skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd guess this is one of the least environmentally disruptive constructions in the Nevada desert. The green fields across the street look infinitely worse.
also what is the PCs budget?
.. In Other news New Zealand having the wettest Winter on record.
Will history repeat itself for Shiba Inu [SHIB] long-term holders
> Loving books is scoffed at (or would be, if anybody ever copped to it). The whole concept of literature—still more, of art—has been discredited. Novels, poems, stories, plays: these are “texts,” no different in kind from other texts. The purpose of studying them is not to appreciate or understand them; it is to “interrogate” them for their ideological investments

This seems an off attitude to have. Loving to read doesn’t make you an academic anymore than loving to go on walks in a park makes you a landscape architect. No one is scoffing at you for loving to read, but if you think that love on its own makes you anything other than a consumer then you are obviously wrong.
Now that is a TIL! I thought it was more specific than that.
THe whole argument about the negative affects of widespread use of Mercator projection for world maps has always struck me as way overblown. It's true, to be sure, that most Americans (which I use as an example. because I know them), have a distorted notion of the size of Africa, and to a lesser extent, South America, but in my experience, they equally underestimate the size of Russian and China. I think it has more to do with their certainty that the US is "really big and important" as countries go, than with mental burn-in of a warped geography from grade-school maps.
This is true but for me the transparent abstraction over Postgres is actually a big plus though I can see that people who don't know postgres or SQL would be a little intimidated. I will say that postgres is the best SQL DB I've worked with and has become my goto.

In my experience there's no free lunch when it comes to high level abstraction over complicated systems. Also, having the option to draw upon the mountain of docs and info on the net about Postgres is nice to have in your back pocket. Of course the tradeoff is that you need to know SQL but I think that's a fair tradeoff.

I would like to see some more improvements over supabase js client api, but I hope they don't hide the fact that there's a relational DB under the hood and allow advanced access to the underlying postgres API.

I could see them making a nosql supabase over something like a mongo type DB like AWS does with document DB or even postgres jsonb fields. That would be nice feature. You could probably get a lot of mileage out of postgres JSONB fields.

I haven't used firebase much except for toying around with it but I think it's certainly a good option for simple nosql db for simplicity and speed of ramping up. Only thing with Firebase is that the cost is prohibitive at larger scale and you're going to be coupled to then when you get to that point so it could come as a rude awakening when your app starts to get a lot of users.
Is DZ "wrong" because it's not considered a digraph by professionals, or because people don't agree that digraphs should be considered single characters?
The appearance of a high quality CRT cannot be accurately reproduced on most commonly available flatscreens. Specifically, most flatscreens have much more motion blur; this becomes apparent when you drag a window back and forth across the screen and try to track the text in that window with your eyes. The text all blurs. Then, try moving the screen itself back and forth the same way, again tracking the text with your eyes. Even though the screen is sideways back and forth, your eyes should be able to track the text which remains crisp.
Can't argue with that!
I think that's the opposite of what the GP was asking for.
Bindle: Object Storage for Collections
> major progress

Can you link to an account of this progress where it indicates how much less carbon intensive they are vs steel in the majority of steel reinforced concrete use cases and how imminently they’re going to replace steel and how expensive they are and are likely to be?
Thank you. I’m going to need some time to think about that.
Yes, I built my Corne using that.

If you won't like to source all the components yourself there are vendors who happy to sell you kits, but you can make 3-5 keyboards for that amount of money.

I suggest to use the Miryoku[1] layout.

[1]: https://github.com/manna-harbour/miryoku
This is in fact already a problem with PoW and is happening right now. AFAIK ether mine stopped including TC transactions in their blocks.
The problem is not the .so, which has all versions, but the .o files, that don't have a way to represent the version they would prefer to use. C declarations also lack a way to specify those versions, and the last version is the only one that is guaranteed to correspond to what's declared in the headers (because the older versions could have a different ABI... in fact, if they did have the same ABI, a change in version wouldn't have been necessary in the first place).
I lock my door to control access. Physical barriers aren't meant as a way to prevent access but as a way to control access. A locked door means that those without the required permission shouldn't pass. If they do pass you immediately know they are unauthorized and can treat them as such.

