skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for doing the deep dive this is interesting data that I didn't want to research :)

> There is a steep drop off in people cycling/motorcycling to work (for some reason combined in the dataset) at the 30 minute mark

I live in Dallas which is one of your samples. I think on the above point what you would find is above a certain threshold and commuters are using a highway/high speed road and probably see it as a necessary component to keep drive time down. I just mapped my commute and it's actually 12.2 miles of which 9.3 are on a highway. It takes me a consistent 20 minutes to get to/from work; or about 35 if I avoid the highway for some reason. Average speed is probably a small factor and stop lights/merging traffic being the dominant slow downs.

On a bike, intersections still slow you down and you don't see people bike across a highway's path very often at all here because all of those intersections tend to be high speed, several lanes, and quite dangerous too. Since biking isn't a normal activity for most people here, I'd venture to guess most people would impose an additional danger to themselves until they got familiar with things.

The shear number of roads and infrastructure to be upgraded to make it feasible is daunting.
https://www.google.com/search?q=cannabis+psychosis

People are not making this up. It's a risk that needs to be weighed.

Acknowledging this fact is not the same as being in favor of prohibition or criminalization or saying it'll happen to everyone.
Okay...please elaborate? I don't believe this is a productive comment unless you explain.
Why do more when you'll be replaced by a machine anyways?
The same ppl who got richer by few hundred billion dollars on pandemic.

The one that sits on his wealth as a dragon and hisses on other.
Water is bad for you in sufficient quantities.
I used Dark Sky on iPhone until they redesigned the Weather app. Then the stock option became an immediate drop-in replacement.

I wish the API remained open so others can use it but as far as the app itself, it was never really that good.
They arrested a person for making a video of his dog doing nazi salutes. It's not that the royal family is singularly fragile about being upset by other peoples' expression, the whole of the UK is like that.
If you want to account for privilege, that's fine. But there are much better proxies than "skin color". For example, if you want to reduce poverty, why write a check to people of a certain race (on the basis that people of that race are more likely to be poor) rather than just writing a check to poor people directly?

The problem is that people are obsessed with the median person of a given race (and how these "median people" compare with each other) that they project these median personas onto individuals. In other words, they treat individuals as fungible tokens of their race. It doesn't matter if a black candidate has had an easy suburban life and a white candidate grew up in poverty, the DEI lens just sees a black candidate and a white candidate, and the perennial social imperative to bring the median black person and the median white person closer to parity.
Your employer has your salary on record, so having financial privacy in no way prevents taxes being collected. Likewise you trade stocks through a broker, who knows how much you have in your brokerage account.
Is this the same author that made the talk about PAM recently? I really like his articles.
> that people who regularly invest in top end hardware don't care as much about power bills

It adds up, especially in data centers where you end up needing even more megawatts of power and cooling capacity.
> Even simulating a single synapse in full detail can be challenging

I wonder how common it is for serious commentators on NN / brain relationship to hold this supposition that in order for the two to be called... let's say "functionally similar/equivalent", that there would have to be some kind of structural equivalence in their most basic parts.

Neurons (and their synaptic connections etc.) developed in a biochemical substrate which is going to bring a certain amount of its own representational baggage with it, i.e. elements which are loosely incidental to "what really matters" in creating the magic of the brain—and we should not expect those features to reappear in artificial NNs (as they are by definition incidental): bringing them up could only establish a trivial non-equivalence imo.

I'd like to see more discussions about NN / brain relationship mentioning which level/kind of equivalence they're refuting/confirming when refuting/confirming.
Loved this series of videos!
Mississippi Bubble
It's not that complex, actually. The vast majority of fats, all the natural ones, basically, are fine. Healthy, even. The weirdass plastic fats created by injecting hydrogen into vegetable oil are not fine.

Done! Was that really so nuanced? No. It was not.
Oh ok. Does that mean if we ask nicely we can dissolve the monarchy?
No, they are not. They aren’t actively participating in the transactions, and thus have no reporting requirement. Users are not allowed to structure transactions, as it is illegal for them to do so.
Let's just say that the hecklers have been arrested much, much faster (pretty much instantly, apparently) than the "eco-activists" who recently blocked roads, petrol stations, even motorways...
And then let's throw out all browser extensions and accessibility software as webpages become an unapproachable unmodifyable <canvas> tag, a true corporate dream. People underestimate the importance of webpages being documents. It doesn't translate well to all use cases - see apps and games - but to throw it out and go for sealed binary formats would be a big step back.
It definitely does not have the same functionality, you can only see the current temp/precip prob %/humidity/dewpoint/wind speed/etc, you can’t see the forecasted stats I listed in the iOS weather app, you can only get hour by hour temperature.

