skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do that sometimes when my DarkReader-extension is giving me bad colors. Ctrl-A for the most lazy contrast quick fix I could think of :)
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Overpaying is fine. Intentionally lying such that you get a larger return and then "fixing" the error by filing an amended return is not.
Originally Scratch was a Smalltalk program and then in 2.0 it switched to Flash/Actionscript. So it has never really been "native". Although I'm not a big fan of Electron it does fit what the Scratch project needs perfectly as they need to be able to run Scratch in a web browser to reach more kids and schools. In this day and age HTML5/JS/CSS is the only way to do that. The fact that Electron lets them offer an offline editor is just a nice bonus.
Yes, you are missing something. No, this is not nonsense. It’s considered academic plagiarism to copy paste text without indicating the passage is a direct quote. They should re-phrase the text. Not only is it academic plagiarism, it’s also poor writing, because the copied text is providing a different framing than the overview article, and because the copied text is in some places incoherent due to formatting (e.g. we show that over 1 [sic] of the data most models emit).

You are wrong, the Big Models paper does in fact claim to have done something that they did not, e.g. “We introduce two complementary methods for performing deduplication.” They do not introduce these methods. The text they are lifting did.

What you are missing is long standing norms around academic plagiarism and false claims in the Big Models paper (as a result of copy pasting language).
This is why I "soft retired" early. People haven't said it to my face, but I get the definite impression many think I'm crazy for "abandoning" work. I'm through hiking the PCT this year, something I never thought I would do until much older.

I'm not really a brave guy, I fear change, but you got to take your chances while you're still alive.
Oh jeez. Installing PS1 mod chips for friends and coworkers is what leveled-up my soldering skill.

I never accepted money for it, initially did one just for the challenge. Then when word got around work, I had a bunch of well-placed people who owed me favors. Good times, good times.
I believe he was suggesting misfiling, as in under reporting income or overreporting deductions in order to generate a fraudulent refund, which you could then fix/repay in cash (but keep the bonds).
Bismuth is going to be the metal of the future, TSMC is also using it in their 1 nm process. As the uses for topological insulators make it to industry I think Bismuth is going to become a priority for companies to secure sourcing. China currently controls 75 percent of the supply.
Film critics are still a thing? I honestly thought they died out along with newsprint and the shift to streaming media
> Meanwhile, my other three grandparents are enjoying their late 70's and early 80's - they travel, go hiking, play golf, play with the grand children and great-grandchildren, etc.

It's okay to slow down, but don't stop moving.
I feel they are like stock analysis now, rate it wrong and you’d look stupid. Rate it too low, you may piss off the studio and you won’t be invited to the special events.
Modern uses of propaganda don't seem to need it to be believable to work.
NYT, WSJ.
Also:

* Doing the floppy shuffle on a system without a hard drive.

We were still at the stage of "all computers are miraculous" and along came the mac with graphics/UI consistency and quality which just seemed impossible.

I still find computing amazing, but those early days of wonder and awe were great.
Printed copies in a (heavy, bolted) locked file drawer/safe depending on how often folks need to access them, along with a master list of passwords that are handwritten and hidden.

Can't beat printed files when it comes to sensitive long-term information.
Because it's like 90% of the utility of an Astro van but it's not technically a van and it's from a manufacturer that certain demographics hold in high regard. It's a van for the people who are too proud to own a van.

Edit: I sound like MCM and I don't like it.
Great idea, I definitely see the value in having a way to surface content you're not actively looking for.
Relevant book:

One square inch of silence : one man's search for natural silence in a noisy world, by Gordon Hempton

https://www.worldcat.org/title/one-square-inch-of-silence-on...
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> Drivers also generally pay their own vehicle maintenance, often on trucks their renting from the company that "hired" them.

If the statistics are accurate, and my math isn't too horrible, in the US, something around 47% (679,127) of drivers (1,441,014) are owner operators. I'm not sure how many of that 679k are leasing from the company they drive for, but it's certainly not 100%. Drivers are not paying for their own maintenance when they don't lease/own the trucks.

https://www.zippia.com/owner-operator-jobs/demographics/

https://www.zippia.com/truck-driver-jobs/demographics/
I work on developer tools at google, and it's not even remotely one of the prestigious teams. it is however the most fun and interesting time I've ever had in a job, and if I left it would only be for the same kind of work.

also you seem to have fallen for the same fallacy as the people who complain about open source devs not working on what they consider sufficiently important problems. trust me, there are no shortage of engineers willing and eager to work on end user problems, and the dev tools work enables them to deliver solutions to those problems faster, and makes those solutions work more reliably. it's a rising tide that lifts everyone's boats, not a zero sum game.
Fire safe containing organized folders with printed copies of important information.

