skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm immediately suspicious when I see this map of the world with countries shaded by how "free" they are. What are the units of freedom? What's the color scale? How is freedom measured and who is measuring it? Why does it even make sense to express freedom as a number?
Who came first? The AGI or the human?
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Zenly is still popular, so why’s Snap shutting it down?
Only planet with Life. I sometimes wish people ponder on that for some time. Maybe they will have a new found respect for this planet like I did. Took me a while but when I fully grasped the concept of Life few years back and read and saw all the life less rocks in our solar system it changed the way I look at things. Still amazes me when I think about it.
Not a chance. The current Supreme Court is going to relish denying appeal in this case.
Undocumented immigrants have the same access to public services such as public education, medical care at hospitals, access to court systems, police, fire, etc.
You really should read the article. There’s real threats to free speech out there, not just people telling you you’re an idiot.
I’ve got half a dozen pieces of clothing with broken zippers. I hate throwing away nice stuff, but it’s not cost effective to replace a zipper and it seems you can’t just replace the zip. I was here looking for something better than ykk
It's telling that one of the examples given supporting the case was Marc Andreessen who, along with his wife, recently led a NIMBY revolt against a housing project in their posh town. Let them build, indeed.
Someone who is functionally part of the development team but has more experience than others and some kind of supervisory capacity over technical direction is, in my world, a senior or staff engineer. Do you also have those? How are they different from architects?
And for connectivity. Even for the small band I was in, doing "home" recording we had ~10 microphones and 2-3 direct line-ins set up recording simultaneously trough an external interface and out to 5 headphones or two different sets of speakers.
Yesterday I thought I broke it too. In my case, the solution was just to make sure that the input image (from the editor or otherwise) was the same size as the output image. Hope it helps.
Your take is false because lots of people use darknet market regularly.

They also use Monero which offer much better privacy than Bitcoin, and they continue to do so even when Monero is difficult to buy as most onramps don't offer it.
The evidence doesn't indicate the reverse.

It indicates that individuals have complex ethical matrices that don't map onto "for/against" binaries and worse: individuals work to mask that matrix given social context.

Reality has neither a liberal or conservative bias. People do.
https://www.oberlin.edu/admissions-and-aid/tuition-and-fees

> Each year, more than two-thirds of Oberlin students receive some form of need-based financial assistance. Our three-part award package typically includes grants from the college, low-interest students loans, and work-study jobs.

My school gave $10k "merit-based scholarship" to everyone, as the ACT/SAT score threshold for that aid was well below the threshold for admission.

https://www.businessinsider.com/personal-finance/college-exp...

> As Paul Tough reports for New York Times Magazine, 89% of students don't pay full price, and giving students a break has caused some colleges to operate at a loss.

> The average freshman student in the class of 2018 at one of these private nonprofit universities will get a discount of 50%, he reports.
You are conflating free speech and tolerance. Free speech is only a specific form of tolerance dedicated to speech and is not a tolerance of the subject of the speech.
I've been playing with Stable Diffusion a lot the past few days on a Dell R620 CPU (24 cores, 96 GB of RAM). With a little fiddling (not knowing any python or anything about machine learning) I was able to get img2img.py working by simply comparing that script to the txt2img.py CPU patch. Was only a few lines of tweaking. img2img takes ~2 minutes to generate an image with 1 sample and 50 iterations, txt2img takes about 10 minutes for 1 sample and 50 generations.

The real bummer is that I can only get ddim and plms to run using a CPU. All of the other diffusions crash and burn. ddim and plms don't seem to do a great job of converging for hyper-realistic scenes involving humans. I've seen other algorithms "shape up" after 10 or so iterations from explorations people do online - where increasing the step count just gives you a higher fidelity and/or more realistic image. With ddim/plms on a CPU, every step seems to give me a wildly different image. You wouldn't know that steps 10 and steps 15 came from the same seed/sample they change so much.

