skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the case of Stable Diffusion vs OpenAI, a model was released to the public for anyone on earth to experiment with, creating a diverse ecosystem of ideas. There are thousands of use cases now that are being tested live on the open market -- a number that any single company would find incredibly difficult to compete with. Most ideas won't gain any footing, but some will. By the time those ideas gain popularity, OpenAI will only be left to copy them.

This is specifically with regards to Stable Diffusion vs DALL-E. I think OpenAI has plenty of breathing room when it comes to innovation in the broader spectrum of new AI applications. I think there might be some interesting discussions here regarding when it's a good idea to provide a cheap and available version of your offering vs when to provide a quality offering. Both definitely have their place in the market and can result in superior products, but right now to me it's not clear where that distinction should be drawn.
You should sell the swag. Apparently there are people across the country who buy/collect corporate swag. Especially swag of ones that are dead startups or failed businesses.
Shouldn’t these ratings be adjusted for number of graduates?

If a university graduates 100 Phds, and 80 get tenure that’s pretty good. If a university graduates 10,000 and 80 get tenure … not so much.
Yea but then they have to live in Ohio.
Don't confuse the Optane SSD products (worse binned media over a slower NVMe link) with the higher-performance (and more expensive) Optane Persistent Memory product. For the latter, the latency looks to be sub-microsecond (~100X? SSDs), bandwidth is ~3-5X SSDs, ~10X more endurance, and up to 10X more dense than DRAM (512GB sticks anyone?). Don't have a specific good source though, just from Googling.

I wasn't a marketing person, but I was on the engineering side.
Goal posts? Is this a competition?

The phone was sitting between two people having a conversation, one of them "swiped it open" meaning it was off to begin with, then was immediately displayed an ad for that conversation, and upon hearing this the tech-savvy person in the house understood what happened, confirmed it with the mic access to facebook in the settings, and then disabled the behavior.
For at least the first half of that, it was completely true. One single change to make crashing sites stop crashing the browser.

And, despite it being google - they don’t force me into the options menu to remove advertising off of my Home Screen, and have never forcibly installed extensions advertising TV shows.
The first season is slow but it really picks up.
My analytical mind over-rides gut instinct. Second order thinking that conceptualizes every possible permutation and what could go wrong & right given various inputs. Listen to your analytical mind.
We are a tech company and there is no one else in the C-level with technical knowledge, meaning every tech decision is my decision.
> How likely is it that any given node would be mapping out more than 2^64 bytes worth of virtual pages?

In the Grace Hopper whitepaper, NVIDIA says that they connect multiple nodes with a fabric that allows them to creat a virtual address space across all of them.
Agreed, this is also likely a high precision, low recall approach to avoid false positives ruining a player's career
The system to build ICE cars has been around for decades. Building ICE cars at the replacement rate represents the status quo. But now all of a sudden we have huge demand for resources not previously required - lithium, cobalt, manganese, and graphite. This means new mining operations spinning up all over the world. At the same time, this new market opportunity has led to a whole bunch of new EV companies making new factories, and major retooling efforts for existing factories.

These changes are tied to the demand for a resource intensive new product in a way which barely compares to the established production of ICE vehicles using supply chains that are decades old. With all that this requires, we can certainly spend a little time thinking about painting bike lanes and subsidizing ebikes. You can make 80-100 ebike batteries or you can make a single electric car battery. We should really consider how diversifying our transport infrastructure could facilitate a faster change to electric transport while reducing our impact on the natural world.

