skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) working from home without distractions allows deep-dive for hours, not possible in open plan workspaces,
2) savings on commute charges paid parking at work,
3) flexible hours, I like to start early and work late with lots of breaks in between

As for real estate, I don't want to work from home, if there was a generic, secure workspace within walking/cycling distance of my home I'd prefer to work there. I'd also be spending money in my home town, not the city.

We did a survey at work and the young people didn't like forced working from home, they missed the social interaction and felt they were missing out on 'soft skills' eavesdropping on senior employees conversations and the like.
Lol. Ok, tomorrow instead of writing software, I’ll speak the software, listen back, and re-speak any changes I want to make. Only when it’s perfect will I speech-to-text the actual code. This will definitely be faster.
Here in NZ my fathers cancer treatment was not covered. He spent most of his savings buying an extra year. It was scheduled for funding but Covid took that budget so it's been delayed.
To clarify, this is a new platform, but they have committed to maintaining the AM5 socket (and supporting platform) through at least some future advancements, as they did with AM4 from Zen, Zen+, Zen 2 and Zen 3.
Loved how humane his angle is. It's only a 5 minute summary, so I guess a lot is missing. He isn't ridiculing mediocrity or the sorry state of bloated bureaucracies, he seems genuinely concerned about the detrimental effects of being stuck in a rat race, of how individuals fall in this trap unknowingly. His thoughts lead him to think self-knowledge is the answer (but not in a blaming way). He isn't talking about better promotion cycles, or better hiring, or better employee evaluation. He puts much of the agency with the employee, not the institution. Not what I expected, I thought it'd be a lot more sarcastic and cynical.
Even if we didn't go that far, I'd be happy if Congress started using open source practices/tools just so things are easier for the public to audit and follow. Bill's text in public throughout the whole process. Public and documented changes/proposals/comments even if still made by only members of Congress.

And a single official repository of all laws that can be edited directly and kept up to date. The United States Code is actually a pretty good place to start, here I’m just suggesting modernizing it.
Pure coincidence, perhaps not (see the other comments on this thread), but this did come across a few times as being a hack.

For instance, on the OS ABI field in ELF headers:

> Fortunately we can get around this by just setting it to the FreeBSD ABI. This is because FreeBSD is the only UNIX operating system that checks this field.

Or on loading a zero-byte segment into memory:

> However if the size in memory is zero too, then OpenBSD will refuse to run the progarm, whereas the other kernels just don't care.
Venkatesh Rao thinks Paul Graham's writing is bad?

This is a guy who thinks "constructions in magical thinking" is a coherent series of words.
Xenophobia is about prejudice. The joke in question relies on underlying prejudice towards the image of Chinese restaurants in America in order for the joke to land.

If you don’t understand the stereotype of Chinese restaurants the joke wouldn’t be funny to you.

Is it bad or legitimately harmful to perpetuate those types of stereotypes? Probably not. But I don’t think the quality of the joke makes up for it in this case.
Even now there are people who don’t consider photography an art form.
Why do you want the government to run these basic utilities?
Is it that you want more people to be able to access them?
Is it that you think the government would be more efficient at running them?

It's interesting to see what people are trying to optimize for they suggest different political systems.
The biggest democratisation of photography came with kodacks invention of the box brownie. The film stock it used was infact just repurposed movie film stock and much cheaper to produce and process than plate film. The camera itself was super cheap to make and operate. It heralded the birth of snapshot photography.

How things change. It was Kodak that invented the digital camera, but failed to capatalise on it as well as they could have.
It's cute that you assume good faith. Here is evidence they are operating in bad faith. They allow users who are being harassed to disable replies but not quote tweets. These quote tweets are then used as a vector of further harassment and dogpiling. This happened with Steven Pinker for a time period and Amber Heard. They are choosing virality over preventing harassment.

"Assume you can hire 100,000 people. How would you maintain consistency among all those 100,000 people. You'll get huge variance in the kind of decision making from each of those people."

