skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
xdotool?

https://github.com/jordansissel/xdotool
> Not for the United States or other western countries.

Incorrect - An obvious counterexample is the UK.

Wind power contributed 24.8% of UK electricity supplied in 2020, having surpassed coal in 2016 and nuclear in 2018.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_the_United_Kin...
Is that supposed to be an advertisement for private healthcare? With insurances companies deciding based on profit margins? I'd say the government incentives are a lot more aligned to have their population healthy and productive, than the insurance company looking at how much you paid for your premium and how much the treatment is.
Why just use separate stacks for code and data if you can engineer a more complicated solution with higher overhead?
Modern graphics driver finally have the ability to do integer scaling[1][2], but they only learned that a few years ago. There are also some TVs[3] that can do it, but to my knowledge it's still an extremely rare feature, despite being so simple.

Sharp-Bilinear[4] is also worth a mention, this is only available for some emulators, but allows integer-scaling-like quality without being restricted to exact multiple of the resolution.

[1] https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/faq/dh3-034

[2] https://www.nvidia.com/content/Control-Panel-Help/vLatest/en...

[3] https://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=67116

[4] https://github.com/rsn8887/Sharp-Bilinear-Shaders/blob/maste...
> And frankly, I have no problem with paying someone to sit on their ass drawing lines, if it means they aren't starving and homeless.

Why don't you? I am sure that you can support at least one such person with your income
So what'll you do when your job is taken by robots?
I've been using Xcode Cloud to compile and deploy my rcmd app switcher (https://lowtechguys.com/rcmd) for the past few months, and it’s been a great experience.

I liked that with a single “git push” I could compile, archive, deploy to TestFlight, and send for beta review. I even pushed a fix from my iPhone using Working Copy one time while I was on a train.

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A lot of things are painted white because titanium dioxide is a super cheap, white pigment.
Indeed it is a lot of hypotheticals. That was my point, from "I've no clue why anyone would ever choose to do this, there is no reason!" To, here are a dozen reasons you don't really think of until you are on the perspective of actually riding a bike.

It's super common, people wonder why cyclists sometimes aren't fully riding at the edge of a bike lane, near parked cars.. etc. I've had drivers yell at me to get on a path before when they didn't know there was a very valid and very transitory reason to not being in it.

Part of the bottom line is that we assume too much and can insist that we tell others what to do. Meanwhile, we just don't have the perspective to know the reasons and are actually just wrong.

> It's one of the best I've seen, and part of a great network around my city. The road he chose to use instead is one of the busiest routes into the city centre

It does sound like a logical place to ride. Still questions arise. Some paths I've found are great when you are going 10-15mph, but are unusable for 20-25mph travel. Was it at all a busy cycle path, or was it crowded with dog walkers, kids and other cyclists? I clearly do not have the context to know (I'm picturing a clear sunny day, a perfectly open path next to an open field, but I suspect this is a horribly wrong picture).

Without ranting too much further, the point I make is that there are so many unobvious reasons that you can't really know. Meanwhile, we often think we do, so we yell "hey, get on that path where you belong!"
Yes, I used to work as an archaeologist in the southwest. Canal irrigation in the Santa Cruz watershed is found from the late archaic period (<2000 BCE), as a well-established example. Those networks remained mainly small regional networks until the Hohokam classic period, when they built massive canal networks irrigating tens of thousands of acres and sometimes draining entire rivers dry. Many of these later canals remain still in use today (in greatly modified states), like Phoenix's Grand Canal.
I found it interesting, though I didn't even know the fake history.

The article says the Post R&D department used some of the technology for semi-moist dog food to make Country Squares, and six months later Kellogg introduced Pop-Tarts.

Was Kellogg using the same technology as Post? If so, did they get it from reverse-engineering Country Squares?

Did Post file a patent on it? If not, do you know why not?
> The article i link says they’re getting ~10B from the feds so they’d need a ~15% tax rate on their 3M people earning avg of 25K to pay for that. Thank god for them 25K income is so low that they only pay federal tax rate of ~12%.

