skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume the web port of BII should work, though?

https://jamesfriend.com.au/projects/basiliskii/BasiliskII-wo...
When the greybeards go, I'll probably moved to OpenBSD. I don't want to sell their development skills short, but I have less faith in the generation of devs replacing them. They have learned seemingly a small amount of fundamentals from their predecessors, as indicated by continuous bloat and inefficiency in the name of 'thats just how we do things now', in a derisive tone of 'get with the times', often ignoring the sacrifices being made in the process for often marginal gain.

The bellwether for me was when logs became binary blobs rather than plaintext.
OK, so people complain that Stable Diffusion and friends are trained on art so it's not fair to ask them to produce graphs because graphs are not art. So I asked them to produce artistic graphs.

Here are the results of the prompts "a graph with 3 lines in the style of X" where X in {Rembrandt, jackson pollock, studio ghibli, escher, van gogh}:

https://imgur.com/a/JW5c4in

So now we're producing art!

Art that's nothing like the prompt.
All I’m hearing are justifications and rationalizations for lawlessness and selfishness. At least corporations are transparent about their motives - greed. With piracy, the pretzels people twist themselves into in order to justify their actions are astounding to me. Why can’t any of there pirates here admit they are just selfish and feel like they are above the law? At least it would be honest.
The war machine is counted in GDP, so war is good (for GDP).
Or, for that matter:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKP0aoXaQJo
What UBI skeptics want to know is:

- where is the proof that we can afford to tax ourselves to pay ourselves,

- where is the proof that it won't hurt long term productivity,

- and where is the proof that it doesn't cause inflation.

A 100-person 12-month trial program of $600 a month funded by a non-profit or small township can't answer any of these questions. They can keep repeating these studies in small towns across America but it simply doesn't provide any answers to these questions.

Giving people free money, with no strings attached, in a situation where neither taxes or inflation will rise as a result will have positive results, but we don't need studies to confirm this. It doesn't prove we can afford it because these studies are small and funded by the study group instead of taxes or government money printing. It doesn't prove people won't stop working because no one will quit their job due to temporary income from an explicitly short term study. And finally, it doesn't prove inflation isn't a concern because of their small scale.
Near/far/wherever you are...
Very cool. I got MinivMac running on the Raspberry Pi — with a 7" LCD display I made pretty convincing "classic Mac" running on modern hardware.

I may have to revisit it. I was able to get THINK C installed and was trying to figure out again how to open/compile one of the old apps that I had written back in the late 80's. The thought of writing Mac "Toolbox" code again, using ResEdit is hilarious to me.

EDIT: wow, guy has some great 1-bit art too [1]. MinivMac Raspberry Pi on the workbench [2].

[1] https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2021/03/22/asanegami-morning...

[2] https://imgur.com/XgnGYH9
Company domain: $50/mo pricing for breaching the linkedin ToS and filling the platform with more spam. A 30% cash share affiliate program.

Personal domain: get success quick "giving away my secrets" newsletter sign up, bold claims.

Project: designed to virally spam on LinkedIn and dodge abuse protections. Repeated claims of safety, no disclaimer related to its reality.

Flagged.
except for planes
So, if the engine isn't designed to deal with embrittlement, one suspects a shorter lifespan?

I love my two TDI diesel cars, and I hope that capitalism finds the diversity to satisfy the market for the electric-nonplussed among us.
It's not surprising to anyone that handing people free money improves those people's lives.

That's entirely missing the point of any criticism of UBI ?
Reducing NOx emissions would be great, odd they don't mention particulates, since they seem to me to be one of the worse aspects of diesel engines[1] (and I'd expect that burning 90% less diesel should mean a similar drop in particulates).

1: https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/resources/summary-diesel-particulate-...
I think the menu trend makes sense. "Vegetarian" has so many permutations that I think it'd be hard for a restaurant to mark a dish that way. "Vegan" has a much more well defined definition.
I worked for a small precision optics company that made components for their development efforts. We made machines for fabricating unconventional optics for both MIC and commercial/consumer-oriented manufacturers. We thought it had a low likelihood of meeting the performance specifications at a reasonable cost.
I thoroughly enjoyed this movie when I came out. And have watched it several times since. I often wonder if I’d like it even more if I knew the first thing about The New Yorker.

I wish I caught all of those references to French cinema mentioned in TFA. I nonetheless love Anderson’s style. I just eat it up like soup.
Neat concept. Although I do think the homepage could maybe be improved. The main thing is it contains pretty minimal and vague information which makes it harder for people understand the product.

