skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worth noting though that for the world as a whole it did increase in 2021, from 72.6 to 72.8. I can't find exact confirmation of the numbers for all OECD countries* but it does appear it fell slightly from 2019 to 2020, that being the first year such had occurred for over 50 years (so much for the claim I saw on HN recently that Covid was a "nothingburger").

*) https://stat.link/gsdvzk is one source but excludes Australia/NZ where we had no such fall (though macrotrends.net seems to contradict this for Australia, but I trust the official ABS stats more).
Personal opinion: Even as someone who used and loved PHP for a decade, Drupal is just awful. It's overengineered and bloated and the documentation is pretty sparse, not to mention it's hard to scale up. Its admin and editor UX is decades being modern headless CMSes. It is extremely powerful, but seemingly built to handle the most extreme edge cases rather than the most common use cases, and a lot of the power is just confusing and unnecessary for your typical website. In like 10% of the time it takes to get a Drupal system up and running well, you can do the same thing with Wordpress and Advanced Custom Forms and end up with an infinitely better UX, DX, and EX.

Drupal suffers tremendously from "by engineers, for engineers" and it's just an incredibly poor experience if you don't fit that mold. It's non-stop pain for no reward.

Having used it for a major project (both in daily use and in a big migration from D7 to D8/9), I will NEVER take another job that uses Drupal again... it is the second most dreaded web framework for a reason (above only Angular): https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#section-most-loved-dre...

Halfway through our Drupal "upgrade" (rewrite, because D7 had no upgrade path), we just gave up on it and went to Next.js + a headless CMS instead. Everyone was massively happier after that... the devs, the editors, IT, marketing, content writers, analytics... Drupal was just soooo bad that even its newest version was years if not decades behind modern experiences.

Sorry I feel so strongly about this... the mere word makes my blood boil. I've never HATED a technology the way I hate Drupal, before or since. If you're considering it for a project for the first time, don't walk, SPRINT as far away as it as you possibly could.
Which of those provide a similar feature set to cloudflare for the same price?

Even ignoring the fact that none of them have a free plan, they all cost significantly more than cloudflare's base paid plan and almost certainly provide less. I can't even see Fastly's prices without signing up.
Why plastic doesn't dry in the dishwasher
Cookies are a way for clients (and servers) to add data to HTTP requests. It's a header, plus the expectation that the client will add this data to subsequent requests sent within a certain timeframe.

Consider that a similar effect can be achieved by adding an id to every link in the body of a response. But its still just a link. In fact, before cookies this is how you associated requests with each other into a "session". And indeed, this is still a way to do user tracking across domains without cookies and in a way that is impossible to block in general.

What a thing is used for is not the thing itself.
Right now it‘s $0,65 per hour, for an AWS g4dn.xlarge instance which features an NVIDIA T4.

I‘m not really affording this, to be honest — I’m looking forward to switch to a Spot instance tomorrow, which could bring costs down to about $0,20 per hour, but even then I will have to switch it off in a couple of days.

I‘m working on a significant speed improvement — if that works out, and users get a result in under 1 minute if they are first in line, then maybe it‘s possible to make the bot finance itself through a credits system.
I thought the right way to get answers quickly is to ask them and post a wrong answer (under a different name) which will then cause people to correct you quickly :^)
Exclusively licensing GPT-3 to Microsoft seems like a clear example of this.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/23/1008729/openai-i...
It isn't for no reason.

You don't have to agree with them to understand their position in supporting the self-determination of Russian descendants in the Donbass after Euromaidan, and in not recognising Khrushchev's arbitrary transfer of the Crimea to Ukraine.

I don't think they're right to invade. But I don't understand why we're sacrificing our economies to support Ukrainian nationalists either (especially re. the Crimea).
> Any hot ideas about how it could be fixed?

For Computer Science:

1. replace the current academic funding model with pure fellowships. Each individual, from most junior to most senior, gets their own N year funding.

2. Each has a legal entity under which their IP lives and in which the government takes a small, fair, non-voting share.

3. Completely divorce this funding infrastructure from universities -- if someone wants to use part of their grant to pay for PhD courses/advising, great, but make it so that funding science is not contingent on that institutional apparatus.

For lab sciences things are more complicated.
By doing a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) from the client. Not sure when it's actually worth doing this extra effort but with the right automation (e.g. with Ansible) it's doable. Never tried this for ssh though. Additional security if you use HSMs.
Perhaps the context where priests are part of an international organization that has paid off and silenced victims and covered for the priests for decades while the concern about transgender folks being groomers is all bullshit?
I'm not speaking in a strictly legal sense. Because this isn't a strictly legal issue.
Kogro: Tele-Health for Plants
Software engineering. ;)

(I'm a librarian.)
These type of systems are just a database with a multi-factor weighted search of some sort. Any "intelligence" involved comes directly from the real experts who set the weighting parameters and the user who interprets the results
A counterpoint is the typescript compiler, arguably one of the most complex pieces of dynamic language tooling out there. It's written in typescript itself, and reasonably fast given that it has to implement a hugely sophisticated type system.

