skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One aspect that I never hear about in the collapse of the soviet union. To what extent did opening the markets to quickly break soviet industry? While by the 1990s Soviet industry was notoriously in-efficient compared to western counterparts - it still existed and functioned. Opening the flood gates seemed to result in everyone rapidly selling equipment for scrap and killed any existing supply chains.

Would the result have been different if Russia followed a Chinese model?
I’m honestly surprised that Google thinks that a page with N ads deserves N times the CPM. The more ads, the less attention each ad can grab, no? I wonder whether just treating ads as zero sum (regardless of ad provider) — such that a page with 5 ads, 2 of which are Google ads, gets a payout of 2/5 the CPM of a page with one Google ad and no other ads — would basically drive all these SEO mills out of business. While also not really impacting honest ad-sponsored sites (like Reddit), that only tend to run one ad per page.
Excellent question.

Hoping the community will work more on declarative 2D diagramming methods and tools.

Is this project basically the New Mermaid? Why not go in a new direction. People want diagrams, not just networks, not just series-parallel graphs. Anyway, ML is changing everything. Can Stable Diffusion make crossings at right angles? Just wondering.
> is rarely made through convincing people to fundamentally change, but generational shifts

Yes, but that implies a certain 'conflict theory' approach to cultural development.

It is an 'all is fair in love and war' framework, which fully enfranchises the obstructionist policies of Mitch McConnell and the executive overreach of DeSantis which involves banning of CRT in schools. If opinions ossify at adulthood, then the only 2 plans of action are brainwash during schooling or disenfranchise your opponents using every slimy trick in the book.

Never convince, never compromise and certainly never rely on a representative democracy to achieve the closest outcome to consensus. I for one, refuse to espouse this theory.

> republican president

I'm not American or white and I dislike Trump, but the 2016 and 2020 elections solidified my opinion of the internet left being a unrepresentative sample of the left-leaning populace in the US. Democrat voters resoundingly rejected Warren/Sanders in 2020 despite the left's best efforts to convince you otherwise. The absolute media onslaught faced by him was unprecedented, and excellent evidence driven organizations were falling over each other to take 'Not-Trump' stances on every policy he ever suggested.

I used to trust NPR, NYT, ACLU & Scientific organizations a lot more until the 2016 election. Now I have to go read the very papers/stats/documents these organizations source from, with conclusions that often contrast the headlines of these very articles.
Spending a lifetime learning img2img and using weeks to create a single artwork will always beat someone without experience who creates an artwork in an hour. There will be only a handful of people who will put in the time to become true masters of img2img. Everything comes always down to how much actual physical time someone is willing to put it. No matter how advanced the tools become, there's always a learning curve to mastery, which only a few people are willing or able to climb.
I'll just post this once instead of on every place you are posting that same link:

> The United States is a representative democracy.

https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/lesson-pl...
Most of the content I consume is produced for free without any expectation of payment. My friends don't get paid for posting pictures on Instagram. However, Meta still sees the need to inject an ad between every two posts and greedily extract value from its users.
How to Install Stable Diffusion Web UI on Your Computer for Free
I have a hard time thinking of appliances I own that are not easily repairable or lifetime lasting. I bought a commercial blender that is not repairable afaik but will definitely outlast my home use. My Speed Queen commercial washer and dryer will outlast me for sure, and are easily repairable if something does break. All the bathroom appliances either last forever or are easily repairable: sink, faucet, toilets.

