skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if writing by hand is the optimal output speed we can have, given our biological bodies. The information throughput (both in and out) are quite limited, we can only afford so much bandwidth. Anything beyond that and we lose some information. Writing by hand seems to be the optimal bandwidth that engages self-reflection simultaneously. Typing is good too, but I often find myself "think more" about what I'm writing if I do it by hand vs. if I type it.
Not trying to nitpick here, but does anyone find it strange that a webpage/website like this doesn’t have a graph of the data, but just a poorly designed table?

Is this a trend I’ve missed … some sort of post-D3 nadir of a datavis hype curve or something where graphs are a cringey thing SEOd click bait articles or news pages do?
I'd pay for a slack bot that detects which of the channels I've been involuntarily added to has messages from bots and proactively mutes them for me.
In the past 7 years from my 25, I figured out that there always be crisis .. at any age.
Ahh memories of running "synergy" at work to use my Windows mouse/keyboard on my Sun ultra2 box.

The mouse was always very jittery on the Sun box until I tried setting the synergy daemon on the windows box to realtime which made it perfectly smooth.
This wins the prize for the most nightmarish scenario of all.

Here are the assumptions it's based on:

1. Not content with having burned through earth's resources, transmuting them in to garbage and pollution, we fly to space, a hugely energy intensive enterprise which sources even more raw materials to convert in to garbage and pollution.

2. Having had unlimited energy in the form of fossil fuels, humanity causes climate change bad enough to eventually wipe out most species and all of civilisation, driving humans to the very brink of survival. Now, given a new unlimited power source, what next? Escape all responsibility and push forward business-as-usual for a few more decades, maybe a lifetime, to ensure that we eventually asset-strip everything in reach and wipe out all hope for humanity to ever rebuild a civilisation.

3. ???

4. But as all the cattle die off due to the heat, we'll still have burgers with a satisfying mouthfeel, so that'll be nice.
My theory about CL is that between the minimalist UI and bad press it discouraged “normies” (for lack of a better word) who were afraid to get scammed so it was mostly serious sellers, plus occasional scammers who were not hard to spot. I met many delightful people over the years dealing with vintage audio, motorcycles, midcentury furniture. Facebook marketplce sellers are much flakier in my experience.
Coinbase Launches ProCrypto Politician Identifier After Banning Talk of Politics
Mainly because they can. They already have excellent team & experience in designing low power cores from the ground up, and also they have their great LLVM team for the compiler. Core plus compiler, that's all you need for a in-house processor. There are very few companies with this kind of combinations, and those who have them all chose to build their own hardware stack.

When you have the hammer, it becomes a crime to not hit the nail. Especially so when you find out you have a better hammer than your hammer contractor.
The method in the article also turns Reddit's upvote/downvote buttons into squares (unknown characters).
How big is your team that the amount of these bot alerts is not something that just fades into background noise?
Having watched other coverage, some more takeaways:

- Nvidia doesn't give board partners real drivers until they are public. Which is why evga 3090's were bricking
themselves at launch, they only had limited pre-release drivers. How can evga make a good product when they don't have dev tools to make the product?

- Nvidia doesn't give retail partners prices or info at all until the public has the information, but requires order size estimates long before that. How can retailers predict sales volumes if they don't know price or performance?

- Nvidia blacklisted Hardware Unboxed for giving the 3090 positive reviews, but they didn't talk about the proper talking points (8K gaming capability). They don't care about the review or increasing sales, they're actively the top performing GPU, they just care about controlling the narrative and being manipulative.

AMD GPU's aren't as good. but Nvidia isn't SO much better that AMD is just full stop not an option.

No company is your friend. But Nvidia seems to actively be an enemy to a lot of people, and they would be profitable even if they were nicer, they have the best product. Which means they are just actively bad people.
POW is suicide, POS is doomed to fail. So let's give up and try to edit humanity such that we cure our greed and stupidity.
The difference between the Nikon D750 and D850 happens to be one of the most considerable and well defined product differentiation achieved in modern photography :~)

The D850 is a seminal state of the art camera that internally is identical to the contemporary flagship the D5 in every way except for major improvements like high resolution and exceptional sensor which is arguably not surpassed almost six years later. Whilst the D750 is a cost engineering marvel. The D750 is a very fine camera, but nothing in the league of the D850.

If you are actually considering purchasing a D750 I'd strongly recommend that you investigate the D780 which only appears to be much the same, but includes the majority of the successor mirrorless technology developments including excellent video giving live view operating far better than any other DSLRS from Nikon including the flagships.

Nikon managed some exemplary product differentiation in the last range of DSLR cameras. Unfortunately for everyone Nikon can't seem to be anything like as clear and focussed with the Z series mirrorless range.

