skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If anyone is about to watch this video, I want to warn you before you do that saying this guy "has an agenda" is like saying that a flat earther "has an agenda" in that they will absolutely be giving you "facts" and whenever the "facts" disagree with reality they will give you "facts" that are designed to make you abandon reality.

If I were to state my actual opinion on him on Hacker News, I would be downvoted. If I were to try and express how I feel about someone else finding him at all reasonable, I would be downvoted. So in the kindest possible way let me direct your attention to the kind of techniques he uses.

At 7:16 in that video he posts a screen capture of an article headline. It is a screen capture? Honest right? Great data. Not so fast. The screengrab was photoshopped. He edited out part of the title. In particular, he edited out the price for SpaceX to launch a satellite to orbit. Why, you might wonder, would he do something like that? Well... he was lying about the price just before that, so it would be kind of inconvenient to let people see the truth, wouldn't it? Here is the article whose title he photoshopped: https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2019/12/spacex-starlink-satell...

This isn't an uncommon thing for this liar. He regularly and willfully does things like this all throughout the video. You should be taking every number he gives with an enormous amount of salt. Dump the entire fucking salt container on this meal. He lies about the cost for SpaceX to launch, a material fact, but he also double counts the number of rockets they will need to launch, another material fact. He lies about the speed test results for SpaceX (by using numbers from months before the video, rather than the actual numbers). Since he lied about that, his reported numbers didn't agree with, ya know, reality. In particular they didn't agree with the reality of SpaceX qualifying for various government funding initiatives for rural internet. So if you want to believe him you're going to need choke down a helping of "enormous conspiracy" in order to get onboard his hate train. He also lies about the cost of competitors. And... it's bad. It is so bad that I have 0% confidence that he operates in good faith and I assume anyone who trusts this person is truly lazy, because he isn't trustworthy. Not even close to it, at all, whatsoever.
Yes. They are weasel wording it by saying "the illness has been fatal in up to 6% of infections". "the illness" here refers to a different variant of monkeypox than is currently being transmitted (or they are averaging the 1% fatal and 10% fatal variants).
So it's the same illness only in the sense that both are monkeypox.
They know all this, and are deliberately wording it this way so they can say it is more fatal than it is.

Not that monkeypox is awesome, mind you, but the fact remains the current circulating variant is not the one that has been fatal in up to 6% of cases.

(and also, that 6% is mostly children under 16. Again, not awesome, but the
children dying in central africa to monkeypox, and children in the US/Europe/etc, have ... slightly different common health profiles )
Making compost is a great skill in my book. I have no idea if there are better ways to do it, but this bio reactor design or something similar is something I’d like to try if I ever had the space:

https://www.csuchico.edu/regenerativeagriculture/bioreactor/...

I make around 2 cubic meters of compost per year from household and yard waste. I get a lot of gratification from it. I also keep a worm bin which generates maybe 10kg of castings per year and a bunch of tea. I use it to feed my vegetable garden and green house which are pretty small but productive.

Some day I’d love to have the space to scale up and make more compost and grow more food with it.
Time to update this song? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6eFNRKEROw
HIV is also thought to have originated via zoonotic transmission from non-human primates. Or it could be a reference to the claim that such diseases are used to create unfair stigma for the communities via which they are promulgated.
> The short version is no: if you get symptoms and recover, then the immune system has cleared it, so you can't be a carrier.

That's not necessarily true. Many viruses are only pushed into dormancy by the immune system, and can come back and give you symptoms years later, at which point they can spread to other people. For example: Chickenpox, herpes, hiv.
Holy shit another Cake fan. Greetings!
I bought a Starlink for my house in Tahoe to hopefully use as backup internet for when Spectrum goes down. They go down every time the power goes out, so even with backup power, I'd have no internet. Starlink would have solved that.

