skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, are you saying that you run a centralized third party that is charged with collecting the royalties and passing it on to the artists? Because nowhere in the ERC-721 standard is there a way to differentiate between a "sale" and a "transfer between wallets".

So tell me, please, exactly how "blockchain" is bringing "decentralization" to the art field. I am all ears.
The point is that any such bureaucracy is recently formed and not a legacy of pre-1945 statutes.
The best projection is a globe. A nice medium sized globe that’s portable is great for teaching relationships between land and water as well as geography.
Because my work isn’t fully automate-able yet; if I became aware of a method to do so I would do it.
I get that, but I find it hard to see why one would look for NEW training data from actors who will never have the opportunity to become as seasoned as their forebears, when you have 100+ years of filmed historical data (among other formats) from which to pull your players?
I can see this being used in soccer matches to replay, zoom in and rotate the scene to see if it was a foul or offside or something. Very nice.
So it turns out the default on Debian is mawk which does NOT support Unicode. Thanks for pointing that out. This simple test gives different results for gawk and mawk.

$ echo 'ö' | awk '{print length}'
Minor point: don't have a common consumer grade TV of that era for reference. Actual "reference grade" CRTs of the time (such as the Sony PVM series) look almost as crisp as the perfect lines of modern retro-emulation.
To be fair, Carmack wasn't ever a hero to me.
More still.

Prompt:

> A website design concept for Apple Inc, in Neumorphism design style, showcasing the next generation iPhone Pro Max. Make it pop.

Results:

* https://i.imgur.com/lU4Mf0X.png

* https://i.imgur.com/ROMJEjT.png

* https://i.imgur.com/U4sDheM.png

* https://i.imgur.com/3bRXCs1.png

Tbh this is probably the worst one yet.. By that I mean, the results for this prompt are the least reflective of the text in the prompt. Sure it got the iPhones, but it doesn't really feel like a website design, and it doesn't feel like Neumorphism design style.
Fun!

My name keeps changing though.
Where is all the water going?
Ask HN: Is it time for AI to start replacing doctors?
Hello wizards and apprentices,

Most people, regardless of their politics, understand that healthcare, notably in the US, is too often unaffordable and sometimes destructive through financial means.

Many doctors, from my observations, function as pen pushers in what seems an administrative bureaucracy, relying as often as not, on remembered-information rather than improvisation or critical thinking. Many of the conditions they treat or medicate are done so in an almost automated manner. In many cases, a nurse would suffice at a much lower cost.

Obviously those who sacrifice a decade of their lives to study medicine desire and deserve to be rewarded. The discretion and experience that comes with such an immersive decade is of undeniably great value. However, I am convinced AI could rival a significant portion of what they do, theoretically at a drastically lower cost.

We (or some of we) trust AI to pilot vehicles, some of them weighing 80,000 lbs. We (some of we) trust AI with many serious matters; it could be argued that it has already begun replacing professionals at the PhD level, eg psychologists (Fusion Centers, law enforcement, pre-crime, etc). There's social credit and Trust Scores and more. Clearly we (some of we) are willing, if not eager to shirk our burdens and responsibilities onto artificial shoulders. Why not include, at least one, application that might have a clear, unambiguous and tangible benefit to the majority?

I think the Hippocratic oath is very amenable in this direction.
I agree on your first point, but not your second. In the fourth paragraph it says:

"Its purpose was to be used for maritime navigation and it served this purpose well since throughout the projection North is up and South is down, while local shapes and directions are maintained. So when using this projection on a map scaled for navigational use it's easier to find your way."

The "solution" presented in the article looks an absolute mess to me though. Surely the better answer is a globe (real or virtual)? Those have existed in schools and homes for almost as long as maps. My children grew up with a LeapFrog globe, and at a young age gould find every country on the planet, by country or capital name. Great fun and highly recommended.
I think it's a good idea to define nebulous terms we throw out there, like sentience for instance.

Is this what you are talking about?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentience
The purpose of jobs has never been to give people joy, but to extract value from their labor as quickly and efficiently as possible. Getting any kind of emotional satisfaction from one's work is a privilege which arguably points to an inefficiency in the market, as that energy is wasted which could better be put to productivity.

Artists, programmers and everyone else will have to find their joy somewhere other than than selling themselves to a corporation, once AI driven markets optimize away any room for "joy" and the like, and that's going to be one of the few good things about automation. The sooner we break people from the Puritan delusion that work defines a person's meaning and the value of their expression, the sooner we can once again decouple culture from the machinery of capitalism.
You can go your entire career and never use Postgres. It’s pretty easy to, actually.
True - I was thinking of Unicode's definition ("[extended] grapheme clusters").
Nice work!

