skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Last week at a birthday party, I met a 74-year-old career visual artist who still creates with various media: paint, colored pencils, sculpture, etc.

Curious for her thoughts on DALL-E, I pulled out my phone and invited her to generate some imagery. (I have early access via a family member at OpenAI.) She didn't skip a beat, and immediately started getting creative with it. We even did a "collaborative piece" à la Mad Lib.

I asked her if she felt threatened by DALL-E. Surprised by the question, she said: "No! I could see this really accelerating my process. Sometimes I'm blocked on an idea and I could see this being a great tool for finding inspiration. Can I get access to this?"

My take-away was that art is not zero-sum: someone's art isn't "less" because more entities are creating art. If computers can do it too — even if they're arguably more mechanical in the recombination of existing ideas (note: humans do the same) — nothing stops human art from being art.
I think it's more than retail investors. I think it's the hype and noise that his followers make, plus whatever noise he himself makes.

I think he's a bit like Trump in some ways. Trump was often said to represent an image of what a certain demographic of people thought was rich and successful. He made a lot of noise, threw around a lot of money, and his followers in turn made a lot of noise.

EM(I write it as such because I'm sick of seeing the name everywhere I turn) seems to have the image of "tech guy who struck gold" and "can't stop making money". While some of his success is definitely attributable to himself, I feel like people give him too much credit and celebrity status. I think the biggest drivers of his success are a gigantic war chest of money, combined with a massive following, and enough ideas to spend the money on.

There are hundreds or thousands of people in the US alone who are smarter, and have better ideas, and don't make asses of themselves in front of millions. What they lack is his money and fame, so we'll never see what potentially world-changing things those people are capable of. Unless they get hired at one of Musk's companies, in which case people will attribute someone else's genius to EM. It's like attributing innovation to a VC instead of a startup.

A fun strawman, don't take it seriously: Musk is just the Silicon Valley version of Trump. And instead of starting his own Twitter, he flaunts the idea of just buying the regular Twitter.

One other nit I pick is that I'm personally a bit salty over his $DOGE tweets. I had decided that I should accumulate some for some next "big wave", but that wave happened to be some rich guy who probably didn't own any $DOGE, and it had happened before I could get hold of anything. I "lost" potential thousands of dollars because some guy sent a tweet.
The quite reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare
"Maybe others feel differently." Come on. How can anyone who grew up during or after the BBS era could have this attitude? You can obviously have deep online interactions with people. We've been doing it for decades. You have to be open to it. It is a different type of interaction.

edited to add: People have also fallen in love online for decades. I know several people who met their spouses online.

What evidence would convince you that you don't need to discuss Johnny Carson's monologue at the watercoolor to interact with colleagues in a meaningful way?
Sure would be nice if we parked all the new money in beneficial social programs instead of billionaires’ accounts just aiming for their new high score.
Because it filters out the people who do all of category B (bullshitting, talking, having meetings) who normally spend their time taking away from category A (I am paid to do a task which I will do, and then be paid)
> I would love someone to do a cost-benefit analysis of these sorts of tools against the time of using (and sometimes debugging) Make and/or Bash

Spot on! But HN is so biased towards new or flashy stuff...
So far Netlify Edge Functions runs before the cache layer, so you can actually use a minimal function to rewrite the URL to remove all unique params, etc, and then let it pass through our system to a Netlify Function which runs behind our caching layer.

For anything you can do at build time as a static HTML pages we already strip query parameters from cache keys.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23618363 made the same observation 2 years ago:

> The vast majority of developers don't make any significant money. The outliers that do use the platform as a general-purpose payment processor. They take donations, but they also sell things. The line between isn't terribly clear
All models are wrong, but some are useful.

We all know that efficiencies have driven down the cost of many manufactured goods (like TVs) and scalable services (like ATMs and online banking)

We also all know that cost disease has driven up non-scalable services (healthcare, higher Ed, govt) and supply-constrained good/assets (price of land)

The basket is still useful for understanding whether an investment clears your hurdle :)
This is because they map to rotors in geometric algebra which is exactly that.

https://marctenbosch.com/quaternions/
If the claim is a universal then just one exception disproves it.
And even then your premise is still largely false. The median and average economic outcome of white men has increased perfectly reasonably since the late 1970s. That includes both income and net wealth figures. The American white male is economically better off than the white male in: Britain, Sweden, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, and so on.

It's primarily the labor-heavy working-class white male (in the white male demographic) that has been brutalized by changes in the US and global economy. They have been left behind to drown in a pool of fentanyl.
Careful, in some jurisdictions forging receipts is a serious criminal offense.
TurboTax but open source and paid for by the government, I can get behind.
cua-mode exists and it's been argued that it should be default.
But to have no sunsetting. Unreal.

