skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe that's their secret game - tease us to death, to make us follow along the path and contribute. The waiting period for Dall-E 2 is hard to bear, maybe we'll invent something better before they release it.

I mean, diffusion models became the best generative image model in this fashion after Dall-E 1 and now Dall-E 2 is already adopting the idea in favor of auto-regressive image generation.

In the last few years OpenAI took the AI crown with GPT-2, 3 and CLIP and Dall-E. They rarely shared, but they kick-started everyone else into replication mode.
Quality consumer media in a current format, store three copies each in two locations. Evaluate integrity of the data each year to delay bit-rot and make new copies as needed, and decide if the format is beginning to disappear and it's time to create six new copies in a modern format.

It's cheaper and easier than finding media that you can literally forget about for decades and still find intact, and easily recoverable.
If there are only two humans left, then it’s already too late. We need a breeding population of around 50, or we will suffer genetic collapse (the actual number is much higher, to be able to actually evolve, but you need at least that much to avoid catastrophic genetic drift). https://moscow.sci-hub.st/1832/d4805799591a7b5e7843531b9aeb0...
Performance-Adaptive Sampling Strategy (Pass) for GNNs: Open Sourcing Pass
Until the bug that causes them to crash in each other.
> Notably, the two-sided market problem was solved by Microsoft, who were a vendor of both languages (C# and TypeScript) and editors (VS Code and Visual Studio), and who were generally loosing in the IDE space to a competitor (JetBrains).

Talk about commoditising your complement!

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Unrelated: how are LSP implementations and Emacs support generally these days? When I last tried 2–3 years ago the Emacs-specific plugins for various languages were still more reliable and predictable than their LSP counterparts, but has this changed a lot? If so, I might be inclined to try again.
Yep. South bank parklands was industrial wharfs (it's where my FIL parked his Kingswood to go work in the city) and then a huge urban blackspot which was rejuvenated after expo '88 into a self funded, self managed not for profit parkland. A lot of the expo sculptures dot the city, not the least of which is Stefan's lighthouse in West end: he conned a property developer into letting him park it there, it stayed so long council scheduled it as a local monument and pradella had to build around it.
This article ends with what seems one of the worst cases of green washings I have seen in a long time.

"Diversey, a leading provider of hotel hygiene products, has repurposed 25m bars of soap since 2013"

The article claims that in a single day 3.3 million bars of soap are partially used in the US. So in nearly 10 years Diversey has repurposed the equivalent of roughly one week. I don't want to bash Diversey, if they are a startup or small company I would find this a great achievement. But if they are a major player, lets say with a market cap of 20%, the sold 2.4 billion bars of soap in the same time.
I have feelings about the last paragraph there. Most protocols are limiting by nature, so although LSP has made wonders to a lot of languages for a lot of editors out there; I'm stuck thinking that it might have stifled progress for some as well. I don't have a proposed solution or anything, just pondering if we could have done better.
Here's another benefit to printing: once a decade, when you migrate storage boxes or move houses, what are the odds you'll look at your printouts and reminisce? Probably pretty good, since it's easy to look at something.

Meanwhile, personally, I back up old data but hardly ever look at it, since it's mixed in with old programs that probably won't work and a thousand photos I don't want to see. So maybe laser-etched platinum will last longer, but the barrier to reading it will certainly be higher.
That was actually written very funny!
* get bought by Google

* profit
There is no conclusive evidence of long-term benefits and SGB is not currently an established treatment.
The Shanghai government will take the blame as they failed to implement the lockdown early and hard policies the rest of China was following.
Because noone is paid to do it.
Can a cosmic rays flip 0’s to 1’s and visa versa, or just in in one direction?