I suspect the difference mainly comes down to the fact that Zig compiles everything into a single compilation unit. As you can see, this has tradeoffs. It produces better code (single-compilation-unit is what "LTO" approximates) but it requires more memory and more code needs to be rebuilt on changes.
Why would you launch a bleeping FMV game in 2022?
Zstd, it’s okay. 600 .rvz files = 450 Gb -> 163 GB. Wanted it more like 10 GB.
> He says he wanted to try "XeTeX" (which supports Unicode) but "...I was going to download it as an experiment and they wanted 5 gigabytes and 5 gigabytes at the particular boonies place I'm living would...mmm..not be finished yet!"

Man, I think once you're Kernighan there should be like a 1gigabit/sec symmetric circuit wherever you go just in case you use it to do something else useful.
Unproductive resistance? The recent trends I've seen in embodied AI/ML applied to Robotics is to merge LLM to derive semantic connection for long-horizon tasks (Say-Can, Socratic models, CLIPort). At least structuring knowledge in linguistic matter (and thereby reach generalization) is a hot topic
For context this is 37 years after it was released (1985)
> Mercator projection in an objective way

Only if you drop the objective reason (navigation) that the Mercator projection was made.
Slack the messaging app was actually the pivot off of an unsuccessful MMORPG. They were writing it for their own internal use. Motivations were somewhat different than you are envisioning.
POSIX doesn't require shared libraries at all.
We could retain a progressive tax system with or without the use of tax incentives. I would personally favor the removal of all tax incentives to be replaced as your suggest with grants, but would combine that with a continuously valued formula for tax rather than tax brackets. It's very simple, except that most people don't understand "equations".
GitHub/Microsoft know what's up, because they make Copilot free for students, but teachers have to pay for it. The best thing for Copilot is to keep teachers as oblivious as possible.
I am already doing exactly that, and am getting paid for it.

I am a logo artist and I sell pre-made logo designs. Before the current AI services I had to come up with visual ideas by myself, like a caveman. Now I use the AI to generate a bunch of sketches and blurry ideas, and then use my graphic design experience to polish them up to a usable level. Here's how it looks.
https://imgur.com/a/DKTsKdC

I am absolutely sure that a lot of people are doing the same right now, just keeping quiet about it.
Also apparently libpthread, which I guess is part of glibc:

$ /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.31.so
Native POSIX Threads Library
Copyright (C) 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Forced unwind support included.
In theory, they could work on nothing, with over all productivity staying the same.

In theory, looking at a complete society's productivity, unemployment is a great thing, because it means little work is needed to sustain a specific level of wealth.

The problem is only one of distribution.
Society is a dissipative structure, and there is a thermodynamic logic that applies to it. Energy goes into a society, and outputs are metastable systems and the inevitable entropy. And sooner or later the amount of energy needed to maintain that metastability will exceed the energy available, this is in rough analogy to the Carnot engine efficiency, where efficiency is proportional to the temperature differences along the system boundaries. Everything makes perfect sense if you cast it in this heterodox framework.
I've put a lot of thought into this as well, very few mammals lose the ability to gestate offspring. although I wonder if all mammals have been researched on this, but whales and human females have this limitation.

Although retroactively we can try to apply some evolutionary benefit for our society, in this case I'm leaning more towards random mutation and coincidence.

I think there is merit in cracking this, since the article points out a noteworthy observation:

> When a woman is in her late 20s or early 30s, the rest of her tissue is functioning at peak performance, but her ovaries are already showing overt signs of aging

I would be fond of tweaking this, or at least having the option available
+ turn it upside down
March 2022 you say? Great. Are there any benchmarks? Nothing fancy, just some 3rd party comparisons to other selectors or combinations. Because that would be preferable to buying myself a safari capable device just to prove point that I wasn't making in the first place
The UK and the US differ dramatically in their use of the tax code to create behavioral and economic incentives. Most of the complexity in the US tax code stems from the government's repeated, endless use of "tax breaks" (credits, deductions and more) to encourage various things, whereas most other governments dispense money to people who participate in whatever is supposed to be encouraged. In theory the effects are similar; in reality, the implications are wildly different.
I don't understand why you would reveal that you automated your job after all that time. If the contract states that you get paid in hours rather than tasks per time period, you might end up losing a lawsuit.

Just leave and say nothing. Don't give your code to someone else, don't give it to the company, just go. Even without the potential lawsuit, on the odd chance that your future employer ever calls up your previous employer to verify your credentials, the company won't describe you as a lying hack.
There’s a very fast Matrix homeserver implementation written in Rust, called Conduit.

https://conduit.rs/

I’m not one of the developers, but I am looking at using it for work.
I had to use hipchat after Slack for a while and the differences were glaring. Slack was probably 5x better.
The 5B-year legacy of the Voyager 2 interstellar probe is just beginning
> That is what they found in this study, but the OP said it was likely "noise" and had no scientific basis for saying that.

