skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since you are not these people you think to have a better memory than you, shouldn't you first try to figure out why you should have the same memory as you think "some" people have, and then what the reasons might be that you don't?

By the way, how do you know that these others have a better memory?
Anecdotes and subjective impressions?

Apart from that, there is nothing better for an otherwise mentally and physically healthy person than moderate sleep, moderate exercise and a balanced diet.

Disclaimer:
If your memory has suddenly deteriorated, you'd better talk to a doctor.
In combination with other symptoms, this can be an indication of mental and physical illness.

Oh, and never ever just take for granted what some stranger writes on some random newsboard.
>> One of the best solutions to out fossil fuel problems

Mankind has survived just fine since ancient times without burning anywhere near the amount of fossil fuels burned over, say, the last 200 years.

With wind and solar, we are an the cusp of extremely cheap electricity.

>> is to simply have less people.

Feel free to follow your own advice.
ask it
Thanks for the feedback! I'll improve the landing page to make it clearer :)
> The much more narrow result is "AI art that didn't involve human contribution doesn't qualify for copyright"

The linked decision doesn't even say that. It says an AI can't own its own work. It doesn't say anything about human ownership of works created by a machine.
Crime data is messy and can take decades of debate without ever coming to any conclusions. Beyond the abortion argument, I’ve heard convincing claims that the cause of a decline in crime was due to phasing out leaded gasoline.

For 2020, I blame Tiger King for glamorizing a life of crime. I’m prepared to put together some infographics about it and the theory will be as convincing as any other.
FBI warning: crooks are using deepfake videos in interviews for remote gigs
If I learned one thing in countless city planing videos on youtube it is that car centrist ideology combined with car centrism enshrined in regulation combined create the urban sprawl that is so common in North America. The main problem with it is the extreme inefficiency: Because of the big surfaces needed for parking and driving a large fraction of the land is not only failing at generating a revenue for the city, it is in fact a liability, because when that street needs to be renewed the money will not be there to do it.

In Europe when a new distric is built outside a city the first thing put up is the public transport. This leads sometimws to the absurd situation that you can take a subway to what looks like a barren wasteland with a station in it, but 10 years later it will be a living place full of flats, shops, bars and so on. Living close (<10 min walk) to a public transport hub is a major factor when I look for a place.

I grew up on the country side and had a car (I was even driving as a job), but haven't had a car in the past 12 years. The places I need to go to are typically faster to reach by bicycle or public transport, the few times I need to transport something car sharing works perfectly fine.
Personally i'd rather download a tarball with the binaries, put the program in a directory of my choice and if needed install the necessary libraries from my distro's package manager. So i wouldn't like it if programs stopped distributing those.
I've been using Firefox on Android with a set of custom extensions for a while now, and it is fanatic!

No more ads, no more cookie banners.
That's really something! I mean, the state already got all their possessions, that's par for the course, same as the Nazis did with the Jews, but I don't think the Nazis thought about also collecting the life insurance...
> Talaat’s first objection was merely an admission that the Armenians were more industrious and more able than the dull-witted and lazy Turks

Right. I wonder, precisely how bias is this great ambassador against the Turks?

Do you know what the truth behind it all is? Nations are violent. They tend to overreact in terrible murderous ways. What’s worse, their will always be enough support in the hardliners in their population. Look at world history: the Americans committed genocide against the Natives with the support of the majority (heck more than half today pretend like nothing wrong happened). The British and French and Japanese committed genocide (all over the world) with the support of a population pretending like they are spreading civilization. The British were literally smuggling opium into China despite a ban by the Chinese. The Germans murdered millions in an attempt to ethnically cleanse with the support of their people. The Israelis are currently ethnically cleansing Palestine — and it is the Israeli people themselves who are doing this.

States are violent. Savage. Terrible in their overreactions and they tend to overreact. If the Armenians did indeed sabotage the Turks during the war with Russia then they should have fled or taken up arms right against the Turks when their sabotage failed to lead to a complete defeat of the Turks. In any country west or east — rebelling against the government and aiding foreign adversaries is going to lead to violence and that violence is going to be supported by the people.

Terrible world we live in where those that rise to power are savage in their pursuit of increasing/maintaining power.
It even has its own wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_was_a_dark_and_stormy_nig...
Borges, Umberto Eco, Thomas Pynchon, and Danilo Kiš would be proud; what else is the world's historical narrative but an edit war?

Such a fantastical lie wrapped around such utter banality; surely this will warrant her own Wikipedia article.
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We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google (2020)
"Birth is pain, life is pain, death is pain" - Chinese proverb.

