skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you feel so strongly that the planet needs less people, then why isn't it ethical to kill some of the excess ones? Justify it as defending the people you like from whatever effects you think "too many people" are causing.

Having decided that "too many" is the call (and that you're the person to make that call), would it be better, ethically, to leave that distasteful task of cleansing the undeserving to someone else? *what if they don't have the same notion of "undeserving" as you?
Yann LeCun's proposal paper:

Abstract: How could machines learn as efficiently as humans and animals? How could machines learn to reason and plan? How could machines learn representations of percepts and action plans at multiple levels of abstraction, enabling them to reason, predict, and plan at multiple time horizons? This position paper proposes an architecture and training paradigms with which to construct autonomous intelligent agents. It combines concepts such as configurable predictive world model, behavior driven through intrinsic motivation, and hierarchical joint embedding architectures trained with self-supervised learning.

Link to pdf: https://openreview.net/pdf?id=BZ5a1r-kVsf
I believe this is no longer the case:

https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1383169112948449286
Am I the only one who doesn't get the hype about Blade Runner?

I guess, it was an okay movie, but hardly the cult classic everyone keeps talking about, and with a weird cop-out ending that doesnt really offer any resolution (yes I know there are alternative endings, they seem as bad).
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> Clothes are part of self-expression and play a role in a lot of social dynamics.

... for you.

Many are more utilitarian with clothes. Clean, comfortable, and suitable for the activity/environment are most important. Color, pattern, design is more of a minimum threshold filter (e.g not going to wear something offensive)

It's similar to food. Some people "eat" because calories are required and they don't care much being that, while others "dine" because they want something more out of it than generic calories.
Here's the link to the paper: https://oa.mg/work/10.1007/s10902-016-9735-z
>Photoshop is not better, because paying in perpetuity is unacceptable.

If your time is worth zero, then yes, you can use slower tools.

Professionals learn that getting things done quickly and well has lots of value. Paying for a tool that costs you an hour of labor in income but saves you weeks or gains you vastly more in earnings makes such tools a terrific value for such people.

If you don't value your time, or cannot use the tool to pay for itself, then don't buy the tool. Many people are not you.

>and focused on taking photos well enough I don't need to fuck with HDR or whatever to make them pretty

Those using Photoshop are not merely color touching single, simple photos. They use it for a lot more than that.

All digital cameras do a lot of in-camera digital processing. Those algorithms are inferior, run on slower hardware, and have many other limitations that a PC does not. And there's a significant amount of work beyond "taking photos well enough." Not many clients want that - they can do what you do too. Compositing, touchups, creative work based on photos is just the tip of the iceberg for professionals.

Don't like photoshop? Don't buy it. But don't assume you're doing what those who do see value in it are doing.
What's your problem? Are you some kind of oracle that knows down to the minutae of everything about everyone's life that you know what you said to be true?

How are you this confident? Who convinced you that you're right in any sense of the word?

Seems like you're projecting extremely hard. He is not you.

> In any case, I'm relieved to read that at least for the time being he has turned down HN's free access to a wall of zero-cost comments from pseudonymous engineers who voted up their favorite ways to problem-solve depression from first principles.

Maybe there's a hint of self-reflection here.
For someone who hates the Lord of the Rings, that's surprisingly well researched. And yet, a lot of his reasoning doesn't make sense. Because population levels in Middle Earth are far lower than in 18th century England, labour costs should be high?

Population levels in Middle Earth strike me as closer to those of Siberia or the eastern European steppe (perhaps with the Ural in the role of the Misty Mountains?) than to those of western Europe. And I think everybody agrees that Siberia was never going to be a good spot for the industrial revolution to start.

To have high labour costs, you need high productivity; you need industry. Most of the industry in Middle Earth seems to be involved in making weapons and jewelry, and not much else. To have high inventiveness, you need a lot of people. I suppose the industrial revolution could start in England because it was both fairly densely populated, but also highly productive. Perhaps because they had the trade network to sell their goods all over the world?

There doesn't seem to be much trade in Middle Earth. There barely are any cities! I mean, Gondor seems to be by far the largest and richest country, and what cities do they have beyond Minas Tirith, Osgiliath and Erech? The rest of Middle Earth seems to be almost completely empty. The various travelling groups would frequently walk for days without encountering any farms or villages.

I don't know why Middle Earth is so empty, but given that it is, it seems like a very unlikely place for the industrial revolution to take place.
I was on Cix for several years. I can't remember what my username was. They had a really rather good mail and new client. A lot of the users were tech journalists and (oddly) airplane pilots. I originally connected using an acoustic coupler that ran at 9,600 baud.