I think the trick is for many things you have to buy the commercial version to get something that's going to last "forever" or be built for repairability. The tough part is, do you want to buy a $3k commercial dishwasher when you could buy 6 $500 non-commercial dishwashers. I personally chose to buy the commercial washing machine and dryer, but I still have the "disposable" kitchen appliances that came with my house. When it's time to replace them I'll consider the upgrade. Depends on if this is my "forever" home.
The metrics layer of the modern data stack: why no one talks about Power BI?
What is it with banks. JPM pretty much did the same thing
At certain companies that is the way it works. At other companies you're a working leader, but your knowledge is only leveraged for gap-filling. At a marginal amount of companies engineers are empowered to have reports and lead teams. These companies are fascinating places. I'm at one now and I don't intend on ever leaving.
indeed, i don't know if it's a principle that can be maintained as we scale features. for example, even sequence diagrams, i'd like to just be automatically detected, e.g. if you have connections numbered in order that looks like the structure of sequence diagrams, it'll render as sequence diagram. we're testing to see if there's any blocking scenarios where inference just cannot get it right
Show HN: Node Version Audit – Audit Your Node Version for Known CVEs and Patches
I wrote Node Version Audit to automatically keep track of Node patches, particularly for releases that fix CVEs. While it can be ran directly, it is designed to run as part of a pipeline to produce warnings if the runtime version of Node has CVEs, or is no longer supported.

The cool part (IMO), is that Node Version Audit automatically keeps track of node releases and CVEs by parsing the change log, and so there is no curation needed to maintain it.

I would love any thoughts!
Exactly. Countries like Poland and Hungary have huge social issues and struggle with corruption. A lot of political research points to the recent rise in fascist nationalism in these two countries as caused by being thrown from one political ideology to another (e.g. “communism” to ironfisted neoliberalism / Washington Consensus). It’s pretty evident none of them worked. If anything the country that was LEAST worse off following the fall of the iron curtain was DDR / East Germany simply because they were already miles ahead any other former Warsaw Pact country in terms of productivity. However, if you compare them to West Germany they were quite poor, with some differences in wealth and relative household income still evident at least 10 years ago.
I don’t care for the view of erasing nearly 1000 years of history to go back to “indigenous” , similar lines often trumpeted by right wing Hindutva ideologues. By indigenous I define it as the people of the region who settled there and became native to the land. It’s a contrastive term for distinguishing from the British colonizers.

The fact is, as others have pointed out, the invaders became the people in the case of Mughals and those before them; they are weaved into what it means to be part of the Subcontinent.

As a Bangladeshi, you can take this information and use it to change how you live your life. It is an attitude, that you do not always have to choose or chase after the Western or British way. That you can be educated and still bring your distinct customs into the workplace, decision making, professional life, etc. You as a people can usher your own institutions, for example educational institutions, without being an inferior copy of a European ideal. Why in some places is the foreign more reliable and trustworthy? Of course it speaks to the degradation and destruction of institutions. To move forward as a society one needs investment in native institutions.

During the colonial history and afterwards, the people of the Subcontinent had to learn their own history from the British, imagine that! Imagine how much was erased in the mind of a person raised to view themselves as colonial.
There are many different panel technologies, and some do have poor viewing angles as a tradeoff for other features.

I own a 10-bit 4K Innolux VA panel from 2013 that washes out with vertical orientation, and a similar spec LG TV from 2019 that does the same. Both are better than TN panels but still make it hard to look at while standing or laying down.
That would require gesture detection? I don't know of a code editor that implements that. Also modern editors will do code completion fast enough, that is more precise.

I spend more time thinking about code than typing, so I've never need it.
> I find this distinction harmful. Are we going back to the days where there were programmers who did the grunt work and architects who told them what to do?

No I don't think so. Where in the article did the author said he is telling other people what to do? What he said is

> proposed software architecture consulted it with key developers, and made sure everyone is onboard

Being an architect, or staff engineer in modern term, means that the person will need to use his experience and expertise to help the team to find appropriate solutions, present to the team, list out pros and cons, let them pick, and drive the change with other stakeholders.
Post-WW2 Germany, too. Although that was a joint effort.
Isn't this just dynamo (1999)? - https://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-78.pdf
A database API not following the https://peps.python.org/pep-0249/

Weird, but let's see...

https://isqlite.readthedocs.io/en/stable/howto.html

> Since sqlite3 converters and adapters are registered globally,
> importing isqlite will affect the behavior of all sqlite3 connections
> in your application, even those that use the sqlite3 module directly.

