skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, after I read this, I can't stop thinking about how much I love this idea. I've been searching and searching thinking that there must be a toolset in alpha out there somewhere that I can play with.

The only think I can find right now is Krustlet, which is not really what I'm looking for. I want something that I can run on my own hardware. Have you (or anyone else 'round these parts) hears of a WASM replacement for Docker in development?

We're looking for a WASM runtime that can handle orchestration of multiple assemblies on the same machine, I suppose: https://www.docker.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Docker-Web...

EDIT: I found what we're looking for! Docker Engine is a container runtime. What we need is an alternate container runtime that will work with WASM. K8s-compatible options are described in the following article: https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/production-environment/cont...

It turns out that both CRI-O and containerd can run WASM assemblies via the WasmEdge runtime in crun:

CRI-O: https://wasmedge.org/book/en/kubernetes/cri/crio.html

containerd: https://wasmedge.org/book/en/kubernetes/cri/containerd.html

And you can create WASM containers without docker hub images by controlling crun directly: https://wasmedge.org/book/en/kubernetes/container/crun.html
The Doomsday Economics of 'Proof-of-Work' in Cryptocurrencies
That’s what the court ruling is. The law makers need to decide the issue. Not the court.
What an obviously and absolutely terrible business idea. What investors put money into blows my mind sometimes.
Can anyone explain Netflix's upcoming strategy? They seem to be pissing off their customer base, and moving in rather unpopular areas.

From my perspective they appear to be prepped to be acquired? i.e. Deliberate moves to cull their stocks, and now a move to cull their employee size.

They definitely seem to be a lucrative purchase for a company like Microsoft. It could work well with the xbox as a complete entertainment system, enables Microsoft to monetize their now growing game IP and moves a massive customer from AWS to Azure.
Some people really struggle with FOMO.
Why would they? There are 8 million Russians living in the country, and close social ties besides. Putin consistently lies and says 80% of the population is Russian and that Ukraine is Russia. Plus the fact that Russian people are generally not psychopathic murderers, the invasion could only be acknowledged as a limited operation, they depend on the world and European economies, the military destroyed other countries/regions far away from NATO and then had no need for the atom bomb either... yes I think there's room for doubt.
> How much of art popularity is people wanting to feel in the know, and desperately trying to find reasons to enjoy it?

Some for sure.

> If you say Picasso was a genius, then you're automatically accepted into a "smart" or "high class" or whatever group of people. If you criticize, then you're ostracized.

By who? I have a ton of family and friends who think Picasso and "all those other guys" suck, none of them are "ostracized". You're more likely to be ostracized if you say "I love Picasso, he was a genius.", and your reply to "what is your favourite work" is "ummm, the melting clock thing?". Mostly because that was Dali.

> It's exhausting to criticize, because the arguments for are so lacking in any substance.

I'm not sure how to respond to "I can't criticize Picasso because your defence will lack substance."

Why, how, would I even "defend" Picasso?

> I truly do not believe even 50% of people who claim to like Picasso actually like Picasso's paintings. I'm very confident the majority are people who say they do to fit into a group.

A majority of people will say they don't like Picasso if they could even identify his work. I didn't really like Picasso until I started seeing his work in person. Even then, he's hit or miss for me.

I'll bet nobody jumps on this comment to ostracize me.
There are certainly situations where if you say "not it" the work just falls to other people (or worse, a single person) who is less comfortable or able to say no.

But there are also situations where a person has been said 'yes' to so many times that they just assume something is wrong with anyone who tells them 'no'. Enough people have to say 'no' that it becomes normalized. Either a more 'fair' process is made or they finally hire enough people to do the job right (haha, who am I kidding, they'll never do that, but you can at least get to 'less wrong').

It's really a tough matter of reading the room. Sometimes if you see someone asking for something that doesn't necessarily interest you, asking for it too makes it okay. Other times it causes the boss to catastrophize (well now everyone will want to do this so I'm not going to let anyone do it) and shut down.