Huh? That isn't how that works at all. Cities issue bonds to raise the cash to pay for large projects. Those bonds are paid down over time or not at all if they just pay interest w/ no principle. A 10B project for a metro this size is a pretty manageable expense.

In this case, it seems like the local politicians simply didn't know how to do that or want to as raising taxes might make it difficult to get reelected.

The solution they seem to have arrived at is: Wait until things get so bad that there is a humanitarian crisis and the Feds have to bail us out. Which they will, because we don't want people to suffer without clean water.

So now the rest of us are made suckers as federal taxpayers are on the hook for this mismanagement/scam.
Well, if "true" message passing is not what Smalltalk-80 does, how will looking at Smalltalk-80 source code show us what "true" message passing is?

Do you mean like Erlang?
It’s just a tactic those people use to force rational actors to become irrational. We should just ignore those who would throw the baby out with the bath water, when it comes to environmental “concerns” like this.
Is it really that bad? I often see people who go back after the fourth postdoc/job, but I guess that is such a small group of people that it's more noticeable.
What about playing 2-3 unskippable video ads before watching the actual content? Thus, Google should degrade YouTube search results as well!
Comments like this do more harm than good. No, that's not all they have to do. Somebody will come along presently with another graph that shows how this graph is misleading and declare victory. This comment is harmful because it strawmans your own point and on top of that, it's smug. It's the opposite of convincing.
I’ve always felt that in a strong episode of the Joe Rogan Experience, you don’t actually experience too much of Joe Rogan. If you’re going to do a long form interview show, part of being a gracious host is to be open to what the guest has to say. And frankly, I’d much rather that people adopt Joe Rogan’s humble attitude of “I don’t know” than cop an overconfident attitude because they think they know everything. If you want to listen to some opinionated loudmouth like that, you’re in luck because they all have their own podcasts.
Sounds like a classic f-theta lens design. I'm sure you were right about your transform, but it's also possible to equalize illumination by other means, like apodizing filters.
It’s basically a misinformation Cold War by vested interests.
Whats New in Flutter 3.3
The origins of astrology were always hermeneutic secrets. We are left to puzzle out its meaning from its effects, as for any natural phenomenon.

Since the positions of planets can, physically, have no effect, and nobody could ever observe or deduce any such effects, we are obliged to cast about for other design motivations.
Worth noting that Snap more than doubled its payroll since 2020 and is now at 6400+ employees. All the tech layoffs happening these days are a minor correction to the rampant overhiring which took place industry-wide since the start of the pandemic, very similar to stock market trends.
UBI is impossible to work for two reasons:

1) We need people to do low level jobs. So if UBI exists, wages will need to rise until people are willing to do them. This will happen along with price raises until an equilibrium is found where poor people need to work in order to survive. No need for narratives about landlords raising rent, though it is possible. The poor people aren't in an overall worse position here though, because although they're still earning just enough to live, a portion of that minimum is now guaranteed. However:

2) By raising your domestic (or local) wages/prices, you've just given yourself an absolute disadvantage against every other economic entity in the world. Anything that is outsourceable is now more appealing to outsource than before. This removes jobs and puts downwards pressure on wages.

If everyone just "lives off UBI while learning" society won't function because the jobs they do are important.
Firefox on mobile works great for me and has for years?
Yes. They're ruthless with their vendors (in the stores, not online crap) about complaints and returns.
maybe a new wikipedia, where not any tom, dick or harry gets to write/edit articles, but one who is acknowledged as a subject matter expert?

To start with, in each topic, there is a broad expert, and then he creates additional topics, and names experts in this, and so on....
"In" would have been better, but not much at all and would not have helped significantly, IMHO.

About a paragraph of explanation setting out your axioms and explaining that you are discussing the shape of the universe, of a finite bounded spacetime continuum, was needed.

