skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's a massive problem

A massive problem compared to what? That's the problem I have with most published statistics in this area: they're aggregated and reported in a manner that attempts to answer that question from the outset. They start from the presumption that it is a massive problem, and then aggregate and report data in a way that exaggerates effects.

I personally would be happy to vote for policies that increase public funding of public universities with the aim to reduce or eliminate the need for loans when attending such schools. But beyond that, it seems difficult to address these problems without greater specificity regarding the problems and potential solutions. Based on most popular reporting, Federal-subsidized loan programs seem massively exploitative on their face, but if the vast majority of people are able to pay them back, and given the percentage of Americans with postsecondary degrees (50% ages 25-64 as of 2020 according to https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cac/intl-ed-attai..., behind only Canada, Luxembourg, Korea, and Israel among OECD countries), then it's not nearly as obvious that they're a net negative overall (notwithstanding the seemingly intuitively obvious inflation potential), and perhaps more targeted policies are appropriate.

Pointing out that reporting is misleading doesn't put someone on one side of a debate or another. Moreover, figuring out alternatives is far more difficult than identifying problems. If someone is actually earnest about adopting constructive remedies, I would think an accurate understanding of the nature of the problem(s) would be highly valued. If you're primarily concerned about issues regarding PhD programs, hooking your wagon to general solutions principally targeting undergraduate financing could backfire.
> Mike Muuss himself wrote back with a bunch of demo files attached.

That's kind of awesome. I built it from source a few years after that and didn't have to deal with any headaches at all.
i thought that was already the case. or at least legally grey
Why would you feel stupid if you made the right prediction? With the right judgement you can make the better moves whatever those are. It just means that you understand how it is and you are right about the trend instead of lying to yourself.

What kind of mental gymnasts would say the wrong judgement gives better moves?? How does that make any logical sense?
Here are a couple I did:

>looking up at a massive art deco archway with huge beautifully ornate door, tessellated like the ceilings of Iranian holy mosques with the dimensions symbolizing sacred geometry and celestial lighting 8k detail*

https://imgur.com/gallery/QulgbtM

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https://imgur.com/gallery/GNgZ4hu

https://imgur.com/gallery/TIBALCT
> Actually this already happens

Few of the examples there are of people "democratically" choosing one currency over another, some of those (company currencies) are pushed from the top down in an unaccountable organisation and are generally acknowledged to be a bad thing. Tourist spots accepting one currency over another means little.

> There's nothing catastrophic about it

A country allowing their own currency to die in favour of a cryptocurrency would pretty much be a catastrophe by definition, involving a failed currency.

> isn't a "vague parallel", it's fundamental

It's a very vague parallel, because one is a state actor, operating with democratic oversight, and the other is a money-laundering operation. You asked if the fed was criminal because of its actions - writing it off as a vague parallel was my way of not just directly calling you an idiot. "Criminal" is a matter of criminal law, and the central banks are established by law. So no, the fed is not a criminal enterprise by definition.

> Both were legal at the time of their creation

I would dispute that Tornado Cash was ever legal, because it explicitly enabled KYC and AML-less money laundering. It just flew under the radar for a while.

FYI most dollar transfers are very traceable, with the right authority, and this is what's missing from a system like Ethereum in general. All this talk about financial privacy misses the fact that financial privacy has been a limited right for a long time - you have financial privacy from your neighbours, sure, but with the right judicial approval that can be stripped away. Making something mathematically impossible to trace is a whole different level and it's not at all surprising that a) it attracted criminal use and b) that the state seeks to shut it down.

So I'll say again - if a money-laundering facility is essential to your adoption process, your process is all sorts of wrong, and the world is a better place without it.
Openness Trumps Profit-Seeking, What We Can Learn from Decade of AI Renaissance
Disagree with this part:

"Nuclear should be innocent until proven guilty..."

Fully agree with this part:

"...just like any other technology"

The assumption of safe until proven dangerous should be flipped wherever it currently prevails. If X wants to add some novel thing into our environment / food supply, the burden should be on X to prove safety, first.
The difference between seeing art and drawing art is essentially one of a knowledge capture skill. When you learn to write, you have to copy the shapes of the letters. Often this is first done by tracing the lines or filling in an outline with color. Then you learn to reproduce it on your own, and eventually have it memorized.

The same is basically true for drawing, but you're doing more of the early parts of the process more often. To draw a figure from imagination you have to learn the shapes. To do that you have to find a real figure in pose, and carefully copy it to get the proportions of the shapes as accurate as you can(which is assisted by various measuring techniques to correct your work). Then, after a few thousand of those, you try to draw an imagined figure and voila, your hand makes recognizable shapes - maybe a bit simplified, out of proportion, or with poor anatomy, but something others can parse correctly.

