skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's interesting - this is the opposite of "games trapped in the cloud", it's games trapped on your computer away from the cloud. I don't mean it as a simple quip, but what should be take from people protesting about this opposite thing too.
I think the peer reply about treating WAN like LAN is the best lens.

Imagine all of your family/friends were on a local wired connection together. What would you do with that? Usually I don't find myself wanting faster bandwidth to interact with big services (Netflix/etc), but with other people or my own remote resources.

I throw around a lot of large VM images, which is definitely outside the average person's uses, but stuff like sending backups to your friend with the huge NAS, Steam/Parsec 4K streaming from that other friend's GeForce 3090 machine, etc...
> and give the control group something that elicits a “trippy but not psychedelic experience”

The doses of benadryl they were giving them as an "active placebo" are approaching levels where you do start to get some... Interesting (and often extremely distressing) deliriant effects.

0/10 would not recommend tripping on benadryl,
>How do you plan to retire if there's not enough young people to sustain ever growing older population.

Higher efficiency, higher wages especially in social security jobs, and of course a universal social security system

How do you plan to solve the problems of a growing population?
The consequences of things climate change will hit harder.
> Now I put my Meta laptop in the garbage at the end of my VR day.
Battery acid can kill you too. Yet you can buy it from any auto parts store no questions asked. Also, guns in the US.

You can also jump off a (naturally occurring) cliff and that’s not illegal (as long as no one pushed you I guess).
With my wife, all our accounts are joint accounts, so we don’t need to ask to “borrow” each other’s money (there’s nothing more annoying than getting a phone call in the middle of a meeting with your spouse asking for 20 bucks). My wife and I have flip-flopped on who has the most money over the years. We still treat each other. However 95% of each other’s income basically goes in the central account for each of us. We have our own money to spend on whatever we want, and each a “secret” savings account for surprising each other for birthdays and Christmas.

Oh, and another thing about having our personal accounts being shared. One time, my wife was flying somewhere and I saw her card being used illegally. I was able to have her card cancelled for her, a new one shipped to where she was staying, with cash waiting for her at reception, before she even landed. If I couldn’t see her account, she would have landed with an empty bank account, and a huge stress bag to deal with. Instead she got texts as soon as she turned her phone on with a whole debriefing of the situation and details on what assets she had access to.
> you also need to produce cars that are as visually appealing and reasonably sized as in the 50s and 60s. Fire all your designers, go back to whatever your models were in 1965, and begin anew.

Safety considerations aside, the aesthetics of the rocket and atomic age reflect the hope on humanity's future that was dominating back then. Automotive designs of late 10's early 20's are a tiny bit fancier than in previous couple decades, but they don't look futuristic, they tend to look more aggressive instead. That's also because there's demand for that aesthetic in our era.

To change the way cars look, change the way you live your life.
most satellite internet users won’t give up just because your page is slow

My point is that 'slow' is a relative measure against other websites, not an objective value. So long as your website is faster than a typical website then users won't give up. Trying to be faster than average is worthwhile, but trying to be as fast as possible might not bring any additional value.

It's also possible (likely, in my opinion) that the website itself is important too. People expect Google to be fast because it's made by the biggest internet company there is, and perhaps because the page itself is very simple. It's just a textbox on a page. Surely it should be fast. That doesn't mean people have the same expectations for grannys-discount-wool.com.

This is a complex problem that probably doesn't have a straightforward answer. Using the mantra 'make your website as fast as possible' means you won't get it wrong, so it's worth doing, but you almost certainly get diminishing returns for that effort as you optimize for things like shaving off milliseconds and bytes.

Unless you're Google.

Although... that said... if Google really thought sites should be as fast as possible, wouldn't they make a smaller GoogleTagManager.js script?
I think many American stakers wouldn't bother with the hassle, and instead would take a small haircut to stake with fully decentralized services (like rocket pool) or semi-centralized (but foreign-based) staking pools (like Lido) to prevent the threat of the U.S. government having any kind of control over the network.
Could you point me to the car manufacturer that puts explosive charges in their cars? Asking for a friend... who is myself.
I think they are referring to rev hang that occurs in newer manual transmissions where the ECU is tuned to not drop revs quickly for emissions reasons. This makes for an annoying 1st-to-2nd gear shift because the driver must wait a long time between shifts before engaging the clutch in order to shift smoothly. Mostly only newer MTs do this - some worse than others.
Most higher level regular programming languages will allow you to escape to C, and C allows you to escape to assembly, so that's not unusual.

