skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since a lot of people are asking me different questions in this thread I figured I’d let people know if you wanna just email me look at my profile and reach out. Happy to share my entire stack with anybody that wants to see it…

Or if you happen to be a high-level hockey player in Denver we’re starting to look for a few guys to fill out our winter roster =)
I think a big difference between Earth and Mars is that, because our planet is still geologically “alive” (it has a molten core and off gassing occurs on its own, the most easily observed example are volcanoes), the planet has been off gassing the needed molecules for life for millions, if not billions of years, and because of the nature of the molten iron core of our planet, we are able to hold these chemicals within our complex atmosphere without much artificial effort.

While mars may have been geologically dynamic at one point, it either is drastically much less so now or pretty much dead. Terraforming by means of burning through the surface would have to be an ongoing thing process because not everything we’d burn would be beneficial for our understanding of life (us and the ecosystems we are used to on earth), but it would also be very hard to keep what we generate on Mars in an atmosphere. Could be wrong, though.
Idk they're a designer not a SWE. In this context I think it's reasonable, even noble, to put yourself in the spotlight and spread awareness to others who might be vulnerable.

While it looks obvious in this context, if I were unemployed and hungry for a job I know I would be more susceptible to wishful thinking and rose-colored glasses. Yes they fell for a low level scam. They also minimised damage and spread awareness, I wouldn't disqualify a designer for this.
TBF, everyone hates these cryptic errors :)
LOADS of React "developers"
As far as I gather from that post the mascot has no name yet. Also as someone who natively speaks German, I don't see any problem with the name "Kotlin" and I never associated it with "Kot".

Suggesting that they use Google Translate to realize the additional meaning seems especially smug given the fact that they have a German translation of that post available.
Can you link some resources that would help one figure out which parts are legit and which parts are scammy? Every time this kind of thing is posted it's an admonishment of others for "not doing they're homework", but I can't recall an instance where the aforementioned "homework" was actually provided. Indeed, from the reading that I've done, some of crypto's largest projects (Tether comes to mind) are plenty scammy. However they keep getting funding and many crypto insiders continue to use them. So should I trust the analysis or should I trust the crowd?
Tired: Wired
Please let me know - it seems impossible to get trained checkpoints for text to image.
It's a functional decentralized value transfer system. Computerized systems can create wallets and transact without the consent of a third party. Properly secured cryptocurrency cannot be seized without the consent of the owner.

Edit: your edit is nonsensical - there is no blockchain without crypto - blockchains do not function with the financial incentive because that's what makes potentially-adversarial actors cooperate.
It's technically illegal on a tourist visa (but I am on a weird covid extension scheme).

But Thailand is going to introduce a nomad digital visa (Indonesia already done it). The idea is that if your income comes from abroad you don't need to pay taxes (or very little). Because you are effectively not competing with the locals.

I did not bother with all of this during Covid, I just wanted to explore the world and find a nice place where I could project myself for many years. I am now in the process of fixing my current situation, open a company and pay taxes.
> Is it sour grapes or jealousy?

Is the cost of settling a transaction on a blockchain still greater than the value of the transactions, in electrical bills?
Absolutely. I have a 2016 Outback with a touchscreen that I can't see in sunlight about 90% of the time. I can, however, see the smudge on the screen where I press play for audiobooks. (Plugging a phone in pauses the audiobook.)

I'd love more physical buttons because, and this may come as a shock, usually when I need to use these darn things, I'm driving.
That is a fine course.
> Constructs that spontaneously seek out resources and reproduce: https://wyss.harvard.edu/news/team-builds-first-living-robot...

No intelligence. They dont have a nervous system or something into that direction. Humans supply them and they still die out.

> And a more traditional robot type that can not only reproduce itself, but also evolve: https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/self-replicating-rob...

"created by an robotic arm" is not self-reproduction.

