skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Woolf was born rich and married rich, started a publishing house with her author husband to publish their work, and was also central to the Bloomsbury Set who promoted the books.

I'm not sure what the modern equivalent would be, but clearly doing the usual round of agents etc wouldn't be it.

Joyce got almost nowhere until he was promoted by Ezra Pound, who was a Significant Figure on the literary scene.

I don't know about Faulkner, but Dostoevsky also came from a scene and - after some really bad times - made an impression when Crime and Punishment was serialised in a magazine.

So I don't think the MFA issue is the problem. The issue is more that literary scenes don't really exist any more, in the sense of groups of people who all know each other and have common values.

The 2022 publisher pipeline is very much just a content creation business with no higher aspirations. The gatekeeping steps - MFAs included - mostly exist to extract cash from the hopeful, not to curate quality.
Really makes me wonder how many millions Ashton Kutcher would make pushing for this, he seems to have found the best regulatory capture since SawStop to push for this

But I agree with the parent comment, the vast, vast majority of distributors doesn't know how to work with encryption. The audience here knows, but compared to the average user, the audience here has much more technical knowledge.
In less than a century, your Beeple PNG and Hirst photograph will be in the public domain. Free to copy, reuse, whatever, without exclusivity.

But, yes, you will still have an exclusive, costly certificate. Just a certificate.

In less than a century, the public domain art will still have admirers, remixers. The certificate itself will hold no value to no one. It's literally a depreciating speculative asset.

See: today, who cares as much about whoever funded it and how, than about Mozart's Requiem?

Would this have been funded through an exclusive certificate at the time, apart from being a museum artefact of a bygone era, it would not be worth much. The music is still studied, performed, derived, listened to.
Interesting, I don’t see that happening in social media on a scale big enough to warrant as much criticism as toxic positivity. In fact, I don’t see that at all, though of course it could just be the curation algorithms—or is that being applied to activism too?
Part of the disjointedness comes from the writer's apparent obsession with over-simple language and very short sentences made by chopping up longer sentences. It's a good example of what happens when inexperienced writers rely on readability tools like Readable (it's on the Readable blog).
In parliamentary democracies[0], the government is formed by a majority of the elected parties in parliament. In the EU, the EC is not formed by a majority of the EP, but by backroom negotiations between the national governments, each of which is really a coalition of parties, the largest of which generally has a prominent party member that they want to push forward as their country's candidate for the EC. It is significantly less direct than in a normal parliamentary democracy. It's more like your national government would be formed by all mayors pushing forward a former city councillor from their party to form the national government.

[0] Not just republics, also constitutional monarchies
Will they now allow mobile users to see older street view images? At the moment it's only possible to see this on desktop.
EU is becoming an authoritarian estate. Made by burocrats to control and manipulate european citizens.
As every farmer knows: it's not the weight that matters but the soil compaction, and that's a function of weight over surface area of the contact patches of whatever drive train your tractor has. That's also why tractor tires are so wide, and high flotation tires are commonly used.

Another way in which farmers combat soil compaction is by aeration and tilling.

It's true though that tractors are getting larger and heavier, but farmers are pretty knowledgeable about these things and usually take them into account when deciding what kind of machinery (on what kind of tires) to use for their soil, after all, if they get it wrong they may end up negatively impacting the yield of their land.

Finally, crops tend to be planted in rows for convenient mechanical processing, and while walking behind a tractor you can actually see the soil rise again after the tractor has passed, usually because the soil acts as a sponge, the tractor squeezes the water out and once it has passed the soil will spring back. It's a bit strange to realize that the ground you walk on is so springy because you normally don't notice it.
It can be completely biased. This is why my definition is probably different than yours in the first place.