In my experience when you need to escape to raw SQL there is still some kind of query builder employed, which too becomes another "compile to SQL" source.
There is likely no such a thing as "best programmer" at all. A person can certainly excel in deep knowledge of the domain, speed and accuracy, but at a certain level it is hardly possible to discern one such programmer from another - no one is "best". Some of them go on to be famous, but that is because of a need to say something (Aaron Schwarz et al) or do something groundbreaking (Linus Torvalds et al), not because they stand out from their peers programming wise.

That said, congratulations on your achievements so far. You seem to be on track to be a great programmer. To achieve that goal I believe some formal CS training is useful if not required. Learn to master C, C++, Lisp and one of the functional languages and their related paradigms. Learn the different database technologies deeply. Understand how processors, memory and communication works close to the metal. And at that point you no doubt will have found you specialty, developing one such is really one of the requirements to excel. And, as others have said make sure you have a reasonable life/work balance.

Good luck!
We have a building at the local university that has ground at one end level with transitory step between floors -1 and 0, you enter the building through the stair well, and descend or ascend to get to a floor. I wouldn't be surprised if an architect designed a building that did this on flat ground, violating the ability to number floors relative to ground with integers.
It should be noted that atleast in Germany, you can't just run up the lawyer bills. There are standard rates and you only pay "necessary costs". That means one lawyer. At standard rate. And only for what they did in the court room. That means what you pay the other side in legal costs is usually less than what you paid your lawyer. Though you pay other fees too and in total IIRC it usually amounts to about 150-200% of what you paid your lawyer after everything is said and done. If you are low income, the state can pay both lawyer fees, in fact, you can always request the state pay your lawyer, that's how we run the right to a lawyer to defend yourself (the state does not assign you one, you have to get one yourself).

This is entirely done so that the costs of a court case don't ruin someone's life forever. IIRC if you are low income, running a lengthy court proceeding won't be more expensive than a single lawyer in terms of the legal costs the court has you carry if you end up loosing. And even that depends because it's somewhat in the court to decide that, because we don't want to make people feel like they shouldn't sue for legitimate reasons.
A new east-west interconnector is in progress: https://www.projectenergyconnect.com.au/

In general though, BESS & overbuild seems to be working out cheaper than very long interconnectors.
I typically just start commands that contain secrets with a space. In most shells, that means "don't add this to the history".
i too use an icon font, but if you want images you should use a spritemap. it shouldn't be sluggish.
I should add that this depends on your subscribed sources. My page is ~13KB today, but it could be up to ~60KB if you have a lot of headlines. Most of the HTML is actually tailwindcss classes repeated for each headline. I wonder how much size I could save by replacing them with a single class-name. I assume it wouldn't make much difference to the compressed size.
https://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=compiler

https://www.simplyhired.com/search?q=compiler

https://www.ziprecruiter.com/jobs-search?search=compiler

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/search?keywords=compiler

https://www.dice.com/jobs?q=compiler

Good luck!
Ahah. One of my peeves about the streaming era is having to squint at the thumbnails to make sure it's the genuine article.
1time: Encrypted Expiring Links for Passwords
Kind of like the top 2 mining pools owning more than 51% of the hashrate.

At the very least, for an individual actor, it would be much more expensive to acquire 33% of all ETH than it would be to acquire 51% of the Bitcoin hashrate
Yeah, it's a separate file. But because I'm using tailwindcss, the HTML actually has a huge number of classes. I'm not sure how much that matters with compression though.
well at least occham's razor is definitely calling buttshit
But the people having kids are the ones with less money. The parents in my neighborhood are middle class (I mean like cops and admin assistants) and there’s three families with three kids just within 8 houses. Meanwhile among my law school friends, 0 kids is far more common than 2, and while I’m sure someone else besides me in my class (200 people, late 30s) has 3, I don’t know them.

One thing I think gets really overlooked is that college and job searches tear apart extended families, which in more traditional societies are a huge part of the child care strategy.
Evolution Park is a fantastic edition to the EP Group’s rapidly expanding portfolio of mixed industrial and office assets. We are acquisitive and have further capital to deploy in the market” said Arif Patel ( Dubai/ Preston / UK ) of the EP Group.
On my reading of it, "Other" is the gap between the other modelled sources and the actual demand.
what’s the average size you get when un-gzipping 14kb of html?
Easy, just have kids. Then all the money (and everything else) is theirs, and you’ll have nothing left to squabble over.
Yah I could see that. Opposite sexes commingling during the strength of youth required for military duties and which also happens to coincide with peak fertility. I’m convinced that peak fertility and sexual urges during our 20s is no coincidence—-it’s our bodies screaming a large signal at us that this is the time. That strength and ability to pull all nighters sure comes in handy caring for a newborn. Taking on such a challenge 20 years past the peak without the aid of a 10 or 12 year olds helping hands is a high burden no doubt.