The attack vectors on a physical safe are fire, flood and theft.

Plus it’s dead simple for a person and/or their attorney to make sense of the contents.
Forgive my ignorance (and there's a lot of it), but navigating a graph and setting permissions doesn't seem like a terribly difficult problem, especially for Google - the king of graphs, in a word. I would think maybe the issue has to do with how permissions of a file/folder apply to different users, but then isn't that just exactly the raison d'etre of permission systems?

This isn't an area I'm qualified to have a technical opinion on but if you'd care to elaborate I'd be interested to learn more.
Yes, so often you will hear the testimony of investigators like "if he hadn't [done single mistake], we never would have caught him". You can hear it in every true crime show like that.
If this is the same old CLIP model, I tried making anime with CLIP+GANs (usual prompt "chitanda from the anime hyouka") and it got the hair color right but nothing else - seemed to have first page of Google Image Search level knowledge.

There have to be a lot of limits once you get far enough out of its training data. Even if you could guide it by image prompts, it has to know what that image is meant to represent.

Also what most people mean by "anime style" isn't anime style, of course - they actually want one of Avatar-type cartoons, advertising key visuals, game characters, or pixiv/DeviantArt fanart. None of that is drawn the same way as TV anime.
How is this even remotely a good idea? People generally expect that a government agency would be sure of the information its releasing.
I don't think Super Mario Bros was ever considered particularly difficult or punishing at the time. It was just designed for an audience that had less access to videogames. They'd rather repeat the same levels with the prospect of seeing a new one than breeze through the game they paid $25 for ($60 in today's money) in 2 hours.
No problem.

For those potentially interested, the add-on will remember your settings on a domain by domain basis.

Also beware, if you turn on absolute mode on a site and forget you have, it may break javascript-based custom text fields and controls for videos, and you may end up confused for awhile until you remember why.
Presumably a Governor has a wider view than an agricultural commissioner. For example, one would not expect an agricultural commissioner to focus on drug or gun law enforcement.
This was my reaction to the article also - the base assumption that the relatively tiny group of audience members who rate films on imdb are statistically representative of the audience at large needs to be proven first.
Google Search Is Falling Behind
"Creative application".

That's just going to get automated too. We're in the twilight of art, if not humanity.
Nothing you listed under progressive misapprehensions are liberal dogma, nor are they categorically disproven. No sane person would argue that biology has no bearing on gender identity. The liberal idea is that people should be able to live their lives as they choose. Obviously someone with XY chromosomes can never get pregnant even if they outwardly change their gender. Giving the chronically homeless housing has had some positive results and nothing else has, so it's something some democrats have been willing to try. It's experimental, but definitely hasn't failed and we would absolutely abandon it if it ever does. Absolutely no one advocates not charging serious crimes, that's propaganda. UBI is also nowhere near liberal dogma, but has some credible theory behind it worth exploring. We already do EITC and it's wildly successful. The democratic candidates for president in 2020 who supported UBI got zero delegates. Government has enough money to solve everything it should solve? That's just unquantifiable gibberish.

Regardless, my point is still that the preponderance of evidence aligns with a preponderance of liberal policy. Climate denial, covid denial and election fraud conspiracies on their own are enough to condemn modern American conservatism to the garbage heap of corrupt populism even if liberals were buying every drug-addled hobo a luxury condo. I'd still rather live in that world.
Is anyone interested in a plain text zip file with a connected local search engine? I have the text of 30K+ out of copyright books in a folder. I backed them up in my website here:

https://www.locserendipity.com/LocalData.html?q=

He must be worried about a power shutdown and probably via EMP. Scary to hear this kind of thing from someone who must be in the know about what is coming.
No such list is complete without hexyl!

https://github.com/sharkdp/hexyl
High inflation caused in large part by many years of increasing deficit spending does not make me think 'federalize zoning'. Land and building is local. People can be involved in local politics where they have some influence. One size does not fit all.

Removing house finance interest tax deduction would help reduce speculation and reduce prices.
The imaging sensor is a rectangle in roughly the same aspect ratio as what is captured by the stills mode.

You can see that in any teardown.

I do agree there's no "right orientation" though since it's subjective. However having a square sensor would be illogical
these articles are funny to me "gee why can't we save this animal?" we all know, its because the ruling class decided the biome will be managed by the free market, and thats exactly what's happening. The free market has decided much of nature shouldn't exist, like reefs & forest etc...I don't really know what anyone expects?