This is the perfect solution fallacy. Perfect solutions are not the bar. Timely response to reports and human review is the bar that I expect of them. And they're failing to meet that bar.
I found this repo early on and have been using it to run inference on my M1 Pro MBP. https://github.com/ModeratePrawn/stable-diffusion-cpu

For me it runs at about 3.5 seconds per iteration per picture at 512x512.

There is also a fork that uses metal here and is much faster: https://github.com/magnusviri/stable-diffusion/tree/apple-si...
but it doesn't support seeding the rng and will occasionally produce completely black output. Useful if you want to spit out a whole bunch of images for one prompt but you lose the ability to re-run a specific seed with a tweaked prompt or increased iterations.
> But the point is, I can't draw. We are very quickly going to reach a point where anybody can produce basically the exact illustration they want in 15 min.

I’m curious about the economic impact to illustrators, artists and designers because while I agree with you that this opens up the ability for people who can’t draw to produce stuff they couldn’t before, it seems to me that this is a fairly marginal use-case.

I’m personally excited about these tools because, like many electronic musicians, it’s helpful to be able to produce cool album art easily. But I wouldn’t have paid good money for this before. At best I’d pay some freelancer on the internet $20 to throw something together. Meanwhile, in the professional contexts where I’ve dealt with profesional artists and designers, the demands are far too precise and nuanced for these tools to be really useful.

I understand that these tools are still in their early stages, but is it possible that, like self-driving cars, the last mile in terms of professional-level suitability will be much more difficult than we might expect?
I wouldn't believe it until the results are independently reproduced.
Nice. Well done.
PowerUp: IDE Decompilation and Disassembly Tools
Yea, you're kind of right, Anki isn't very user-friendly and has a massive learning curve for "today's" standard, I wouldn't say people don't install software anymore or that Anki looks like a virus.

Anyway this is really impressive for 2 hours, well done!

If you don't mind me asking, are you taking any exams, is this the reason you made it?
> It would be the equivalent of a Chinese sitcom where a character might suggest that visit a Texas Barbecue you might get shot by some revolver-wielding cowboy. I don't think many Americans would take offense.

That’s fair enough, maybe I’m over analyzing. But you probably wouldn’t find that joke on TV in America either.
I always learn from your posts dang - really appreciate this substantive explanation, informs my own thinking as we seek to build our own communities for curiosity.
Yup, this article is some heavy, heavy copium. It feels like digital job automation is only a matter of time at this point.

However, I for one am not looking forward to the piles of copilot spaghetti vomit we're going to have to clean up in five years... because copilot will be abused to hell just like Access and Excel were in the 90s-00s.
I have the opposite advice: optimize for writing, minimize janitorial stuff like tweaking your own tooling. It just distracts you from writing and offers only masturbatory value.

The best path depends on your personality, but building my own blog tooling killed my writing. I'd start writing something only to realize I needed to tweak something. Then I wouldn't even write the post or I wouldn't have the energy to fix the tooling and I'd do neither. And then I stopped writing.

I didn't start writing again until I used Wordpress which let me focus on writing, though after proving myself for a year, I switched to Jekyll + Github Pages so that everything was on Github.
I don't recall ever seeing it in the wild, but I remember it as a JS script you could add to your site from a page that I think was http://www.dynamicdrive.com/

I may have played around with it on a couple of HTML pages written in Notepad way back.
Calling a language a joke is not constructive anymore. It's possibly a cop-out for inadequate thinking or to be lazily dismissive.

I don't care if the repo or language is real, only the ideas and philosophy behind it. I assessed it based on the features, to a point. There is a bar to utility nowadays and it's important to point out where an implementation falls short.
> Take some idea that is very clearly formed in your head and put it in paper.

