skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a strange article because the strongest counterpoint to its own argument:

> The AI can make art. I’ve seen people dispute this, since what the AI makes by definition may not be art, under at least certain definitions. I think those definitions are stupid though, and will elect to ignore them.

is in the article itself:

> Art, at its core, is an attempt at expression and evocation. It’s a way of talking about things that are hard to put into words, a way of making arguments that don’t have their own formal logic, a way of connecting with others, of sharing. Some people paint or write because it’s a way of letting something out of themselves, of working through thoughts or trauma, or spending some time feeling some particular emotion or working on a thought...

> Art is a communicative act. It’s a conversation. You see a picture and it makes you feel a certain way, and yes, sometimes you silently process that art, but most of my favorite aspects of art as discussing it with other people, wrestling with the art in public, teasing out what it’s trying to do, or what it’s doing without trying. I generally think that this is one of the best parts of being an author or an artist, this very public back and forth, sometimes with the art having to defend itself as the critic shadow-boxes...

Sooner or later, a general artificial intelligence will create art and it will be a crisis for human artists. That's not today. DALL-E is not trying to make an argument, work through some trauma, or share a particular emotion, when it turns your text query into a feature vector into a JPG...

I recently attended a talk by Aaron Hertzmann who compared the rise of AI-assisted art to the invention of the camera. Yes, some types of art will stop being commercially viable---stock images of D&D characters, to take the article's example---just as photorealistic portraits stopped being viable in the age of photography. But art as a social act of communication is alive and well...
> If I want to intentionally participate in the economy by dragging a carriage with people in it around in exchange for money, no one is going to employ me because my services are obviously inferior to those that a car can provide.

So here's the misunderstanding. The job of an artist is not to paint, or take photos, that's just the medium. Just like a software engineers job isn't to write code.

The artist's job is to elicit emotion. The means by which they do that, whether it's painting, photoshop, or running 10,000 prompts through DALLE till they find the thing they're looking for is irrelevant.
That blind spot houses a curtain airbag that has significantly increased safety in crashes. Engineering is managing tradeoffs. Safety is now a mandatory standard. We can have small a-pillars at the expense of safety.

As with any blind spot, one just has to move their head...
Just because it works with martian atmospheric conditions doesn't mean you have to do it in open atmo. Instead you can fill a chamber at atmospheric pressure, run the device, then pump the oxygenated air into a filtration system to process from there. This is pretty similar to what the researchers did to prove the concept on earth anyways (build it in a sealed tube with mars-like atmo).

The main issue after simply having oxygen is that the martian atmosphere has so much CO2 and so little everything else. Considering that subsurface temperatures can get low enough to sublimate CO2 into dry ice, you could potentially (and I say potentially because this isn't my specialty by any means) build an air production loop that uses relatively little power other than to drive the plasma reactor itself and a thermal pump to bring cold fluid to the surface to chill the oxygenated air so that the CO2 sublimates out. Of course here you could also just use energy to chill the gas via a compression chiller or make some tradeoff between the two. This process would move you along the following steps:

Standard Atmosphere with 95% CO2, 2.5% N2, and 2.5% trace elements (mostly argon, also a very small amount of O2, and a tiny amount of CO).

After Plasma Reactor: 65% CO2, 30% O2, 2.5% N2, and 2.5% trace elements.

After Sublimation: Lower volume of gas with 85% O2, ~7% N2, 5.5% argon (from trace elements), and the rest of the trace elements. And the CO2 is now dry ice.

Then it's just a matter of diluting the "purified air" with nitrogen or other inert gasses, adjusting the pressure, and preventing buildup of any nasties in the trace elements (such as the carbon monoxide). Now you should have breathable, earth-like atmosphere for suits and cabins.

This is mainly based on my knowledge of processes we use on earth already for extracting stuff from the air so caveat that I could be missing important details.
The problem with that is, once you have a mortgage, everything is in effect a line of credit until it is paid off.
Just to be clear, I wasn’t suggesting that anyone outside the company get any information about you or your order. They would just find out that a neighbor (loosely defined) has placed an order from a restaurant you like. That’s it.

If a platform created this feature I imagine they would also prime the pump with dishonest notifications about “a neighbor ordered from X restaurant”, with the expectation that they could parlay a single fake order into many real ones.
> It unpacks the OCI image layers onto the regular host filesystem, then adds overlay filesystems, does copy-on-write, and references files between each layer.

That's just Docker though, right? Does LXC or systemd-nspawn do that?
When Hillary Clinton was head of the state department a staffer at a town hall asked to please be allowed to use a secure web browser (they were using ie6 and not allowed to install Firefox or chrome)
Hillary responded “it’s too expensive to upgrade”

This is obviously idiotic. Browsers are free. Security is worth the expense even if they’re not, and if what she really meant was “we built some web apps that only work in ie6”, well any 12 year old computer kid will tell ya you can have more than one browser on a system.
Here’s the thing. She could easily have simply said: “thanks for your question, I’ll ask my technical people about that”
She could have easily gone away and googled it.

