skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see that as being a shallow dismissal, but I think I understand your point.

If the thoughts and views of non-experts are worthless (or harmful) in a causal setting (here), why should they be permitted to express them in a consequential environment (voting)?
As an out of the loop, super casual D&D player. What are you talking about?
RunPod just launched its Secure Cloud offering which provides enterprise hardware in Tier 4 datacenters for crazy prices.
Right. There's literally no-one paid by the Federal government that makes the same as your average Google L6, according to what I can see; and to get to that kind of a level you need to be e.g. Joe Biden, Tony Fauci.
Glad to hear it!! :)

I agree untyped for more developer speed is a bad joke.
> "Luke, you bottle that, you're a millionaire."

Or you get assassinated by Big Mosquito Repellent. I wouldn't mess with those people. Stick to inventing a cheap carbon-negative replacement for gasoline. Far fewer people angry at you upsetting the apple cart.
Large-Scale Matrix Factorization on TPUs
Another very scientific study on the subject: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/email_address
Well obviously, and then it would come down to who treats you better or lets you work on more interesting things. But the ceiling is typically way higher than what the people who don't hop around get.
I have one big to-do list for a project. The list is organised by topics. If a new idea comes up in the context of something else, it is put on the list instead of being implemented immediately. (Exceptions are made for important quick fixes or very low-hanging fruit.)

From the big to-do list a selection is made for a short work-in-progress list, largely in consultation with the project client. I only work on the items on the work-in-progress list.

The work-in-progress list itself is roughly ordered by importance, but may be shuffelt around a bit according to new circumstances, insights or favourable opportunities (such as implementing one thing on the side when I am actually implementing something else).

If the work-in-progress list becomes too long because the client or myself think some new ideas are really urgent or important, some other items from the work-in-progress list have to be moved back to the big to-do list. Following the Pareto principle, this may also happen for items which have not been completely but sufficiently implemented.

From time to time the work-in-progress list will be completely revised.

My guiding adage is: You can only work on a single thing at a time; always pick the most important.
In the age of a crisis of reproducible research, publications without data and models aren't really "open". Having read many ML papers very few are reproducible easily.
Countries that do not use the metric system
I can't help but be suspicious since there is not site to try it out, and I can't think of a good reason as to why there isn't one.
We've been getting increasingly involved in crypto investigation discussions, and largely:

- money side is getting more anonymous, e.g., monero / tornado

- ... in theory. Money crime still often using less anonymous schemes and often at exchange points, so chainanalysis-style companies still make sense, though decreasingly so IMO. A lot of the startups have shifted to verifying contracts, or providing (dubious) KYC risk scores, and interesting to consider why.

- For our customer base (half of which are sec/fraud/crime teams)... what's happening is the criminal platforms + participants have broken (digital) operational security. So it is more about offchain data (app logs, ...) and sometimes combining onchain<>offchain data.
So not too different from our projects tracking malware/phishing/misinformation/etc via OSINT techniques (IP addresses, unmasked metadata, ...), or detecting account takeovers on their websites

- ... more new, IMO, in this space is areas like graph neural networks that have the potential to act smarter & more automatically, e.g., understanding behavior. Very early days here though, so interesting times !
Over the past few years, borrowing money at 0%APR to put into the stock market has been very profitable.

A lot of people are probably getting used to that idea, and if/when the market turns its going to be messy.
It would be nice if every AI like this had an option to show the 10 closest-matching training images to the output. Especially for ones like thispersondoesnotexist.com.
A car in the US reaches around 100km/h in the best case. Rail reaches thrice that. Not sure what kind of math you did there.
Wait, so, why does this need my OpenAI API key to use GPT-3?
Factually inaccurate nonsense is a big part of the whole Crypto ecosystem.