This shows that it's entirely possible to write fast tooling in dynamic language if you know how to.
From the NASA image it looks like the whole area is a flood plain. Similar to a large area of the Los Angeles basin. We have a paved riverbed system to get rid of water from heavy rains which periodically occur. I assume Pakistan doesn't have the resources to do something like that.
He's referring to an apparent ubiquitous progressive corruption. Individual and social.
Unless of course if a team full of me would have a 70% winrate, and the system is compensating (because hidden ELO) by sticking me with teammates that each have 45% winrates.

It still averages out to 50% winrate. Just because you can force a point of convergence does not mean it is the correct point of convergence.
Show me how SJWs are going around with PII like your social security number, bank account number, passwords to social media accounts, and other sensitive data? Hint, no one that's a supposed SJW has ever done this on a large scale whereas Kiwi Farms users have and do.

>Yes, I remember the "Moral Majority" era. I remember the religious right, the fundies, the evangelicals, and the grasp they had on speech.

They still do, where you been? In cryo?

>I remember how they tried to ban porn in the late '90s and the courts had to smack it down.

Again, where have you been? Max Hardcore was sentenced for 4 years in prison (I think he got out sooner but still). And that was around the early 2000s. The fact you ignore that even the current government treats even OnlyFans like content creators as the same as sex traffickers (see EFF's FOSTA articles) is amusing to me.

> And I saw how the left has taken over institutional power since then, still crying about victimhood status while holding government majorities, running education and the media, and so on.

Exactly where has this happened? The left does not exist in the United States. The CIA knocked us out during the 60s (COINTELPRO). The fact you seem to not know this means you're probably under 35, so I'm not sure I should bother discussing this with you.

>It looks like the pendulum has started swinging back in recent years.

It never swung. We've still a solidly right wing neoliberal society. Just because you might see a gay couple kiss each other's cheeks and hold hands on prime time TV don't mean we're some kind of social democracy or a socialist state.

>The left made hay from these opportunities and the right has been watching.

Again, what Left? Don't say the Democrats who literally have millionaires among their ranks like most of the currently seated party members (Pelosi has a net worth in the tens of millions) and have many of the most well known capital owning members of society on their quick dial.

It baffles me how someone like you can exist when history of the United States is well documented for the last century but all you seem to say is talking points from Mises.org or some other right wing claptrap. And you even think DailyKos is far left which amuses me. Wake me up when DailyKos and company support the abolition of intellectual property like an anarchist does (hint: I'm a mutualist anarchist).
> remote controls that weigh several kilograms

That would require either very expensive metals, or a giant remote control.

But something like this is already done - a lot of people use leg weights as an extra in the gym.
This reeks of "both-siding" which is insanely frustrating for me. Look, I get opening a can of worms and "stay out of my business" but at the same time, we need to be able as a society be able to and be unafraid to say when things are clearly bad.

"Nazism is bad" EOM

That wasn't so hard, was it?
I don't even care when people are toxic, they are so easy to bait into raging when they are. I suck at league and say I do though so at least I'm honest.
I think this brings up an important topic though that we need to grapple with as a society - at what point do we recognize that we NEED public services related to the internet?

Something similar to basic Cloudflare but run as a public service by the government that is free to all might be a good thing to have. If there are majorly amoral actors that use it we should be going after them for their crimes (from a legal sense) which other parts of the government can of course aid with.
I basically do the same. My primary interface is https://www.hckrnews.com which shows active/popular stories in chronological order. Makes it much easier and faster to tell what I've already seen.
Bed Bath and Beyond Missed the Memes
One of SDs big limitations (understanding from what I had read about it) is positional prompts. dall-e seems to understand x on top of Y, but simple diffusion does not.
Ubiquiti lost $4B in market cap based on this one, poorly sourced post Krebs wrote. He then waited 9 months after he knew it was lies to correct and only does it in the most muted, begrudging way possible. This is completely unethical behavior for a writer.
Magic means “hidden complexity”, AKA “abstraction”. The negative connotation is that sometimes you can’t figure out why your software is behaving a certain way and what you need to do about it.

The positive connotation is that you write less code with less cognitive overhead.

Generally I prefer ASP.NET over things like Spring and Ruby on Rails because it has less magic, despite being clearly inspired by both of those.

