skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For an article with this headline, it's rather surprising that it never says why Stephen Fry is arguing against political correctness.

Here's why, I think: because Stephen Fry is, among other things, a comedian. And comedians are highly sensitive to political correctness and its ills. They are the canaries in the coal mine of wokeness.
cool. I'm writing from another country. Is is possible to have an access to the tool, but doing the hscrp test from here?
European here too and very interested in this too. Be worth you having a email signup form for notifications of rollout to other countries!
That's my dream for internet infrastructure here in Canada. A national crown corporation that owns huge fiber runs across the country and undersea/cross border runs with other countries. Provincial crown corporations handle runs between cities and out into rural areas. Municipal departments own the runs to each address within their cities. It's paid for by selling access to Bell, Rogers, and any smaller independent ISP that might want to exist. Government doesn't actually supply internet to anyone; they just own and maintain the physical infrastructure since that's a natural monopoly. Competition happens at the edges by providing various services like internet access, with equal access among ISPs to use the shared infrastructure. With the immense cost of runs to each address eliminated, small ISPs would be reasonably easy to found and compete with the big players. We have groups like Teksavvy already, but they are so beholden to Bell and Rogers they can't truly compete since the big guys act like the mafia.
Getting started with Sylver – Part3/3: From queries to analyzer
Keep it if the work was interesting and you feel like it bolsters your experience. Sometimes I remove dates from my resume as they’ll always be doing the mental math of assembling your timeline and notice all the concurrent items. Duration is a happy medium for me. That frees you from the linearity that resumes often follow, so maybe consider adding a section entitled “Recent Projects” or something similar with the other section called “Employment”

It’s a white lie but I’ve often explained those periods as “consulting” instead of freelance / “entrepreneur”. Then when I discuss it I always make it about the project and work. I never talk about the client except maybe the industry as a lead in to the problem. This way it sounds temporary or something. If they think you have an active client list you’re maintaining, that is always going to be concerning for them. They don’t know if you’ll be distracted or will make the clients the priority. They want to be your top and ideally only priority (sometimes even over family).

If they really press you they’re probably trying to understand how you managed so much project work while being employed full time. This is when you force a step-back from the details and say, “I do occasionally take on a project outside of work, it helps me work with emerging tech and things I’m interested in. I view it as a form of continuing education that is required in many professions. It’s never effected my performance at my job and I ensure to never causes a conflict of priorities. I find I can be 50%+ more productive due to having less meetings and organization overhead.” Or something with that gist
Amusingly, Trantor -- the Galactic Capital World in Asimov's Foundation series, a world covered by one giant city, so populous it was -- only works out to around 534/sq mile.
Side gigs don't really earn much. If you've got a friend that you've worked with before and they have a startup or something, ask for some peanuts amount of equity as an hands on advisor. It'll do more for your CV than 20 hour side gigs glueing some libraries together.

Or pick a well known library / framework and contribute. Or rescue a "looking for [co-]maintainer" library out there.
Hi,
I made this at labml.ai, based on our previous playground [1].
It is for people to play around with the Stable Diffusion model [2]. The feed shows the inferences in random order. All the items in the feed are images generated by users.

We will add features based on feedback. We are working on adding feed filters and inference parameters.

We have already shared this on our Twitter account [3]. Planning to do a write-up about this and will be posting it on our Twitter account.

[1] https://neox.labml.ai/playground
[2] https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion
[3] https://twitter.com/labmlai
> What is it about tinkerers being put into these positions as a natural progression?

Because those tinkerers get to a point where they want to be the ones making the decisions, controlling the culture, technology, and direction of the company. Without position you have no power and without power you can't affect change.
> "I'm very, very... I won't say dreading, but I'm, hmm, somewhat tentative about this whole thing

That's the problem. Shaming and shunning is an ancient technique for punishing transgressors, but social media enables it to be applied too broadly. All transgressions are put on full blast. If I were a full on Nazi I would get the same treatment as I would if expressed that I'm glad my son doesn't want to be a girl. It gets tiresome, shuts down free speech and punishes people who don't deserve it. It allows otherwise powerless people to become powerful in their faux outrage and hurt others that don't deserve it in the process.
I like Joe Rogan but calling him a world class comedian and martial artist is not right. He doesn't compete in BJJ and he always was a middling comedian.
Nbxmpp 3.2.1 out (Python-nbxmpp) – used by Gajim XMPP client
Having JUST done this for zoom level 12 for the planet it's tedious. It took 9 days, to export to mbtiles, another 2 days going through pngcrush, and about 40 minutes to make it into a squashfs resulting in a 2.6G squashfs file which houses the 22,368,460 PNG files which are then served up directly via nginx in our case.
And yet you come to me, asking me for a higher standard than you're willing to uphold yourself?
It's funny, whenever they refer to "competition", they mean Intel, whereas they should worry about Apple, too, especially as far as efficiency is concerned.
I understand why you would do it, but using robot arms to control another robot seems like a lot of accidental complexity. Surely there has to be a generation of tractor that's new enough that most functions are exposed on CANbus but old enough that it isn't locked down yet?
It's annoying that google has been forcefully pushing down wikipedia at least for medically related things. I don't want to have to go to the second page to get an article that isn't scared to use a word longer than 6 letters.
> I wish AMD would add more cache for faster speed and lower energy consumption