For me the idea is always half formed in my head, it becomes clear only when I begin to write it down.
https://eternallybored.org/ uses it
Apparently there is a standard for the sizes of regulatory road signs...

https://mutcd.info/mutcd-2009-standard-regulatory-sign-sizes...
Obviously there's a spectrum of responsibility, with some companies bearing more and others less. The grocery store is a poor analogy though because they're not actively facilitating tomatoes being thrown. If they incentivized tomatoes being thrown through social mechanics then I would place more blame on their shoulders.

Also you're talking about current law here. I'm not interested in the current state of affairs. I understand Twitter and Facebook aren't breaking the law if they facilitate organization of a genocide. I'm talking about what should be the case. Perhaps laws need to be updated.
And that's the line of thinking that makes #3 the only option for Google.
Mailing the disk imposes a much longer delay between customers, so it massively reduces the amount of times it can be rented. There's the moral difference - copyright owner won't sell as many copies.

But I wonder what would happen if we had some super-fast rocket drone delivery service so it's just a video rental shop on steroids?
Congrats Garry! I'm one of those lurkers, and was due to your influence that I became a founder and got into YC.
This was back in an era when your Windows computer started to feel slow (which inevitably started to happen after a few years) was to take the standard recommendation and reinstall the entire OS.
It's so far from the world of an advanced Linux SysOp.
have our elites shown that they are competent and trustworthy enuf to be trusted with handling global warming, oops, I mean climate change?
clearly they have not shown that...
If each of ten million users wasted five minutes, Venmo just scrapped 100 years of human effort because they were bored.
Is it a slow bandwidth connection as well as low latency? It could be because curve25519/ed25519 are smaller packet sizes than other algorithms (and also just the length of the list of algorithms in the kexinit packet).

I would have expected the round trip count at the SSH level to be the same, but there could be more TCP round trips for window adjustment.

Plugging my own software, Dropbear's dbclient is a bit quicker at high latency - "ssh git@github.com" is 3 seconds (from Perth, Australia) vs 1.5 secs with dbclient. It makes use of the "guess kex" feature that most clients don't, and sends other packets sooner.
Of course dbclient doesn't have all the useful features of OpenSSH, and isn't as performant at high bandwidth.
My argument is that in 2022, the medical advise and consultation of “diet and weight loss is the solution to obesity” is not true on a population level. We now have other tools to address obesity that are both pharmacological (GLP-1/GIP acting) or surgical (bariatric surgery). We should stop admonishing patients for not following treatment guidance (eat less, exercise) and instead provide them with solutions that actually work reliably. I have nothing to add to the causes of obesity, and eating properly and maintaining a high level of activity are clearly good at preventing people who have never been obese from becoming obese.
Fair enough.

I've been in healthcare analytics and population health for over ten years.

Data analysis and analytics for going on 30.

I've also crunched a lot of numbers on this, and looked at the glaring issues with the data.

FWIW, I think that the analysis done in this paper is worth consideration.
Not trying to be all negative, but I really dislike this format. No mention of `--help` or `man`?. The thing is pages long with a TON of superfluous steps and doesn't even mention the merge flag until you're 3/4's of the way through the post. Plus the way the author went about moving the folders into a subdir is odd to say the least

IMO posts like this are why git gets a bad wrap for being overly complicated.

This sort of thing lends itself to the SO, not a long winded blog post.

cd my_repo
mkdir -p subdir/test
git mv * subdir/test
git commit -m foob
git push origin master
popd

cd my_other repo
git remote add foo ssh://my_repo
git fetch foo
git merge foo/master --allow-unrelated-histories
Reminds me of old days when ed2k servers are entirely running on RAM to avoid raids.
I completely agree, going to space is very important, I’m just sad that the satellites polluting the night sky are basically just one company (a company which is definitely doing some cool stuff). It’s not a state, or a collective representing humanity but a private enterprise controlled by one person.
I get the immediate appeal of “open source servers that run from RAM”… but it’s the same thing as always, you just have to believe your VPN provider.