Many people held the opinion that these transactions were anonymous or quasi anonymous. The dumber among them are in prison.
The Overflow #120: Human laziness is the ultimate security threat
> "shelter" was probably the wrong word because I don't think anyone was sleeping at the church

I assume you're referring to the former church at 3rd + Bloomfield? AFAIK it's legitimately a shelter with 50 beds. The building was still an active church until 5-10 years ago so maybe it wasn't fully a shelter before then, not sure.

> he would roam the streets shouting incoherently at people, usually women

Sadly there are multiple people here who fit this description! My guess would be either Nicky or Chuey, as these guys are well-known in town -- they've been doing this for over a decade. But especially since the pandemic, a few additional unhinged shouty guys have appeared.

I don't know what the solution is. Clearly the local government doesn't know either, because I've personally seen them arrest one of these guys quite a few times, usually when he gets particularly riled up or violent. He's always back though, sometimes in just a few days.
I strongly disagree, XCode is so bad compared to VS Code and JetBrains I have to believe that Apple engineers are forbidden from using anything else, because they don't seem to want to improve it.

My experience was primarily driven by C/C++ development though. I've heard better things about swift, but I just can't grok how the hell xcode projects are supposed to be used at all and the tool is so slow it's unusable.
>why don't you have more smaller supermarkets closer to where people lives

You will find smaller supermarkets (publix, trader joes, etc.) within 5-10 mins of driving time in a lot of cities.
Aha, that may explain my confusion. It's been years since I've read it, I'll have to dig it out and see which version I have.
Why would Vancouver be used as an example of “Zoned in the USA”? Unless that was meant to be tongue and cheek?
Card fees have both a variable (X percent) and fixed (Y cents) portion. For example, a transaction using a Visa credit card might cost 2.7% plus $0.10.
They're often very ill-equipped to deal with it and honestly it can hurt OR help you.

My car loan processor accidentally double charged my $5k loan payoff (and it didn't bounce). Customer support told me the only way to get back my money quickly would be to report fraud through my bank on the 2nd charge, which I did and the 2nd charge was returned within 2 business days. Then several weeks later I get snail-mail confirmation that my loan had been paid off and a certificate indicating this, along with a check for $5k from the lender. I called their customer support but they told me they are sorry but unfortunately since the account was already marked as paid out and those funds disbursed, I would "have" to keep it, so I gladly cashed the $5k check thereby getting my final $5k payoff of my vehicle for free thanks to the lender's mistakes.
Just to clarify the capital gains you have on the sale of your primary residence isn't tax free. You get the first $250k free for an individual and more for a married couple. This is very generous and better than you get for equity investments for sure, but once your gain exceeds those amounts it is taxed at normal capital gains tax rates.
Sounds exactly like GarticPhone - great game: it's free and only requires a web browser. It's become the go-to for our remote company happy hours.

Several people have reported laughing so hard they were sore the next day.

https://garticphone.com/
Also worth reading: https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/recommendatio...
We were just fact-checking our fairly mundane page about MIG the company and the planes they had made, which was written from publicly available info at the time. No secret plane details were asked for or given.

It's really good to go to primary sources if you can, you catch a lot of mistakes that way.
This comment in another thread suggests why that's the case:

> In other text-to-image algorithms I'm familiar with (the ones you'll typically see passed around as colab notebooks that people post outputs from on Twitter), the basic idea is to encode the text, and then try to make an image that maximally matches that text encoding. But this maximization often leads to artifacts - if you ask for an image of a sunset, you'll often get multiple suns, because that's even more sunset-like. There's a lot of tricks and hacks to regularize the process so that it's not so aggressive, but it's always an uphill battle.

