skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I guess the relevant figures somehow figured that Russia was acting like a petulant child only because people were treating it as a petulant child?

You are trying to post-rationalize this with some 4d chess realpolitik. Just follow the money. [0]

[0] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/german-ex-chancellor-sc...
Not sure why this is downvoted. The preeminent economists of the age thought that this is exactly what would happen - everyone would be working 2-4 hours a week and there would be nothing left to be done because every hour would be so damn productive.

The problem is twofold. First, there’s a lot of people in the world and bringing them out of poverty increases the economy up to 3 orders of magnitude, e.g. from living on $0.25 a day to living on $250 a day, which can suck up a whole lot of productivity gains.

And secondly, as it turns out, there’s always new places to shift demand when less and less of your budget is required just to subsist.

And then when all those “beyond sustenance” dollars all start chasing the same limited supply of goods, say, a house in the Bay Area, or even a lobster dinner…
Solar and wind are very expensive when it's dark or not windy.
> Speaking of indentation, you have it wrong ..

That just tells me I got the indentation wrong because it did not clearly indicate the syntactic components of the expression.

> Someone who has been working with the language for a while just "sees" this: ...

I take your word for that. I have been working with Lisp for years but not recently, and I had trouble figuring out the meaning of the example code. I even got it wrong you say. It's clear for Lisp experts I'm sure but not everybody is a Lisp expert.
You can pack virtually all meaningful information ever gathered by humanity onto a single bit, but its gonna be lossy. And what is your definition of "meaningful information" anyway. Meaningful today might not be meanigful yesterday. Nobody cares about spin of each electron in my brain today, but in 4 centuries my descendants will be like "if only we had that information, we could simulate our great-...-great parent today"
Isn't running a business and especially a startup is supposed to be risky?

"We have an idea that's not materialized yet, give us money so we can live comfortably and reap all benefits it it works out and not lose anything if it doesn't." - sounds like a wishful thinking.
I've been using multi-gig [1] over short runs of cheap cat 5 cable just fine. Actually, I only have one span that links at 5G. The rest are short enough for 10G with cat-5e, with 100m achievable with Cat-6! Talk about incredible!

1. https://community.fs.com/blog/what-is-multigig-ethernet.html
I’ve worked for the govt and no they aren’t a nebulous blob of power with tech.

What they are though is an entity that has a set of directives supported by access to the data tech provided in conjunction with either not understanding tech or really getting it.

The tech company approach of staying willfully ignorant or positions like ITT with “we just build it!” has caused a lot of damage in the hands of the govt users it’s delivered to.

I don’t think it’s possible to in good faith ignore this dynamic or pretend it doesn’t exist and tech products’ role in it. This is actually the first time I’ve run into it like this where both the dynamic and the impact is just totally denied.
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As the comments to that comment points out, 1752 is only for one specific country. All countries switched at different times (and a few even switched back and forth a few times). Greece, in particular, seems to have switched as late as 1923.
And why do only people born within them get special hats? Maybe you and I have the privilege of going about hatless, but not the majority of the world.
The question would then be how to get expert level domain knowledge in the "FDA for algorithms" department for all of those different regulatory agencies?

The memes that cause stock fluctuations part is "would you need to have SEC level domain knowledge in the Digital Regulatory Agency or would it be better to have tech literacy as part of the SEC?"

I believe that having tech literacy in all of the different regulatory bodies rather than having overlapping jurisdictions ("is this tech related stock trading? or not?") would complicate issues too much.

The existing agencies already exist and have the regulations that need to be applied. What they also need is the literacy to understand what a tik-tok is. The NTSB needs to have technology experts rather than having a Digital Regulatory Agency having co-jurisidction over self driving cars on the highway ("was the person asleep at the wheel with FSD going? Digital Regularity Agency handles that, but if FSD wasn't engaged and the person just passed out then it would be the NTSB").

As https://www.wsj.com/articles/every-company-is-now-a-tech-com... and https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2017/01/23/wh... and similar are things that we see and tend to agree with - a similar approach is needed in government agencies.
Until Google starts to expect better garbage from SEO providers. The bot can simply ask a language model if the page looks well written and truthful. So SEOs will have to spam us with well written useful articles about topics we like.

Maybe Google should require webmasters to mark the automated content with a special HTML tag or attribute. Failure to comply leading to deranking. This would be necessary for the future - to know what data was human generated when training the next model, and to have official reason for penalising spammers who try to pass artificial text as human written.
> you can fully expect your asshole friends to grab a dozen photos of you from Facebook and then make a hyperrealistic pornographic image of you with a gorilla

... Someone is gonna do this to children. This technology is gonna end up on the news. Maybe they'll even try to ban it.
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That's what I was thinking. Whether a pornographic picture of me and a gorilla was made by photoshop or AI is irrelevant. People's reactions will be the same, and repercussions will be mostly the same (which doesn't means there will be consequences).

