skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I kind of get the sentiment about openness but I think it's way more nuanced than you are making out.

There are very good reasons for withholding SOTA models, primarily from the info hazard angle and avoiding escalating the capabilities race which is basically the biggest risk we have right now.

Google / Deepmind have actually made some good decisions to try and slow down the race (such as waiting to publish).
urbanization

The resources of korea and their technology will not go away, they will now be at the hands of fewer people, so more wealth / person. Historically it was small states that dominated the world, the populous ones were ravaged by poverty and famine.

People are calculating (correctly) that our future technology does not need a lot of hands, and that is true. Look at the tech sector , which employs a tiny percentage of the population but has enormous output.

As for the egoist act of genetic heritage/perpetuation, well let's be honest, in 10 years people will be modifying their genes and removing our clunky and faulty dna so there goes our glory.

As for wars/security, those are already fought with drones

> I fear if nothing else changes, developed countries are dysgenically wiping themselves off

The trend will not continue forever

To me , this all highlights that we need to ramp up anti-aging technology fast and hard. It s much higher priority than sending humans to mars
>Because the utility is seldom fully utilized in an urban environment, they are nearly pure fashion.

Utilization of private vehicles scales with income, not with population density. HN just all tends to live in "nice" places so they never see people using their vehicles to the max. This is true for all vehicle classes, not just pickup trucks.
I thought SQL featured feeding prepared statements to a JIT? I'd have put that near the top for interest - a bunch of rewrite rules to improve the sql then a mapping to the database implementation as runtime layer, probably with the glue in machine code. Maybe also speculation on current db state.
Nope, a lens holder is the mechanical component. Most people and people in industry would refer to either the optical element(s) or the complete assembled optic as the lens.
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Reminds me of the 1962 “Good Friday Experiment”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_Chapel_Experiment
I genuinely think this is part of the reason for cycling-as-hobby, aka Middle Aged Men In Lycra.

I want a hobby vehicle to present some sort of challenge. Now maybe you shouldn't ever be "challenging" yourself on a public road, but doing so in an old sports car at 45 mph, is clearly not the same level of risk to others as pushing equivalently in the modern version. It's just less acceptable, even before environmental concerns. So that leaves you with "push the throttle for maybe five seconds, then back off before you plough into a shared-use bridge at 120 mph" (something I've unfortunately seen, recently). Neat trick, but really a skill as such, is it?

Meanwhile, I hit 40 mph yesterday, on a twisty road, using gravity and oatmeal. That's my accomplishment.

Then there's the noise. An old sports car made noise because the designer wanted, was singularly focused on, making a powerful engine. A new car makes noise because, after the team of engineers make a powerful engine, then design an efficient suppressor system to comply with laws, the marketers come along and find regions of the engine map the laws do not cover, and order the engineers to make it very loud in those regions specifically. The former is charming, the latter is just cheap. More so when you're embarrassed by an EV - scratch that, a practical EV, with storage space and stuff - during acceleration.

And for all that, the sports car is still usually pretty rubbish on a track compared to a purpose-built vehicle. Pro tip: real mechanical engineers worry about heat dissipation. A lot. Really a lot. Your road car almost certainly doesn't have enough for sustained track work. They manage a few laps, then important components - the brake discs, brake pads, brake fluid, dampers, maybe even some of the sensors and power steering - start fading. Again, in comparison a few thousand on bike stuff gets you something entirely race-worthy. Yes I know it's still just a bicycle - it is - but you do notice the sense of purpose, that things are there because they make the vehicle better at its one job.