I’m starting to become more convince that economies which fundamentally squander this peak fertility moment will shoulder a burden that will lead to their demise. How long can we get the fertility timing wrong before we are no more? I guess we’re about to find out.
Serious answer: I have seen operators taking this serious. It's also a european trend not to blindly accept law enforcement requests to open data anymore.

For US companies: read something on the recent twitter example.
This just illustrates the power of recursion. With it, the call stack becomes your invisible data structure - it keeps all saved program state deep down. The same approach is used to write recursive-descent parsers for languages with an inherently recursive definition.

You could also devise an iterative solution that wouldn't be more complex - then you simply have to maintain explicit stacks for operators and operands.
The same thing that makes them interesting to you is what could make you interesting to them: They are working on something that makes you curious. Keep hacking away on projects, invent the future you want to see. Share the vision and work with the world, and keep a kind heart. You can't guarantee you'll be paired with exactly who you want, but someone will come along for the journey.

Think of Joe Rogan, who arguably is the greatest in the world at getting smart people in the same room as him. He knows what he's good at and shares his knowledge, he keeps an open mind and curious character, and he always tries to stay polite and inviting. If you are looking for someone to model yourself after to meet more smart people, there are many worse choice than Joe Rogan.
Yeah he still works for Meta one day a week
This was immediately in the aftermath. Today is a different story.
those were generated? those look dope
I like how GP is called "operator-name" and instead of doing himself, he makes others joking with operator names. Although I'm not sure if it's altruism or highly manipulative behaviour.
Deals with airlines and ships is what I assume is going to be 90% of the profit. Custom deals. Just a regular Starlink Maritime is $5k per month [1].

Military use cases alone could probably sustain it.

1. https://www.starlinkhardware.com/starlink-launches-maritime-...
Like the CIA and DEA working against each other...
Like anyone deeply in a field I know maybe several thousand people who could probably give a better answer, but I figure I'll give an effort to provide one since I don't see any good ones posted yet.

The moment everyone knew this was going to be big was in 2019 when StyleGAN came out. They used a lot of tricks like aligning face features (like eyes) and had all their pictures of a single domain (the most famous being faces) but none the less, that was the moment everyone in the AI field knew this was going to be big, and so three years ago a lot of big people shifted to this line of research.

The four main innovations since then have been:

1. Transformers

Generalized computation kernels which allow for images to consider non-localised relationships between pixels of an image. Released in 2017, and originally used for language.

2. Pixel Patch Encodings

Different resolution semantic and geometric image information encodings which allow for better representations of relationships between image areas than pixels are able to achieve given the same compute. Allows using Transformers on high resolution images.

3. CLIP

Contrastive Language and Image Pairing. Before, the only way we knew to classify an image was as a "face" or "cat" or "ramen". When the genius idea of labeling images as semantically meaningful vectors rather than one hot encoded classes was revealed, it changed everything in computer vision very quickly, and problems that used to be hard became trivial. Released in 2021

4. Diffusion Models

GANs penalise you for making an image which does not seem to be part of an existing dataset. This encourages one to make the worst quality image that looks like a member of that dataset. Diffusion learns to denoise an image, removing noise is perceptually similar to increasing resolution, people like images that look that way. There may be more people with better intuition about diffusion models may be able to add on why they're superior. I've read all the papers leading up to the latest unCLIP (Dalle2) but it's complicated. Released in 2020, with major improvements to the training process continuously being made since then.

Hope this was helpful. All of the above were only implemented for images in any real way in the last three years. Putting them all together is something many people only just this year did, resulting in DallE, Stable Diffusion, and Imagen.

I'm working on doing this for 3D and later for use cases in AR. 3D generation still hasn't been cracked the same way image has but the above will likely contribute to the solution to that as well. Anyone who's intersted in working on that feel free to message me.
I wonder how many developers fell into the trap of thinking they need to first write a TODO list app before they can really get productive.
Arduix uses chords but QMK has a more advance system it calls combos where it detects keypresses that are pressed sufficiently close together. There are actually layout shifts on top of that as well, so--for example--you can layout shift to "nav mode" and be able to use the arrows as single keypresses. There's a similar mode for using the keyboard as a mouse.

[edit] Here's a link to a reference sheet for Artsey.io, of which Ardux is a fork, it gives you a pretty good idea for how the board is used in practice: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artseyio/artsey/main/layou...
stay gold, ponyboy
Lack of sleep is my killer. The effort to figure things out has me hunting for dopamine and on sites like HN.

