skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Climate is statistics over 30 years of weather. ;)

You're right, you can't say explicitly that a single extreme weather event is definitely because of climate change.

But if you're seeing a trend of change in frequency and/or magnitude, then that's the climate changing.
Also, after a point the differences will be more given by the specific individual that views the image, not by what the AI can generate, so the AI would have to optimize it's output per individual and would need to have a deep understanding of them.
SpaceX, T-Mobile race to put end to cell phone dead zones with help from space
One of the un-fun potential answers to the Fermi Paradox is “everyone invents something like Facebook eventually”.
> I have to say the design of the library is just so awful and non-intuitive.

Absolutely agree. But this wasn't always the case. The original class components were much easier to understand. A backend developer could open a .tsx file and understand what is going on, and make simple fixes. This was one of the strengths of React - it was so clean, compared to Angular and other frameworks.

But then they introduced hooks and messed it up. Now it is not intuitive in the least. Hooks makes some things easier but the cost in terms of loss-of-intuitiveness is huge. The other mistake Facebook is making is assuming that performance is the most important attribute of a UI framework. It is not. For 99.9% of developers the original React was already fast enough. They should have focused on making the mental model cleaner, and smoothing some of the roughness of the lib such as updating the props of a stateful component, handling deeply nested objects in the state without making entire copies of the data and so on.
What successes are you thinking of?

The only two that come to mind for me are Korea and Japan (I could easily be overlooking some), and really the former happened as a part of the latter (Korea was ruled by Japan for the 35 years prior to WWII).

As I understand it South Korea was at least nominally under local democratic rule from the start.

I'm not sure that's a big enough sample set to be making generalizations from, and even if you are happy with a sample set of 2 I'm not really sure south korea fits the mold you're describing.

That said, I could definitely be missing some examples that would make the argument more convincing.
> NATO kept expanding east

You make it sound like NATO was unilaterally pushing for this. Eastern European countries were begging to join NATO. All of them had been independent multiple times over the centuries, always ending up under Russian control. NATO offered a plausible mechanism to end the historical cycle--an historical cycle for which Russia, in 2022, is proudly nostalgic and not afraid to go to war to continue.

Moreover, national security is expensive, especially for small countries who cannot benefit from scale--they need to spend much more for even minimal deterrence. For newly independent nations, NATO provides leverage for their security expenditures. More importantly, it also motivates peaceful resolution of conflict among neighboring NATO states, which makes NATO a keystone institution for peace in Europe, Russia notwithstanding.
Anyone have a link to a picture of the Apple ad?
it would be run by a publicly-funded consortium of doctors, social scientists, and public health experts with no mandate to earn a profit, for one.
this comment is literally the definition of gaslighting.
More games for Mac than iPhone?
> The ethical obligation exists only in your own mind.

Normative ethics really don't just exist in one person's head.

This is not a question of whether or not people can think for themselves or whether they believe what they hear, and whether he's a comedian, politician, or astronaut has no bearing on what our ethical standards should be as a society.

We should expect better.

> You are arguing in bad faith and trying to inflame the discussion.

The fact that you have seemingly never really read philosophy or considered what we, as society, should expect from public figures does not mean the argument is in bad faith or inflammatory.

It is, very simply, a reductio ad absurdum. If your position is that the "rest of us" are capable of thinking for yourselves, who we allow to influence/control public discourse/thought should be up to individuals, then surely there's nothing wrong with having Nazis or mass murderers given airtime.

If you do have a problem with this, then you draw the line somewhere, and it's just a matter of determining where. If you have a problem with it, then you believe that some discourse is antithetical to the principles of a well-functioning society, and that we have a duty to shield people from it.

The question is where you draw that line, and why "he's just a comedian" (with 11-12 million listeners who see him as having "interesting conversations" with people who are not comedians) absolves him of a duty not to use his platform to spread dangerous misinformation. Not that he does it all the time, but it does happen sometimes, and the same normative ethics apply all the time.
While I doubt it, I hope so.