I later migrated to Demon, which was originally formed by members of the Cix "tenner-a-month club" - a group that banded together to get real internet, instead of using Cix's curated internet gateways. Demon was a great ISP, until they were taken over by Scottish Power.
The dithering and fonts and the overall look of the MSN-inside Explorer really brings you back.

MSN was one of those things that you played around with because it came with MSN and you used the free trial (like you did for every ISP you could find back then). But I didn't know anyone who really used it past that.

There was a 'second' MSN, that was just a dial-up ISP. Very popular for including the $400 rebate when you bought a new computer at a retail store, you also got 2 years of a MSN dial-up contract to pay the $400 back.
> How dense was the population at that time?

not well defined, but it was time of significant progress in metallurgy and magic, for example greater rings of power were forged at that time.
tl;dr

Torvalds likes that Rust is more memory-safe. Rust helps ensure thread safety and prevent memory-related errors, such as buffer overflows that can lead to security vulnerabilities.

No one is going to be rewriting the entire 30 or so million lines of the Linux kernel into Rust
You need to install flax 0.4.2. If you're using collab you just open a terminal (icon in the bottom left of the screen) and run:

pip3 install flax==0.4.2
"far from home" in this case, could just be a couple of blocks. I'm not really in what I would call a rural area, but a coyote den is never too far away. Can hear them most nights.

Granted... I don't feel I need a gun. But I am sympathetic to the idea for the folks that live nearer to animals larger than coyotes.
Very closer to link without waiting, I think if you are in hurry, this could be the best option to manipulate your preferences in the web site. Can’t wait to try it
Ironic that people who make the money to quit and live a life of quiet pleasure and relaxation, are incapable of doing it! That CEO brain won't just turn off.
Chicago is slowly dying by self imposed policies. Cue in guy shoving stick into bicycle wheel then holding shin meme. Chicago is a great city and everything you mentioned is completely avoidable. But again, its shoving a stick into its own wheel, quite intentfully at that.
The entire area from the Shire to Bree IS settled, mostly with farms. There were also towns around Bree: they did!

Edit: with the exception of the Old Forest, which is actively hostile, and the Downs, that are inhabited by evil wights.
There's a lot more than just Orcs. Bilbo and the Dwarves almost get eaten by trolls in The Hobbit. There's intelligent giant spiders. The occasional Dragon.

But frankly Orcs are bad enough. They're cunning, actually genuinely intelligent tool using predators. They're mainly carnivorous by preference, but can probably survive on stuff that would make you sicken and die if they have to. As soon as a rural population gets established, Goblins will descend on it and hoover it all up to grow their population, but then probably die out when the food supply runs down again. So they have a boom-bust population cycle that keeps human populations suppressed.

The area in the north surrounding the Shire used to be a great kingdom, but it was wiped off the map by hordes of Orcs and Trolls and such fomented by the Witch King. There may also be a magical element to the success of the Orcs and other such creatures.

Whatever the logic or reasons, the fact is Middle Earth is severely under-populated compared to Europe and always has been. It's demographics are far too thin to support the kinds of developments we had, and every time they established kingdoms that might turn that around, they got violently crushed.

Bree is heavily fortified and paranoid for good reasons. The mission for the rangers isn't to militarily defend the region as a garrisoning force, it's to suppress any news or investigation of the Shire to keep it secret. As long as everyone thinks it's just a few scattered villages, as it has been for most of it's history, there's not enough there to send a big force of Orcs for. If the goblin king of the mountains knew how much bread, cheese and ale there was there for the taking, it would have got the scorched earth treatment long ago.
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Wouldn't it be a good thing rather than a problem if something like educational textbooks were written in such a way that everything in them needs a citation?

- Simple to then have a paid professional (in the field, not in proofreading) proofread and dive into / fix anything questionable (edit: well... maybe less simple that editing an un-cited work written by another professional, I'm not sure actually)

- Easier (potentially) to keep track of which bits of textbooks are out of date based on the source matter

- Optionally publish them with citations impact, so that teachers or curious students can look into background material that led to the textbook being created

I think the bigger problem isn't the use of citations to confirm quality, but that when your goal is to store info about as many things as possible it's easy to ask volunteers to work on whatever subject they choose to, whereas for something like a textbook you need one or more people figuring out what the subject matter should be based on the target audience, potentially based on a specific region's legally required curriculum, perhaps based just on "what will educators think useful enough", or a mix, etc. That's where citations are no longer enough (perhaps that's what you meant in your comment).
The items are not orphaned. They are simply useless for me. Your judgement comes from a wrong assumption.
I mean... good?

