skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the system is so complex it requires multiple in person training courses and exams, that honestly sounds like more of a disadvantage than an advantage. I guess from a selfish individual perspective maybe the system that lets you build a stack of certificates is better than the one that anyone can use, but that's not a recipe for long term success.
Indeed. Look at the US immediately after WW2.

Huge power imbalance between USA (sole holder of all nuclear arms), and the rest of the world.

So ... yeah, kinda proves your point.
African elephants do pretty well too at 55-60 years in the wild, but a fraction of that in captivity.
This needs a discount rate knob. We're no longer in a low interest rate environment!
> The real takeaway is how an intrinsically competitive system doesn’t yield rational results.

Democracy is intrinsically competitive too. If you wish to exchange capitalism and democracy for something non-competitive, it will be an economy by command of a central authority. That authority necessarily has strongly divergent interests from the rest of us ... compared to a broad, intrinsically competitive system.
proxy, or cause?

Going to a community event on a regular basis is a way to meet people and build relationships.

Faith is a way to incentivize going to a community event on a regular basis, and faith communities provide quite a lot of the supply of community events.
They are all not official and don't inspire confidence.
The people represented as "3/5ths of someone else" got no vote at all.
Yes, the Republican platform allows no exceptions.

But the actual legislation does.

If they actually try to pass their platform into law, they will discover the hard way how big a problem ectopic pregnancies are.
Funnily, I also don't like these techniques but that's because I'd rather eliminate the noise myself and have a noiseless image when possible. Grain, to me, is simply annoying. Adding it and preserving it has little value.
Sports fans are not exactly known for their longevity.
Any statistic calculated over a large enough number of places will yield some outliers, even if nothing actually distinguishes these places other than luck. It is unclear that the characteristics described have any predictive value.
You're missing an important part of the equation. That 1920s lifestyle includes lower population density outside of the big cities, food that is organic by default, etc etc. You can't just look at the downsides.
That goal might already have been somewhat lost years ago. The video almost everyone after the editors watch has been re-encoded at least once (more likely twice) with one or more different codecs that definitely change the character of the video from that of the source. Any same source content will already look noticeably different depending one which service or provider you’re using, since they each have their own opinionated video content encoding and distribution pipelines. If you’re talking about archival storage in the sense of preserving masters, then I definitely agree and the film grain removal should be disabled in the encoder, so the decoder-side synthesis won’t happen. Thankfully, that’s very easy to do (for example, libaom-av1 encoder in ffmpeg supports denoise-noise-level parameter set to zero to disable those scary parts.)
The current production system is driven by the need for growth. What you're describing was true maybe until a century ago, until the 1929 crisis. After that it was clear that demand had to be artificially stimulated to meet the needs of the production side. First it was war, then mass consumerism. Desires are not natural, they are induced and in the same way they are induced (socially, culturally, politically), they can be removed, usually with a higher level of happiness for the people involved.
tl;dr - It’s a GAN, they have some interesting limitations but can output 1024px images in real time on a consumer gpu.

The training labels may have been “segmentation maps”. These are regions of an image with a known scene description such as “cloud”, “trees”, “sky”. I’m not certain what model they use, but I bet it is a Stylegan2/3 modified to generate an image from a given set of segmentation masks.

Indeed, without the research context, it’s a little strange “why” you would want a product like this. Nvidia has done a lot of research to get GAN to run very fast on their RTX cards due to being mostly convolutional, operating directly in pixel (or wavelet) space rather than an embedding space. On my RTX 2070, I can run Stylegan2 at 1024px at a somewhat reasonable 10 FPS.
i agree, performance and stdlib are very nice benefits.

i enjoy refactoring with type safety and using gopls and ide completion instead of external docs. i used to constantly read boto3 docs in a browser, now i use gopls in my ide.

frontend dev can be sane[1] too! my default setup is a go lambda with an spa frontend inlined into an html file.

the lambda zip contains two files:

- ./main

- ./index.html.gz

1. https://github.com/nathants/aws-gocljs
Every time someone mentions this fact I think about Zig having recently added this "feature" and my blood boils.

Unused imports or variables being errors is the most idiotic and overrated paper cut ever implemented in compilers. In no universe it is a good idea.

I posit there are actually no or very few bugs it catches, and in exchange it ruins people's iterative development, flow and hyperfocus states when experimenting, because poor compiler can't deal with an unused import, fix it now or else. Now we need an IDE setup to deal with this? And why the hell isn't this a feature that can be turned off?

If only I could throw the person that invented this crap into the flaming sun.
You can get that by bundling up your venv. When you install a package is a venv it installs it into that venv rather than the system. As far as the venv is concerned it is the system Python. Unfortunately passing around a venv can be problematic, say between Mac and Linux or between different architectures when binaries are involved.
The most important word in your comment: predictable.