And ideally, several paragraphs of explanation, building up slowly, was what you really needed. Starting with examples of a linear 1D continuum where you can only move in 1 dimension, and how it would look, then of a 2D one where it's possible to go round the axis, then a planar one, then illustrations of how the planar one's edges could be connected. It also needed explanations of the notions of flatness and curvature, of connectivity, and some basic explanations of the topology involved.

As it was, nothing was explained: just a cryptic title that contradicted the misleading first line. :-(

Sorry to be a harsh critic, but as an educated layman who's read entire books on topology, spacetime, definitions of connectivity and dimension and so on, this was totally opaque and mystifying.

If you'd at least given it that 1-para context, it might have worked. Even a sentence of context. But just jumping into a complex thought experiment? Impenetrable.
Just throw it into im2im stable diffusion (joking but it also would likely literally work).
Interesting that they're automating this now with AI - our council had their staff literally scan houses one by one on Google Earth images when the latest imagery came out to see if there were any new outbuildings/pools/etc. compared to the last imagery date.

Odd when you have something like 4-500,000 people living here, but I guess someone's paycheck had to be justified somehow :P

I don't understand why having a pool means your taxes go up immediately - though I've never understood the concept of a property tax anyways.
Echo-reflective surfaces.

Plus I agree bats have worth, but these guys carry crazy amounts of diseases like cough cough Covid-19 cough.
Pointing out a conflict of interest is not an advertisement for anything. It is what it is. You could also have publicly funded, 100% government provided healthcare which provided some base level of care but allowed individuals to pay for specific treatments if they wanted them and they weren't a part of the base level of care.
Bear in mind, with the Snowden example, that most people with expert opinions counter to his have legal and/or privacy concerns that prevent them from elaborating too much on the topic.
Seconding Monoprice, also Ikea and Costco.
Openvivo Stable Diffusion (CPU port of SD) is a easy install on Linux within a venv. Be sure to update Pip first before installing the required packages from the list. The lack of GPU acceleration and the associated baggage makes this much easier to set up and run.

https://github.com/bes-dev/stable_diffusion.openvino
One of my cats loved snoozing on my big 19" CRT as well. When I replaced the CRT with my first LCD monitor, he tried to hop onto the non-existent top of the screen. In a mad scramble to not fall he put all of his front claws in the plastic cover of the screen. The LCD went from zero to hundreds of bad pixels within a day :-(

I still miss that cat too.
> the government's goals are not necessarily aligned with your own.

as opposed to the private sector?

> But if the government is also providing the healthcare services "for free" to individuals, then there is an incentive to downplay testing for rare or expensive to treat diseases due to the cost/benefit ratio.

Which is what current private insurers often do. The government's incentives aren't just to cut costs and run more efficiently. It mostly cares about staying 'the government' and having people live long enough to pay taxes. I want to hear the same argument when you're talking about the government's incentives to be more cost effective when it comes to funding the armed forces.

I think the gist of it is that as an individual, in theory, you have leverage over the government via your votes or representatives. You have none of that when dealing with the private sector. So in this case, if I'm bothered by what the government publicizes about diseases and such, I have several tools at my disposal to deal with it (FOIA requests to track down who's responsible, town halls, writing to the representatives, lobby, voting etc..). If a private company does it, what am I going to do? Write a bad review?
Well, the content you write will usually freely available.
Well it’s already been trained on millions (billions?) of images and it still has trouble with plenty of things.

Scenes with more than one person in them, or multiple people and objects interacting in complex ways, are the most obvious cases.

I’m sure the technology will keep improving but I think it’s possible to be overly optimistic as well.
> Assuming that you are absolutely certain that it is indeed a fraud

There's the rub, right there. There will always be a tiny doubt. Especially as a worker bee who doesn't have all the inside facts. People tend to talk themselves out of taking action due to this. The resolution is to document what you know, incontrovertibly, leave all speculation out of it and then hand the problem over to someone else. Which is why tiplines exist at the SEC, DHS, and other agencies where this sort of self-doubt is a serious impediment to reporting of malfeasance.
It's not idolatry so much as just being uninformed about pretty much everything else in the world.
> People with managerial backgrounds have....what? Nothing really.