If OEMs want ICE sports cars, arguably any sports cars, to have a future, then the Top Trumps needs to stop. Rediscover that sense of purpose. Either the point is "fun at socially acceptable speeds", in which case manuals are just better because they're more fun, or it's "prove I have lots of money", in which case stick an electric motor in and coat the interior in gold, because the current crop of go-fasts don't have long for this earth, legislation will see to that.
I agree. The best programmers I've worked with are happy outside of work. Leading a miserable life is very damaging.
They can attempt to pass the blame to the US Gov't, and maybe some individuals would be fooled, but larger investors wouldn't be and would see through their ruse and would both be upset and basically lose any faith they have in the system, making the value of Tether plummet. No one would touch Tether, making it worthless, since the big exchanges would then not let you exchange between <Coin> <-> Tether, and so even if they have some assets backing them up they would effectively be worthless as a company because of loss of trust.
"b" in kb means bits. While the uppercase letter "B" denotes bytes. There is almost an order of magnitude difference between these two units! Usually 1B = 8b.
I’m British and I still think the original title reads better. “Fuck it” is ambiguous without context. “Fuck off” isn’t.
Assembly script is a lot easier to pick up than C++ and Rust; especially for people coming from a typescript or javascript language background (i.e. web developers). And it's not like you are going to get a huge performance benefit using Rust or C++ over assembly script. It's the compiler that makes things fast and the idioms. And basically the compiler toolchain is very similar for assemblyscript.

The only real difference with assembly script is that it's a garbage collected language. Otherwise, it uses llvm and the same set of optimizations you'd be getting with C++ and Rust.
The first paragraph is important:

> I quite often get bug fixes, patches, requests and questions regarding the things I have published. Most of the feedback is respectful and helpful. However occasionally there are other requests. This page is where I plan to redirect them as a final warning before I block and ignore them.
Funny, you’re reading an American news aggregate site about an American publication called Popular Mechanics.

Why wouldn’t you expect Popular Mechanics to be talking about the American market?
If those karate, piano, swimming and football are intense enough to be counted as "work" rather than leisure, then something is wrong. Are hobbies not a thing anymore?
ByteDance quietly launches search app in China, where Google is banned
Impressive as that project is, for the most part they bought that lens rather than building it.
At one of my recent jobs (EU-wide consumer healtech) we managed to reduce bounce rate by addressing a number of issues indicated by DevTools, mostly focusing on time to render and time to interact. It indeed positively impacted conversion and I guess this is a common knowledge among marketing teams by now, that this works.
None of us measured this. Personally, I write code for the people. The good and the bad. It's very rare when someone is abusive (it happens). I'd say it's one in 1000. The ratio of people who disagree is much larger. The challenge is in creating a big tent environment that listens to everyone.

This sort of "don't like it so get the fuck out" attitude is poisonous. It might not seem so in the short term but it is in the long term. As a maintainer you're a politician, not just a coder. I need to be able to take some reasonable level of abuse and stupidity. Because occasionally I'm the stupid person who didn't "get it".
I didn't say it was a problem. Please don't strawman.
With prior C++ experience it's easy to equate C++ templates and Rust generics (similar syntax - usually does similar things - quack like ducks etc.); I know I did. And through this lens generics will soon seem very limited compared to templates. But the underlying reason for this is because C++ templates aren't generics - they're much closer semantically to hygienic, declarative macros. C++ templates are based around rules like SFINAE and allowing multiple alternatives and the compiler will work out which is the most-specific match that works. C++ templates (even with concepts) are unconstricted - when you give a template a type, there aren't any checks enforced by the language about the types; many templates have a list of requirements and you, the programmer, have to check them, unless the template itself has guards and checks the types.

Through this lens, the semantic equivalent of C++ templates in Rust isn't generics, but macro_rules! - but for most uses of C++ templates you would rather use generics and traits.
Merging that PR can take a lot of time for testing, and also risks locking in some feature into the project, which the maintainer does not need or use, but they're now stuck supporting (owning) from here on.

Typical conversation:

- contributor: I need feature X for my big client, it's super important, please support it.

- maintainer: interesting, I'm not familiar, but I'll take a few hours to review. Can you help maintaining it? write tests? help fix other bugs?

- contributor: no. corporate does not allow me to. I am too busy, have other paid projects to work on, why would I do things for free?

