skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "A pedant had purchased a pair of breeches and since they were very tight and he had difficulty in getting into them, he pulled all the hair off himself."

> It just a critique of people doing something supposedly to help with a situation, that actually has zero returns. (the guy couldn't fit in his clothes, so he shaved his body hair - as if that would make much of dent to his body volume).

I understood this joke differently: You're supposed to pull the breeches to get into them, but the guy pulled his hair instead.
I feel like they missed out by not saying “Meet the new Meet, same as the old Meet!”.
I suspect it is designed to describe images, like you would find in alt text but run in reverse. As your first example is closer to English it can do a better job than with the second example, like how the Jabberwocky poem contains nonsense words but still makes some degree of sense.

For example, the "yon" is immediately reconizable to me (hither and yon), so "yon corpti" could mean a distant corpti (whatever a corpti is). "becross" looks similar to "across" but with a be- prefix (be-tween, be-neath, be-twixt, etc.), so could be an archaic form of that. "chronly" could be something time related (chronos+ly). etc...
I know someone working on a materials science PhD. He might have to learn python. I could more easily recommend Rust if there were, say, different flavors of Rust, that allow learning the "hard stuff" in stages, but starting with one that uses garbage collection by default. Then, instead of learning python and maybe having to re-learn Rust later--I realize this is less likely, but still--to save time overall, he could learn the "intro level" of Rust now, and expand his Rust skills as need arises, without ever having to restart from scratch to learn a new language, new libraries, etc.

In other words, a step-by-step developer growth process from simple to hard, maybe 2-4 levels, governed by a Cargo.toml setting probably (comparable to a compiler switch), and you never have to throw away what you already learned. Like maybe "learn once, do anything".

(Yes, compatibility with peer group is probably a larger factor. But as an option for some where it fits.)
Well, that's what dkurth said.
Terrible neglect results in low IQ. No one is arguing that. Obviously, whacking the kid on the head with a hammer, giving her terribly insufficient food, or never exposing her to language will depress IQ. These are all things that parents sometimes do.

Not only do we have evidence that the heritability of intelligence is high, from twin studies, but also: adopted siblings' intelligence is only slightly correlated-- barely better than strangers. Biological sibling intelligence raised in the same house are very closely correlated.

This seems to imply once parenting is "good enough", these types of environmental effects don't affect IQ in adulthood to a significant degree.

Perhaps the most interesting finding: parenting does seem to affect IQ scores in early childhood more than genetics, but by adulthood the strengths of these relationships have completely reversed.
Lex Fridman misrepresents his role at MIT to make himself sound more accomplished than he really is, and the way he went about putting out his self driving car research directly to the press instead of going through peer review is shady. The guy is a cringeworthy grifter. He’s trying to be viewed as some AI expert but he’s totally full of shit. Elon made him famous and he got the Joe Rogan push. Absolutely droning interviewer in need of media training.
Suggestion: allow user to click the area with the clue to switch between down/across typing, ala NYT
Welcome to the world of undefined behavior. Anything can happen....
Try soaring/gliding. My husband has been in love with it as long as I've known him, and since his club, like most German clubs, uses a winch (big old Oldsmobile engine) to launch the planes, each launch uses less than a liter of fuel.

A skilled and lucky glider pilot can make that flight last for hours - my husband's personal best is something on the order of 8 hours and 800km.

This sport requires a lot of help on the ground, so it's very social and physically active.
i hope you're wrong about it being a matter of time until Apple advertises us to oblivion, but i know what you mean!
I wish he was unprepared. The creepier moments of the show are when he starts talking of his own ideas which sound like someone made up a parody on naive technocratic optimism blended with teenage babbling of how all humans are going to love each other etc etc.
This speculation is addressed in the novel Brainwave, by Poul Anderson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_Wave)

It's pretty dated regarding the roles of women and men, but the ideas are very interesting nevertheless. One of the big insights is that many people might not be ready to operate at full potential - they would succumb to various forms of insanity.