Locks also keep honest people honest. Sometimes temptation and curiosity are too much.
How to make shredded wheat has been publicly known since at least 1895. [0]. How to make it efficiently at large scale is a trade secret that the company invested in and has a right to protect. None of this is related at all to the teaching of differential equations.

[0] https://patents.google.com/patent/US548086A/en
"Metrics" as a concept is not under attack just because someone ginned up a false one to save money.
I have experienced violent or harmful settings to be avoided by DALL-E. E.g. setting a person on fire. Same with drowning - seems to be impossible/hard to generate
Not to be contradictory, but unicode is not a specific encoding. ufc-8 is an encoding (with a non specific length) and utf-32 is an encoding of a Unicode code point with a specific length.
This is, as far as my recollections of reading the entire series as a preteen goes, absurd.

It's called the Iowa School for the Blind. It would never have occurred to the audience that the education wasn't provided by the state. It's called the.. never mind, I said that already.
Here’s the thing. When you learn to be a carpenter, they teach you how and when to use certain tools. The same can be for any profession. This is a new tool. They shouldn’t be telling students not to use it, but when to use it and what it is suited for.
Wow, that was one of the best articles that I’ve ever read on this topic.

Well worth reading, for anyone self employed.

Some of this advice could be applied to normal employment too, eg owning your mistakes and generally working in an authentic trustworthy way.
Computer science is to programming what materials science is to construction. It produces really interesting new building blocks that actual practitioners can put to amazing uses.

But research scientists aren't necessarily great engineers, and engineers aren't necessarily great research scientists. That's OK though, it's why we have separate disciplines.
Linux. Any Xorg will support this. I think support in Wayland is not complete.
I just say Hey Siri Shazam this.
But if you do need to seek, which is really common in data warehouse workloads for example, unless you keep the index in ram you have to do an extra IO on every seek to read the index
This is a good example of why I dread Copilot: even if Go specifically couldn't express this any more concisely, there is a language that can and Copilot's very existence makes it less likely for that other language to be used as much as it deserves.

Besides, the generated example seems to be missing code to gracefully handle the case where len(filtered) is zero. Maybe there's a precondition that prevents that from happening or maybe a division by zero is exactly what you'd want, but at face value it looks like the bot did a rush job.
You mean the company I can't trust to not sell me counterfeit goods, everything from cell phone chargers to condoms, now wants to sell me prescription medication?
> Once I figure out how… I will try to submit a pull request. I wish I understood git better, but in spite of your help, I still don't have a proper understanding, so this may take a while.

Even Kernighan struggles with git.
Puffy helmet caps are the next big thing in NFL player safety
https://archive.ph/kXVY9
Can you get a lot of people to install a piece of software and then use their account instead? Could you even pay those people per hour of usage of their account?

Quite cheaply
Right, defaults matter. The fact sanitizers exist is much less of a game changer than the default behaviour being sanitized.

Because C++ defaults are notoriously all wrong, in programming language design you could usually do worse than consider, "Is there an alternative to what C++ does here by default?" and if there is one, choose that alternative as your default because it's more likely to be correct.

Sometimes C++ helps you out, it might have a keyword "do_it_right" and you can just default to that, if you feel people might want the C++ default behaviour, feel free to reserve "do_it_wrong" in case people wanted that, but in many cases they will never ask you to implement the C++ behaviour because it's just wrong. Examples: "const" in C++ doesn't mean "constant" it means "immutable", so, make immutable your default and offer "mutable" as the option. "explicit" in C++ makes constructors need an explicit cast to be used for conversion, once again of course you want that by default but feel free to reserve "implicit" in case some people are sure they need the C++ behaviour.
Lomborg is Danish, a country famous for it's success with wind power.