Isn't this the end goal for the vast majority of us? What's the point of having a bajillion dollars if you can't go do the things you want to do in life? Why are we all spending 80 hours a week grinding away at a startup or busting our asses in the corporate world if not to elevate ourselves beyond the need for money?
Nah, they place there all kinds of eggs, no matter if cheap or fancy bio eggs, it's almost always refridgerated, only sometimes they place cheapest big boxes of 30-60 eggs on pallet next to refridgerator make sure they are in chilled enviroment, so actually the cheapest are sometimes not refridgerated.
US is not the place to be if you want to tell others how to live their lives…
People will read this as him jumping before he's pushed, but even if that is the case we should still celebrate this action. Everyone is entitled to say "Yeah, I'm retiring now. I don't want to work any more.", and go and sit on a beach and do nothing.

Most of us will never have the resources to actually do it so when someone does I'm truly happy for them. This guy really is living the dream.
There's a whole subfield of CS, approximation algorithms, studying what you described. Interesting indeed.
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Just the wording makes it seem like something TSA would be glad to see as a bomb.
the blog post meets some of the diagnostic criteria for depression, and while I would never jump to the conclusion and say it definitively, it’s something the writer should seriously consider and rule out
I think that's precisely why RaspberryPi made a great move with their 400. If you attempt to build a whole tiny computer, you are constraining your customers in the environment you build for them. If you build a computer into a laptop-size portable keyboard however, I'm free to use whatever screens and devices I want with it. I think it's likely a mistake that PocketReform is trying to go for the productivity market with such a thing
> I don't know why Middle Earth is so empty

Literal force of evil repeatedly maliciously sabotaging things or waging warfare has not helped.

(also, on different level - it was fitting aesthetics wanted by Tolkien, partially reaction to industrial and heavily populated UK - see for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmentalism_in_The_Lord_o... )
Can you enumerate what tools you gain by learning piano?
The moment Target start accepting Bitcoin/Lightning payments, yes, I'll be buying all my groceries via that thank you.
A good enough source of entropy is very easy for these games. Electrical noise, or player input for a few seconds is plenty as you don't need secure cryptography levels of entropy, you only need just enough to fool a human.
Hm, his GitHub profile starts in 2017, before that according to his LinkedIn profile he was a project manager, and since then works as a DevOps guy. Though he was already writing SQL migrations in 2008 (from MySQL to SQL Server 2005). ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It's not terribly surprising to me that he simply doesn't have experience with coming up with architectures on the spot. Doing interviews is hard, from both sides. No candidate wants to seem arrogant by explaining that why the question/task/problem is bad in the context[0], so the frustration remains and gets vented in blog posts.

[0] Because roles (job descriptions) in the tech industry is so vague, and goes through so many hands. (HR, recruiter, engineering managers, job portals, etc...) And by the time the interview happens it's no wonder the parties have a lot of mismatched expectations of each other. And that's just the baseline, what the post describes is just plain old fucking shitty behavior in a shit job market.
This is leaving out a lot: the militia usually had equipment requirements, was often restricted to men of property, and had training requirements. It especially was not all male citizens - for example, even in the north where the militia didn’t do slave patrols there were often racial restrictions excluding free black men, and the Whigs were big on restricting it to property owners out of fear of groups of armed unattached men being swayed against the local community.

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/a-well-regulated-mil...

https://uncpress.org/book/9780807896419/citizens-in-arms/
> hardly the cult classic

A "classic", to the definition of Italo Calvino, is that thing which tells you something new every time you explore it. You are probably looking for something different from what that work is. Because others have found further meanings in it in the course of decades.

(And already reading this article I find myself entangled in one of its riddles.)

Edit again: and in fact, the reviewer shows to be clueless, states in clear contradiction that the movie forces passivity, places a number of questions in the review and stop short of attempting finding answers. No, the questions are there: if you are intrigued about finding the answers, that is your "privilege".

Edit:

By the way: what is «weird» to you in the «cop-out ending»? Because it is very linear if you "get" one of the main "prestiges" (after Nolan, "the thing in front of your eyes which in a way you may almost refuse to see") in the story. Edit2: and given said context, and what is drawn by the rest of the movie, the ending /is/ resolutive.
Mordor (and Isengard) are actually depicted as industrial complexes of the worst kind (including lack of effectiveness)
> have very cheap labor

It has that, given that almost everyone is enslaved.
Except that most machines have arbitrary remote code execution via JavaScript in browser. I don't know how easily that can be exploited, but I wouldn't be surprised if ignoring the potential of this happening would bite us in the backside at some point.
I'd be very curious to see if people without mobility issues might find it useful. Maybe after a few iterations on the design.

