skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You are calling writing a book a miracle?

The Quran challenges anyone to bring something like it. The challenge is open. Seeminly easy right? It's gone unchallenged all these millenia.

> Horoscopes also "predict" the future

No they don't. The prophecies of Muhammad Prayers of God be upon him are extremely nuanced, from things like the emergence of a green Arabia, to the desolate bedouins competing to build tall towers, to naming individuals and their exact spot where they will die on the battle field, to the intricate and nuanced knowledge he had about other traditions while living in Makkah (https://youtu.be/nTsEZXx8kRg). More at provingislam.com

> You are confusing secular people with materialistic people

Materialism as in explaining reality with only a purely materalistic tangible point of view, not monetary materialism.

> The book made him famous, but offended a Muslim priest who ordered the doctor to be beaten over the head with his own manuscript,

Who was that "Muslim priest"? (we don't have priests in Islam by the way). According to wikipedia (to be taken with a grain of salt):

> He spent the last years of his life in his native Rey suffering from glaucoma. His eye affliction started with cataracts and ended in total blindness.[19] The cause of his blindness is uncertain. One account mentioned by Ibn Juljul attributed the cause to a blow to his head by his patron, Mansur ibn Ishaq, for failing to provide proof for his alchemy theories;[20] while Abulfaraj and Casiri claimed that the cause was a diet of beans only

If this indeed happened, he would have had the right to seek retribution from a judge. You failed to show that this is a systemic problem as Europe was in the darsk ages.

> Even police does not dare to confront when there is open illegal behavior unless it is really serious.

What you're describing is not different from what happens in poor ghettos in America. Nothing to do with religion. I'm willing to bet that neighborhood is poor and uneducated.

> This is in Asia btw and the US is not meddling here.

The West has been meddling for a long long time, if not directly, then indirectly.

> That some atheist makes some claims

That's not any atheist. Those are the people claiming "enlightenement" and spearheading the atheist movement like Dawkins and his ilk. The difference is that with atheists, there is no moral compass or ultimate reference or authority to confirm or debate their thoughts. Whereas with a religion, we can go back to their scriptures.

> Not sure where the "chemical scum" comes from?

Stephen Hawking
python has a built-in filter() that works exactly as your List.filter does. It's possible Peter Norvig just prefers list comprehensions, but it's not a weakness of the language or whether the Python community embraces filters per se.

filter(lambda x: x in WORDS, words)

would I think do pretty much the same as what he wrote, and then depending on how you use the output, you may want to wrap that in list() or something. If you are going to iterate over it, it's gtg as-is.

There are much more idiomatic and clear (imo) ways of definining a function-static block (which gets evaluated just the first-time a function is called) than that default arg trick.
If your website is a corporation hitting all the legal prerequisites for fairness requirements (size, market share,...), then yes, you must accept my neo Nazi comment. You are allowed to make rules that ban views on other grounds than its content, such as being spammy or off topic to the conversation, but you would have to have objective and neutral criteria for those bans, and you should be obligated to justify yourself to your users with non-automated means, and the banned users should be able to sue you at little or no cost if they perceive unfairness.

The local Christian cake shop are not a corporation and, by the very definition of 'local', almost certainly doesn't meet the legal prerequisites for fairness regulations, so they should not be forced to bake a cake against their will.
That's a beautiful book
I'm curious about what makes this project special, see there's a lot of similar implementations of diffusion models based on pytorch/tf. Is it because it use the cpu itself to produce the diffusion process?
Why so negative? It's a waste only if the value provided is less than the cost. You can't decide that with only the cost.

As humans we have our own adversarial examples, we get tired, we get sloppy, we might be even more biased than a calibrated model and always much more expensive.
What I've seen in practice, is a surprising number of people do turn down promotions to management.
We should have them in the warehouse in about a month for early shipment to people buying direct from us.
Agreed, like almost everything it’s not universally applicable.

If you have external contracts that are onerous to validate then it can be quite expensive to build high-fidelity internal representations of those contracts. Could still be ROI positive to do so!

In most cases the contracts are either internal or simple (non-temporal) external contracts like a REST API, so most orgs benefit from moving in this direction.
I actually know someone who was a victim of this, they had written some checks and the recipient had used them to make unauthorized withdrawals. I believe everything was reversed after the police got involved.
> your kids' schools are beholden to Google because they are run by the government, which is insulated from free market competition and can just punt on providing proper infrastructure.

Private schools are just as beholden to Google. No school is going to compete on the basis of "we don't use Google services (we pay for more-private infrastructure)", in any world, ever.

> we the people need to understand that rights come with responsibilities. If you want to claim the right to keep your data private, you need to not give it to third parties that you know are not going to honor that.