> Here, they instead take the text embedding, use a trained model (what they call the 'prior') to predict the corresponding image embedding - this removes the dangerous maximization. Then, another trained model (the 'decoder') produces images from the predicted embedding.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30933091
Oof. Editorial illustrators are about to get automated.
A reminder that there is a "HN Readers" discount - just email info@rsync.net and ask about it.
It was striking to:

- read the OpenAI paper

- notice there was a lot of words in the harm section

- notice the mitigations boiled down to "limit access" (a marketing strategy) & "put rando colors in a very easy place to crop out", have them note how easy it was to crop, yet they still went with that strategy

- notice no one in actual AI art community has received an invite, but random SV hoi polloi and OpenAI employees have

I had been worried about the moneyed class taking all the work we had done in the open source community informing their approach (check citations on the Dalle paper), privatize it via applying it to a large dataset they built, and not share _any_ of their data or models because "harm reduction" that amounted to marketing x not risking their ability to monetize.

It was shocking to see DallE 2 get announced and take that exact approach.

We'll keep working, LAIONs 5B dataset starts approaching the #s cited in Meta's and OpenAI's papers.
I have done a charge back against PayPal and I stand by it.

Basically, the vendor said it shipped me the product but never did. However, it gave PayPal a tracking number which was for something delivered to my town. I waited several months for the vendor to make things right.

I asked PayPal and the person said there is nothing it can do. I did a charge back and the bank gave me my money back.

So no, screw the vendors and screw the payment processors. I don't owe them anything. It is their responsibility to do things right or get a charge back.
Define anonymous, but you could in theory sell your wallet to someone else wholesale and they pay in cash for whatever value of bitcoin is in the wallet.

It's still potentially leaky because you're relianing on the buyer to not get that traced back to you.
I've had a scungy online only travel agent try to pull this on me before.

Their email to me saying they would be materially disadvantaged and blah blah blah got met with a response telling them to fuck off, stop emailing me and that I was reporting them to my bank for merchant fraud (which I did).

Problem solved. It's all fun and games until they risk losing their ability to process credit cards.
It's not just the burning you need to worry about, there's greenhouse gas concerns around both fossil fuel extraction and landfills.

Energy recovery comes one stop above above disposal or incineration without energy recovery in the waste hierarchy.
I think consumers really do make this choice, and aren't very compromising. People have a high expectation for both the variety of products, and the variety of a single product.

As a result, the different people have very diverse diets, and it is unlikely that a small store would satisfy most of them.

For example, each week I shop from 2-3 different supermarkets that are 60k ft^2 each (6k m^2).
>Presumably there's a reason that you give these devices Internet access in the first place. Can't they just use the same host for their nefarious activity that they do for their legitimate activity?

You make my point for me.

Which is why hiding DNS traffic in https traffic is so insidious. Nuke DoH from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
That, and stuff like "sign up now for Trump's very special free money fund!" and such were also pretty common when he was still president. Basically the classic scams that have been around for decades, but with a Trump flavour.
It would be better to not ship those goods in the first place. That is one reason for buying local and regional where possible. And as you said - we already have rail laid to get it around countries and continents.

There are far more complexities than that, of course. Our economy is global, not every country can be self-sufficient, and dialing back our current logistics is a huge task that few people are ready for.

But no, saying "cargo ships are efficient" feels like a limiting perspective on this problem.
> hence the work-to-rule nonsense

It's not even work-to-rule. It's illegal if the button to refuse consent is in any way less obvious than the button to grant it, which it nearly always is.

Notably, OneTrust, which provides a lot of the banner solutions which are illegal gets it right on their own website. So they do know the rules, but they knowingly provide a solution that's illegal.
What is really maddening about Korean neo-confucian society is this automatic social hierarchy based on your age, as if to suggest someone who is older than you is automatically infallible and has authority over you. It was exported to Japan (Senpai and kōhai is a direct model of Korean sunbae, hoobae) but it doesn't seem to practice Confucianism this strictly, there really is no other countries that take it this extremely.