I’m very disappointed that Dark Sky is going away. If Apple added in the ability to see forecasted hour by hour wind speed/humidity/dew point/etc, it’d be a decent replacement.
ParallelsDesktopCrack is unavailable due to DMCA take down
I don't know the reason. I saw it trending and wanted to check that repo. But it is down.
USA has the famous Phelps family, a fake religion who attack funerals and then sue the victims for fighting back, and win.
I’ve used this app for years. I will have to check out the new iOS weather app.

Honestly the Dark Sky rain predictions are usually wrong more often than not.

I use it to monitor rain to keep my zoysia nice, but it has been disappointing me recently.
Doesn't Serbia have one of the highest rates of tobacco smoking in the world?
> One other thing I'll tack on here is that I find it fascinating that the kinds of skills required to be "good" at using these image generation models — "prompt engineering" if you like — are largely different than the ones required to create art from scratch.

As someone intimately-amateurly involved with AI artwork over the past six months, I've come to disagree with the term "prompt engineering" as a description of the skillset. It's not just feeding it a good prompt (which is not that much of a puzzle once you get into it, and is close to being a solved problem in my book), but instead a whole iterative pipeline of human-in-the-loop hacks and touchups in order to make up for the tech's existing faults and unwieldiness. Many aspects of this pipeline, interestingly, are already familiar to digital artists.

I think the specifics of this pipeline will continue to change on a weekly basis until we reach a plateau in the technologies. But, novelty lies at the heart of all art: I don't think the pipeline will ever be replaced by one-shot, completely automated and brainless txt2img processes. Even if the difference between "beginner artist" and "expert artist" shrinks to a hair's breadth because of access to AI, it goes back to that xkcd quote, "Our brains have just one scale, and we resize our experiences to fit." We will continue to instinctually desire and respect the efforts of people who go the extra mile to create something just a little more perfect or a little more original.
My daughter's Montessori school had similar class sizes, 25-30. The kids were loosely grouped by age with ~4 years range in the same room. She was not uniquely successful, though I will acknowledge any private school will tend to be self-selected.

And you still missed that we had multi-age schoolhouses for generations that were successful.

If you want to argue for smaller classroom sizes, I'm on board, but you won't get a single vote from me for school funding until you're ready to completely upend the Prussian model. It converted our public schools into literal prisons for children and is a scourge on this Earth.
> Break features into small, incremental changes

Stacking is a wonderful workflow to accomplish this: https://graphite.dev/blog/post/N8SOs49y4bYdV1Vjf5qE
Fragile, civilized. Potato, potato.
I don't like that this article calls middleboxes firewalls, and I really don't like that it recommends https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Injection_Rejection as a legitimate security practice.
Alcohol has been in use for ~7000 years yet society only began broadly recognizing it as harmful during pregnancy in the 1970s. [0] I don’t think the form of your argument holds any weight. Would you make the same claim regarding the use of alcohol during pregnancy?

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26137906/
Which model do you use? Just realized that I've only seen or heard about 120mm (single fan) AIOs :)

Briefly looked 140mm AIOs up, and have only found Corsair XR5 so far. These 140mm rads seem like a rare-ish thing. Did you randomly stumble upon one of those or is it, like, a new trendy thing?
Well, I guess this is progress.

In the past, anti-royal protestors used to be hung, drawn, and quartered.
> The new law allows police to act in cases which they deem to be "unjustifiably noisy protests that may have a significant impact on others" or seriously disrupt an organization's activities.

Doesn't take a political science degree to see what's wrong with this law. When cops get to decide what is a justifiably loud protest and what isn't you no longer have the right to protest. Protests are meant to disrupt, if you can't be loud about it then it no longer has its intended effect.
I know my mother smoked cannabis when she was pregnant back in the 70s (hippie parents etc). Maybe it wasn't related to that, but I did experience a number of mental disorders from my childhood to my late 20s.
Who said plastic is the primary factor? The Washington Post's expert said determining what fraction of obesity is related to chemical exposure is difficult. The 1st comment said plastic wasn't a factor.
The data presented is Asian-Americans. Cultural traits, sure, but trying to explain the phenomena by referring to non-American Japanese culture is a bit of a stretch.
I don’t see how that would prevent deep-fakes from being made for past events.

Cryptographic time-stamping can show that a set of images existed at some time, but not that no other images existed at that time.

So, unless you manage to time-stamp most images in the world, there will be a huge set of images without provenance.

The creator of fake content will just add to that set.
This is how society and civilization crumbles and falls. This kind of thinking is noxious and insidious.
But you can be arrested for crossing the street in the wrong place, and you can be shot by the police for any reason, including because they feel like it.
Whether he does or not it's none of your business, and it doesn't change the fact that those are high prices and sources of environmental issues.

