skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost all of the consoles in the third world country I was in were originally bought from Europe.
This is going to fall flat when you try to use multithreading. The GIL will rear its head.
FTA: Why is sqlite3 so slow?

My money is that’s mostly because it actually stores the data. I don’t think dbm guarantees any of the data written makes it to disk until you sync or close the database.

This writes, guesstimating, on the order of 100 kilobytes, so chances are the dbm data never hits the disk.
Patagonia’s pricing and quality can hardly be considered fast fashion! If you think it is contributing to the global oversupply of clothing the what do you propose instead? No clothing unless it is $1000/item and lasts forever?

I think you need to reevaluate whether it is truly a spade you are calling a spade or whether your feelings about an entire industry lead you to denigrate every actor, including those imperfect actors who actually show leadership in the industry. Again, what standard do you need to see met in order to be satisfied?
Right, so one one might use a more specific expression if they were talking about the parental responsibilities of their own future child. Again, you're trying to argue against the well-understood meaning of a colloquialism that most English speaking adults understand.

Your observation that words being said in the corporate world may be interpreted differently than in the bedroom is not a meaningful one and just comes off as uneducated, if I have to be honest. Communication in the corporate world is often deliberately vague, congratulations on your groundbreaking discovery.
This is only half true. From Wikipedia [1], the name did originally stand for Magic The Gathering Online eXchange, but the domain was only used for that purpose for a couple months in 2007.

When it launched as a Bitcoin exchange in 2010, the unused domain was "Mt. Gox" from the beginning.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Gox#Founding_(2006%E2%80...
Is there any other source than the NYpost?
noc.org looked great to me, then I started clicking around and all I got what raw PHP files! for example, the homepage:

<?php

$content_canonical = "https://noc.org/";
$content_ogtype = "website";

include "includes/header.php";
?>
<!-- Mashead header-->
<header class="masthead">
<div class="container px-5">
<div class="row gx-5 align-items-center">
<div class="col-lg-6">
<!-- Mashead text and app badges-->
<div class="mb-5 mb-lg-0 text-center text-lg-start">
It's a good load balancer for sure, but that doesn't help the poor sod who is in the minority who has to wait for ages simply for not needing to go the same direction as the majority.
But the owner before the Sikh Empire was the Durrani Empire before which was the Afsharids before which was the Mughals. So is it India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Iran, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, or Turkmenistan if using the broadest definition of a successor state. And "federal government holds it as stewards of the people" would piss off a subset of voters in both Punjabs, JK, Himachal, Haryana, Delhi, Chandigarh, and KPK - all states that have mixed feelings with their federal government. Elections tend to be very close in multi-party parliamentary systems (both for federal elections and local elections).
Incidentally, the acquisition was about 10% of Adobe's market cap
It's interesting how Jeffrey Sachs has been pounding the table on this. He's not someone who can easily be dismissed as a fringe figure.

It's odd how little sense of urgency seems to exist around this question. The possibility SARS-CoV-2 was created in a lab is pretty widely acknowledged as possible or even likely, and yet the idea that transparency would be demanded of these labs or that anyone could be held accountable has almost no traction at all.
The problem with ancient history as that you never really knew what happened and exactly how many people died. Europeans certainly weren't the first empire to lay claim to India. Warfare, invasions and famine are as old as human history. India is one of the oldest civilised parts of the world so has had its fair share of all https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_India
Numbers lost all meaning...
Missing the point: dismissing an apocalyptic possibility as 0 without proof is dangerous -> therefore we should take it seriously. Taleb's work is relevant in the concept of risk analysis.
Decades.
> I guess you have to go pretty far out of your way to buy, for example, airfare with a cryptocurrency or make otherwise really inconvenient trade-offs.

Eh, not that hard really. Expedia started accepting Bitcoin in 2014.

https://www.expedia.com/Checkout/BitcoinTermsAndConditions

> "cryptobros" seem curiously keen on people like me buying into the ecosystem, and appear to be very generously interested in helping me go "to the moon" etc

Yeah fuck those people. I've been in the space since 2009 and I've never once recommended to any friends or family to invest in cryptocurrencies, and in my experience, the vast majority of people in the space are the same way. The "get rich quick" types who treat all of life like one big MLM have always been reviled, but none of that is unique to cryptocurrencies. Shady hucksters and con men have always existed, and always will.
At this point, I'm numb from all of the AI overhype. I was extremely excited about DALL-E and convinced myself that concrete fruits of the AI revolution were finally here... until a few seconds after I got the chance to try some queries myself. Ditto Copilot.

The recent progress on generative models is a major research achievement, to be sure. That said, I'm not sure what it means it "terraform society," but so far AI shows no signs of making the same magnitude of impact on society as, say, the S-tier technological advances of the 20th and early 21st centuries, such as the personal computer, Internet, smartphone, or atomic bomb. That all may change if we get AGI that actually works, of course.
Ok but body size also corresponds somewhat closely with what we call intelligence within similar classes of animal.

