it over and has suggestions/questions.

Tip: read a page, then click a link to get more info on any particular part. Like one big outline, skimmable I hope. Feedback welcome there, too.
I liked the design, ... until I scrolled down to the ads and Disqus section ...
> you'll want something with provenance and rarity to brag about.

1) That is a tiny share of the market. Most of the market is - I have a game / online publication / book, and I need an illustration xyz. Which this AI seems to solve.

2) how do you even prove your rare art wasn't painted by an AI?
Definitely. I'm incredibly burnt out after being a stay at home dad for the past year, with the pandemic cautions a lot of support structures disappeared or became unreliable (older family watching the baby, finding a reliable babysitter or daycare, etc). I essentially forgot about everything extraneous in my life so I wouldn't be frustrated that I didn't have time or energy to do it anymore. Without a doubt, I'm more boring than I used to be.

Part of this is just having a kid under 5 apparently, but I can't imagine being able to survive with more than one, much less retain a creative pursuit.
Why It’s So Tough to Get the Data Educators Want
Well done. It's a really good project.
It doesn't sync to live audio it records/grabs. It uses the Spotify API that provides rythmn/intensity mappings for most (all?) songs. So basically the web page asks the API which song you're currently playing on Spotify and what BPM it has and it renders the visualization accordingly.
> FWIW, speeding causes actual deaths of members of society

It's more the culture and actions that go around it. Speeding's bad when you're not paying attention. Even driving slowly is bad if you're in the overtake lanes. I think it's much more about paying attention to one's sorroundings. I'm not saying this should apply near residential homes, but I do speed on highways because I can go fast and I only overtake through the left-most lane; I use blinkers, I light cars to let them know. I don't overtake in curves. I don't put people in danger. I don't go through yellow/reds. But to be honest, my situation is probably far more different that in the US, I live in Mexico. Most people here do speed and there's barely any authority to stop vehicles from speeding.
>What percentage of American communities do you think the police force or council would do either of those things on the basis of a request?

What percentage of communities are rich suburbs that have more money and staff than they really have a use for.

And IMO just covering that small % of communities would satisfy 99% of people making these requests.
the video is great
I once heard a disturbing ghost story:

Certain tech company was building a training set of faces.

Hired a contractor in $poor_region.

Contractor asks if eyes need to be open in photos.

Doesn't sound right to $tech_employee.

Asks why exactly the eyes in photos aren't open to start with?

They were taking pictures of corpses.

Contract ended.
Nato doesn't invade?? Do you think there is a difference for the people living there whether the bombs come from an official nato action, or from a country acting alone with the tacit approval or explicit support of other nato countries?

This feels sorta how in the US only congress can declare war, so we don't declare war anymore. These technical distinctions may be compelling to you but they don't put people's legs back on, they don't pull children out of the grave.

Nato countries acting together with the support of other nato countries do invade. Call that what you want I call it nato invading.
To take it one step further, I recently read From Atomos to Atom and From Alchemy to Chemistry. Those books are a fascinating read that made me appreciate both how much we've figured out and how far we are from nature's truths.

The idea of an atom, or a quark, is a construct that approximates reality. Nature doesn't care about our constructs. Just because we've kinda "figured it out" doesn't mean we've robbed nature of it's magic. We are only discovering the magic that was always there.

And, IMH(umble)O, the magic we discovered since the Renaissance is far cooler - far more magical - than anything the Alchemists could come up with in their wildest dreams.
Fwiw that's not a new concept, it applies to cryptocurrency in general, not just DeFi, and people have been saying it since the early days. And of course it's true - finality and no clawbacks in decentralized systems means once it's stolen, it's stolen for good.
Failure is hard, it sucks, I’m sorry you ended up here

Kudos to the team for doing this the best way possible. Making a public announcement, refunding money, providing ample time to migrate is amazing.

Keep your heads up
I'm not aware of a time reddit ever allowed editing of post titles and I've been on the platform for...almost a decade (yikes). Was that something they allowed very early on?
The reference to Einstein batting a thousand in the ideas department is telling. I'm pretty certain that he had just as many bad ideas as the other folks mentioned, but that he was better at abandoning them.

Treating geniuses as black boxes generating hypotheses that need to be tested and discarded as necessary is all very well, but it isn't too much to ask such individuals to treat their own ideas that same way, rather than insisting they must be right against all evidence to the contrary.
Yeah, right. Not going to happen because you'd need to start EVERYTHING from scratch and tear down EVERYTHING to do this.
One of the most common deaths in the US is from traffic accidents and 26% of all fatalities have speeding as a contributing factor or ~10000 per year (https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/speeding).
Yeah, hydrogen's the only storage medium that makes sense at that scale.

I'd expect some - actually probably quite a lot - of excess CAPEX on wind+solar, and some deficit (less CAPEX, but buying some electricity at retail) so you don't have electrolysers and thermal plants just lying around.

