skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same here, and it's not just the job, intellectually participating in any community larger than "small and heavily guarded" seems to be subject to the same rules - all of them eventually collapse due to the same reason except people have easier time voting with their feet.
District heating raises even more of those pesky practical questions in how to get the energy of the place of need:

- Can you build up enough district heating and especially the pipelines for that in say the timespan of a generation? In all the built-up cities?

- Are there enough places near cities with the necessary rivers for the needs of nuclear plants?

- What happens to those places outside of cities, e.g. the countryside?
I think we're talking past each other.

I'm thinking of a pour over in a chemex like the poster I'm replying to mentions.

I think you're speaking of an espresso?
Self selection among immigrants is easily the largest factor behind their higher rates of success. Even as a refuge, there were tons of applicants, there is almost surely a reason you are the one who made it. It's in no way an easy process.
I plan on heating this winter by running Electron apps on my Macbook.
Why should it be a no-op? Even if you interpret the identifier on the right as referring to the same variable, it just means that you're trying to initialize the variable to an unspecified value. Surely that ought to be an error, not a no-op?
If true2, does this violate the Logan Act?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_Act
How many black people from elsewhere in the country can afford to move to seattle, where most of the tech jobs in Washington are?
Google announce cloud gaming Chromebooks days after shuttering Stadia
If it was a one-time game, sure. If your game relies on future business, word-of-mouth advertising, and not being arrested for fraud, it’s a bad choice.
Once upon a time I had a Wii collecting dust a month after I bought it, but I still use my Quest 2 a few times a month.
Related, "natbot" uses the stock GPT-3 model (no fine-tuning apart from the examples in the prompt) to drive a browser:

https://github.com/nat/natbot
In addition to issues like motion sickness and discomfort of strapping a headset to your face for extended periods, I feel there's a bigger issue with VR: It can only be used somewhere where you have complete trust in your environment. Somewhere where you wouldn't mind going to sleep. When you're "in" VR, you're vulnerable to anyone and anything around you.

This means most public places are just not going to work. Even in your own home, you might be unwilling to disengage so completely if you have a mischievous sibling, an animal who might get underfoot or delicate/dangerous items near you that could be hit by a wayward swing of the arm. In general, you are completely reliant on others around you to warn you of danger - from wandering too close to walls or furniture, to watching out for others who might want to take advantage of your vulnerability.

Offices might work, but not open plan. Classrooms are a non-starter. Airplane seats would be good (if not great), but not public transport like a subway or a city bus, even if you disregard the nausea issue. Even sitting in a high-end cafe or a public library, you'd need to have someone actively looking out for you. Again, would you be comfortable laying down for a nap in the middle of a park? If not, then using VR there isn't going to work.

This is an unavoidable issue that can only be slightly mitigated with automated detection systems. There are inherent limits to a technical solution like that: Someone staring at you intently from a short distance away to gauge how they could best run up and grab your bag isn't something a proximity warning system would be able to counter. Already just concentrating on portable video games in public (phone, Switch, etc.) is such a distraction that you have to be wary of your surroundings - the idea of adding in complete sensory deprivation to it as well is farcical.

VR simply isn't the next smartphone in terms of technology. It will forever be a niche used at home, alone. That isn't to say this is a small market - the entire video game industry has a similar use case - but Zuckerberg has his hopes set on a revolution akin to the iPhone and it just isn't going to happen.

AR is a much more realistic opportunity. If Zuck was as smart as he thinks he is, he'd pivot and focus there. But I don't think it will happen until Apple launches their solution (whatever it may be), and by then it may be way too late.
This method only works when the people you are trying to attack and/or blackball from an industry actually want to be in that industry. Lots of people will just use these ML models without trying to participate in the "ML community" the same way my wife and I tell each other jokes from comedians without trying to be comedians ourselves.

The users of these models and the developers are fundamentally different.
I’m not sure what a “diverse” parent is or how you would know their mind.

I expect that all parents, regardless of demographic factors, worry about their kid getting a good job and going to school.
> It's also plausible that a committee inside the federal government is trickling out the info to avoid moral panics and qanon like religions arising out of control.

Gasp! I thought that would be the conspiracy theory of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majestic_12

/me giggles
This guy is really speed running his own irrelevancy. Where is Cybertruck Elon? Don't you have better things to do than mess with geopolitical issues than are like multiple orders of magnitude above your paygrade?
Why is it like this? There is no commercial value to the software and any patents have expired. If I owned Amiga I’d release all the source and make money licensing the trademark for T-shirt’s. At least it’s be more productive than lawsuits.
> Like, according to the linked article, the standard is out there since 2008 - so the adoption period is already 14 years!