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation” - Thoreau

This isn't a new observation.
Amd's A300 and X300 chipsets for AM4 are just a bit of rom. Modern CPUs don't really need a chipset; AM4 chipsets connect to the CPU through PCIe, anyway.
> "Write The Stupidly Fastest HTTP Router For No Reason"

Do you have a link? My google-fu fails me.
The major drawback I encountered when building upon SQLite is concurrency of writes.

I have a lot of worker processes writing new data.

With SQLite, I was getting a lot of "Database locked" errors and ended up having to use pg.
Man, Meteor was such a game changer, and I attribute that largely to the group of people who were part of the initial team. Outside of the founders, you had people like Emily Stark, Slava Kim, Alice Yu join the core group. After leaving Meteor, a lot of them went to work at Google and other prominent companies.

I mean, the project had everything. Exceptional people, great funding, and the framework itself provided superb user experience. I haven't been in the loop for many years, but I might have to put together a weekend project for nostalgias sake.
Great idea. I've often been annoyed by the regular search missing the things I'm looking for just because I didn't guess exactly the word the author of the page would have used to talk about the thing that I'm looking for.

Can you share what this uses in the background? Like, fastText, Haystack, the GTP-3 search endpoint...? Do you do any lemmatization? How are multi word expressions handled ("New York", "Model 3")?

Thanks.
The only true answer to “Tabs vs. spaces”
> switching our office from Gmail's web interface to Thunderbird

For what reason? Are they planning to leave Gmail? That’s just about the only reason for an office to mandate a specific UI for email.
I opened the last entry (cnn) and it actually loads very quickly. The indicator keeps spinning but the content was ready in a second
Hashing apples, bananas and cherries
Ten writes per second is abysmal, considering that even consumer NVMe SSDs have several hundreds of thousands of random write IOPS.

At the end of the day though, what matters is whether or not your application scales appropriately for your expected workload.

If your expected workload is ten writes per second, then trying to get every single bit of performance out of the hardware is probably not time well spent. If you're having to handle thousands of writes per second and you're getting ten writes per second per server, then it's probably worthwhile to look into what's causing that number to be so low.
That is sweet! I have bookmarked.
I think a professional software engineer can be expected/required to use proper tools. That includes using decent hardware. Fast computers allow you to wait less and waste less time. If you are any good, the accumulated savings in time are worth more than the hardware in a matter of days or weeks. So, don't cheap out on hardware. It's unprofessional. Within reason, you can actually get away with some budget hardware these days. And you can also use remote tools to make your hardware matter even less. But whatever you do, minimize the waste of time. And if you use e.g. rust, kotlin, or js based development tools, you likely have some non trivial build times that can benefit greatly from good CPUs, fast SSDs and enough memory. Those build times add up quickly.

I'm old and wise enough to not get between developers and their tool choices no matter how odd they are. So, I tend to give a lot of freedom to my people; and also take that freedom occasionally because I love trying out different things and optimizing my workflow. I love learning from others on how to improve my own workflow.

I have a simple rule: your code must be properly formatted, refactored, and free of warnings when you create a pull request. Boy scout rule basically. Anything less than that is sloppy work and I'll call it out and will make you fix it. Always be refactoring and cleaning up code. I don't care how you do it and whether you do it the smart way (using proper tools) or the dumb way (manually using notepad and staring at compiler output) as long as you do it and know how to do it and when to do it.

If it looks like you are being clumsy/sloppy/negligent with your tools, I'll have to have a word with you and tell you how to improve. That may include some not so subtle hints about your tool choices.
Michael Scott: "Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject, so you know you are getting the best possible information."
I barely supports chrome on windows! Website is so bad, I barely used it after I got the 1yr-for-free that you get with your iphone
Add me to the list! Thanks to the team working on Thunderbird!
A "fictional Wikipedia" seems like a nice project. Something that could grow organically from contributors with an effort to cross-link and cross-reference.

Is there anything like this?
Oh, I don't disagree, I just meant it can be as complex as you want it to be. Hardening is just a rabbit hole that can go on almost forever - it's never really final until you declare that enough is enough, typically there's always something more one can do, if they have time and capacity.

Also, out-of-box distributions those days can be said to be already "hardened" compared to what we had 15 years ago.
Fair point. If your usecase actually needs to be able to handle massive loads, then things might be different.

But then there will probably needs to be a devops team and careful planning how to architect infrastructure anyway.

Also in such cases cloud pricing becomes prohibitively expensive unless you get a special deal.
Municipalities should issue their own bank notes.
You can with enough money. Usually you see ground traces and ground planes separate high speed data buses. The problem is that the more layers you have, the more expensive it is.
It is pretty easy to bottleneck your system with a couple NVMe sticks.
I don't think you fully appreciate how massive volkswagen is, as an organization.