That's a big no no. But I'm not sure that's entirely `isqlite`'s fault.
I know what you are asking is useful on its own, but Zoom support starting with the microphone muted, or even not joining the audio stream at all, check out these options:
Settings->Audio->Mute my microphone when joining a meeting
Settings->Audio->Automatically join audio by computer when joining a meeting
Have you considered that your average soft SV male feminist-type isn't the target audience for a couple of east coast comedians - who are by and large complete degenerates, and I use that term with all due respect - riffing on degenerate topics that are humorous to a significant segment of the population?

Much of stand up comedy comes from an extremely dark place, and its successes derived from relating stories about their messed up lives to an audience who for a fleeting moment live vicariously through them or find humorous the complete insanity and barbarity they just witnessed. And this type of comedy is very successful. To deny this is at best naive and myopic and at worst deliberate ignorance of the world around us.

It's not exclusive to the east coast; go listen to some Bobby Lee brothel stories on YouTube and prepare to be uncomfortable. These are real people, telling real stories about their past.

Please understand that people have different tastes; there is a large audience for this type of humor; everyone else try not to choke on your own tears laughing it up with Stephen Colbert.
a low-hanging motivation: how do you choose colors for nodes?
We are definitely stuck in a (very suboptimal) local maximum.

It reminds me of "Meditations on Moloch":

> Every single citizen hates the system, but for lack of a good coordination mechanism it endures. From a god’s-eye-view, we can optimize the system to “everyone agrees to stop doing this at once”, but no one within the system is able to effect the transition without great risk to themselves.

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
Aaaand the estimated percentage of images released under a CC license, or public domain, iiiiis...?
Arguably goes at least back to HP Dynamo. Binary to binary JIT, but practically has very similar semantics to a C to native code JIT outside of the frontend.
I'd agree that function should be the goal and not profit. However if you can align the two then you get a self sustaining system.

If an individuals selfish ambition can be channeled to produce the best hospital systems we can have given the resources we have, that would be ideal.
If you have developers doing everything I don't buy the scale claim.
Release it now then keep working on it taking advantage of users feedback, this way you will know exactly what you need to work on first.
Personally, I think it's "mine is longer" or whatever other euphemism for power tripping you care to use. It's possible they're just staggeringly behind the times, or to be fair there is a customer-facing component to other power-tripping individuals that must be considered. But given that I suspect the boss suits don't do 40 hours in the pen...
It’s more that when push comes to shove a staff engineer will center divs with the new grads, while a ‘software architect’ will say it’s not their job to center divs.
Why Netflix Chose Nginx as the Heart of Its CDN (2015)
You can fully modify styles in mermaid using CSS and style attributes. You can also load it as a JS library, attach events to chart components, programmatically render charts plus way more.
I'm all for sandboxing, experimenting, trying things out and casting things off.

What I'm pointing at are people who think they're actually considering ideas as if they're trying to better themselves or understand a situation or concept so as to learn how to integrate it into their consciousness, but really they're just seeking mental stimulation with no intent to grow or take any real meaningful action. If you make no claims to be toying with concepts for the purposes of actually implementing them, I respect your choice to do so since I know what to expect. But I'm more pointing at the types who might like appearing as if they're seriously considering ideas and how to implement them, but in reality they're fairly complacent. The easy solve here would be to not present yourself as if you're actually going to do anything with the concepts you play around with in your head for amusement, and just own up to treating all this as a frivolous mental exercise. There's absolutely value in that, and there's no shame in owning it proudly.
Can I ask which autoimmune? I have one too and so far have been relying on drugs but want to try this inflammation / lifestyle approach.
I like the transparency, but this doesn't feel like the right way to do it. Computation should be free (or nearly free) if there's idle capacity, paid if Google is near capacity, and expensive/bidding if Google is above capacity.

