skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>What are the options to "improve society" so people don't make a mess in shared bathrooms?

300% public shaming. Japan is an example of this working, to an unbelievably ideal extent even.

Public restrooms in Japan are *clean*, they are spotless and sanitary no matter what time of day you visit one. You can probably eat off of those toilet seats, for all I know.

The reason for this is because individuals who do not clean up after themselves in public spaces are shamed and ridiculed by Japanese society at large with no holds barred. It's "just not how upstanding members of society operate" to make a mess, be it in a public restroom or anywhere else, in Japan.

You might see Japanese people picking up trash and cleaning up after themselves when leaving a public venue like a stadium or theater, probably other peoples' refuse too while they are at it. Frankly bewildering acts from the perspective of most westerners, but it's literally that sort of social attitude to be upstanding individuals that leads to clean public restrooms.
According to other comments here, their offices were being shelled by the Russians.
At that point, taking action against Russians isn't virtue signalling.
Right off the bat:

> The Fuzzy Select tool in GIMP took about 20 seconds to decide what I had clicked on and isolate it for me

That's uncommon enough to be an isolated incident.
It is, because you can verify the claims of a holy man if you go meditate in a cave for a couple of decades.

Since no one is willing to do that, people used to accept their word for a fact. The same is the case with science claim that cannot be verified by common men who depend on them.

That they are also "believing", might be hard to get through the thick skull of these modern "science" gushers. They fail to see that "science" can be just a label, strapped to anything businesses wants to sell.
President Xi signals HK government must live up to people’s expectations
No, I think what they miss is literally what they described. Because I feel the same way with LP MUDs which had many of the same commands and interactions, despite in fact having friends I can speak to and interact with in other locations.
One of the most popular layouts along these lines is the miryoku layout https://github.com/manna-harbour/miryoku

To me the key concepts behind this are:

- Home Row modifiers: putting Shift, Ctrl, Gui, Alt behind tap-hold functionality on the home row keys. (Now you don't need to strain your pinky finger with these, and can stay on the home row more).

- More thumb keys, with layering using tap-hold. This brings Backspace, Enter, Esc, Tab to within reach of the thumb, and provides a bunch of layers.

- Patterns on the LHS: Use of numpad idiom instead of number row (covering symbols, and function keys); symmetrical brackets, paretheses, and curly braces.

- Use of the HJKL idiom for stuff like arrow keys, volume control, home/end. etc.
>Man is imperfect.

Yes

>The scientific method is a process that verifies...

And this process is done by imperfect men...who you end up trusting...
Then you have a few hours of downtime. Happens to the best of us.
From the sound of your description, I would get in touch. You can probably find an email by googling.
But to answer his rhetorical questions, “why is that”?

Is it simply because it feels like a failure to not finish what you started, or something else?
> I'm surprised it didn't become illegal immediately to have any commerce with Russia

Because you mistake Russian citizens for Russian Federation. Also someone needs that chea^W not so cheap now gas.
A fee was charged for stall use, but not for urinal use.
They were probably reaching for the opposite of “is defined by a standard with an open-membership standards body”, found that there isn’t really a word for that, and so used the next-closest thing in concept-space.

(Though also, they’re technically correct — “proprietary” just means “controlled by one party.” Open-source things can still be proprietary: namely, if you’re free to fork, but the original upstream can only be merged to by employees of a corporation. I believe e.g. most of Apple’s “open source” is proprietary in this sense.)
Yes, I find it very frustrating that only a handful of state governments have gone after restrictive zoning. And I find it unconscionable that the federal government fails to raise it even as a topic of discussion. Three presidents have had the opportunity to raise the housing crisis to national attention. Instead they bemoan the ugliness of people living in public.
I'm a software developer in a printing house. Print is far from dead.