Unfortunately it's quite expensive for a backup internet plan. Being able to cancel and activate it at will with this new RV plan would help a lot with that. And while Starlink speeds are nice for what it is, I'd prefer to use my 1Gbps cable modem most of the time.

Sadly for me, I tried putting the Starlink dish in several spots on my roof and deck, but I just have too many trees around my house. 100 foot tall jeffry pines all around the house. Starlink was always reporting about 12% obstructed, so it expected a drop out every 45 seconds or so. It was usable, but packet loss here and there.

I don't think that was going to work well for any kind of video calls, etc.

So I ended up returning the Starlink dish. It really needs too much view of the sky for heavily wooded areas. They aren't kidding when they say that.

My fall back plan is to use a 5G/LTE hotspot with an outdoor antenna to make up for my usable but fairly week cell service in the area, and use that for my backup internet.
> An "art museum" set up next door to the "donor" and open only by appointment with the "donor"? Perfectly legitimate according to the IRS.

Source? Most fundraising events have a deductible and non-deductible portion of the ticket price because the IRS does not look fondly on such practices.
The majority of Amazon’s infrastructure as code is in Ruby ;)
Anal sex has a much higher risk of transmitting infections due to the different mechanics around lubrication and bleeding.
Sorry, it's been a while, I forget :(

We had to balance between making the files too big (which would be slow) and making them too small (too many lambdas to start)

I _think_ they were around ~10 GB each, but I might be off by an order of magnitude.
I'd rather not have all the eggs in one basket every time there's some mandatory fad going around.
The Case for the Sexual Revolution
I always felt like the AI Dungeon response is absurdly stupid. Yeah, erotic text involving minors is not exactly something you want to be associated with, but I've heard that one of their approaches to avoiding it was to ban numbers below 18. That's... not worth it.

I feel like it would've been more than reasonable for them to have taken the position that the AI might output something distasteful, and implement a filter for people who were afraid of it.
Most businesses operate this way,where you need to be profitable on day one( or within a year). It's only the biggest, the most outrageous or boundary pushing companies that need to be super capitalised to eventually reach profitability. It's a fairly recent phenomena.
Clearly you're seeing the worst case scenario as a public defender. You're seeing the literal criminals.

Unless you also volunteer to help the homeless on weekends.
Tax deductions shouldn't be incentives for random policy ideas, they should keep the tax system fair by taxing people on income that really is theirs to dispose of freely. The fact that people don't have any choice about whether to pay state or local taxes is precisely why they should be able to deduct them from their federal taxes.
Not 19, not 21, 20. That's how you remove rigidity? Most places who apply handbooks end up applying handbooks to the detriments of everything else.

I feel we need to embrace the fact software is a fluid monster and we must work at it dynamically: cleaning up when it s unbearably crappy, adding to it when clients and users depend on it, and a balance between both when clients can wait a bit or when the dirt hasn't settled yet.

Then you d have a team that delivers rather than state that we must lose the client because his need overlap our 20% "moving classes around more logical namespaces" clean code.
Step 3: Update the TODO list

Step 4: Go to Step 2.
Refusal to admit that most of the world does not live in Finland seems to be a bit disconnected from reality.

It's good news, but as I said:

> But it's pretty tiny climate news overall.

Japan may also have a pretty good argument for pushing nuclear, as well as a few other places, but they are mostly just doomed to have higher energy prices than other parts of the word because of it. Not high enough perhaps to seriously disadvantage them on the global economy, but higher than places that have better natural energy sources.
This would be a more convincing argument if government assistance to the poor were in the form of some kind of UBI that its recipients could actually use as they wanted, rather than the current situation where it's a hodgepodge of social engineering programs filtered through layers of patronage jobs for administration.
Thanks. Really just looking for a new routine/on-demand scheduler to run jobs with a nice interface. There might be a dependency or two, but not a lot. Also the jobs themselves are thousands of lines of code and not going to be substantially changed.
That's certainly one theory on how to price labor, but it's not the only one (and not even the only one in our capitalist economy.) Worker coops, for instance, have a totally different theory of labor value.