Even when Pages completely changed when they redid the engine for web, iOS and Mac, Pages stayed predictable. If you turn invisibles on, you basically know everything of what’s happening at all times.
This is a hippie ideology that seems to only be held by people who live in secure circumstances that they take for granted and are oblivious to what it costs other people to create.

Hippies were the children of WW2 vets and were an entire generation who seemingly failed to understand that the world they lived in was forged at great personal cost by the previous generation and the anvil upon which it was forged was The Great Depression and WW2. The Hippie antiwar stance was like the collective voice of the subconscious of the previous generation that was deeply scarred by WW2 and wanted to just fight no more forever.
I’ve long puzzled why Discord hasn’t spun off a new brand and used it’s existing infrastructure and tech to make a business-targeted product. What’s stopping them?
I sort of hope we get html in the terminal. Like imagine you send an escape sequence to the terminal and it becomes a browser window with communication over stdin/out, after which you're basically writing a CGI backend, except with full local access. You could have java script frontend processing GUI events and sending the data to your application, and conversely reading your application's output and manipulating the DOM. Basically NeWS.
I've always wondered how many poorly documented people have registered themselves as a decade or more older than they are, to start collecting senior benefits sooner.
These are interesting ideas. It likely varies based on the listener, but possible explanations may be:

i) Transferable focus: Many famous people known for their accomplishments may have succeeded at their work thanks to a great degree of singular focus. This may translate to social interactions, focusing on other conversation participants. Due to selection bias, famous people who are less attentive/tend to multitask are not included in these anecdotes, as they do not get a reputation for listening closely.

ii) Charisma: Other famous people may have succeeded due to strong salesmanship as a primary or secondary skill, which may have led to fruitful connections or funding opportunities. Part of their charisma is from attentive listening.

iii) Placebo (similar to your idea): The amount of attentive listening was normal for any respectful person. However, because the famous person's time is seen as very valuable (as you mentioned), the behavior is seen as exceptional as they could have been doing other things.

iv) Learning (similar to your idea): As the person got famous, they ended up speaking to lots of high-ranking politicians or celebrity figures, and consciously or sub-consciously picked up the habit of attentive listening from them.

Separately: I think a singular attention is typically seen as positive even from a person who is low status. It typically feels good just "feel heard" even from a stranger, especially if few people are typically interested about your life (psychologist Carl Rogers wrote a bit about this). For testable examples, you would probably prefer an experience of singular attention from speaking with a family member, teacher, waiter, or barber/cosmetologist. Even if no service is rendered, it's probably nice to be listened to by a stranger in a one-off conversation.

Attentive focus might only be seen as creepy or weird if there's only intense eye contact with unnatural body language, without other signs using speech that the other person is attentive.
Or just go after the data brokers. It's a pot of honey that the USG and others will get. Secret executive order or otherwise.
>and that's why most of the Republican party tried to overthrow the election in 2020 including the wife of Clarence Thomas who continued to rule on cases relevant to the overthrow attempt

1. Can you link to some cases where you believe that the court has ruled inappropriately?

2. even if we somehow accept that Thomas should be disqualified from serving, the ruling would still be 5-3 in support of overturning it.

>not to mention Mitch McConnell stole a supreme court seat.

explain.
>You can tap the sign as much as you want, that battle was lost a long time ago.

Hill in the battle that I intend to die on: "crypto" means "cryptography" dammit!
> No, there are lots of use-cases at least for LAN communications.

What I'm trying to get at here is that bizarre sidechannels like fan noise or SATA EMI are only relevant when the system administrator has thoroughly locked down all other possible channels of communication. If the system is connected to a wired network, it can communicate with other systems over that; if the network is connected to the Internet, even indirectly, there are probably ways to get data out through there. If the system has a WiFi card or Bluetooth adapter, that can be used to transmit data, even if there isn't an applicable network in range. Etc, etc.
I didn't read panda-giddiness@ saying it is uniform, just that being pro-life vs pro-choice is highly correlated with being religious and some religions are against abortion.

I'm all for freedom of religion but I personally would rather not have laws that apply to everyone be based on the religious beliefs of a portion of the population which it seems like a good portion of religious people are trying to do.

Separation of church and state please.
Exact same story on the west coast with iceplant: https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Plants/Dont-Plant-Me/Ic.... It dominates the Californian coastline now and probably always will.
It's safe to say we're all being tracked 24/7.

Can you believe millions of people are wearing biometric scanners connected to the internet on their body all day and night!

To the people who remember, we've lost our way.
The DidgetBrowser is a Windows application that is easily downloaded from <www.Didgets.com> and used to build relational tables quickly and perform queries in record time. The speed and ease of use makes it good for analyzing large data sets.