People are printing less paper, but today anybody can print a custom photo album, or T-shirt, or business cards, or custom pens, or mouse pad, or vehicle C-pillar sticker, or literally hundreds of other custom items. All that runs on CMYK.
AMD SmartNICs to Meld ASICs, FPGAs, Arm Cores
If you could explain to an Australian here: I have either a pub or a McDonalds every two blocks that any person can walk into and use a restroom. This would include industrial areas. Is that not the case in Seattle?
Cool, but digital artists are probably better off with krita
It seems to me perhaps you didn't spend much time with OpenStack.
Ad supported. I think they got an ad free paid version. Been using it for years and I believe it covers over 90% of non professional photoshop use cases.
it's free to use but anonymized footage of the deed will be sold to our list of 96 advertising partners. If you'd like to opt-out please contact our partners individually
The sad part is that CMYK color space is really important (and that is just one little part) to be able for a tool to be used in the professional print world. There are printing houses mainly for consumers who really don’t care what you throw at them. But these companies have technical designers (I don’t know the correct term for a photoshop user who only works with colorspace correction etc) who prepare the media for print.
In smaller print houses there is a stricter process. They define tight requirements what you can send to them. And PDF with all the bells in whistles in the correct colorspace etc is defacto standard. So for an FOSS tool it is sadly a lot work to implement all these things to support the print Workflows which are dominated by Adobe.
The question is if this must come from a single tool. Photoshop is already a tool with too many faces.
Funny, I have neither. But think your analysis makes sense too and I just got lucky.
Tell HN: I'm Putting Together Some Censored Language Models and Training Sets
Hey fellow language model enthusiasts!

I understand that this is very controversial, but I'm personally opposed to censorship of previously public ML checkpoints, and more generally models trained on publicly-crawled corpuses.

I've decided to do my little bit on this and I've started getting together a few things things that are technically available but censored on the major hubs and therefore comparatively high-friction for lightweight experimentation and research. For obvious reasons it's not as simple as creating a GitHub repository, hence this post.

I'm not indifferent to arguments that these things could cause harm, but I believe that good-faith participation in the HN community is a sufficient bar for access to anything I could personally assemble, so what little (and hopefully growing) amount of this I get together I'm willing to share with anyone on HN who has even an eyeball-plausible comment history of caring about the community.

I don't have much yet, but I've tracked down the torrents for e.g. GPT-4Chan and am starting to archive it's tuning corpus, the HN comments corpus, some brand-name newspapers: low-hanging fruit like that. I've got some spare bandwidth on a modest number of GPUs so I'm planning to do a variety of fine-tuned checkpoints and throw together Docker and Nix environments for loading them up.

If you want what I've put together so far (which admittedly isn't much) or to help with this: ben.reesman@gmail.com
A great read. To me the main takeaway is not to fall into a sin of believing things about China because you want them to be true. Golley is explicit she's seen this in himself.

Also, a subtext is that what matters is probably how the Chinese feel about it, more than how we ideate it.

I was interested in how little evidence there is of a "debt trap policy" in Africa. It's certainly been a constant of declared Australian strategic views of China in the pacific. Golley seems to say it may be more transparent motivations: the Chinese want the minerals and fish protein, and the providing nation states want unfettered money (no social policy strings, as the west and world bank demand) and freely offer their UN vote as a side deal.

Arguably, as nation states, everyone's getting what they want.

The other dynamic here is the demographics. They don't have the labour to replace their ageing population any more than Japan does and turning around one child policy takes time. The completely unnecessary war on Uighers didn't help there: protected minorities are allowed more children.
Thanks for the response. I have been a Dreamhost customer for about 20 years and have never had a significant problem with them. I don't find their domain name prices to be an issue, but I might be less price sensitive about that than others.
Sure, the common man can belive one thing more than other. Does not mean that their actions are not based on belief in both cases...

Aren't you guys truly not getting this simple thing? I should probably get out of this thread..
…oh. So can we just charge for both?
I switched to basic HTML gmail the moment it tried to predict what I wanted to type (incorrectly, I should add).

I sometimes accidentally open the 'modern' view and it feels so bloated. Everything is so against intuition, it feels like someone's fresh-out-of-marketing-school design.
they're there to collect your specimen?
This might help - https://www.theguardian.com/global/2021/aug/22/how-digital-m...
Their faq says u can only use bank or debit, so no prepaid visa
True, but government can still try to nudge behaviour.

Singapore famously established the social development unit (SDU) (nicknamed "Single, Desperate and Ugly") to encourage graduates to have more children, by organising speed dating events, BBQs, cruises etc. They also have a "Baby Bonus Scheme" [0].

"SDN’s long term goal has always been to help singles realise their marriage aspirations through equipping singles with relationship skills and creating a vibrant dating scene for singles to interact." [1]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/apr/10/gender.uk

https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/history/events/3c520e6c-dc34-4...

https://www.msf.gov.sg/policies/Marriages/Pages/Finding-a-Pa...

[0] https://www.msf.gov.sg/policies/strong-and-stable-families/s...

[1] https://www.msf.gov.sg/media-room/Pages/Singles-dating-media...
I have observed the same thing. I _never_ saw a single spam message in years. Suddenly I am seeing strikingly obvious ones at the same frequency you are. This must be on Google's plate to fix. Surely they see it.
My kids go to a school which organized around as a cooperative owned by the parents. I find the biggest problem is lack of general financial understanding by people about what a cooperative is. It’s still a business and every member is on the hook for their share of the losses the business incur.