Edit: I am thinking of memory chips
No, Norwegian salmon doesn't have parasites. Mainly because they treat them with a ton of chemicals in open sea pens. Hardly ideal...
It's catching up. You can use them in tandem though and ignore the features that overlap by configuration. I use Eglot with a bunch of different languages. Clojure is the only one where I still use other packages for dealing with similar things.
LSP support with lsp-mode is fantastic with at least Rust. I use Elixir at my day job and while it does a good job of doing 98% of what I want (go to definition, find references (iffy; Elixir is difficult to analyze like this), code lenses, autocomplete, etc.) there are a few rough patches. This is likely due to shortcomings with the lang server implementation, not the lsp-mode library itself.

Like I said, editing Rust is awesome in Emacs; saw someone working on Rust in VS Code and didn't notice anything that Emacs couldn't match.

See also lsp-ui; I don't turn this on personally, but it does give you some significant bling.
It's an alright book. Nothing groundbreaking. Could have been condensed into a blog post.

I assume most people intuitively know the ideas in it beforehand.

Buy it only if you get it cheap. Or buy used.

After reading a bunch of such books over the years, I have sworn never to read books about personal productivity.
> most accomplished dude on the planet

No, just the most famous braggart. Other people, i.e. actual experts and professionals, did all the actual work that he likes to lay claim to accomplishing.
Eh, gonna be really hard to be Emacs' prowess in the land of Lisps. This rings pretty true to me: they all work well together.
It's all protein in the end as long as it's dead :) . Our ancestors ate so much worse stuff (and better too!) than us and kept procreating and surviving.
> if you can apply it, you obviously didn't need this book in the first place anyway.

Maybe you can, but if you don't know you should then this book helps.
Happens with Google cloud too, sometimes for weeks at a time.

It's pretty sad how Google/Amazon can't at least temporarily move their own workloads to free up resources for their public clouds while they install new hardware.
The Huygens Optics channel has a fascinating video abut a photon sieve created using a home-made litography setup:

https://youtu.be/TshYfYIxR9E
I do acknowledge that GUI programming in 2022 still sucks.

I fail to see how this is an argument in favor of TUIs in principle.
>One thing that I observe about how China deals with COVID: leadership assumes that they have perfect control over perfect people.

This is absolutely not unique to China. How many times have we heard "if only everyone did this or that, the measures would have worked!" coming from official authorities here in the west? I know it happened a lot where I live, and It honestly surprised me how almost every measure was based on that crappy assumption.
That's a fair point.

Snapchat APK can be modded, with root one can make screenshots and videos (I believe it is how some revenche porn is made). There's also analog screenshots (photos), and the end point (smartphone) can be hacked e.g. contain malware.

In my M.O. I assume the end point is not compromised and is honest; otherwise, whatever I write can be traced back to me.

Best thing would be not saying it, but if you were to make a good setup it wouldn't involve Android or iOS but something like Tails. And yet, we know deployed military in Ukraine don't use such. But what they do is better than analogue Russian on 8900 MHz.
I found this book a couple weeks ago.

I’ve only read the first few chapters so far, but the one idea that really helped me is the importance of incorporating your habit into your identity.

Eg, if you think “I am learning piano and will try to practice every day,” it doesn’t stick nearly as much as convincing yourself “I AM a piano player, and I practice every day”.
Hmmm gonna go check my freezer temps now. I think it's -8F haha
Mau reminds me of this markdown-like implementation for ebooks:
https://www.thedigitalcatonline.com/blog/2021/02/22/mau-a-li...
The portion of double income households more than doubled between 1960 and today[1]. The middle class is working more because they want to, or because they need to? Purchasing power for the average worker is flat[2]. In some sense, it's like the middle class has been working for fifty years without a raise, only now two people in the household need to work. That fewer people are getting married or having kids is likely not because human nature shifted in the past few decades, but probably because their lives are not going well or developing properly.