Asking people to follow labor laws that are almost 100 years old is not that big of an ask. I know everyone is busy LARPing feudal England half the time but someone has to call bullshit, and it's mostly the people with just a little bit of power who can actually do anything about it.
Maybe just try actually using it yourself so that you know what you're talking about, rather than being confused by random people on the internet.
Narrow deep learning ai is generally not suited for this.
However automated theorem provers are a thing and have proven major conjectures/theorems that weren't solved by humans before. E.g. The four color problem IIRC.
Although the best results are generally obtained with semi-automated theorems provers

But still, this is not cleverness, this just show that raw bruteforce + a few tricks can solve a few problems, by generating proofs of multiple terabytes(yes this is absurd scaling).
The asymmetry between compute power and computer lack of intelligence is remarkable.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_theorem_proving
A huge part that is rarely discussed is the shift based on consumer demographics at the turn of the century. Academic/ salon paintings were extremely grand, time consuming and expensive, so they were out of reach for most people that weren't wealthy or royalty. The new growing middle class had an appetite for art but there was limited supply of things they could afford, also seen in the craft movement that was happening at the same time where consumers desired for something greater than soulless, mass produced factory goods. Art dealers filled the gap by adopting salon rejects which would in turn popularize the new impressionist styles that were counter to pieces you would see at salons. An academic painter like Bougereau would complete much fewer pieces over their career than someone like Picasso.

Here is a lecture that discusses this shift: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G8UfISpb0I
Write all the things on your mind down so you can forget them. If you fear retaliation from your superiors then get another job.
The sensor is an IMX179 which is a mainstay. I believe the sensor area is smaller, and probably higher noise than a DSLR or mirrorless, but for VC use, it's probably not going to make a difference.
Pedantically, I'm not sure if there are any extra physical chips on the Wii U for backwards compatibility, at least for the major bits. On the CPU side, the Wii U uses a weird triple core PowerPC 750 (aka G3) setup, even though the 750 was a) ancient and b) not designed for SMP, in order that it could be used for backwards compatibility with the previous 750 powered units. On the GPU side it does still have the old GC / Wii "GX" GPU as a separate unit, but it's just on the same chip as the modern GPU.
And I want IPad Mini-sized Android tablet, but for some reason all compact tablets have terrible performance, and because of this you have to use a large phone to watch videos or play games.
I made some concept maps of the first parts of the paper. It might help with clarifying some of it.

https://twitter.com/izzyz/status/1525099159925116928
It kind of baffles me that the critiques of modernism were already so comprehensive in the 70s, e.g. Wolfe wrt art and architecture, and then,... nothing really materially changed.
That's kind of sad, considering our parents all survived the 2nd half of the 20th century, and they probably weren't in the top 1-5%. I would be quite happy living in Western Europe or the US during the 2nd half of the 20th century. I think one's chances of living a brutishly short life would have been less than 5%.
Pretty sure doing that would require solving the Halting Problem.
> Can't we appreciate and value music that isn't pleasing?

This is an oxymoronic sentence.
I vaguely recall having read, some years ago, also via hacker news, an account of the institute during the Nazi occupation. I think several employees had locked themselves in to safeguard the seeds, maybe also feeding on them
Most of Siberia does not have permafrost, though.
Thanks I'm glad you liked it. Please note that I sold FoldingText to https://doubledogsoftware.com and it's still being worked on. I don't know full set of plans, but when I sold last summer (right before dedicating fully to Bike) the goal was to get the code into a modern state that would keep working for years to come.
The USA's:

It’s clear that fixing our broken immigration system would boost our economy and help all workers by increasing the worker productivity, creating more jobs, improving wages of all workers, and reducing the deficit. - https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/issues/immigration/econ...

Biden: We need ‘constant, unrelenting stream’ of immigrants - https://thehill.com/regulation/business/208857-biden-hails-c...