Reminds me of “What would you say you do here?”
https://youtu.be/m4OvQIGDg4I
Seems like AI generated art will give everyone access to decent art. GPT-3 and such I see as only useful to create spam on the internet by flooding it with tons of useless content.

Theres a huge gap between these two technologies. I guess our mind helps the art because it doesn't need to make sense, but a story has to be consistent with itself and I just don't see how that is possible without actual understanding.
But you just said "no degradation".
Nice work! And thanks for the x_do.cr shoutout :-)
Unfortunately, regulatory reasons but I believe we should be able to ship to NY by next year!
Daydreaming and Concentration: What the Science Says
We definitely still need very large farms with big machines to feed the world; but nowadays, with climate problems, droughts, smaller and diverse farms resist better, are more productive by surface, have a better quality of soil, better quality of food, they are literally carbon sinks, it just requires more manual work
Sure, why not.

Here's the before[0], and here's the after[1].

And an example of a step in-between: The base was [2] which I changed into [3]. That was I think the last step before the final generation.

It's not great by any means, but it's miles ahead of what I could hope to achieve myself. The biggest problem was to stop stable diffusion from turning my flying island into a pretty standard mountain. It kept trying to connect it to the ground. Especially in further iterations.

[0]: https://imgur.com/a/wKraDWn

[1]: https://imgur.com/a/Vn0RS9O

[2]: https://imgur.com/a/Ti5gazx

[3]: https://imgur.com/a/CDJoKQ1
Paul Bourke's webpage is a true internet gem for 3D reference information. I don't know how many times I must've landed on his page on 3D file format specifications.
What area? I think you'd be surprised to see what areas are imaged on Google Maps (more than you'd expect).
An Elegant DB Schema for Double-Entry Accounting
First of all, Falcon 9 is a heavy lift vehicle. Falcon Heavy is a super heavy lift vehicle. Exactly the same class as SLS.

The biggest issue is that SLS is not even available. NASA flagship Europa Clipper mission had to be moved out of SLS to Falcon Heavy due to lack of availability of SLS.

Also interplanetary travel is not only in scope of nation states, but also private companies. Perseverance rover has been launched on ULA Atlas V rocket.

But more importantly SLS+Orion can not deliver people to the surface of the Moon. That's the job that NASA has given to Starship and SpaceX.

Also, huge chunks of Lunar Gateway (let's skip the fact that Lunar Gateway is useless in itself) will be delivered by SpaceX with Falcon Heavy. Also, resupply of Lunar Gateway will be done by SpaceX with Dragon XL.

Without SpaceX Artemis program will be failure whether you have SLS or not.

But you could get rid of SLS and Orion. You could use Falcon 9 with Crew Dragon or Boeing Starliner to load people to Starship in Earth orbit. Then you could send Starship to the Moon. It goes there currently anyway.