She was unable to lead effectively in that case due to lack of technical knowledge, lack of knowledge of the limit of her knowledge and refusal to listen to the experts who would have told her otherwise. If her experts were not screaming that this is wildly insecure her experts were incompetent pretenders and that’s a failure of leadership as well.

You can certainly be a good leader without technical expertise. Nobody knows everything about everything.

You cannot be a good leader if you refuse to acknowledge the limits of your technical knowledge and refuse to listen to the experts who are pleading with you to do better.
Where will the Record & Tuple proposal (Stage: 2) fit in?

https://tc39.es/proposal-record-tuple/tutorial/
But my point is the success of airbnb clearly had very little to do with the quality of their mobile and web apps. It borders on irrelevant.

It'd be a bit like customer service people diving into how google does it because they're so successful. They are. But not because of their customer service.
"The complaint also alleges that L. Palmer later reimbursed the client by check for the purchase cost of the options, scribbling in the check's memo line the words, "Blue Horseshoe," an apparent reference to the coded language used to convey inside information in the 1987 movie Wall Street."

How can people be so idiotic?
Yet, for all that, it is way more appealing than Mars.
right… your point?
Burning Bridges
I used this in 1999 or so when I had just started out using linux. It was a huge pain to get running. It was for US citizens only or something, and I had to have my parents write to the government requesting the decryption key for the installer. It may have required something crazy like a fax.

After I got it running I had some trouble getting it to do things and wrote to the email address asking for example files. Mike Muuss himself wrote back with a bunch of demo files attached.
> each loss does in fact bring you closer to the winning spin

To me that implies that the machine is keeping track of a period of time to make sure it pays out 75% during that period.

Each spin is random and independent of whether it's been on a losing streak or not.
The Untold Story Behind Saudi Arabia’s 41-Year U.S. Debt Secret (2016)
In the USA you can, however, change your legal name for any reason to almost anything whenever you want to. I was a colleague of an eastern Asian immigrant who did exactly this, changed their family name to "King".
Right, but in all the "Sam enjoys the paper?" uses, you'd normally only do that if you were repeating something already said, and questioning a specific part of it. Like your friend said, "Sam enjoys the paper" and you're asking for a clarification by repeating and emphasizing a part of the statement.

Otherwise, it's just easier/clearer to phrase it like "Who was enjoying the paper?" or "How does Sam feel about the paper?" or "What does Sam like to read?"

But those constructions don't necessarily apply to other regional variants of English (especially if English is a second language for them). In that case they may be adapting their English grammar to be closer to the syntax of another language they speak.

Several of us here, including myself, are guessing that the blog author may be Indian (I'm not sure, it's just a guess). If so, there are papers studying this phenomenon or something close to it (I'm not really sure... I'm interested in languages, but I'm not at all a linguist and this is way over my head...). I'll quote (emphasis added) one paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265785678_Embedded_...

> The corpus study reported here challenges a conventional assumption in the World Englishes literature concerning the grammar of L2 English in India: that auxiliary inversion with wh -movement (henceforth wh -inversion) is exactly the opposite of standard U.S. and U.K. English, being impossible in main clauses yet obligatory in embedded clauses (Bhatt, 2000 ; Mesthrie & Bhatt, 2008 ; Trudgill & Hannah, 2008 ). 2 If the prevailing account were valid, this language variety would constitute a rogue grammar in the sense of Thomas ( 1991 ). However, the results suggest that, in this respect, the grammars of L2 users of English in mul-tilingual societies, just like those of monolingual speakers of standard varieties, fall within the compass of Universal Grammar (UG).

In other words... what you're saying makes perfect sense to me and presumably other speakers of some broad "American English" because we're used to those formulations. English elsewhere in the world, possibly including wherever the blog author came from, does not necessarily follow the same rules all the time, especially if English is just one of a matrix of languages they use throughout a week, mixing and matching languages and grammars according to who and what they need to communicate.

As an aside... if stuff like this interests you, the movie Arrival might be interesting? It's that rare pop-sci movie that tries to actually deal with alien linguistics instead of hand-waving it away with a universal translator/babelfish.
> does anyone really want it?

It's probably safe to assume the people who need affordable housing want it.
Of course I only know my weight and that it wasn't changing for a while despite an extreme calories deficit (from my previous norm, if not my expenditure at the time). I'm assuming that my calorie expenditure dropped, and not, for example, that I wasn't just retaining water sufficient to match the weight I would otherwise lose at the time.
I like the sounds of that. Every now and again we look at alternatives to our implementation: it works, so we don’t want to break it, but hic sunt draconis and caveat programmator.