I believe they were bought by private equity a few years back and their MO is: buy, leverage and go bankrupt. This fits that pattern.
All lockdowns are a violation of our freedom.

Just because you're punching me instead of shooting me, it doesn't mean you're not assaulting me.
I’d be interested to see a performance test between openjdk and this native zulu jdk.
I really wish this debate would move to be more about preference rather than right/wrong. Everyone works better in certain situations. We aren't robots. There are enough companies giving everyone a choice that everyone should just be happy and stop dunking on everyone else.
Those are empirical studies. The Finnish one is the most recent I'm aware of, but they all say basically the same thing[1], here are a couple more [2][3].

Housing does not suffer from induced demand like road capacity does. This is easy to disprove by reading those studies. Sure, building nicer better neighborhoods does make them more desirable but it doesn't follow that they have to be more expensive, as long as you build enough homes for people to live in. Taken to its conclusion the induced demand argument against density is an argument against improving quality of life in general, and pretty nihilistic.

[1] https://ideas.repec.org/p/fer/wpaper/146.html

[2] https://www.dropbox.com/s/oplls6utgf7z6ih/Pennington_JMP.pdf...

[3] https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/7fc2bf_ee1737c3c9d4468881bf14...
>> "Such technology would give law enforcement the ability to see clearly whether a driver is holding something besides the steering wheel — like a phone, perhaps — and whether that driver is looking down to text someone. (An invisible flash enables clear penetration of the windshield.)"

Big Brother riding shotgun.
That's a pretty cynical take. Everyone is trying to get their work done, it's more of a question of whether remote work makes that easier or harder.

- People whose productivity is based on regular social interaction will work faster face-to-face.

- People whose productivity is based on long periods of focus will work faster remotely.
Enjoy it while you can, these things hit much harder after a while. Nobody will trust Russia for at least 2 generations, I hope you are ready for the wild ride.
Its actually much more endemic than this. To start off, Canada's service sector dominating economy means jobs are concentrated in cities like Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal etc. So most people want to move and live those places. To make it worse, the government has plans to bring over 1.2M people over next 3-4 years time range as immigrants who again because of the fact that our economy is not diverse enough, tend to settle in those cities. Which makes the already heated housing market worse.

And everyone knows in those cities, local officials and councillors are all in builders' pockets. Large tier builders like Richcraft are routinely raising their prices by 5-10K per every release within last 2-3weeks since last 2020 and still they have all slots closing in 5 min of opening. They are keeping the supply artificially low and I imagine the inflation and supply chain issues are not going to make things any easier.

Bottom line, house prices continue to rise. The only thing that can temporarily put a halt to this is if we end up with rates as high as 10+%. Even then I suspect there are enough people with equities and large cash pool (hell our point based immigration system makes sure this is the case for all incoming immigrants)..

Middle class dream in Canada is over for most people. When you can't afford a decent place in Toronto or Vancouver with a tech salary you know its over.
> It’s also called “Buelr,” which really captures the energy of what
you’re talking about.

Brilliant. Thanks for that. Exactly the kind of thing I'm thinking of.
That's a very bad point to block your UI thread.

Your router should not block, and the UI on your next page should show a spinner or other loading indicator while it runs a fetch (or XmlHTTPRequest)
Sashimi is a bit risky if the fish has been sliced for a while, and the temperature isn't as low as it should be. It quickly loses its texture. I personally avoid it in such cases & hence only use a handful of brick & mortar joints who I know personally. Good quality, fresh sashimi can be very expensive. I had few pieces (2-4) of bluefin tuna last week & it set me back by ~$70. Issues are few but then the majority of worms & food poisoning cases are from the chain sushi/sashimi joints, where the items are just placed-replaced several times on the conveyor or the fish has been in the open to quickly serve incoming orders. They are affordable to have regularly but I will not recommend. Japan is generally very safe about food quality, but sometimes dark pockets do exist in food industry nevertheless.

(P.S: If any of you are traveling to Tokyo in future, I will be happy to recommend specific places which might interest your tastes. My email is in my bio)
I think you're conflating mortgage term (which is typically 5 years fixed or variable in Canada) and amortization. The latter can go up to 25 years for CMHC-insured loans at the time.
As well, I would like to see a comparison between a nation's media consumption, and their use of masks and lockdowns. There's a meme going around of why the Amish did not suffer as badly from COVID-19, and the punchline is that they don't have television.
Anyone who has ever stayed in an English house will know that the majority of them are terribly insulated (walls and floor - windows are often fine) and require lots of heat. Some are even windy when the windows are closed! (I don't know how).

A lot of people won't be able to afford fixing this, even though it will save money long term. This is where the government could step in to promote a greening england energy plan with tax credits. It would provide an economic boost after covid too.
This is wild... restricting simulation time?!?! On a sliding scale so winners have even tigter budget to simulate in.

