skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Walmart feels better to me as long as I filter it to only items sold by walmart. This used to work on amazon too but now it's possible to sell anything as "fulfilled by amazon" or whatever. For some items, I'm finding myself just heading down to a physical big box store or grocery store.
Semi off-topic (?), but I'm a developer and researcher working on moving into game audio and composition. This may or may not be amenable to solo devs (depending on where you feel game resources fall), but I'm looking for games to produce audio/music for so I can gain more experience! Some composition examples are on my SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/superlumic. Can also provide some small demos including actual gameplay.

Also, for non-solo folks, I have some game programming experience and am comfortable implementing audio [or figuring it out on platforms I haven't used] and would be happy to chat about possible collaborations. :) Email in profile.
If prime deliveries are late, contact their customer service. The couple times I've needed to do that, they refunded me a month of prime.

For me, prime has gotten better, with most items able to be delivered next day.
If you are so inclined, you should make an essay on how you do this and post it to HN. I bet many of us would be interested!
Can't post a meme on facebook - oh no!

Can't access facebook marketplace - legitimately annoying!

Can't access your mail archive going back a decade - could be a huge problem for some people

Sure, it's not as bad as getting sent to the gulag. But the problem with most of these tech companies is far bigger than not being able to post a meme.
This report seems to indicate that U.S. oil production has a strong chance of increasing through 2050 -- and that oil use has a strong chance of increasing, or, at best, staying flat.

This is true even if phovaltaics get cheaper, and "energy intensity" across industry gets much better.

One of the interesting points: They think fossil fuel extraction will go down if oil prices go down. We're clearly heading in the other direction: further incentivizing increased extraction rates by oil companies.
This happened to me once, but it was a beetle and it flew out of a sealed package of spinach from the grocery store. They doubled my refund which was nice.
What’s the environmental impact of hydrogen production + fuel cell or EVs for long distance trucking over say algie & biodiesel. Is this really better for the environment when considering the full cost?
English as a second language speaker here. I've used all programs in English for a very long time because 1) the translations universally suck 2) the non-English terms are more cumbersome, confusing, and harder to look up.
Amazon has so many scam products now I do my best to avoid them. Target and Walmart are two very good alternatives and since I live in an urban area, their delivery is comparable to Amazon's delivery. Any music gear I buy I go to Sweetwater or specialized retailers. To me it seems like Amazon is becoming a worse and worse shopping experience with each passing day.
These spammers also aren't aware of Troy Hunt, otherwise they likely wouldn't try to spam him in the first place.
I believe they’re told that they’re just scamming rich people or something like that so that they don’t feel remorse
I don't think this type of resource would be all that helpful for people trying to scrabble up the ladder. They would almost certainly be much better served by countless other resources.
This is pretty much exactly why I (as a complete hobbyist) ended up with Godot. I spent two years writing things from scratch in various languages and lots of time Yak-shaving. The experience itself was worth something, but I don't really have a lot to show for it. I don't love godot - but it's far beyond anything I'll be able to accomplish on my own as a hobbyist.

I find art to be the most limiting factor at this point. I'm not a great artist (what I can do takes a painstaking long time to finish) and it's hard to satisfy a creative vision with free art assets.
What’s your method for discovering those brands?
> What may surprise people is how and when these expressions are evaluated since they differ between languages.

What could possibly be surprising about reusing the exact same object on every function call, especially when you default to an empty list, set or dict. Getting an actual empty list is as easy as defaulting to None and explicitly checking for it, so there isn't even a reason to do it any differently. /s

Who the hell thought that this was sane behavior in a language with mostly mutable objects?
Yes. I always wished to see customer friendly metrics revealed. Years in service. Years since last company sale/ transfer of ownership etc in an acquisitional sense. Time since last one star review. Star rating time profile. Percentage of product returned vs sales. Maybe some other things I can’t even think of.
I would correct that to "it’s the reason on-line advertising is believed to be efficient."

I’ve been seeing reporting over the last several years that suggests that a lot of the belief in sales attribution to ads or even specific interactions on-line are tenuous at best.
Or even funded with an Uber gift card, procured as part of another scam!
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The article posted by a business entity with an agenda of its own, you mean?

