skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might be even easier to see & understand this phenomenon by looking at the history of rights for women and black people. These also took generational turnover, and attitudes among the older generations changed more slowly, and we’re still not even done yet. I can see this right now pretty clearly between my adult family/friends and our children, where the adults are still getting used to and learning how to talk about gay rights, are squeamish and sharing cringy talking points about transgender rights, meanwhile the kids are all fully on-board with equal rights for all and just have no problems with non-binary gender or sexuality. It’s funny after multiple rounds of this happening over multiple centuries that we still have trouble actually standing by our motto of liberty and justice for all.

These are, yes, examples of cultural belief changing slowly and happening less because people changed their minds and more because younger people came to a new conclusion. I’m curious what you meant about it maybe being a counter-example, what did you mean there?
Can you provide a source for assertion?

The violence is fueled by two things: income inequality and the prevalence of guns.

Any country with those two factors will have a problem with violence; the fact that the US is the most civilized country among that list (and likely sits atop that list) is what is so damning.
Isn’t hinge addressing this
Rust language has pros and cons, like everything. Rust community sometimes exhibits this "everything needs to be rewritten in our favorite toy language, NOW" attitude that reminds me of worst times of Java hype.

Then again, every attempt at dethroning C++ came with it's own crowd of fanatic cultists, so maybe it's just that C++ is cursed.
It’s kind of amazing that you can get a ceramic container where the lid fits snuggly. Some of that comes from modifying the greenware (dried but unfired clay) but I think most of it is exacting tolerances for inputs and processing. Clay from this one quarry. This much water. These building temperatures and humidity. This exact furnace temperature and time.
Notice that the sites they mention are mostly newspapers.

Print editions of newspapers are going the way of the dodo and it is not sustainable to offer full, free access to their websites so for years now they are moving to paid-for access on a subscription.

Here they keep offering free access but with ads or you can choose ad-free access with a paid subscription and to me it looks like this is a way to nudge people towards subscriptions ('nasty' ads and tracking or 'nice' ad-free, tracking-free experience).

The bottom line is that a business needs to make money.
Or an association/placebo thing.

My brother and I once accidentally gave our dad NA beer. He didn't know. We soon realized it yet kept giving it to him all night. Bizarre, he actually got "drunk". Slower talking, ever more exaggerated stories, etc.

It's not just a personal anecdote, this has been replicated with two student groups in a bar, one served alcohol, the others not. Both groups got "drunk".

Likewise, you can give people a blue-colored and red-colored water and they will consistently report that the blue one is cool and refreshing whilst the red one is sweet. Neither has any actual taste.

Most people have experienced this glitch in our brains without realizing it. You have a glass of water and you take a sip. You violently spit it out. It's sprite, not water. It tastes like poison, even if you love sprite.

Being aware that you're drinking NA is technically not a placebo, but strong associations can still play a role in it act liking one regardless.
The problem really happens when you do algorithmic price setting, which incentivizes you as the developer to get people addicted to the experience of swiping, regardless of whether or not the swiping has the desired outcome for the end user. A user base with just the right levels of dopamine from interactions and loneliness will probably end up buying one of the weekly promotional deals.

That's why when you first start on any dating service, you're (typically) inundated with activity, so that you can always chase that high, and when you can't get it, you try to pay for it.

Online dating is a tough problem to solve, tougher still when profit incentives misalign with user success incentives! I'm not even sure what an equitable but also successful dating service would look like, because there's this fundamental mismatch in values.
If you liked this article I recommend the book Dataclysm by the same author.
the mind of a person is ever changing. you cant capture it across all their works.
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AMD is expected to announce the RDNA 3 cards on November 3. (I'm not sure when they're expected to be available for purchase.)

Unless there's a need to buy immediately or to stick with nVidia, it might make sense to see the RDNA 3 cards' pricing, performance, and power requirements.
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Someone tries to manipulate the market because of a short (or long?) position on FB?
And the $200-$300 GPUs are still really good. If you're not doing ML/AI stuff, I think that's still the sweet spot.
> can be found literally everywhere once you're off planet

In the vacuum of space, not enough to be harvested. Presumably the same for asteroids, moons and planets.

Stars have lots and lots of helium, but good luck mining it.
Ada is like $800 to $1500. NVidia has priced itself outside of a typical gamer's budget.
Just an FYI but GPUs have been beefing up L2 caches over generations. Ada has a fat unified 96MB L2 cache smack in the middle of the crossbar.
> How did Linus convince hordes of people of contributing to his kernel, his trademark, for free?

Right confluence of factors to a large extent. GNU needed a kernel, and BSD was mired in legal trouble. Linux was there at the right time to provide a GNU-friendly kernel made from scratch.