I'm not sure if this is just because I'm running it on a CPU or if ddim and plms are just inferior to the other diffusion models - but I've mostly given up on generating anything worthwhile until I can get my hands on an nvida GPU and experiment more with faster turn arounds.
We lived in Lisbon for a year. While lots of city centers have had housing converted to Short-term Rentals, Lisbon is at an entirely different level. There, entire apartment buildings (6-10 units) are converted to Airbnbs/hotels/hostels. There are streets in the more touristy areas where every other building is for STRs (buildings that were clearly built as long-term housing).
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I will save judgement when I see the benchmarks. AIDA64 isn't the target use care for content creation users. Performance is going to IO bound and/or have limited burst of higher CPU usage that might give the water cooler time to dissipate heat.
It's not a single unified hive mind, just the incentives are aligned to make the most of fear mongering and make the least of educating the populace on the real meat of the issues at hand.
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Great to see https://www.usage.ai/ mentioned here. I'm the founder & CEO, happy to answer any questions here.
A universe where humanity can measurably change the orbital parameters of the moon is a universe that humanity has won, more or less.
This is a valid, working email address:

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GitHub's systems were happy to verify it.
>Gone are the days of 3D audio chips, or having sound cards full of synthethizers that could create new audio on the fly.

Modern CPUs can ether do or emulate this, probably using less power than a sound card.

Very, very, few people have their PCs connected to an AV receiver or multichannel speakers, but positional audio is still widely supported in Windows applications using Xaudio2.

The reasons sound cards went away is the use cases went away:

1. People who want high quality recording shifted to firewire and later high-speed USB external audio interfaces. No matter how hard you try an external metal box with multiple inputs and outputs will always be better than a PCI/PCIe card inside a PC for recording. Rare use case in the recording world for sound cards.

2. Gamers who want 3d/positional audio either use headphones, find the 5.1 integrated outputs to be adequate, or like me, run a digital audio cable to a surround sound receiver. Rare use case in the gaming world for sound cards.

Dolby Atmos is awesome for positional audio in games but there are multiple less expensive and more accessible methods for surround audio nowadays. Decent positional audio can be experienced using a laptop and headphones-- no sound card required.

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Glossary:Surround_sound

Back in the sound card days you had to squint on the back of the box and ask "is this creative 3d? aureal?" nowadays you just plug in 5.1 to your PC's onboard audio, tell windows you have 5.1, and it works (mostly).
I find the whole thing perversely enjoyable. If you want to test someone, allow them to succeed. Give them power. When I was young, the left was the underdog, and they sure sounded like a nice bunch of people ... kindness, forgiving, can't we all get along? Free speech, our country was founded on it!

The wheel turns and now they are in power. Suddenly it is cancel, no contact, punch Nazis, hang the traitors, and so on. You don't get to speak anymore, then sneering about "freeze peach." Laughing about the misfortunes of others. Give people a little taste of authority and, well, masks off.

I am reminded of that Flannery O'Connor story, and I guess some people would be decent were someone there to shoot them every minute of their lives.
Two big things that I think contribute to this:

1) Most people are happy with good enough. To most people's ears, speaker quality makes a bigger difference than audio output, and people already settle there. Furthermore, when iTunes was a big deal it turned out people got accustomed to low bit rates and mediocre equipment and thought it sounded better than the good stuff, because it's how they expected their music to sound.

2) With most computing moving to laptops and then to mobile, people generally don't have a choice about the audio processing technology inside their computer.
The poorer part. The richer are busy fucking up London, New York and Vancouver and other desirable places.
Has anybody had success getting newer AMD cards working?

ROCm support seems spotty at best, I have a 5700xt and I haven't had much luck getting it working.
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>This measures only users who have enabled auto-updates (Orion is zero-telemetry by default so auto-updates are disabled by default). It may not be an accurate portrayal but is the best we got.
Perhaps the question is interpreted differently when you ask privately.

If you were to ask me in public I would say that gender identity is an inappropriate topic for young children. But as a parent, I know my own kids can handle a "woke" teacher. In fact, it's good for them to see a concrete example of what we're talking about, so I would answer the question differently in private because I would be answering for my own family and not for what I think would be good for society.
You think it's fair that elders are forced to sell their houses, because they cannot afford to pay for basic utility? [0]

[0] https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/helsingborg/han-flyttar-fr...