I hate it, the days I feel truly alive are when I'm totally focused and smashing out code. Only they're so rare now that I have a family and so many responsibilities outside of writing code.
Everything is a compromise. This optical design manages to be f/2.5 most probably because it does nothing to correct the plenty of aberration and defects it produces. Also f-numbers are deceptive regarding brightness and we should see how much light actually comes out from the other side, i.e. calculating its t-stops.

Also, a manual 165mm lens on full frame? I'm sure it could be great for interesting portraits, but street photography?
After having kids, my opinion is they come out of the womb with baked-in personalities.

Not that we don't change as we age obviously, but it's definitely not a blank slate by a mile.
a lot of these read like stealth marketing for bicycles imo
Lot of potential for movies- using AI to up res, AI to turn a 2d movie 3d, more advanced would be new or edited scenes. Or how about translating a live action movie to a cartoon and vice versa. Or a different style or tone. Run The Lord of the Rings through a cyberpunk filter.
Move to the UK and IVF is free for your first child. After that it’s about £15-20k per attempt.
Your assumption is that a phone must present a permanent identifier to the network on the physical layer but I don't think that is true. You could have temporary identifiers instead. If you have multiple concurrent ones and stagger their renewals, and proxy all traffic over tor then it seems like goal would be accomplished.
Sames goes for Germany with 80€ and the German Telekom still isn't able to provide me a decent connection although fiber is installed in almost all adjacent streets...
Generated and paying for MidJourney gives you the copyright to them so you can use them for whatever projects you want
I don't know the specifics of your pool, but the block is the transactions, so if you get the lucky number and mine a block, you have mined a block that consists of a specific set of transactions in a specific order.

Though it's entirely possible that mining pools dictate which transactions get sent to their miners for them to try mining.
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> Email's great advantage is that it's a truly level playing field. Yes that also allows spammers to send outgoing shit smtp traffic, but I can deal with that.

Agree so much.

I really don't get the spam complaint anymore. Commercial providers like gmail do get a lot of spam (I have a gmail account as well, it gets more spam than ham) but it doesn't need to be that way.

I run all my own email infrastructure and spam is a non-issue. My primary email has been around very publicly since the mid-90s and is surely on every spam list ever but between a strict postfix configuration and a bayesian spam filter, spam is not a thing anymore.

I'm trying to think the last time I got a spam email in my inbox and can't remember. It's so rare.
It’s a stark stark difference. Going into a restaurant in DC versus say a heavily Hispanic suburb of Texas. Nearly everything’s family friendly by default in the latter place. Just because you’d have no customers if you weren’t.
And don't forget leaving from a stop uphill.
My "rules" to have simple code that works:

- Implement the concrete, simplest use case.

- Parameterize first step with function.

- Try to add another use case with another function

- Try to compose 1st and 2nd use case.

Anyone try to bring OOP + Inheritance breaks the simple rules. So composition is the key here.
It is now available to lay people by just typing into a website. Months ago it was rather „use this Jupyter notebook“. So people are now using it for more serious stuff.

For example, here is an RPG designer using Midjourney for illustrations: https://www.bastionland.com/2022/07/primeval-bastionland-pla...
Well, then when those streaming only games come out, I won’t play them. This isn’t a trap at this point, because they are renting a replaceable commodity.
Have you thought about some basic, non-intrusive tests to identify some possible issues? Blood tests, sperm counts, etc.
have you seen https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ ? that's old already. different tech tho
Installing chrome on debian is certainly harder than installing chromium.

And you are assuming there is only 1 user in the machine. Which is not the case for people who have kids.
Agreed. And unfortunately it's the dwindling middle class
But allowing people to decide when to have children via birth control doesn't reduce the population, it just means the children have better lives as their parents can afford them and don't need to rely on welfare.
From the fine article:

> The only parts of the lens that can’t be 3D printed are the
> glass optics, and for this Steele used Surplus Shed to
> acquire achromatic (two-part) lenses.
I've had these kinds of weird issues happen on named brand computers too.

One annoying one is a 2014 HP laptop with Beats Audio. The laptop has a non-standard internal speaker setup. With the installed Windows 8 & Beats Audio drivers it sounds nice. Under Linux by default the speakers sound like a muffled tin can. Using a couple of tools and some terminal commands everything is right as rain. I nearly exclusively use Linux, but I had a need to work on some windows stuff so the laptop was pulled out and upgraded to windows 10. As soon as I ran some audio, tin can sounds. I've looked over and over for drivers, HP doesn't support Beats Audio anymore, and their replacement drivers that claim to work don't. Now if I need audio from that laptop I either have to use linux or I have to use the headphone port.