I get sad when I think of the amazing things my children will never see but wow, its cool to see the stock market doing good or whatever new startups are making more dumb useless bullshit nfts or whatever
It doesn't seem like a good bargaining chip, since I imagine Texans are going to be the Americans feeling most of the pain from this. Are we sure that is the reason?
Graph-Based UI for Lisp/Scheme
> And one can presume you disagree with them.

One can presume whatever one wants. Whether one's presumption is correct is another matter.

> The evidence supporting their position is convincing, you may now present your evidence to the contrary, and I'll determine whose position between the two of you is more tenable given the evidence.

Can you clarify in some detail what position / point of contention you have in mind (just so we're on the same page)?

> You see, raising questions does not add to any position in particular...

I'm not trying to add to one position or the other, I have made this clear several times. You may not believe me, but that is my claim - let's mark it as a discrete difference of opinion and add it to The List.

> ...if you have questions, feel free to find the answers, and hopefully they will be ones which make your case more convincing than the case you are arguing against.

I've asked several of you above, I was hoping the answers would come from you! But alas....

> I think it is a bit primitive to make assumptions about what I can or cannot do.

"Perhaps" denotes a possibility - it does not required the formation of a belief. Now if you wer to say I might be engaging in a little provocative rhetoric, well now that would be a different matter. :)

> Perhaps I address these ideas better than you can comprehend, and you just _PERCEIVE_ it to be biting satire that cuts any hypothetical similarly-structured dissembling to the bone

Perhaps you are right. Perhaps you are not. Perhaps there is a complex, mysterious, paradoxical blend among all of us. I wonder what is true!
> it just feels like this whole subthread is missing the obvious

I think we just skipped over the part that we already know is never going to happen, however much that might be the ideal solution.
DeepMind just published a new paper that dismantles the trend of building ever-larger language models, established by Kaplan and colleagues in 2020.

They found another factor that matters as much as model size: Data. The best models today are undertrained and oversized!
as an ex-founder and not an investor, I always found this discussion to be disingenuous.

everyone claims to be bringing unquantifiable value to the table, and the only investors that actually do are mostly bringing their top-tier name and possibly some support functions coming out of the gate like specialized legal or recruiting. sure, sometimes you get a hire, sales lead, or business partnership .. but you also have to coddle them and it seems like thats a wash. I guess there is advice, some of which is pretty valuable, but its hard to filter that out from the overly general platitudes.
I'm not sure holding up the Opium Wars as a golden example of how trade should be a right is making your case. To be clear that was the time the UK fought China so it could sell old-timey OxyContin on the Chinese mainland. That's become quite a blemish on the UK national blemish registry (I call it that because, well, you know, everything in the British Museum and whatnot).

As a fun bit of trivia, one of the main opium traders, Jardine Matheson is still around. Now a British-domiciled Bermuda corporation that, among other things, owns the Mandarin Oriental.

There were a lot of things popular back then that wouldn't be such an easy sell today. Slavery, for one (not in the UK, btw, they'd already ended it by then).

> As a thought experiment, suppose that Russia did not have nukes nor means to retaliate, would you be equally okay with the US bombing Russian cities and killing civilians in numbers equal to those that will starve due to our sanctions?

As an aggressor nation conducting genocide in all but name? Go to town. By "go to town" I mean bomb government and military buildings until they surrender, and avoid civilian casualties at all costs.

How many Russian civilians died btw, as a result of these sanctions?

> What if instead of sanctions or bombing we developed some kind of chemical weapon that increased the population's metabolism such that equal numbers starve. Would that not be seen as completely despicable? Yet the outcome is the same.

The only folks using chemical weapons appear to the the Russians. But I'm sure you know they're broadly banned by the Geneva Convention.
That's just cathedral style free software.
Yeah I get it, I think it's a better car for a couple with stuff vs. a family. Also very much not a one size fits all car. Most people never camp or go to the beach at all.
I'd hardly argue that the RK3399 SoC is more "open" than any of the broadcom SoCs. You can't even _see_ the MMIO tables for the RK3399 without an NDA. This isn't different from Broadcom SoCs, but at least the Pi has a large community behind reverse engineering everything. The RK3399 is barely supported by non-Linux distributions (last I checked FreeBSD didn't even boot the A72 core cluster, just the A53s, which leaves a ton of perf on the table) because any work to support it requires either a) blackbox reverse engineering or b) mucking around with the patches vendors (who _do_ have NDA access) have submitted to Linux.
I’ve always assumed the Element was a victim of tightening CAFE standards. The design was incompatible with the computer-optimized slipstream profile manufacturers use to tack on a few fractional MPG, and its market positioning was incompatible with the price level required for inefficient vehicles to offset the discount on cheap econo-lozenges.
Look at the seat rails and seat mounting brackets. They're pretty much never galvanized, just painted a light matte black and work great as slow acting moisture detectors. Trim covers them up these days, but move the seat all the way forwards or back and you'll usually either see some of that metal or be able to get to a position where you can. They'll also rust over time due to long term high humidity from a leaking window or door seal, or shoddy crash repair, or a slow leak from the heater core, so even if it's not flood damage there might be other issues.
I bought one new in 2003 and this is spot on. I sold it in 2018 and still miss it (but wanted to tow more than 1500 lbs).