2008 is when the project started. In 2012 it was sorta-usable as a new weird experimental thing, but it was absolutely not even trying for adoption yet.

The first distro to make Wayland the default was Fedora 25 in 2016.

So the adoption period is 6 years, not 14.
I’m saying that those giant mountains that everyone builds their expensive houses on in Los Angeles, make it geographically impossible and financially irresponsible to even attempt to build a train to go through it.
For you it isn't 1/6 but for him it is. From your perspective can you derive from the knowledge you have why that for him the probability is 1/6?

And I mean derive as in derive the mathematical probability from all your knowledge about physics and the dice to explain why the lack of knowledge appears to him as a probability.

This is the essence of my question. We assume it. Probability is taken to be true for no reason, similar to how we just assume logic to be true.
I love the article and agree with a lot of it, the only thing is that the action steps are a bit vague.

It's especially challenging for teams who have a hard time finding measurable targets. Like the brand team and the content team in my company have a bit harder time finding the numbers.

And although they have a great reputation and action steps, I can still imagine how it feels when everybody else lays out their numbers.

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Yes, this is an issue that needs to be addressed. On some level, people do get paid for seeing ads in the sense that the real content they want is being subsidized, so on some level, even if someone is "bullshit" swiping, they are still giving their time and attention so there is some benefit for the person be swiped in the aggregate.

That said, I imagine the actual thing that would need to be paid for is someone's time, so posting a kind of smart contract crypto bond that someone gets for showing up in person to a coffee date or something like that. Yes it would still be abused, but there would be a equalibrium reached between price and time sacrificed. Maybe you make it so that you can only go on a certain number of coffee dates per week or something like that.
Patreon's apps are pretty bad now and I blame it on their attempt to turn into a paid version of Facebook or whatever. I can barely tolerate the iOS app, and the web experience is a joke. I know Patreon's design in the early days looked a bit amateurish, but at least it had personality. Now they feel like a Big Tech wannabe. No thanks, I'm out.
Need to mention here that yunohost.org is a great easy solution for your RPI or any other hardware or VPS. It is maintained by a great community that takes care of most of the essentials and provides a great webUI for installation and maintenance. Some of the built in features: Domain management with NGINX reverse proxy and Lets Encrypt certs. Fail2Ban brute force protection. Easy install and upgrade of many free server apps. I love looking over at my little RPI in the corner serving my friends and family.
Which they aren't intending to do, but it's just part of the fud currently spread around.

Rarely have I seen so much fud spread, while also systematically using the least charitable interpretation of anything stability.ai or emad said/announced. (the whole covid skeptics shit storm comes to mind).

I could understand where this would be coming from if it was aimed against the use of these AI models, but this seems to be from the proponents.

Of course, I can see the dissatisfaction, but not the escalation, does any one really think stability.ai should associate itself with software piracy?! Cause that's what this started about, enabling the use of a a stolen model and weights. The way I set it the only safe action for stability.ai was to distance themselves from this as much as possible.

Of course the reddit “takeover“ happened a week before these events, the active mod, the one that started the linked topic, kept his moderation rights. One issue was that SD wanted to disclose private information to the modaal that required an NDA, not all ex mods wanted to sign. Either way the situation is more complex, not handled ideally, but again, using words life tricked is the least charitable interpretation. And for better or worse with stability.ai controlling the subreddit, in order to put distance between them and the tools that enable the use of pirated models (and in that repo there is an explicit discussion topic on how to use the pirated model to get the same results as novelai (the source of that model)) of course the link to the github repo that enabled the use of these was removed from the stickied topic listing blessed UIs and other things.
"I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure."

- Agent Smith, The Matrix
Sure, what's your address?
This isn't some unique Meta or VR. These are growing pains of new tech. This is what happens with all new tech. We'll see dozens of companies grow, die, and be acquired, and dozens of products change hands and disappear. This is the MO for all new tech that all of us are intimately familiar with.

In this particular case, with this particular product and company, the churn has happened, and we should see some stability now.

If you want complete stability, you're in the wrong line of work, and definitely on the wrong website. But there's no reason to be irrational about it.
When C# made the equivalent breaking change, they tried very hard to find some code out in the wild that would be broken by it.