Apple Silicon is so much more efficient on the desktop, and an AWS competitor might make it worthwhile to consider using aarm64 containers end-to-end. That would be amazing.
from the article: "So, to go back to our misconception: props have nothing to do with re-renders."
>But there is also a pertinent body of knowledge that is taught and tested at universities, which includes an accepted terminology.

Well, speaking of universities, can you find a univercity-level course/book that doesn't characterize Smalltalk (post 76 too) as having message passing?
My understanding is Apple uses Linux a lot internally for server stuff. Wouldn’t surprise me one bit if it was just Linux machines running LLVM and their other tools.

Perhaps the stuff runs on MacOS in VMs for the best compatibility, but I’m not sure that’s strictly necessary.
What is this based on? So far these image generation AIs are learning to draw at a faster rate than I am.
I believe there's already a lot more content on social media than time to watch it in 100 lives.
Some people chose to put their assets to work for later and others to sell their assets for cash right now. Why shouldn't people be allowed to make those decisions?
Ilograph [0] is a similar (and, in my biased opinion, better) tool that has a 100% local runtime option (called Ilograph Desktop). You can still test-drive it with the browser version, of course.

[0] https://www.ilograph.com
Sponsored shortcuts on the New Tab page
JIT goes back a lot farther than the jvm. I think the first recognizably modern implementations were for Self and Smalltalk. The people responsible for those were largely involved in bringing the idea to the jvm afaik.
seagate drives have been timebombs since around 2006

maybe good fodder for raid with capital R and I

ofcourse nowadays you've got to dodge those shingled drives...
No, bats do NOT carry Covid-19.

We were actually prevented by the USFWS from performing winter hibernacula counts for fear that we humans might spread Covid to bats, whose immune system practically shuts down during hibernation, until it was determined that this isn't possible.

Besides, the bats which are primarily killed by wind turbines are not cave-roosting bats, but high-flying tree bats. Bats either have a strategy of hibernation or migration, and it is these larger migratory tree bats which fall prey to turbines.

Echo-reflective surfaces wouldn't make a difference. Bats aren't killed by colliding with turbine blades, they are killed by barotrauma when flying NEAR the high-velocity low-pressure turbine blades when they try to investigate the large, moving, novel objects. I repeat, the most effective way to prevent bat deaths at wind farms is to curtail (brake) turbine blades during low-wind conditions; a 25-gram bat doesn't fly in high winds, and turbines are least efficient in low winds.

Source: I perform bat echolocation surveys, including on wind farm sites.
I agree that there are valid statistical reasons to limit testing, but governments ration care and allow for long wait times when they are responsible for paying the costs. Faster testing and treatment is generally believed to be one of the best things you can do to improve patient outcomes, and government healthcare systems are notoriously bad at this (even worse than private healthcare).

Long wait times don't reduce the rate of false-positives, and false diagnoses. Long wait times deter people from seeking treatment, thus reducing costs.
The numbers are trivial - in one study posted here, no more dead birds were found under wind turbines than anywhere else. And that would be in the single digits per area studied.

The truth is, birds are born to die. A bird has a nest of eggs - but the bird population is normally quite stable. So on average, nearly all new birds die by the end of the year. Cold, hunger, natural predation, disease.

This is a solution looking for a problem.
What’s crazy is the minds behind the Washington Consensus favored a form of extreme capitalism that no western democracy would ever tolerate such a system on their own soil.

It had been tried in many places already: Chile, Indonesia, the Philippines, and (before 1979) Iran. The data were clear: it had worked very well for capitalists, but very poorly for people in the countries affected. And it mostly has come to the US. There are remnants of the welfare state, but your employer can basically do whatever he wants because he calls himself "a job creator"... and education is debt-financed... and getting sick will wipe out everything you have... and we've transitioned away from productive investment to asset bubbles... and you better not end up in a lawsuit because the rich have the best lawyers and lobbyists and therefore effectively own the court system (you only have a shot if you can find a rich person who hates your adversary enough to back you). The EU has held out to an extent, for now, but it won't if the Davos people get their way. The "Great Reset" is their plan to implement extreme capitalism under a guise of ecological caution and "woke" multiculturalism [1].

