skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I understand and agree with the sentiment you express, I don't agree with using the word "magic" to refer to it.

I believe that in the minds of most people, the notion of magic essentially means the ability to use willpower to modify physical laws, or at least that physical laws are ultimately a product of a conscious will (often the will of a God, not a Human - but still a will that can be pleaded or bargained with through prayer or ritual).

And in this sense of the word, science has utterly destroyed magic. Not only is it impossible to extend your will to the world, it turns out that it is in fact the conscious will itself that is subordinate to physical laws, not the other way around - or at least this is what science is currently strongly hinting towards (we would know for sure if we had a much deeper understanding of the workings of the brain, and how consciousness arises out of it).

It's important to realize that this is vastly different from what scientists/philosophers throughout history have generally believed - even upto fairly recently, some form of Descartes-like dualism, with a mechanistic physical universe and a non-mechanistic spiritual universe of the mind (and God) being the most common way of picturing the world among most scientists even in the 1800s or later.
If we suppose we have to stack 100'000 more tonnes of rock on top of a 100'000 tonne displacement aircraft carrier to sink it, and the ocean is 2 km deep at that point, it takes about 1.96 terajoules at 100% efficiency. At 46 MJ/kg that's 43 tonnes of gasoline. That is a ridiculously small amount of energy to sink a carrier; it's maybe a large gas station.

Of course the question is open: how efficient would the rock-stacking drones be? If they're 50% efficient the scale of the operation is different than if they're 0.05% efficient.
I'm just parroting what other people say—

If it's a startup, a thing you're trying to make money on, or a community-oriented thing, market your app before you start. Marketing looks like talking to ppl you think are or will be interested in it. See if what they tell you about their needs fits your own understanding of their needs, and if it does, tell them what you're doing. If it's a paid app, see if they'll give you their name/email.

If it's a side project, go ahead and build it, or at least a simple first version of it. Then demo it around to see what people think. Twitter, Discord, Reddit, are great places to find tons of ppl into anything you're wanting to build. Sometimes, in-person meetups are great for that too. For example, my side project is a job board in the vein of japan-dev that was posted here last week. I just put together a prototype and formulating an idea of how I explain the value prop of it.

Mostly it'll be some form of the two — get some idea or prototype out, then see what people think. This will usually inform you what ppl are excited about.

I haven't considered search ads and Show HN or Product Hunt yet — I think I want at least 50-100 interested ppl, and maybe some initial traction before going that route. It'll either be a firehose of criticism or love... but it's a firehose either way.

Basically make sure your wheels are properly attached before you go down the ramp... but don't spend TOO much time attaching those things :P
I don't have anything recent on YouTube, but I do stream development on https://twitch.tv/dr_verm which often includes running it, also early preview of new features. I'm getting ready to start the new "create" command, which will be like react create-app, but for any combo of tech / lang, and also getting updates from upstream. This is something like a living bootstrap for anything, fixing something that always frustrated me... one time bootstrapping.

https://docs.hofstadter.io/first-example/ takes you through the process of building up and using a code generator
Is this a bit or for real? There's pros and cons to real sex (like anything) but it sounds like you're missing out.
They're designed to kill?
Wow, had no idea this was possible.
addiction refers to a pattern of behavior not just its scale. like, you can be addicted to eating even though it has a much smaller effect than smack and people still are and end up 600 pounds. i also think addiction around porn is not just addiction it's a fucky form of erotic plasticity that gets people hooked on weird stuff that messes with their ability to have normal, healthy relationships.

like, i watch a shitton of peers have problems with this and then y'all tell me "oh at least it's not opioids". bruh. yes it's not opioids it's a different kind of problem. then there's the people who are out here like "oh you're just a puritan" refusing to admit that there's literally anything potentially dangerous about porn at all.
I wrote a tool to help students organized and sustain academic projects. It took me 5 years and 13,000 lines. I worked hours on it almost every day. The reason I could sustain such an effort was I once had to withdraw from Stanford because of ADHD, and I wanted to help others avoid my problems. [I though I might make a few bucks too.] I think it might help some of you sustain your projects. If I mention it's name, I'll get in trouble from the moderators. Look on the Mac App Store under Streamline Academic Writing.
Efficiency (almost) doesn't matter. Cost and scalability matters. Pumped hydro and batteries are wonderfully efficient, but they're a lot more difficult to scale than infrastructure for storing, transporting, and burning a gas.
From the article.

>I’ve written about this before [1] and gave some examples from Wikipedia, YouTube, Mastodon, and Tor.

From that linked article.

>On YouTube, 2 billion MAUs but only 15 million (0.75%) active creators

>On Wikipedia, 39 million registered users but only 128 thousand (0.3%) active contributors

>On Mastodon, 1 million active users but only 2 thousand (0.2%) instances

>On Tor, 2.5 millions users but only 6 thousand (0.24%) relay servers

So unfortunately your comment just seems to be a thought piece from someone who didn't really read the article.