If someone really wants to hurt you, not having AI isn't going to stop them.
Please save this comment and re-read it when a new development in AI suddenly goes from "this is cute" to "holy fuck my job feels obsolete and the motherfuckers doing it are not gonna give a single thought to all the people they're putting out of work". Thank you.
Isn't this explained in the very first paragraph?

> In Germany this summer, you can travel on regional public transport for 9 euros per month. Innovation Origins is seizing this opportunity to visit a number of future-proof projects. In this edition, we travel to Dresden.
That might just be a tilt shift lens
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It's Orwellian because the term was deliberately chosen in order to coerce researchers into accepting the priorities of vendors (by implicitly rendering non-"responsible" disclosure "irresponsible"). I think it's actually one of the better modern examples of Orwellian language in tech.
I agree, you have to address these things outside the school. This is the same story when it comes to policing: police can arrest people all you want, but unless you're willing to significantly increase our existing lead in incarcerations per capita, it seems like just arresting people isn't working. On the other hand, if you can give people homes, food, jobs, and healthcare, I believe the crime rate will drop.

I don't have the numbers in front of me, but I suspect there are plenty of measures by which other countries achieve better educational outcomes with lower educational spending, in which case I'd be willing to bet that they are simply spending more in "social programs" (broadly speaking) than the United States.
Something very similar already exists (in theory): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar

Kodak used to run on this calendar.
> And designed that way for specific reasons.

Do you know that reason? I was wondering in my other reply.
Your users don't care whose fault it is. Your app isn't working. You can choose to cut those users off, and that's totally an option...sometimes.

Mac users are probably a little more tolerant of this than non-Mac users, because of the general upgrade treadmill, but whether you can get away with it is a question only you can answer for your app.
Indeed, even an Italian red pepper salad is best done directly on a grill or the flames of the burner, and not in an oven or anything.
Like the sibling commenter said, some cars just don't do it automatically (mine included).
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32503692
> The inflation we're seeing currently isn't being driven by the general population having too much money

Actually, it partially is. One third of the current inflation is demand driven according to the Fed (i.e. stimulus checks, unemployment payments, above-market wages due to unemployment checks, etc.) [1]. There are also supply shortages but it's hard to disentangle what part of the supply shortages are due to shipping costs vs. having labor shortages due to said unemployment checks.

We're seeing a lot of the price pressures calm down now as coincidentally, the labor force grows back to pre-pandemic size. [2]

> A meaningful response from government could have headed this off

Like what, putting a price cap on oil? That doesn't work and you and I both know it.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/demand-issues-account-one...

[2] https://www.wsj.com/articles/your-steak-is-getting-cheaper-a...
right, sure, that is a huge value. but it's not, for example, $1B worth of value. should John Carmack do YC? no. etc.

the goal of rational decisionmaking is to try to convert all factors into some kind of comparable numbers, and $ is just one utility function on which to project all these nonmonetary qualities. call it "utils" if you like (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility#Cardinal).

so fair point if you disagree with 5-10m of nonmonetary value equivalent. Is it more like 50m? 100m? what is the lowest you can make the upper bound?

a fun academic question for most, but for me personally, i have been offered a $2-3m seed pre product so that suddenly became a lot more real.
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So my genuine question - asking if this post (an advertisement for AdGuard) is within HN rules - got flagged. I've since checked the guidelines and while it doesn't explicitly say product placement posts are verboten, they do seem against the spirit of the site ("Please don't use HN primarily for promotion"). But what guideline makes my comment flaggable?
I was told by two different tire places that my wife's car (2015 CX-5) uses the ABS sensors to detect if one wheel is spinning differently than the others. A flat tire rotates faster than one full of air because it's smaller.

I had the warning light come on twice recently: once, I pulled over to the shoulder when an ambulance was approaching. As I accelerated to get back on the highway, the warning light came on. I thought I'd run over a piece of glass or something. Using the gauge showed nothing wrong. Reset the TPMS.

Later, we were starting on a 30-mile drive down a gravel road in Eastern Oregon. The TPMS light came on. I took a deep breath, kept driving and after we reached our destination, I reset the TPMS and it hasn't come on since.

My conclusion is that I accelerated too quickly on the shoulder and some gravel or debris made a wheel spin faster. The second time, there was presumably more gravel on one side of the car and again one of the wheels spun faster.