Canada's:

Canada’s successive governments have relied on immigration to drive economic growth in the face of a declining fertility rate, which hit a record low last year. [..] “Canada needs immigration to create jobs and drive our economic recovery,” Immigration Minister Sean Fraser told Reuters. - https://www.reuters.com/article/canada-economy-immigration-h...

Federal government plans to bring in more than 1.2M immigrants in next 3 years - https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mendicino-immigration-pande...

Australia's:

If Australia doesn't have a radical surge in immigration, what will happen to the economy? - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-22/if-australia-doesnt-h...

This is coming from the media, not government, but govt. policy reflected that, with such high levels of immigration that 28% of Australia's population was immigrant in 2015 [1]. They remained high until COVID.

Germany's:

According to your estimates, the German economy will need 400,000 immigrants each year to remain competitive. [..] Your research shows that in 20 years, one in three people in Germany will have a migrant background. - https://www.dw.com/en/germany-needs-immigrants-to-stay-compe...

You get the picture.

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/AUS/australia/immigrat...
I pay for the premium matrix server and even I’ll admit that discord is vastly superior. It honestly makes matrix look like SMS in comparison. The UI of discord is basically perfect, it’s extremely fast, it has so many useful tools.

If you don’t care about open source or self hosting, there are vanishingly few reasons to not use discord. Not being indexed is a feature for many. It always mildly bothered me how my irc conversations from many years ago still show on google when searching my username.
Of course they are. It is good. Corporations, like functions, are sociopaths. They’re just rulesets. They aren’t real people so they can’t be anything but sociopaths, although I don’t think that’s an accurate term for a non-person. Are deer sociopaths? Or trees? Or virii? Or bags of rice?

I want the emotions to be with the people who make up corporations (and write the functions).
The best I've had is being suspended for a 7 year old "kill all boomers" tweet :(
> Luckily you had the safety net to survive that.

The only safety net I had was two months' salary saved up. I didn't even get unemployment compensation; by the time the company got nailed for classifying me as a 1099 while treating me as a W-2 I had already found a different job.

> I honestly think tech workers for all the big companies will be unionized in the next decade. There is already a perfect model out there: The screen actors guild. That union sets minimum rules around pay, safety, overtime, residuals, and so on, but still allows for "superstars" to make far more.

I'd love to see that happen. I'm not counting on it. And I've given up on trying to persuade my coworkers to unionize. If I were at all charismatic or persuasive I wouldn't be working in tech to begin with.
My real life use-case for generics in Go: API for client-side pagination
My guess is lack of willingness to put up with the resulting drama and abuse.
> y'all are the most boring people on the planet

Citation needed. Please cite your source and make sure you strictly follow MLA format
Yes, all the basic needed to be implemented. Impressive or dumb or maybe just persistent.
Social media needs a definition, then. What separates social media from plain 'ol media? Well, the social. Profiles, contact lists, networks of contacts, subscription to contacts. Following from that, an individualized feed, where each user sees different content based on who their contacts are.

Hacker News has almost none of that. There are user profiles, and discussion threads.
No, this is how most users feel. If you completely ignore free software philosophies, it’s hard to find anything as good as discord.
Oh, my bad I misunderstood. Yes, you could just construct a system of 65537 equations in 65537 variables. You can't do a binary search though. Remember, all you have access to is c (mod p_i) for i = 1, ..., 65537. To do a binary search, you'd need the integer c (not mod anything).
Decentralised implies lack of a global leader. However, each raft group has a leader, so you can only take this so far in a multi-group raft design.
"Unified Remote" for Android (paid, proprietary) works quite well for mouse control. No display sampling but it's not really needed.
The way the regulations help is that it sets the expectation that the next person will probably also say no, or that someone might try to fight you on it because they have stronger ground to stand on.