I think the GPL was also a fortunate choice. It ensured large companies couldn't easily have a closed in-house version and had incentives to contribute to the common good.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/m...
Agri-PV is one way of using the thermal budget (and a great one from a habitat-harm perspective as it causes a net reduction in human-occupied land).

The albedo problem is the opposite of what your are thinking as it is another source of radiative forcing from putting a mostly black thing in the sun.

A Shockley-Queisser limited solar panel mostly only reflects IR. So where your plants/dirt might have an albedo of 0.3, the solar panel absorbs 80-95% of the light (albedo 0.05 to 0.2). 20-30% becomes electricity (and later thermalises when used).

This gives you a net forcing on the order of 100-250W or so _somewhere_ on earth for every m^2 of pv. If you cover too much land the radiative forcing is on the same order as GHG, hence the ~1% limit. 200-300W of work for 100-250W of new heat is a pretty fantastic deal compared to other options though.

Putting it above existing asphalt or a similar surface is 'free' because albedo is already 0.1 there. Similarly wind is free from a radiative forcing perspective.

Putting the panel in existing (light coloured) desert is much worse because deserts have an albedo around 0.4-0.6 so you are making 400-550W of new heat for your 200-300W of work.

This also leads to the interesting thought of placing bifacial tracking modules sparsely on low albedo dead surfaces and painting the surface white for a net reduction in thermal forcing (is there a 1000km patch of volcanic rock somewhere? Gobi desert?)

In the same framework, every joule of nuclear energy is a new watt of heating, and if it is from a steam engine, it's more like 3W (or even 5W once you include post-reactor heat as well as xW of heat for every 1W of pre-reactor work inputs of mining, milling, and enriching low quality ore).

Of course these all only become relevant if we slash carbon intensity to under 2% of what it is today and continue trying to grow our energy usage exponentially.
What sort of latency does the GPU have to VRAM compared to the latency of system memory to the CPU?
n > 0 (never)
With 'httm', a few of us are already living in that bright future: https://github.com/kimono-koans/httm
Just out of interest, did you eat a balanced diet, mainly with a lot of different vegetables? Or closer to /r/keto "egg & bacon everyday"
It's a middle ground between jail and "regular" public housing.

Why might that be needed? If someone is an anti-social asshole who chronically destroys public housing, they will need some level of supervision (even if it's just to prevent them pouring concrete powder into the drains of an otherwise indestructible building, because the society who says everyone has a right to housing probably won't let that mean "without functioning plumbing").
What worked for me was convincing myself, deep deep down, that I don't want any alcohol to drink. It's just poison, addictive poison, that's provably bad for you with like no real upsides that aren't just shaky arguments propped up by billions upon billions (upon billions) of dollars in marketing spend. It's a shit, over priced drug. If you really want/need a recreational drug in your life, there are better options, it's a stupid sad shame that alcohol has taken hold as the main social drug, it belongs under the sink with the rest of the household cleaners.

So how do you quit drinking if you want to? Figure out why you still seem to want to drink at all. If you're going literal weeks at a time without drinking, that's great, you're probably not fighting the chemical addiction part. Most people that give in to daily cravings are just very addicted to the chemical alchohol and are constantly feeding their addiction.

After some weeks, if you're still going back to alcohol, it's because you still see it in some good/positive light. That's understandable, remember, billions and billions of dollars are spent every year trying to convince you that alchohol is THE way to have fun, relax, meet new people, and live that amazing life that only seems to exist on billboards and in commercials.

Once you just see alcohol as a poison you don't want to drink, not drinking alchohol is as easy as not drinking bleach or windex. For two years now I've had exactly as much to drink as I wanted to (zero), it's quite freeing really.
Yes. I went through their build instruction shell scripts with some issues but it did work as below:

It works with an older fork that has img2img / txt2img separated from each other, but nothing else did.

When you built it, you did at least source the env.sh to pick up the build environment that it needed?
I'm all for this just being a disgruntled researcher as this is all really damning for the industry and for this startup if true, but the replay attacks on magic link login emails are really no small thing, especially for a SOC-2 caliber startup with this kind of valuation.

All you have to do is sneak onto your target's gmail while they aren't looking (or phone), forward one of those emails within a week of them arriving, and you have 7-x days to compromise their account. This is very different from almost any other magic link which by convention are always consume-on-use with a short expiration and often a context cookie reqiurement.

Imagine the CTO is screen sharing and a notification showing the code part of the link shows up without them noticing and now anyone on the call who noticed has a week to login as the CTO. This stuff can happen way easier than you think.
Ironically, having skills that are helpful in the hyper-real world such as programming or marketing are some of the best tools to help afford life in the real one.
> I read that as "worst possible conditions as legally allowed".