Face it, Sci-Fi doesn't come true just because we wish for it so hard.
Yeah, I think this is what a lot of people miss. When I only used dynamic languages, I told everyone that they were the greatest thing ever and they were idiots for using static languages. Then I started using static languages and would never go back to dynamic languages. (OK, I still write Emacs Lisp.) All the things I thought were great about dynamic languages were actually a huge waste of my time, but I didn't know because I never really explored the other side of the world.

I have looked at modern Ruby projects, and my assessment is that I absolutely would never want to be responsible for code like that. It's all way too magical, if you see code that says something like "foo.bar", you really have no way of figuring out where the code for "bar" is. "bar" may not even appear as a literal sequence of characters in the application's codebase, or even in the libraries it includes.

If you like that, that's fine, but I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole. I don't find it that enjoyable, even if it does save me time today when I'm typing in the code.
WASI is just a set of standardized interfaces that any WASM host can implement. So while there’s no WASI out of the box on browsers, there’s nothing preventing you as a developer from bringing your own implementation (in which, for example, writes to stdout could sent to console.log, and files could be backed by an in memory VFS).

See this article, where the mention (and link to) polyfill on browsers: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/03/standardizing-wasi-a-webas...
Of course I'm farming for upvotes, isn't that what HN is all about? ;)

Sorry if I wasn't clear -- as you mentioned, Microsoft and others are barely supporting non-Microsoft platforms.

> then the doc immediately fell out of date

Not sure how I can be responding more directly to what you wrote... there's a lot of motion right now! No one will keep up (polished DX) without significant funding. This means non-Microsoft platforms don't get the love they need (not priority #1 for Microsoft, and no one else is close).
So you mean you used to to break the law? What a glowing review, it's used by criminals like you to escape the currency controls. Once again proving bitcoin is the coin of choice for hardened violent criminals. Hope the crying drowning polar bears are worth the ruthless environmental damage you inflict.

Edit: lol to the people not realizing this is intentional satire meant to poke fun at the meme-like representation of the stereotypical crypto-hater
There are obviously misaligned goals.

No the US does not want to invade Russia. No Russia does not want to invade the US. But that doesn't stop them from fighting over conflicting interest. It is all about who has the bigger knife at the other's throat and the ability to limit the others actions.

What did the US and Russia want in Syria? The US wanted ot overthrow Assad and Russia wanted to keep Assad.

The most credible Russian claim is that they didn't want the US and NATO in Ukraine. Why does that matter even if the US doesn't want to invade Russia? Because it gives the us more leverage in Russia less. It's easier to shut down airspace, ports, Pipelines, and obviously makes Russia less threatening to Europe then they would be with a Russian aligned Ukraine.

Similarly, there is no credible scenario where China or Russia invades the US. However, the US would feel very strongly about either of them having a strong military presence in Cuba and the Caribbean.
Why do you think it’s better that some hedge fund with specialist algorithms and infrastructure front-runs the market instead?

It’s a handful of connected individuals in either case.
I have always said anyone who points a gun at another person outside of a self defense scenario has brain damage or a mental illness (Even if it's unknown).
Thank you, I am not used to this style so I found it confusing. Indeed, the figures and tables are as you said, at the end of the document.
> we will not be able to automate this stuff away

We can't even automate testing of code (no matter how much "test automation" you have, you have manual testers too). That's orders of magnitude easier than automating the creation of the code in the first place.
We don't plan on sharing any info. Our ads would be more inline with DDG's, and based only on the user query.
Social Fixer (disclaimer: I am the author) has been around a lot longer than FBPurity, and was the original Facebook extension (originally called Better Facebook). The author of FBP was kicked off Facebook because of his questionable practices and breaking of rules. It's used by more people (at the moment) because he maintains it more actively than I can right now, and he shamelessly promotes it. Over the years, features that appear in Social Fixer mysteriously appear shortly after in FB Purity. That's some background.
I dislike touchscreens.