Flat compute units seem simple, but result in a lot of waste.
> I don't have any trouble finding youtube channels that I like to watch and ignoring the rest, and I suspect I won't have any trouble finding movies generated using AI as a production tool that I want to watch either.

Not really the same - there is a range from good to bad on youtube, because real people are adding the creative spark. There is no reason to suspect AI will generate such a range, and its unclear we will ever get to the point where AI can do "creativity" by itself.
Fed expects to launch long-awaited Faster Payments System by 2023
What could be done from the outside that would stop the corruption and etc?

I those elected choose to be corrupt, undemocratic, I'm not sure much could be done from the outside.
An ex-co-worker started a dev shop a 5+ years ago.
The problem is that people clicking+dwelling on something is not highly correlated with it serving their needs.

See: clickbait YouTube videos that show you something you really want to see in the thumbnail, then spend 10 minutes doing something else before showing it, and when you see it it’s a tiny aside with no more context than what you got in the thumbnail. If it’s even in the video at all.

Those videos have both high clickthrough (thus “click bait”) and also high dwell time (from people waiting for the thing they wanted to see to show up.) They do also have high bounceback, but only from people who recognize what’s going on. “A new sucker’s born every minute”, and those suckers will click the video and watch it, because they don’t yet know the principle that this specific kind of enticing thumbnail+title format implies that they won’t find what they want here.

These metrics all measure, effectively, “wanting” rather than “having.” It’s like measuring food by how addictive it is, rather than by how satisfied it makes you. You’ll end up optimizing toward cheetos — literally flavoured air — rather than toward anything that fills your stomach. People might enjoy cheetos while they’re eating them, but if they’re genuinely hungry, cheetos won’t solve their problem — they’ll still be hungry afterward.
> strip hello

package main
func main() {
println("hello world")
}

then:

go build -ldflags -s -gcflags all=-l hello.go
ls hello

result:

Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
-a---- 2022-08-30 7:47 PM 747520 hello.exe
A Jupyter kernel for Minecraft would be neat:
https://jupyter-client.readthedocs.io/en/latest/wrapperkerne... :

> You can re-use IPython’s kernel machinery to easily make new kernels. This is useful for languages that have Python bindings, such as Hy (see Calysto Hy), or languages where the REPL can be controlled in a tty using pexpect, such as bash.

Looks like there's a pytest-minecraft, too: https://pypi.org/project/pytest-minecraft/

/? Minecraft site:pypi.org
https://pypi.org/search/?q=minecraft

SensorCraft is just the voxel designer part of Minecraft (like original Minecraft) with Pyglet for OpenGL:
https://github.com/AFRL-RY/SensorCraft
Any two wallet addresses are able to. That doesn’t mean the people are. By abstracting the actual process of getting and using the Bitcoin on both ends you’ve lost all actual real world detail.

…and they can still lose it all to typos or fees permanently.
If you hadn't already seen it, check out Vsauce's "Why Are Things Creepy" on youtube.

Be advised that the thumbnail of the video is creepy though.
Xcode explicitly supports running external command-line tools in a full-permission, unjailed shell; which is entirely contrary to the iPadOS permission model.

Apple's approach seems to be to use Swift packages as an alternative project type that can be shared across iPads and Macs and, most importantly, do not require support for running binaries outside of an app container.

How this evolves over time depends on Apple's opinions about their operating systems. If they were to basically hand people what amounts to a manufacturer-sanctioned jailbreak, then they could port Xcode to UIKit with all the functionality it has on MacOS, save for the lack of AppKit support. Alternatively, and more likely, what they'll do is add new app extension types to do Xcode-like things in Swift Playgrounds. So if you need to, say, use Rust code in your app; you'd literally download a Rust compiler from the App Store to do that.