Here’s a concrete ASP.NET example:
You can put an [ApiController] attribute on your controllers and it can change the structure of error responses, among other things. [1]

I don’t agree with some of the other parent points. For example, the comments on “multiple dependency injection container” —- ASP.NET is pretty prescriptive on DI patterns. That sounds like someone made a decision to add complexity, which is on them.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/66546105
To borrow an analogy from cognitive science, deep learning has pretty much mastered System 1 thinking in independent domains (image, language, audio) and scaling laws suggest we have a clear path to self-supervised multi modal models (video+audio+text) by applying more data and compute. We will likely miss critical world knowledge about dynamics, contact forces, taste, feel etc. until we figure out a way to efficiently collect datasets for these modalities.

What’s less certain is the path to System 2 thinking that is required for true AGI. We have yet to find evidence that deep learning is enough for AI to learn planning and conscious thinking.
Generative art posts are being posted from time to time on HN for years. (eg. There are many "This X does not exist" posts)

But recently it is booming. The reason is not related to DALL·E, but Stable Diffusion.

Stable Diffusion is 1) open sourced 2) the model is small and easy enough to run on people's computer. As a result, it can embed in a lot of tools and services, so people are getting excited and start building ecosystem and business around it. When people can create art without effort, how to streamline the creative process and dealing with giant amount of arts are going to be the problems that worth solving.

As for use cases, I can see it either replacing a lot of artists or being one of the most important tool for artists, or both. Also, it might flood the Internet with its creations in the following years so be prepared.
There was a computer parts company that had an accidentally very good deal on a part. I ordered one using BTC through coinbase. Eventually the company realized their mistake and canceled everyone's orders. I got refunded through coinbase and forgot about it.

Turns out the company forgot about it too because several years later I get a letter from them saying "our records show we still owe you this refund, here's a check".

I'd say my money got doubled but that would not be true. When I ordered the part was within a day or so of a major BTC downturn and by the time the BTC came back through coinbase it had devalued substantially. Buying the part was my attempt at getting out while the market was high.

Still, ended up ahead in the end.
Honorable mention to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_German_jokes
Canada's All-Electric Train-Plane Hybrid?
The door idea is a safety issue, but there's a market for a gag-gift remote control holder that's a barbell, for sure. Whether it helps anyone is an open question, but it hits the sweet spot for twee Americana gas station stuff.
True. There is plenty of evidence that meat farming has far greater emissions than plant farming, and that many animals are a leading producer of methane while plants produce oxygen. It is far better to do something because the evidence supports it rather than a movie star.
This is similar to my business plan where I start a combo moving company / personal training service and charge people to move other people's furniture. Double profit!
I don’t disagree with the analysis but the thought that crossed my mind reading it is that the developed world is trending towards the Pakistans of the world, not away.

Every year kleptocracy and corruption become more normalized and the “me-first” popular movements that have arisen as a response to elite corruption are wholly unequipped to correct course. I am not optimistic my country will properly account for the long effects of climate change on human well-being.
IMO, ECS is a better way of doing OO (even on a non-OO language) than OO languages themselves:

- Avoid the inheritance vs. composition issue

- Entity as a first-class concept (no more Object vs. "Just Value Object", confusion regarding equality of objects, object hash methods)

- System as a first-class concept (not just a consequence of a call stack between multiple inter-dependent objects)

- It serves much of the same purpose of the Flyweight Pattern

- Naturally conductive of functional programming

This particular implementation is interesting, it introduces some additional pieces (Component Manager, System Manager).
People Empowerment Promises of Web3
Lol same

(I'm a lawyer)
Python Tutorial: Creating video subtitles
Tutorial on adding subtitles to videos using the Picovoice Leopard Speech-to-Text Python SDK.

1. Install the software
2. Run the code to convert video to text
3. Create an SRT (SubRip subtitle) file

Example: Adding subtitles to a video on YouTube with pytube.

This tutorial requires Picovoice Console account- free to create, allows free transcription for up to 100 hours/month. Processes voice data locally on the device.
They do, but in over a decade that I remember him buying and replacing printers for the groom shop, I think he only ended up buying replacement ink (because he actually used all of it in under a year) maybe twice.

I think that was when the local print shop either shut down or was too backlogged for my dad to get his business cards done in reasonable time so he used print-at-home business card sheets for a bit to tide him over.
A linter like Prettier can take several seconds in large codebases while the one by Rome (rome.tools) takes fractions of a second, because the former is in JS and the latter is in Rust. If I'm a linter user, I really don't care what the linter is written in, because I'm never going to open up the source code to look at it. It likely exposes a configuration file which is agnostic to any programming language, and that is what I will primarily be editing.

Same thing with Webpack vs esbuild or swc, the latter two are simply instantaneous while Webpack can take minutes, even, to build an app. That it's in JS does not matter to me since I don't care about Webpack source code, I only care about what the tool itself does.
Two observations:

1. A lot of people who focus on their financial ability to retire early get so obsessed about the feelings of financial security that comes from that level of income that they are unable to give it up even when they probably could retire.