Edit: the D850 compared with the contemporary flagship D5, is capable of only slower rates of shooting, has a smaller battery, no extended grip and dual orientation controls and the sensor can't -quite- perform in low light like a D5. In every non sports shooting environment the D850 would be regarded as a flagship, but for historical reasons and the attachment rate of D3/4/5/6 users buying proportionately many more elite lenses, it's the lower resolution action and low light big pro cameras that get the flagship accolade. Single digit pro cameras also optimize photo processing in camera for JPEG output as is big agency wont and urgency the need for finished product out of the box without any processing. In case you're looking into this, JPEG output from the D5/6 is incredibly good. "Merely" 20MP sensors in these cameras are far better than any specification can indicate, being developed to produce the cleanest pixel level signal, which really is visible in the output. A hardly used very good condition D5 can be had for $1500 lenses dumped en masse for Z upgrades are bargains. If you can deal with the bulk of these cameras, you'll very unlikely i've dissatisfied. And de facto unbeaten autofocus with a major feature omitted from new designs Group Priority AF which glues the focus to your selected nearest subject without any deviation that happens in the Z bodies because of the omission of this professional feature. Novices are apparently buying the Z9 mirrorless flagship because it's not got AF compromises to frustrating degree. But you can have a complete kit for the same money in the DSLR line.
I never heard anything like that. The Home Depot site doesn't feel much like Amazon's, but maybe they do and they just don't use it well. I have a friend who did some contract work for Home Depot and it sounded like they followed VP-empire-building-driven development.
I would imagine the bottleneck for processing information has more to due with the density of the information content rather than the speed of sensing.
> they've never dealt with AMD (who have supply problems for other reasons), whose GPUs haven't been the premium product for a while (arguably, ever),

Yep. AMD can't write Windows graphics drivers that are stable and performant to save their lives, their cards use enormous amounts of power compared to similarly performing NVIDIA cards, they're nearly useless for computational stuff because most everyone goes for CUDA, and AMD cheated on benchmarks by overclocking/overvolting their cards and slapping huge heatsinks on them so that they'd last just long enough for a benchmark to run before starting to overheat.

There are only two markets for AMD cards that I see: Hackintoshes (increasingly irrelevant with the shift to the new Apple Silicon and inevitable phase-out of Intel-supporting MacOS releases), Linux systems, and AMD fanboys. All pretty small markets.

AMD is properly fucked in the GPU market now that Apple is no longer using discreet GPUs unless they manage to bring to bear the sort of enginering might they did for Ryzen (where they're also slipping as Intel pushes back.) NVIDIA can carry on with all their datacenter-class ML products and lose a bunch of money on the consumer side. The problem is...if AMD drops out of the GPU market, that leaves NVIDIA and Intel, and reportedly Intel's product is even worse than AMD. If NVIDIA is insufferable now, imagine them when they're the only game in town...
I'd say to take a look at Israeli Kibbutzim, but you'll tell me they aren't technically communist.

I'd tell you to look at indigenous pre industrial economies, but you'd probably say they aren't still around (and again, not self identified as communist).

I'd tell you to look at Mondragon, but that's a large democratic worker co-op making billions of dollars, not a communist country. That's fair.

So let's talk about Portugal post carnation revolution. Portuguese politics is dominated by the socialist party, the social Democratic party, the communist party, and the green party. The State owns many major businesses and many more companies through trust in the public interest. You might say they aren't a communist country, I might say they aren't a Stalinist communist country. But they self identify as socialist country.

I'd encourage you to read up on Ujamaa and the Arusha Declaration, prime minister Julius Nyerere's plan to lift Tanzania out of poverty in the 70s. It unfortunately failed due to world events. But seriously, consider reading up on it. It wasn't perfect, maybe it would have gone autocratic. More broadly I could spend days writing comments about African Socialism.

You can look at the Spanish revolution and the communists who fought against the Stalinists and the Soviet Union. Eventually they were militarily crushed, but they were worker led, libertarian socialist economies with millions of people, eventually stomped out by Stalinists.

I don't think I met the bar of your question, but I hope that I dispelled the idea that there is only one kind of communism.

I also hope I provided at least some interesting things to go dive into on Wikipedia. At the very least I hope I'm providing some novel intellectual stimulation.

There is a hugely rich variety of models, and not all of them require a unitary authority or harsh anti democratic laws. There's a very interesting historical and modern discussion around many, many other models, and not engaging with it (or saying that all these models are the same as the Soviet model) is ignoring a lot of well thought out theory and practice.
Same here, I can finally get a cheap GPU worker for my weekend project (https://phantasmagoria.stavros.io, if anyone cares).
I haven't made a game yet (not even a prototype) though I have been tempting for years. I can't point the issue, whether my coding skills aren't up to the task or because I can't make assets for my game, or because I can't hire a staff and my game ideas scope needs a team to realize them.