So no, it's not hyperbole to suggest the poster is undervaluing their peers.
No, but it's troubling to know that some of these non profits will live forever. I can setup a foundation whose goal is to fund an ugly aspect of society. If I give it enough money the foundation can live forever thru wise investments of its endowment. There would be nothing to stop it from doing its work forever. The foundation can even influence political causes by funding research that support the foundation's cause. The tax except foundation can't directly lobby but it can fund research that will have a political impact.

Charitable foundations should have a finite number of years to do their work.
I ran Airflow on a small scale (+50 dags), and have used it for like 5 years. Yeah, it's painful. I consider myself an Airflow veteran after many db upgrade failures, daily operations... but still failed to make it work sometimes.

But at the end of the day, what is the alternative? Dagster seems to be a good one, but after I tried it, it seems just not worth it to move.
Combine this with the fact that there is massive $ opportunity with monitoring devs (worst case) and having a monopoly over their working environment (best case)

AND with the fact that management in most companies 100% wants the productivity/onboarding gains of these products.

I hate how broken dev environments always are. This is one answer, and IMO it will work initially and lead to quite bad outcomes for us devs long term.
I have done much study of the Iran-Iraq War. Although the Iraqis were not green troops, they had extremely poor tactical leadership. They were completely inept at maneuver and combined arms combat. When you consider also the vast superiority in precision and range of Coalition weapons, the Iraqis really stood no chance. The Russian army, bad as it is, it capable of much better tactical performance. Their intelligence capability is also much superior to Iraq's.
>It's fine to fund personal causes, admirable even, but you shouldn't be given a tax break for it.

How does this argument work for other deductions that also allow you to "fund personal causes"? For instance, the IRS allows you to deduct interest paid on student loans. I can get student loans to study anything I want, and doing so is arguably used to to advance my "personal agenda" (eg. getting a phd in economics so I can work in a thinktank). Should I be worried that the action was a "reflection of their personal politics" and therefore not get a tax break for it?

Feel free to repeat this argument for other deductions that the IRS offers: https://www.irs.gov/credits-deductions-for-individuals
Have fun living in a world of people taking advantage of you, I guess.
I agree. But unfortunately Symbiflow is not up to spec at the moment. Once it has the basics down this should be the path forward.
"The future is already here — It’s just not very evenly distributed"
>“pristine training sets of human-created content”

well, we do have organic/farmed/handcrafted/etc. food. One can imagine information nutrition label - "contains 70% AI generated content, triggers 25% of the daily dopamine release target".
There are more heterosexuals than homosexuals. I am saying per capita it is very very disproportionate and that is backed up by the facts of the matter. There's no arguing against it. That doesn't mean being gay is wrong or anything of the sort, just that people in that community have to be more careful. The news reporting on that or on the monkeypox thing doesn't mean it's perpetuating some sort of bigotry, it is informing that community to be on the lookout and to be safe. Arguing against informing our gay counterparts/friends of a virus to be PC or whatever is detrimental to the health of people we care about.
There was an imported case in Singapore a few years ago.

" The patient reported that prior to his arrival in Singapore, he had attended a wedding in Nigeria, where he may have consumed bush meat, which could be a source of transmission of monkeypox virus."