The Windows app is currently in Beta. The code is written to be cross-platform but the Linux and MacOS versions are not yet available.
I knew someone who came over with "the boat people" from Vietnam when he was six or seven; but his parents adjusted his birthday so he would start kindergarten instead - and he still didn't know for sure his actual birthday day.
That's an interesting potential correlation, as I'd guess some percentage of Loma Linda CA are likely to have been "conscientious objectors" like this SDA fellow the movie Hacksaw Ridge was made about:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Doss
Reminder: Equifax engineers also “work in a highly regulated industry”
The current account is run by a 4chan troll, if I remember correctly.
Study finds strong connection between lengthy sentences and lower recidivism
"The news" is an outdated concept and a vast majority of it could die off with no negative consequences.

"The news" isn't journalism, journalism is about investigation. "The news" also doesn't have a monopoly on Journalism. I receive a lot of journalism on the internet from places which are not in any way considered to be "the news".

We say the problem is that they can't figure out how to profitable. This is nonsense. It isn't profitable because it mostly isn't providing any value so few people are willing to pay for it. If a majority of it died, people could find new ways to do things that do provide real value.
> there's no reason to believe we're headed for a dystopic future.

Oh idk. The recent shifts in wealth distribution, gig economy and cost of living crisis squeezing bottom end sure feels a little dystopian to me
Blue Zones have been talked about on HN for 13 years

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

pg famously talks "middlebrow" comments on this specific Blue Zones topic 10 years ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4692598 -

"The problem with the middlebrow dismissal is that it's a magnet for upvotes."

Currently the top comments are what pg was worried about (I'd say). This is an old concept. The top comments are not pulling out any big guns to say why it's wrong but are getting upvoted.
Granted, I'm more of a hobbiest than a dev, but I think this is part of the problem that virtualenvs are supposed to help solve. One project (virtualenv) can have numpy==3.2, and another can have numpy==3.1. Maybe I'm naive, but it seems like having a one project with multiple versions of numpy being imported/called at various times would be asking for trouble.
"One thing they all have in common is that they survived a war which took 15% of the population of this country at the time"

I think what you are hinting at here is that war was an artificial selection event that operated on and increased the prevalence of some trait related to longevity, say "robustness" or "ability to resist deprivation" or "quality".

It is an hypothesis that could be tested, and one that is based on the theory that genes primarily determine longevity and not "lifestyle", as those years of food deprivation, physical and emotional trauma, rampant spread of diseases and general "bad times" could be very well be, according to a theory that sees "lifestyle" as the major factor in the observed variation of longevity, determinants of earlier, but post-war, deaths of the affected population.
The thing is you cannot force everything in your document to be a style.

An errant misstyled element can mess your whole document. I stick to Pages and XeTeX.
This whole chain started with someone pointing out the author doesn't seem to realize you can pin versions[1]. I'm just confused how people seemed to end up questioning what pip freeze does.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32141573#32142190
Riders of high-end motorcycles as well. People absolutely love customising their motorcycles with things like GPS mounts, bigger/smaller windshields, auxiliary lights, footpeg extensions to make the bike more comfortable for taller/smaller riders, more comfortable seats, etc etc. The market for luggage and luggage mounts is probably quite well served, but especially for rarer or older bikes, it can be difficult to find the more obscure accessories.
I've been having a similar change but it's not only about there being too much for us to work out from first principles but also an awareness that human minds seem to have a need to believe things which is orthogonal to knowing the truth or being logical. We don't believe in superstitions and religions because we want to make practical use of that knowledge or because it's the logical conclusion from some reasoning - we do it because the act of believing satisfies some biological need. It's easier to believe things when they're not obviously false but truth isn't really what's important about it.

When I see people saying "You idiot, of course the earth isn't flat!" or "All religions are stupid.", I just think they haven't understood the value of belief, even, or especially, false beliefs.

This whole philosophy of valuing truth and using science and all that is fairly modern and seemingly unnatural. I wonder if it's creating an emotional cost in all the people who rejected emotionally or biologically valuable beliefs in favor of being right.
I kinda lump it in with flat Earth-ers, moon landing deniers, UFO people, astrologists, natural medicine people, ion bracelet people, quartz people, etc. Lots of people believe in weird stuff, it's not a huge deal to me.

>motivating people in positions of power to make decisions that affect all of us.

Ya I'm a default-liberty kinda guy. Keep your weird beliefs out of our law books. I'm pretty sure I'm losing that fight though.
> why can't objects use the already built-in symbols the language support?