I’ll be checking out that repo, thanks!
I feel like the "Java" way of doing things in C# is simply a byproduct of inertia and outdated habits. You can model domain with records in C# in a very concise manner (F# style), you can pass around raw memory slices with Span<T>. Writing simple CLI tools is incredibly easy with top-level statements and implicit usings, or even using bFlat [0] or ProcessX/Chell [1, 2].

[0]: https://github.com/bflattened/bflat

[1]: https://github.com/Cysharp/ProcessX

[2]: https://github.com/mayuki/Chell
I decided that this was what I would do on my most recent work project. My quest to reduce the number of libraries it depends on led me to deciding against Immer or something like it.

It works out cause I only use state of this complexity in a single spot. The code to do the copying does not read well in my opinion, and it definitely could get nasty in some cases (slower systems with updates on each keystroke say).

A library like Immer seems very reasonable if you are working on big nested structures often. Worth considering depending on the case.
ETH-Flexive
Fair point. Speaks to the utility and power of React.
I am interested, why don't you like TRX?

(I didn't know TRX is a brand name too - but I mean the suspension training in general...)
In the end you have to trust someone or you might as well just stay offline forever. In the US, very few people have much choice in their ISP. If you are lucky you might have more than two options. Many ISPs are known to be untrustworthy. They outright state they will mine your internet history and sell it. If I have the choice between an ISP who I know will sell my browsing history and a VPN which might, but claims not to? Well, I know which one I'm going to pick.
Obviously artists provide business value. That's why there is such a thing as the entertainment industry.
Thats mostly true. but things like tik tok and youtube shorts are a cornucopia of trash that kills time and drags attention.

I can only keep away by "internally" rating the whole platform as trash.
What is the detailed technical explanation behind this?
Glib answer: yes.

Slightly less glib -- I think it's more about allowing the precedent. Not so much about breathing the same air as the poors, but more about letting the poors think they should have any such opportunity to share their air.
This seems like the right place to ask: does anyone know of a hack or modification that will e.g. dump hostname on a ~? -- so many times I'm in a few layers deep and likely to miscount.
I remember reading an article by someone from the UK who loved that in the US you could move somewhere new an “be someone else”.

I had no idea what he meant until I visited the UK and some locals explained to me the scale of associations / assumptions involved based on many factors.
Segways do look really dorky, but so do the modern scooters. The first time I rode one I felt ridiculous. And my opinion on that hasn't really changed. In fact, I think Graham kind of nailed the feeling of being upright and stationary while piloting a moving object; it feels sort of pompous and aloof. But I'm talking here about how I feel on an electric scooter.

So, yes, he's right about that feeling, but he's wrong that it's what held them back. That could have been overcome. Even the price could have been overcome, if the experience were compelling. But it wasn't. They were too big and too heavy -- too impractical, in other words.
I think it's an excuse. The real reason is probably he doesn't want his neighborhood transformed. If your neighborhood is tree lined single family homes, you may not want multi-family living that breaks the "character" of your neighborhood. Lower prices also attract less affluent people, would increase school sizes, etc. I still think it's hypocritical, but I don't think its about just the home value.

Do you feel the same way about people that want to prevent chain stores or Walmarts from opening in their neighborhoods? It's something like that...
They are yet more evidence that any human engineered system will inevitably 'diverge' to become the most complicated thing that just about works - what we might call the complexity horizon.

Driven by the power of our 'ingenuity', even the most elegant constructions will find themselves drifting towards this horizon. It takes super human effort to resist the effect, and super humans to keep systems from escaping us.
Chillichump is great! His enthusiasm, depth and breadth of content, and general manner really got me into growing peppers and making hot sauce during the pandemic. I've got a dozen different varieties growing on my balcony right now!
100% once you get good at async collab, it’s such a better experience.

Offices are dominated by politics and rarely arrive at the right answer. The right answer is almost always found in deep quiet contemplation
> > do Art to create meaning and participate in the meaning making process

> is just

> > for external signaling and the sort of implied “hey look at me” desire

OP didn’t specify “create meaning” for anyone else, or otherwise conveying art to others. One of the weird things about art is that it’s a form of expression that doesn’t necessarily have an audience. Quite a lot of art is more akin to keeping a diary, or singing in your head, than “look at me”.

> You cannot participate in the meaning making process without signalling to other meaning makers

I have ample evidence to the contrary which I have no desire to share with you, or anyone, other than noting its value to me having created it.
Compute Continuum in the Cloud
> most of the subsidy ends up pocketed by the sellers in the form of increased house prices

This is true if the housing supply is inelastic. But the long-run supply of housing services is very elastic[^1].

Also spending money to build housing is inflationary.

[^1]: https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/reports/2009/R284...
The astronomer William Herschel had a fairly successful career as a musician in Bath and was able to afford a nice middle class home.