Sure, phones are a marvel ans show what you can do with touchscreen apps but that is nothing like driving. I also can't play games on a phone well without a controller (or keyboard and mouse for FPS) for the same reason (computer aim/walking assistance is cheating, why bother?!). I use an external mechanical keyboard even when on the road (Keychron K7) because I don't find even the M1 Macbook Pro's keyboard good enough for real work.

So yeah, the touchscreen puts me off getting a Tesla (alongside a bunch of other cars) almost as much as the amount of remote control they have over their cars. No thanks, as much as I love the idea of owning a Tesla.
It's not too nice to have to leave your country just to get peace of mind.

But yeah, overall it's pretty nice not to care about those things. You quickly realize, caring or not caring make very little difference (if any). And you also realize you can be a lot more useful by not embracing divisive rhetorics.
See in part: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32486570

At this point, I'm investigating the issue. I don't jump immediately to conclusions. And I'd wanted, as noted several times above, simply to understand what your own argument / evidence is.

There's also a comment in HN history by an insider using a throwaway who discusses the dynamics by which control is exercised. And it's not through specific patents, as my comment linked above notes. Quantity has a quality all its own, as Stalin reputedly said.

I'm sure you can find it with as much ease as I'd turned up your own earlier relevant comments.

I suspect we'll have an opportunity to address this question again in future.
Can confirm. Mazda got it right and it's so easy to use. I only have to move my arm a little to reach the main control button and after a few days/weeks of driving the car you mostly memorize the common stuff you do or you can really quickly peek at the screen and focus on the driving.

Hardware buttons are the way to go, always. The most basic and common tasks apart from driving should be doable without taking eyes of the road (volume, AC, rolling windows, ...).
MS Access has awful UX. I've used it on and off over the years and can never find my 'flow state' as nothing in that program seems to flow at all.

If MS prioritised working on it it may have helped lift some people out of Excel and into DBA-lite territory but not in its current state.
I suspect it will take more like 10 years at least to produce convincing video. The technology isn't too far off except that the compute requirements are pretty extreme without some clever work. Lots of clever stitching needs to be done too.
You need models that can take a description of a scene and produce a story-board like series of low res images. (And maybe vice versa). Then, you need a model that can infer semantics and movement in logical ways between those panels to generate images to fill in the gaps. Then lots and lots of clever cleanup and resolution enhancement both of individual frames and the changes between neighboring frames without introducing all kinds of weird, fuzzy, moving, dream-like artifacts.

...Then you've got to somehow add audio that ALSO understands semantics in the same way as the story board. Maybe something that can generate an audio clip to go with the storyboard. ....And then fill in the gaps based on the generated video. Making those match seems like a really hard, but not impossible problem. In the short term, a bunch of moaning at appropriate times to mouths moving and whatnot seems feasible though.

Although, I expect fairly high quality text-to-image porn is likely only a few months to a year away.

The technology is there, someone just needs to pay to train the model... and then the cost of compute is what, like 300 grand? A few hundred more should get you enough engineering to apply existing techniques. Say $1 million in costs for a product that seems like incentive enough to get a bunch of members to pay a monthly fee.
The Bitcoin whitepaper wasn't scammy (although I personally don't like the emission guaranteeing a concentration of wealth on early miners).
This may be an issue for some developers, but not all. I’m a developer and I never use Docker.
In this context, the bad thing (sabotaging your publicly traded company) is illegal regardless of the not-bad thing (insider trading).
Bacons a funny commodity, I don’t track the futures of it but always look at the grocery store. Pre pandemic bacon was around 2-3/lb for the cheap stuff, 4/lb for quality, and 6/lb for the niche products. I’ve seen these prices double since January this year and some products are up more than 400%. If this isn’ta sure sign of a serious problem I don’t know what would be.
Not a surprise to me! I resonate a lot with the study findings, sometimes I just dream of a world with high precision physical devices(buttons, high precision geared wheels) for using productivity apps but also for filling out forms of everyday life. Being mostly a UI developer I believe touch screen interfaces need to be researched better, we can’t just produce nicer and nicer animations to give some feedback, they still feel annoying and every ui is designed and developed by different thinkers and everyone has its quirks. I don’t know as I user I just have the feeling that a geared wheel or a big pushy button could let me feel more productive. As a developer I would love to just listen to the click event of a button I haven’t designed
I'd extend the API to allow for querying via JSON similar to keen rather than merely focusing on visualizations.