Look how the Internet's 'network effect' amplified the voices of conspiracy theorists all over the world. Now imagine an enhancement of that kind of paranoia: this is what the super-rationalist protagonists had to deal with in Brainwave...
I think you're missing the point. 300 miles is not my ideal and, yes, change may or may not be incremental. I'd be happier with 1000m. But 300m is enough for me to buy one now. And that is progress.

And I think your point on space is out of date. I have no idea about the Tesla M3. In my mind I hate how that car looks and so I've never even tested one. But, for space, try an ioniq 5. Magic.
What an insane effort. And to think the peers of these folks that had to edit/accept this stuff had to check and verify the new math they came up with for the proof.

That’s my one issue — is it dubious we have to come up with new math to prove stuff? Or is that readable especially when dealing with such exotic things like black holes?
> The VC-subsudized approach is not sustainable and does not work. If you want infrastructure to be sustainable and accountable to your needs, you need to get used to paying for it again.

For me, it's not even so much about having to pay, but the pricing plans.

Gitlab pays for the free users by charging $19/month for the few paying customers.

SourceHut charges $20/year.
Would a small group not make ground-based travel (depending on size, car/minibus/Bus/train) better than flying? Adding additional passengers to a car does increase the CO2 emissions not as much as putting a new car on the road for every single traveller, right?
Five Positive Interactions for Every Negative One
Al Qaeda’s Zawahiri Would Have Made a Great American Pundit
Not sure if it is a magic bullet, but it was definitely written by TypeScript developers, for TypeScript developers.

The generated TypeScript code is already pretty minimal because all serialization ops are implemented with reflection instead of generated code (which is only marginally slower than generated code in JS).

But you can also switch to generating JavaScript + TypeScript declaration files, which is truly minimal: JavaScript is an entire dynamic language, so we actually only generated a small snippet of metadata in the .js output, and create a class at run time with a function call. The generated typings (.d.ts) give you type safety, autocompletion in the IDE, and so on.

You can see the output here: https://github.com/bufbuild/protobuf-es/blob/main/packages/p...
Yeah, I'm serious. Even with Twitter, for example, currently allowing accounts to be created and posts to be made for essentially free, real accounts and posts still outnumber those of troll farms and bots from what I've seen. If those troll farms and bots actually had to pay, I imagine there would be far less. I also imagine that those troll farms and bots are less influential than real people. I believe that the endgame is that if a website operator takes enough measures to stop troll farms and bots, the operators of those troll farms and bots will eventually run out of resources and be forced to curtail their activity.

You're right that gating speech behind money could potentially be bad and make problems worse but I only offered that as one suggestion. Instead of or in addition to using money, you could perhaps make a system that uses some type of karma/reputation for instance. Those could still be done anonymously.
Email sending is surprisingly hard to get right. That's where a lot of the value for a hosted product comes from.

With Postcard - I've had to add various checks and protections to prevent bot abuse (and to manage sender reputation). It would be really hard to be reactive like that on a self-hosted product.
>having them raised by a couple of college professors vs. a couple of meth addicts living in a drug den

The usual analogy is that you can always lower the IQ of a child by hitting them on the head with a hammer or by lacing their food with lead powder. But no intervention has been found that raises IQ.
close but not really. the lights were on at the kick. he couldn't make contact with an invisible ball
3.????

4. Profit!

I miss the old days of /.
I was a happy Google Talk user who had written a useful App Engine chatbot. It was really easy because App Engine had built-in XMPP support and each one had its own built-in address, so handling chat messages was even simpler than handling HTTP requests.

But then Google stopped supporting XMPP from other domains (including their own domains) in their chat apps, which meant that I could only use my Google App Engine chat bot from non-Google chat programs, and that was a ridiculous situation.
Agree with your whole comment except the first sentence. When I was in a webring years ago, I'd interact with my ring-mates pretty often.
A seal walks into a bar, hops on a chair and orders a beer.