The parent commenter says, "total freedom to do whatever I want" but there is no level of wealth that gives you "total freedom". No matter what, there is always a potential calamity of sufficient power to knock you down. But the more you lock yourself into the mindset of "I just need to have enough money to prepare for anything" the less you are able to gain the resilience needed to actually be happy now.

2. I think you're equating "money" with "somewhere to go". It's certainly true that wealth gives you options. But if the goal is to ultimately feel satisfied with your life, then having many things you can afford to buy none of which make you happy can put you exactly in the position where you have "nowhere to go".

The time you spend focusing on earning money is time not spent figuring out what choices are actually deeply rewarding to you. And knowing the answer to the latter is critical if you want to know where to go.
Saying things like "hello" or "good morning" to colleagues the first time you talk to them in a day is in many places a social convention. If you find social conventions silly, they aren't necessarily any less real. Think of them as a protocol for communicating data with other carbon-based life forms of the human model range.
Ironically the last time I really criticized them one of their higher up security people (who no longer works there) started to digitally stalk me. This guy followed all of my accounts everywhere and went out of his way to troll me.

He was employed on their security time. I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out a ton of their staff were kiwifarm users.
Yes? He says he'll play something tasteful as an out-trail then some video plays until the end.
Thank you for the comprehensive answer, yeah he is good!
Not yet, but likely will once they're in mass use and add to existing internet/content pollution. Not saying early adopter content os any better, just wary of the quality to volume of whatever will be produced.
I use the Chrome Extension (available in the web store) Web Archives for this purpose: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/web-archives/hklig...
My 'favorite' part as a dark skinned person is that the copy on the website makes out hyperpigmentation to be 'bad' in its push to somehow appeal to darker people.

I like my skin color. I don't really care about my 'hyperpigmentation', lol. WTF is that?

Also, maybe women are different, but zinc oxide sunscreen works great, and I don't really care about the white streaks on my skin. There's way better things to do at the beach than worry about my sunscreen.
Amiga Blitz Basic 2 Language Support – JavaScript Native Edition
This honestly only confirms their fears. What you are saying is "yeah we have been photobashing all those artist for a long time anyway now its just much more efficient and automated".

I would be pretty afraid and angry if i was artist too.
Is there an easy way to generate a pdf? EPub doesn't print well, and sometimes the eyes cannot take a screen.
It is not "both siding".

I do not want corporations acting as government regardless of whose side they are on.

I do not want to normalize or encourage such regulation by corporation.

If some behavior is so bad, advocate for a law against it or for the enforcement of that law.

If it is not so bad, let it exist even if you don't like it.

The whole thing about rule by the people is that having individuals or small groups that get to arbitrarily make rules and enforce them is bad. Monarchy and despotism is bad, whether or not you like what they're doing.

Despotism by corporation is just as bad and shouldn't be encouraged. It's not different because you're trying to get them to arbitrarily create rules that agree with you.
As Colorado River Dries, the U.S. Teeters on the Brink of Larger Water Crisis
This completely misses the importance of the cloud to Amazon.

AWS profit margin is around 30% whereas retail is probably hovering in the low to high single digits (5-8%). AWS makes profit for Amazon, and retail offers free cash flow to Amazon. Both are important and to say Amazon isn’t diversified due to revenue is simplistic.
No, pedestrians and cyclists still exist.
Or it was to kill off the competition intentionally. They may have seen Zenly as a major threat at some point.
Agreed, but the rub is that there was a ton of demand for "heavy duty stuff"; indeed, the improvement in code tooling actually increased that demand, because software programs became so much more powerful.

It's not clear that you'll see something similar here, that easier-to-produce high complexity art will greatly increase demand for said art.
>So, when someone does a thing that's designed to hurt both Kiwifarms and MTG and your assumption is that KF is responsible?

When kf doxxes someone, and she's swatted the next day, yeah I'll blame the site that posted her address the day before and is known for inciting swatting attacks.

> That said if we do go down that road, FB, Twitter & co. should be first on the chopping block and I won't miss them.

I don't follow, KF doesn't remove, and even tacitly (and not so tacitly) encourages, harassment, while that isn't true of FB or twitter or even reddit.
SmartAppControl Internals (Part 1)
I understand the difference in approaches. However, the parent stated that this decision makes green threads harder in C#, which is what I don't understand.
I understand your point and largely agree with the idea that corporations shouldn't become de-facto governments with regard to morality/free-speech/etc. However I think it's important to acknowledge that there's a really difficult problem to solve here with regards to spam, astroturfing and harassment/trolling (if not more areas) where allowing everything that is technically legal would make most online spaces unbearable to participate in for the vast majority of people (e.g. 4chan and its ilk). And the line between moderating those things and censorship is incredibly blurry