Great apes are smarter than small apes. Big birds are generally smarter than small birds. Elephants are smarter than deer.
Is this still true in hyperbolic geometry, where the circumference of a circle of radius r is greater than 2.pi.r?
Math is presented in a way that's supposed to be organized, compact, and categorical. If we taught math the same way math was proven and discovered, it would be so slow and inefficient that we would still be covering linear algebra in post grad.

As an analogy: The 1,000th person to climb Mt. Everest takes a well defined path that has already been mapped out as the most efficient path to the top. If every single person had to go through the treachery of finding the dead ends, cliffs, crevices, and death traps that the first few climbers endured, it would be a journey only a few could accomplish.

Most people (computer scientists, engineers, chemists, physicists) using math only need to reach the top and see the view from the peak. The few climbers that are really dedicated to climbing (ie, the math researchers who reach the frontier of math) will naturally learn about the rest of the jagged, unmapped landscape as they climb harder and unconquered mountains.
I can't find xboneslife's comment to reply to, so replying here

> You can just put the same price on debris addition.

Indeed. A small tax that matches the cost of debris capture payment + minor administrative overhead would encourage the outcome that junk isn't thrown into unrecoverable orbit.
Yes, because you can easily know the owners of every American corporation today.[0] This policy was updated in December of 2021.

But, again, completely irrelevant to the broader topic of conversation, privacy.

[0] https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-releases/fact-sheet-benefic...
Yup, that's a lot closer to the kind of numbers I would have expected. And if you look at peak it's probably at least 10k tps for each of them.
What mechanism do you believe they could use to destroy the hundred of satellites necessary to destroy the constellation?
YouTube ads appear to be ramping up, with as many as 10 unskippable ads
I'm not enough of a power user to use a lot of the more advanced & unique features of photoshop, but a few years back I switched to Gimp & Inkscape for managing product photos & wire diagrams of things I need to laser cut. It's a bit more clunky and too a few weeks to learn the differences enough to get done what I needed to, but by now I have no need for any paid product much less one from a corporation that was a nightmare to deal with.

For anyone looking for an alternative I'd highly recommend checking out these alternatives. Especially with the devoted communities that provide a wide range of plugins it's possible to map a lot (not all) use cases onto these alternatives.

I'm not sure there are similar alternative to things like lightroom & after effects, and it may be that Adobe's ability to have a tight integration of the production pipeline through these produces can't easily be duplicated. But if your needs a little simpler, check these out.
Hold my beer. -- Adobe
Instability and Software’s Opportunity – Alex Karp and Stanley Druckenmiller
>Kotick and additional investors bought Mediagenic for approximately $500,000 in 1991.

Wow,that's one hell of a successful investment.
Color me surprised that the person claiming to have enjoyed a crypto game is trying to shill a different crypto game
It depends on why you use them. I use BunnyCDN which is fine for my usage. I use my own video transcoding servers (hosted on Netcup for suuuper cheap). I use Render for my applications. I use Cloudflare for a proxy, but could probably replace it in a week or so using Go + Caddy + a VPS of some kind and it would probably be fine for my use case.

It really depends on your use case and volume.
I mean, this is an issue with tech companies while Trump and his pile of paper documents has nothing to do with tech? If it makes you feel any better, talking a lot about Trump--even saying negative things about him--probably only helps him anyway.
C'mon man, of course an iGPU is gonna do poorly with PC games.

It absolutely does matter that integrated GPU's have usually been terrible at running games, and that one is no exception.
If you're willing to have two logins rather than one, your options are practically limitless. Get DNS from one provider, CDN from another, problem solved. There's even a decent chance your registrar offers DNS, which means you're not adding an extra login (unless CloudFlare's also your registrar)

If you must have DNS bundled with the other stuff, your options are... way less limitless.
> couldn't turn his shares into cash

Isn't there this thing businesses do sometimes that's called "going public", where one puts their share of the ownership on the market for sale, in return for which they receive cash?

Why would that not have been possible for this ancient guy too?
Decree that it be split equally among all invested parties, Judgment of Solomon style.

(Though in this case, they may end up having to follow through, i.e. cutting their baby into equal parts.)
It IS a sad world that this is the normal. No respect.
I'm exactly the same as you @danielvaughn.

I like Figma but everything in the design tools space feels like it light years behind dev tool. Particularly around anything to do with tokens.

Tokens are just variables. Ideally you should be able to reference one token with another token (ala variables) and NO DESIGN TOOL DOES THIS. It's maddening.
I don't see anything 'has government' related in your quote there so now I know you're just full of shit.
I have been thinking about this the other day, and I think buyouts and mergers should be illegal.
I have considered this already. That does not solve anything here, for the reasons you have mentioned yourself.