And so doing a lot of drawing is like building up a vocabulary, becoming more observant and aware of subtle visual differences and therefore more able to communicate them back. I can't see AI replacing this: it can be a good servant and give a lot of options, but it can't mind-read that you want a hand posed slightly differently.
I’m a professional artist and while this is true to an extent, most of my job - and a lot of what I enjoy about it - is “drawing”. Running a thousand prompts through an AI black box sounds infinitely tedious compared to drawing stuff. I don’t want to live in that world.
Working with solid geometry and boundary representation structures is immensely more complicated and affects everything from dev velocity to GUI design to usability to acquiring devs. Content modelers (e.g., Blender) deal with considerably simpler geometry representations that are not typically valid or easily verifiable for engineering purposes. That's why it's very non-trivial, decades worth, to turn something like Blender into a CAD tool. Even seemingly simple features like CAD converters can take years of effort. BRL-CAD's primary investment has been on geometric analysis (e.g., solid ray tracing) and it's unparalleled in that regard, but that's a niche audience without better usability.
If you’re going to impose costs on poor people by building an airport where their housing used to be - you should build replacement housing in better-off neighborhoods like Marc’s so they can benefit from what they’re supplying to the rich.

Property value is not the only trade-off being made.
Insulation only does so much when it's nearly 100 degrees outside.

Eventually the heat will get in, and then you need to run thr system to get it back down, which could take hours.
I may get my wish if this leads to automakers bringing back front bench seats in most of their product lines and doing away with those stupid bucket seats that deprive car owners of the opportunity to sit next to their sweethearts and open up a third child car seat position up front.

That would be a welcome change as far as I am concerned. Front bench seats!
Avoid Cloudflare at all costs. They suspend peoples accounts for literally no reason(false positives) and stonewall them and delete their domains on short notice. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31576353
Most people who use VPNs for privacy will readily admit that their use is based on relative trust. They know that ISPs are notorious for harvesting and granting access to browsing data, and they trust that their reputable VPN provider of choice is truthful about their logging and internal data handling policies.
There's no algorithm that generates artistic meaning. These neural nets allow you to employ arbitrary styles and techniques, but no AI can't come up with meaningful messages on its own...yet

I imagine at its height, AI would make "commodity art" less valuable. But stuff like Rhythm 0, Black Square, The Lighthouse; that sort of art, by definition, can't be generated. Maybe we'll start valuing the more obscure stuff, not dissimilar to how I value the Google result that actually shows the Julia error I'm getting that only 3 people have seen more than the docs page that matches a quarter of the string I pasted directly from the terminal
There are levels to trustworthiness. I mostly trust my ISP enough to not bother with VPN at home, but when I'm traveling I'll take my VPN provider over a hotel WiFi any day.
After seeing all the DALL-E 2 posts it's pretty clear that interacting with it is an art and not a science. If black box AI continues to improve I predict an emerging profession of "AI Prompters" whom others will pay to get the desired outputs out of AI tools.
When comparing Linux to Apple's laptops, homebrew is the defacto package manager. The Apple store is pretty much GUI applications or tools, and I'm not putting my personal credit card info into a machine I don't own, so I never bother seeing up the app store anyway.

The primary package manager sucking is a very serious flaw for Apple when trying to get developers to convert from Linux.

FWIW, I personally don't ever recall an upgrade causing X or drivers to stop working, though I've been going through laptops at a rate of one every two or three years lately.

On the other hand, windows and Mac upgrades have certainly caused issues, and misbehaving applications can certainly cause issues on macs (cough teams cough).
Seems like a huge leap to go from apartment shopping to sleeping on the sidewalk.

I’m not sure it’s the same population.
I agree with this. From my experience most of the data scientists I have worked with didn't exit the world of Jupyter notebooks. For them, code management, CI/CD, dev/stage/prod separation, etc. is a world of its own that they are not very comfortable with. Heck, they even used Sagemaker to create git repo for their Jupyter notebooks.

It doesn't mean that there aren't data scientists who have some engineering experience as well, but this seems to be rare. For that reason, getting those ML models that they painstakingly build to where they'll generate some real value is super hard. They just don't know where to start.
Working across multiple teams and multiple functions is very challenging and it often creates friction. Therefore, creating tools and systems that will enable those data scientists to see the actual value of their labor is paramount.

That's why we're seeing a huge resurgence of so called MLOps tools and platforms that aim to solve all or some of the problems of the entire stack. We are very very early in this journey, but I believe 2020's will be for ML and AI what 2010's were for the cloud and data, ie. new Snowflakes and Databricks but for the actual ML apps. It's exciting.
Probably best to try the trolley and scooter thing in a new town where everyone who moved there knew what they were getting.
> You just replaced ISP tracking with VPN tracking.