Bar tender: "A talking seal! I've never seen anything like this. You should go work in a circus!"

Seal: "Why? Does the circus need microservice architects?"
[Video] Customer Acquisition Funnels for a SaaS Startup (7 Min)
The video reviews some of the differences between SaaS and other business models and what types of sales funnels work best for SaaS businesses.
> I believe Fauna inherits some scalability issues from Calvin, in that given NxN communication is necessary for transactions to be processed, a catastrophic failure in one shard can bring the entire database offline. Is that correct?

No, that's not correct. FaunaDB is inspired by Calvin, but is not a direct implementation of Calvin. Transactions are applied independently on each storage host, though checking OCC locks may involve peers within a single replica.

> assuming it is

We used to offer on-premises delivery, but we are strictly a managed service now.

> I'm also not aware how large any real world clusters have gotten with FaunaDB in practice as yet. Do you have any data on that?

I'm not at liberty to say.
> We are slightly terrified at all times of losing these things.

This is something that folks that came from The Other Side of the Tracks have. I came from there. People my age have grandparents (or, in some cases, parents) that lived through The Great Depression, and they have this, writ large.

I still basically live pretty low on the hog, even though it is not necessary. This recession is an annoyance; not a disaster. I lost more money, earlier this year, than many folks make all year. It sucks, and I'm not wealthy enough to "shrug it off," but I am not existentially terrified. I know that things will be OK in a couple of years, and I'm not in danger of burning my principal before things start recovering.

I loved his previous article, and I'm glad he's doing better.
I certainly get that, but I'm primarily pointing out that as a non-layman from the software side, it doesn't seem like a particularly amazing tool. It certainly could be the case that it's extremely good for non-programmers, I was simply pointing out that I naively think it's not very well designed for those usecases.
I've seen Excel trive in no places more so than those commited to the "one true ERP" religeon.

And it is not subversion. It is people trying to do their job despite draconian topdown unworcable policies and systems shoved down their thoat, keeping the operations side afloat in the face of debilitating managerial ignorance.
If you want multiple objects, each with individual attributes, the unCLIP model still has to make a single embedding vector representation. But the single vector is too small to contain an ever more detailed scene description. That's why it has failure modes like assigning the wrong colour to cubes and not being able to spell text.

On the other hand the previous approach - autoregressive generation - allows full access through the attention mechanism to the prompt.

For example Imagen encodes text to a sequence of embeddings.

> Imagen comprises a frozen T5-XXL [52] encoder to map input text into a sequence of embeddings
and a 64×64 image diffusion model, followed by two super-resolution diffusion models
Republican attorneys concerned about the EPA overstepping its authority (right or wrong) don't sell the fuels or sell the trucks.
20 years ago I was living in a $100 car with 3 immovable doors that I had to push start and repair every day. I was working 80 hour weeks doing day labor in the mornings and telemarketing in the evenings. I also sometimes did truck deliveries, street magic, random tech gigs from craigslist, PC repair. If there was a craigslist ad with a problem I would learn enough to solve it well enough to get paid and get referrals.

Any free day I was trying to get better at programming on college library computers I was able to use by copying other peoples student IDs off sign in sheets.

I made maybe $1500 a month which barely covered food, gas, and helping out people even poorer than me while trying to slowly save for a vehicle that could make a cross country trip to somewhere with other work options.

I eventually got a $1000 vehicle that only needed weekly repair, used it to relocate to a more populated area, upgraded to an abandoned trailer with borrowed electricity and no septic, and got a retail job.

Now I had more time to build tech skills. Eventually got the confidence to take on contract coding jobs, and then the confidence to do that full time.