The problem is I don't know what is the right next step to take in front of all the issues aforementioned, and I have been thinking that for years without taking any step ahead or risking
At eBay, Lurid Crimes and the Search for Punishment
I'm upvoting this because, at the end of the day, this is brutally accurate.

Gaming is not an activity that produces something, likewise any form of entertainment for that matter. So in the sense that nothing comes from the electricity and time used, gaming is an "anti-environmental" activity.

I personally don't agree with any of this notion, because life is worthless if we can't accept life is pointless, but if we are striving for a world where consumption must always produce something then gaming is one of many things that must be eliminated.
Firstly, this being allowed creates perverse incentives where policy direction can be dictated by what is profitable for a given politician's portfolio. Policies affect everyone.

Second, why the hell should it be legal if the same thing done by a normal citizen results in ultra harsh penalties ( look up laws on Insider Trading).
Presumably this is Stable Diffusion on the back end. Simple and works well. Any plans for more features?
Are you allowing for the possibility that you may be incorrect, as in, these ideas are not new, are based on empirically-derived data, and their application results in positive outcomes?

From [1]:

> "Thirteen years in the making, they draw on more than 40 years of research showing that traditional masculinity is psychologically harmful and that socializing boys to suppress their emotions causes damage that echoes both inwardly and outwardly."
The first time I used a computer was also the first time I played a computer game. And I'll call it a "command-line" game as it was played on a teletype machine.

"Star Trek" first came out in 1971. I probably played it in 1972-3 when my father brought home from work a teletype machine. All I remember doing is launching a photon torpedo and destroying a planet. For me it was (and still is) the best command-line-only game.

Am I nitpicking to point out that there's no such thing as a "command-line-only video game"?
As someone who knows nothing about this: what is wrong with icon fonts?
Well the course we are on will result in the poor 99 percent murderinging the 1 percent which I am curious about, and my tone is neutral and I am steelmanning the 1 percent
I actually love it when people invent things without full knowledge of prior art - a lot of innovation happens only when people aren't biased by what is already there. Perhaps if you knew all about PouchDB you might not have had enough motivation to do this, and then this gap of a relational reactive store would not have been explored. What you have done looks really great!!!
I hereby vote for the establishment of a Regulatory and Executive Committee to Understand and Reconsider Special Impacts On Nature.

Err, wait, ummm, it looks like we first need a R.E.C.U.R.S.I.O.N. to establish the R.E.C.U.R.S.I.O.N.
I don’t know but I’m interested in trying Qobuz. They have supposedly personalized recommendations but I don’t know if they’re any good or algorithmic vs editorial. That said one of the main appeals is they’re just focused on music rather than all audio or being one part of a giant bundle.
Customers do to some degree have a sense of ownership over the product. Marketers literally try to cultivate that "sense of ownership" factor. Especially where there's network effects, or a marketplace ecosystem forming. It very literally becomes a community and a standard.

More and more I think we'll see companies have to signal their intentions and be lightly bound to their community, or see those ecosystems form somewhere else instead.
it's worth noting though that during peacetime that requirements tend to be more stringent , but obesity is a real recruitment killer.
GrapheneOS on SafetyNet in Banking Apps
It maybe at good timing after the release of stable diffusion
It's good that Title VII doesn't identify mental illness or senility as protected classes for the purposes of employment, then.
they do have the advantage of being easy to recolor even as an external resource. I personally don't use them and instead use SVGs and there's always the decision of whether to add a bunch of inline svgs, which you can do cool effects and even transitions on for hover effects or light/dark mode, or using external images, which are nicer in terms of separation of concerns, re-use without having to update multiple places and not having graphics buried in the source code somewhere. It would be cool if we could even just have a simple CSS filter that replaces all non transparent parts of an externally embedded image with a single color.

of course there's other benefits like just having to load one file for all your icons, although the tradeoff is also that fonts are messier to update if you're doing custom stuff and not just fontawesome
Failed states are good for VC up to a point
Certain gates need to be kept. Not all gatekeeping is bad.
I use Namecheap and they have been fine. A lot of others on HN also use them. Some people didn't like it that they kicked off their Russian customers when Russia invaded Ukraine, but Namecheap has a lot of employees in Ukraine and it doesn't seem unreasonable to not provide service to places that are at war with where your employees are.

I've seen a lot of mention of Gandi on HN, mostly favorable.
>Additionally, most of the time web fonts are downloaded from a third-party delivery network such as Google Web Fonts or Adobe Fonts. One of the advantages of using these systems is that the likelihood that a visitor’s browser already has a font cached locally from a previous visit to any other site using the same font is relatively high.

That likelihood is relatively low (though not as low as JS CDNs). Modern browsers explicitly forbid sharing cache entries across websites; so the likelihood is zero now.