So if I'm a parent of a school-age child, what exactly do you think I should do? If I don't decide that Google accounts are enough of a reason to homeschool my child, will you claim I don't understand that rights come with responsibilities, and that I (and my child) don't have any right to expect our data to be private?

We live in a society. Sometimes the only way to crack collective action problems is government intervention.
Yes, we all understand that if you want best of breed anonymity you need Tor.

However, I still appreciate a vendor making a credible effort with privacy just as an everyday value.

If I'm gone use a VPN I much rather use a vendor that does a credible job at privacy protection.
> "Honest news" is hearsay. I can't go and verify any of it. I cannot logically explain any of it even. You are asking me to just believe it is true what someone a millenia ago said, something (miracles) that goes against any real life obvervation I can do. Sorry, not happening.

Look up the Islamic Isnad system.

Furthermore, if that's how you're going to view the world, then you can't accept any news about history. Obviously that is not wise or rational.

> I did so using basic logic and understanding of statistics. Can you tell me where exactly I was wrong?

By assuming there were many "tries" before the current universe came into existence. Who was behind those tries? When was the first try? Those are all metaphysical claims.
I don't think the presence of tutorials automatically count against artistic merit, unless they are done badly.

From Software games are more hands-off because their goal is to make the player discover the mechanics and systems on their own. Not every game wants to do that, and as such I don't think games like Halo: Combat Evolved or The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time are automatically worse for this. In the latter case, I think the unskippable tutorial section pulls double duty in setting up Link's backstory; You're with him as he first learns how to fight, use his shield, etc. before going off on a grand adventure.

From Soft games are also not immune to the unskippable tutorial mission. Both Elden Ring and Sekiro start you off in a relatively safe linear level with pop ups teaching you their basic mechanics.

I want to circle around back to the comment that started this though, because that user said they immediately uninstall and refund any game with an unskippable tutorial. Maybe they meant this as hyperbole and I'm just sitting here wooshed, but it seems like an extreme stance to take.
So have I. At 33 I decided fuck it. I’m going to drink coffee everyday until it works for me. And after 1-2 weeks it worked out. I still get stressed out, and if I drink more than one espresso I’ll get anxious, but I can drink one coffee per day now and it brings me SO MUCH energy it’s crazy.

Btw the same was true with weed. Weed used to make me sick like hell. I decided to just keep smoking and in a few times my body just adapted to it. I can’t smoke too much otherwise it’ll get mental, but I can smoke a bit and be happy.
wouldn't be the first language with one as a primitive: https://code.kx.com/q/ref/each/
Literally yesterday https://gizmodo.com/ai-taxes-france-swimming-pools-184947053...
Humans have been predicting this since the Industrial Revolution. Global cooling wasn't much of a thing in the 1970's, that was a look at cycles of ice ages without much modeling behind it.

Our preferred climate is over, we're into new territory now.
Wrong, it was amph.
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More advanced/modern tool chains like k8s can help; rollout can be done in minutes. Also makes it easier to do blue/green deploys if you’re serving high throughput services where you can get an error signal from upgrading a small fraction of your service workloads.
Normally, with credit cards and stuff, the onus is on the vendor that made the sale, technically they should verify the Id of the user match with the name on the card and stuff.

Most don't do because convenience wins for the user and increases the value.

The user knows if something is wrong (like stolen funds, accounts etc) they will get their money back, and trusts the system so spends more.

İf you don't provide this trust system, they won't spend as much as they do.

You will get less volume.
Citizens United didn't change any established laws. It reiterated the already-existing fact that people don't lose their free speech rights just because they've banded together into a business entity. The Clinton campaign tried to use the law to silence her political opponents and the court said "no".
> Beyond sea level rise, how can you prepare for something unpredictable?

They're not really. They're just using this as a selling point on many social changes they're making in favor of equity.
1. Article submitted to an international forum about X country doing Y bad thing
2. "Well the USA is just as bad, they also did/doing/will do Y bad thing"

Jeesh - many reader of hn are in the US and if X interesting is happen elsewhere, they are reasonably interested that X is happening in the US. Also, many hn readers are India, they may describe X happening in India also. And notably, censorship in India is noted in a different post that seems properly to be getting attention as well.

And, of course, American censorship deserves mention because the USA has often presented as bastion of free speech. Just as much, something like a "feeling of freedom" is a big export of the US - in the sense that it's media products give people in more traditional societies that sensation. This was a big motivation of the original article after all.

Not all American media products are pro-American propaganda. Some are even anti-American. But the overlap/gray-area is significant and so the qualities of the USA aren't irrelevant to say the least.
This link appears to be dead:

> can also run it in colab (includes img2img): https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1NfgqublyT_MWtR5Csmr
Changes to Google Play VPN Policy
All credits to: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Anoushk
The Central Bank of Latino America stimulus package is now 900B
The new underground administration is looking to abolish all Latin American currencies to usher the iON.
I've heard of the principle before and generally believed it. But this summary leaves me with the feeling that the problem is mostly about people who lack managerial skills being promoted into managerial positions.

