skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our kids need something to save the world over in 40 years. This is the genesis of that. But hey at least we stopped polluting our skies, even if at the cost of our soil and water.
I think you are trying to find a technical solution to a social problem. Eventually technical solutions will be needed, yes.

Right now it's unreal to even think about VPNs and proxies and customized phones etc. It's not a technical obstacle for that Lao kid, it's a different universe, they never even heard of, nor their peers, parents, teachers, or anyone in their surroundings.
My personal opinion of The Verge writers is that they are mostly liberal arts majors LARPing as tech experts to make ends meet. The general resentment for the ascendancy of tech is palpable. Maybe someone in their 18th Century English lit class called them a geek at some point, so they honestly think they know what they’re talking about relative to the general public, but the average commenter on HN has greater context on almost anything The Verge churns out. I’m okay with non-technical people in journalism roles, but I do take issue with presenting these people as authoritative sources that can express their subjective opinions as unchallenged fact, and that’s what The Verge is all about as of late.
> This git branch maintain pre-compiled erlang files to start dhtcrawler2 directly. So you don't need to compile it yourself, just download it and run it to collect torrents and search a torrent by a keyword.
> It's a fun game to play, just like casinos are fun. In 99.9% of cases nothing of value is behind these protocols.

It is a lot of fun until people start becoming homeless and consider ending their life.

https://www.reddit.com/r/terraluna/comments/un3w7t/i_lost_ov...
Just not as intense everywhere
Is sqlite a flat file disqualifier?
The art world has always been about novelty, but what was considered novelty centuries ago is now considered as "classic". There are countless examples of artists that didn’t get much recognition because what they did was too "modern" for the times they lived in (see Caravaggio for example). Most of the things you see in museums are notorious because they were extraordinarily novel for their time, not because they would be hard to reproduce.
There are no 'last remnants of preserved landscape' in Germany. 97% of all forests in Germany are Wirtschaftswald i.e. commercially used forests.
Also a foreigner living in Berlin, not sheltered. I've seen harsh words and physical posturing that could easily be one step below actual violence with the contractors. They are out to get people, and show no mercy. Once you get a ticket, the onus is on you to prove you were innocent. I've heard of foreigners with valid tickets being harassed.
I have some issues with that study. One major one is they basically rule out half the effects of helmets as a "logical fallacy":

> Risk compensation, as it is typically defined and understood, is only one of six possible scenarios, namely a usual non-helmet wearer puts on a helmet and increases their risk taking. Importantly, evidence in the opposite direction, i.e., taking a helmet off leads to less risky behaviour, is not evidence in support of risk compensation as it is a type of logical fallacy

After reviewing that article none of the studies are convincing either way. The only studies that actually look for causality are the ones which only measure speed to asses risk. Those are also the one that I would qualify as positive results but were listed as negative results because of that above mentioned logical fallacy.

So while is is possible to untangle these effects, it has yet to be done properly to show a clear result either way.
I make no judgement as to the validity or quality of the art, either classical or modern. I think art is much too personal a thing to speak of in quite that way. Only that the art world has decided to make the trade I speak of. Someone who can produce photo realism today, will not set the art world on fire. Neither will someone who takes 6 years to produce a single large anatomically precise sculpture after 25 years training. However if you can inject novelty (I recently read of a statue made of the artists own congealed blood, and another made of their ear wax) then you have the attention of the patron.
When governments rise the interest rate, is that the interest rate the government pays when you lend money to the government?
I'm not saying it can't happen organically with an unheard song, I'm sure it can. But, sticking with the Dream Theater thread, I KNOW these events happen in their songs, I know where they'll happen, I know when they'll happen, and even give all that, they're still exciting when they do.

A musician friend of mine said that a key aspect of music is "surprise", and, obviously surprise can happen anywhere and everywhere. But the downside of surprise is that it can only happen once.

At Knott's Berry Farm, they have a log ride. Very nice log ride, lots of thematic elements scattered about. It also has a dark section, everything is blacked out. (Spoiler) In the middle of the dark section is a drop, and it's very surprising.

Ride on it again, though, and it's thrilling. You know it's there. You know it's coming, but it's a thrill nonetheless. How many times have you been on a roller coaster and said something like "Here it comes!".

Dream Theaters music, for me, is filled with these moments. When I first listen to a new DT album, inevitably, I won't like it. It takes me a solid 10 times to get in to its "groove", to find it's surprises. In the end, it grabs hold of me and I look forward to those "moments".