It reminds me of the Japanese invasion of Chosun dynasty, how the rigid military/confucian structure made communication impossible and largely allowed unopposed landings by Hideyoshi's army.
Wow, thank you! I'm still using Notepad2 from 2012.
If it uses QString as backing storage, that would be UTF-16 internally and would explain the doubling in size.
Oh yeah totally! I want to round up some friends now to play AI Dixit. An easy version could be to play sort of "reverse Dixit" where one person generates an image from a prompt and everyone else comes up with prompts based on the image, then you guess which prompt was the real one.
Note that the rest of the posts after him disagree and point out that they were on a stable approach to the left most runway and the aircraft then turned a lot more to the left. That's not something that would happen if it was only a wrong runway selection.
There are JFK ATC conversations on youtube. Even I, an native English speaker but not American, have difficulty understanding them sometimes. They also sometimes come across as being dicks, but obviously only the audience-worthy conversations get uploaded
Totally, Etsy has led an explosion of put you/your kid/your pet into a work of art type things (many artists create reusable templates, where the custom component can be plugged in, so help with scale). I foresee this trend accelerating as the tooling makes cost of producing this sort of thing cheaper.
Stack Overflow should stop pretending to be a perfect answer factory and allow genuinely open ended conversation. The kinds of questions like "What is a good collection library in C++?" without deleting it as controversial.
Actually sounds like the folks at XYZ are doing interesting things.
> those in charge of the cookie banners really believe that they protect the interests of the user

As other commenters have pointed out, these are mostly legal requirements. In most cases, the user would be better off with no banner and less cookies.

> What can they choose but "agree to everything" or look at some gray text through a gray overlay?

You can leave the website. The intrusiveness of these banners correlates negatively with the quality of what you're trying to read, so in most cases it's a good reminder that you shouldn't even be on this website to begin with. In the rare cases where you do need the content, tools such as uBlock Origin can still help make it for this one time. Contrary to other commenters here, if a website is bad enough that I need to do that on a regular basis, I just stop visiting the website.

> There are definitely people in the HN crowd who can understand the different options offered by cookie banners.

You're assuming it's worth anybody's time to even read these. It's not.
What does this mean for 29-year-olds?!
They're working on it: https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/dan-fumano-the-e...
bare-metal pnpm (what Rush is built upon) has never let me down. Handles rather large monorepos without issue.
I admit I'm not familiar with the model used to aggregate the boson data. But there's an entire community of nonparametric/semiparametric statisticians that works on problems just like this. It seems crazy to me that that millions of dollars are spent to build the machines to collect this data, yet the papers are written using statistical models with distributional/independence assumptions known to be false. (The tweet linked above seems to be saying something similar.)

Is there a concrete reason we can't be naive and just bootstrap confidence intervals for example? Of course I defer to the physicists here – but I'm curious whether there's some simple high-level reason the usual tricks don't work.
> KWrite in next version 22.08 will basically be an extra-lite Kate

Wasn't that always the case?
Navigating your career when your compass feels broken
Whenever I've had unmetered electricity, I've left the air conditioner running all day at a very low temperature. It's really nice when it's 90 degrees out and you walk into your home and it's 68 degrees. Truly incredible.

I also bought incandescent bulbs because they're cheaper (again, not paying electricity) and look so much nicer.

I take very long hot showers all the time.

I love to get in my car and go for long drives. Just for fun.

Paper plates because I can just throw them away.

Flush early and flush often.

I set my work desktop to stay on all night so I can RDP in without trouble.

For every self-flagellating member of the church of environmentalism, there are ten people like me.
I figure (perhaps too optimistically) that if enough people say to turn the cookies off, they will eventually decide it is better to just leave them off and get rid of the decision banner.
I would bet on teeth. Dental services are the biggest money makers.

ETA: question.. why aren’t we able to regrow teeth and enamel? Imagine..if we can reverse cavities and no more root canals ever?
There's a sense in which they're a controlled average of real drawings, but it's not any more useful of a lens than the sense in which you're a controlled average of your experiences.
Finley (YC W21) Is a B2B Fintech Hiring in Engineering and Finance (US Remote)
No, you still need humans involved (with artistic ability) to work the machine and sort through the chaff.
I think every platform supports FS notifications at least right? The app could listen for changes to the file and reload/discard when it goes out of sync. In fact Notepad++ already does this.