So now instead the bottleneck is intellectual, is finding people who can learn the most from a limited number of runs.

It'll be interesting to see how tbis gets metered but probably wont really achieve the ibjective of equalizing. Some big company's going to have a vast serverfarm with latest greatest gpus and interconnects & run simulations for the same hours but at 20x the detail, because they had the serverfarms & well tuned aoftware on hand. Trying to democratize this intellectual pursuit is an interesting challenge; what an experiment F1, good luck.
Enjoying this game, but almost impossible to play on mobile. The window that pops up when you check the solution will usually be too small, so you cannot see what exactly you did wrong or click the buttons to move on.
What advantages to find yourself having by using Org compared to say outline-minor-mode?
Exactly.

> “null” is also a text string that in many programming languages signifies a value that is empty or undefined.

I can't think of a single language that does this. A null interpolated into a string or concatenated with an empty one could produce such a string. If that string value is then used to signify an empty/undefined value is misuse of the language.
If I piss in your cereal, and dont tell you, is it still ok if it tastes semi ok?
Yeah, me too. On Linux the copy&paste is a real pain, it depends on terminal, window manager and moon phase.
I think the idea is to have hypersonic missile capability if it is needed, but keep the loadout stocked with cheaper regular missiles that have proven themselves capable of taking out Russian/Chinese warships.
Yeah, the NIMBY argument that there are "plenty of homes" is like going into a supermarket whose shelves are completely full of only sardines and saying "there is plenty of food".
Yeah, I mean the whole point I'm working on here (going off of codeflo who I was replying to, who was making much the same point) -- is that we believe that the biological process of evolution always leads in the direction of "advancement", and something that is "more advanced" (which is to some extent both subjective, and a value judgement rather than a descriptive one) has "more evolution" behind it (the biological kind).

Yes, the word "evolved" can be used in a non-scientific way that has nothing to do with the origin of species or natural selection or genetic change over time too. I don't know if this the cause of our confusion, or that it's the result of our confusion, because so many of us, since Darwin, have had these assumptions that "evolution" functions teleologically and in a certain direction at a certain rate.

So that leads the wrong idea that, as codeflo points out, "evolutionary theory puts humans (or hominins) last" over chimpanzees, or humans undergone "more evolution" than chimpanzeees.

When we understand the biological process of evolution more clearly, we can understand the natural world and the species in it and the relation between them more clearly.
My advice is, if you have a happy life, do not disrupt it in the hope of regaining the happiness once more in some other place.
If the goal is lowering blood pressure, why would you put people on an insane low salt diet instead of a low carb diet?
If we judge from a years of life saving perspective, Sweden picked the correct tradeoff: a few more deaths (mostly elderly) and no infringements on the freedom of the rest of the population.

We still haven't fully paid the cost of the lockdowns, from an economic and mental health point of view.
The world’s coastal cities are sinking, but not for the reason you think
>I get the impression they are still pissed about that.

Well, that makes not a lick of sense. A war took place 8 years ago, mostly died down, people lived in relative peace, and now Russia starts a war of aggression on a whole new scale, rains death from the air, unleashes its troops to commit mass murder, takes thousands of civilian lives because "they are still pissed about that"?

And pissed about what? Its own actions? Russia instigated a war in 2014 by creating a proxy army out of thin air (and funding, arming and manning it with its own soldiers), then just straight up invaded in August of 2014 with its own regular forces. They routinely bombed civilian areas without any regard for the civilians still in them, used civilians as human shields, positioned MRLS launchers inside apartment blocks, etc.

I don't know what happened in the airstrike you brought up, except to say that by July 2014 Ukrainian air force wasn't used much due to Russians bringing in their SAM systems, such as the Buk that shot down MH-17 just two days after this article. Especially in 2014, Ukrainian army was a rag-tag outfit using Soviet-era tactics, and they did occasionally hit civilian areas in situations when a more modern army would be able to avoid it. There were instances where you can say they tactics did not sufficiently account for civilians. There were many more instances where Russia proxies used civilians as shields with success, however, and the Ukrainian military showed restraint.

Either way, at the end of the day the blame for wars of aggression has to lie with the aggressor, not the victim that's defending itself. This was true in 2014, and it's sure as fuck true in 2022.

Not even gonna get into that whole "NATO expansion" clusterfuck. If you think a fascist dictatorship should have veto powers over which defensive alliances its democratic neighbours voluntarily choose to join, there's not much there left to discuss.
The Spacemacs creator took a long break at some point and never really handed over the reins at least while I was using it. I don't know if that has since changed (I assume it must have) but that was a big reason why I switched, together with its slow time to start-up.