You're still stuck with the investment issue: either you pay (Hinckley-scale!) fees to providers to just lie around, or the public sector runs it itself, and the "private more efficient" bollocks is exactly that, because the private sector isn't providing the value. The people providing SLAs are.
>there isn't an interpreted fallback

julia --compile=no
Harmony is such a good word and feeling. I want to pass on skills and experience too. I spend a great deal of time thinking about that. (more in my other comment in this page)
Sure, but diplomacy it's much wider than dipomatic agreements and diplomatic agreements are just one tool of it that actually seems easier to be discarded than signed with informal communication shaping actual relations and tone way more.

Written agreements are usually cherry on top of the cake made entirely out of verbal promises and real world balance of force.
There's a story of a guy in Russia who received a contract from a credit card company. He altered it to provide himself a 0% interest rate and then some stipulation that if he keeps a zero balance the company actually owes him money. The company reps signed the agreement without reading. Eventually they canceled his card and he sued for breach of this contract. It went back and forth in the courts and they eventually settled.

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/updated-russian-man-turns-ta...
Mix things that can be a project/challenge all together.

Many disciplines or research are usually studied from one perspective only by experts in one field.

I thought of these things for a while with questions like: I am a CS by degree but I am interested in biology. How can I apply my skills there at the same time I learn and do something useful? Maybe a research about cancer?

Look at what some people achieved by self-learning: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto,_Michaela,_and_Loren...

Pick something you are interested in. Go with it. I am pretty sure most things are enriched by muti-disciplinary perspectives.
> like Turkey bombing Armenians using drones until Russia stepped in

It was Azerbaijan using drones procured from Turkey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Nagorno-Karabakh_war

Anyway NATO is not a single state. NATO members can make independent decisions other NATO members would disapprove.
TWC is literally what it says on a thin: all workers, no backers, just being honest about our experiences.

You can call us entitled, but insofar as we're propagandists, each individual is only pushing our own personal "narrative."

"Building power" is _definitely_ political activism but, again, the way we build power is, primarily, by exposing ourselves to eachother's personal experiences in the tech industry. That knowledge is power.

Think of it as a qualitative extension of passing around the salary spreadsheet. Sometimes, we formalize the exchanges through a speed-dating-like "worker's inquiry" where techies pair off and ask eachother basic questions like:
1. How is our work evaluated?
2. How are decisions made in our workplaces?
3. How do our respective bosses motivate us?
4. How does our work fit into the larger economic picture?
5. How is conflict handled at our workplaces?

These answers aren't collected, except when they're published in articles like this. It's just... good to know what's going on with eachother.

In previous generations, we'd have eachother over for dinner, for poker night, or whatever. We'd join bowling leagues, or the Sierra Club, and people working in the same industry would likely be living in the same towns, and joining the same bowling leagues. These formal, albeit recreational institutions offered workers the opportunity to casually learn about one-another's working and living conditions.

Those activities have largely evaporated since the 1950s (in America, at least), atomizing our society, and making us all supremely ignorant of one another (outside the carefully curated social media profiles, and the highly dramatized "reality TV".)

I don't really know why a literate person would object to casual, even semi-formal discussion of working conditions. (Of course the TWC self-selects people who are dissatisfied with our conditions, but it's a common truism that work sucks, no.)
Austria is also quite potent economically (ahead of Germany, Britain, France, Italy, Japan in GDP per capita).

Czechia and Slovakia are seeing their affluence rise, they've escaped the middle income trap and are heading into the lower end of the affluent group. Czechia is about as landlocked as it gets and yet their economy has increasingly prospered over the past few decades (they'll probably catch up to Spain in GDP per capita in the coming decade; and they're already roughly 3x that of Russia).

Obviously helps a lot to have many excellent regional trading partners that are affluent.
I spend _way_ too much time playing Squad.
Counting on one's crime not being discovered by keeping odds of detection low is a loosing battle. I think it's better to work towards laws, enforcement and punishment that make sense.
That's why I phrased it as "plane travel must get more expensive".

That's policy, not consumer choice.
I'm pretty surprised at the dismissive tone of so many of the comments here, most of which seem to focus on orthogonal and uninteresting quibbles like "you say magic means X, not Y, but I say it means Z".

The author's point seems fairly clear to me: there are some types of metaprogramming where the "why" is reasonably discoverable, and other types where it is not. "Magic" is often used as a derogatory umbrella term for any kind of metaprogramming, but in fact we all use metaprogramming on a regular basis, and generally the umbrella term is used to disparage metaprogramming that I, the center of the universe, am not familiar with.

I think the point is well-taken. Much of programming is metaprogramming; it's a matter of which parts you've familiarized yourself with and which you haven't, and it dumbs down the discourse when people misuse the word magic to describe discoverable forms of metaprogramming. It would be better to specifically critique individual forms of metaprogramming so that we can have productive discussions about those forms.
Nowadays a network files protocol fits inside the system initializing ROM, so all of those old issues are moot and we have completely different problems to optimize for.