To the extent that it is broken in world-of-warcraft, it will be more broken here because there will be fees associated with playing, so players will be incentivised to make the most of their money by cheating and trying to optimize the smallest possible "proof".

Eventually, so many people will cheat that the actual game is considered to be a minor nusance. It's like TF2 idle servers. You incentivise players to not play the game.
It was absolutely the fault of the British. The partition lines were drawn by lawyer with little to no inputs from experts.
Pretty neat. I'll have to try and do something with it. I mainly do Blender animations, so this will be new to me. Looks like a nice interface.
There was a stable economy time where there weren’t continual “buff patches” dumping more and more items, and it was a good time.
I think you're too hung up on the name. My memory's a little fuzzy, and I'm no expert here, but in that day the question was one of CPU architecture and the path forward. Risc put forth the idea that reducing the instruction set would open up more doors in your silicon/design budget to produce faster CPUs compared to ever more elaborate instructions which hope shrink the total instruction counts.

It was always about architecture not (at least mostly) about interface. I'm not sure how much this dichotomy really plays out in the present, I think the architectural lessons have been learned and applied everywhere.

That's how I was taught it atleast.
Makes sense! Looks like google fu failed me again!
Which, ironically, doesn't work for that page. You end up in a loop rather than getting to philosophy.
Ask HN: Why do I have to call for cancellation?
I ran a network & voice refresh project for a national financial institution a few years ago; during the RFT some vendors pitched a stress analysis element for the contact center & IVR systems. The institution demurred, citing (amongst other concerns) the likelihood of it being gamed.
" Why you need to contact us

We need to speak with you directly in order to process your cancellation request and ensure you are informed of any details relating to your account changes."

this is BS.
At the time he spoke, that was the general assumption.

In terms of Clarke's ability to predict the future? I think he proved his prescience enough to take his words seriously.
People would search by “best I can equip” and you caught a whale.
Any website that's asking for your permission upfront is not getting informed and specific consent; it's getting general consent.

A decently-designed website would just tell you it's about to set a cookie with a “more info” link. If you choose to go ahead, that's informed specific consent.

Besides, under the GDPR companies can collect and store personal data without needing consent if it's for one of the listed permitted purposes. They only need consent at all if they have no good reason to collect the data — consent is really supposed to be the excuse of last resort.
But which Afghanistan - the Taliban or the basically nonexistent Government in Exile?
They responded to my comment: it's an integrated GPU, and not one of the decent ones.

The CPU is an ultrabook-class i3 too, of course games play terribly. This is a surprise to exactly zero people.
Show HN: GenerationQ – Open Source Desktop GUI for Stable Diffusion and others
GenerationQ started as a weekend project soon after the Stable Diffusion release: I was inspired by the spirit of good will and the flurry of activity and wanted to contribute something from my particular skillset.

The problem I wanted to solve had 3 parts:

1) For people without a fast GPU (like myself) running SD takes several minutes for a single small image: to alleviate this annoyance, I wanted to be able to queue up a bunch of image generation tasks and have something process that queue automatically.

2) I wanted a pleasing to look at, enjoyable to interact with UI for creating / managing these generation tasks, reviewing results, and maintaining a "gallery". I also wanted a way to make quick doodles in-app for img2img.

3) There are a wide variety of slightly different scripts / CLI args for running these image generation models, even just for Stable Diffusion. So I wanted a UI design that could be stable across these variations and near-future developments. I think it'll be useful even for those actively testing new scripts/models.

NOTE: this is not yet fully functional for actual image generation: I did the parts that require specialized knowledge around UI/UX/JS-frontend-stuff/Electron since I imagine there are a lot of people with complementary skills who don't want to mess with that stuff but would like to hack on something with a nice UI already in place.

I have also never really done anything with open source, so this is partly an experiment for me to see what that's like... happy to receive any suggestions/advising from the community!
If you don't have a dog and have ever considered adopting one, I'd recommend it - especially if you're expecting to spend a good percentage of that time alone. Forces you out of the house regularly, gives you something to focus your attention and they really do give back 100%.
Found an openai writeup introducing clip. Too much going on (for me) to summarize usefully. It tries to do single-shot classification with less pretraining maybe?? Maybe not quite "transfer laarning" but something more adaptable someway...

https://openai.com/blog/clip/
As a user,this is a feature and a positive.
> The type of global reform that makes a high earning tech worker's smart phone double in price will also have millions of people pushed back into poverty or outright starvation.

I don't see any reason to believe this, nor any justification of that statement in the rest of your comment. Is it really so hard to believe that some of those at the top can lose a little bit of luxury, and the rest of the world can gain access to progressive economics, at the same time?