My wife's car is 2WD. I wonder if either would have happened in an AWD.
Or, you know, one could just take the cost of the French fleet and inflation-adjust it? Technology wasn’t that different when they were built. And building scores of reactors has tremendous efficiencies of scale.
I think right now we could setup the AI's to do the prompts. You type in a vague description - "gorilla in a suit" and that is passed to GPT-3's API with instructions to provide a detailed and vivid description of the input in X style where X is one of several different styles. GPT-3 generates multiple prompts, the prompts passed to Stable Diffusion, the user gets back a grid of different images and styles. Selecting an image on the results grid prompts for variation, possibly of the prompt and the images.
Benchmark results rarely predict actual application perf. You need to run your own queries against your own data. Do a real POC.
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> Do you think it's unreasonable to assume that an app written BY ME in Rust will be smaller, use less memory and be safer than a similar app written in JavaScript?

No, it won't be. You gotta weigh years if not decades of Node/JS experience vs 0 years of Rust experience of the average dev. Development time will be far shorter too.
I like the simplicity of it. Sorry if I've missed it but are there already good tools built around this?
France could.
I think I understand why you feel this way, but I personally find them to be a helpful format. For example, last time I had to figure out how to store addresses in a database I made a point to check out the falsehoods programmers believe about addresses document (as well as other sources).
"As the numbers from the past 20 years show, renewables do not require more volumes of gas (MWh) for the system to be balanced (they may require more gas-fired capacity (MW), but that’s not the same thing - gas turbines are manufactured in Europe)."

This is a fact noted, but it includes an additional aspect. If there is a need for more gas-fired capacity, that burn less volumes of gas, then that operation still need to be paid. The way that works in Sweden is called reserve energy, which mean the plant get paid twice. First they get paid through subsidies in order to keep the plant operational and staffed, and then they get paid a second time when the plant is burning gas and the spot price is at the highest point. This is quite expensive.

Sadly I rarely see people actually account for this cost, and the article does not.
Working in an office is now considered as "being pushed around like a bunch of peasants".

Ok. Keep being so entitled and watch Shenzen surpass Silicon Valley within 5 years.
It will end up back where we started, "it's not on the Blockchain so I didn't say it", while making racist remarks with friends.
I don't mean to defend the actions of kiwifarms, but clearly their actions are not particular to any given continent. Her failure to protect her opsec is certainly unfortunate, and she is not entirely blameworthy for it, but I see no reason why her ability in that regard will improve because she has traveled to another landmass. If she believes being farther away from her home offers her some protection, then that would be as easily achieved elsewhere in canada, or in the US. If she intends to be more careful when she moves elsewhere, then she could very well remain in london and do the same.

I am doubtful that her strategy of requesting the aid of cloudflare will be effective in deplatforming kiwifarms. Though cloudflare has removed websites in the past, this only rarely, and I believe they have stated they regretted it. Regardless, there are other services to protect from DDoS attacks, and we see both the daily stormer and 8ch are nowadays online again.

While distasteful, the best strategy in dealing with these sorts of websites is to ignore them and their malicious behaviour. Cease to offer them the reward of a reaction, and they will quickly grow bored and move on. It is unfortunate to be the current target of their amusement, but fortunately one has some degree of control over whether one remains that way.
Not to mention the Real Person All Grown Up Protocol Stack, OSI, which of course was going to displace this ARPANET childishness with protocols like the X.212 data link layer that, like all data link layer protocols, provides checksumming and resending and distinguishes between connection-oriented and connectionless communication, plus X.400 email which, naturally, uses the simple, comprehensible, easy-to-implement X.500 directory service, for email addressing inherently tied to your employer and physical address.

Or OSI will crash and burn and we'll all pretend it was just a model from day one, and insist that TCP/IP is best understood using precisely the kind of strict layering the IETF explicitly rejected in RFC 3439. Y'know, whatever reinforces the notion that we never lose.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3439
Here's some random prompts I've had nice results from:

iridescent metal retro robot made out of simple geometric shapes. tilt shift photography. award winning

Scene in a creepy graveyard from Samurai Jack by Genndy Tartakovsky and Eyvind Earle

virus bacteria microbe by haeckel fairytale magic realism steampunk mysterious vivid colors by andy kehoe amanda clarke

etching of an anthropomorphic factory machine in the style of boris artzybasheff

origami low polygon black pug forest digital art hyper realistic

a tilt shift photo of a creepy doll Tri-X 400 TX by gerhard richter

I guess I might have spent more time reading guides on "prompt engineering" than you. ;-) I think maybe Dall-E is more forgiving of "vanilla prompts".

However I do get nice results from simpler prompts as well. I just tend to use this style of prompt more often than not.
Protip: Don't connect it to an isolated network, it will deplete its batteries calling home in a super tight loop if its getting rejected. Just leave it off the wireless entirely.