The Marshall Plan was written by people who believed market systems were superior to central planning given the technological level and geographical complexities (e.g., general low trust between nations) of the time--they were capitalists, but not capitalist ideologues. Alas, the successes (for "business interests", meaning rich people in the US) in Santiago, Jakarta, and Manila led them to become more brazen, to the point of using the former USSR for some of their most aggressive experiments to that point.

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[1] This is not to say ecological caution isn't important (it is). Nor is it to disparage the broader set of social movements classified by their detractors as "woke", most of which have nothing but the best intentions. The issue with "woke capitalism" is that it retrenches in identity politics in order to divide working people against each other for Capital's benefit, and that it is designed not to provide significant help to people in marginalized groups (most of whom are working class, and who will therefore not be helped) but to neuter a powerful, morally righteous leftist movement toward genuine and universal social justice.
If the people who own them aren’t willing to sell them for economically-rational prices, then you don’t have equilibrium capitalism; you have temporary capitalism as a reaction proceeding toward aristocracy / feudalism. When all the assets are illiquid, there’s no capitalism.
Calling someone by their preferred nickname or pronouns does not require you to participate in anything. Nobody's asking you to change your own name or fast during Ramadan if you don't want to.

Using another analogy, I have vegetarian friends and acquaintances, and when they come visit, I serve us all veg-friendly food because... I'm not an asshole! Doing this small act does not require me to adopt their religion or become vegetarian myself.
The Library of Babel, now only $19.95 per month!
Why are you letting strangers add you on LinkedIn? And then meeting them in person, no less?

Sure you can tell them no, but you can also just ignore their cold outreach. I don't have anyone on my linkedin that I haven't met somehow.
There's almost nothing to auto-update on my device, aside from less than a couple of IM apps and an email app. Sharing that info was the point of my reply.
Thanks! I'm gonna try it out. First, though, I think I'm going to add an exorcist to my contacts list. This is honestly the closest thing to magic I've ever encountered.
"I'm not doing many XYZ at the moment, so will pass." "Appreciate the invite!" [because it sounds like you do appreciate it]
They never say how many grenades it can carry. But seriously, great to watch these get smaller and sleeker.
Death in Navy SEAL training exposes a culture of cheating, brutality, drugs
My fundamental and maybe dumb question is: when is artificial intelligence / ML going to get smarter than needing a billion images to train?

Sure, the achievements of ML models lately are impressive, but it's so slow in learning. We are brute forcing the DNNs it feels to me, which is not something that smacks of great achievement.

You and I have never seen even 100,000 photos in our lives. Well, maybe the video stream from our eyes is a little different. But it's not a billion fundamentally different images.

Is there anything I can read about why it is so slow to learn? How will it ever get faster? What next jump will fix this, or what am I missing as a lay person?
Yeah what can kill cancer cells in a petri dish and what can be used as chemo are two categories that hardly overlap. But it's still a good first step though. Maybe something will come of it
This reporter has been writing great informative articles on this for years

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/jackson-water-crisis-in...
Indeed. This seems like it's in the uncanny valley of can do vs should not be able to do. Delightful but strange.
I wish I had it! I think I would have to travel to some physical German archive to lookup old magazines... Or maybe Apple itself has the original digital version in their archives.
Nvidia Explains Why a Pixar-Invented Protocol Is the “HTML of the Metaverse”
I'm not an expert on formal scientific writing but is it really more normal to say "sex" rather than "gender" here? I had to read this multiple times to avoid confusion given the alternate meaning.
Piling on with my personal favorite horror story/comic: "The Enigma Of Amigara Fault" - https://www.wattpad.com/471498454-the-enigma-of-amigara-faul... + https://junjiitomanga.fandom.com/wiki/The_Enigma_of_Amigara_...