There is just no saying that they don’t swap gear out for the auditors or for the disk less servers or whatever it is.

I like that they say the right things. But I think the current models of Facebook and Google show just how much money there is in data, so it’s just faith that the VPN provider won’t fall to temptation.
Not so fast. Even today there are more species of birds than there are species of mammals. You anti-birdites.
what!?!? thinking thoughts to a point of clarity so that one has achieved a cohesion and clarity of meaning comes well before writing. writing allows for the recordation of thoughts, so that we may revisit older thoughts with newer thinking. writing allows 'editing thoughts' not 'thinking' in its primary order. if anything writing is second order (meta) thinking. if you havent been able to structure thoughts to some completion before you understand them, perhaps writing will help, but usually, it isnt untill that lightbulb mental moment wherein understanding and meaning are conclusive enough to establish thought.
>I, as a citizen and a consumer, want to know what rights I have when I purchase a product.

Step one would probably be actually purchasing something instead of licensing it.
The standard could also change. It's done it before. Today's tools already let countless people do things that would've required huge expense three decades ago. We've recently been in a fairly grounded/realistic style in many types of commercial art, maybe more imaginative imagery will start to grab the eye if this more clip-art-y sort of thing becomes easier and easier. (Imaginative in the "not along the existing trends" sense, not just purely "nothing like this has ever been conceived before.")

A DIY website today can look better than the most professional one from 20 years ago. And it took away the jobs of folks who just wrote HTML to lay things out on a page. But very few people want to put "the same level of thing that anyone without any artistic talent can whip up" as their public facing website, so the question is what will the most skilled masters of the new tools end up doing to differentiate themselves. (In terms of any single particular digital artist who doesn't want to learn new tools, that's still bad, though... ;) )
How did that opinion age for professional go players? It's absolutely amazing seeing AI advancing very rapidly on multiple fronts.
> > in OK?, 5 + 2 * 3 evaluates to 21, not 11, because addition and multiplication have equal operator precedence.
>To be honest, I think this is actually smart!

A better way to implement this is to always enforce parentheses around binary operators - which avoids misleading someone who is used to mathematical precedence (whether it is from maths or from using other languages).
It's a simple one but freebsd's <sys/queue.h> is short, well designed, and really useful.
I'm in NZ and our universal healthcare system sucks too.

For example don't have a medical emergency here. You'll wait more than 8 hours to get seen.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/nearly-all-nz-hospitals-failin...
Threads are pretty new and also just... not well put in. Slack's threading is much better in that regard. The use of threads in almost every case I've seen seems to be more of a subchannel thing. Example, if your server has a tech channel, but five or so people want to separate out say... keyboard talk, that becomes a semi permanent thread.
I'm saying that it's hard to build a basic lego block with another lego block. You have to use plastic, heat and a mold.

That's why we have a wide range of programming languages at different levels, and why it's common for people to say "high level" or "low level" languages.

It's unclear to me what your suggesting, or what question your asking really.
I don't think lidar is the only solution, passive\smart infrastructure changes and car to car communications could overcome many issues.
I only implemented Google login in my app. Mainly because I know my target market uses gmail, and they're mostly doctors/health professionals who does not have time to enter password/maintain their own password. They have gmail and want to get things done. But I'm lucky I'm in a small niche
Texas Crypto Rush May Need as Much Power as Entire State of New York
I'm proposing that writing—and editing—gets you to the big and small lightbulb mental moments more consistently and faster!

i.e., Thinking through putting ink on paper (or characters on screen) is more reliable and produces clearer results/expressions than thinking without.
If you are in the "data compression ~= intelligence" camp then Fabrice Bellard is currently leading the race to AI too.

http://prize.hutter1.net/

https://bellard.org/nncp/

http://www.mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html
As an LGBTQ person, this makes me very sad. Just look at fandom twitter and you will see how much even a small amount of representation on screen means to people like me. I wish everybody could experience that.
I’ll wait patiently for Scott Manley to explain to me what this test failure means - but man alive if SLS ends in catastrophe it will easily be among the US Government’s most embarrassing failures. I wasn’t a supporter of SLS from the start but I am very much hoping things go well now that it’s a done deal. It is perhaps one of the best examples of putting every conceivable egg in one basket though.
People rarely write assembly code nowadays because we mostly all use higher level abstractions that let us write more powerful code with fewer lines.