Also, when it says tailor-made does it mean that there is a human prompt engineer tuning the images for you? Or does it just mean that the AI generated images are custom, but there's no human prompt "tailoring" done for you?
I'm a VR/AR developer, and here's my experience with trying to buy a Magic Leap 2 to check it out:

See the PR announcement that they're shipping. Go to their web site. Click "Where to buy". Go to the first link to "Insight US". Place an order. Get a call from a representative to confirm the order. Ask the representative to clarify that Magic Leap 2 is in stock and shipping. They responded "yes."

Wait a few days. Check on the status of my order: "Stock: 0", and the estimated ship date is just an automated date that increases by 3 whenever current date equals estimated ship date. Call up Insight US to ask is it in stock or not. They admit it's not in stock and won't be available until maybe December/January.

Call up Magic Leap (they surprisingly have a phone line to call) and ask their sales representative if anyone has stock. They respond they don't know and to try the second supplier. Ask them what the supplier's phone number is to confirm stock. They say they don't know and that supplier only communicates through e-mail. Supplier responds via e-mail, "of course we have stock! Place an order to get an estimated ship date." I'm doubtful.

So there you have it. Magic Leap 2 shipping now, maybe?
Or, even better: https://system7.app/
Rationality doesn't work great because if you are unemotional why does option B seem more rational than option A?

I think I am some kind of failed psychopath or schizoid. I am not violent or a criminal or even too much of a liar but I can't get my life together despite high intelligence.

I move from one impulse to the next driven by weak emotions.

Feels bad but can't seem to do much else.

I have tried therapy and medication. Therapy didn't help. Medication helped a little but I always revert to the old pattern of procrastination.
If laws are made via societal consent, sure, that's a fine assertion. However, laws like marijuana possession are not based on societal consent. In fact, there's this famous quote by Nixon's Chief of Staff who literally admits the drug laws were created for targeting groups, not because the drugs themselves are bad:

> You want to know what this was really all about? The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the anti-war left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.

So too with copyright laws written by corporations.
Asimov did a story “Hostess” that’s kind of along those lines.
I'm a bit like you, I prefer published list prices. It really helps me if I know my budget is somewhere near your list price.

But I'm also in a business where we don't. And the reason we don't is because hardware is involved, and so prices can vary by 2 to 3 orders of magnitude.

In other words it takes time to gather up your requirements, which include hardware, software and crucially install and support services. From this we can generate a quote.

I'm not involved in the sales side, but I expect there's at least some demo as part of this process because it's helpful when reading the quote if the user has some idea of what they are buying. I don't think it's a terribly long demo though.

That all said, it is helpful to both parties if budget is mentioned early. With software-only projects I will often give the caller some idea of budget very early just to make sure we're playing in the same ballpark. That saves a lot of time.
Seems to be correlated with a downward trend in this statistic.

https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics...
I read your quote and I thought "nah, it's probably just Spez pushing crypto again". Then I click your link and he goes on to suggest Reddit NFT have been a community success. Then he talks about making people's lives better. The more I read, the more I felt that initial suggestion was correct. I do acknowledge noone else in that thread seemed to jump on that point.
So your argument is that the current system of financial transactions doesn't work for 100% of people 100% of the time. That is unquestionably true and not something I would ever dispute. It's true of every single system of transactions ever imagined, including crypto.

A distributed intermediary doesn't mean it's impossible for your transactions to be denied. Your government can still make certain transactions illegal, regardless how they are executed. And if they catch you, they can put you in jail and deny you operational access to any crypto wallet.
Added, thought I had in about.
I am certainly guilty of those, but I would point to larger pressures at the team and org levels - continuing to do things "the old way" (regardless of how old, just "the way we have been doing them") means no budget for big new projects to "modernize" apps and systems, no chance for managers to put their stamp on things with big new projects, etc.
I'm not sure how big of an issue writer pay is because there seems to be an infinite supply of people who will write for free trying to make a name for themselves.
I attended a small international LENR conference at MIT a couple of years ago.

Mostly older researchers, of course.

They sounded very serious to me.
I just tried searching for: pytorch Distributed model parallel, and google fails completely to return relevant results in the first few pages, even if I put Distributed model parallel in quotes. You.com also mostly fails, but it returns a section specifically from Discuss Pytorch forums which does have relevant results, so yes, this is a good sign.
The only nuance is that the city can push more or less of the tax burden onto commercial properties vs residential properties, and they often push a disproportionate amount onto commercial because commercial doesn’t vote.
What do you see as vegetarian rationalization?