Child labor laws work because company owners know that eventually they'll get caught. OSHA works the same -- because they know there are penalties for it. Sure, sometimes companies get away with stuff, but there is always the chance that they won't.
I’m asking why the market is as it is, and you’re effectively answering with “because it is”.
Facebook's primary aim is to get you to stay so keeping your attention is key to getting you to look at more ads. You feel depressed by looking at other people's Facebook webpages which look positive and happy so you compare it to you own sad, miserable life. Reality is folk mostly post positive reinforcing stories, not the crap in their lives that you'd miss otherwise. The best way to deal with social media is to stop using it completely. Life is too short to waste your precious minutes on this planet using Facebook.
> that’s not likely to happen.

Why not? It has happened before.

My Xperia XZ1 Compact:

- runs Android (I'm on Android 10, but might upgrade)

- measures about 14cm diagonally and 8-9mm thick

- uses around 10-15% charge per day of light use (without Google services)

- has a standard headphone jack

- has stereo speakers

- has decent front and back cameras, with no bump

- has a microSD slot

- has a USB type C port

- has a fingerprint sensor (I disabled mine)

- is water-tight and dust-tight (IP68)

- supports VoLTE

- supports WiFi calling

My previous phone was similar, and a bit slimmer. The one before that didn't get such good battery life, but its physical keyboard, swappable battery, and even smaller size made up for having to charge more often.

Obviously, these devices are not common, but they are made from time to time. I'm looking at hardware right now that proves there is no technical barrier. I don't see any reason to dissuade people from asking for a new model.
Electric costs will rise too.
I've found that tcell works pretty well across many different OS terminals.

https://github.com/gdamore/tcell
You shouldn't need any "ecosystem" just a bootloader, TF-A and a kernel. The rest should be abstracted away for you by the kernel, unless you're doing something really heavily reliant on details of the HW, like implementing a smartphone functionality.

And that's how I use all of my SBCs (I just counted I have 7 different SoCs on my various boards and mobile devices). I put on a regular whatever distro on all of them (Arch Linux ARM in my case, but it can be anything. That's the point. The distro doesn't need to "support" my board.) it and I only figure out my own kernel and bootloader builds. Bootloader can be figured out once and forgotten about. Kernel just needs a quick update now and then, if I care. Nothing much harder than a make && make install with some env vars set and a corss-compiler installed on my workstation.

I don't need any special board specific software ecosystem provided by some foundation for normal desktop or server uses. It's already there (any GNU/Linux on ARM distribution must work), and it's generic. If the SoC is so bizarre that it can't just run U-Boot/TF-A/Linux/any distro in rootfs in that order, and requires something custom, including non-standard tools in userspace to control basic things like display output, etc., that may not be worth bothering with, but that's only really a domain of Raspberry Pi, and not common anywhere else.

Some distros provide generic kernel builds and a proper bootloader/device tree already, for many boards. So if someone is not interested in building their own, they don't need to. That may limit the choice of the distro though. But it's just an artificial limit.
Also it isn’t available to actually buy. I’m sure they’ll be ready just in time for pandemic to end and macbooks to have better webcams…
Yes, more pay and better on call hours. All remote.
If you have one of the newer magsafe iPhones, you can attach one of these to the wall (front camera) or the back of your monitor (back cameras):

https://www.shopmoment.com/products/wall-mount-for-magsafe/s...
Software developers are top tier practitioners of Not Asking for Help When You Need It.

We'll get unions about the same time it becomes normalized for developers to talk about seeing a therapist.
iPhone mini is almost exactly the same size in the hand (2.5" width) as the iPhone4/5 and smaller than 6/7/8/SE (2.7" width) , but the screen coverage/diag is significantly larger than the SE (85%/5.4" vs 60%/4.7").

I think he meant diag screen size? The 11/12/13 are 6.1" while maxs are 6.7"
Here you go. https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-announces-galaxy-xco...
While this seems like something the SEC should indeed be paying attention to, it pales into comparison with Elon Musk openly breaking every rule in the book on Twitter while they do absolutely nothing (up to and including directly pumping and dumping stock ...)
>Why would they?