Is that the case, or is it just coincidence that his examples all relate to people being promoted into managerial positions?
you don't take a break from work to drink tea.

while laboring, you are in the mode of "doing" something, whether that be programming, writing, or otherwise creating.

while drinking tea, nothing must be done.

it's not the negation of work. it's the affirmation of nothingness.
I'm not. And it's not someone else thinking for me. I went through a phase of agnosticism myself before coming back to my senses. I did my own research, standing on the mountains of knowledge of scholars that came before and dedicated their lives to the religion. There are good summaries like provingislam.com (which did not exist when I did my research) for people who want it. And also elaborate explanations like https://youtu.be/nTsEZXx8kRg
Google Play to ban Android VPN apps from interfering with ads
1. The primary discussion was around "how was censorship related to China" and the poster gave a random example from my arbitrary list. I responded with an arbitrary example, but still giving an example how censorship is comparable to China.

2. My position has never been the government has to be doing the censorship. People censor, some in media, some in social media, some on HN, some in government, etc.

3. Censorship doesn't mean you cannot reach data; it's a suppression of speech (which Zuckerberg, Dorsey, and Youtube admitted to censoring publicly). https://www.britannica.com/topic/censorship

> censorship, the changing or the suppression or prohibition of speech or writing that is deemed subversive of the common good. It occurs in all manifestations of authority to some degree, but in modern times it has been of special importance in its relation to government and the rule of law.

4. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/did-social-media-actua...

> Ahead of the election, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube promised to clamp down on election misinformation, including unsubstantiated charges of fraud and premature declarations of victory by candidates. And they mostly did just that — though not without a few hiccups.

They have been open about censoring since before the election. Now, if we want to get into government, the FBI interfered by (1) strongly suggesting social media to "limit" (censor) information; and ironically (2) accused of not investigating or sharing relevant information about the candidates (https://www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/services/files/7CD44E16-BF...)

5. I know many people banned from social media. They can't post on any accounts. I also followed many people I didn't know personally banned. If you ask questions / discuss certain topics you will be removed; typically for sharing particular pieces of content.
> So how do you avoid spending money to prepare for something that may not happen

It is certain that more energy, originally from the sun, will be captured and held out the earth | sea lower atmosphere layers due to the increased insulation effects of increasing greenhouse gases.

This will have significant impact on the global climate cells about the planet, precisely where what will happen is difficult to predict, the general pattern of the kinds of things not so much.

What we can do is reduce the insulating increase by putting less up there, capturing more, etc.

What we can also do is prepare for change, eg here we have been increasing the divrsity of seed varieties for wheat | canola | barley | etc across the board, building a database of tested seeds against temp and humidity variation.
As a Christian right winger I'd say that National doesn't represent my political views. They're much like Labour, they do very little.

I have very little hope that our government will improve no matter who is voted in. They seem determined to slowly make things worse, not matter what direction they pick.
Censorship doesn't mean you cannot reach data; it's a suppression of speech (which Zuckerberg, Dorsey, and Youtube admitted to censoring publicly). https://www.britannica.com/topic/censorship

> censorship, the changing or the suppression or prohibition of speech or writing that is deemed subversive of the common good. It occurs in all manifestations of authority to some degree, but in modern times it has been of special importance in its relation to government and the rule of law.
>God forbid it might have to work with other countries for some of it's energy.

They tried that with Russia and look where it got them. Working with dictatorships for your critical energy needs is always a bad idea.
That's what people said about the IRA essentially, and yet the bill passed and it will have a huge impact on Americas move towards a more sustainable future. If we want to have a future (and by we I mean humanity), we need optimism and activism, not complacency and defeatism.
It’s not scary to be honest.

It’s been staring us in the face for 60 years. Maybe 100.

Accept your fate like the rest of us, and make sure you stock up on dissociatives and pain meds for when the time is nigh.

Nobody cares!
The PC and Internet Revolution in Rural America
you should read bartleby the scrivener by melville.
IRC is on the web and has been for some time, but it is not like discord. There is a difference in their approach

Discord tries to make chat searchable so they encourage splitting conversations to 1000 channels, and a more asynchronous way of replying. It s a searchable live news feed rathr than a chat transcript.