1. https://staltz.com/some-people-want-to-run-their-own-servers...
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Is there a Caddy equivalent to OpenResty? I use openresty as a proxy for a Python app and it's been super handy to have the lua extensibility.
> Remember the film "Brainstorm" from the 1980's? Where the guy almost dies because he blasts a real-life full brain capture of sex into his own brain in a loop for days?

No, I had to go look for it and it was on youtube (NSFW) but is this the scene [0] you're talking about? This was likely what inspired the braindance features in Cyberpunk 2077, it's pretty much the 1980s iteration (with a massive tape) on what looks like a futuristic VHS cassette and a phone for some reason.

Well, it wasn't exactly just dopamine, but there was woman who pleased herself to severe level [1] with 30 min orgasms that impacted her entire life, it's a become a meme on JRE [2].

Sidenote: this is probably the only film where Chris Walken wasn't like he is portrayed now, even Kings of NY had that vibe about him but here he is kind of... normal?

0: https://youtu.be/cOGAEAJ4xJE?t=2969

1: https://www.zmescience.com/other/feature-post/brain-pain-cen...

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq6KMk8tkNE
If a younger person trains and practice and puts in a ton of early mornings and late nights, they can become an Olympian. If they sit around and do nothing, they can't.
The implication is that Keffals and friends will DDoS the site out of existence, as they have apparently tried to do numerous times. This is of course criminal but goes unmentioned.
Of course people are more likely to share the best iamges – or in this case, the one most illustrative of their concern (about watermarks).

Also: my sense is that getting the best results often requires a lot of extra coaching with style/detail words. As we can't see the prompt here, we don't know what sort of style/details were requested. GIGO.
Different statistic altogether, but ~17% of Gen Z self-reports as lgbt in Gallup surveys: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/02/24/gen-z-lgb...
Thanks for the ideas on the notes.

Yeah... I like Apple's note app, also like MS one note/Medium editor where it has the bolding and ability to drag/drop image. Not hard to do on the fly but yeah.

I like that though like functions eg. "Snippet recommend books"

At the moment I'm just dumping things into a basic MySQL stored on a Pi ha. Need to centralize it, probably make it remote/cloud. I also use static encryption but not the local network one.

I'm gonna look at my stuff, think about making new wrappers... Tried cross platform before electron did a pretty good job. Mobile not so since I'm not a mobile developer. Would like a widget on Android. I'm using color notes at the moment not "secure" since not my own app.
Matt Keeter // Raytracing with M-Reps
Is that any different from the argument about violent videogames back in the day? Or Dungeons & Dragons before that?
> If I use my account to listen to one band only, my $10 contribution should go to them (modulo taxes, margins etc).

I'd argue that pooling the funds and divvying it up evenly across all played songs is actually the most fair. If anything, your implementation would be more prone to scammy content farmers (e.g. spammers using trials/locale pricing arbitrage to play only one $SCAM_ARTIST song per account).

Most importantly, however, your model is just not how memberships work in the real world. HBO doesn't (and shouldn't) reward a TV show with more budget because you only binged one TV show despite having access to all the show. Nor do gym memberships. Do you think Costco shouldn't allocate your membership funds for their gas stations because you have an EV? What about cable TV? What about your local/state/federal taxes?
Everyone knows the real problem is in the funders, like the NIH. They could easily correct the problem by yanking / giving funding for "boring" activities like proper peer review, proper fraud detection (why is all of it falling on Elizabeth Bik and short sellers? Why did the NIH not catch the beta amyloid disaster??), and maybe special funding for reproducing results.

Yes, NIH created the "crisis" in the first place by only putting "shiny, complex things" on the pedestal.
Same underlying facts, different interpretation of the facts.
No BB keyboard?
Hmm, I notice you mention LPI and resilience but not LPD (low probability of detection). Is DSSS maybe easier than FHSS for an adversary to detect on a waterfall plot and localize with phase correlation if they have a phased array? Or is it also suitable for LPD?
I will check some vids out. I just glanced through the readme so I can't say I 100% get it right now.
Not Texas specifically. I think it’s just good data driven reporting. Well the article is a bit clickbaity but it’s based on a data backed report.
Is there any option to delete my account?
finally, a tech company with a cute design aesthetic :D i'm so happy to see a cute little bun in an oven instead of standard tech company imagery. i've never used bun and don't have great reason to, but it makes me hopeful to see.
Deno already have a node compatibility mode, and will support import npm packages directly.
Top startups with high entrepreneurial density in the Bay Area
It's almost like many adult males are capable of distinguishing between the pretty picture created for entertainment purposes, and the reality of human relationships. Who could have thought?