> Following an earthquake in an unnamed prefecture of Japan, a fault is discovered on Amigara Mountain, very close to the epicenter of the quake. On the slopes of the mountain, two hikers meet; a man named Owaki and a woman named Yoshida. The former assumes that they are both here to see the fault, which has captured the attention of the global press. Following the sound of voices to the fault, the two of them marvel at the strange sight before them: countless human-shaped holes in a rock face exposed by the earthquake.

I'm not sure why I'm so fascinated and horrified by that comic, but it really seems to pull some strings in my brain.
I think the reason something like this doesn't exist for Linux is that most Linux users prefer to use a more powerful language to create their own scripts instead.
Creepypastas are just myth and legend, which humanity will always have. Amusingly, the sci-fi pen-and-paper RPG setting GURPS Transhuman Space had an entire supplement (published in 2004) with a large section of urban legends of the future, some of which might have already come to pass.

http://www.sjgames.com/transhuman/toxicmemes/

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An example:

Patterns in the Static

Have fun. ;-) – The only explanation added to the Patterns document

At precisely 01:18:00 hours on November 23rd, 2093, an anonymous poster to the CyberMysticism memenet uploaded a file with a size of 2,800,051,338 bytes titled “Patterns in the Static.”The file was heavily encrypted, and as none of the memenet regulars had a quantum computer with which it could be decoded, few paid this file any attention . . . at first. After some time, however, rumors began to spread about people who managed to decrypt it, and what they found. No member admitted to having read the unencrypted file himself, but there were numerous reports from a “friend of a friend” who gained the key from a “mysterious source” and was able to read it. Accounts varied wildly about its contents – top-secret CIA files, designs for a machine to extract energy from the vacuum, communications with aliens, or magic spells that bind and command infomorphs as the shamans of the past were said to command spirits. Soon, variants of the file started to turn up,both encrypted and unencrypted. Most of these were rap-idly identified as forgeries.

The general public became aware of the “Patterns in the Static” file in 2099, when Peter Budenhaus’ critically acclaimed slinky of the same name was released. Since then, several wealthy individuals have announced plans to buy time on a quantum computer to decrypt the file, and they hope to announce the results soon.