IRC is simple live stream, if something is not noted immediately, it gets lost and you have to repeat it. It's meant to be ephemeral
It's not unpredictable. The IPCC reports, as well as the climatology departments of most universities around the world, have a fairly detailed understanding of how different areas will be affected. Sea level rise covers all coastal cities; increased severity of hurricanes, increased severity of droughts and rains, permafrost melting, etc.
In the episode mentioned in article (Series 3, Ep 21), Raj gets the girl in the end. Leonard and Howard miss out.

Raj embraces the role-playing sex game with scientist woman. The scene fades out implying they have a night of sex and wine.

Where exactly is your "desexualisation"?
Water it seems, is not our friend. Climate change seems mostly to be about water, and how we currently live with it.

The melting of the ice-caps over the next 100 years or whatever will result is rising sea levels. Potentially a rise of hundreds of metres.

The additional energy in the atmosphere leads to heavier rains, and hence more runoff. When that runoff goes through a building we call that flooding.

In other places a lack of rain is leading to water shortage and drought.

Sea level rise is long term, flooding and droughts are here now. In the short term we need to allow water more space to flow. Retreating from the waters edge can be done, and it can be paid for "collectively". It's a relatively small-scale action, and it can happen progressively year on year.

Simple rules to condem areas after say a second flooding would be a start.

Retreating from a 100m sea level rise is too large a scale to contemplate. Sure it'll happen "slowly" but the number of people involved is a sizeable fraction of all humanity.

Inland small towns everywhere should be considering planning and zoning that would happen if they grew by a million people. New cities, on the new waters edge, will be created from nothing.

At this point we can stretch out the time line, but I think the course is set. There's no putting the genie back in the bottle now.

But I'm confident we will adapt. This isn't an extinction event. Humans adapt better than anything else.
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HN on putting other people out of work: it’s fine it’s just the free market :)
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The system might do both, but the number of robotic craft will probably significantly outnumber the crewed vessels.

For example, the SpaceX moon lander is likely to use several tankers. And some of the landers might just ship cargo.
Do you do any freelancing?

If so what sort of experience do you have?
I think it's integral to the theorie seeing the fifth as 3 times, the octave as 4 times and the prime as 2 times an arbitrarily low root key. Trivially, the 2^n multiples form octave intervals but between C12 and C24 there's your twelve tones on a logarithmic scale. Naturally, it doesn't transpose in integer intervals if stepping down.
If covid has taught us anything, it's that even if a global problem becomes direct and starts killing millions of people, a large percentage of the population won't care and will actively continue to deny it.
People caring
That doesn’t matter since you are allowed to copy your own digital media for the purpose of dealing with that exact situation. A rental shop would legally be allowed to make a backup copy of every disc they have in case it gets damaged.
Back-propagating a batch you go from one loss to the sum of individual losses and then down to each example separately. Each example has different activations that multiply with the upstream gradients, so first we need to compute per example weight gradients. The computation is a perfect mirror of the forward pass.
Labour has problems; I have problems with Labour's paternalism and fetish for a nanny-state, but I would never accuse them of "generally doing nothing".

For example, Labour banned guns, insulated and ventilated cold/moldy rental homes, vaccinated >90% of the population (while simultaneously keeping covid at bay until that was achived), and a lot more https://old.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/wvifwk/so_what_...

They also embarked on a massive program to fix the water quality issues you mentioned https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Waters_reform_programme

So, nannies they may be, layabouts they are not.
> Imagine saying to someone losing weight "don't bother, losing 2 lbs this week is meaningless when you're 100 overweight."

You’re not gripping the math here. The correct analogy is, someone is obese and is constantly gaining weight. They are running a 1000 calorie surplus and 100 calories of that comes from breakfast. You’re sitting here arguing about taking 20-30 calories away from breakfast because that’s the only meal you help prepare. It’s nearly completely worthless, doesn’t address the fundamental problem, and you’re convinced it will “help”.
"Great code is simple and clear in a human sense, not just minimal in a conceptual or computational sense."

Old time programmers can't get past the low resources of old systems so they continue to prefer clever and tight code over simple and clear code. Last I was in school many of my teachers preferred clever code so that's the coding style we strived to copy. I suspect that's still the gold standard. But I agree, simple and clear in a human sense, is much better. Specially in a team environment where we need to read other's code.

Having to explain your code is just wasted effort and time.
Right click on channel -> notification settings -> only @mentions.

You can also change this for channel groups or entire servers.
Agreed! Start the solution by starting to write that email. Anticipate the recipient's questions and objections, and disarm them by answering the points raised. Repeat this process as long as is necessary. Watch the solution magically take shape right before your eyes.
> What damage do you think was done to transportation?

Uber/Lyft drivers destroyed traffic etiquette. I don't even drive and I saw it. For a few years there anytime you saw a driver doing something weird and/or dangerous it was Uber or Lyft.
Do like the banks- call it identity theft and let the exchange deal with it.

They mastered victim-blaming.