Yeah, that's the point. People have infinitely more choices for VPN providers than for ISPs. The VPN provider could be in another country. You can even run your own VPN on hosted infra.
I just wasted so much duplication effort in a new monorepo by not knowing about this feature - know what my next commit will be I guess!
From the abstract:

> Women with two children younger than their state’s age mandate have a lower annual birth probability of 0.73 percentage points.

0.73% less than what?

On page 2:

> We find that a woman’s annual probability of giving birth declines by 0.73 percentage points when a she has two children below the car seat age, a 7.8% relative drop for women with two children.
Cf. Chuck Berry’s “Riding Along In My Automobile.”
"Appease the moneyed classes or starve" doesn't seem like a very just way to run the world. Granted, the IMF isn't the arbiter of justice, but punishing the PEOPLE of El Salvador for the actions of the local ruling classes is just cruel. Even if the "financial trouble" could lead to "regime change", we're obscuring the horrors for the citizenry behind some smarmy journalism words.
You got lucky so far but just be aware they suspend peoples accounts for no reason(false positives) and cancel their domains on short notice.
Close. When I was a kid we used to make gunpowder (charcoal, sulfur, potassium nitrate) with saltpeter that we got from the drug store. The story to tell was "my mom is making ham." But that was whitish.

Hmmm. I do have some pink salt that I used to cure ham last fall. OK, just checked and the package says sodium nitrate.
If you show me GRE being called a VPN I will concede, and yeah very pedantic but it is good to learn through discourse as well I think.
I've seen semi-reasonable usages where it's clearly meant to be figurative; "an OS for X" can be read as "an all-inclusive platform for X". But the examples you posted are pretty confusing, it's not at all clear that they're figurative
I dont see why having pets or children makes WFH an issue.

I have both, and it's a joy that I can take breaks throughout the day to see the people that matter most to me (and my pets, who aren't people...but still matter)
I cant purchase a car that doesnt let me just aim the fan at my face, and set the temperature to a specific mix of outside air and heated air. I dont want automatic environments. Fan, face, 16C/60F degrees every day of the year.

There will come a day where we will prove I dont know what I want cause I cant buy it anymore.
That seems to be too nuanced for today's generation.

You're either 100% good or 100% bad, no in between.

And of course there is no 100% good, only the 100% good who have yet been discovered to be 100% bad.
> You can even run your own VPN on hosted infra

True. But we know very few people do that
A good read. Thoughtful and generally well-reasoned. Also, there is some interesting methodology in the paper. (A nice refreshing break from the mind-numbing oversimplifications I see too much of.)
This was about content, not just hyperlinking.

On page 5 the judgement clearly talks about full search results where each result is “comprised [of the] title of webpage, snippet of content, and hyperlink”.

“Australian court rules that link previews are not publishing” …perhaps?
Definitely, any more than 3 kids and you need to buy a van (or 4WD aka SUV for americans). Or so we thought... turns out that once they grow bigger, you need a 3-rows car anyway because if you jam 3 kids next to each other they fight like rabid cats.
Yeah. Sometimes someone brilliant does something hard for the good of humanity though. I'm think specifically of that guy who wrote DXVK back in the mid 2010s. He basically made gaming on Linux possible.
What does "turbo" mean in this context? Are these things somehow using exhaust to spin a turbine to force air into the intake faster for boosted performance? Or is it just jive, spin, marketing, to sound cool?
Great, something else that I'm compelled to make. While I'm still tipsy from finishing the last bottle of homebrew ginger ale. Sigh!
Solving Boggle with Rust, WebAssembly, TensorFlow and OpenCV in the Browser
There is and has been a creeping level of do-gooderism/we-know-best in the US regulatory environment, namely that no one ever stop to ask if the cost to benefit ratio is reasonable. There are a bunch of regulatory inspired costs - backup cameras, mandatory stability control, airbags and ABS, each of these come with costs - the disproportionate burden of which, falls on the poor.

While I'm not suggesting that we go back to every car being a rolling death trap cum molotov cocktail, I'm suggesting more forbearance and a thought to cost/return analysis is probably warranted.

I know this is an unpopular opinion, but not every preventable death or injury is worth the economic costs (opportunity, regulatory, whatever) that we spend to prevent them.
As the saying goes "houses are expensive not because of the house, but because of the neighbors".
The post from earlier today got me thinking about their blog post about the Steam Deck from last month. I was kinda surprised that someone hadn't already submitted it.
This is an iOS only perspective, but it sounds like you are not actually looking too hard for iOS developers?.

No iOS developer considers Swift antiquated (because it isn't). I'd argue no one even considers UIKit antiquated (middle aged, maybe). Maybe with the exception of brand new iOS developers who has jumped on the SwiftUI-only bandwagon. SwiftUI itself is so new that it barely is production ready.

