skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don’t need two different mains. My asyncio code runs just fine on both and didn’t require changes when moving from 3.10 to 3.11 possibly because the way I always do it is asyncio.run(main()) from the body of the code (“actual main”) to an

async def main

async callable and the last real line of that is pretty much always just an asyncio.gather over a bunch of other stuff that I want to run. My understanding is that’s been the recommended method for a very long time rather than get_event_loop or run_forever or anything like that.

edit: that is to say, asyncio.run() may be required now but the method of injecting coroutines and then doing run_forever was definitely not required before. Asyncio.run was available before 3.11.
I still like the time they put the full screen win8 metro style start menu on their server OS. Pure genius!
Ask HN: How do you fight unjust bans from online platforms?
Many people have become reliant on platforms like AirBnB, Paypal, and Facebook to the extent that losing access would have a significant adverse impact on their lives or livelihoods. At the same time, many of these platforms are well known for suspending or banning unsuspecting users without providing information about their reasons for doing so, and without providing any clear path to appeal or escalate.

Faced with such a suspension or ban, what approaches are most likely to be effective in getting it reversed? Are there actions one can take that most users might be unaware of?
So does Pixelmator. You can try the free trial which comes with this feature.
I work in IT.

The Windows 10/11 "settings" are a hole pile of shit. It seems like Microsoft almost purposefully took the 10 things you would most often use, and nested them so deep that you cant even memorize how to find them anymore. So you get forced into using the god awful search, which returns results FROM THE GOD DAMN INTERNET. If I am in Windows setting, or hell even on just the normal Start Menu, I DON'T WANT any Windows search returning anything from the internet. Ever. If I want to search the internet, I will open a god damn web browser. FFS Microsoft, stop trying to turn yourself into some Frankenstein of iOS/Chromebook.

No one wants that.
Something that could have been spelled out more clearly is they NTSC uses FM for audio.
I love last.fm, always have been. Started out using the winamp plugin in 2007. I even synced my ipod regularly through itunes & the scrobbler to get stats.
I agree with you. It seems like the author has a grudge with whoever calls cells "machines" and doesn't answer the questions we actually have here about cells.
So I definitely see an issue with Stable Diffusion synthesizing CP in response to innocuous queries (in terms of optics—-the actual harm this would cause is unclear).

That said, part of the problem with the general ignorance about machine learning and how it works is that there will be totally unreasonable demands for technical solutions to social problems. “Just make it impossible to generate CP” I’m sure will succeed just as effectively as “just make it impossible to Google for CP.”
Or alternatively the ottomans, who considered themselves the continuation of Rome, and conquered the Roman capital and took it as their own to boot
As a Obsidian user, the shortcomings of « analogic » notes is now clear: very difficult to refactor, very difficult to link, very difficult to search, very difficult to share, slow to author (simply deleting « analogic » some text takes forever).
https://unchainedpodcast.com

Some rare journalism here actually. Chopping block panel is also fun, albeit opinionated. But they're informed and definitely not siding with SBF here.
You can have at least Win 7 start menu on Win 10: https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu

It's fast, reliable and highly configurable.
Loved this comment.

There was a time when we used to say the same about Windows Xp. And Windows 2000.

I wonder if each next generation of user prefers the new layouts each time?

I’m sure (or at least, I imagine) MS put a lot of resources into testing these UI overhauls.
Something about MrBeast has always bothered me, I’m not quite sure I can put my finger.

It has to do with things like his random money drops. It seems like he established himself in an #OMG look at this great thing I’m doing for someone# sort of way. But doing something good always felt like the incidental byproduct of producing a bit of content that got lots of eyeballs on it.

I’ve never seen something that would demonstrate that MrBeast is doing any of it because he actually cares, and instead it seems like it’s done because it drives viral consumption of the content. I’d like to be wrong if anyone has come across something that shows otherwise.

Maybe this shouldn’t bother me? By which I mean, if everything MrBeast has done wasn’t through YouTube but instead was presented as, say, a Netflix production “reality” tv series then I’d think to myself- oh of course it’s for audience entertainment and any good that comes of it is a happy accident, not the actual goal.