There's a trade-off: a bigger cache means a higher latency. According to https://twitter.com/chiakokhua/status/1564413952108335105 this doubling of the L2 cache already caused an increase of 2 cycles of latency.

> Ryzen L1 32/32

> M1/M2 L1 192/128

This is a consequence of Apple using a 16kiB page size, while the x86 world is stuck with a 4kiB page size. For technical reasons (the L1 lookup runs before or in parallel with the virtual to physical address translation), the L1 cache can only be indexed by the bits which don't change between virtual and physical addresses (that is, the bits representing the offset within the page), making it hard to increase the L1 cache size while keeping its latency low (and a low latency is very important in the L1 cache).

I don't know the latency for the Apple L2 caches, but it wouldn't surprise me if it's higher than the latency for the Intel and AMD L2 caches; having a larger L1 cache would mean Apple can afford to have a higher latency to the L2.
You seem to be mistaken about what the "ends" refer to in end to end encryption. If I whisper something in my friend's ear and she whispers it into your ear, that is not a secret message between you and me even if each "hop" was private.

E2E means no intermediaries see the plaintext, only the original sender and ultimate recipient see the plaintext. HN is not the recipient of your message, it's an intermediary.
I believe you don't have this problem with stackoverflow because it's user generated content. Answers provided by people doing it out of passion are usually better. That's why you'll often find the best answers on Reddit.

As to why there is no successful medical overflow.com: Software developers are inherently more web-affine and likely to help there. On top of that it's a great way for developers to show their knowledge in a way they can show to prospective employers. The medical field is a lot more old-school sand I cannot imagine a doctor showing their online help history to a potential employer.
Let me introduce you to RC slope mowers: http://www.rcmowersusa.com/
I also prefer information from the NHS even though I live in the US. Here medical information online is all about making money from ads and who knows what else they sell. There is actually little money to make from providing relevant information, unlike a national heath care system (which despite its terrible current state politically in the UK, where it seems they want to move to the US model) has an incentive to provide good information.
That's my point!

Regulations have been set up so you have to pay an AMA member to get any information that might be labeled "medical advice".
Cool!

Now if only it could hitch and unhitch implements, load and unload a wagon, back up and see behind. Then it could be useful!
I actually like a lot the idea, and it’s impressive, however nowadays there is also the challenge of many consumer architectures on the commodity desktops, not just x86 like it used to be.

I guess that, and shared libraries ABI, is the biggest challenge now.
Great feedback! Yes, our mobile experience (and frankly, web) definitely needs work!
The (enterprise) cloud side of Google is a business associate (also covered in HIPAA) in some circumstances but I don't think that applies in this case.
There was DESERTEC. It pivoted due to multiple issues. For a writeup, see for instance: https://medium.com/the-future-world/power-for-europe-from-af...
Two words: Revenue optimization

Everything free on the web is optimized to maximize the delivery of advertisements and referrals at the expense of everything else. And Google no longer rewards credible sources vs ad-laden garbage.
You don't want to generalise (COVID similar to influenza huh?) if you don't know anything about the virus.

I repeat myself, at that point We didn't know much about SARS2.
> it's about the experience/knowledge gained/distraction/self-worth of accomplishing more

To me, a side gig means accomplishing more of what someone else wants, with the trade-off of being less able to accomplish (or learn about, or distract yourself with) what you want. Which seems like an odd thing to want unless you need the money. I suppose for some people having a £200k income and not needing the money seem less synonymous than they do to me.
> My personal answer is: No. It would not be worth it to me. I’d take that loss in expected lifespan, in order to travel and live freely for a couple years.

My understanding was that actually for people in NZ they were better off than we were in the UK. Yes they had very strong border control so international travel is difficult/impossible, but once it was clear they had it under control the internal restrictions were fairly light. I remember seeing a photo of tens of thousands of people at a rugby game at the same time as fairly serious Covid restrictions in the UK.

I think he's asking the wrong question - if you ask me "am I willing to not leave my country for two years (but have little other restriction)" for 10-15 days of extra life, then yes that sounds fine. I like international travel but can live without it for a while.