It's a small finding in both effect size and statistical significance, and prior probabilities count.

Barely statistically significant findings don't change my beliefs much, because the base rate and prior knowledge matter.

E.g. if you show me a p<0.05 finding that ESP exists, I'm going to dismiss it as statistical noise-- even if the study methodology is perfect it's only 10-20x more likely that ESP works than before, and 20x my prior belief of very near 0 is still very near 0.

If you show me a p<0.05 finding that green jelly beans cause acne, after studying all colors-- I don't care at all.

Here, the commenter you replied to-- api-- suggested that the study clearly indicates that there's reason to be concerned about saccharine and sucralose. It raises a general level of concern about other NNS's, but the data is ambiguous and weak. This is a reasonable reading of the study.
Some of it was NTSC and composite video's limited bandwidth smearing stuff together, but quite a bit of it was the less capable beam shaping and less precise phosphor masks on TV-grade CRTs.

Basically, yes, vintage TVs were terrible and made up for it by being very blurry.
Unless copyright changes a lot, the A-listers are going to expect a lot of money for a film with their name on the poster and their carefully curated likeness throughout, whether they have to turn up to shoot it or not.
There's a third option that you missed which is what Zig does. It has a "bootstrap" compiler, written in C, which is kept in sync with the self-hosted compiler. Features are implemented twice, once in the bootstrap compiler, once in the self-hosted compiler. So the build process involves a fixed set of steps - stage1, stage2, stage3 - and the chain never grows more than this. No pre-existing binaries are required.
> After each phase, you had to swap your code with another team.

I'd expect that most students would just "rewrite" the code they received from the other team and replace it with their own.
"If you are a medical professional and have been trained in a “civilised” country you probably know next to nothing about the primate Homo sapiens and how they survive in the wild."

But what is "wild"? Consider:

https://books.google.com/books?id=LXmY3Q8qBngC&pg=PT74&lpg=P...

"Homo heidelbergensis (700,000 to 150,000 years in Europe and 600,000 years in Africa)... were probably the builders of one of the oldest known types of constructed habitations found so far, at a site called Terra Amata in southern France. Several large, oval structures, 7 to 15 meters long and 4 to 6 meters wide, date back 380,000 years."

So it is possible that humans have been living in nice houses for 380,000 years. And who knows what sort of beds homo heidelbergensis slept in? It's possible humans have preferred comfortable beds for a long time. Who knows? We have not (yet) found examples of bedding from that long ago time period.

Conclusion: be wary of anyone who makes assumptions about what constitutes "wild" in the modern context.
What I've personally implemented is trial compression with heuristics (you eagerly compress chunks, and if enough chunks don't compress, stop trying). It does require low level input/output control and per-chunk/block compression.

That said, a surprising number of video sources use sparse file type setups, and I've gotten pretty good compression (up to 60%) using LZ4 with NVR files from some brands.
This is a fairly broadly-held view, yes.

It's also one that emerges throughout history. The term "Seneca Cliff" refers to an observation by the Roman rhetoritician. Apocalyptic concepts are common in the Bible. Eastern religions tend to take a more cyclical view, of recurring expansion and collapse. Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West is a classic. There's a modern literature largely spawning from the Club of Rome's Limits to Growth (1972) of which I'd include Tainter. James Howard Kunstler's The Long Emergency is a more recent take on that.

Broad-brush observations and gut feelings tend to be less substantive and articulable than specific indicia and mechanisms. Tainter's work is of interest in that he does point to a general rule that is common to multiple instances.
What are good resources to learn the "ins and outs" of Postgres?
Sounds like he was looking at downloading a complete TeX Live distribution; XeTeX itself isn't anything like that size (by a couple orders of magnitude, at least).
Sure, I get it, it’s naive and idealistic. However, as a counterpoint I have seen repeatedly that people actually go a bit nuts without interesting work or hardship. I think that’s why puzzles, video games and dramatic television shows are so popular.

The problem is that we want work that is accessible, and interesting. It should be right near the edge but firmly within our abilities to be satisfying and meaningful, and we have problems when it deviates from that significantly.

It’s possible that for wide swaths of people that edge won’t keep up with the edge of what is not automate-able, but I think a) accepting that someone people will have to be supported out of work and b) others can have their personal ability edge pushed further with vocational training is both good for those individuals and good for society.
The Anti-Adam Neumann
I'd love to see what it had come up with if simply prompted for "Album cover for Nevermind by Nirvana"
Supabase developer here. True to an extent, but at least with the data, it's PostgreSQL, which you could take somewhere else. Or you could easily port it to another brand of SQL and do something else with it.