He's not making a specific point about Germany, he's attacking anything that might lead to government action on climate change:

Seven years ago:
> When considering climate change, most people think wind turbines and solar panels are a big part of the solution. But, over the next 25 years, the contribution of solar and wind power to resolving the problem will be trivial – and the cost will be enormous.

Thirteen years ago:
> A good illustration is Denmark, which early on provided huge subsidies for wind power, building thousands of inefficient turbines around the country from the 1980s onwards. Today, it is often remarked that Denmark is providing every third terrestrial wind turbine in the world, creating billions in income and jobs.

> A few years ago, however, the Danish Economic Council conducted a full evaluation of the wind turbine industry, taking into account not only its beneficial effects on jobs and production, but also the subsidies that it receives. The net effect for Denmark was found to be a small cost, not benefit.

> Not surprisingly, the leading Danish wind producer is today urging strong action on climate change that would imply even more sales of wind turbines.

Turning round after 20 years of saying solar is bullshit and attacking the wind industry in his home nation as if they're part of a climate hoax and then complaining that they're all made in China is shockingly brazen.
And the founder's (Stewart Butterfield) earlier company, Flickr, was also a pivot off another unsuccessful game. Man just wants to make games but gets too successful building billion dollar companies.
Useful how? Within a domain/origin you can already track/control this stuff with a plethora of things: cookies, URL params, localStorage, JS access of history to implement fancy back behavior...
>This is the same with climate change. Emergency? Many will say so. Enough of an emergency not to fly to Thailand this winter or not buy a monster house? Nope.

I think many of us common folks have fairly low energy demands.

But, the same set that goes to Davos, and is preaching to us about cutting our consumption, is the same that has the private jet, 3 mansions and a football field sized yacht.

I'm so over the entitled elite telling us what to do.
I think that mosquitoes should not be eliminated, whether they bite humans or not. The other kind of animals (including human) can live. You (and other living thing in this world) can (and should) defend yourself but that is not the right to destroy everything.

What is good of human? To be bitten by mosquito. What is good of mosquito? To be bitten by fish (according to another comment below). What is good of fish? To be bitten by human. (Of course, this is overly the simplification, but I hope to explain the point that I am trying to make.)
I've often wondered why there isn't a dependency system for TeX that lets you get only the packages you need... feed it a document and tell it to automatically download and install any missing packages.

There may be some technical reason why this isn't practical. Anyone know, offhand?
What's the difference between moving around and picking up a document, to say hitting an API endpoint to fetch the content of the same document?
> Every projection is so far off that it just becomes comical.

Except Lambert and Albers.

They become conical.
More pointless than this ongoing $126M bus lane project in SF?

https://sfbayca.com/2021/01/21/__trashed-3/

Everyone agrees the new design will be unsafe for bicyclists, and slow down taxi service.

It's replacing a decade-old bus lane that was previously used as a poster child for overpriced SF construction projects. I can't find an article about the previous boondoggle bus lane, but remember it costing at least $10M's, but only covering one city block.
But how would it or it’s nodes even arrive on a consensus ? Suppose it was a self modifying code that took input from the world. How would you decide which node got to provide it input, and to verify that it ran the agi code faithfully ? How would forks be chosen to continue the chain ?

I would think AGI would first be born as a child of a human. Someone who thought they could train software to be more like them then their own biological children.

Or a new Bert-religion…

I mean there are lots of applications of ai. Probably the best is for future programmers to learn how to train it and use it.

deep learning is quite general and it’s ai. Consciousness and independence are irrelevant and not really needed.
One thing that took me a long time to grok that I wish this toy showed is how the fraction is included in the calculation underneath.