Doom Emacs launches incredibly fast and has a ton of modules you can flip on and off to get a great Python development environment or what have you.
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'I am dependent on binary firmware blobs embedded in every device'

As long at they follow a standard, i think this is somewhat acceptable
I'm not going to debate any of this stuff, because it's not the point I came here to make. My point is that the problem this person is having is with Account Recovery, The Hardest Problem in Authentication, not with poor customer support. You're welcome to argue that Google should take Account Recovery, The Hardest Problem in Authentication less seriously. All signs point to them taking it more and more seriously, but that doesn't mean you can't campaign.
As a buyer, you can try and write whatever contingencies you want into a purchase contract. In supplier markets like most right now they'll just refuse them. In a slower market where "simple" purchases are not so typical, offers with few or no conditions are often the difference maker, or even worth a slightly lower offer price to the seller. Even with a conditional home inspection "a hundred little things" typically won't disqualify the deal; the inspector will be looking for larger single issues that are up closer to 1% of the price. In reality sales don't often fall through unless something is extremely major or misrepresented; the inspection is used by the buyer to promote price concessions and help them deal with the stress of such a massive purchase. Inspectors miss important stuff all the time, which isn't surprising when they're spending only a few hours for an entire home.
How this alopecia advocate is breaking beauty standards
As someone who myself relies on Google's SEO traffic I'm a bit hesitant to say this (but luckily I'm small enough that Google doesn't care about me at all): AMP is terrible for everyone except Google themselves. It's a plain abuse of their quasi monopoly and I support everything that fights AMP.

Another reason why I'm happy to use Brave both on desktop and especially on mobile.
Ha! Fortunately, in my case I was in a position not to make that mistake. Project Fi (now Google Fi) used to be my phone provider. That does seem like it would be a common mistake, though.

It's a good product so it's nice to see that it's still getting some love.
Windows 3.11 was released in 1993, are you sure you aren't misremembering?
Hmmmmmmmmm
Yes!

C'mon, show us an example/demo
>You can always build more dense housing on land that is in high demand.

you CAN. But that takes a while. There's always something under construction in Califnornia and a good portion of that is trying to build more apartments and housing. The time to make those don't keep up with the influx of people emmigrating to LA or otherwise leaving the parents' homes to seek their own lifestyle.

It's honestly a more feasible solution to try and convince certain companies to build in a city that is otherwise "vacant". Make it a place where people will work around, have the existing land and homes appreciate in value. That's why Amazon and Apple had such aggressive bid wars from cities to try and get them to make new campuses in their respective city areas.
Generally if you can write your code in a way that uses scopes and returned values, it's cleaner and easier to maintain.

IE, this is why async / await was added to JavaScript: The code is significantly easier to read (cleaner) than promises.
IMO the 25k model is on hold because:

1) they are just scaling existing models (same reason roadster / semi / cybertruck is on hold)

2) the chinese already own that price point worldwide, and Tesla likely can't compete in that segment, well, or the margins aren't worth the effort right now.

As for limits on materials, as I described, Sodium-Ion and LFP are the path for 10-20 million BEVs per year (or... 3x-5x that in PHEVs) over the next four years. Lithium is not the major limiter, additional sources (Salton Sea, many others) will come online, but Cobalt/Nickel for LMC chemistries are.

Long term most of the global production of consumer vehicles (~80 million/year in 2021) should be doable with 180-200 wh/kg sodium ion technologies, while 260 wh/kg LFP, 300-400 wh/kg LMC, and 400-??? densities from Li-S/solid state battery can address long haul shipping, sports cars, trucks with towing, etc.

To emphasize, that's is why these viable densities of Sodium Ion and LFP chemistries are so important.

IF Tesla did achieve usable robotaxi self-driving (and while I find their current achievements amazing, it's still fundamentally short of the mark), much like IBM and Microsoft in the early days, it would be stupid to limit their software to Teslas only. Release the software for licensees and make at 3-5 grand on EVERY car.
And I'm familiar with many universities in my own country as well as a handful of the most prominent ones abroad, so..?
This seems like another attempt at generating controversy for its own sake, as though the mere existence of functionality that helps people write effectively is worth having angst over. If people want it, they’ll use it. If not, they won’t. Same as with grammar and spell checkers.

Don’t rich people have better things to do than incite others over trivialities? There’s a world of problems that need solving that people like Marc and his ilk could really move the needle on if they set their minds and put their resources to it.
Compiling Python Programs with Pyinstaller
Exactly. I just posted this in another thread. It's a study on the link between high sodium intake(i.e. pickled foods like kimchi) and stomach cancer(5th most common cancer):

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2021.80122...

I don't expect Koreans to stop eating kimchi anytime soon.