And, to do so, I'll listen to the whole song. I won't skip to "just that moment", because it's not the same. I'll listen to the whole 20 minute song to get to the moment at the end, "journey is the reward" kind of thing. You can't reduce a 20m song to those few crescendo moments.
When I have enough mental energy, my favorite hobby is working on personal projects; mostly software but sometimes hardware. I love the process of slowly iterating and watching a project grow and improve over time. I also really enjoy reading about and testing out hardware. I find hardware to be so complex and interesting, yet also somewhat understandable when using the right abstractions in your head. These activities give me a sense of joy unlike anything else. However, when I get mentally drained, I resort to other activities.

When I need to relax, there are a few activities I really enjoy:

* Sit in nature and watch birds (yesterday two birds started making a nest in my birdhouse and I always find joy watching them)

* Hanging out with my two cats and dog; they are a great source of joy

* Learning from art. This comes in many forms, but I really like art that makes me reflect on my own life or life in general. Recently, I've been watching Studio Ghibli films and they are a great example. But I also enjoy comedy shows that simply give me a good laugh.

* Trying to create art (usually just sketching), which I don't do often, but enjoy it every time.
that seems horribly inefficient considering wasted time on the way to/from shop and time spent in queue waiting at checkout, so instead of doing this 1-2x a week you spend like 3 times more time on these fixed items and let's ignore the promotions especially for bigger packages/bulk purchases

I don't think it's really doable unless you are single and you have big chain right on the way from work, otherwise small shops in convenient location next to your house will charge you premium compared to big discount chains
> The readymades of Duchamp were art because of their audacity, because of the context of the other art around them, and because of their arrangements...

If you open the door for Duchamp's urinal then you can't close it on DALL-E. Everything you said there applies to DALL-E.
Most nuclear power plants are designed for constant power output, so they still need some other thing (like batteries?).

Some are engineered for changing their output power quicker, but that means higher costs (lower usage), more complicated design and for short periods (<30 Minutes) some other energy source/sink while the power is adjusted.
Coming to HN for an unbiased analysis of cryptoasset discussion was your first mistake. Acknowledging this fact was your second.
I thought that was exposed as a scam long ago already. One of the reasons why his cryptocurrency tanked and is worth nothing now.
Maybe a set of rocks that have faces by coincidence is not art, but once an artist arranges them into a nativity scene? That is art, yet the simple arrangement of rocks could have happened without the artist, so art is really about intention of the artist.

Yet, AI is not happening in a vacuum, it cant exist without art as data, and without a developer, so it already has intention from two sources, which makes this a lot murkier, and certainly the second an artist uses a language model to create some art, that is still art, even if the AI is merely a tool.
> the single pane windows with no outdoor blinds I had in Miami Beach would be illegal in most of EU)

Was this a while back or very old building? My understanding is impact windows are required less than one mile from the coast. Beyond that insurance drives their adoption as premiums rise significantly without wind mitigation.
Dall E suffers from 'regression to the mean'. Because it uses existing images, what it makes never seems very much different from what we've seen before. It's kind of an average of previous works (known to Dall E).

Artists are supposed to create something new. By composition or invention or whatever. Dall E makes a collage of images. Even it's composition seems average.

So sure call what Dall E makes, art. At best its a dull, average artist creating derivative images.
> Without taking into account the consciousness of the artist, the word “art” loses all meaning, becoming merely a synonym for “beautiful.” (...) Without the intentionality of the artist taken into account, the definition of “art” is bled of all meaning

<rant>

Oh, so now you care about art having meaning?

Ever since I understood why I didn't like most of what's labeled "modern art" I've been complaining about the art world not demanding artists to write down what their work means. "Why did you nail a banana to the wall?" "That's for you to figure out". "What does this all-blue canvas mean?" "Whatever you want it to mean".

Getting the intentionality of an art piece out of an artist is quite often like pulling teeth. And I don't ask about grand statements - "I thought it looked pretty" would be just as acceptable as "it's a critique of classical art's over-reliance on technique over message". But even that is apparently too much to ask.

DALL-E works have no intentionality and it shows. But how is that any worse from what we have now, where the artist just shrugs and walks away with no one calling them out?

</rant>
As much as I'm not a fan of the XML based project files, the csproj format is much more flexible/capable than package.json files. For example, you may want to have different versions of a package reference based on some condition. Would it be better w/JSON than XML? I think it's a toss-up.
Not in the current spec perhaps, but there's nothing stopping an implementation of a spec from including such functionality.
I saw them described as something like 'delightful bunk' somewhere.

There's nothing scientific about them, probably some random phrases on cards would be just as 'inspirational', but nonetheless there's something about them.