[... the rest of the urban legend, where Budenhaus reveals that he had created the hoax, and then someone else in the network accuses that claim of being a hoax]

~~~

Okay, perhaps that's less of a creepypasta than a prediction of Qanon and similar internet conspiracy subcultures. (The entry after "Patterns in the Static" is "Rigged Elections.") But they're all forms of modern occultism, after all.
Depends on who controls the capability granting. Which at the end of the day feels a lot like ACL just with functionality based controls instead of file based (with some functional bits bolted on the side).
Or maybe the search engine shouldn't care about ads at all, and just figure out what is good content and what is bad content, and what actually answers queries well.
I hope that if Putin's regime falls that the West will welcome the next Russia with open arms and such a Marshall Plan with far more commitment, scale, realism, and humility than before.
Currently reading “never split the difference” and one of my takeaways has been for negotiations (or trust-building in general), people are anxious/frustrated about saying “no”, so enabling an environment where people can say no allows for better trust.

Personally understanding how neurotic/anxious I am empowers me to be able to say no, as I try to consciously be aware that subconsciously I am less likely to say no when it’s in my best interest.
I see what you mean.

I guess we'll never know. Because there was a remaking of Japanese society after the war in a democratic image. That just doesn't even appear as though it was attempted in post Soviet Russia.

I don't kmow the origins of why America departed from its usual course of propping up the traditional land owning and wealthy bourgeoisie classes in it'
s occupation of Japan. I know FDR personally held very pro democracy and anti colonialist views. He had ambitions to remake America's relations with the developing world after the war though how far he would've progressed on that front is unknown. And of course he was dead by the end of the war and Japan was in the more conservative hands of Truman.

Perhaps the Japanese people ran with this program because of their cultural tenacity. Or perhaps because their defeat had been so total that they truly considered themselves defeated and simply wished to move on whatever with whatever power structure was presented.

Ultimately though, America began a campaign to turn the "subjects" of the Japanese Empire into "citizens" of a Japanese constitutional state. They did not undertake a similar project to turn "comrades" of the Soviet Union into "citizens" of a Russian Republic.
Sex is a set of physical characteristics, gender is a set of social norms. Indeed scientific articles will distinguish between the two.

A different experiment, for instance, would be if mice reacted differently to per-hormone-therapy-transgendered researchers versus cisgendered researchers of the same sex.
The ruler's ruling about rulers' rule rules that the ruled upon rulers must be specified in imperial units!
Well, "dog" is just a name we give to a specific set of attributes, so no, the dog wouldn't still be a dog (in the sense that the word "dog" would not communicate what he is to another person).

In this case, even acceptaing post-76 Smalltalk doesn't implement "real" message passing unver the covers, we not only call it that anyway -- so one would be justified to say:

"real X is what we call X, not what originally we call X, or what the etymology of X implies"

but it also behaves like it. So one would be doubly justified to say it is (in the "if it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck" sense).

In other words, in this, I think you're making the same mistake you accuse Kay of making with regards to OOP ("C++ and co is not real OOP" -- well, it is now, as that's what we describe as OOP nowadays).
This is true, the question is, what was the difference between the occupation of japan and germany and the occupation of afganistan, iraq or vietnam. The lesson of the latter is that all it takes is 20 years of low level combat until the occupying country gets tired and leaves. the lesson of the former is that defeated countries can become your greatest allies. As to what leads a nation to choose one path or the other... That is complicated. as a interesting special case consider korea
The model was trained on 2.3B images, but how many TV shows are there to train it on?

There are quite a few books written, so maybe transfer learning from that?
T-Mobile just started advertising that they can be used on any flight. I think this is just a second signal that the market is moving towards Free(ish) WiFi on planes, boats, etc.
Ha!

Ptarmigans are fat ground-dwelling birds related to grouse and chickens. They would probably collide with the broad side of a barn. I can't imagine they spend much time flying, especially not flying high or far, but apparently they're known to migrate up to 100 miles.
It's really strange to me that there was a decade where every Republican had to pledge allegiance to this guy (which ended when he married a Muslim woman).
Why is it not worthwhile to run ARM containers on AWS today? Savings should be roughly 20%.
It would be interesting if they had some trans experimenters to compare with.
Not forgetting. Wartime allies, totally vanquished foes, and newly minted countries. Russia in 1991 was neither.

US did in fact do another Marshall Plan after WW2, catapulting China into 21st century. But that help came after a very deep strategic understanding between US's and China's ruling class. Again, nothing of the sort happened with Russia nor was it possible.
Most people when they say free speech mean “my speech/ speech I like”.

It’s also how many determine “bias” or not.
Chief among them is, the US did not conquer or occupy the USSR. We had definite say in Japan (and West Germany). We didn't in the USSR.
I've noticed an affinity towards "The Greats" of modern painting. I've gotten incredible results from using Dali, Picasso, Bacon, Lichtenstein, etc. My luck with slightly-less-known artists of similar styles doesn't work as well (eg Braque, Guayasamín, or Gris, as opposed to Picasso)
Sex is a biological property of an organism, whereas gender is a social construct.
…you only have to do detection when required though (after the hotkey is pressed). Curious about the architecture of the 5fps solution.
Fwiw, Russian PPP is not far behind Germany.
San Francisco code (maybe CA?) requires that office lighting be tied to motion detectors. In my experience, if you're in the only one in late, you have to dance around the room every 15 minutes unless you want to sit in darkness. At some desks you could stay sitting and wave your arms about.