Eventually I knew enough to pass interviews and get a salaried software engineering role. Then another. Turns out there was plenty of demand for some of the skills developed along the way doing random coding and infosec gigs, managing cheap DIY servers for thousands of users of random open source side projects of mine, and building custom Linux kernels for whatever random old hardware I could find.

Worked my from software engineering roles into running security departments for a series of well known companies by finding major security bugs at every employer. Turns out security is one of those things everyone seems to think is someone else's job, so I always made it mine.

Now I own a home and have a family in Silicon Valley. I own a security consulting company where my team and I have several audit projects and retainer contracts at any given time helping major companies spot security flaws, and build defenses.

Going from homeless to the comfort I currently enjoy was a long road. I never fully shake the fear I could lose it all and be back on the streets at any time. That is only amplified now that others depend on me. I never took 401ks because I expect life or the institutions will fail me before I ever see it back. Never 100% trust banks because I worry funds will be stolen via identity theft or go negative into overdraft hell I can never pay back, no matter how high the balance. I always have the need to have multiple income sources so no single one of them drying up can sink me. The need to learn new skills constantly so I always deliver results most others cannot so people keep paying me. The need to prep for every worst case scenario I can think of always for myself and those that pay me.

In the end, I think this pressure of always feeling a bit chased has served me well and still does. I also do not know that I would recommend this path to anyone, but I am generally pretty happy these days so I will take it.
> It was never in the same app.

Yes it was. Look at the last screenshot in this article from 2008:

https://techcrunch.com/2008/06/06/the-evolution-of-pre-launc...
You have a point, but I don’t think I agree. The mid-20s group get the majority of their education about what to do for sex from porn as much as if not more than from their sex partners. They didn’t set the trends for porn that is watched today, unless they started influencing the market when they were pre-pubescent.
I'm using TileMill to generate tiles. I does not support webp.
I exported it to png, and then with some one line script converted all png's to webp.
Excel is great but it needs better version control and diffs. It's so hard to maintain compared to plain text source code.
SoundCloud is firing 20 percent of its global workforce
Samsung and Google are both very popular competitors in the high-end segment.

This idea that Apple has a monopoly is ridiculous.
Interesting. It definitely seems like that would fix a lot of my issues, which prompts the question of why Google hasn't built this functionality
It’s funny how all of this works. I’ve tried many times to listen to Tyler Cowen after being introduced to him on Lex’s podcast, I’m still subscribed even. I just can’t do it, something about how he approaches the interview process grates on my nerves.
Why No One Cared That Al Qaeda Honcho Zawahiri Got Droned
Excel lead me to macros, which lead me to VB, to python and eventually to be a software developer. Thanks Excel!
Ah, that sucks... No musl version then, huh...
(Creator of Superblocks here)

Yes, we do use some Appsmith code (Apache 2.0) in Superblocks specifically related to our frontend drag and drop canvas and components, as part of our UI builder in Superblocks. We’ve evolved our architecture significantly over the past 18 months to support our unique API execution model.

We do not use it in our API builder, workflow builder, scheduled job builder, agent platform, permissions, audit logs, observability, integrations, version control and more, all of which have been built on a different architecture to provide different value to our customers.

What Appsmith has built is impressive and is a good option for customers who may prefer to fork and customize their UI builder or prefer to manage a full on-prem platform themselves. The customers who choose Superblocks are a different group with different needs.
But Sontag suggests the use of Batailleist `powerful communication’ to
modify and read consciousness. The subject is contextualised into a
predialectic nationalism that includes language as a totality.
I don’t know about GSheets, but Excel has dynamic arrays (of variable lengths) since at least two years ago. Or a couple of lines of VBA can accomplish the same.
I'm unfortunately pessimistic. Not because they couldn't, but because in today's IT environment, "empowering the user" is perhaps the lowest priority.
Didn't expect my first comment to be so controversial!

I just asked a few friends if they thought it came from the show or not. The first person that responded thought it had come from the show as well. The second knew the joke hadn't originated from there, but attributed its popularity to appearing on the show.
A man sits on the train and as he looks up, he sees a dinosaur sitting across him.