I do own an original set, pack, whatever they're called.
Takeout is supposed to be able to be taken out. And no, I walked two blocks to my office and opened it.
I wonder if data from something like this could be used to improve the output quality of things like Dall E?
Two or three minutes.
Climate Science Primer
"I really don’t think anyone really sat down and thought through these issues when the lockdowns were announced."

People clearly thought very hard about this. Different parts of the world came to different conclusions about it. Nobody thought that the lockdowns wouldn't cause immense amounts of economical and societal damage.

The calculation was whether they would have a worse impact than letting huge numbers of people die. And huge numbers of people died anyway!

I'd like to learn more about the economic impact of over a million deaths (in the USA). I would expect that to affect communities and industries in very complicated ways as well.
..huh?
The US is still heavily involved in Panama and used force to remove the narco-authoritarian leader Manuel Noreiga. Panama received a huge gift in the form of the canal. Panama still uses the dollar as its currency. Without US involvement Panama would look more like the other country considered for a canal -- Nicaragua. Panama's per capita GDP is 6x Nicaragua. US imperialism was fantastic for Panama.
Fixed - it should point to the https://github.com/PlasmoHQ/docs instead
This. So many people who dislike crypto also assume the world looks like the US - access to banking, trust in their government, trust in their central bank, access to international finance… If the entire world looked identical to the US then I can understand it’s not as useful. If the entire world ran on regional versions of M-Pesa…
No, they are available and damage control is widely taught to mariners worldwide. Many of the schools (academy) in the US rely on the old materials and Navy training clips from the archives
Amazingly no mention of Andy Warhol, who made a factory to produce art, via silkscreens and assistants. Sometimes he added embellishments of paint on top, other times the work completely called into question the value of authenticity in an age of mechanical reproduction.

The introduction of the camera caused similar reverberations. And actually, if you go back to the impressionists, and through cubism to abstract expressionism — it was all a revolt against “image” being “art”. The surface, the paint, the whole canvas — that started to take on more importance. Art became less and less about the sheer skill of reproducing a scene photographically. After all, a camera could now do that so well.

Warhol was interesting because he called into question things like, is business art? Is art business? Can art be mass produced? Is that a statement on society, etc.

Honestly, people get too precious about What Is Art. And what people in galleries and museums and art school consider art is always way different than what the average person calls art and hangs on their bedroom walls.

Personally, I’ve always went with a definition my dad told me. Maybe it was Picasso originally: “Art is what makes the modern world felt.”
Yes. I was interested but finally gave up on the link before it loaded.
This snipper in my ~/.profile colorizes man pages for like ten years already:

# Colorify man (changes default $MANPAGER (less) settings)
export LESS_TERMCAP_mb='^[[01;31m'
export LESS_TERMCAP_md='^[[01;31m'
export LESS_TERMCAP_me='^[[0m'
export LESS_TERMCAP_se='^[[0m'
export LESS_TERMCAP_so='^[[01;44;33m'
export LESS_TERMCAP_ue='^[[0m'
export LESS_TERMCAP_us='^[[01;32m'
Predictions are rarely useful. A good description of the present sometimes is a help though.
Laws mandating the builders of batteries to be responsible for their disposal, either via tax or by recycling/disposing them themselves are a necessity. Ultimately the users (car buyers) must shoulder the costs.
Yes that is called the risk free rate because you assume your government with its magic money printer will always pay you back.
You handwave away $RANDOM falling to zero as something which doesn't count as a capital loss that you can carry forward to offset all future gains?

As another Australian you should really speak to an accountant if you ain't going to claim that massive loss because this is either comically wrong or intentionally misleading advice.

It's just like any other capital gains event and very simple to grok.
Correct, and publicly banning helmets is a publicity move (see: we’re talking about the company).
Like I said: food in the US is designed for longevity, not for flavor or general quality. Organic stuff and local produce are not like that. They don't last as long. I for one can not eat lettuce that has been on the fridge for more than 3 days.
Just checked your blog. The text size seems to big on mobile https://imgur.com/a/rwHI5WU
This was my "tell" as well. I don't know a ton about DALL-E, but it seems like most of the pictures are in the style of "show X doing Y in the style of Z": "Show a bear carrying a pizza in a realistic style". The composition of the DALL-E ones is almost "random association", e.g. acid-trip type associations. For each image I'd ask myself "What purpose would a human have for creating this?" and it usually helped get me the right answer.
Four of those five illustrations is a redrawing of the public domain photographs wikipedia has for each (Roger L. Farnham doesn't have a wikipedia page, but I bet his portrait was redrawn from a public domain photograph too.)
> Many of my fiends in Germany get them delivered and they take the empty bottles back

And I assume this is done by charity for free, right? It works well if you don't mind spending lot of extra money for fixing the inconvenience of heavy glass bottles, which is not really solving any problem considering recycling rate in developed (EU) countries especially on plastic bottles. The effect of those few plastic bottles which won't get properly recycled is next to zero compared to other issues (let's look for instance at hypochondriacs using tons of respirators, usually very same people complaining about other people polluting enviroment), I suggest anyone who think glass bottles or plastic bottles with deposit are good ideas in developed EU to visit South East Asia to see how meaningless are these efforts.
This is what HTML is for, and if you look at the schema it has many of the same element/container concepts that HTML has.