There is literally no place for whims and feelings at a company that big.
The only reason Java can even have the most powerful tools is because it is easy to see what is going on. Also, JetBrains does really well with all languages, generally more than any other IDE.
The general sentiment from the rest of the JS community when meteor was announced was - great, but why are they ignoring us? The original version of Meteor seemed to use its own tech for everything - I think it may have even had its own module system? Suffice to say it was a decade ago so my memory is hazy.
I wonder if there is work/way to use GPT-3 and others in the reverse direction - make it read the materials and give a summary/synopsis of it. As well as, GPT-3 ought to be able to distinguish the materials generated by GPT-3, from those that weren’t ?
I was never compensated in stock, but I did get a 5.6% raise. Exciting I know. WOOO!!!!!

My compensation is hot garbage compared to a top tech company, but the work is really fun, so there's that! Like seriously, there are some top tech companies doing some really cool side projects, but the vast majority of their jobs aren't as cool. And the base salary is.. surprisingly comparable.
“Destiny is a gift. Some go their entire lives, living existences of quiet desperation, never learning the truth that what feels as though a burden pushing down upon their shoulders is really a sense of purpose that lifts us to greater heights. Never forget that fear is but the precursor to valor, that to strive and triumph in the face of fear is what it means to be a hero. Don’t think. Become.”

~ Blinky Galadriel - Trollhunters
Happy user here since beginning 2000.
Please don’t complain on behalf of others. Wikipedia has a licence that explicitly allows (even encourages) what OP is doing.
That it's not new does not mean it's not interesting. I enjoyed the post.
They discuss this in their video:

https://youtu.be/_pq0d1oxtA0
If the new optics give X% more power, they compete against "just buy X% more solar panels". (My original "(say)", in front of the "10%", was meant to indicate that the number was arbitrary.)

> Economies of scale might favor the optics if it's cheap enough...

- Quite true. But note that the article describes the inventor of the new optical system as "assistant professor in astronautics and spacecraft engineering". That certainly suggests cost-insensitive, performance-critical applications - such as cubesats.
“The problem appears limited to Safari users who are trying to access the site on desktop.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/twitter-down-safari-mac-e...
Not really. All he needs is to convince the readers, and not all of them need a peer-reviewed study published in a reputable journal as a proof.
> well, but I want it to be a focused app

Best of the both worlds can be achieved, for example, with good extension support. That way, Thunderbird devs can focus on a set of core features, while the community handles the rest.

Also, why not look Thunderbird as a Communication Software instead of just an Email Client?

Let's just face the fact here: email is dying. Once it was one of the most important tools for communicating on the Internet, now days for majority of people, it's just something comes with a Google/Microsoft/Apple account.

The protocols (POP3/SMTP/IMAP) are heavily outdated as well, and no one is seriously improving it in order to make them more fitting for today's needs (by improving, I mean to make it more real-time, more multi-media friendly, and more efficient so it can transmit a huge amount of data simultaneously at lighting speed). Just take look how many improvement has been done to HTTP as a comparison, it's sad that email protocols received so little loves.

At this circumstances, I would say any optimization done to the ecosystem is welcome. Also, I like the new interface more, IMO it makes Thunderbird at least 10 years younger.
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE).

That's the result we got the last time we took the rendered down
products of a system and fed it back to itself.

As a systems theoretical comment, connecting the output back to the
input is a generally good formula for a royally fucked-up fireworks
show.

If you thought echo-chambers were bad wait and see what happens when
you turn the positive feedback gain up on mimetic prions.
Not to mention that the main reason why French army underperformed in the war is that lots of resources were spent on Maginot line as spending them on a potentially offensive things would upset the British
CLion for C++ is just brilliant.
> It's very scary how violent these kids get when I take it away from them, who are otherwise the sweetest.

Every parent who reads this is getting a full, hearty laugh, thank you.
Don't miss the amazing promotional site: https://returntomonkeyisland.com/
At eg Google (at least when I was there for a few years from 2014 onwards), basically everyone on the same level and in the same location got the same amount of cash. The amount of stock was variable, based on how badly they wanted you to join (or keep you) and how well you negotiated.

There was never any option to ask for proportionally more cash or more stock.

The stock vested over time and the grant was typically renewed every year. So that you basically could plan to receive a relatively fixed proportion of your total comp in newly vested stock every year.

From a financial point of view the newly vested stock was basically as good as cash: you could sell it straight away.

> In this case, most of the competitors have lost stock value too, so it's a "fair" pay cut when things are going poorly for the economy as a whole.

Look at the qualifiers in my previous comment. It doesn't matter what's 'fair', what matters is what the competition is up. If Facebook is still sitting on piles of cash and eager to spend it on employees, Google can't let their total comp drop too much, even if both companies have lost total market value.