Sounds to me like you are actually looking for web developers who doesn't want to start learning native, but are OK to do the work in JS.
I don't think you've established hypocrisy, which is what I was trying to refute with some simplistic models of the economy as thought experiments.
It always looks dreamy and surreal, which is often kind of cool. If you need specific concept art that doesn't look like Salvador Dali painted it, you're fucked. You can't just dismiss this by saying it will "disappear".
Really great example of using generation as a tool rather than a crutch. Inevitably techniques will be developed to use it to create new never before imagined styles that still speak to us at an instinctual level despite the inhuman steps along the way.
Metal \m/
you could get a truck, but it’s not an old school bench (like my ‘79 Le Mans I drove in high school).

The 7-seater Tiguan which is just big enough to squeeze the parents in when they visit and compact enough for 5 in the city otherwise. Not quite big enough for a road trip for 6 though.

I personally would rather get a 6 seater truck than a bigger SUV for the most part, but I don’t have to haul around 6 or 7 on a regular basis.
> It feels as if this is about to explode an existing problem, namely, there's too much content in the world already

Imagine applying that same perspective to software, pre-github.
You could use this bookmarklet for generating images without watermark when you merge the images: https://www.designinspiration.info/save-dall-e-images-withou...
I pointed that out one comment up yes. But the general argument is against that of the .223/5.56 configuration.
I rather have my VPN track me than ISP does. For example, connection to Signal and Kakaotalk servers is used as an evidence of being a member of a terror organisation (!) in Turkey. Evidence is gathered by Ministry of Communications from the ISPs, whom they have to provide real-time connection data to the State including CGNAT records. With a VPN, it is almost impossible (depending on setup, i.e. NAT) to obtain such an evidence - especially for political purposes, even if the VPN provider willingly give logs, no way to prove that info is legit.
Then who will do the lawn care, cook, and serve? Will they have to commute hours everyday to make coffee and clean floors?

It's absurd. Communities are most healthy with a mix of income levels intermingled.
I can't paint for myself:

> the nature of [needing to put bread on the table] is energy depleting zapping any creative juices needed for the concentration and initiative to produce content. Let alone something of high-quality that doesn’t exude fatigue.
Going to Mars would contribute exactly nothing to the survival of humanity, because everybody on Mars would remain absolutely dependent upon frequent shipments from Earth.

Any attempted Mars colony would die out not long after the last shipment, as materials necessary to its continued survival remain unobtainable there.

Furthermore, Starship is anyway wholly inadequate to establish a continued presence on Mars. If it works fully l as well as promised, it might suffice to maintain a Lunar outpost.

Anyone who hopes to establish a sustainable presence off-Earth must look to O'Neill Cans.
And according to a study by Steven Levitt back in 2005, the evidence suggests that seat belts are just about as effective as car seats as preventing deaths in children over the age of two:

https://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/levitt_carsea...
The laws in Australia refer to "facilitating" copyright infringement. Whether or not a torrent website is a publisher is entirely immaterial
Personally I feel the complete opposite sentiment is in fact inevitable.

Technological advances will most likely continue to remove all toil, repetitiveness and skyrocket human productivity. Humans will eventually evolve into a society of calm and complacency, any effort made is likely only for some form of entertainment.

The OP probably wrote their 'doom and gloom' perspective from a comfortable chair on a $1k device in a comfortable place. There are many in the world that couldn't dream of even being able to access technology to post on HN. They might see those in societies with technology access as extremely fortunate.

Consider what it would be like to live in a cave with rocks and sticks as tools, eating bugs to survive. No access to medicine or doctors. And I think it becomes obvious that technological advances, even if they feel useless or small, push society toward inevitable state of optimization toward happiness.
This is correct, but I think the point nickdandakis was trying to make is that useEffect does not directly correlate with componentDidUnmount because useEffect's returned callback could be called in the middle of the component's lifecycle, not only when the component unmounts.
These are subtly nightmarish to me, especially the first. The beauty of such ornate mosaics (in the real world) is the clean, symmetric geometry. Ironically, that's the sort of thing you might naively think a computer could be especially good at (compared to more "organic" subject matter). These are evocative of tiles Islamic mosques if you squint at them, but if you look closely they're a blurry tangled mess. I would totally buy this as concept art for a demonic church or something like that.

Edit: I think the third link showed up while I was typing this comment. Those hit me entirely the other way - really cool!
This is actually discussed in the decision:

“The respondent did not sue The Age for defamation; instead, in 2010, the respondent sued two authors of a book that, amongst other things, contained a chapter based on the Underworld article. One of the two authors was also the author of the Underworld article. The claim settled at mediation, and it was a term of the settlement that the authors would make certain revisions to the book. In exchange, the respondent released the authors from all liability in relation to a number of matters, including any article published in The Age or its affiliated publications concerning the respondent.” [¶182]