Or they could do nothing and be satisfied with the hobbyist-grade, Swift-only programming environment they already ship.
On-site bathing facilities, some reasonably quiet and comfortable spots to nap without raising eyebrows helps too.
There is a lot more that goes in to it than an idea. Like that dude who has a great app "idea" and just needs someone to implement it, but is surprised nobody takes them up on it.
I read these JIT promises decades ago, yet AOT languages like C and Rust are still the pinnacle of performance.

How come?
For Alaska cruses they do reposting via the Panama Canal by crossing the which isn’t completely over Ed by Starlinks current network. https://satellitemap.space/?norad=48119

They would also see gaps when traveling further offshore to avoid bad weather etc, until global coverage working.
Back around 2006 I used "panorama tools" to do the same sort of thing. It had this cool feature of being able to work out lens calibration if it had two photos from the same viewpoint but different angles. It did however require careful tagging of reference points on each image.
That inclusion of Mickey in the model is waving a red flag in front of an impressive bull.
If you like thinking about that sort of thing, and haven't read it yet, check out the short story "The Library of Babel" by Jorge Luis Borges
Those "photographs" sound like a worthy job for DALL-E or Stable Diffusion.
He wrote this: https://github.com/petermichaux/bootstrap-scheme/blob/v0.9/s...
"Public
Minecraft: Pi Edition API Python Library" https://github.com/martinohanlon/mcpi

rendering-minecraft w/ mcpi might do offline / batch rendering?
https://pypi.org/project/rendering-minecraft/

Jupyter-cadquery might be worth a look: https://github.com/bernhard-42/jupyter-cadquery :

> View CadQuery objects in JupyterLab or in a standalone viewer for any IDE [w/ pythreejs]

If there's a JS port or WASM build of Minecraft, Minecraft could be rendered in a headless browser?
It’s not the same.

Similar to how you can’t just stay off social media to avoid the influence of social media. The entire world has changed, and people behave differently because they are on social media. And their behavior affects you and the ambiance of places you go to.
It makes sense to note that they were written at a time when your sex and your gender were considered the same thing, and any deviation was absolutely taboo. Also consider the word "homosexual" didn't yet exist in 1828, although it did by 1913.

That's how language changes over time.

Incidentally, we don't have the concept of "homogender" and "heterogender" to this day - at least in English. I can't speak for other languages. This also demonstrates a clear difference between "sex" and "gender."
I imagine everybody already ordered a VisionFive 2.
And then you need to spend all of that time managing that machine for a lot of labor cost. It's all about a balance overall.
One can argue though that dimensions themselves are a limit. Going around in a circle is infinite in 2D but limited in the third dimension. So one would ask what about the N+1th dimension? Are there infinite dimensions?

Maybe infinity is indeed more natural to us since our brain accepts and indeed expects that there is something unknown just to be discovered.

But I guess we are coming back to the point of the video/article. There does not seem to be a way to know for sure and we can think and argue about it till the end of time :P
> or even everyone sitting around a dinner table on their phones

I mean, you can find people who share your convictions.
"Universal system" would have been the right word to use.
Sounds like a self-flagellating struggle session.
I’ve got to admit having used packed structs in rust quite a bit i’m also a little confused about what Zig is improving on.

Many years ago I wrote a rust program to decode some game save data and it looks like what you’d expect.

https://github.com/aconbere/monster-hunter/blob/master/src/o...
Nobody needs to know about your anxiety - I wouldn't share such personal info.
Now compare the type of birds.
> RCCL charges, last time I checked, $20/day (which does not seem onerous for access to high speed internet on the ocean)

This seems quite high to me. $20/day for a full working day of access, fine. But for checking my email once a day while on holiday to see if anything urgent has come in? That's excessive!
I have a friend that has literally only done contracts for the last 8 years. To put bluntly, he is bad at coding and could never last in a full time job. He once bragged to me that he took a Microsoft Azure cert after failing the test 5x.

There are high paying contracting jobs, but they are only available to people that know people that offer good contracts. A friend of a friend has a 6mo contract with a Fintech company paying $500k.