I think half hearted Covid restrictions are the problem. The UK has to me the least forgivable Covid situation. We are an island with easily controllable borders (like Japan, NZ, Aus) but we never did. There is a lot of evidence of getting Covid under control and then being re-infected from abroad so it doesn't matter that we got it early - we could have kept it under much better control.
Interesting! But the first link you gave is just a list of conditions, which requires that I already know what my problem is. Is there a page that goes from symptoms to likely causes and what to do, like WebMD?
"Python's predecessor, ABC, was inspired by
SETL -- Lambert Meertens spent a year with the SETL group at NYU
before coming up with the final ABC design!"
--Guido van Rossum

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2000-August/008...
Work provided me with a 16" M1 Max with all the bells and whistles.

It's the first computer ever in my career that seems to be hugely overpowered for anything I do. Builds that took over 5 minutes on my previous i7 MBP are now well under a minute. No matter what I do, the fan doesn't turn on, battery hasn't run out even once unless I've forgotten to charge it overnight.

I could easily do everything I need with a M2 Air or a M1 Pro.

The M1-powered Macs will have a crazy long lifespan before they run out of power, especially outside of hardcore software development.
Exploiting PrintNightmare (CVE-2021–34527)
Another somewhat successful area: Very specific task based home maintenance instructional videos on youtube.

I'm not sure why but if I look up specific tasks I do find what seem like capable handy man / plumbers or similar folks with good quality advice.

Medical stuff.... oh gawd almost no chance of good advice there. But maybe that's because the range of "hey we don't know" or "it's complicated" that you're going to get from honest folks when it comes to the medical world, and most folks gravitate towards solid answers that hucksters love to give.

Hucksters might find it hard to monetize "how to cut down a small tree", while "cold remedies" are prime grounds for them.
A good number of people are making quite a fortune tutoring coding online if that's something you are interested in. I assume you are good with kids if you have one. What hourly rate are you looking for? I may be interested in in giving you some extra work as we have a couple families at Modulo looking for coding tutoring. Feel free to reach out. Very easy to find me from my bio.
For what it's worth, manifest V3 could effect Tridactyl as it could block code that is evaluated at runtime from accessing the browser APIs.

It will make it less programmable by the end user.
how do you square this with the fact that more and more people are calling in sick and many are continuing to die now that much of the western world has given up on pandemic restrictions?
a good percentage of ordinary males can hang sheetrock, or be taught to do so by on-the-job training in short order. That uninteresting skill is not required to be lead on a large, multi-part project either. The sheetrock job is physically hard, time-consuming and ultimately there is almost no difference in skill levels. In other words it is easily replaceable and not rare.

This reduction to "things I can understand, while I am watching" demonstrates the paternalism of a simpleton while wasting the time of valuable people.
So there's a private option that's terrible (WebMD) and a private option that's terrific (Merck Manuals). And it's the terrible one that ranks well at Google.

Sounds like a Google problem and apparently only a Google problem.
It's not effective: from the article:

> it's po-faced, sanctimonious, self-righteous occasionally ... it's not effective.
No plans were announced so these are purely my speculations but to me it seems logical.

The only piece of reliable information is this: I once asked Google engineer whether they plan to support declarative cosmetic rules (that's what we do ourselves in MV3 and that's why the extension still requires wide permissions) and the answer was that they definitely do plan to do that in the future.
I put a "make it readable" step in there somewhere, but basically that's the cycle.
For context, Montreal is about 4,517 people per km², and New York is about 11,000.

I would guess that your number for Pakistan isn't really representative though: it's got dense cities and vast open spaces too.
did you scroll up in the "Telegram" (service-notification) channel? The poll is in there
Signal require a phone number, a nogo for real privacy.
> If there are no more (effective) adblockers for Chrome, users will frantically begin to search for an alternative

More likelier scenario: Most Chrome users do not even know what an ad-blocker is, let alone difference between Manifest v3 and v2. The franatical run, if one was ever a thing, already happened when Google announced V3, long time ago. The few people (relatively speaking) that cared about it already switched browsers.
If you trust some random people over internet who publish anything, then my words should have the same power to you.
You do know that the "leftist" government came to power last year? And that the Merkel-CDU-conservative led government that put those "harsh" measures in place? And that the oeftist government coalition includes the FDP, liberals whose economic positions are almost GOP like?
I agree, if you're changing endian-ness then bitwise compatibility between in-memory formats are out the window by definition. Even if we're just declaring a packed struct containing a single int32_t it's not gonna match at the bit/byte level.

Unless you define a single 'right' bit order and then swizzle/unswizzle every value being written to or read from a packed struct, but then that's becoming more of a serialize/unserialize which is a different thing.
What are you appealing to here? It's one of the most extreme forms of contact sports, but it's sanctioned. Injuries are commonplace, not something trans people exclusively inflict.