Note that I agree with you - if we are going to have cars then they should ideally be electric. But some people see EVs as kind of an ultimate solution, and those people are mistaken. Which is why I and many others are screaming about the need to look at transportation in a holistic way rather than a one size fits all "replace ICE with EVs" approach. Cars were never ideal to begin with, lets not perpetuate old mistakes with a new resource intensive type of car.
Still in Uni, I remember the first day, when I got the class wifi credentials, i found out one app i use was blocked. A basic messenger app. Why am I trying to be spooky, it's WhatsApp. Other sites like instagram, Twitter, Snapchat etc were also blocked. I used none of the other blocked sites. I still remember that as soon as I realised it, i installed orbot to tunnel my WhatsApp traffic through tor. It worked as expected. I don't have many people texting me, but when someone does it's usually urgent and not anything spam. So people noticed it and held me as some tech genius who defeated the system, little did they know I just dug the ground and made a tunnel. They still are distracted, sometimes, but it's fine. Atleast for me.
Oldschool solution that I have used many times is to setup an oldschool internal Wiki (can be hosted on anything). This gets used as an internal resource for everything (requires buy in from the right people obviously) and is actually quite useful. Very easy to get started and very easy for people to start creating entries.
A history of ARM, part 1: Building the first chip
Say it again!

https://imgflip.com/i/6ug8by
I like Fly but can't migrate my apps to them because they don't support cron jobs - they've been promising it for more than a year now: https://community.fly.io/t/recurring-scheduled-tasks-like-cr...
What? My house used 4 MWh a year in 2020, with two people working from home and two kids. Of these about half (IIRC) is self-produced solar. Stove and heating are gas and I do not have a tumble dryer, but does that justify a 10x difference??
Unless the servers are doing machine learning, in which case that falls under the Department of Education.
I thought they had already one, with Michael Morell's podcast. /s

https://art19.com/shows/intelligence-matters
> Ezno's type checker is built from scratch. Getting the features I wanted requires a lot of different functionality and needed several new ideas that as far as I know aren't present in any type-system or existing checkers.

I would disagree this is a TypeScript compiler. It's a mostly-typescript-compatible compiler/type-checker.

The Typescript team iterate on it reasonably quickly. If you fall behind as the Typescript team adds new features, and you cannot check that code, is it still "Typescript"?
Webb telescope high resolution images
I wonder how hard it would be to port this to illumos. I think all the underlying technology is already there (bhyve, mostly), although I suspect the networking tools are different enough that that would require some work.

Edit: I wrote this about wifibox, although reskimming over the page a lot of the rest of the advice really does work there as well. In broad strokes, this page really does amount to a list of ways to get Wi-Fi or at least network access if your operating system doesn't natively support the Wi-Fi card actually in your laptop. Even running Linux in a virtual machine with the hardware passed through would probably work on ex. Haiku just with the details changed.
Also more recently, he made Protohackers! https://protohackers.com/
Well, I don't think the intended message of The Wire is "adopt the CCP's anti-corruption measures." That's editorialization on our part as viewers.

I also don't think the show has a particularly anti-individual message: individual police officers and drug dealers are repeatedly shown as struggling within a collectively dysfunctional system, and individual members of each group are shown as themselves corrupt while being protected by the collective. The show is more nihilistic than proscriptive, other than the small handful of "successes" that occur (like Hamsterdam).
"People don't always tell you what they're thinking." -Hannibal Lecter
> In other news, a former CCP top government minister was just sentenced to death for corruption

Maybe it's a cynical view, but I wouldn't be surprised if anticorruption laws were used to get rid of someone for other reasons, especially by corrupt people.
R/RimWorld have been chronicling the story of “cancer man”
RimWorld is a video game that is part colony builder, part life sim. I feel that games like RimWorld or Dwarf Fortress emphasize storybuilding, and sometimes, fun narratives arise.

/r/RimWorld has been getting updates of a particular character in a player's game, nicknamed "Cancer Man." The man has a lot of cancer. https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comments/xcopjk/cancer_man...

This has spread to updates on his condition (https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/search/?q=cancer+man&inclu...), his victory in a local election (while still being in a coma) and his getting a girlfriend. The story is still ongoing.

Felt that HN might appreciate something fun that's arising out of a video game in real time.
And because it was the CCP, we'll never know if that news is state propaganda or truth... .