It’s but one of many subjective takes by someone who earns through clicks, grabbing attention, instigating circular discourse online.

I have no obligation to support this author’s position, OR Apple’s rhetoric. I judge on the technical implementation; Apple earns through hardware sales and fees for services charged directly to service users.

Whether you agree with the price they set for those things is irrelevant; technically speaking the bulk of their revenue comes from hardware sales and direct charges for services.

Their competitors could do that too. They could charge for a phone and take a cut for app distribution, sell storage services. They don’t, because they don’t want to compete with Apple; they want the public and courts to force Apple to change.

That they went a different way of generating revenue and it bit them in the ass is not Apple's problem. Those businesses made their choices.

That’s how it’s supposed to work. All this rhetoric about those “poor” wealthy businesses being screwed by Apple are actually mad they picked the wrong path to revenue.
> I'm sorry, I know you put a lot of effort into this but I find it rather convoluted.

Don't worry about it! I'm very happy to receive criticism.

I tried to do it in this way because the task was to explain it to a 5-year old. I haven't (yet?) met a person that young who could understand an abstract language like Haskell. It's just not happening.

My explanation is probably indeed way too convoluted, but I still believe monads can be intuitively explained to a 5-year old somehow.
It's a really approachable theory and contrary to what you'll read in tech message boards - doesn't remotely boil down to "the market can't be wrong". Burton Malkiel (economist most famous for writing "A Random Walk Down Wall St" and being a longtime advisor of Vanguard) has a paper talking about the early 2000's pushback.

It gives a good summation / spells out some critiques / offers his reasons for disagreeing:

https://www.princeton.edu/~ceps/workingpapers/91malkiel.pdf
Wtf is a "Blockchain VPN" ?
To add to this, companies at Google-scale tend to have a huge variety of ML related jobs, ranging from low level things like optimising libraries for different hardware, to the more general research positions where people are working on their own pet projects. Plus everything in between - data management and curation for training models that get used in production, people who try and figure out how to productionise cutting edge research, people who build the infrastructure that other ML engineers use (and here again, everything from hardware/server people, cloud, site reliability, tooling) and the list goes on.

I know of at least one person who got an ML job at Google, but didn't apply specifically for it. They had a very strong ML background and applied for a generic software engineering and got team matched. That seems like a reasonable way to go if you don't want to go through a research interview loop.
Nothing about this website really gives a whole lot of confidence. It claims to be "Started from US", but the broken English that's prevalent on every single page says otherwise, there's no information about what company is supposedly behind its creation, and the webserver is behind cloudflare. Both the git repo and the website proper are filled with broken links and errors, text that does exist readably is close to complete nonsense.

> Traffic over OmniEdge is end-to-end encrypted by Twofish/AES128/ChaCha20 cipers&apos; P2P MESH network.

I'm grasping at straws to find a single thing which looks legitimate about it. You'd have to be completely nuts to even begin looking into this as a solution for anything.

If you're interested in what the technology behind this is, it's just a thin veneer of https://github.com/ntop/n2n.
I think I’d say that it knows what a giraffe looks like and some aspects of their behavior. I’m not sure if it (in a sense) “knows that a giraffe is an animal” though I wouldn’t be too surprised if it does.

Though, I guess maybe that is all “knowing what a giraffe is” is?
> and pretending it "can be faster than a mouse".

Jesus. I use mouse and keyboard as what's best for the task of that moment. In some cases it's a faster to do some complex things using a keyboard, at others, I pick the mouse. Depends on what I'm doing, how well the emacs commands fit that task, how tired I am etc. I'm talking from many years experience. Get a couple of years solid emacs under your belt then we can talk because evidently you have little to none.

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6h1geu/is_the_...

linked to

https://danluu.com/keyboard-v-mouse/
Tired of reading plain texts all day? Do you find yourself your reading speed (or capacity) isn’t good enough? We were having a same problem when it comes to reading all kinds of texts online (stock market news, Medium, tech blogs, papers…etc.) Those plain texts were refraining us from focus-read, eventually read only titles and slip away or TL;DR (Too long ; Didn't Read)

Why can’t we read a blog that’s full of texts but valuable information immersive enough?
Why can’t we read better with current english skills?
Why can’t we focus more and make ourself easy to read those texts?
Why can’t we remember i read and encode it easily to a long-term-memory?