> it's a bit late to put that genie back in the bottle now

If we don't, the physical principle of conservation of mass will do it for us. We are demonstrably running out of the materials we need to continue down this path, both specifically with respect to artificial fertilizer as well as more generally with the finite resources available within reach given current and near-future technologies. Which approach do you think will cause less suffering: preparing for a dearth of resources that we can see coming before it happens, or waiting until people are dying of starvation en masse to start thinking about it?
For remote access? KVM has saved my ass many times
> Once you create a system that can automatically create those systems...

Except we don't have that. We don't have one human that can create this system by themselves. We have a choice group of a handful of smart, motivated, and quite generously compensated humans working on these problems to create such system. As such, you are already surpassing the "general" intelligence level by quite a lot.
I think you are oversimplifying in a way that eludes the point OP was trying to make.

Or rather two points. First that the process of actually creating mathematics is messy and largely made up as it goes along. I can create a new mathematical structure that turns out to not be very useful, etc. Secondly that the way math is taught typically hides this, and creates a very linear "greatest hits" approach which is misleading.

You are correct that one of the things that has come out of centuries of studying mathematics are clear definitions of abstract objects that almost have to have been found; but the day-to-day isn't that.

On the other hand, how something is taught and how it is practised often aren't that close to each other. Part of the reason the pedagogy looks the way it does is to distill centuries of thought and argument into a few credit hours.
Yes, I'm paranoid and privileged, that's why a single point of failure doesn't result in me going bankrupt. Can I cry into some $100 bills? You can dish out the hate and I can keep on keepin on enjoying my lavish privilege of having backup plans. The only thing better than boosting my ego is boosting my bank account as I draw pictures of Scrooge McDuck while my soul nourishes on the insults of HN'ers (hopefully I incorporated them all here, I lost count).
What difference does that make? Their arguments are similar in both cases. HTML and embedded media increase security risks and can lower accessibility. Rich text isn't that great anyways, nobody needs it. Just use periods instead of bullet points. Why would anyone want to make different headings or make some text bold? Completely superfluous. Plain text should be all you need, in every medium.

Why should you bother using markup on a webpage? How do those reasons never apply to sending an email?
> If I and my grandma and everyone's grandma would use Proof of Work cryptocurrencies to buy peanuts at the supermarket, PoW energy usage would probably rival that of China.

You don't understand how any of this works, do you?
> Although using dark patterns is illegal, the laws are not enforced enough, so many websites get away with it.

The problem with consent pop-ups isn't the European law; it's the failure to properly enforce it.
Doesnt it take power from the slot?
One thing not discussed are the libraries used for command-line parsing (parsing argv), and how that might get complicated by shells trying to make the command-line into something effectively more than an array of strings.

Having written a non-trivial command-line parser in C, and having used a bunch of them in other languages, it seems to me that this task would benefit from some more standardization and maturation. What is the JSON of the command-line? How can we do to increase the level of interoperability between how information is encoded on different tools' command-lines? e.g. think of ImageMagick "convert" versus "find" versus "ffmpeg": totally different universes, but all of them in their own way turn command-line arguments into mini-DSLs.
> Cloudflare has been taking a more expansive view of a CDN, but bunny.net seems to be going in that direction as well. They're offering CDN, DNS, storage, and video so far.

I think most CDNs are at least trying to do this. I suspect the margins on nice-to-haves attached to CDN are way higher than heavily-commidified CDN on its own. Plus it gives you a deeper moat and much stronger lock-in.
No, Segphault literally addressed why Markdown with Liquid is not the same as Markdoc on a processing level. “Custom tags processed by [thing that is not Markdown]” != “Markdown superset that makes custom tags first-class entities”. Either your template processor is run before the Markdown processor and outputs Markdown, or it’s run after the Markdown processor and outputs HTML. Neither one is doing what Markdoc is doing. Markdoc parses to an AST; “Markdown + [other thing]” does not. The difference may be immaterial in some use cases, including yours, but it’s still a difference.
I need something I can pay a fair amount for, that provides DNS service and HTML and file asset acceleration. I want to switch the proxy on, let it offload as much of the traffic from the original source server as possible, and forget about it. My clients should be able to control their DNS on their own, on let us do it for them. They should only have access to their own domains.
This, and every acquisition Autodesk has ever made.
Particularly on mobile, where lots of small links next to each other is a minefield. I went to click the winning link one match only to click the line below, causing me to quit playing.
If Patagonia disappeared tomorrow, the world would not run out of quality clothing. That would be a bold sustainability move!
I sort of mixed up risk and gamble in that analogy. I stand by the part that many games fall on a spectrum between “game” and “gamble”. counter strike, wow, eve online are games with a gambling element: loot boxes, skins, etc. Poker is a gamble with a game element, e.g, bluffing. Slot machines aren’t games at all.

I think cryptokitties is somewhere between Poker and Slot machines.