And that it's fair that businesses have to shut down? [1][2][3]

[1] https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/helsingborg/klippans-bruk-...

[2] https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/pizzan-kostar-300-kronor-...

[3] https://www.smp.se/lessebo/lessebo-paper-stoppar-produktione...

This is just the beginning by the way and 4 out of 5 jobs are created by small-medium businesses in Sweden. [4]

https://www.di.se/pressreleaser/2022/06/10/foretagarforbunde...

Socialism is nice until you run out of other peoples money.
Yeah, more people should take the time to fully understand https://www.hmd.org.uk/learn-about-the-holocaust-and-genocid... (and be terrified how far we are along with certain minority groups).
Also, disk space became cheap enough that the game could store audio files (such as MP3s) instead of generating the audio on the fly by the sound card. I remember Age of Empires (released 1997) music were MIDI files and the "instruments" would be changed by the game's code to make the music sound much better. EverQuest (1999) also started with MIDI files but later expansions replaced the music with MP3 files.
> But more than that, vast areas of the country are extremely deserted and housing is extremely cheap there (a similar house in the interior goes for about 20% of one in Lisbon/Porto).

Yeah. Given that the large cities no longer qualify for 'golden visas', I think the government wants external money to go to these areas.

> Decades old mismanagement

That's quite sad to hear.

I was (guess I still am) thinking about moving to Portugal at some point, perhaps for retirement. Every single person I have ever spoken to... they can only sing praises to Portugal. Sure, sometimes they complain about bureaucracy. That's probably worrying, since most are brazilians and we supposedly used to that. If they complain, that must be bad :)

I really hope Portugal will get better.
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Netflix’s historic introduction of levels for software engineering
Crack in blade on Niyol Wind Farm turbine led to the collapse of the tower
>NextEra’s regional general manager, said it was the fourth such blade failure in the U.S., all of which are on turbines built by General Electric.
Concurrent Computational Models
Commercial A/R is a different world. The seller ain't selling the debt because he's confident of a quick & sure collection. A load of things about the transactions which produced the debt might be disputed (the thingies they sold us failed to pass QC...). Every line on every invoice can probably be argued by a debtor trying to weasel out of paying. Such grief can really run up the overhead on collecting.

Vs. Oberlin has 30x the needed assets, the courts have already ruled that the $36M is owed, and the debt-collection economies of scale kicked in quite a few $M ago.

(No, I'm not saying that this particular debt would sell at 97 cents on the dollar. But far less than that would let Lorna get on with her life. And the threat of such a sale might suddenly un-jam the payment check printer at Oberlin.)
Probably true. My daughter finished 2nd grade behind in math and with a deep dread of it. I had been too busy to realize what was happening.

So I bought the California Common Core books for 3rd grade to understand the requirements. In our 10 minute car rides to and from camp every day, I was able to teach her all of it, without books or writing anything down.

The way they teach this in schools is just so far from optimial it's heartbreaking. To give one concrete example, a huge part of 3rd grade here is memorizing the times and divide tables. After some quick experiments, it was obvious that all she'd need to do was learn to count each number series, which is MUCH easier than memorizing flashcards, and can be done anywhere. Once you can count the number series, times and divide problems fall out naturally with practically no memorization needed.

The second big thing this year is word problems for those math facts. These word problems are so easy if you give the child the vocabulary and concepts to break them down in into their key parts. Instead, schools just leave it up to the courage and interest of the student to keep hitting their heads against the wall.

We're on to 4th grade math now and she's a week into 4th grade. I'm keen to check the Alan Kay link. :)
I suspect that hit TV shows like "America's Most Wanted" did a great deal of damage to the American psyche. The 1990s seemed to be when parental attitudes started to take a turn. When I grew up before then, kids were generally allowed to roam wherever they wanted unsupervised, as long as they were home in time for dinner.