The problem as I’m all cooperatives organized around delivering a service to its owners a handful of people carry the whole load of work.
The best way is to aggregate them to /dev/null.

I am only half-joking.
>Some people think that a dictatorship is OK as long as the trains all run on time.

Some people are influenced by propaganda and the historical connotations associated with the word "dictatorship."

There's nothing inherently bad about the word, it's just the association. If you look at dictatorships objectively there are many successful examples. Here are a few modern ones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_dictatorship

That's just a couple. Your first reaction would be to say that the examples represent a minority. The problem is, though, if you look at ancient history, the most successful civilizations that prospered and succeeded were basically all empires with central rule. It shows that if you were intellectually unbiased, you would not simply dismiss "dictatorship" in a single sentence.

Democracy is a recent phenomenon when viewed in terms of human history and, if anything, still experimental (there are many examples of complete failures of democratic governments).

That being said, to swing it around to your statement. There is no definitive "right" way to solve a problem. Gatekeeping could work, and it could fail. Simply "improving society" can also lead to complete and utter failure. The inputs and various factors influencing the outcomes are so complex we cannot point to one way that works.

So I say give gatekeeping a try. It's not like the government is doing this either... It's a business.
"a big part of Larson’s approach [...] was to break a curve of interest into multiple curves, study their properties [...]"
> In the future – and maybe it’ll take a couple more decades – all software will be open source, and no one will make money with software. And I think that’s a good thing.

Ignoring open source "alternatives" with UX so poor I'm still glad to pay for the proprietary thing. Ignoring all the web-based stuff for which a large part of the code is behind a closed source API.
> You ask what's the justification for helping people who are already indebted, but I ask what's the justification for excluding them from help?

this is a noble cause. like many, i have causes i'm passionate about, to which i donate my time and money. but it's quite a different thing when i force everyone around me to prioritize my own particular goals. why don't we take this $500B of canceled debt and direct that into supplying mosquito nets to malaria-prone regions of the world instead? obviously, that would help more people, and more significantly, than wiping clean our own debts.

"strawman", i hear you say? it's only a strawman if you deny utilitarianism and admit that our opinions on how to do good in the world are allowed to vary. at which point: why should you get to force me to act toward your good at the expense of my own good -- or vice versa?

there's room in this approach to governmental funding for a social safety net: a thing which is not so much about doing good in the world as ensuring some base level of living which secures the continuation of society in the broadest of form. at which point, this loan issue is only tangentially related: nobody should be forced onto the streets because they can't make their student loan payment. nobody should be forced to choose between feeding their family or paying their loan. i am happy to pay my dues into a system that guarantees these things; but forgiving loans to anyone making < $125,000 is doing way more than this.

i don't want to be what-about-ist, but i do want to illustrate that there are real tradeoffs. i pay taxes equivalent to 3x my living expenses. it's a relatively frugal lifestyle, with roommates, home-cooking and no travel. after 5 years, i'm half-way to being able to own a starter-home in the city i grew up in. you say we have progressive taxation (last year i reached the social security contribution limit for the first time in my life, actually decreasing my effective tax rate), but this is still a nontrivial burden for someone who really hasn't secured his own future yet. over the years i had worked my way up to donating 5% of every paycheck to EA causes. i canceled these recurring donations two months ago as my living expenses and the cost of the home i'm saving for both rose. quite literally: inflation correlated to public/deficit spending led me to cut my own charitable donations.

i want to do good in this world, much as you do. but there's a give-and-take everywhere you look, even if it's diffuse or hard to identify. you can only solve so many social ills via compulsory redistribution until you inadvertently worsen other things. this is why i so heavily favor spending which fixes systemic issues (with the opportunity of benefiting untold generations) over one-time transfers which divert resources from unknowable pursuits toward temporary patches. i looked into my own university (University of Washington), by the way: their endowment is large enough to cover -- by very rough estimate -- about half of tuition in perpetuity; but not enough to refund their graduates.
that's why Throne is debuting a comprehensive system of cameras to ensure user safety #ThroneCam
More tham paying cops tp arrest people and jailers to jail them?

More than the $500,000 the Downtown Seattle Association spent last year alone on hosing out one alley?