On the other hand, your sample may be also biased, so it goes both ways.
To be fair, the author is using several SaaS apps for core parts of his business: monitoring, email, DNS, etc. He's just "self-hosting" the more expensive parts (e.g, the EC2 parts) to get more for his money. This is great if you feel comfortable sysadmin'ing and dba'ing servers. A lot of people don't feel comfortable doing this and prefer to use ELB instead of HAProxy, RDS instead of DB servers, etc. To each his own.
I think street view was one of the most audacious features I remember ever seeing in a product.

I wish I knew the strategic and business analysis that was behind thinking up the feature, green lighting and funding it.

I definitely did not have the foresight to see how street view could ever be worth the investment 15 years ago.

Today I am more inclined to see the tremendous value of google maps as a whole.
I did this last year - the AI wrote a story about the Grim Reaper, and then got a different AI to illustrate it. I even turned it into a short paperback book.

Is it a good story? It's fine.

Was there text curation? Absolutely.

Are the images good? They're pretty decent. Though it was before DALL-E2 which has upped the game massively.

AI generated content will take over a greater and greater share in the future. And it's incredibly exciting to see how far the technology has come in a just over a year - especially on the art generation side.
Let's say they make 30 million profit from each Falcon 9 launch. Last year they did 31 launches, but half of those were Starlink launches. That's 15x30 = $450 million profit off Falcon 9, plus whatever they made from Dragon.

You're probably right that they would be fine as a company if they couldn't get any more money. SpaceX could operate at a decent profit and still do either Starlink or Starship at reduced pace. The "free money" just allows them to get to their goals a lot faster.
App servers are the ones running NGINX + uwsgi + the Django app.
There is a lot of active research in this domain but it is hard to make something that is as reliable, usually the goal with those systems is not to allow for lower soil compaction but to be able to work in places where wheeled vehicles can't.
Also pragmatically choosing data centres in one physical location (even though this is a health checking service) rather than immediately going for highly available Aurora Serverless multi-AZ or something that would inflate the bill 10x.
Reminds me of that South Park episode in which Cartman disguises himself as a robot to prank Butters, but movie executives confuse him for an actual robot and make him think up movie ideas.

"Adam Sandler is like, in love with some girl, but then it turns out that the girl is actually a Golden Retriever. Or something."
With the mandate from Heaven out of fashion in most (ahem, one glaring example) democracies, there is always think of the Children.
I tried that site and the music sounds the same. I wonder if you can use this to bypass YouTube content ID check.
Because it needlessly mentions branding and customer success? I've seen that on so many spam pages.
Depends on what mathematics you want to learn and whether it's specific to a particular domain.

Many years ago I used Engineering Mathematics[1] when I was doing electrical engineering and my GCSE maths knowledge wasn't cutting it.

Fabulous book.

[1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Engineering-Mathematics-K-Stroud/dp...

To quote from a reviewer

> Firstly, it's not just for university engineering/science students. The first half of the book would be great for A level. I wish I'd known about it when I did my mine! I wouldn't have needed a teacher.
It has been done for at least a decade, back when the scandal poped out back in 2017. https://www.avclub.com/take-a-trip-to-the-automated-hellscap...

And in a more general way https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate
The Wikipedia article has over a dozen references, including a number of online books.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_theory
The Elements is of course historically significant, but it would be a horrible introductory textbook.
> though the lambda calculus, SKI combinator calculus, or and MOV-only assembly are minimal in very real ways, the cognitive burden of expressing yourself in these languages is very, very high!

But much less high with the lambda calculus than with the other two; Haskell is not far from being a layer of syntactic sugar on top of the lambda calculus.

For an example of a non-trivial lambda calculus program, see this self-interpreter [1] for binary lambda calculus [2].

[1] https://github.com/tromp/AIT/blob/master/uni.lam

[2] https://www.ioccc.org/2012/tromp/hint.html
The idea is to have the same build pipeline that works locally or in prod. In the end it keeps being an holy grail because dev requirements usually differ from prod requirements (i.e. code hot-reload as fast as possible with interpreted languages in dev vs slimmest possible image in prod).
Brother's property in Cupertino CA was built on hardpan. This is clay baked by 1000 summers into pottery. The builder brought in dirt and spread it over the hardpan to make the lot look attractive.