The styling is definitely not everyone's cup of tea, but if it's ugly at least it's cute ugly rather than the "I'm going to murder anyone who gets in my way"-ugly that seems to be trendy right now.

One of the things I miss the most was the lack of a giant center console/tunnel between the front seats, and the dash-mounted shifter. You could easily drive with e.g. a backpack/messenger bag/etc. between the seats, and the whole interior felt much less cramped (a huge contrast to my current Escape/Kuga). The rear seats had a great view over the heads of the front-seat passengers and tons of leg room and headroom.

Also the steep windshield and restrained amount of visual clutter on top of the dash was pretty great, especially in contrast to what's available nowadays, where you usually have a bunch of pointless shapes and textures constantly superimposed on your view of the world thanks to the reflection in the windshield.
I use both bat and cat often. cat normally, but bat for source code since it comes with syntax highlighting and line numbers by default.
I recently found out about mdp too, a way to display markdown in the terminal as slides.

https://github.com/visit1985/mdp
By that metric you're almost always better off writing specialized code all the time and duplicating stuff around a lot.

(In all languages, not just go)
This is likely it; 50% or more of SUVs are designed for people who refuse to be caught dead or alive in a minivan.
When I think of "hack", these are what I have in mind. Completely bending something to a purpose never intended. Utterly bonkers. But the fact that he offers multiple concepts, implements them, and documents them in an ELI5YE (explain like i'm a 5th year engineer) is a true sign of genius.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem

This for day-month.
I'm 24, I still feel that tech is very 'cool' and exciting. Yes, there's a lot of stuff that sucks, social media is probably doing more harm than good and the direction that AI research is going in with increasingly larger models that can't reasonably be replicated.

But on the other hand, space accessibility is quickly opening up, it's very likely that I would be able to take a trip to space in my lifetime too, maybe even Mars. VR has opened up an amazing new frontier for hanging out with friends on the other side of the world. Medicine is opening up all sorts of scifi technologies, gene therapy with CRISPR, massive strides in protein structure prediction, mRNA vaccines. Synchrotrons and particle accelerators are starting to improve all sorts of observations. Fusion energy is making progress, quantum computing is just getting started. We even took a detailed image of a black hole millions of light years away just a few years ago!

Yes, specifically computer related improvements are starting to slow down a little, but with costs only getting lower, there's so much room to bring computers into, so many things that can be automated! AI research has generally stuck to certain niches (basic medicine, basic physics, vision), there's so much that can have breakthroughs at the level of the protein folding model.

I think with diverse enough interests, it's hard to say that things are slowing down, they're only getting faster as computers, software and AI mature and dramatically increase efficiency in other fields.
> The main goal that I see social networks addressing with many people is entertainment, but I feel that it takes away from my social life with people, that's why I have aversion to short videos for example.

Having a different idea of fun than another person is very common. My partner and I, whom I share a lot of personality traits with, have some different definitions of fun. I can spend hours working through math problems and find it fun while plenty of others would find that horribly boring. To _judge_ other people for having a different idea of fun than you is to be condescending; it deifies your idea of entertainment while putting down the others'.

> The main problem for me working on social networks is that making profit can't be separated from making people addicted to the lowest forms of entertainment (I'm a Xoogler).

Is it that hard to accept that other people have different ideas for what being social means? Does everyone have to be like you or you judge them negatively? Your take isn't uncommon on certain parts of the Web (especially the anti-social-media parts) but I've always found it trite and judgemental exactly for the reasons I expressed above. Not everyone has to think and feel the way you do and that's okay. Humanity is large. Some of us like to go to hyper-commercial malls, some like to go on challenging hikes, and others are at the club dancing and imbibing their hearts out. Sometimes people even change what they like to do for fun as they age! That's okay, it's human.
would you ever need to version individual images? at a high level, you could version the collection as a whole by filtering by timestamp, and moving deleted files to a "deleted" directory, or maintaining filename and timestamps in a database. I'm sure there are lots of corner cases that would come up when you actually tried to build such a system, but I don't think the overall scheme needs to be as conceptually complex as source code version control
An external HD + airplay has done the trick for me.