A lot of people also behave like pictures of naked women (or availability of actual naked women, for viewing and more, provided appropriate payment is made) is a new thing that human males only got access to with the invention of the internet. It's not that new, it's just another facet of the same old thing, and the same would happen - some small number people would develop an addiction, a bit more people would be regular consumers, a real lot of people would be occasional consumers, otherwise not a lot changes.
You may want to use the native 'Share' option, especially on the one with the watermark.

You'll get a public link, at `labs.openai.com` rather than some random image-sharing site, which will show the image & the prompt used to generate it (including a credit to "your-first-name × DALL·E").
I have a lot of respect for Jarred and bun. The lean approach of just one person working for a year is rather underrated imo. No funding and therefore no pressure for growth. No overhead from scaling up a team and having to implement process, standards, etc. And at the same time, incredible content marketing by just tweeting about every little detail. Me and many others got hooked just because Jarred was posting interesting stuff and kept posting interesting stuff. It wasn't a stuffy blog or padded out conference talks, it was just good, technical content.

My only hope is that Jarred gets some rest for a bit. According to his Twitter he's been pulling 80 hour weeks and while that does lead to impressive work, it's not great from a human perspective. Hope he can rest up and keep this going for the long haul!
Rustle: Svelte compiler rewritten in Rust
You're right. This shows the prompt and it doesn't have such style directives

https://ibb.co/gz5RDkB
Amazon was definitely using 11/8 internally when I was there 7 years ago.
Cool and thanks!

After the next release, I'm planning another big documentation push. I'll be sure to make a video since you aren't the first or last to ask :]
I kind of disagree on the last one, or at least there is a huge step from the second one to it.

I've used next.js for a project which I think qualifies as the new hotness. Once I had to add translations, authentication and do some authorization checks, and make all of this work with SSR, it became a hell of a nightmare and I regretted it so much.
Well I suppose it does depend on what’s being compared. If it’s the efficacy of government then yes it absolutely matters. If it’s comparing present stats because one is asthmatic and deciding where to live then government efficacy is irrelevant and what factors influencing the aqi aren’t to important compared to the actual number.

Here they are comparing governments so it’s pretty important when judging how relatively effective they are.

While not an expert on the geographic factors for TX, several major California cities have geographic factors that drastically worsen pollution.

Going from pea soup smog to moderate aqi in a region that really wants to be a smog bowl is quite a feat and a damn good job by the government.

In contrast, keeping good air quality in a region that is naturally prone to good air doesn’t say squat about how competent or effective the government is. (Note, I don’t know how the Texas geography effects air, but you see my point neither does the article).

So yeah it’s extremely important to know and weigh major dissimilar external factors when comparing the effectiveness of different government in addressing an issue.

Otherwise it’s like comparing California health outcomes in 2019 to Texas health in 2021. Two years can’t possibly make a big difference right?!

Or it’s like judging Maine’s government vs Arizonas based on heat related illness without considering climate differences. It would be comic.
So, just a feed of Liam Neeson? https://cheezburger.com/13330949/liam-neesons-unapologetic-p...
> Wow their statement about not participating in benchmarking wars is alarming.

I found the Snowflake statement pretty reasonable. [0]

Vendor benchmarks are largely propaganda. What actually counts is performance on real-world workloads, starting with your own. Plus good bencharks are costly to do well. If vendors are going to invest in load testing, it's way better to do it as part of the QA process, which directly benefits users. The other thing for vendors to do is to drop DeWitt clauses so others can run benchmarks and share the results. Snowflake announced this in the statement and also changed their acceptable use policy accordingly. [1]

[0] https://www.snowflake.com/blog/industry-benchmarks-and-compe...

[1] https://www.snowflake.com/legal/acceptable-use-policy/

Disclaimer: My company runs a cloud service for ClickHouse that competes against Snowflake.
It's not entirely a new issue, see the discussions around "loli erotic japanese manga" etc.
Though I agree with you, nobody is touching this tech anytime soon (at least publically) even though you can easily imagine safe applications like MRI with AI generated images to study exact brain patterns for potential treatments and so on.
You can use recursion and template types to type some pretty complex string values now - I've seen cut down parsers for both SQL and TS written just via TS types which is madness but does show what can be done.

Whether the effort is worth it is, however, a totally different question to whether it's possible.
I just got a banner ad (fine I guess) and a pop up ad (much worse) on mobile. No thanks
low density suburbia only survives by siphoning funds away from the nearby city.
Caddy is designed around pluggability, everything is a module. It's written in Go, so you write your middleware logic in Go. See https://caddyserver.com/docs/extending-caddy
Creative writing and maybe essays. I learned to program in the 1960's. It's been an enjoyable career, but it has left me with nothing lasting.
Never, and there never was.