https://www.moh.gov.sg/news-highlights/details/confirmed-imp...
I'm a gay man, and I'm on PrEP because I know I'm at higher risk of HIV. If I were straight and (1) neither I nor my partners used IV drugs, (2) neither I nor my partners had any visible STDs and I got checked for STDs regularly and (3) I were circumcized, to be honest I'd be fine having unprotected sex with random women because my chance of acquiring HIV would be exceedingly, exceedingly low. My chance of acquiring other STDs, especially Chlamydia, would be much higher, but if I were getting checked regularly it seems like a reasonable risk for a treatable disease.
It's weird to me: I don't use Twitter and I don't intentionally follow influencers or celebrities in the tech world. Yet somehow RF has been the center of several bouts of developer of drama I've come across. Any idea why that might be?
How many attempts and how much human curation was involved. Every "I made AI do..." story seems to necessarily omit the "and I filtered out a LOT of rubbish before picking this one good example."
Does anyone know what the power draw is? What kind of battery rig would need to power this?
Seems to just be a link to xkcd.com/2617 and a single sentence of commentary?
How My Amazon Book Portfolio Crossed $180k in Royalties
And then I start hogging usage to increase the odds that I get paid money to stop using it.
The ailments you describe can be resolved by having a small dedicated Developer Experience team. Their mission is to ensure that developers can ramp up quickly with deterministic environments and keep a high velocity with developer tooling. If a big company doesn't have one, they're messing up.

I see the benefits of having something that "always works" though the browser, but for me, the lack of control does not outweigh this convenience. I mean, can you even step through a debugger session? That's a basic requirement imo.
I liked this film dramatization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Figures
My hypothetical example is not really about oil paintings, but the fact these models will surely get deployed and used for stock photos for articles, on art pages etc.

I think this will introduce unavoidable background noise that will be super hard to fully eliminate in future large scale data sets scraped from the web, there's always going to be more and more photorealistic pictures of "cats" "chairs" etc. in the data that are close to looking real but not quite, and we can never really go back to a world where there's only "real" pictures, or "authentic human art" on the internet.
One thing that no one predicted in AI development was how good it would become at some completely unexpected tasks while being not so great at the ones we supposed/hoped it would be good.

AI was expected to grow like a child. Somehow blurting out things that would show some increasing understanding on a deep level but poor syntax.

In fact we get the exact opposite. AI is creating texts that are syntaxically correct and very decently articulated and pictures that are insanely good.

And these texts and images are created from a text prompt?! There is no way to interface with the model other than by freeform text. That is so weird to me.

Yet it doesn’t feel intelligent at all at first. You can’t ask it to draw “a chess game with a puzzle where white mates in 4 moves”.

Yet sometimes GPT makes very surprising inferences. And it starts to feel like there is something going on a deeper level.

DeepMind’s AlphaXxx models are more in line with how I expected things to go. Software that gets good at expert tasks that we as humans are too limited to handle.

Where it’s headed, we don’t know. But I bet it’s going to be difficult to tell the “intelligence” from the “varnish”
Then they should be honest about it. They can use all the PR lingo they want but don't flat out lie about it.

Lying about ethics or misattributing their actions to some misguided sense of "social" responsibility puts google in a far worse light in my eyes. I can't help but wonder how many skilled employees were driven off from accepting a position at google because of lies like these.
>Tax deductions shouldn't be incentives for random policy ideas

Taxes are one of the main ways the government tries to influence behavior (eg. sin taxes, green energy incentives). What do you suggest should take their place? Or do you think that government shouldn't be in the business of influencing behavior entirely?
They never attacked north Vietnam by land. They bombed it into the dust, but China rebuilt it all.

Politically there was no will to occupy North Vietnam and end up facing China directly.
Love honest assessments of self like these. Super helpful. Thanks Zupo!
This reddit thread might be informative:

https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/t9klju/this_is_troubli...

My question would be: if someone commits a crime, then is punished for that crime according to the law... does some form of punishment have to continue once they're released from prison. That's what seems to be happening here.
> Not really. Flyover and southern states in particular mooch off of the productive locales.

Addressed in my original comment (although it was edited in a few minutes after initial posting so I'll let it slide):

>This doesn't necessarily exclude redistribute policies by the federal government entirely, but doing it by tax rate is baffling no matter how you look at it.
> I can setup a foundation whose goal is to fund an ugly aspect of society.

and why do you get to claim such an aspect is "ugly"?