A subset of HTML designed for easy embedding, possibly removing features and quirks and allowing for a smaller and faster runtime was the goal of the project that directly preceded and led to Flutter. I wish that goal had remained so that we had a cross-platform UI runtime that was still lightweight on the web.
I read the article, but it kept giving me an ad rollup vibe, which Ive been seeing more lately. Anybody else?
Modern art galleries often have text with what the artist said about their work, or commentary on the theme and symbolism.

I tend to prefer the art that doesn't need it.
Is there some bias on the Red Hat adoption on the US, or has the entire country really drank the cloud coolaid?

Unique barriers: "no not see the value in modernizing"...
2022 Ford F-150 Lightning Full Review: Electric Truck for the Masses
>What is the COST of wearing a helmet? $60 purchase and 5 seconds every time you ride. Essentially nothing.

For me the main cost is having to carry around a bulky helmet when I'm off the bike and ugly indentations on my hair and forehead.
2018 Miami Ocean Drive
There is a distinction between “fine” art, and what I’ll call “working” art people with artistic ability produce for money. Think graphic designers/illustrators/etc

Fine art is going to be okay. Authenticity has always been a big thing there. New social critique is going to be something AI trained on last year’s data will struggle with. Ditto for pushing boundaries or establishing new styles.

Working art though… it does look doomed. Who’s going to pay an illustrator for something DALL-E does for pennies? You may still need someone with good taste to pick the images, but as the author points out, that’s not the same as being the artist.
I fear they have not learned this lesson. Already ramping up fears of monkeypox.

https://www.barrons.com/news/biden-warns-of-potentially-cons...
Ignorance and expertise look alike in that there are few unsolved puzzles in view.
Every few years the tide appears to turn and what was old becomes new again. In the early 2000s web standards were all about separating logic from presentation, eliminating all inline code (can cause messy delayed browser rendering), etc. Recently SPA not only reversed that but made it fashionable. The reality is you forget your own code within a few months and when you have a team they need to be able to contribute to your code over time, so most code is not “fully known” when modified. The way a lot of projects go south is by becoming “hairy” - you don’t know all code that affects a module or a piece of logic, complexity gets added, functionality gets replicated, conflicted, etc. The key to surviving this is organization and documentation of the code under the assumption that nobody knows the code and needs to onboard quickly. If the code has a lot of abstractions - they will be forgotten, so you’d better have tooling to surface or explain them when it matters. If the code is self-explanatory (partly why I like Go), you have a lot less headaches.

The locality of behavior can break down easily when functional complexity increases. Because front end and backend and user experience and state and appearance are caked on together, any custom aspect to either of them will force you to segment out code into more files or sections. So, what if we assume that is bound to happen and plan for it instead. What if there is a way to visualize all dependencies, possibly with a tool? Tracing, logs, flame graphs, maybe more? Still not ideal as they don’t fully capture all “ends” and “sides” of that hairdo.
There was some old fraternal organization that used to spin a set of wheels labelled with words like 'perfect', 'inspirational', 'glory'. Then they would open the meeting by discussing how it described God - "God's glory is perfect" etc. If it didn't make sense, they just spun again.

Seems no bad idea ever dies!
Exactly this. If you learn that someone is from your same tribe, shares the same experiences, or shares the same values this transmits real information.

The information can mean that the other does in fact understand you better, even if they don't know you personally.

I would argue that it's a valid heuristic and not out of place in the modern world.

You see it all the time in social interactions where individuals want to be relatable. Of course I can be manipulated, but that doesn't mean it isn't of value
Price discovery just happens on a different pace mostly around earnings. But you’re still at the mercy of market makers which is a big problem on its own. We also have bonds/convertibles to help price securities.
As I have said before: Its the verge and they are a joke now. They have one article lately and its “tech company bad”.

They basically pander to people who want to think they know about tech but aren’t in tech and likely couldn’t make it in tech. Feels like a bunch of bitterness and copium. I just ignore them now but miss their old good tech coverage.