1 - https://www.pewresearch.org/ft_dual-income-households-1960-2...
2 - https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us...
Is neither farmed nor frozen salmon safe for raw?
A simple (obj &val) parameter in C++ eliminates reference counting by lending a reference, which can go an entire tree of helper functions.
Jurassic Park is a bad bioengineering parable but a great AI alignment allegory
Yeah I do wonder if the massively destabilizing influences of the left on the social structure of the west are fomented by psyops from adversarial countries.
I don’t think it is ok to compare covid quarantines to concentration camps.
What exactly do you mean by "behavioural science" when you say that BJ Fogg created it? Behaviorism existed for some fifty years before he was even born (if we consider it started with John B. Watson).
If it's V2V you have the potential for malicious actors to send signals not actually describing what the car is doing. Visual/radar/lidar and AI interpretation thereof are needed as a fallback to prevent crashes. If it's not V2V you need mediation, authentication, and extremely high availability, which has antitrust xor lack of non-telco infrastructure. Cars need visual/radar/lidar and AI interpretation thereof as a fallback to prevent crashes just because a cell tower goes down, and will be completely inoperative until they go up in the first place. Human drivers change their minds all the time, and represent the vast majority of drivers right now. Humans don't even do a good job of following their GPS directions, let alone using turn signals. So visual/radar... you know the rest of this sentence.

Basically, the ground truth is always more important than whatever signals are being sent. If a malicious actor can't fool a human, it's mustn't fool a non-human driver. If missing or unavailable infrastructure can't make a human unable to drive, it must not make the non-human driver unable to drive. Decreased efficiency, okay. Slower trips, fine. But total denial of service (either by failure to operate or crashing) is unacceptable. All of it eventually relies on the AI fallback. So we should be (and are) building the AI fallback first. Every car will have the AI fallback, including V2X-equipped cars, and all V2X signals will be treated as potentially unreliable forever.

I don't doubt we can have some efficiency gains from V2X, but we'll likely never have bumper-to-bumper at 60 mph, interleaving though intersections, etc. Cars just aren't mechanically reliable enough. Say someone drops a nail or caltrop or cylinder of compressed gas out of car #0's window. How many milliseconds does car #2 have to react to the pending tire blowout of car #1 immediately behind? Even with an AI fallback, its sensors might miss the nail. Is a sudden pressure drop (presumably signaled) going to be transmitted and processed fast enough by the entire convoy of cars to avoid a large multicar pileup? Are ALL the cars' brakes in perfect working order? And that's not just a linear problem - all the cars in all the other lanes will have to brake too to allow car #1 to swerve unpredictably as the tire explodes as the car learns the new driving model it has to contend with (and it will need the fallback AI to figure out how its inputs are translating into real outputs). Not that this is an easy situation for human drivers to deal with now! But now we have 1-4 seconds (de facto-de jure) of following distance. V2X comms could make 1 second following distances safer. But it'll need an intelligent (artificial or human) fallback anyway, and having a human one means that the efficiency gains will disappear. So we need the AI fallback.
In terms of permanent without need to interact, it's pretty hard. But with minimal effort you can do it.

Keep the stuff in text and move it around to different places periodically, and keep redundant copies.

At the moment I favour git. It's easy to set up multiple repos, and if one goes offline you can set up another.
> It's so amusing how interviewers pose questions that took PhD students years to invent the answers to.

That doesn't really mean anything without additional context... like what the questions you're talking about were, or what the positions were, or what you claimed about your background, approximately how long ago said PhDs were earned, or what the interviewers actually expected from you (which may not have been the final solution at all), or... etc.

So much of what we learn, use, and understand was developed by people far more talented than us. Literally everything from algebra to binary digital logic. It should be obvious that something can be orders of magnitude more difficult to come up with the first time, when you have nobody to learn it from, and when the rest of the world is far behind where the field is, than it might be to come up with it when the entire world has advanced and you've (presumably) been taught extremely relevant material & perspective in a nice and polished classroom setting. Now, obviously, it can also be just as difficult in the second case as in the first case for some problems too. It depends entirely on the problem and context.
This is the statement of mine that you find so objectionable:

> I think that’s what a silent majority of reasonable people might think, but there is still a ton of indiscriminate anti-Russian bigotry going around.