Why should conditions be any better than what is legally required? If you have a problem with what the law requires, fine. The law should describe some reasonable standard.

But making jail conditions "better" doesn't happen by magic. It requires effort and it costs money.
I don't think it was damaged beyond repair by flights - I think it automatically deflated after slipping its moorings in high winds.
You dont need fake news to be realistic to be believable. You just need to repeat them over and over again. Works wonders.
Superior data sovereignty and control of the environments is the driver. Some user features are inferior but are being improved with the participation of the user community that includes the IT staffs of the customer organizations who can create add on apps and pull requests to the main code base.
No, I meant palindrome, so that you end up repeating the same letters with little increase in memorization complexity, but that works too - throw together a few anagrams and you're golden.
Okay fair enough, thx for the explanation. Doesn't make it good, but better!
We will never use any cloned voice in any commercial way without consent and compensation, we only wanted to show the community what is possible and what generative AI models can do.
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East&South Asians (study subjects) also stores higher % of viceral fat. Apparently lot's of skinny fat Asians out there who looks healthy but aren't.
I would have liked an explanation for this sentence:

> Even if the 12GB 4080 manages twice the performance of the 3070, at nearly twice the price, that doesn't make it better value.

I'm not a GPU expert: what other characteristics other than performance are there to consider when deciding value? Intuitively, it seems like if something is twice the performance and less than twice the price, it is a great value.
Oops, tx. Seemed low.
This isn't news to me at all. For ATM/Pin pads, I wipe my fingers across every button as I press in the code, so it obscures what was actually pressed, and linger fingers on keys not even in my pin code. With enough practice, it doesn't take more than a second or two longer than normally entering it.

As far as keyboards, I really don't ever interact with computers that don't belong to me or aren't in a secure area, but I have a custom scripted "keyboard" USB circuit thing that emulates keypresses for me. I don't know what to even call it, but it's like a mini Arduino sorta thing that emulates a generic Microsoft keyboard to whatever you plug it into. It looks like a stick of RAM with a USB plug, kinda. I have a few preset buttons that'll type in my login info to automate logging into things. I made it as a hardware password manager.
Agreed, the xx70 models have consistently been a great price/performance option.
And you'll also note that if a win32 process freezes (i.e. stops replying to wm messages in a timely fashion), the win32 window manager will take over drawing the window decoration, so that you can also kill the process by pressing the normal X close button on the window. At least since XP times.
Pixel Watch updates are only guaranteed for 3 years
Based on the size you plug the motherboard into this rather than the other way around.

Picture with an itx motherboard for launghs: https://www.reddit.com/r/sffpc/comments/xjl017/asus_really_p...
Muscle burns calories. My base metabolism increased by 100-200 calories (from < 1400) after six months of strength training 3 days a week for 30 minutes. (Computer programmer with very little muscle mass...)

Anyway, if you want to lose weight and maintain muscle mass, add protein shakes + creatine + strength training to whatever calorie restrictions you are doing. Get your body fat percentage tested every few weeks. Adjust calories as appropriate to draw down fat or build up muscle. In steady state, most people can either gain muscle or lose fat, but not both at the same time.

(The above works OK for absolute beginners; it gets harder to improve as you improve.)

The "A Workout Routine" book is ranty but has decent introductory routines and links to decent YouTube videos. You'll also need about $150 worth of exercise bands to get started. (Cheap Amazon ones are dangerous, so go to a reputable brick and mortar store's website to choose a brand.)
I don't believe that time is really the limiting factor for most middle-class people. It's more a matter of priorities. Most of us spend a lot of time watching TV and scrolling social media.
London Police should fine all these people that drive on pavements or consider Regent's Park as their personal race track
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I had a software consultancy business that sells and integrates diverse open-source self-hosted solutions, my main product is odoo ERP, for which I developed lots of modules to adapt it to the Algerian market and the needs of my clients. I also worked on startups as a full-stack web developer.

I emigrated recently to the USA and left my business behind, and would like to resume my coding career and work on challenging problems as a software engineer. I wish to work for a company that tries to make a difference and work on global issues like climate change, sustainable energy, poverty, health, well-being, education, democracy.

I speak Arabic, French, and English.

Any feedback that is not a job offer would be very much appreciated!
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Because it's forced? I feel like you're missing the "forced" part of forced labor.
I wonder if there is an alternative business model which would put users and the business on the same side.

Could you put a lien against someone's marriage, such that in order to marry someone you meet on HappyDating.com you had to pay the outstanding debt?

Anything less extreme?
Of all the transcribers we used, google STT was the worst one.

GIGO.

That said, their translation was pretty good, but the best is apparently DeepL.
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Tar is not a compression algorithm, it is a format for serializing files, so it covers a different use-space.