And as far as being "locked into the software", isn't that pretty much true of your entire stack? Once I choose to develop in React, I'm locked into that, right?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30838788

As long as you seem articulate, it seems like people won’t call your BS.
That would be cool
I guess I am still annoyed at all that polemics built around that notion from within the pop-linguistics circuit. It may be that I am behind the curve on the state of community acceptance of Chomsky.

And whereof Pearl's Bayesian Belief Networks? Nowhere in this discussion have I seen a mention of them. It would seem that they also have a role to play.
> Because then it allows simple math that you can’t do on UTF-8.

That's not actually useful, because unicode itself is a variable length encoding.

So it mostly blows up the size of your data.

Though it might have been selected for implementation simplicity and / or backwards compatibility (e.g. same reason why Python did it, then had to invent "flexible string representation" because strings had become way too big to be acceptable).
I think AI already has supplemented doctors. Think about all those prepandemic articles about how early/bad the flu season was based on number of Google queries on "flu symptoms".

And be honest: you've googled some set of symptoms to see what you've got, probably before deciding to see a human doctor. No, you don't have 5-alpha reductase deficiency.
The problem of Microsoft buying Skype and destroying it.
I actually like modern MS relatively much more than other Googles and Apples, but I will never forgive them trashing Skype, which at version 6.21 was damn near perfect.
This happens already without the code bugs, as you already know if you've done much elder care; nanomachines offer us the ability to fix it. The crucial question is whether we'll be allowed to.
So, what's interesting about differential equations for someone who doesn't find analysis or physics particularly compelling? Say, a computer scientist with a greater love for discrete math?

Linear differential equations are a great introduction to eigenvalues. There's a chicken-and-egg problem understanding this, and it would be helpful to take ODEs and Linear Algebra together.

As I first read in Feller, generating functions are a formation that runs the full length of mathematics and beyond; the Laplace transform from ODEs is just a continuous version of a generating function.

As Marcel-Paul Schützenberger first made clear, the notions of "rational" and "algebraic" from pure mathematics match up with finite state machines and push-down automata from computer science. One studies these most easily using generating functions. As Richard Stanley explains in Enumerative Combinatorics Vol. 2, there's a third class of generating functions beyond algebraic: D-Finite. Roughly, this corresponds to how one learns to expand the solution to a differential equation in ODEs as a power series. The true significance of this class in both pure mathematics and computer science is poorly understood, but there's something clearly out there as significant as rational and algebraic. That is intrinsically fascinating.

When I see someone filling a blackboard with equations, I see someone flailing because they don't know what to do. The best math is simple, and can be expressed as philosophy, like recognizing this formation crossing the sky.
Totally, but their estates won’t be as precious (as we’re seeing with holograms already). And once a certain critical mass is built up, it’s built up — and it’s be foolish not to use it.
I remember learning that Venus Fly Traps count to 3, and have actually tried it out. There are a few hooked whiskers inside their "mouth" and if you touch them 3 times, it'll snap shut. It doesn't matter which ones you touch, or even if it's the same one. The theory is that closing and then re-opening is nutritionally expensive to the fly trap, so there is that delay mechanism to avoid shutting upon a particularly directed gust of wind, etc.

I don't know if there's been an explanation for its counting ability and subsequent trigger action yet, but I find it wildly interesting. The article mentions a different surprising bit - that they can be anesthetized with ether, too.
I wrote a little service to handle some of the Matrix client-server authentication API.

The first version used Vapor before we had async/await. That was painful at times but doable.

Earlier this year I got some time to rewrite it in modern Swift with async/await. It’s a total game changer. Almost as easy as writing in Python.

Maybe even easier than Python sometimes, because with Swift you have a decent type system watching your back. If it compiles, then you’re probably most of the way there.
I think distros package it like TeX-full, TeX-minimal etc...The one having documentation files is a couple of GiB on Ubuntu...

I wonder what distro or editor he is using...
Family? Friendship? Education, community, creative pursuit, experimentation, travel?

I really don’t think that compulsory labor is the best way for people to find meaning. We’re not going to sit around on the couch forever feeling so miserable that we can’t go out and do anything. We’d be so free to explore what we want! Sure, people raised in a society that worships labor would feel unsure of their footing for a while, but I don’t think that’s a deep part of the human condition. People absolutely would still work. Imagine creating a theater production. All the work on planning, set design and construction, etc. None of that may pay a living but it’s still meaningful work that most people can’t spend time doing today. In a world without compulsory labor more meaningful work will be found.
Cool idea but after creating the database I tried going there and got a 400 error.
PoS seems very similar to PoW, and if one is fine (as we seem to think), the other is fine too.

In POW there are only block producers, and producing a block requires actively choosing transactions and transaction ordering.

Ethereum POS includes an additional attestation step where validators confirm that they have seen blocks without exercising any control over the contents of those blocks.

But this is exactly what PoW miners do when they extend the chain: every block is a vote for all previous blocks in the chain.