On Windows in particular you also have a ton of other facilities that could help with this (opportunistic locks, transactions, etc.) but notification is usually good enough.
I am an energy person. Although I know the science says a fixed sleep schedule is healthier all-around, and I even understand why, I still don't really have the motivation to break the habit of "stay up on YouTube or whatever until I get tired, even if I have work the next day". I also sleep in pretty late on days when I have no plans, so you can imagine how much of a zombie I am every Monday at work, without fail, when I suddenly have to shift from "wake up between noon and 5PM" to "wake up before 9:00, don't be late!"

Look, my circadian rhythm is that of a night owl, but my job is that of a morning requirement, so "stay up until I'm tired" is a decent compromise between my biology and society's expectations of me.

(...I said "decent", not "good", okay? And I know I'm lying to myself, shuddup.)
This is like the mattress startup equivalent where if you try to return a mattress within their very generous trial period, you're often told to "keep it" and your purchase price is refunded.
+1. Mods, I think this is a better link (first hand source, also easier to view full screen)
>Western observers were amazed when MiG-25s flew over Israeli positions in the Sinai desert in 1973, at a speed of Mach 3.2. Only later did they learn that to fly at that speed, the Foxbat's engines had to be replaced after each flight.

interesting that USSR kind of missed an opportunity here - it was the compressor that got damaged and thus switch to ramjet intake bypassing the compressor at those speeds, similar to SR-71, would have made that 3.2+ Mach a normal mode for MiG-25 (USSR did have 2.5 Mach ramjet missiles so the technology wouldn't be completely new)
Super fun to play on iPhone browser. However I can’t see the target pattern on my old iPhone 7 :(
Because that’s not always the case. There are plenty of non-English countries that use English even for native flights, eg Japan and Taiwan.
It will just be goalpost moved again: "I'll believe it when AI makes a number 1 on spotify hit song". After that happens they'll say "a human still selected the song from the 10 created by AI". Or something similar.
The whole article is about A LOT of people thinking Bitcoin was untraceable. They staked their entire lives on it.
Landfill is worse than incineration with energy recovery, though both are at the bottom of the list of options:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_hierarchy#/media/File:Wa...
As a Canadian, I think a big part of it is that elections (both federal and provincial) can often be battles for the suburbs surrounding metropolitan areas. Suburbs often end up being kingmakers (see 2015, 2019, and 2021 federal elections or BC’s 2020 election) so their priorities are often continually represented.
A world where everybody should be checking the digital signatures and chain of custody of tiktoks… but nobody does.
> territorial expansion to reclaim the USSR plus some buffer space

> NATO leaves all the post-Soviet and post-Warsaw Pact states

Are those equivalent?
That post is beyond incredible.

Thanks for compiling and condensing all the information into a blog post.
Wow, Parallel also looks awesome. Never seen it before.
> - notice no one in actual AI art community has received an invite, but random SV hoi polloi and OpenAI employees have

Same with GPT-3. Requested an invite. Never received one. I have written survey articles comparing different methods. So thta was probably a red flag for them.
Sure, and why not? I’d rather hire a competent foreigner over a lousy citizen any day. More generally though, I would support seriously beefing up the educational system, sparing no expense to ensure it’s the best in the world. Unfortunately, the ones who tend to be against immigration also tend to be against improving education, and you simply must pick one or the other, or perhaps even both, if the US wants to stay competitive in the world.
Increase the granularity and suddenly we observe everyone is an energy person: No one falls asleep at the same attosecond each night, nor should we expect them to.
Yes. Sorta.
Unreal has a blueprint diffing tool to compare against different commits.

Its a frequently overlooked feature. Itd be great to have more accessible outside the editor.