I've used it often to speed up transfers of many small files over SSH - scp always took a small amount of time before sending each file, and with many files, the wasted time blew up. Serializing all those files with tar and deserializing them on the other side turned out to be much faster, especially since tar works in a stream-like fashion. And it's convenient to type, too:

tar -c path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ... | ssh user@host tar -x
The 2 are diametrically opposed. While money exists, there exists a way to corrupt people. While huge concentrations of wealth exist, there exist ways to corrupt almost anyone.

Even people who don’t take bribes can be gradually manipulated into holding certain views via marketing/lobbying
Not just the super rich as Pol Pot and Lenin showed...
Or one of them is just bad at managing expectations.
Or just use a GPS mocking app on your phone.
> What if given a prior distribution of 100% opt-in, colonoscopies are effective?

That is what the "per-protocol" analysis in this RCT estimates. They considered only those people who had a colonoscopy. This completely breaks randomization and is subject to investigator bias, but at least it gives you an idea of the best you could possibly do if you lived in a world where everyone was forced to get one.

And that is: a drop of 0.15% in colo-rectal death. They then attempt to extrapolate this to estimate the effect on all-cause mortality if you somehow forced everyone to get a colonoscopy, and come up with a number of 10.88% (vs. a baseline of 11.03%). So, even if you forced everyone to get a test, you'd need to test 667 people to save one life.

That's a lot of pain for very little gain.
I had a feeling this was going to be Kensington before I even clicked the link.
Probably some sort of open-platformed AR rather than VR, which looks as though it will form along enclosed spaces.

AI software is probably a good candidate. It's currently hit and miss, but could become omnipresent in a decade. The hype is both real and not so real. Currently, it's in the domain of tinkerers.

In a more practical sense, I see the gap widening between those who use technology as escapism and those who use it as a tool to further their own goals. The ability to critically think in between distractions could be the killer feature. Or to be more precise, the capacity to understand the present rather than predict the future.
Forgot to say that he is a world record holder in weightlifting and pretty buff.
> Distribute them across cities in mixed income neighbourhoods

How is this actually done in practice?
showing long term trends doesn't fit their narrative though.
It is possible but there are some caveats. The example shows what is needed: conservative technology and conservative hosting. A website built with the simplest and oldest Web templating will be parseable by all browsers now and into the foreseeable future. Cloud hosting providers come and go but a dedicated IP directed to a bare metal server you own will remain online so long as the electric bill is paid. Given this you’ll want to write a rather sparse HTML page(s) with interactivity driven by hyperlinks, then find some stable institution like a university to give you a static IP and an electrical socket for your bare metal server.

It’s a bit of a lost art but still well in the realm of practicability.
How are they doing it? Is it a poly app?
> The official repo is under his personal account at github.com/torvalds/linux

I think you mean https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
Richard P. Gabriel (one of the co-creators of Common Lisp, later a founder of the Lisp vendor, Lucid) has a few interesting things to say about CL's FORMAT in his Patterns Of Software, starting on page 101:

https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/PatternsOfSoftware.pdf

> What are the trade-offs? Format strings don’t look like Lisp, and they constitute a non-Lispy language embedded in Lisp. This isn’t elegant. But, the benefit of this is compact encoding in such a way that the structure of the fill-in-the-blank text is apparent and not the control structure.

IMO McDermott's OUT macro has precisely the drawbacks Gabriel predicts. While McDermott seems to think it's an advantage that

> we no longer have to squeeze the output data into a form intelligible to format, because we can use any Lisp control structure we like

his example PRINT-XAPPING basically duplicates the logic for extracting data from the xapping structure as Steele's FORMAT call, but buries the data extraction into control structure alongside constant strings that go into the output.

And that's where I think FORMAT really a win: a FORMAT control deliberately separates the control flow and constant text from the data extraction logic. Presumably you could write functions that do the same thing using McDermott's OUT macro, but they'll be more verbose and no more enlightening; what's the point?
Please take the naysayers with a grain of salt, this is a fantastic demo of what's possible. While the voices aren't 100% convincing on good speakers, if this was over the phone it would be indistinguishable, the content of the podcast is also spot on with Joe's sort of rambling and Steve always acting like he's making a point or telling a story.

Great work.
I fear that they're pricing out their market.

This might be a great card for a CAD or video rendering workstation, but AAA game studios aren't going to be able to afford to spend hours lovingly drawing intricate details if only 0.1% of players can play their games in 4k because it costs $1600 for just the graphics card.
Does this qualify as actual hacker news?
> price/performance king for compute applications

Is there a compatibility layer for CUDA, or is it OpenCL only (or is there something else)?
I'm not sure I understand what you are saying about A/B or how hallways fit into online dating.