I ended up in that config because I let it go online once when I first got it to update the firmware (there is no offline firmware update and you have to wait up to 24 hours for it to be pushed to you, wtf). ... but then when that was done I just firewalled it off and for a long time couldn't figure out why it was frequently dying before it made its way back to the base.

Killed the network it was connecting to and it was back to its original performance.
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There are such places near SNL too. More, because Albuquerque is much larger than Los Alamos.

e.g. Vick's Vittles, Tia Betty Blues, Golden Pride, and of course the old standby Grandma's K & I Diner which has been feeding nuclear engineers for 62 years.
The example I generally use is when Peter Bright went on a several month set of tirades while a staff writer for arstechnica lambasting project zero disclosing a microsoft vulnerability after the disclosure window was up. Hard to find the source though now that his articles have been scrubbed ever since he got caught trying to diddle some children. : \ In the comments, most of the devops/sysadmin community of arstechnica took his side that you shouldn't disclose publicly at all, missing the point that others might be actively exploiting the same vulnerability. You routinely see the same sentiment even on HN (thankfully in the minority now), missing the point that while finding exploits is hard work and generally takes very smart individuals, that's not to the point of being able to assume that someone else who wears a slightly darker hat didn't figure out the same bug.
The problem is that the conservative perspective would largely rather go without these net benefits than see someone they think is undeserving, or worse "immoral" in some way, get any benefit.

That's why we have means testing at all: not to prevent people from needlessly getting benefits, but to prevent those who are undeserving of them from getting them.

A lot of things make more sense when you understand this imo, and stop trying to frame other people's views into your own moral framework (giving you the mistaken impression that they're hypocrites about it).
For sure. For example, I am not happy about their push to (i)cloud, fortunately it's entirely possible to avoid all that - unlike Android, where getting Google cloud functionalities disabled is impossible without losing the warranty and flashing the ROM.
Definitely. During Chile season you can smell the roasters set up all over town. One of the best smells, in my opinion.
Google making ad auctions more efficient becomes state surveillance the instant a subpoena arrives at their door. You might believe you are safe from a subpoena because you haven't done anything wrong, but you would be wrong about that:

* Things like geofence warrants are used to surveil people who are merely within a given radius of a crime.

* Subpoenas don't have to be for criminal cases, they can also be civil or investigatory (eg congressional subpoenas).

* Things you don't think are wrong are often crimes. Abortion clinic visits in Texas are the most obvious example. Other examples are things like using someone else's WiFi without permission, using a fake name online, or carrying around things like screwdrivers (which are a burglary tool) or permanent markers (which are used for vandalism). Estimates suggest that the average American breaks 3-5 federal laws per day.

A couple of examples:

Alexa recordings were used in a criminal court:
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/11/12/18089090/amazon-ech...

Amazon received 2000 subpoenas:
https://www.theregister.com/2018/01/08/subpoenahappy_us_gove...
What is your point of repeating the obvious?

You basically accused awillen of being that type of engineer, even though awillen wrote against being that type of interruptive arsehole. awillen is asking “how do we convert people to church of interruption”, they are not saying to interrupt.

Your reply to my comment is tangential, without connecting to the point I made (perhaps because my own comment was rude: I do reread the https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html regularly and I try to follow them . . .).
I can't find a source, but my recollection is that the majority of the U-235 for Little Boy was generated by gaseous diffusion? I know the original process was gaseous-diffusion followed by Calutron and that once gaseous diffusion was improved they shut down all of the Calutrons, and the timing is such that all but the first little boy bomb must have been made by gaseous diffusion, but it's unclear how the fissile material for the bomb dropped on Hiroshima was generated.
Longterm, multimodal generative models will be society-altering. But right now this is just a really cool toy.
This commentary is pretending the US had any legit reasons for supporting the corruption and evilness beyond America’s own immediate power hungry thinking.
Of course not, the email can list the contributors, or not as it's own pleasure.
There was a huge controversy over governance of the Internet, in particular the DNS, because it had become clear that Network Solutions had been handed a licence to print money as the monopoly controller of the DNS, and they were providing very poor service (filling in forms over email, very slow response times, $100 fees) and inconsistent enforcement of decency rules.

Part of the response was the IAHC which came up with the template for the fix: break up the monopoly by splitting registries and registrars, force Network Solutions to relinquish some of its TLDs, and create more TLDs.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAHC

This was not immediately successful, until Postel (as IANA) instructed the root DNS operators (other than Network Solutions) to get the root zone from IANA instead of from NetSol. This caused an epic shitfest, as a result of which Postel reverted the root zone change, and the US NTIA got moving and started the foundation of ICANN.

The company now known as Verisign is the direct successor of NetSol, and they still control .com and .net, and feed the root zone to the other root server operators.