Right now the following bits

0 10001 1000000000

show the calculation as

1 x 2^2 x 1.5 = 6

when it's more clear to actually say

1 x 2^2 x (1 + (512 / 1024)) = 6
ExtendNY: The Manhattan grid extended to every point on Earth
Yeah, life isn't fair. The impression left by generations of blacks raping and assaulting women in a culture that defends, promotes and rewards predatory behavior means women might not automatically assume you're a paragon of virtue at first glance.
The Future of Speech Recognition: Where Will We Be in 2030?
> the absolute state of the tooling of the modern world

Hah, TeX Live is... not that.

It's been enormous since I installed it off a CD in the 90s. The idea, and it works, is that you can just compile anyone's stuff out of the TeX ecosystem.

There is just... a lot... in it. You don't need a package manager if you install the whole universe locally. Like I said: not what I would call a modern approach to tooling.

On the other hand, I have latex files from the mid-Noughties and, I don't even need to check: they'll compile if I want them to.

But yeah, if you want just a little piece of TeX here and there, you're off the beaten track. That's not how TUG rolls.
It is not. Just look at the frequencies in the data (histogram) and compute the order 0 entropy. Then you know if your data is compressible.
I can easily envision that future. Anyway, any real world process is, in the end, computable by a FSM, even a self-conscious entity can't escape that assumption (if physicalism is "correct").
A bunch of lookup tables and some flip-flops, apparently, can do wonders.

Given sufficient future progress in AI [-], I can see two dangerous outcomes since one could conflate inanimate matter and life into the same computational basket: the nihilistic one, when our own sentience will be downgraded to triviality and only our codified laws will keep the human spirit philosophically afloat (but for how long?) and the specular outcome, a sort of machine-hugging movement :)

In a sense, or every life form is trivial and meaningless (including us) or everything is special and "sacred".

[-] For instance, if every test we throw at a language model strongly hints at "sentience"
cool. i just found this neato so sharing.

this pattern is stable

0 X 0

X 0 X

X 0 X

0 X 0

let's get quickly to get 30 to if you can stay isolated and build up blocks, and it only uses 6 initial.

apparently this is pretty common! https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59573414/how-to-escape-s...
This might be a bit brutal, but to be honest: yeah. They kill a lot of humans. And humans very much need to be killed. There are way too many of us, and we're doing an awfully good job of wiping out Earth's biodiversity and long-term carrying capacity.
Sounds great! Any literature recommendations for an approach like that? Online course?
Thanks, any idea what the “leet” Python version listed at the very top right of the first chart linked to below, which was in one of the links you provided; attempted to Google it and found nothing.

Direct link to the chart, see “133.7” Python version (elite version) in the top right:

https://github.com/hugovk/pypi-tools/blob/main/images/all.pn...

Which is from:

https://github.com/hugovk/pypi-tools
I wasn't trying to be pedantic or to disagree. My intent was to make it clear, to those that didn't know, that she was an extremely accomplished person. Very few people can put 'computer science' and 'rear admiral' on the same CV. I can only do the first one and am in awe of people who can do both.
I mean, it's more like "woodworker" vs "carpenter." We don't ask people framing houses to plane their own wood. Most practitioners in our industry don't apply much fundamental CS knowledge.

After graduating most CS grads seem to forget foundational CS stuff anyways.

I never got a CS degree. So I trained myself. While working and also a lot of a year when I was unemployed during the .com crash.

Which only made me more frustrated to find that most jobs are just "you nail these two boards together" and most programmers are clueless about things like what the "relation" in "relational DBMS" means.
I feel like people are ignoring that hipchat beat Slack by years. I'm not really saying I loved hip chat but besides getting away from Atlassian and marginally prettier UI I don't really prefer slack.
He could master it in a week if he set his head to it. I don't have one doubt of that. He just doesn't really need to.
> If you don’t understand your investment, you assume unknown risk.