Because they would win with the resources they have available. It's not that complicated.
Fair. I'd prefer to call it the "Johnny Carson" setup, though!

Microphone placement is a massive subject by itself. The basic idea is that you make the signal loud by moving the microphone reasonably close to your voice and point it at your mouth, and simultaneously, the part that people forget, you put the microphone far away from noise sources and pointing away from them. This second part is what built-in laptop microphones are especially bad at. (Note that microphones have different pickup patterns, so pointing "away" from a source means different things to different mics, and it's irrelevant for omnidirectional mics.)

Depending on the camera set up, you can put something like an SM57 just out of frame and still have it be fairly close to your mouth, away from noise. A boom arm or mic stand will help. Setting your mic on the desk can work but this will pick up vibrations from the desk.

Other common setups are lavalier microphones, headset microphones, and shotgun microphones. Fair to assume you're not using a shotgun microphone.

Lav mics are simple and unobtrusive. TV hosts use them a lot. (You can see that late night TV hosts have a lav mic in addition to the desk mic... 99% of the time, you're hearing the lav mic, and the desk mic is off.) Headset mics give you more consistent and clear sound, with more freedom of movement, which is why singers and presenters use them a lot. Beware that cheap lav / headset mics will sound as bad as your laptop microphone, just with less background noise. You can watch reviews on YouTube for these kind of mics and decide if you want to try one out.
Yeah, we didn't get anything above our regular salary.
It very likely already did, specifically in Go. The problem is that humans would still be required to comprehend what they are seeing :-) letting agents develop strategies in an unsupervised manner has already yielded strategies we haven’t figured out ourselves. Other examples that come to mind are video compression (see twominutepapers) and proteine folding!

Think about it like this: if the domain of a problem we want AI to solve is so complex that we can barely formulate the question, how could we be confident that we can understand 100% of the answer we get? “Here, gpu, make sense of this 20-dimensional problem my brain can’t even approximately visualize!”
This doesn’t work on my account.
I see this argument come up all the time. However, the job market in general and especially in America is terribly inefficient. The vast majority of Americans work paycheck-to-paycheck and are tied down to their geographic location (family, children, housing). There isn't really a social safety net (by design, I think) in America for employees who voluntarily quit their jobs. So lots of people are stuck in jobs they hate, getting paid less than they deserve, and are a poor match for their skills. There are still lots of jobs that don't have the luxury of entirely virtual interview processes. Over time, I do hope the job market gets more and more liquid for candidates.
Damn this sure is a lot of thinking about how to Twitter. I just started following my friends after their Livejournal posts turned into incoherent auto posted collections of the day’s Twitter replies and that was basically it.

Well until the past few years when it suddenly became POLITICAL RAGE MATCH and I started running a Mastodon server for myself and some of my friends…
Autocracy was never an issue for the US. Communist/socialist regimes or tendencies were the issue. A democratically elected socialist head of state could be on the kill list, a pro-West dictator on the guest list at the White House... things have not changed much since. A famous example of a deep 'friendship' with one of the least democratic country is the US' relationship with Saudi Arabia, which as a country is not better than Iran and maybe worse.

Interests trump these considerations, which are a simplification for public opinion.
I did not see any details here on what part of the organization the laid off employees were working in.

Netflix has over 10000 employees, so these roughly 1.5% feel pretty specific to me, and I'm curious where exactly Netflix has decided to make these cuts.

Does anyone know?
This paper caused quite a big shift in the Metaculus predictions on when "AGI" will be achieved, https://www.metaculus.com/questions/3479/date-weakly-general... and https://www.metaculus.com/questions/5121/date-of-general-ai/.
The colors are very distracting on my monitor.
Keep those good old days going. Get a license :)
Disagree. You still get a ton from a low res image of a person vs a static image.

Same way how you get a lot from talking face to face vs talking on the phone.

Why would my coworkers need to see the individual pores on my nose anyways?