"A dinosaur? on the train? What on earth is happening?"

Dinosaur: "Well, don't get used to it. Tomorrow my car is fixed".
i think this takes a scene, pictures or videos and reconstructs a 3D scene where it recognizes entities.

i dont think so? it just reconstructs the space it sees but it could absolutely expand to fill in the gap so to speak.

robotic navigation and manipulation with environment would be my immediate guess. It would be able to build a complete 3D version of the world and recognize objects. Your idea could be a reality here as well.

CVPR 2022 was a very interesting year for 3D scene reconstruction. One particular paper I recall was reaching into a database of CAD objects and simply replacing the scene with those objects that fit very close to what is shown in the scene. It could mean that a robot armed with this type of computer vision could manipulate with every single object it sees and know exactly how to interact with it without further examination.
Essentially the Schwarzschild equations based off relativity say that happens.

The problem turns out that we have no way to actually know if that's what happens at the core of the black hole. The event horizon presents a problem where it becomes impossible to experimentally test anything beyond that point. For example the fundamental constants could alter themselves inside the event horizon, as long as the event horizon was still a one way trip, it wouldn't matter, we'd not be able to gather any information about that.
That's basically the problem, isn't it? If it's effectively make-work, you get the kind of decisions we've seen. In the unlikely event that their hiring process failed badly enough to put me in a C-level position, I would have approached it as a revenue-generating service: invest some initial startup funds but have a plan that you're going to build a paid service around it, maybe with an ad-supported free tier but in either case you need a revenue model where the head person's performance is measured on people actively using the service.
> how large can a paper get before collapsing?

Assuming it's confined to a one meter radius, the Bekenstein-Schwarzschild limit comes out to around `(1m)^2 (tau c^3 log(e) / 2hbar G)` or about 2^230 bytes (or 2^150 yottabytes, at the point where SI prefixes run out).

If you're limited to storing one bit per amu (or other unit of mass), rather than saturating the Bekenstein bound for your space-energy budget, you only really care about the Schwarzschild limit (`(1m) c^2 / 2 G * (1bit/amu)`), which gives 2^175 bytes or 2^95 yottabytes.

Obviously, if you have more space available, there's no hard upper bound, although you may need to put some parts of the (physical storage substrate of the) paper into orbit around other parts to keep the mass density below the (decreasing with radius) density of a black hole of that radius.
Still does. Disintermediation is a myth, you always need a middle man.
You should be using One Big Server mate :)
I love the idea of this, and I disagree with others about the price being too high. If you're in the US/Canada/UK and planning to spend even a couple of hours per month using this to further your skills and career, then the value of your time investment will exceed your cash outlay on the subscription.

That being said, I wonder whether you've considered offering a student discount for bona fide students? You could do this via sites like Unidays or StudentBeans. You can rely on their process for verifying students, instead of just accepting anyone with an edu email address (which are sometimes available to alumni).

I'm sure some of the folks doing online CS degrees at WGU and Georgia Tech would be interested in this.
I am leaving it up to the idea submitter to select an aspect or rephrase "the problem".
Correct. It was passive income. Once running, I didn't touched it almost at all.
People are "gluing things together" for a very long time, that's what everyone does!

All ideas as remixes of previous ideas
An impressive data fit. It's a bummer we don't have data going even older - the medieval warm period was between 950 to 1250. It would be an interesting comparison point.
As I understand it: before gravity captures light--which moves as fast as anything can move--gravity will have captured everything else and overcame all other repulsive forces crushing the matter into a singularity

edit: pixl97 made a really good point right as I posted. I should say "As I understand the math"
Turns out, rather than trying to figure out what you actually want (whatever that means), it is a lot easier for advertisers to tell you what you should want and to trick you into thinking the whole thing was your own idea.