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On the other hand, those US laws, if they carry comparable sentences as she is facing, are equally unjust. If this case is what it takes to realize how disproportionately cruel the US laws are, and to get them changed, then so be it.

I will also speculate that most of the people agitating for her release are also opposed to those US laws you mentioned, so it's not hypocritical for them to lobby for her release, even if it may be hypocritical for the US as a whole to focus on her, without releasing the many non-violent low-level drug offenders they imprison.
If Amazon doesn't fulfill your needs, then don't shop there. There are lots of merchants I prefer not to shop at because of one or more dissatisfying reasons.
You are making the same factor of 1000 mistake as I did. Elon Musk’s net worth is believed to have peaked last year around 300 billion USD there are around 300 million people living in the USA. If his entire wealth was distributed evenly among every person living in the USA, each would get around 1000 USD.

Although my mistake was because I misread the source (in Icelandic it is common to spell out the thousand, e.g. 4-7 thousand). I’m not sure how you’ve arrived at your number.
On the independence between consciousness and computational intelligence
"...Consciousness and intelligence are properties commonly understood as dependent by folk psychology and society in general. The term artificial intelligence and the kind of problems that it managed to solve in the recent years has been shown as an argument to establish that machines experience some sort of consciousness...

...Following Russell’s analogy, if a machine is able to do what a conscious human being does,
the likelihood that the machine is conscious increases. However, the social implications of this analogy are catastrophic. Concretely, if rights are given to entities that can solve the kind of problems that a neurotypical
person can, does the machine have potentially more rights that a person that has a disability? For example, the autistic syndrome disorder
spectrum can make a person unable to solve the kind of problems that
a machine solves. We believe that the obvious answer is no, as problem solving does not imply consciousness...

...Consequently, we will argue in this paper how phenomenal consciousness and, at least, computational intelligence are independent and why machines do not possess phenomenal
consciousness, although they can potentially develop a higher computational intelligence that human beings..."

[PDF]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.02187.pdf
That's like saying that money is all bad.
Technically true, but good luck with that maximalist position.
Greenhouse gasses are worse at altitude though so my car emitting 1T CO2 at ground level is better than the plane doing it at 10km.

But regardless the point still stands: why is that 0.12 ton CO2 tax exempt in the plane but not in the car?
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It depends on the item. Recently I purchased a drill bit from Amazon. By the time I realized I would not need it for my project, the return window had passed. If I had just purchased it from a big box store, I still could have returned it.
Kind of the inverse of a diagramless crossword. Nice concept, well executed.

Reminds me of Knotwords.
In my experience the talent we've received from overseas big consultancies has been rough and awful. In contrast with talent that hire exclusively in from the UK and EU has been pretty good.

I understand this is highly subjective but I have seen the same story with at least 6 consultancies, two of which tried to rectify by cycling the teams before our company took legal action. We ran into the same issues where there was a huge language barrier, a different way of working, unwillingness to learn or just complete lack of pride in work, causing lots of hand holding and wasted time.

When you engage with a team that know what they're doing it's night and day and a joy. I think too many companies just don't know what to look out for to understand they're getting a bad deal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airship_accidents

The popular narrative that airships were ended by the Hindenburg disaster is a misleading oversimplification; the truth is the Hindenburg was only the final straw and helium airships had already proven themselves to be very dangerous as well. They were marginally safer, but not substantially so. Even when they didn't burn, airships were prone to being destroyed by a stiff breeze. The deadliest airship disaster of them all was a helium airship broken up by the wind, the USS Akron: 73 dead, 3 survivors. Compared to the Hindenburg's 36 dead, 62 survivors.

This said, in some of those accidents the hydrogen's flammability played a larger role in the fatalities. When R101 crashed, a lot of people survived the crash to the ground but subsequently perished in the hydrogen fire. Contrast that with the USS Shenandoah, which broke up midair in the wind. 14 men were killed but 29 survived by riding pieces fragments of the destroyed airship down to the ground.
Power washers used regularly on commercial property, too. As far as I can tell, the electric ones are every bit as effective and cost about the same amount. And anyone using a power washer is already trailing a hose around, too — a cable is not much of a hardship.