>There are some privacy concerns when your browser makes the link to the font network’s domain. While they deny the practice, these services have the ability of profiling your browser (using browser fingerprinting with your IP address and HTTP referer header) to track what sites you visit, building a valuable profile about you that they could sell to marketers.

Also, if you're in the EU, this constitutes an illegal GDPR data export if the company running the CDN has any amount of American ownership.

My personal opinion is that instead of blocking Google Web Fonts, we should have an extension with the entire Google Web Fonts library preloaded in it, that transparently redirects every font lookup to its local cache. This neatly fixes the privacy problems and makes all CDN fonts load super fast.
Two weeks ago I rented a BMW X5 that was a plug-in hybrid. I was blown away by the driving feel. But maybe that's to be expected for a BMW vehicle. But I also think it's a really good vehicle from the environmental point of view. It has a battery-only range of 31 miles. The typical daily commute in the US is about 40 miles, if you do that, you'd burn gas for less than 10 miles per day. If you are lucky and can charge at work, then if you commute less than 60 miles per day on electricity only. In other words, you could drive in electric mode 90% of your miles, if not more, and never have any range anxiety.
Having gone through a similar thing myself at the same age, I’ve since come to conclude that most education on offer just isn’t for me. I want to learn things well, not just well enough for an exam in an efficient time frame. Corollary: I want to learn things that are worth learning well.

Through this lens, much of conventional education feels like a desperate babysitting tactic to keep the young busy.

<rant>
For this reason I’m completely biased toward believing all of the positive stories about homeschooling coming out of the pandemic. The socialising argument against homeschooling has always seemed suspicious, and I completely buy that real socialising happens outside of the confines of school. From my own experience, this always feels true … extracurricular sports, music or out of school social events always seemed to be more meaningful and relevant than the classroom dynamic.

</rant>
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Pierre Menard Revisited
Yeah, how about preventing salt-water incursion in to building foundations from destroying buildings. How about retro-fitting subway tunnels to be resistant to storm surges?

I think the problem with this is that it is very optimistic. The costs of doing all this work has to outpace (by some margin) the economic value of the asset being protected multiplied by how long the asset will be protected for. For that equation to work out positively depends on climate change being slow and gradual, not rapid and sudden.

However, the CO2 outputs and temperature rises are exponential, not linear. Because they're a function of exponential population and economic growth.

Many in-place fixed assets which are vulnerable will simply be abandoned, and the huge infra projects will never be viable (or the window of viability passed decades ago).

You are already seeing it in New York (where no serious protection plan is in place) or Miami, where you're seeing deadly apartment building collapses because they couldn't spend $15m quickly enough to do the protection work (and, of course, if the apartment block was in a poor area and less profitable, it would never be economically viable to fix the problems).

Edit: just to say though, I think you are quite right, jobs related to this will increase, just wanted to point out that the economics of many of them are complex/fraught propositions.
Googling reveals all services are having recruitment problems after having good retention during covid. As always, military service is inversely proportional to economic opportunities. And unfortunately for the military, people have seen what their purpose is. Safer flipping burgers if you don’t need the benefits, have trouble to avoid or have a tradition of service coupled with difficulty attending college.
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I don't think that's the only way. There are other factors that go into choosing a power source. For example, they could offer cleaner power or the quantity of power available can also be factors.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32874290
I find it somewhat amusing that this is one setting that IE has always had in its GUI: https://i0.wp.com/improveandrepeat.com/wp-content/uploads/20...

Firefox has this setting built-in, gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled and browser.display.use_document_fonts, but AFAIK it's not configurable via GUI by default.

Chrome hides it even deeper in a command-line option, --disable-remote-fonts
I was just trying to play Ace Attorney on an emulator under Ubuntu 22.04. emulator locks up, appears to be a wayland issue. Anyone know one that will work?
> Except I'm terrified to imagine a world where Meta might have called police on me based on the output of a neural network image classification.

Don't worry, Google's already doing it. And destroying your digital life if you've put too much stuff in their care. With the characteristic Google customer service of "go fuck yourself".

https://archive.ph/W41mf
That hadn’t occurred to me at all (though I would have preferred blank cells to “N/A”).

But now that you mention it, it does seem a little odd.
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There's a singing group from Portland that used impulse-response recordings from Hagia Sophia to recreate old church music as it would have sounded back when it was controlled by the Eastern Orthodox church.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cappella_Romana

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VrJ8XOwJzw
Possibly? I expect we'll figure out how to do this with a high chance of success within the next few decades if not sooner, unless for some reason every country capable of supporting the research bans it.
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I think an example of a theoretical command line game would be one that a user would pipe a command though the shell in to the game and get the resulting output.

> ./game go_west_and_look | cat events.log
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It’s all I use but you can call it the “word window” for all I give a shit, nitpicking is just a synonym for argumentative+stubborn.

Inb4 you nitpick the definitions.