It seems reasonable to me that someone may have no trouble with animal products so long as they don't involve killing or inhumane conditions.
In the case of dtt you can also often repeat it with . if you have a "false positive" before the intended character rather than counting occurances. Not for c but for d if you don't need the yanked text and regular movement.
Hm, you're currently able to do this through Pandas.

stuff: list[mydataclass]

stuff_df = pd.DataFrame(stuff)
results = sql^ "SELECT * FROM stuff_df WHERE field = 2"

My guess is that this would be a lot faster than dataclasses-sql due to less conversion overhead, but we'd have to benchmark it to be sure.
JFC, as somebody that’s in a dozen different partner programs just so I can offer products if I need to doing side hustles I could probably make a decent living just being a VAR that sells you what you ask for and leaves you the hell alone. I get that sales reps want to upsell, but I just want to buy X and I know what I want!
In the dark future there is only war between the Thadbots and the Manndroids!
Maybe I am naive but I also wonder if they can hear you when you are out on hold. Is hold really just mute with Muzak?
You could more generously interpret the comment as meaning "evolution would never have got us to where we are now - i.e. the existence of humanity - without there being substantial amounts of extinction along the way", which is harder to argue with.
The real question is whether there's a bright future for life on earth without our own species going extinct first, or even without being replaced by a species with a comparable level of cognitive ability and self-awareness (but hopefully better ability to avoid have such a devastating impact on so many other species).
Sure, but they are well known among HN commenters.
All hail capitalism?
I stumbled on this video around a year ago after being on Tinder for a little while. I was frustrated by the number of spammers on the app and at the same time, got really tired of constantly swiping without much results. This video blew my mind- this guy who supposedly didn't know how to program was able to get over 30,000 matches on Tinder just by creating a simple Selenium bot.

It begs a few questions:

1. Seeing how easy it is to make a Tinder bot, how many people are actually doing something similar? How many spammers?

2. This must be generating many obvious signals of bot-like behavior, and yet Tinder isn't banning his account. Why?

Returning to my experience with Tinder for a moment— after being an unpaid user for around three years, this video convinced me that I was hopelessly outmatched if I didn't at least start paying for any kind of Tinder subscription. I paid for the highest tier subscription for one month and suddenly was getting more matches than I could possibly handle. The pay-for-play is real.
It sounds like they aren't ready to mass produce these for the masses yet, in which case it's kind of a waste to advertise to you at all

If you want to know what they're like, imagine wearing a motorcycle helmet and seeing phone/computer-style windows popping up in the real world. So far as I know, nobody has made anything super useful out of this tech yet, but it theoretically could be awesome
After reading your comment I asked Stable Diffusion to create photorealistic images of a graph with three lines (similar to the smallest prompt in the article).

Here's the results of three attempts with slightly different prompts:

https://imgur.com/a/FqQT2Mk

As you'll see, Stable Diffusion

a) is perfectly capable of drawing graphs, and,

b) completely incapable of drawing a simple graph with three lines as prompted.
Trauma from the Holodomor genocide continues down through generations
Not really. 2032's power most watches. There are far more watches than air tags. Why didn't they ban them?
I never paid for a single article or author on medium and I have no idea if I even can?
On Substack, I have been a paid subscriber to 6 pages and wish I could pay subscribe to even more if I could afford it.
Holodomor (to kill by starvation) was a famine orchestrated by the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin’s Communist rule in 1932-33. Holodomor took eight to 10 million lives of ethnic Ukrainians; yet, it has been silenced and denied at all times
And people: https://timesofindia.com/gadgets-news/apple-watch-series-7-o...
Programming is really weird like that. I feel like I get practically nothing done 80% of the time, but the 20% where I'm in a flow state and going ham makes up for it. You don't want to be disturbed at all when you're in that productive time.
So they dont let you check watches?
well, it kind of is... it just has the unfortunate requirements that your password be the same size as your data and never get reused.
Calling Hello Games incompetent is pretty unfair and kind of petty.
There is nothing selfish in doing things that harm nobody. I am very much in favor of abolishing copyright because of the vast harm it causes society rather than any personal benefit. When Disney appropriates old stories and adds a feel good spin people get even further from reality and the valuable lessons these stories could actually teach. Now magnify that across every medium and it’s no wonder people have become so utterly divorced from reality.

Trying to dismiss arguments without backing them up just shows how hollow your argument is.
FEXPRS were actively murdered by the main Lisp intelligentsia:

See: "Special Forms in Lisp" by Pitman
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/800087.802804

Shutt's thesis does a good job talking about the history.
I don't think this happens unless the author enables monetization on the article?
The author can set the visibility status. If the author wants it to be freely available, that's an option. The downside is that the article then cannot be pulled into publications.
https://archive.ph/xJBKT
Fuck air tags? That's your take away? Fuck the school for stalking your child.
Qantas has been able to do Netflix/Youtube/whatever on a plane with free wifi for several years. I'm not talking about onboard entertainment, which is a separate thing with a separate app (which is, on the domestic flights where free wifi is offered, largely obsolete at this point). It's not without momentary buffering issues, and I will tend to download things in advance for that reason, but 99% of the time it's pretty good.
This is what it should look like:

https://www.bdaddik.com/en/comics-collectible-postcards/2967...