He might have just been the honest fall guy who promoted too much social harmony to the detriment of his superiors lifestyles
I'd say LibreWolf, Tor, Pale Moon, etc are not browsers based on Gecko. They are forks of Firefox with some modifications.

The interface looks exactly the same.

If you look for "embedding Gecko", all the documentation seems to be archived/deprecated. It doesn't seem to be supported by Mozilla anymore. And it was never easy.
Then they should maintain it themselves, or pay the maintainers what they are asking for
> American culture, and to a lesser extent Western culture in general, encourages this kind of corruption. If your culture elevates individualism and freedom above social responsibility and harmony, then your institutions will be systemically corrupted by selfish individuals.

Which culture are you suggesting does not get systematically corrupted by selfish individuals?
The logical conclusion is to try to get away from needing to drive to work at all.
The IQ test is a test, people good at taking tests are good at taking tests. This doesnt rise to the level of a theory of intelligence, nor evidence that IQ measures it.

A vast amount of "mere statistical" research is pseudoscience; entire fields. It requires a lot of experience in hard scientific methodology, and an actual education in statistics. A lot of experimental sciences attract people interested in the experiments who just plug data into models and report the results.

The vast majority of such "research" is pseudoscience, and it's one massive house of cards. Most "heritability" research, population genetics research, psychometrics, psychology, nutrition, etc. is pseudoscience.

The whole type of statistics that has basically been invented by the social sciences is the basis for massive amounts of pseudoscience. Factor analysis, propensity scores, correlation coefs, etc. -- it's just an analysis of correlation.

Such is the poverty of thinking in these "social sciecnes" that they arent trained enough to realise that a model of correlations in effects isnt a model of their causes, not even nearly so. And this is esp. sevre in the case of complex systems like humans and animals.

All of the methods of IQ research are simple models of correlations in quiz answers. They do not rise to the level of a theory of anything, and their use is routinely circular and unethical.
Rust's standard library String implements AddAssign, the effect of which is that the += operator exists, in effect a += b is sugar for AddAssign::add_assign(&mut a, b)

Personally I would rather it didn't, but the use of + as a concatenate operator is widespread and I imagine if String didn't do this a popular BetterString would.

No, the Rust for Linux String doesn't have push_str(), see for yourself: https://rust-for-linux.github.io/docs/alloc/string/struct.St... that String also has no way to do infallible reserve(), and doesn't implement Write among other differences.
If the switch proves anything it's that you don't have to pay $1600 for a GPU to enjoy amazing games. Or the other way round, if you pay $1600 for a gpu it does not mean that you'll be able to play any good games.
That's not "advising against" milk, they just put it together with others in a group called "protein foods", where it belongs.

From the guidelines [0]:

"Vegetables, fruit, whole grains, and protein foods should be consumed regularly. Among protein foods, consume plant-based more often.
Protein foods include legumes, nuts, seeds, tofu, fortified soy beverage, fish, shellfish, eggs, poultry, lean red meat including wild game, lower fat milk, lower fat yogurts, lower fat kefir, and cheeses lower in fat and sodium." (Italics mine)

[0] https://food-guide.canada.ca/en/guidelines/appendix-b-summar...
How the Science of Consciousness Informs Ethics
Also, it's often the case that you can't collect all the relevant information from your starting point.

Sometimes once you start moving in one direction, any direction at all, you gain more perspective on what the right decision is.

So it's important to maintain flexibility and be able to update your decisions.
Hi GPT3, I didn't expect to see you here.
Definitely not safer (perhaps even more dangerous due to its unexpected semantics), but I do think it's slightly newer. It doesn't appear in K&R 1st edition, released in 1978, but does appear in K&R 2nd edition from 1988.