So far as I know, they didn't find any. They did, however, find a lot of already-broken code that authors didn't realize was broken, and that would be fixed by the change.
GP argues against killing microbes. (With some nuance)
> your pipeline sucks

The pipeline sucks for everyone, we all know that. Let's not pretend that this is just a matter of a single company having substandard processes.
> Agent Smith, The Matrix

Ah I thought this was from Shrek 2.
> Yet there are more white people in poverty than black people in the US

Where are you people getting these stats? This is being repeated elsewhere and is not based in reality at all.
I'm not sure what you mean by "net increase in happiness". Like, if the universe was a big bank of emotions from which we all made withdrawals and deposits? That's a weird premise to accept.

In any case, the act of killing a sentient being is wrong. We've got that more or less universally codified for other humans (and most pets); seems we may just need a few more uncomfortable ethical discussions before we reach consistency.
Are those two things always mutually exclusive?
But they are systematically oppressed. Just look at college affirmative action policies.
Society defines racial categories according to made-up rules. The basis of these rules is not biological. All good so far. But, then we have to live with these categories, and they get applied to how we organize society, sometimes explicitly, sometimes less explicitly. And we may wish for these rules to change, or for the ways that they shape the experiences of individuals to change. But then the people who benefit from the status quo have a material interest in having them stay the same. And in fact the people who benefit from the status quo often are in a position to shape society in a way that keeps them the same. You get the idea.
Honestly, I think Wasserman does a better job. The cookie interval example gets the fact that frequentists require uniform coverage properties with respect to the unknown parameter right. But the "when you pull a cookie with 3 chips your interval is only correct 41% of the time" thing isn't really an essential Bayesian vs. Frequentist issue. As Wasserman notes, coverage is a minimal requirement for something being a confidence interval; we usually also construct them to avoid obvious deficiencies. All this objection shows is that the particular procedure in the example might not be the best one; it's not an argument that can be applied to all CIs in general. (And it's clear, if you play with the numbers, that the example can be improved.)

Also, regarding "But note that we probably don't really care about the confidence interval or credibility interval." Many times we do - giving a point estimate and an associated quantification of its uncertainty is one of the most basic statistical tasks.

Further, it's somewhat misleading to critique frequentists by saying they don't give probabilities for P(Jar | Chips), because in the frequentist setup the jar is a fixed and unknown parameter, not stochastic. For the two-cookie setting, it's trivial to generalize the construction in the M.SE post, so saying "frquentists can't track evidence to get better predictions" is simply wrong.
SuperTux is an open-source classic 2D jump'n run sidescroller game
It's a city built on what I can only assume is swamp. It doesn't surprise me at all.

I moved 1000mi from Florida to here and very little changed at least as far as the climate is concerned.
A huge step forward. Looking forward to this one.
Engineering duckweed to produce oil for biofuels, bioproducts
Weird how the guy who becomes a virus thinks everyone else is a virus. Almost like he's projecting.
yes I even wrote about the laptop servers here https://blog.haschek.at/2015-my-company-just-turned-10.html
The astonishing thing is how counterproductive it is. The long term health of any minority OS community necessitates open source of some form. There's a wealth of open alternatives for people to pick from.
I'm sure everything I'm about to say has already been said, but I would like to add my voice because it seems important.

This podcast was enjoyable to me. I was surprised that I enjoyed it so much and I ended up listening until the end. I really liked to listen to Steve Jobs, even knowing that this was some sort of combination of things he has said and generated content, he was very enlightening to listen to.

Both Joe and Steve stayed in character as far as I know, the audio and a few laughs that were misplaced seemed like the only flaws technically.

Morally I'm thinking that this falls short unfortunately, but only because i'm under the impression that permission was not given to use the likeness of either person. Since this is a relatively new way to achieve something like this particular production I believe that these first uses will have the biggest effect and I can understand why the two people featured were chosen. I hope that one day our society respects the right of people to be portrayed and used as they would wish, but I do understand that as of right now the power to enforce those protections are probably not well developed.

All in all I'm very impressed and a bit disturbed by the potential.
Carmack Unscripted
I am unsure of Apple’s new concurrency models. I’m adopting combine more, as it makes nice flexible workflows once i got my head around it.
But, i’m trying actors, but a bit frustrated as it doesn’t seem to give the fine grained flexibility of GCD.
Seems weird to jump through hoops to keep an outdated JavaScript library with a custom prototype working. When you create custom prototypes this is the risk you take. Name your prototypes accordingly, so they are unlikely to clash anything. As an example mtflatten, or _flatten (like underscore.js and other libraries).
This is very Google-specific advice/terminology. It can be very different elsewhere
Ask HN: Is there an API first realtime logs solution?
I'm looking for a solution that easily ingests logs and offers APIs to consume and filter logs in realtime.