And for further context, what is the stance that I think "a silent of majority of reasonable people" might think?

> The whole world does not hate Russians. On the contrary, I've seen a lot of empathy for Russians abroad and in Russia who do not support the invasion of and atrocities in the Ukraine but still have to suffer because of the Russian government's, or rather Vladimir Putin's, actions. Obviously, yes, Russians who express support for Putin are hated, rightfully so.

I have already condemned the actions of the Russian regime. That is not enough for you; you are not satisfied unless I hate the Russian people without distinction.

I have done nothing in this thread except to draw the moral distinction between the Russian regime and military and the Russian people as a whole, and to reiterate that it is morally unacceptable to hate, without any distinction, an entire nationality of people. You are the one who took up the mantle of defending bigotry; don't you dare claim the moral high ground.
Sorry I literally meant consider, not ‘you must’ in a passive aggressive way :)

I’m surprised the HHB line aren’t fully programmable, and a quick google hasnt found any home-rolled firmware mods. Always wondered about usb middleware that remaps keys dynamically, but I’m glad you’ve thought about it!
At least in Europe we never had a lockdown comparable to the Shanghai lockdown. People always could go to get food, medicine and get to work. The highest level of lockdown was that in-door and outdoor meeting in private were restricted somewhat (in Germany you could only walk with a single person from another household but couldn't sit down on a park bench).

I think western democracies had a much more commensurate approach to Covid even though they failed in protecting the nursing home population.
And our love/hate relationship with the English language continues :)

My latest annoyance: https://www.usingenglish.com/forum/threads/three-times-as-mu...

At least we don have such problems in programming langu... Actually, never mind.
I've thought about this a lot. It's becoming a serious issue for museums since increasingly contemporary artwork incorporates digital processes, for example video and photographs. Archivists worry about stability of storage media as well as long-term usability of CDROM, DVD, magnetic drives, SSDs, etc.

The ability (or lack of it) to play/view an original archive is already a major problem. Think about the history of floppy disks, zip media, digital tape cartridges, and numerous others. I recall these media being quite prevalent back in the 90's, and that's only <=30 years ago. (I have my own share of them.) Today these media are ancient history and soon, if not already, as inscrutable as the writing systems of obscure prehistoric civilizations.

As said in several comments, the situation is worse for software. Keeping long superseded equipment running is very difficult. (I have some of that too.)

Preserving source code should be pretty straightforward, printed out with archival ink on 100% cotton fiber, acid-free and buffered paper would work. The only catch is long-term storage of the printed document. Paper itself is subject to environmental degradation. Museum standards specify constant 20&deg;C, 50% humidity, sealed against atmospheric pollutants and no light exposure. That should hold it for at least 100 years. :-)

Technologies are great, seems a good bet that a brilliant startup will think of new ways to preserve the history of our epoch.
But do use some kind archival-grade paper. The £2 per ream supermarket crap that curls up in hot weather is probably full of acid and will become brittle and fall apart eventually.

And I would check if there are issues with either cheap ink fading or cheap toner flaking off on the multi-decade timescale. Though you will probably appreciate a decent printer anyway to chug through 1GB of text!
> But the drive is pricy if you buy new.

They seem insanely expensive for what they are! The tapes themselves are cheaper than regular HDDs, which is nice. But when you look at the drives, what's basically a box for recording data on the tape costs thousands of dollars!

A single drive like that would be more expensive than my entire computer! Why is the pricing like that? Is it because overpricing things for enterprises is okay in the minds of the manufacturers? Low supply? Various certification requirements?