The kicker is that Starship will have the same internal volume as ISS, many times bigger than Lunar Gateway + Orion.
Even if all of that were true there hasn't been a single alternative hypothesis of how the earth's atmosphere would be able to deal with a huge increase in greenhouse gases in such a way it wouldn't have strongly averse effects on the climate that's managed to gain any sort of widespread acceptance among climatologists.
I have enough trust in the scientific method and peer review process that theories put forward by those primarily motivated by dubious personal reasons won't stand the test of time.
Have you watched his standup?
How recently have you used it? It works great for me
I mean, as you note, Wayland almost certainly can't provide this kind of functionality by design. It offers some ways to fake input, but AFAIK no way to hook/listen to input events without hoping that each compositor adds a way to do so. In contrast, X11 trivially enables read and write access to input events, as well as the ability to intercept input and rewrite it before applications see it. Also, while many distros now ship Wayland as the nominal default, last I'd seen it was actually used by a minority of users compared to Xorg (if we exclude ChromeOS, which seems reasonable for this conversation).
This is not to absolve anyone of their responsibility for their acts, rather than asking the why. These ideologies make people worst, but there is a reason why people subscribe to them. People like Trump are merely a symptom of a larger problem. Such predators can only thrive on vulnerable people. And to make it less political, cryptocurrencies are another symptom. When there is a disproportionate growth of anti-social behavior it is worth looking for a bigger picture, and try coming up with a solution to it. Preferably a better solution than the one Hollywood came up with (they are doing the discrimination in reverse, probably as an overreaction, but it's getting weird with the infallible female characters barely resembling actual people).
Not only stream but current.
The other way around: the domestication of the cat helped deal with pest problems.

Here's a question: suppose next year we mandate all cats are indoors unless they work on farms, and all cats allowed outdoors are sterilized. What happens to the small bird and mammal populations ten years later?
Then the odds are good that you are already falling into the mimetic trap I'm describing.
In many many places domestic cats aren’t much of an invasive species. In north and South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa there are similar cat species of similar size that take up a similar niche which were recently extinct (at least locally) many of which are closely enough related to housecats that they can interbreed.

One of the reasons to worry about domestic cats in some areas of the British isles is not to protect birds and the like, but to protect the closely related extant cat species that is getting its genetics replaced too much with housecat genetics. This wild cat used to have very broad ranges which disappeared.

Islands with no cat species don’t have this consideration of course.

Bird populations in places that should have and used to have catlike predators are and should be fine for the most part. Predators tend to help the population dynamics and health of prey species. Some people are just really uncomfortable with predation.
How it matters to the founder - if it's uncapped then as the next round goes to infinity, the equity from the SAFE round goes to zero (see the 200MM example). If It's capped, then the SAFE will convert at no lower than X%.

Uncapped is better for the founder, but the difference only will ever really matter if it takes off so fast that the next round is at a much higher valuation than expected.
Someone with any semblance of power really needed to put as much C4 as possible right in the middle of the corporate structure of Amazon to blow them up into as many little, tiny, unrelated companies as possible. Their power, capital, and staying power rivals and exceeds many modern governments!

It's not going to happen as long as there's megacorporations on the other side of the world mind you, but it's nice to think about.
If you refer to things people say that you disagree with as "screeds," they'll eventually stop talking to you.
Don't self-driving cars still have a much better safety record (per mile driven) than regular cars?
Yes. Email me at founders@begolden.io
Read the IPCC report, it addresses all those concerns quite explicitly.
In 30 years everything AI generates will be a red circle, because at that point it will have just trained on itself repeatedly.

Instead of labeling data for what things are, we'll have to label things as being generated or not.
Elon Musk is not buying Manchester United
That's sounds preferable to having a few blessed folks do all the high level planning, completely detached from the lessons being learned from trying to implement those ideas.

Anything that harms those feedback loops is going to create pain.
> If Europe had anywhere near the racial/cultural/religious diversity of the US

You fucken serious right now?
Not at the wall, but I'm sure some folks will limit the TDP in BIOS/UEFI to lower noise/temperature/power draw.

I also expect some vendors to sell smaller computers that force the CPU to lower TDP due to insufficient cooling.

But, I expect the main reason for that slide is to draw attention away from the huge TDP increase.
I got sworn at recently for walking over a crosswalk at a normal place. The driver (blue Tesla) seemed to think that anything other than trotting across was a dire insult to him. I bet he's awful to cyclists.
Webb telescope captures new detail of Phantom Galaxy
The private sector will generally be happy to give you a service if you come with cash in hand. Which is why in the UK I can go get a brain MRI at a private clinic if I had a dream that I was developing MS, whereas I can't do that with the NHS.