Modulo s/Lucky Luke/astronaut/g

Note that the image above should be in Dall-E's training set. So it's seen how a horse rides a human. No excuses there.
This is true, but the author is strongly incentivized to allow monetization because the question is posed in terms of "do you want publications to be able to republish this article" (paraphrasing). If you want this to be possible, then the article is put behind the paywall.
Just online and possibly on interstate billboards, in my experience.
According to Wikipedia, California has 5-7 billion barrels of oil in untapped fields in their coastal waters. Some can be tapped using existing wells offshore or onshore wells using directional drilling. This is 10x what is in a full US petroleum reserve. Maybe tapping these would go a long way to lowering prices?
> However the reason I think there isn't is because public perception, regulation, changing tradition is hard, and peoples acceptable safety.

No, the reason is that for city driving there is no system that is even close to navigating typical driving problems that humans encounter multiple times on a daily basis. There are plenty of videos of self driving cars flummoxed by basic road obstacles.

What people like you call “edge cases” are actually common occurrences.

If you think any non geofenced system is close to average human level competence you are simply deluded.
I'm very curious as to why that is.
It’s named ironically. Can’t convince me otherwise.
> Or does it take two months of work effort to retrofit the engine? If so, how many people are working?

The research team hope to be able to commercialize the new system in the next 12 to 24 months and are keen to consult with prospective investors.

Also I'm assuming they're talking about the big mining and farming machines:

[...] it could play a big part in making our carbon footprint much smaller, especially in Australia with all our mining, agriculture and other heavy industries where diesel engines are widely used.

Still, would surely need some gov't incentives one way or another to make a couple of months of work look like a good deal.
it's basically true. Yes Substack has discovery mechanisms but given that most successful people on the platform are former social media personalities I doubt this cross pollination matters much.

It's effectively a blog generator with a built in payment button. A lot of the success of Substack hinges on the fact that Twitter exists. It's the social media funnel to the site where most of the actual value is.
Now get a 10$ fiverr guy to draw an anime picture as good as SD could.. lol
> (in the US vegetarian options are dwindling and vegan options rising)

I think you must mean "option," singular. In most restaurants, not counting salad, if a veggie entree is there at all, it is one single menu option.

It should be easy to eat vegan or vegetarian, and easy to eat healthy in general, but it definitely is not. For some twisted reason (greed, probably), there is at least a little animal product and copious amounts of salt, sugar and weird chemicals in nearly everything. What we need is a crazy vegan/vegetarian billionaire to come along and flood the food market with healthy food options, so you'd have to go out of your way to eat crap, pretty much the opposite of the way it is now and has been for a long time.
none of the companies mentioned were cash cows. medium and quora barely made any money. In general it’s really hard to monetize blogging.
Honestly, option A sounds as good as option B. Either way, I'm feeling an even keel 7/10. Not a bad outcome for choosing to be rational.

By the way, if you're neither violent, nor criminal, and only sometimes a liar, you're doing better than 90% of the population. Ninetieth percentile is nothing to scoff at. Unless, of course, this very statement of yours is you lying, in which case, you're not really in the club. Are you even as smart as you claim?

If I were in the shoes of the person you describe, I wouldn't feel bad.
So don't feel bad. Or do. I don't care.
Some really clever problem solving going on with this. Watch this space!
Read the reviews of some apps that work like the one you could make, take notes of the features users are most happy with, but also take special attention to the pain points. What are people requesting that the developers haven't done yet? Reviews are a great research tool. Summarize these killer features users want, and build your app from there.
Would you recommend picking up Vic II as largely a finished (and probably heavily discounted) game with all the DLC, or should I pick up Vic III when it comes out?
My perspective after five years in tech management:

Effective managers from a pure tech background tend to have happy, functional teams that get things done well and add a lot of long term value to the company. They focus on "managing down", ie making sure their reports are happy and that they are building/doing the right things.

Effective managers with MBAs tend to have miserable teams that get things done fast and add a lot of perceived short term value to the company, at the cost of lots of long term value loss. They tend to focus on "managing up", ie making sure their bosses are happy and that they are personally looking good even if they are running things full speed off a cliff.

The former managers grow careers, build systems that don't need to be replaced every two years, and are remembered positively by their peers and reports. Of course, the latter managers get promoted much more readily and inflict that style of thinking on ever-widening orgs.

The most depressing part is that the latter style of manager -sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly - inevitably take over orgs and companies. Major stockholders/board members are too focused on the short term, and managers like that focus on short term value (or the perception thereof) at any cost.
People tend to overestimate progress in the near future, and underestimate progress in the long term future.