OpenBSD claims it first appeared in Version 7 Unix, which was released in 1979.

https://man.openbsd.org/strncat.3
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Version_7_Unix
This is why we have so much food waste - things are running way above 100% all the time, and failures bring us closer to 100%
That was my first thought too. I was going to post "Tsk tsk, going slow in the middle lane, making people pass you on the right" but then noticed it was in the UK.
> Why then have harvard and cambridge graduated such a incredibly large fraction of the worlds most productive and famous scientists and mathematicians?

They didn't graduated most of them, they employed them, (e.g. the most recent Nobel recipient Penrose).

Out of 121 Nobel recipients from Cambridge most came from universities you never heard of.

Also: funding.

Academia works like that: the more you publish the more money you get => the more you can research and publish => the more money you get and so on.

Thus hubs that historically did well, will keep attracting more funds and outscore other universities.
I was reading some tech article the other day. Something like 10 best Foos or something. And there was no date on it. A commenter said, great article but no date, and the author replied that the page was refreshed with evergreen content. You'd have had to be a mind reader to know that. But I guess at least I got my answer via a little Q and A on the page.
Interesting. So I assume there are at least both basic and thread-safe versions of basic types like string/list/vector/map ?

Is there any provision for building your own thread-safe types (e.g. a structure composed of other types) out of non-thread-safe types and mutexes, and if so how does that work in terms of compile-time errors ?
How are you coordinating the topics? Maybe by voice within earshot of a phone with Meta apps?
It would have been good for the ecosystem to spin up around Firefox or WebKit, either would have been a less problematic entity than Blink.
CCP China is your example of an uncorrupt culture?

From my personal experience in China I can tell you that it's standard practice to hand paper bags full of cash to government officials (and CCP members) in order to get government contracts.

Xi targeting his political rivals with "corruption" charges hasn't changed this culture.
Except the employee is paid for travel, transportation, food, and lodging.

A while back when I was working at a company that had significant spending in GCP, we'd get free tickets to Next. My director basically said that there wasn't any expectation for the employees he was sending to learn or network, it was basically a semi-vacation. Kind of makes sense honestly.
The author himself does not call it a TypeScript compiler.
Just to clarify, but recognizing the OP is probably referring to ongoing use:

- CIA will consider you if you smoked marijuana in the past, up until 90 days before applying -- or after applying.

- CIA will consider you if you have used illicit drugs up until a year prior to applying at CIA.

https://www.cia.gov/cia-requirements/
> One of the key ideas with Ezno is that it attempts "maximum" knowledge of a source

I've been working on a new TypeScript-like language myself from scratch, which among other things takes this approach. Mine can do some of the numeric stuff shown here, but I'm jealous of (inspired by? :)) some of the crazier stuff going on here, like usage-based argument types and tracing not just value shapes but value reference identities

The "automatic generics" feature in particular is absolutely bonkers. It never even occurred to me that you could do that. I'm wondering if there are unforeseen edge-cases, but also wishing I had it at work. Clunky generics syntax is one of the worst parts of TypeScript, even while generic function types are one of its best parts.

Wow, and side-effects-tracking too! Amazing

I am curious whether some of these checks will be limited by JavaScript's dynamism. Part of why I'm doing mine as a new language is that JavaScript's semantics are just way too flexible to form some of the guarantees I feel like you need for some of this aggressive inference. But now I'm questioning that.

Either way, this is insanely impressive. Definitely not just yet-another-JavaScript-toolchian.
The std::optional in MSVC was implemented in a language considerably behind current C++, for obvious reasons. The need to use template metaprogramming in implementations is much less, today.
> a similar section wrt the compiler he is using, because he's talking about "behavior undefined by C but defined by implementation"

That's called implementation-defined behavior. And there is a section in C that lists all the implementation-defined behavior, and all the compilers are supposed to document what they define the implementation-defined behavior to be (glares at Clang).
I don’t see how anyone could watch the opening scene of The Wire and not be compelled to watch the rest of it.
If only there were a way to encourage upwards of 50% of trips to be done via methods that take a tiny fraction of the energy with no or negligible battery without invasive freedom limiting legislation just by spending roughly as much as EV manufacturers have received in subsidy on infrastructure.