Don't get me wrong, everything I do is FOSS, but it's easy to be brunt as a maintainer.
I got tinnitus doing this, at least I think I did!
New DeskPi Cluster Board Holds Six Raspberry Pi CM4s
I have always enjoyed strategy games the most and a few years back I briefly used a service like GeforceNow. Since input lag is not super important for those games, I enjoyed using it and didn't have a lot of problems. If I would start some casual gaming now, I would probably use such a service since I would definitely not get an extra computer and like the simplicity and availability (I just need a laptop and a stable internet connection). I use an old macbook with a crappy inbuilt graphic card, I can't play anything.
Yes, calling Gaiman "a writer" makes sense, since, even in the art forms that involve some graphical side (comic books, TV) his role usually revolves around WRITING the story. Someone else draws the comics, someone else films the TV shows. Gaiman's main skill is writing stories, not drawing, or acting, or directing.
Martin Kleppmann's lecture series is the most concise one https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeKd45zvjcDFUEv_ohr_H.... The total length is about 8 hours. You can finish it in one evening, depending on whether you sleep or not.
New York just approved $5 billion to import Canadian Hydro. This is already done on various smaller scales in the US and across the globe. People in Norway are being riled up by their right wing parties because they are selling hydro electricity (and gas) at a high profit to the rest of Europe via connections because of the Russian situation, and there's nothing the right-wing hates more than market-based price signals that suggest you should maybe use less fossil fuels and be more efficient.
> And it's not like you are going to get a huge performance benefit using Rust or C++ over assembly script.

Or do they? Unlike Assembly Script, Rust and C++ use LLVM, which is a lot better at optimizing than binaryen.
Well, i don't need to care about it then.
If they're determined enough, have the tool and time you can't do anything.

pick as many as you can:

- get a very good chain

- chain your escooter to something that can't be moved, or get a ground anchor if possible

- use an alarm brake disk lock

- use a motorcycle cover with a wired alarm

- park in a safe spot

- never leave your scooter in the exact same spot for days/weeks

- get a proper insurance

I personally had one of these, I expect the size alone is a good deterrent: https://www.bikeradar.com/reviews/accessories/locks/kryptoni...

> It seems that no lock can withstand 30-60 seconds of lockpicking/brute-forcing

Unless you're a lockpicking expert or have access to emergency services grade power tools this is wrong.

This is the "small" version of what I used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI9SEThrJMY

You need 30s for one cut, but you need two cuts to get the chain free, so that would be 1 minute if you brought your angle grinder, a source of electricity, and some kind of heavy duty vise to keep the chain in position while you cut it

Most theft are crimes of opportunity, I wouldn't worry too much about an escooter if it looks like it would be a pain in the ass to steal. If you had a $20k italian supersport bike parked in a regular street of a crime ridden city I'd start worrying (and look for a private garage)
> is that an artefact of it being a budget DIY model

This one. I believe all lenses are blurry in the corners to some extent, but it's not usually that bad.
As a company. Long story short, someone angled for years to have a partnership with us, finally got it and the day after the ink dried on the contract sold the rights to the source code to another company. That's not how that works...
My family of 6 would stream Netflix, game and I'd be pretty heavy handed myself all on my router tethered to my 4G connection while we were switching providers. We didn't notice anything surprisingly. Three was the provider at the time.
Yeah here in Norway new cars sold with automatic went from 32% in 2010 to 96% today[1]. Though I suspect the high ratio of electric cars sold these days, 65% last year[2], has probably been a major contributor.

[1]: https://www.nrk.no/osloogviken/flere-tar-forerkort-for-bil-m...

[2]: https://www.elbil24.no/nyheter/na-er-hver-sjette-bil-i-norge...
> I can sort of see the argument for hybrids, but charging networks will make them obsolete very soon.