This power draw is getting out of hand on desktop, consoles and x86 laptops and is largely a symptom of lack of competition and lack of technological advances.
Feature branches are fine. Just merge master into your branch on a daily basis and the concerns about merging go away.
That section you linked shows that free-speech is indeed limited within a certain radius of certain funerals.
Does this surprise anyone?

You can read a lot faster than you can talk. Which also means you can comprehend a lot faster than people can talk to you.

Or in other words speed up the video playback to match your typical reading speed.

Some people are very mumbly and hard to understand at higher speeds. But most of the time it works great. Bonus points if the video includes closed captions.

I've had a number of teens tell me that they watch TV shows and movies at 1.25 or 1.5 speed. So it's not limited to educational content.
> nearly every week somebody tries to change lanes on top of me

I find this comment funny because it's exactly the same complaint my wife has when driving her F-250. "How is it they can't see this fucking massive white truck and still try to merge into me?"
Prompt injection attacks against GPT-3
But this is a case in the UK. They have different laws and observe different decorum.

Even in the US I would think protesting a funeral to be in extremely poor taste, no matter the target. What’s that Latin phrase about the recently dead?
Yea, I’ve been through that, even trained my replacement who was supposed to be a coworker.
Because of LadyBird Johnson former first lady of the United States.
I’ve led a fairly large product org in recent years, and frequent demos of deployed software is the number one way to ensure you’re shipping software frequently and consistently
Just give the road crew a phone app that can read the sign.

Given the phone's camera, compass and GPS, validating that the sign has been installed as specified (location, facing direction) is almost trivial.
"no" is a reasonable response to such a request :)
There is a bit of a correlation between people who are ignorant of the world around them, and people who don't see a need for civilized behavior.
What if the funeral is a 10 day extravaganza at tax payer expense whilst some families are choosing between eating and heating?
Their revenue on the Surface side continues to increase, so even if it's not profitable, it's trending the right way. The amount they've put toward engineering makes me think they'll never give this line up.
All the blue collar millennials I know work far harder than their blue collar baby boomer counterparts.
Most engineers I hear say this ("you get bored and after a while it's all the same") don't seem to share my interest for learning very-different languages or academic computer science theory. I am interested in all of that, and I am pretty confident I will never run out of things to learn.
At least in the West, the vast majority of forestry land is managed by the NFS. Private land is really only used for Christmas tree farms or specialty trees for the paper industry.

For public lands, the timber industry is responsible for their own replanting, but it's largely irrelevant. More timber is lost to wildfire than logging every year, so most replanting falls on the Forest service anyway:
https://www.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/reforesta...

Edit: Apparently this is all wrong and out of date!

While the NFS still owns the majority of forestry land in the West, it only accounts for a tiny portion of the overall lumber produced. From the CRO:

> Since the 1990s, FS timber production has decreased, totaling around 2 billion board feet annually since FY1999.56 In 2011, NFS supplied 2% of U.S. wood and paper products. The decline is attributable to a multitude of factors, including (but not limited to) changing legislative directives and related forest management policies and practices—such as increased planning and procedural requirements—as well as changing market dynamics for wood products, public preferences, and litigation.

Basically, it became too hard to log NFS land, so logging companies turned to private or state lands instead (and states set their own criteria for how private forestry land needs to be replanted).
It’s still a DUI if you drive on it. The week after it was legalized in my state, a person managed to put their car through the second story of a home. The toxicology report showed the only thing in their system was cannabis.
I think a lot of people think it’s “safe” is it’s been used for thousands of years and has relatively well tolerated. It’s nice to get more specific info like this though.
I hardly care, I don't want that heat in my room anyway.
A good test suite is a huge project asset!

It also requires considerable skill to build and maintain, and not every team has that...

...in which case you might have a less good and useful test suite.
> How much that productivity has increased due to automatization of laborous tasks ?

For sure some of it. As well as education of the workforce and the changing nature of work.

Either way, the reality is that the benefits have largely gone to capital, rather than labor. And that’s just how the system works, which is why strong unions are important.
Why are you intentionally misrepresenting the very clear comment you are responding to?
I appreciate the nod to the prophetic movie Office Space, but I think they missed the most appropriate scene about wearing the minimum pieces of flair.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7SNEdjftno

If people are doing the minimum work required by their employer, it hardly seems like a problem to me. If they decide to miss out on the "rat race" then that's how they choose to participate in their employee relationship. Maybe I'm missing something about this.
Very interesting and hopeful.
what does water have to do with anything?
I am assuming you're joking, but in the event you are not I can add some commentary here.

If an employer wants employees willing to go the extra mile, then they should offer compensation for those who choose to go the extra mile. This could come in the form of a performance bonus. The people who simply want to do the work they are paid to do and nothing more/less (i.e. the people the media is calling "quiet quitters") will get no additional bonus.