How come there are no cheaper compatible drive alternatives and everyone must therefore go for the used market? Actually, why haven't most people even heard of tape drives and backups that way - is it because of the pricing that this never got big or even the fact that not many consider doing backups all that well?
You have a source on farmed salmon being toxic? I'd think FDA (and other national equivalents) might have an issue with that...
Ukraine war: False TikTok videos draw millions of views
Helm – Tools You Can Use to Manage Your Helm Releases Declaratively
I think it's better to treat that post as part of the protest (someone supporting the message of the video imagining how it spreads far and wide) than as a reliable source on things like traffic figures (which, realistically, even the authorities can't know because of all the different copies floating around).
No it isn't. Chris put his foot in his mouth and went on about how an advantage of garbage collection is that it moves objects. Not all garbage collection moves objects. Garbage collection that does not move objects does not have any such interop problem. Furthermore, even GC that does move objects can avoid that particular interop problem if it simply avoids moving foreign objects. E.g. suppose a foreign object is managed by some gc-heap object of type "foreign pointer". That managing object can be moved during GC, but if the actual foreign pointer doesn't change. If that pointer is all that the foreign code knows about, then there is no problem. Don't give foreign code any pointers to your heap objects and you're good.
In Australia with a strong safety net for single parents its very adverse consequences, there's quite a lot of children with parents on welfare, then 'middle classes' are opting out or having less and later, while upper middle and above still having them though trend is above 30 even to early 40s for women.

If having children, and time, is a big reward in life many of those who work harder and getting a worse deal than those who didn't bother.
Actually, go generics can do sum types, it’s just not well known or advertised.
This just goes to prove that anti-social behavior is not a "consequence" of poverty, and that solid social norms are far more relevant. Rich kids can still live in a socially frayed, marginalizing environment.
I also vouch for Chromatic, it has been extremely valuable for us. It is only working with Storybook, though, as it's made by the same company.
It's pretty good, LSP related modes are best used in tandem with the languages' major modes and LSP-mode has gotten much better the last year or so imo. It's more reliable and consistent across languages.

I've used it with Python, C/C++, SQL, HTML/CSS/JS, without issue and of course it has stellar support for Clojure.
> if you can find the right abstraction

That is not going to be "low-code". The right abstraction is a bunch of small modules and functions. Visual programming is not low-code.
So Musk moved the Monorail underground... Isn't Mars' atmosphere already a hyperloop?
Ask HN: What is the best way to improve my email skills?
> But, in principle, the wave-function of the sun after you throw a book that has a coffee stain into it will be different from the wave-function of the sun after you throw the same book without the coffee stain.

That's different from saying that it can be measured in principle. And a having or not a coffee stain is different from the previous example. A coffee stain of a different shape would be closer.

> And that difference, in turn, could be detected through measurement, as it will affect the probabilities of a measurement of the sun.

I'm not sure how to interpret that. You just said that "It's perhaps not possible even in principle to actually measure it". [edit: maybe you mean that some kind of « statistical trace » remains, but we surely agree that’s very different from being able to identify the words in a particular book.]

Anyway, the sun is not an isolated system so it cannot be described with a wave-function. The "wave-function of the universe" - if we assume that such a thing exists which evolves unitarily since the beginning of time - would contain the "information" about the universe in which you threw a book with a coffee stain and about the universe in which you threw a stainless book and about the universes in which there is no Sun to throw things into.
At least the current evidences (excluding Shanghai) has shown that the virus can be contained. Yes, there are cases, but cities have managed to contain it and people are normally back to normal after two weeks semi-lockdown. Of course, with Shanghai keeps having new cases, things may change.

The government is pushing for old people to get vaccination. Old generation in China are not getting vaccinations because they worry it may have side effects. As far as I have heard, the government is pushing it by linking some money (old people get some government money for special occasions) with the vaccination.

Overall, the country will have to accept the fact that the virus will spread, especially if they want to open borders. The current strategy is to contain it as much as you can. Once it open up, it will have a peak similar to Hong Kong, maybe hundred of thousands of old people will die.
So making it far worse is a good plan?