I have my doubts. However, were it the case I'd still say it is the right thing to do. Jury trials cost a lot of money, death penalty appeals are whoppingly expensive, eminent domain is costing Sound Transit a fortune for its light rail network. As it turns out, living in a free society is expensive.
I work in Google and think I can share: in fact we do ask our users a lot. To the point that I would be very surprised if any major development in GCP is allowed at all without extensive focus groups, or coming out of cooperation with some major customer.
Most relevant software does have such licenses, that is how I used to buy Borland software.
USSR was "self sustaining" by draining resources out of satellite states. Majority of steel, coal, grain and meat production was earmarked for USSR.

As for problems getting anything, they cant even source potatoes for something as basic as fries.
Keeb.io does list prebuilt, where the store owner would build it for you.
https://keeb.io/collections/pre-built-keyboards/products/iri...

Pro'bly the most popular pre-built keyboard along the same lines is the Moonlander. https://www.zsa.io/moonlander/ The configuration user experience would be nicer with this.
Thank you. Hope you are able to try out the demos.
For the technologist that wants that single program, and values privacy and transparency like most of us do, Brave fits the bill nicely. It’s currently my second favorite browser after Edge.

That said, I had Clipchamp installed from the MS Store before I went back to MS Video Editor.
Creating/editing geometric shapes...?
I'm working in one right now.
www.neureality.ai
It's an interesting article but I'm not sure that the conclusion is correct. The existence of a similar or superior open source solution does not guarantee that a proprietary solution will lose most of its users to that open source alternative; especially if there are network effects at play.

Also, when it comes to B2B solutions, network effects have a massive effect on the procurement process. The people who decide what software a large company should buy/use are more likely to buy from their friends' companies (or they might get some kind of kickback payment or job offer down the line)... So there is no incentive for insiders to use the free solution no matter how good it is.
> Except you can find another group of holy men who disagree with that group.

This happens in your "western science" also (despite all the ability to "test" things), he he he...excuse me. Couldn't help it.
Hang on, we were talking about cleaning bathrooms. You seriously moved the goalposts there. Not sure what your point is.
Bad metric, bad methodology, survivor bias... I'm still expecting a kick-ass open source video editor or digital audio workstation any day now...
"The real product is software"

Ummmm, what? In that case, what about things like batteries, displays, speakers, GPUs, etc.? You're okay to use the crappiest combo of these provided they have good software running on them? Are you a new college grad or something?

"If you hate the company don’t buy their product"

I don't use my money to vote but rather to put it to some good use.

Looks like you're lost here, and in turn asking others to find logic, which is weird. We will appreciate if you can excuse yourself out of here. Thanks
In democratic countries, if it’s being implemented by the local authorities, you can’t really say it’s ‘without a vote being cast’. Elected representatives of the people have bought into the ideas. They’re not only allowed a choice, they’re actively making one.

In the other direction, the UN only exists because nation states voluntarily choose to be a part of it. It’s not some external force.
I have questions about this model.

How are terminations of underperforming employees handled?

Is there a particular type of business (e.g. established old-school industry vs. R&D startup) where this model should be better at, and others where it is worse at, due to systematic factors?

Does a worker co-op mean that a union serves no purpose?

Would a worker co-op mean that important strategic decisions are made by large committees, or can they made by individual/executives that are voted into their position by workers? Or are such details up to the discretion of the particular co-op's charter?

How does it differ to a traditional company that simply gives lots of equity to all the employees? Is the main practical difference that the "equity" (i.e. their voting power and profit share) expires when the employee quits their job, and therefore it isn't commoditized?

Would this model be expected to produce less externalities to society? Or should the same bad incentives cause them to pollute, corrupt government, and so on?

Clearly, something is holding back worker co-ops from competing effectively in the market, given that examples like Mondragon are relatively rare. What are all the reasons for this?
They are quite different in maturity and capabilities.
There is a book called “How to talk about books you haven’t read” by Pierre Bayard. It is exactly about this. And the writer is a also a litt prof. Really interesting, but I also feel that reading books is different from eating at a restaurant in a very unquantifiable way. I don’t know.
> "People familiar with the investigation said prosecutors had examined emails between Mr. Biden, Mr. Archer and others about Burisma and other foreign business activity. Those emails were obtained by The New York Times from a cache of files that appears to have come from a laptop abandoned by Mr. Biden in a Delaware repair shop. The email and others in the cache were authenticated by people familiar with them and with the investigation."

No credible news source any longer disputes that it was indeed Hunter Biden's laptop. Does this change your opinion of anything?

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/us/politics/hunter-biden-...
And it will never be. Its developers don't intend that (sadly, uno).
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Seems a 14th amendment violation
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