The name "quiet quitting" is disingenuous, as it leads you to think that it means someone is "quitting" when in fact they are just doing what they are paid to do.
Any explanation to the American obesity epidemic needs to explain why it exploded in the 1980s and has accelerated since then.

Genetics would exactly fail this test.
> Freedom of speech does not mean you are free to say anything you want wherever you want. I can't just walk into the Oval Office and start hurling obscenities at the President, and attempting to do so is likely to get me shot by the Secret Service.

For trespassing. This example has nothing to do with speech.
the Ethereum client ecosystem is one of the most robust. yeah, one can go eth -> zcash/monero back to eth, but that’s like a day-long process once you factor in blockchain syncing and blocktime/transaction settlement. TC is/was 5 minutes to enter and 5 minutes to exit.
Try explaining to an average person how they can identify which food products at the supermarket have noble-gas-fat-products in them and which don't.
"If you can't beat 'em, join 'em and hurt 'em by beating yourself".
The later S550 is the unit I was fixing mentioned in another comment, that one was a 8095
Ah, so the entire country counts as the site of a funeral now?
It must vary by location. Dark Sky is usually right on point for me.

I was pissed when they cut off Android support. I eventually got over it and subscribed on my iPad so I could continue using it, because nothing else I've tried comes close.
this alienation is nothing new, and has happened during the industrial revolution and subsequent rise of things like taylorism.

There is a reason it is a main tenant in karl marx his writings[0]
Ofcourse people are not going to go beyond and above when their job is churned into a mechanisation of actions in which one has little or no control or input.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation
I need alcohol to be sociable.
It's like saying that a valley was flooded because a dam collapsed; It's a correct description of what happened, but it doesn't explain why it happened. It would be more useful to say, for instance, that the flood happened because the central government reduced funding and the local council deferred maintenance on the dam because they considered it a low priority, resulting in a critical failure not being identified and corrected, which in turn resulted in the dam collapsing.
I've used the weather.gov site for the last ~5 years, and it has been great. I bookmark both the 7-day local forecast[1] and the hourly dashboard[2].

[1] https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=40.71234500000...

[2] https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?w0=t&w3u=1&w5=pop&...
Why do you assume that any and all forms of getting high involve poisoning?
What kind of software update have you received whose job was not address a class-action-lawsuit-sized software problem?
Their easily could be, we just can't imagine as a society putting this much effort into caring for the young. Especially those of the wrong skin color. The US is the wealthiest country in the world, we could easily change some of the governments wealth distribution to educate all students 8:1
You should go because you're afraid of it
Isn't the Weather app pre-installed?
because no one wants to take liability for an error
See, your question is an excellent example of how little the mainstream tech understands the WP ecosystem:

In any WP site, any user that uses a feature is someone who 'saves content'. They don't need to be an editor. The average user that is commenting on a WP blog, the average customer that is using a WP ecommerce site, the directory user that is bookmarking local lawyers in his area - all of these send write operations to the db. Because all of those features are represented as either custom posts in the database. If a plugin does not use the WP post system, then it still writes to its own tables.

So basically any write action taken in a WP site is very likely a 'post'. Its confusing, so just take the word 'post' as 'data type'. The blog posts in a WordPress site are just data with the type 'post'. WooCommerce products in a WP ecommerce site are just data with the type 'product' and so on.

Therefore, even in a middling WP site with ~1 million unique views/month, you WILL have at least hundreds of users hammering the database with the actions they take.

When you go one level up, things get even more complicated:

There is a WP feature called 'Multisite'. This allows you to provide an infinite amount of WP sites over just one single WP installation by sharing the database and the main files. A lot of big WP sites function like this, including the WordPress.com service that Automattic provides. (50% of all WP sites are there, so 25% of all world's websites).

Which means that in such a Multisite WP installation, there will be at least tens of thousands of site owners, whose blogs, e-stores or sites are serving hundreds of thousands of users at the least. (For smallish WP hosts, nonprofits, communities).

This means that yeah, you will be facing write operations that are much more than 1000 times per second.

...

Regardless, one minor performance situation is not the argument that makes it infeasible to introduce SQLite or any other db engine. The compatibility is king in WP ecosystem - ecosystem-wide and backwards. Just like in any ecosystem that has been able gain and serve a large user base on the Internet.
only spitballing, but everyone has intrusive thoughts, and we tune them out to various degrees

weed can be a kind of thought dis-inhibitor, and can take any thought that crosses your mind and make it the most important thought you've ever had (see also: thinking your stoned ideas are revolutionary inventions, until you sober up and realize you've re-invented the tea kettle)