There are probably other factors too. I wonder if there was a kind of overcompensation from "latchkey kids" when they became parents.
Well-structured line of questions. Thanks!

Clarification question for you to help me answer:

Why are you asserting we aren't "attached to" or "affiliated" with the restaurant?

Maybe there is a misunderstanding of the relationship here.
I lived in CA, AZ, NV, NC, FL, NJ and NY, and visited a dozen of other states. There was always a large grocery store I could walk or bus to.
That happened fast.
No. They can buy everywhere in Portugal. The idea is that you forbid them to buy near the desirable coast and force them into the heartland.
We will decide what is intolerant, not you.
I've tried using this set of steps [1], but have so far not had luck, mostly because the ROCm driver setup is throwing me for a loop. Tried it with an RX 6700 XT and first was going to test on Ubuntu 22.04 but realized ROCm doesn't support that OS yet, so tried again on 20.04 and ended up breaking my GPU driver!

[1] https://gist.github.com/geerlingguy/ff3c3cbcf4416be2c0c1e0f8...
The initial claim wasn't about load-time, it was about "doing any given task," and I frequently encounter delays when actually using Google Doc, delays I never experience with compiled text editors or spreadsheets.

All that and TextEdit still starts up much more quickly than Google Docs for me.

Your mileage may vary, of course.
For normal people:

K = 1000

M = 0.001
This is where it gets interesting. The model is just 4.5gb. That’s too small to contain the actual trillion images it was trained on. So in all likelihood, it doesn’t have an actual specific image of Noah to work from, but a web of concepts, connections, correlations. It’s probably analogous to if you were asked to draw a picture in the style of Da Vinci. Most peoples’ brains can’t reproduce the exact image, but a low fidelity representation of it that they can fill in with imagination.

If you run the same prompt multiple times you can start to see evidence of this. The images are similar but also clearly different, not at all a quick transformation of an existing image.
> and the audio enthusiasts moved on to external DACs

Well, the internal ones still exist [0]. However, with higher bus speeds, external interfaces are more practical: you can connect more devices to them, and you can move them - a lot of music today is done on laptops.

[0] E.g.: https://www.esi-audio.com/products/maya44ex/
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Oh wow, thanks for highlighting the extensions piece. That's huge! Going to give it a go as well.
Damn, my cover blown!
You summed up in one sentence what I struggled to convey in multiple paragraphs. Well put.
Absolutely, but I suspect much of this complexity is accidental / incidental in nature. It is needed to support the physical aspects of the biological processes. The essential (algorithmic / mathematical) part will be quite simple and can be emulated in a few thousand lines of code.

Complex algorithms are not energy efficient and since the brain is highly energy efficient we must preclude such algorithms from consideration.
Nothing in your quote talks about speech.
I remember that one of the technical employees of the said exchange claimed cyber attacks to their servers were so rampant and many succesful that they were simply not able to continue business with all the stolen funds. I honestly believe that incompetentness might have played a huge role in this "fraud" story.
Do we have hard data on the rate of sudden deaths? Otherwise it seems like there is a high chance of confirmation bias
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I didn't see "Every HTML enabled client is configured to show images and other remote content."

That one bites me constantly because I have remote content disabled and financial institutions use web beacons to verify that I'm reading their emails. If they think I'm not reading them, they start sending me paper snail mail again.
Video game level design and artifacts seems like a closer next step.
Don't know unless we know who manufactures them, then we can find out. But according to Linus, a company which makes tools bought them out to manufacture their own tools. So it /sounds/ like a hostile takeover.
> And the price is already expensive enough where only privacy enthusiasts would be considering it.

Their plan is actually to compete on quality. Just for privacy, I was happy enough with DDG for free.
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyscalculia

-- from the article: Of course, some kids do have clinical learning disabilities that are not caused by anxiety, cultural myths, or poor teaching. Developmental dyscalculia, a clinical term for someone who has a math-related learning disability, affects about 3 to 7 percent of the population. This is the lesser-known analog of dyslexia, a learning disability related to reading, and the two conditions often occur together. --