In Raku they can. But one can also introduce new ones. More generally, it's nice Raku makes it easy for a dev to write a module that lets other devs write code and get nice output like this:

use Physics::Measure :ALL;

# Define a distance and a time
d = 42m; say d; # 42 m (Length)
t = 10s; say t; # 10 s (Time)

# Calculate speed and acceleration
u = d / t; say u; # 4.2 m/s (Speed)
a = u / t; say a; # 0.42 m/s^2 (Acceleration)

# As a special treat it allows working with measurement errors:
d = 10m ± 1;
t = 8s ± 2;
say d / t # 1.25m/s ±0.4

(With thanks to SteveP for the module and niner for the above example code.)
I don't know. There are some huge disconnects between what you see in media and popular opinion. Consider newspaper endorsements of the former guy. There was 10. One was the National Enquirer, another was owned by his son in law, and another is the official newspaper of the KKK. This was a candidate that ended up winning the election (although lost popular vote, but not by that much). There's a big disconnect if 99% of publications are on one side while the country is split 50-50.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Donald_Trump_2016_pres...
I mean, we have that: Android has plenty of alternative ROMs, many of which have Google services removed or otherwise sandboxed. But, overwhelmingly, people (myself included) do not choose to take this route, because they are much less user-friendly, and you lose functionality.

Regarding "firewalling location API access", that's something that you get for default on both Android and iOS, no? Granted, there's no guarantee Google and Apple themselves are respecting those settings on their own platforms.
Mozilla did nothing to stop it and they were themselves ahead at one point. They were laughing all the way to the bank with Google and years later, Mozilla was thrown under the bus and sabotaged by Google and Chrome became the dominant browser. Now Mozilla is on life support.

How could Mozilla be so naive to sit on Google's money to let them propose for DRM standards, privacy violating APIs and suffocate Firefox into irrelevance? Mozilla did that to themselves for years and now they are crying.

Today, Firefox has become extremely irrelevant and totally overtaken by the Chromium derivatives and Safari. The best part is that the users do not care and companies like Snap will favour the most used browser and that is Chrome.

That there is the hard fact of the matter and the web just went from one behemoth (Microsoft) to another (Google). As long as those companies are sitting on the W3C dictating the direction of these web standards, the so called 'open web' is a myth.
Has no one made a library that abstracts away the complexity of the ffmpeg api?
I legit believe they store everything they can because they've been doing exactly this for longer than anyone else. They are _the_ experts in metadata management.
How would you falsify this hypothesis? What specific task do you think AI will be unable to do in our lifetimes because of this lacking of comprehension?
Which makes sense, if you assume that any given cohort will have some percentage hit 100 years; and then the cohorts that somehow have people removed "early" will have lower percentages.

For example, the cohort that includes people sent to WWII will have many that died in that war, even if they would have hit 100 otherwise.

And a group that "outlaws" some of the major causes of premature death (alcohol, smoking) would then have more cross the line.
Counterpoint: Schools, and even the highest regarded institutions of higher-education in the world, seem to think that Blackboard is good software.
> Not really, there is information_shema where they get everything they need to know about structure separately from data.

information_schema only includes standardized information about standard SQL features. It doesn't expose DBMS-specific features like PG's comments; let alone give you not-standardized info on things that are part of the standard, e.g. any DDL-equivalent machine-accessible representation for views or procedures or types or domains. Gathering all of that stuff requires carefully joining five or ten different DBMS-specific tables together. Some of it even requires feature negotiation + graceful degradation.

> Yes. Awful. Do we want all APIs to be like that? Why?

Because then everything other than the well-known root can be changed freely without breaking the client.

Compare-and-contrast: remote object brokers in dynamic languages, e.g. Ruby's https://github.com/ruby/drb. There are module functions that serve as well-known roots to the APIs you're remoting against; but as soon as you get an object handle, everything from that point forward is the result of sending a proxy-object (opaque API) a message, and getting a handle to a new object passed back in return. Where that new object might actually be an object-handle to an object on a different system than the one you first connected to.

If you write a client to talk to such a remote system the way it's intended (i.e. by making OOP-style call-chains, and holding onto object-handles you want to reuse), then there's very little that should be able to break your client library, besides a fundamental change in the semantics of what the remote service delivers. Your client library isn't making assumptions — it's being told what the possibilities are at each step, like a browser is/does.

Also, the other thing you get is: anyone with a web browser can use your API, because your API is, in a certain sense, "a website." Like how anyone can interact with S3 by just visiting the URL of an object.

> HTML is unsuitable for machine-to-machine communication

Who said? Someone back in 2005, when every language in common use didn't have HTML-parsing libraries?

HTML needs conventional microformats to specify the abstract types of otherwise-text data... but so does JSON. JSON gives you text and numbers, but it doesn't give you ADTs like you'd get from e.g. Avro / Protobufs / etc. You still need a schema on top of JSON to get anywhere. So what are you really getting from JSON that you don't get from having your XHR responses be HTML webpage that were designed to be highly machine legible?
> new

Best OPSEC assumes that Five+4Eyes have had all of the data, deanonymized, since 2013. Thanks NSA!