Lots of services out there, but it's hard to find something with a focus on APIs. Any suggestions?
Performance being important in system development is pretty much a given, and doesn't necessarily even need to be mentioned. You could argue that systems software is well defined as software where security, performance, and stability are more important than all other concerns.

I think the fact that your comment didn't elaborate is why you're being downvoted, not for asking questions. It can be interpreted as a question, but it can also easily be interpreted as a shallow dismissal of their choice of Rust, which is a fairy common thing on HN. If you had laid out some details on why the choice puzzled you, your comment would probably have been interpreted more charitably.
I don’t think that “autistic spectrum” only applies for CS it happens for any field. We just need to let women do what they are good at and men what they are good at without any blame or shaming. Because there are masculine men working as manicurists or like in beauty and there are women who are working in construction. And in terms of predominately men or women industries it’s not that we cannot switch or cannot figure it out it’s just differences in our interests and biology. We just have to embrace it like they did it in Sweden (as I remember)
Lite (and lite-xl) is an amazing little editor. I especially love how fast the program opens. There’s just a few small things that bother me enough to keep me from using it, but I remain impressed by the code and how lightweight it is.
Lots of it boils down to risk. For sexual/reproductive reasons, men are more prone to risk - both behaviourally and generically. Evolution doesn't tend to favour risk-taking in the sex that carries and rears offspring. The number of women (not men) in a group is also the bottleneck to the group's ability to reproduce/recover population. Males are more fundamentally disposable, and have developed traits to fit into this niche. We have just about all of this in common with our closest ape relatives. I'm no researcher, but I've found the work of Frans de Waal and other primatologists enlightening.
Remember when Second Life was the next big thing? Pepperidge Farms remembers.
I didn't downvote your original post, but I just think these "why did they use language X instead of Y?" questions are kinda boring and tiresome, for the most part.

If your goal is memory safety, Rust is a good choice. If you additionally want something mainstream (such that it's unlikely that you'll have trouble finding contributors or future maintainers), Rust is also a good choice, and Haskell and OCaml probably aren't. And who knows, perhaps the people building this were just familiar with Rust, but not Haskell or OCaml.

But really, "It's unclear why X was chosen over Y or Z" is just not interesting. If the article doesn't say why, then we're just speculating. And in this particular case, I think the answer is probably pretty simple, obvious, and boring, anyway; I don't think it's "unclear" at all.
So it uses SDL2 as a rendering engine. Does it roll its own widget library?
Yeah, I’m thinking it’s more like “extreme scope creeps in private real-time text console sometimes works”.

Like there had been the famous PizzaTool in SVR4, countless hacks over modern history with IRC, server status reports with pagers, prepaid topups over SMS, or food deliveries and micropayments with WeChat, on and on. The common denominator of those isn’t China or Asia. Sorry I didn’t post it as a top level comment, maybe I should have.
There are many such projects, like Atom.io, whose support ends this year. I can't imagine this project will continue much further, even if I hope so. The only real open source project that is up today is Visual Studio Code, but that will continue to be maintained, I hope.

Edit: Oh wait, I forgot Eclipse... That heavy thing :P
It's also not true there at least historically.
> Much of the supply chain for Tesla (and EVs in general) are sourced through Russia. Lithium, nickel, copper, cobalt.

This is simply false. Russia is not a major exporter of any of those, Lithium especially.

You could make that argument about China maybe because they're involved in the refinement chain, but certainly not Russia.

A few seconds on OEC world would show how off you are.

Cobalt ore: https://oec.world/en/visualize/tree_map/hs92/export/show/all...

Lithium carbonates: https://oec.world/en/visualize/tree_map/hs92/export/show/all...

Nickel ore: https://oec.world/en/visualize/tree_map/hs92/export/show/all...

Copper ore: https://oec.world/en/visualize/tree_map/hs92/export/show/all...
The best part about geothermal is it's one of the cheapest ways to make electricity, about as much as burning coal, with none of the pollution. Using it for power storage is just the bonus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source
Watch ordinary Russians in the 1980s and you’ll understand the rise of Putin
Water rights are going to be a hot topic. There just isn't enough for everyone, and sharing a commons is not something that America (and other western societies) has been good at.
Eh maybe from an efficiency perspective on profit vs labor, of I can get one person to pay me $100 to matchmake for them, then do nothing, I've got an infinite return on my effort, but if I want to make a living doing this I need to have some success stories to keep the $100s coming, so some effort is needed.
https://archive.ph/rLFnf