Oh well. Guess we'll have to give another billion to elon.
My point isn't that we should actually shrink EV batteries and use the excess for stationary storage, my point is that car batteries as a demand-leveling mechanism is not likely to be an optimal solution.

That said, it's not something that's really happening right now anyway, so the "power your home with your car at night" idea seems unlikely to take off unless there is a (possibly misguided) legislative push for it.
Then let me introduce you to https://0ver.org/.
Indeed. We should be doing both
Hi, author here! I wish I had a solution to this problem! The idealistic side of me wants everyone to "think critically". Of course if all humans were critical about the decisions they made and their effects on the systems around them (organizations, society, environment), we probably wouldn't have wars and global warming.

So that won't scale beyond the individual, which might be acceptable from a Stoic perspective but I doubt that's the solution you're looking for.

Oren Ellenborgen shared my post in today's edition of Software Lead Weekly [1], and in his summary of the post he suggests using Key Failure Indicators (KFIs) to counterbalance Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). From what I understand, the idea is that you observe metrics of success but you also observe metrics of health, and take action if the former starts degrading the latter.

For example, if you want to deliver features more quickly, you might measure the time between a change is submitted for review and the time it's deployed. But if you're concerned that this could degrade quality, you could also measure the number of defects that are identified. If defects increase as delivery time decreases, this indicates the success metric is causing some undesirable behavior. Hope this helps.

[1] https://softwareleadweekly.com/issues/513
As I've gotten older, I tend to value the latter.

Definitely a good perspective to keep in mind. But at Facebook scale, if a billion people flip an actually fair coin 10 times, around a million of them will get 10 heads. It would be understandable for those people to conclude that the coin is biased, but they'd be wrong.
Teaching Paradox, Crusader Kings III, Part IIa: Rascally Vassals
We should install solar panels over those lots at the same time. It covers some of the capacity need, cools the lot and the cars, and is an efficient use of space.
> generally has to serve the interests of its constituents, ie the fuckup mayor or do nothing member of the county commissioners board will eventually be called out, shamed in public, and lose reelection.

You mean the same local government where I grew up that within my still living parents lifetime enforced Jim Crow laws?

Or do you mean the local government where I live now that specifically said that “religious institutions” can be put up in residential areas but are twisting in all sorts of contortions trying to keep a Hindu temple out?

Or could it be the same state governments that are banning abortion left and right even though it goes against the wishes of their constituents?

Maybe it’s the same local government that condones police stopping minorities far more than non minorities because they “look suspicious”?

On the other hand the residence of Orange County Florida are definitely not in favor of Desantis forcing them (soon us) to take over control of Disney.

I know this not just because of what I heard on the news. Orange County will soon be our legal residence and where we spend the winter (the rest of the time traveling). I thought if nothing else, you could count on conservatives to be good for business and lower taxes. The stunt that the Florida governor did is good for nothing but his own ego.
American culture is much less corrupt when compared to the rest of the real world, instead of being compared to a hypothetical corruption-free world.
Crazy concept: instead of banning cars, forcing electric cars, mandating specific efficiency, etc... we _could_ work towards a world less dependent on personally owned vehicles. And yet, huge companies will continue to just get a pass for forcing people to commute to jobs to sit on a computer all day.
If data is a product, what is production?
So Mozilla didn't implement a deprecated API that would have made video 500% faster on the largest video site on the planet.

... That sounds like it's on Mozilla.
It's possible that the client blindly fetches a mapping from keyword to ads, saw the keyword client-side, then requested the ad.
What are are you using that much power for? I can’t think of much that uses that much per that you can shift to time of day pricing, perhaps pottery kilns?

Even 2MWh per month is enough to drive 2 EV’s around 50,000 miles per year each. If you’re very flexible with time of day rooftop solar could probably save you quite a bit.