There are plenty of small shops now where somebody knows a little Photoshop and can eek out a design that they otherwise wouldn't be able to using pen and paper.

There are also professionals that use the Adobe suite to enhance their abilities they've cultivated for years.

AI art will simply be a tool that enhances artists but might take away some low hanging fruit jobs similar to how web frameworks pushed people out of the job of webmaster and into more specific roles.
'The Man of the Hole'; last of his tribe dies alone in Brazilian jungle
So these kinds of discussions typically center around harmonic considerations. What about the melodic ones?
Almost 10 years ago MTVIndia said the same thing I said about Big Bang Theory.

https://twitter.com/MTVIndia/status/379879685863129088?s=20&...
I was going to suggest “cash” as the other option.
Hot take. Let's put a pin in this comment and come back to it when we know with hindsight what the outcome is. I have a feeling your cynicism is unfounded.
Is there a lot of demand for this from consumers? Enough demand from consumers to make drone delivery profitable?

Drone delivery could be a good option for delivering to hard-to-access places, but as one poster pointed out it's only a tiny niche of logistics overall.
Show HN: Eyetem – Trade neighborhood crime information for crypto rewards
We decided to completely rethink the way that neighbors organize and interact with each other and law enforcement to address crime. One of the biggest challenges that we’ve heard from our neighbors is that it can be difficult to communicate privately and safely with others about ongoing issues (e.g., identifying people, vehicles, etc. that are responsible for crimes or other issues in the neighborhood). People will often tell us that they want to help, but they are concerned about their safety and feel the hassle of getting involved is just not worth it. Other community apps today require personal information at sign-up (email, phone, etc.), so we decided to do away with that. And, with our app, people can receive crypto rewards when they share information that helps each other and law enforcement.

Big picture, Eyetem is a mobile app that incentivizes neighbors to anonymously share local information that can improve their community, while also protecting their privacy. Think of it like NextDoor, Ring, or Citizen offering crypto-rewards for valuable information AND not requiring users to hand over their personal information just to chat with each other. Our focus is less on live-broadcasting crime information as it happens and more on creating the right incentives (anonymity + crypto rewards) for neighbors to help law enforcement and each other gather and reconstruct the type of information needed to solve crimes. There has been very little innovation around how law enforcement can make it easier and safer for people to get paid for sharing the types of information they are seeking. With Eyetem, we are trying something completely different and have live crime data in Washington DC, San Francisco, and Los Angeles today.

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Having accidentally seen gratuitous gore on shows like Game of Thrones on HBO or The Boys on Amazon, I'm not against a general set of standards to avoid the assault on my eyes (or the eyes of younger members of society). In my day, you could always get the uncut version on DVD if you want to - but the mass market versions should certainly adhere to some basic societal standards.
As a game developer, I am aware of this.

There's basically two reasons to make games: to make money, or to make art. You can try to do both at once, of course; and focusing on one doesn't necessarily detract from the other.

Consider FromSoftware, for instance; often pilloried by the gaming press for their lack of difficulty scaling or tutorials, but adored by their fans and able to turn a tidy profit with each release. Similar, but less well-known, would be Spiderweb Software; which has steamrolled along for decades without breaking their artistic style.

Not everyone wants to be the next Candy Crush or Clash of Clans; many just want to create an experience that they would enjoy.
From leaks so far, seems likely Intel's Raptor Lake CPUs like 13900k will be faster/cheaper, more details next month.