(Few things are quite as unpleasant as a crew using a stinky 2-stroke engine to do prolonged work on an otherwise nice plaza.)
Batteries and solar panels are (broadly) affected by the same carbon fees and pollution regulations as other products.

Yes, those fees should be higher, and pollution regulations should be even stricter, but if they were, (which they should be!) it would only further speed the uptake of solar and batteries, because they are less polluting than their rival technologies.

> In fact pricing things ONLY in carbon emissions as people would like to do nowadays is maliciously deceiving.

I don't think anyone is suggesting this, though it may actually be better overall than not pricing carbon at all, so it's an interesting thought experiment.
Another code-only way is Flutter.
"real photo" - followed by a visualization that over-exaggerates the anomalies way more than thousandfold? (i.e. in the image earth is ~240 px high, given a polar diameter of ~12 000km we end up at ~50km per pixel. So even the difference between polar and equatorial diameter would be barely visible, and ~100m anomalies are 0.002px)
I've been following the image generation field for a couple months now and while the answer to the title is "yes for most things" it is easily fixed. Use a better text encoder.

My favorite anecdote for showing how having a text encoder that actually understands the world is important to image generation is when querying for "barack obama" on a model trained on a dataset that has never seen Barack Obama the model somehow generates images of random black men wearing suits[1]. This is, in my non-expert opinion, a clear indication that the model's knowledge of the world is leaking through to the image generator. So if my understanding is right, as long as a concept can be represented properly in the text embeddings of a model, the image generation will be able to use that.

If my anecdote doesn't convince you, consider that one of google's findings on the Imagen paper was that increasing the size of the text encoder had a much bigger effect on not only the quality of the image, but also have the image follow the prompt correctly, including having the image generator being able to spell words.

I think the next big step in the text to image generation field, aside from the current efforts to optimize the diffusion models, will be to train an efficient text encoder that can generate high quality embeddings.

[1] Results of querying "barack obama" to an early version of cene555's imagen reproduction effort. https://i.imgur.com/oUo3QdF.png
China and Russia already does this. Very few other nations have reason to, but if they want to pick between American, Chinese, or domestic websites they are free to do so and I'm confident the vast majority will pick American.
> It would seem that the biggest contributors to climate change and pollution are developing nations that use carbon based energy (ie coal plants in China, Russia, India, etc).

First, this is true, but also misleading.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC?most_rec...

China is not even close to a top polluter per capita, while Canada and US are top there. That means China sustains a larger population with a comparatively smaller impact. Not looking at this metric per capita shows the implicit bias of valuing some citizens needs more than others, and refusal to accept this as a “my” problem but rather “their” problem, which is a source of east-west / north-south tension.

Second, in the particular example of China, the pollution is caused by offshoring manufacturing of goods that will be consumed by the top polluters per capita themselves. If we factored in the footprint of this consumption, instead of accounting it all on China’s budget, it would make the numbers even worse for developed nations.

We’re are going head first into a environmental crisis, and a severe reduction in consumption, which should be a top priority, is not considered at all. It’s a taboo topic, developed nations citizens will not accept a reduction in living standards, and the whole modern economy depends on increasing consumption and externalization of environmental costs.
Of course any systems programming language needs an unsafe escape hatch, if nothing else the ability to link into Assembly code, and then the pandora box is open.

The big difference is how much regular application developers are forced to go down that path, outside writing drivers or kernel stuff.

Zig should focus its security story in being better than just a Modula-2 (1978) with C inspired syntax.
Seeing DALL-E illustrations makes me worry that the whole article will be GPT-3 nonsense. Thankfully that was not the case this time.
A different/better(?) article from the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/03/business/richard-tait-dea...
Is this open source? Btw your demo is really slow on my phone.
Serious question, but what "purists" remain on ANSI C? Even Linux has abandoned it as of 5.19.

The only times I use it are when I'm writing something that requires ridiculous portability even to bizarre platforms and compilers. C99 is far more ergonomic in comparison, even if you have to avoid using some of the truly terrible design decisions that came along for the ride.
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