Honestly as a dev all I want is a simple/fast/cheap keen alternative that I can dump events into and do ad-hoc analytical queries with programmatically.
Ok. No major incidents except those that we don't want to talk about, like: "dude, where is my nuclear reactor?".
Just to clarify, 1.8 hasn't been released yet (currently at release candidate 4).
Heh, saw 1.5/3L/day and I just thought, well, that's a lot of alcohol.
I've worked with a dozen different languages across a dozen different environments during my career. The languages I will never work with again, and would rather quit than use them again are:

perl: This is the worst language I've come across. There are multiple different ways to do the exact same thing, sometimes the rules are understandable but mostly they are insane. For example, the "or" vs "||" is ridiculous to me, and the different namespaces between scalars and vectors such that you can have $a[$a] if I remember correctly. To me, it's a mess of hacks and 'this sounds like a great idea' that makes it almost impossible to maintain over long term.

ruby: In my opinion, ruby suffers the same fundamental problem as php, which is that designers learn to use it instead of those with CS backgrounds, and produce terrible code and terrible practices. I developed on php for a few years, and the company had a hard time finding new employees that would meet the hiring bar because everyone that applied didn't have a CS background so the entire company pivoted to Java. With ruby, you also have inexplicable shortcuts that make code very hard to read, like no distinction between member functions and member variables, things being optional or not like ?, etc. Reading ruby was extremely hard to me, and if you have a large codebase, it's torture.

scala: I know scala is revered by many but I hated it, but admittedly I only used it for a few brief and painful months. It's the first coding language I used that I couldn't survive without an IDE to help me figure out where code was coming from. It was basically impossible to trace through code without an IDE, at least for me. I think it does the same thing that perl does, which is give multiple ways to do the same thing which makes it very hard to read, and the "you don't have to do this if you want" mentality which also makes it hard to read especially for noobs. I hated it.

In my opinion, the easiest language to work in is go. Go has an opinionated, single way to do things, and go fmt is the ultimate arbiter or coding style. No more arguments! I LOVE that you have no choice because it means you have less cognitive load to worry about. Yes, you lose creativity but at the benefit of maintainability. It's not my favorite language, but in terms of how easy it is to jump into a codebase, I feel that it's go. The only thing that I don't like is that package names and struct names are hard to differentiate, so you need the IDE to sort that out for you. For example tool.func1() could either being an package or a struct, so this needs IDE help as well.

My favorite language is Python. I can do things in Python in 5-10 mins that would take me 1 hour in C++ to do in boiler plate. To me, it's the most productive language if you want to get stuff done as quickly as possible. It doesn't scale like compiled languages, but that's a problem for success and most don't reach that stage in the first place.
>Paper ballots tabulated by scanning are the only ones immune to these shenanigans.

Every single faulty election in history thus known has been a paper ballot election.

I have been an election judge for 15 years. I take my civic duty extremely seriously but if a fantasy action-movie plot compelled me to tamper with an election, paper ballots would be my preferred method. Yes, even without detection.

Every single children's birthday party magician who has ever lived possesses the dexterity needed to switch out ballot boxes and the seals used to secure ballot boxes are just as easily tampered with as the seals on electronic machines and every single person who owns a No. 2 pencil has the skill needed to pre-mark ballots.