Then I'm thinking, what if everything in my house was on wheels? Reminders me of those super modular homes that you sometimes see on YouTube where everything is a transformer (bed comes desk, table becomes chair, bookshelf becomes toilet , etc.) or folds away.
That assumes homo sapiens levels of childbirth however. As a number of comments touch on, a lot of the lack of technological advance could be hand-waved away as a result of low birthrates and a generally low population. You could also perhaps factor in a general societal distaste for technology although human history suggests that societies which can't or won't create technology are overwhelmed by societies that do.
Good and well done.
The Shire suffered terribly during the Great Plague and the Long Winter and also was invaded by Orcs at least once. The appendices say there was major loss of life. There was another very bad winter in Bilbo’s youth that was compounded by an invasion of “White Wolves.”
Ask HN: How do I learn real-world COBOL?
COBOL devs are a specialized niche these days and they get paid accordingly.

I can learn COBOL from a book in general terms, but where would I practice with real-world legacy COBOL systems?

It's not as though I can do a COBOL side-project to learn... or can I?

How does one go about learning COBOL in 2022 (from "scratch", while already being a working dev) in order to niche down as a COBOL specialist dev?
Good question! Being called "fat" should never have been an insult - and we want to change that now by reclaiming the term and squashing the stigma around it.
There'll be a bailout. They don't let the rich folks go poor.
What would you call "have fun staying poor"?
> Are contraceptives unjust towards the potential person too?

No, the line is drawn after that. It isn't my line either, just how the law sees it. You could argue this to be bad or not, some women complain that the bureaucracy around it made them feel like criminals but others argue that this is normal for German bureaucracy.

> Sure - and in this case the court silently assumed the Catholic ideology.

And probably protestant and orthodox Christians too. As well as Jews, Buddhists, Hindu and some others. While religion is a good predictor, the reasoning not necessarily is and there are also secular people against abortion as well. I think the court reasoned with a technicality of the law, but I am no expert.
Who is this person? What is Jupiter? Why should I care that they are going to the beach?
Googles interviews works according to their internal data.

Google bans any questions that you can find on the internet though, including all questions you find on leetcode (they have people who check this, including the member only questions), they want to ensure that candidates only do problems they haven't seen before. Some accidents still happens, but since they have 5 interviews per candidate it is very unlikely for anyone to pass without solving a few problems they haven't seen before.

So the process works when the candidate hasn't seen the exact problems before. For those who just gives leetcode questions verbatim it might be less effective, or even counter productive, I haven't seen any data on that.
Yup, you actually can do it. I've seen a few enterprise level companies do it without SSO, especially for their invite user feature. Much easier to have he invite a new user to be done passwordless than the usual onboarding flow
Here’s a counter argument source of what the second largest contingent of Christians believe: https://www.assemblyofbishops.org/news/2022/human-life-sacre...
I don't know why but the first thing that came into my mind was this video. Btw I love Haskell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADqLBc1vFwI
Real estate investors are not typically developers. They also generally are opposed to things YIMBYs support since as mentioned it would cut into their profits. YIMBYs, though not a monolith, largely support rent control and public housing. They also support private development. The goal is to reduce housing costs, and a variety of means are necessary.
>Stress can help build capabilities, though.

A huuuuge asterix is needed there. Stress can help build you up, only as long as it's controllable, within the tolerable limits of each individual and is paired enough quality sleep and rest when needed (like going to the gym)

Otherwise, stress outside the limits and control of the individual, with bad sleep and little rest, as they usually go hand in hand, leads to burnout, depression, eating disorders, substance abuse, homelessness, etc.
Not only that, whiteboarding a design will bring up lots of the issues you'd otherwise find in those small steps anyway. It just shifts them left - boasting about purposefully delaying finding them is not great.
If people just want to run text to image models locally by far the easiest way I've found on Windows is to install Visions of Chaos.

It was originally a fractal image generation app but it's expanded over time and now has a fairly foolproof installer for all the models you're likely to have heard of (those that have been released anyway).

https://softology.pro/tutorials/tensorflow/tensorflow.htm
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Numenor was explicitly an allusion to Atlantis.
If bike lane or cycleway takes 5-10 years of construction time then something is deeply wrong.
Because everyone on the planet going vegan tomorrow will not fix the root cause of climate change which is burning fossil fuels. Three quarters of Greenhouse Gas emissions are caused by burning fossil fuels in sectors other than agriculture (in general, not just farming):

https://ourworldindata.org/ghg-emissions-by-sector

Namely energy use in industry and buildings, and transportation.

Even taking into account the power used for transport, storage etc, of food, the food system as a whole accounts for one quarter of emissions:

https://ourworldindata.org/food-ghg-emissions

So even if we stopped eating any food at all tomorrow, we'd still not be stopping climate change, which is caused ... say it with me ... by burning fossil fuels.

Burning fossil fuels. <-.
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This!

That thing right there is the cause of climate change and that's the thing what we have to address, and address immediately.
I will quote from their actual pricing page. https://www.hetzner.com/cloud

Removing public IPv4 gets you a discount of €0.50 / month on the server.