He wanted to plant bushes, rented a motorized post-hole auger. A 4' tall auger with a motor and frame mounted on top, you start the motor which sounds like a bomb going off and with your brother on one side and you on the other, wrestle the thing into the ground, the auger twisting and snarling like an angry animal.

After getting through the foot of imported soil it began to bang and shake. I shut the motor off, said "We must have hit a water pipe!"

He laughed. No, we'd just got to the hardpan layer. It sounded exactly like banging a hammer into an old iron pipe.

Eventually we broke a hole through and even drilled another foot or so after that (the hardpan was just a couple of inches thick).

Ultimately it was futile: all the rain (what there is in CA) would run across the hardpan and drain through the holes we drilled that day. The bushes would sink through the holes, leaving the property looking like some Mad Hatter had placed tipsy plants at random angles.

So a little clay? Count yourself lucky.
Looks extremely simple for anyone to do this for google now, so I'd guess yes
Hubble identifies unusual wrinkle in expansion rate of the universe
According to the linked article, he contributed code to the exploited contract (and was even paid for it!). That sounds like a trust relationship, and layers of obfuscation around swaps and "paying fair price" arent going to change the fact the intended net effect of the trades was that all the value in the contract was transferred to him. Big difference between a trading bot doing dumb stuff and trading bots using exploits a contractor engineered to cleverly transfer all the assets under management to himself.
> the situation of Muslims in China

Here's your problem; trying to talk about "the situation of Muslims in China" is incoherent. Islam has been an accepted (though small) part of Chinese culture for many centuries, and it still is. The Uyghurs are highly atypical Muslims in China who don't speak Chinese and don't participate in Chinese culture, instead preferring their own rival culture. That (and rebelliousness) is why they're oppressed.

Uyghurs have problems in China. Muslims don't, except to the extent that negative views of the Uyghurs start bleeding over into negative views of Muslims generally (which is indeed happening).

I've been confused for years about why the Western press seems so determined to demonstrate that it has no idea what it's talking about by representing oppression of Uyghurs as "oppressing people because of their religion". The case just can't be made. It would be trivial to call it "oppressing people because of their race"; that case is easy to make. But I guess the Western audience wouldn't see race-based oppression as being all that villainous?
The Elizabeth line: Grimshaw’s line-wide Crossrail design
Dictionary definition of over-production

"the production of more of a product, commodity, or substance than is wanted or needed."

Overproduction makes nobody happy by definition and can actively make people unhappy as a sideffect. It is production which is not wanted or needed by anyone, overproduction only exists because we haven't figured out how to share jobs, so instead we give everyone pointless jobs, where they produce pointless products or provide pointless services, just so that they can tick the employment box and get a salary as the division of labor has become an essential part in satisfying basic needs (food and shelter).
Right, the invasion of Ukraine is totally fins cause the invasion of Iraq also happened
The opposition between the poverty and the wealth would be the connection and make it at least relevant. Briefly diverging from an article about a law to make an unrelated, nonsense, sexist jibe is not the same and absolutely indicates a lower quality article.

Not surprise you refuse to say more because what you're saying isn't very sensible.
It will catch random webmasters.

In short, Dutch hoster TransIP had to pause their scanning service. They got hashes that included default images from WordPress.

"Waar het misging, is volgens TransIP-woordvoerder Marco Edelman dat per ongeluk hashes van standaardafbeeldingen van WordPress-installaties en plug-ins zijn toegevoegd."
[1] https://tweakers.net/nieuws/182766/transip-pauzeert-hashchec...
The post is also focused on content marketing. Many already are in agreement sales and marketing tends to be more positive because, let's face it, most of them are still coming in cold with products which are meh at best and terrible at worst.