When King George appointed him Royal Astronomer so he could do astronomy full time, the salary he earned from that position was half what he made as a musician.
> Because investment in the arts (I mean serious investment. Not like USA) has worked pretty well for some countries.

Perhaps we should invest infrastructure, systems and institutions that give people more free time, flexibility, freedom, and inspiration so they can create good art rather than "investing in the arts"--whatever that means
I think hundreds bodyweight squats and lunges, which that guy promotes, is closer to "normal" strength, endurance, mobility and better life. Those who do heavy-weighted squats are more moving towards goal of lifting compact car once in a while.
You really need to have a closer look at this thing, because it can definitely do all of that, and much more.

Earlier today I saw a video (sorry, lost the link) of an AI editing program (still a prototype). It generates layers of a scene in place, say sky, mountains, rivers, foreground, etc. each of which would be individually manipulated. Next the program seamlessly blends the layers. The host then continued to add objects/subjects and through "in-painting" made all of it blend into a single coherent scene.

This kind of capability is close to being released. This year.
Why do you have to use current everywhere? You can do const { current: myStableValue } = useRef(computation);

Not sure what you mean by one time constructor function, but you can pass the result of a function to initial value.

const { current: myStableValue } = useRef((() => {
//called once
})());
> React has always been designed around some Functional Programming type principles, such as immutable updates

If you think React has anything to do with Functional Programming, please read this ASAP: https://mckoder.medium.com/why-react-is-not-functional-b1ed1...
I've made this a few times and it's pretty nice!
“You only started trying it out once they moved to GANS and VR headsets. You are not pathetic or anything, could get a real girl if you wanted to. Just don't have time. Have to focus on your career for now. "Build your empire then build your family", that's your motto.

You strap on the headset and see an adversarial generated girlfriend designed by world-class ML to maximize engagement.

She starts off as a generically beautiful young women; over the course of weeks she gradually molds both her appearance and your preferences such that competing products just won't do.

In her final form, she is just a grotesque undulating array of psychedelic colors perfectly optimized to introduce self-limiting microseizures in the pleasure center of the your brain. Were someone else to put on the headset, they would see only a nauseating mess. But to your eyes there is only Her.

It strikes you that true love does exist after all.”

- 8fhdkjw039hd

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25418657
Sounds like the installer is not ready for regular users yet.
Fair point; it hasn't gone anywhere, I guess it just feels outgunned because the closed source movement has grown so unbelievably huge.

Also, it seems like a healthy chunk of the "FOSS movement" nowadays is just corporations paying people to work on software that happens to serve their interests, which is neat but not really in contradiction to the overall dystopian trend.
They are light skinned (like many Asians) but they are not “white” in the racial sense. They’re indigenous people that were displaced and extinguished by Germanic tribes.
> The Department of Agriculture prohibits travelers from bringing most pork products into the U.S. because they can carry maladies such as foot-and-mouth disease and African swine fever.

I wonder what this actually looks like in practice? Is this a real risk or "we've always done it this way"? Do different non-US countries have different risk profiles?

The customs people took a chunk of prosciutto my parents brought back to the US that my Italian in-laws had given them. What a waste. And Italy takes its food very seriously and professionally. I'd even go so far as to say that it's mostly higher quality than in the US in many ways.
“Late and Variable” on the Scaling Hypothesis, Scott Alexander and Gary Marcus
The tweets from Sam Lessin quoted in the article seem deeply dystopian, particularly the idea that FB/IG's fundamental problem today is interface-based, something Tiktok has apparently solved. Currently, users actually have to make a decision to click to view something, e.g. comments on a post.

Infinite scroll UI and pageless SPA frameworks fixed this to an extent, but apparently that's not enough anymore. Today, the algorithm "knows" that you want to watch this trashy sensationalist video, even though you aren't physically tapping the button to view it.

So Tiktok's format of fullscreen autoplaying video is designed to pass that final hurdle: remove decision making from the user entirely. Throw AI-recommended (and soon, AI-generated) material at them, forever, until they physically exit the app.

No wonder Zuck wanted a Facebook phone back in 2011. iOS and Android actually let you exit the FB app if you wanted to.
Mind posting a recipe you liked?
OneClick macOS Simple KVM
They thought it was over an had already gotten away with it.

Not entirely like the main character at the end of that film when he is walking into the office …

Maybe they never saw the ending?
Miami Beach is making a valiant attempt. That city has been working on massive climate change projects for some time. We’ll see if it pays off.

Miami is a basket case. The city commission held a vote to remove mangroves from the park because they were blocking the view. LOL. Just massive political incompetence.
VPNs were used primarily by companies to allow secure access to their network from the outside. It doesn't surprise me that documents aimed at businesses running Windows servers would describe them in the context of that use case. It doesn't mean that was the entire point, or purpose. It's just one thing they were commonly used for.