I will never understand crypto diehards who make these statements. I would love to meet one in real life, who has never written any buggy code or made a mistake before - pretty sure it never resulted in the loss of their life savings!
Slight aside: any idea why they would announce that? Surely whitely buying the bonds at the lower price would have been much better for the people of El Salvador?
Library’s prized Galileo manuscript turns out to be a clever forgery
It applies pretty dang well. The first image generator I remember was literally titled Deep Dream. As far as I can tell, the architecture being used for this stuff doesn't allow for self-reflection or focused learning. All training examples go into a global melting pot, there's no history or "story".

It's becoming pretty apparent that deep-learning is equivalent to what people do. Get a bunch of examples, practice a lot, and skills become automatic and pop out of the subconscious on demand. Human magic is in building a library of these skills and choosing what to use when.

Getting to general intelligence is going to require generalizing specific intelligence. Doesn't matter how much compute you throw at it, the system needs to be situated in time and capable of linking events together.

It might be as simple as chaining current goals together and applying them internally. "Create memory from image", "find memories that match input", "draw output from memories". Maybe that's what midjourney is doing...
Water-born(?) insects transfer fertilizing elements from water back to the land.
> lobby against being able to sell solar power back to the grid.

Worse, they lobby against residential solar as a whole. I could install enough solar panels & batteries to cover 100% of my needs through the year, but unless I disconnect from the grid completely, I'd still pay about half of my current electric bill, without using any electricity from the grid. The utility company with local monopoly is specifically making sure as little residential electric is installed as possible.
This reminds me of the relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1597/
No I genuinely want to know about how they make money. Is it through better trading, "alpha" or through technicalities like order flow volume etc.
I think the American mass media has been producing a lot of propaganda against TikTok in preparation for a full ban. Turn the public against TikTok and the public will demand it banned.

It wouldn't surprise me if Facebook was behind this as there are reports of Zuckerberg paying media companies to smear TikTok.[0]

Nothing is beneath Zuckerberg.

[0] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/faceboo...
They do, but they’re fairly advanced level courses. For e.g. if you go down the Theoretical Physics or Applied Maths routes you’ll do perturbation theory and asymptotic analysis, probably in Master’s level or grad school.

Most people will do some computational courses that at least have them solving basic PDEs in their first or second year of undergrad now.

(This reflects the state of those in the UK at least)
In what sense? Copilot isn’t a derivative work in the sense these licenses usually are understood to mean. And given that they’re open source code bases I expect licenses to explicitly disallow things, and consider anything not explicitly disallowed as permitted.
I loved Fooled by randomness, could you recommend further readings in a similar vein?
Is this "confirmed fixeD"/different in DALL-E 2?
if you can't make the leap of imagination to substitue your career path with the provided example, then...boy, I don't know
It's the "lone wolf" alpha male type ideal, it's not a thing in wolves in real life.
Hmm, I haven’t tried DALL-E yet but Midjourney mentions that negative prompting dont tend to work well. See here: https://midjourney.gitbook.io/docs/resource-links/guide-to-p...

They got a solution for that, which is using their —no argument.
https://midjourney.gitbook.io/docs/imagine-parameters#prompt...

I haven’t checked if DALL-E has that option too.

Otherwise, you could try other variations like:

street light, light pole, lamp pole, lamppost, street lamp, light standard, or lamp standard

I copied that from Wikipedia :)

Best of luck!
> unartistic

Says who? Maybe you don’t like the style, maybe it is derivative, but it is definitely artistic, as you allude to by saying it is novel. Monstrous and distorted can be a style.

“mathematical art, 1924, litography, abstract generative art” generates https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FanUkREXEAEH6su.jpg — Can you pick the influences? I can’t.

"low poly game asset, Cthulhu monster, 2000 video game, isometric view" generates https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FanTf3IXgAETece.jpg

I thought https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FanNq6sXkAENyU5.jpg was really interesting, because the LEGO logo is not a 100% faithful reproduction even though the LEGO logo is so ubiquitous - showing that the images are generated.

From a longer tweet thread by @fabianstelzer comparing DALL-E 2 vs Midjourney vs StableDiffusion: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1561019187451011074.html