For the majority of people, toxic positivity is a far bigger issue by having things invade their life to the point of having to sell themselves or others as far more positive than necessary, for reasons that do not reflect empirical evidence. Some people noted mass media culture of farming likes and internet points. Job interviews, performances and such are another, where negativity in any way is so taboo individuals now have to learn how to navigate a minefield of "give us criticism but don't you dare give us criticism". Most will even dare scapegoat it under "it's unprofessional to be negative".

The world sucks in a lot of ways. Yes, we don't have to keep rubbing in how much it sucks. No, we don't need to decorate it ad nauseam at every corner. The last bit will eventually explode into a counterculture where everyone berates the overly positive status quo. It already has online, just waiting for counterculture to catch up to corporate.
> Airing concerns or struggles in the workplace can be really nerve-wracking. Often, we are afraid of appearing unprofessional. We fear being judged negatively. This is the perfect opportunity to practice active listening.

This ^ is toxic positivity.
I am not unpaid therapist for my work colleagues. I have my own problems.
You're right! I think, to protect the children, maybe we should require licensing to run servers?

Here's how it works. By law, all machines will require networking, or will refuse to boot.

Network stacks will require a key / license. Licence will be verified by an online server, continually, and any OS without this will be fined, and the devs implementing a bypass jailed.

Stop complaining/pointing out flaws, or you must hate children! Or... are you one of them?
Not only touchscreen. All of that bits of proprietary code are harmful. My car tells me about seatbelts despite I never asked about that. Also it can enable loud annoucement to visit service. What's wrong with you cars? I have never ask you to so.
If it's merely the ability to perceive and react to the environment then a Tesla is conscious. I'm just concerned that it's a very heavily loaded term that implies a lot of things that perception or awareness don't to the same degree.

Philosophy programs, youtube channels and magazines don't do special episodes on the "problem of perception" because nobody would care (well in specialist journals maybe), but they do on consciousness. The only thing that makes discussions of consciousness interesting is the ambiguity in meaning, and the fact that some of it's meanings include self-awareness. It seems to me that those like Hoffman promoting a simplistic perception model and calling it consciousness is a kind of sleight of hand to make it seem cooler and more profound than it actually is.
Uh, are you looking to carry around a Starlink receiver inside your backpack...?
I agree with greatly dislike this, on the surface... but this article suffers from basically the same thing itself?!

> I asked our Customer Success Champion, Natasha, about this topic. Empathy is one of her many superpowers.

Groan!

... unless I misunderstood it... now I'm wondering if the 'think positive' lead image was used unironically..?
famously objective and apolitical hackernews having another normal one
This article emphasizes the US' militarism to the exclusion of any real critique to the bully in the room, Russia and the failure of a strategy of appeasement which the EU led by Germany has tried for half a century.

The alternative to military aid is allowing Russia to continue to act out its fantasies of conquest. This has knock-on effects to any other countries currently deliberating land-grabs.

Merkel repeatedly brought the EU to bed with dictatorships and now finds itself unable to rapidly respond to a humanitarian crisis. The US, once again, is pulling the heavy weight of sending materiel, without which it is almost certain Ukraine would fall. What's after Ukraine? Other former Soviet states who are denied agency by Putin. Poland, after 123 years of being conquered and oppressed, 2 world wars and 50 years of communism is one of the few powerful EU states who recognizes the immediate existential crisis at hand.

It is disheartening to see authors use the invasion of Ukraine as a hitpiece for the global narrative of US oppression. Undoubtedly the US is no shining paragon of goodness but people forget that it was the US who saved Europe from Nazi Germany and once again it is the US pulling Europe out of another mess.

Perhaps if Merkel had done a better job the EU could finally fight for itself.
The article here is a bit too fluffy. The ABC (think BBC, but Australian) covered the topic quite well via one of their radio programs / podcasts. The came at it from the context of illness, which makes it a more concrete example.