If society, as a whole (or majority) decides such an aspect is ugly, then they can put a law in to outlaw it.

The problem isn't at this level of non-profit orgs - the problem is at the civil participation. most people don't participate (not even vote). So those who do get more say, by relative participation rates.
Eventually there will be smart contracts with assigned arbitrators capable of undoing dependent smart contract transactions, with the right to execute granted by a separate smart contract, which is controlled by a vote to be taken by a randomly selected set of peers in the community, who must first watch in total a video of the aggrieved and offending parties position their argument.

And arbitration contracts that can arbitrate the arbitration contracts, and so on.

And perhaps a smart contract to allow the amendment of existing contract, by vote of a group of wallets who’ve been elected by another smart contract, who’ve been elected by another smart contract with a larger pool of voters, and so on, until all stakeholders in the contract have had the chance to cast a vote, whose duration as a voter is limited to a 2-4 year term, before requiring another voting round.
Zig encodes optionality separately from pointer-ness, like Rust. You don't have to ask about unwrapping None in cases where None is not a member of &T.
"I think, therefore I am"

Maybe not, there is no way to prove that thoughts require an "I" or existence. "There are thoughts" is more accurate.
It’s really hard to find examples of pernicious institutions set up this way.

The Prohibition Party is still around because of a trust that funds them indefinitely.

But nobody cares about the Prohibition Party.

Some ecclesiastical organizations have this sort of perpetual funding. Sometimes via taxes, and sometimes investments.

But it doesn’t make the organizations insanely powerful. The Catholic Church in Germany is hardly a political player.

Trinity Church in New York has a billion dollar endowment. They’re not big players in the US religious landscape.

Real power requires more than money.

It seems what it does is ensures some person 150 years from now will have a cushy job with little power or responsibility, but lots of cash.
Wix and Squarespace aren't free though. Per workhour, Wordpress is still probably one of the, if not the, cheapest CMS for businesses to use for a basic website.
> shows that 40% of masters programs in the U.S. have no positive return.

> "If you take in the cost of attending and the time spent not working, what you get out of that master's degree doesn't even pay for itself,"

Calling that a "scam" runs contrary to that other claim I hear, that universities aren't supposed to be vocational education but more about research and personal enrichment.
And v1 supposedly had a COGS of $1500 https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/spacex-is-spending-...
When they must.

Comfort and convenience breeds complicity within us.

A certain amount of what conventional society accepts as normal is a civilized mesh of self deception and lies.

Thoughts and preferences are more like chemistry than a decision support matrix.

To change outcomes, reactions must change. To change reactions potentials must change. To change potentials ingredients and work must be added.

Aren’t you glad you’re amusing yourself in some other way?

People who become their own masters learn to change themselves. Reflect, plan, prepare, and do the work.

And this will only come of an imperative beyond sublime comfort and convenience
This is exactly the usecase Temporal meant for. I've used the Java SDK and its a pretty pleasant experience. Definitely worth taking a look at it.
> They do ultimately have an order if transmitted over a network!

They do if transmitted over a serial port. But today's networks encode whole bytes or more into the symbols actually sent over the wire/air, so there's not really any way to point out on an oscilloscope trace where particular bits out of a byte are sent in a specific order.
I’ve been using Grasshopper for years and it’s quite good. Though it’s probably a bit pricey if your use case is a simple throw away number. Might be worth digging around their pricing options though.
You can't get addicted to drugs if you never take drugs in the first place. Absent situations like getting addicted to opioids after surgery, taking drugs does say something about your character.

Drug addiction is a biological phenomenon, but it can't happen without drug use, which is a social problem. For example, drug overdose death rates are six to eight times higher among white Americans than among Asian Americans: https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/press-release/drug-.... I'm pretty sure the biology of drug addiction doesn't meaningfully differ between those groups.
You tell me: what do you reckon is the average number of people that each participant at a rave exchanges mucous with?