This may come as a shock and surprise to you, but in nearly every single precinct in every single county of every single state, the way the ballot boxes get from the polling place to the tabulating facility is: a dude or dudette in a car, alone.

You can say: voting machines need their code audited, the firmware needs to be open-source, the security measures need to be better

But saying that moving around pieces of paper in a plastic bucket is more secure than properly-implemented electronic voting machines is so absurd it boggles my mind.
I'm blocking Google Tag Manager, and nothing important seems to be breaking.

* CNN - OK

* Fox News - OK

* New York Times - OK

* Reddit - OK

* Discord - OK

* Bing - OK

* YouTube - OK

Major clickbait sites:

* eatthis.com - OK (20 trackers blocked)

* inverse.com - OK (20 trackers blocked)

* knowyourmeme.com - OK (22 trackers blocked)

So, there's little if any problem with blocking Google Tag Manager.
Yeah this happened at Atlassian, beat for beat. Textbook incompetence.

HipChat was a declining dumpster fire with endless outages, so they thought they’d make a new chat platform from scratch (Stride)

So all the development effort was on Stride from that point. It was released, no one used it, and then under a year later it was shitcanned and “sold” to Slack. The dev team was RIF’d. Good shit!
> In recent years, though, Google has become actively evil

At least they're self aware: https://gizmodo.com/google-removes-nearly-all-mentions-of-do...
Russia May Have Passed Peak Oil Output (2021)
I totally agree. When given the chance, (and if the goal is productivity) I always use Python because it is the most high-level and most productive language and ecosystem out there. I learned it almost 20 years ago and it was apparent after only spending a night or two with it that it was massively more powerful than Java, C and C++ which were the languages I knew at the time. Since then I have not discovered anything that was a similar improvement as Python was over Java. Concatenative programming comes close but suffers from small ecosystem and there are issues with the syntax.

Automatic memory management became mainstream in the 90's and dynamic typing in the 2000's. But what did the 2010's give us? Github and Stackoverflow? I think we are due for another "programmer productivity" revolution but I have no idea what it will be. Statically typed programming languages that are marginal improvements on existing dominant languages for sure aren't it.
The top-down reevaluation will inevitably happen from the bottom-up.
Complaints about static typing boil down to not wanting to be responsible for the schema and data architecture of the program itself, and that desire to remove responsibility for designing the scheme is where ORMs like ActiveRecord find a foothold.

Unfortunately for folks and languages with this mindset, if they need to have good performance, eventually they will need to take responsibility for the data model of their database and their codebase.

Code is data, and types are schema.
The government isn't taking the house, a private buyer is purchasing it for its market value. Paying taxes on income is not communism lol.
The Moral Foundations Reddit Corpus
In the US they still have people from Hurricane Katrina on FEMA trailers, natural disasters take a long time to recover from which is contrary to public perception that its solved cause its out of the news cycle
> I've seen firsthand the issues that come with trying to get a distro to interop with Bluetooth, sound, and software not quite designed for it.

These issues crop up on bleeding-edge hardware due to different distros running differently-timed versions of the same underlying components. They fade away over time as software versions start supporting the formerly-bleeding-edge hardware across the board, and the issues invariably shift to the next bleeding-edge hardware release. This is not an immutable fact about the ecosystem, it's a consequence of wanting something to function before it's fully ready for serious use.
I haven't met anyone afraid of eating meat dunked in chlorine because of the chlorine - it's because of the reasons why American chickens need a chlorine wash in the first place. And it's because it's cheaper and more efficient to just let chickens stand in their own shit for so long their feet dissolve and then just wash the meat in chlorine to avoid any bacterial contamination, than provide chickens with decent living conditions in the first place.

Never heard of European chickens being "pumped full of antibacterials" - would you mind explaining what you mean?
I'll be sure to post an update! It's not a Diffusion Model, but I believe this VQGAN-CLIP implementation has weights available - https://github.com/nerdyrodent/VQGAN-CLIP