Eh, I don't know about that. The current-gen Prius can easily get over 600 miles on a tank of gas if you aren't a lead foot. And a refill takes 5 minutes. For longer trips, that still makes quite a difference.
Imagine you ran a personal twitter account where you posted your jokes but allowed people to send theirs via email and occasionally publish them. Would you find inappropriate to tell people "yeah this joke almost kinda works but it's not funny enough for my account maybe send me a better version"?
> then it's the maintainers problem

No. Because unlike the one contributing a "not good enough" fix, the maintainer now has to carry the burden of continued maintenance of that fix. If that fix makes that worse, declining is absolutely reasonable. Of course that's different for fixes with just a typo-level of complexity.
A photo of a Shiba Inu dog wearing a sunglasses and black leather jacket playing a guitar in a garden, does not work correctly.
Thanks for your honesty.

Is 'being awesome' awesome if at its core, it's the negation of losing?
I would learn lots of different languages, databases, concurrency models and paradigms.

I felt like my life was stuck in a rut being very good at one language (Java), but then I tried Ruby and my mind was blown. That reinvigorated my interest in JavaScript/HTM/CSS. Then I felt road blocked by database performance and a good friend really pushed me to really know and understand how and why to use SQL well.

This then was a slippery slope to realizing that something that seems hard or impossible in one language/database/paradigm is trivial in another.

My personal goal is to learn a new language a year. I’m not always successful (I’m looking at you, Haskell!), and I don’t always use the new languages often, but every single time the process has always made my code better, tighter, more maintainable, etc.

A good place to start is the Pragmatic Programmer’s “Seven Languages in Seven Weeks” book and subsequent series of books.

As they quote in the first few pages:

“A language that doesn’t change how you think about a problem isn’t worth learning.”
Such airbags would throw a pedestrian away. A long way.
So basically there are practically only 3 browsers left in the desktop world(1) - Firefox, Chrome, Safari. Protonmail works on all 3 of them, which is good. But why is this a news worthy topic?

(1) not counting obscure ones like Lynx or others.
It depends on the intensity and the question of whether or not they are voluntary or mandatory.
Why do privacy folks recommend Brave?

Isn't Brave a commercial, ad serving entity?
Many kids are forced to do these activities to pad their application for colleges and sometimes it is for show and prestige.
In a system where every transaction is public, how on earth would anyone think "it appears anonymous as hell on the surface"? One of the main features is the public ledger, and it's one of the first things you learn if you try to understand blockchains.
Basically the assumption that by sharing your work, you become inherently beholden to the wishes of those that use your work.

Some time over the last ten years or so, much of the open source community acquired the belief that they deserve to be treated as a customers despite the fact they don't pay for squat.
What has changed since your grandparents generation? Where did this (need for?) competitiveness come from?
This place is great and done with a fun open minded spirit. Not like in a serious 'museum'.

On the visit you can also see the control center of the place, were there is the rail/airplane control. Ii is really impressive!
:) I'm sorry!
The sketchy part is being a Chrome clone while pretending to be a "different" browser.
Incredibly interesting and very well made. Hit the sweet spot for me in regards of technical details.
I formed a company around it. Entitlement is 100% true. But I don't ask people in the OSS project if they are paying customers or not. I also work on other projects where I don't make any money.

I think entitlement sucks. When people phrase things as a "demand" it's pretty terrible. But keep in mind that the internet doesn't covey emotion properly.

A maintainers job is a community service job. Even if you volunteer (which is this case), either do it with an open heart or just don't do it at all. Otherwise this will be pretty frustrating in the long run. You will burn out and fizzle because you think of all the time wasted where you could have made real money.

If you think about it that way... Well. Answering kindly to someone whose abusive and communicating your perception can make a huge difference. I did run into the very very rare a*hole that couldn't be reasoned with. But this is extremely rare. Most people just need to be talked to and heard. We can then work together. I can't be everything to everyone but we need to form a community of people who might not agree on everything. Those IMHO are the most interesting and valuable voices in my community.
> just starts higher up the food chain

How do you make those people interested in it though?