You can listen to it here, or read the transcript at the bottom:

https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/allinthemind/t...
I grew up with a Miele vacuum cleaner (my parents were all about Miele). Only disadvantage is they last so long that newer hardware is potentially more energy efficient. I don't get the point of wireless vacuum cleaner except autonomic ones and in niches where you don't have electricity (like an area where the electricity is often down). Having recently owned some different brands (Samsung, Beko) which broke down got us back te Miele again.
I'm surprised Youtube doesn't rate limit uploads per user.
Of course that won't remedy the larger problem of search results ranking, but it strike me as odd that they don't have such limit set up.

If no rate limit exists on private videos as well, it could be a fun project to implement a filesystem based on a hierarchy of videos using QR codes as video frames.
Don't have access to Dall-E 2 or Imagen but I do have [1] and [2] locally and they produced [3] with that prompt.

[1] https://github.com/nerdyrodent/VQGAN-CLIP.git
[2] https://github.com/CompVis/latent-diffusion.git
[3] https://imgur.com/a/dCPt35K
This position is defensible, but it's only partly true.

The author is foremost an editor of their own work. Take a lot of pictures, keep the good ones. Write a lot of junk. Keep the good parts, rewrite the others. Write a lot of songs. Publish the good ones. Etc.

It's eminently possible that AI-art will allow faster iterations on ideas, and therefore help create more good art.
You are judging Damore not by his words, but by how his memo got misrepresented. At no point in his memo, Damore indicated that he would discriminate or called for discrimination against other employees. He did advocate to end affirmative action (“Stop restricting programs and classes to certain genders or races”), but that is not the same as advocating for discrimination. It is the opposite, in fact.

In his reply to public response and misrepresentation, Damore did write:

“I value diversity and inclusion, am not denying that sexism exists, and don’t endorse using stereotypes. When addressing the gap in representation in the population, we need to look at population level differences in distributions. If we can’t have an honest discussion about this, then we can never truly solve the problem.”
>> Again, the point is that the PM is chosen not by the general populace, they are selected within the winning party.

This is sort of true but misleading, the PM is the leader of the winning party, and the leader is always chosen before an election, so the electorate know exactly who will be PM when they vote.
None of these things matter at all. Thanks to the US military, USD as the reserve currency remains.
AUS: Practically unheard of for rentals to come with a fridge unless they’re offered “fully furnished”.

A landlord that includes chattels is required to maintain/keep in good order, and if broken, replace them.

The inclusion of a fridge wouldn’t increase the rental yield significantly, the likelihood of having to repair or replace the fridge would probably offset any gains.

Plus the responsibility of the landlord to remove and store it should the tenants not want it, and the potential relationship breakdown should there be an argument over fridge damage/function.
Text is fine, but the images show different robots and humans. It looks like 3 different artists asked to illustrate different parts of the story.
There's a new book on this subject - "Toxic Positivity: Keeping it Real in a World Obsessed with Being Happy" https://www.amazon.com/Toxic-Positivity-Keeping-World-Obsess...

I also found these articles/posts to be pretty decent:
https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-toxic-positivity-509395...
https://thepsychologygroup.com/toxic-positivity/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/tired-of-being-told-cheer-up-th...
Miele - more expensive than Dyson though.
Even very reasonable and intelligent people can get swept up in the bullshit when faced with a potential life-changing opportunity. Falling for a scam is not a sign of low intelligence, it's a sign of being easily trusting, or desperation to improve your situation. Scam artists know this, and the majority of crypto runs on the same principles.
I think the reason is pretty clear - Western nations can be pressured and people can voice their opinion and protest their own government's actions.

Only a little over 30 years ago China rolled out its military and crushed its own citizens beneath tank treads, then denied the whole thing happened.

Public condemnation against China will do nothing, so Islamic countries don't even try. Plus I would throw in a bit of geopolitcal posturing in that 1) going against China might look a little too much aligning with the US and 2) not pissing off China keeps some sort of partnership with China and it's deep pockets open in the future.