And how is it related to the question at all? I am not interested in discussing if Fallon Fox is a good person, good sport or good representative of trans people. I'm discussing Joe Rogan calling her a man being indicative of transphobia on the JRE. Just like OJ Simpson being convicted would not justify calling him the slur with N.
User agents usually don't have general artificial intelligence and often can't infer content intent from class names. Accessibility doesn't magically improve just because of classes.

Accessibility help relies on using the correct, semantic tags, and when that is not possible, WAI-ARIA attribute hints.
Yes- there is a life-year cost to bringing death forward.

But there has now been no excess mortality in Sweden compared to it's neighbors Finland and Norway (and all 3 blow the US and Europe out of the water.)

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-deaths-cumulative-...
I'd make the claim (without any real data), that the NHS has _such_ institutional power in the UK that it goes a long way to transcend any SEO shortfall it may have.
Apple can’t run Windows programs and games reliably so they are not a contender.
Good news - once you order, you will get an email that lets you manage your subscription at which point you can cancel the renewal right away. Let me know if you have any issues with that!
Better WebMd already exists. https://www.cochrane.org/
That mattered less (mostly) when you were six and the alternatives were Mavis Beacon or a multiplication worksheet :-)
Only if your premise that the labor shortages (and other economic issues) are caused by pandemic deaths is correct, mind you. The overwhelming majority of deaths (around 80%) from the pandemic in all countries was amongst retirement age individuals, most of whom are out of the workforce.
> once the string runs over the GC default (I think 1 GB),

Not wishing to sound snarky, but is there even a valid use-case for concatenating GB+ quantities of strings (or even hundreds of MB) ?

I mean surely you'll (potentially) run into memory exhaustion issues and other fun things ?
> v5.vbb.transport.rest's frames were missing something I needed, if I recall correctly. With a fork of hafas-client, I got something to work okay.

It would be great if you could create an Issue in hafas-client about this, so everyone can benefit from the changes.

> I realised I should use another user agent than 'my-awesome-program' which only VBB can provide, I think

If you're talking about hafas-client: No, you can use anything! It's merely about being transparent towards VBB who/what is using their API, but they don't have to approve it beforehand; They can't in fact, because the "mobile" HAFAS API just uses a static auth token.
> The difference? You pay for examine.com.

Shouldn’t it be "You can pay"? Because I get all the information I need on Examine for free (and checking their paid offering, they seem to have changed from "professionals" to "laypeople" as their target audience, with everything being a guide and behind a clearer interface).
I think they're referring to the stated conclusion, that this author thinks his work supports his own view that lockdown policies were too restrictive, and we should instead have more freedom/death.

Even with 20/20 hindsight, that seems like a bad take, and when the decisions were taken, we didn't have 20/20 hindsight, and we won't the next time either.
Great Barrington -> 4th of October. Are you even reading my comments? I am referring to the first lockdowns which took place in April 2020.

"So we decided to go for the known devastating effects in case the disease was also devastating?"
Of course we do in case of a pandemic, since we are dealing with a completely different underlying distribution of effects.
Is that NHS page what people go to webMD for?

I feel like that's something else entirely.
I also remember analysis that this broad spectrum was circumvented, and heavily influenced by the far right.
Because most apps still run on x86?
They forgot to mention the porn one..

https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgygy4/stable-diffusion-stab...

Why'd they "overlook" it? Probably more culturally significant and controversial than any of the others. It's the natural elephant.
Haha, yes. I was being a bit snarky, I apologize if that didn't quite come through. You are completely right; it is a very easy game. I went back and played it through about 5 or 6 years ago and was surprised by how easy it was compared to my memory. I suspect that many people who played it as ankle-biters themselves probably have a skewed memory of its difficulty.

Many of the difficult games from that era were game games ~ they were difficult be design, to be brain teasers. The Oregon Trail, by comparison, falls into the educational games specifically aimed at lower-elementary school. Similar games from my school's weekly computer lab...

- Treasure Mountain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HAxdTacsgQ

- Reader Rabbit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re-3D8TSYd8

- Mixed Up Mother Goose: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r28woUwTib0

- Where In The World is Carmen San Diego https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL-13NZAXuE
Same here. A profile suggests that most native time is spent rendering the backdrop shadow of the text rendered to the canvas, and most of the remaining CPU time is spent on the drawText Javascript call.

Looks like Mozilla has something to optimize!
I charge 400/h for consulting, specializing in high scale distributed systems. When I'm charging that much I'm not doing the work, companies bring me on for 2 or 3 hours a week to set directions and tech goals as well as solve the problems they've been trying too but can't