If Facebook (and other competitors) spend less, Google will also have to spend less. That's not the same as the state of the economy as a whole, but it's related to it.

> If they're going to get compensated for the drop in stock too, why even ask for more cash?

As said earlier, at Google (at least back then) asking for more cash wasn't an option.
Wikipedia: “please reuse our content”

Random internet user: “such bad taste to reuse Wikipedia content, I should complain on their behalf“
What's wrong with stephen wolfram?
Frequency of Neurological Diseases After Covid-19, Influenza and Pneumonia
Alert (AA22-108A)
TraderTraitor: North Korean State-Sponsored APT Targets Blockchain Companies

https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ncas/alerts/aa22-108a
To quote Greg LeMond: it never gets easier, you just get faster. As someone who arguably has accumulated expertise, I still feel like I'm winging it a lot. The difference is I'm now winging it at the boundaries of the state of the art. It certainly doesn't feel easier to be here than where I was 20 years ago (though I do feel to be in a better place). There's always much more expertise I need!
Yet these machines have held up where challenged, and paper recounts have confirmed their results. So there is evidence that, in general, things are OK.

This idea that there is no evidence that the system works is just wrong. There's plenty, and that's in stark contrast to the 'evidence' that the election was stolen.

I agree that an reliable and transparent system is the best, and should be the aim, and I'm sure there is room for massive improvement, I wouldn't seek to deny it.

But likewise you can't just dismiss the evidence that the election was OK as "I don't trust it", when there are a variety of measures taken that are positive evidence of reliability, with no particular evidence it wasn't.
Pretty clear there's a lot of work to do to get sequences of images to generate that use consistent style and character renderings. Most of these all look completely disjointed unrelated.
I suspect it's due to a mistaken impression that making good children's books is easy/trivial.

Edit: And, I suppose, an accurate impression that children aren't very discerning. That doesn't mean quality doesn't matter though, of course.
Another not cool kid here. I've been running my little Saas for 12 years on fixed price cloud vms, €18 total per month (initially shared hosting). I'm sure I will ever hit my providers 20TB monthly traffic limit.

I settled with running lxc containers. I just couldn't bring myself to be bothered about docker. Before I left my last job we started using k8s. I wouldn't use k8s unless in an enterprise environment. Even then I would consider the need. "But Mom, all the cool kids have k8s!"
> Once I started consulting, several of my initial clients offered to hire me as an employee; my backup plan was to pursue one of those offers.

I've been consulting for ten years in software/AI/data science. One of the largest difficulties is that many potential clients actually want an employee, not a consultant (perhaps hoping I'll join full-time if it works out, similar to above). In fact, most people who reach out are only looking for employees.

Nowadays it's also become more difficult to independently consult in California, since there are tighter tests for independent contractor vs. employee. Even forming a single-member LLC may not be enough to get around the distinction for some types of work. Due to this, one of my 5+-year clients was forced to reconsider our contract, and ended up only offering employment.

Supplementing income with part-time employment could be perilous for a consulting business (note: ianal, consult your own lawyer). For example, there is potentially an explicit "duty of loyalty" not to work with "competitors." And, the IP ownership clause could include any work "related to" your employer's business -- even when created on your own time.
Agreed. Unless you have serious space constraints, more cheap panels which last decades is far cheaper and less maintenance than any solar concentrators or solar tracking that will fail long before the panels. I could see those technologies being useful on a trailer for generating power in remote locations, but not for the typical home or solar farm. I'd imagine those lenses would amplify the shading caused by typical dirt and debris, requiring more labor costs.

The other thing is that solar concentrators burn the cells out quicker, it isn't magic free energy. Spending a significant amount more money just to squeeze out more power from the cells doesn't make sense for all applications.
I’ve done this with retry logic in each concurrent writer (retry if you can’t lock the file with a short timeout) and it works fine enough.
> Everyone agrees that child porn videos should be banned/prosecuted

What? No.

That particular crusade has caused very real harms for very nebulous gains. Everyone may agree that funding child porn videos should be banned, but it isn't even clear that stopping the free distribution of the videos themselves is a net positive (e.g. theories about said videos being an outlet for pedophiles, reducing their risk).
SCP Foundation comes to mind https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/. An entire wiki of a loosely interconnected series of supernatural events and entities. It's very easy to get lost in it.
Still depends on the language and compiler conventions. In Haskell/GHC tabs will give you a warning ;-)
That was a surprisingly good show for something aimed at children.
Fwiw I cross posted the article on the Vintage Test Equipment FB group. There are quite a few comments there but so far none answering the key questions.