(If they weren't, originally when you hired them.)

Adding the right KPI? What'd those be

What if they aren't any bright, just have a good self confidence?
> If you believe that God forgave your sins at the behest of Christ, and that you will enter an eternal kingdom also as a son of God, wouldn't you eventually be more liable to forgive and love others?

No. History has been the judge and has left Christianity wanting. You want a faith that truly causes love and care for others? Jainism. "By their fruits you shall know them" Jesus said didn't he? Well the fruits of Christianity are rotten.
That doesn't explain why they haven't written their own operating systems from scratch and why hardware vendors are so reluctant to publish their driver software source code.
Which is now Stable Diffusion under the hood, sprinkled with a little prompt parsing "magic".
So is this one here, no? Both projects seem to assume that the glass itself is a given.
I am not sure there was ever a consensus on this.

A lot of people who like to say all crypto is a scam liked to say tether was a scam. After Luna, people who didn't understand the difference between an algorithmic stable coin and a fiat backed one said tether would be next.

Maybe it is a scam. But there is no evidence of that today and there was no evidence 6m ago...
Capabilities race, seriously? This is not nuclear warfare my guy. It's mathematics.
Can you recommend a paid mail service which is better? I'm in a search process now, to ditch google as much as I can, and was leaning towards Proton services.
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I don't live in the USA, I live in Europe and we don't have anymore a robo-call issue (if we ever had it at all), heck I would say we don't almost even have a cold-call from call-centers issue anymore (it was totally an issue a few years ago).Probably because it was... regulated?
There's (at least) four Fs, and the first in the list should be "File it".

Not every open source user is a developer who can Fix it or Fork it, but a well-written bug report (and other forms of high-quality feedback) is a godsend. Even as a developer, everybody benefits if I file a bug and then spend my energy on my own open-source work rather than spending that same amount of time trying to learn the codebase of every piece of software I use.
Find it, Fuck it, Forget it.

Who knew KMFDM lyrics could also be applied to OSS development?

https://youtu.be/PhS_t0sou_4
Startup is selling tech to make call center workers sound like white Americans
Would voxels be easier than vertex-based meshes?

I can imagine you'd have the problem of stray floating voxels then, which isn't as noticeable when it happens with 2D pixels.
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It’s been studied, I don’t know any links off the top of my head but they’ve consistently found that fertility returns to normal within a couple of months / menstrual cycles. The hard part is knowing when you are fertile: since there are only a few days each menstrual cycle when the egg is available to be fertilized if you’re just coming off contraception and don’t know your natural cycle length it’s easy to miss those days.
Even on mobile I will 'fix' the Reddit URL by applying the old.* subdomain. Works great!
Not US-based != "offshore money laundering company"
If it were actually well-corrected and apochromatic, then a 165mm f/2.5 lens would be fantastic for astrophotography. There's a reason the manual-focus Rokinon 135mm f/2 lens is so popular for that purpose.
Interesting. It goes to show how varied people’s experience can be. I get zero spam on my seven year old Postfix server as long as I have greylisting enabled (my only anti-spam measure) while I get the occasional spam message on Whatsapp (that I only use for work purposes on my work phone since 2020).
All I remember brave for is some crypto nonsense, and looking at wikipedia it seems they were doing some kind of suspect "content creator payments" that were opt-out and not forwarded?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)#Controvers...

At the face of it, it sounds like they had a "Donate to platypus" button but you'd only get the donations if you knew to sign up with them on the back end? Gross.
I desperately want this too! In my case when stuck in a car and other people insist on playing music. That's probably easier because I'm not moving relative to the speakers.
I don't understand why Safari isn't on the "recommended" list. Doesn't it respect your privacy?
Still, many people do think it is anonymous. Maybe it's because on the blockchain you have a long number instead of your name and surname, so some people think that the number isn't traceable back to them.