Media always was entertainment. Internet is just print v2.0. As a society, we never were able to sway the population with facts.

If you look at the history you will see the same things happening over and over again. That doesn't mean we shouldn't fight for what is right, just don't be discouraged if the effect is less than desired.
Top 1% is a bit exaggerated, but there is definitely a lot of not good stuff. I find that Dall-E does especially poorly with underspecified prompts too, unlike something like Midjourney which can give visually pleasing photos for even the most abstract concepts. Dall-E tends to do better with concrete and specific prompts.

Here's an example: Stressful Shapes

Dall-E: https://i.imgur.com/JBkSh0y.png

Midjourney: https://i.imgur.com/C02Zq3i.png

On the other hand, here's a specific prompt: "nerdy yellow duck reading a magical book full of spells"

Dall-E: https://i.imgur.com/FMKZ8zc.png

Midjourney: https://i.imgur.com/lpsg6af.png
Where is this? This seems like a completely different problem than the typical US city where people are grumpy about renters ruining the neighborhood.
Oh it's not unique to this country at all. idk about current laws but video of two people going at it used to be extremely illegal in the UK even if they were having the most conventional sex imaginable.
>I.e. there's no evidence.

It's not like the CIA likes to document its dark-ops in Latin Am. on wikipedia as proof for you.
By prohibiting interest bearing loans, loans become relegated to purely an act of charity, and as you point out, there will no longer be businesses that are built only or mostly to lend money and profit off of usury. And that's a good thing.

There's no reason why the car manufacturers won't be able to offer 0% interest on moderate term loans (a few years long). They already do today when they want to sell cars. This will drive prices down actually.

You can also have longer term leases without interest, effectively paying for depreciation and the company can profit from leasing the car.
The map in the app is certainly interesting. It has done a pretty good job with all my rooms. Where it has been weird is the connections between the rooms.

My kitchen for example is next to my laundry room, and the correct passage between the two shows up on my Roomba map. My laundry room has a sliding glass door that opens to the back yard.

My kitchen is also connected to the dinning room, on the opposite side from its connection to the laundry room. This connection shows up correctly on my Roomba map.

But it also shows a connection that goes from one corner of the dinning room to what would be a little bit outside the house, going along the outside toward the laundry room parallel to the kitchen, then taking a jog further into the back yard, then turning and going to the sliding door.
I've been a C++ developer for 20 years, and when I was playing around with UE4 back when it was first released, I found both options to be extremely clunky.

There's a lot to be said for C#, at the very least. I know a ton of not-very-technical people who have learned enough C# to write simple Unity games.
AIUI, GSI's are not quite "generic", there are a few architectural variants. Plus they only give you a "system" partition, so the kernel and low-level userspace code (driver HAL, init-system etc.) are still Android-native and device-specific. Droidian is trying to implement something that's as-close-as-possible to Linux as GSI's, and it's not easy.
>She claimed that users on Kiwi Farms, a notorious message board with a history of targeting and doxing vulnerable people, organized the raid and continued to harass her and numerous others.

I recommend reading https://kiwifarms.net/help/how-is-the-kiwi-farms-legal/

The site is legal and the majority of users follow the law.

>8chan, a popular website for terrorist manifestos.

It wasn't that popular of a site and it's purpose wasn't for terrorist manifestos. It's purpose was to be an image board where users could create their own boards. The global moderators took down content that was illegal to host in the US. The most popular topics of discussion were anime, politics, technology, and video games.

Since the media was biased against the site, once an excuse came up to get the site taken down they pounced. They painted a misleading picture of what the site was about in hopes they could take down the site. They won and destroyed many innocent communities that called that site their home.
What if I write a machine learning algorithm that only generates images that it has seen in the training dataset, with one pixel slightly different.
Isn't that true for all technology? In the U.S. we have the specwriter system which leads to inefficiency to get around copyright. In China or Russia they just copy the code and iterate.
Sure, but it doesn't because initially they chose not to.
I don't know why this was downvoted, what's the monetization plan of making an improved runtime just for the sake of it with no complementary business model? Do you make it closed source and sell/subscribe it? Do you try to survive off of paid support? (A runtime should be incredibly stable and not need support). Hope you get enough donations?
While obviously extremely impressed with Bun and Jarred's achievement (especially because I really like Zig being similar to C) I'm also shocked that he was able to get a 3-letter `.sh` domain (bun) _and_ a 4-letter `.sh` domain (oven) both real words!

Looked to me that Oven was registered shortly after Bun exploded in popularity.
There is definitely a gradient in safety and almost everybody agree with that. What is controversial is how much safety you actually need.
> The lean approach of just one person working for a year is rather underrated imo

It's honestly got me thinking about doing the same thing for my Big Project that I've been squeezing into nights and weekends for the past year and a half