Maybe my issue is how I was initially introduced to MrBeast content, which was through my young kids. And my kids thought he was actually giving the money away specifically and primarily to do something good and nice for someone. Instead it feels like there’s an element of exploitation to it.

I don’t know, I’m probably overthinking the whole thing and I should (maybe? Thoughts or suggestions?) just recalibrate my outlook to view his content as just another sort of game show or something.

Though even then, it annoys me that some people seem to view him as a good person for what he does, akin to viewing CBS as altruistic for giving Jeopardy winners $$.

I’m overthinking this. Stopping now.
The Windows 8 start menu is fundamental, and it alienated a lot of people, something Apple have never done, they've kept their basic design consistent.
You forgot the best: Kosovo
I don't notice much difference between experience in Windows 7 and Windows 11, aside from needing to manage more policies to prevent their cloud based services. Windows 11 isn't bad if you disable the adware portion. The terminal app is pretty good now and WSL works, albeit not as pleasant as something more native like Linux or even macOS terminal, but the adware is what cripples it IMO.
It's "keeping" 1 byte worth of information from each input example. The SD models are 5GB together, and the dataset 2.3B images.
Alternatively: Google prefers not to adjudicate on any given dispute any 2 parties with a website might have.
Personally I like Windows 11 fine except I want my taskbar on the side.
I work at Microsoft, it's a great company to work for. But I was bummed when I.T. upgraded my dev machine from Win10 to Win11. I really hope whatever comes next is better.
I believe California made a similar law.

https://www.sos.ca.gov/business-programs/women-boards
> << This robot removes half of the equation that leads to lethal force.
>
> Maybe in theory,

Not even in theory. In the 1970s there was a series of psychological experiments called The Milgram experiment where they tested how far subjects were ready to obey orders. Turns out around 60% of subjects are willing to use lethal force against subject just because a scientist tells them to.

Unlike most experiments in social psychology, this one has been replicated numerous times, and in one variation they introduce an intermediary between the subject and the acting victim. Turns out that even more humans (closer to 90% if I remember correctly) are willing to order a deadly force if there is someone else that actually presses the shock button.

So our current theory is actually the reverse of your parent claims, and we have experimental data to prove it. Drone operators in the Iraq invasion can actually attest to this as well. Humans are more likely, not less, to use deadly force the further they are away from the victim.
How much money, exactly? I feel similarly, but when I start to probe that idea, it tops out at some point...
Heck I still say that about Windows 2000. Clean, minimal interface, with all the power options easily available.
Windows button and start typing what you're looking for. I don't understand users that still point and click at everything.
Honestly Windows 11 is getting better all the time. It's much cleaner and less cluttered compared to 10 as well.

It's not perfect of course, but it's the best one so far imo, and it keeps getting better. I really like the new way to connect and manage Bluetooth devices from the taskbar that was recently added.

But then again, it's Windows, so when you look underneath the shiny new surface and realize e.g there's no way to add seconds to the watch display due to performance issues - the facade starts to slowly peel away.
From my understanding, the main advantage of writing by hand in terms of memorization/understanding comes from the fact that writing just takes more time. I am not aware of any research that would show that writing is more effective than engaging with text for the same amount of time in a different way, like typing it and then re-reading.
Not a music producer but I have been using this service since launch for some of my projects. Fairly user friendly I think. Although new genres have been added, older ones haven't changed much in terms of variety of melodies.
I thought Windows 8 was pretty good at the time, in hindsight because I had a Surface Pro and that was the computer that it was entirely designed for. Their three-column splitscreen layout was neat, if you could look past only having about 5 of the newfangled-touchscreen-UI-apps worth installing in the entire store. Or if you treated the OS as mostly being a OneNote launcher.

These days I'm inclined to agree with you. Windows 7 was the peak, newer versions have gone far downhill with trying to make me accidentally open Bing everywhere and automatically installing Candy Crush products that no one asked for.

When this computer dies, decent odds I replace it with a Steam Deck. Doubly so if they can stuff Thunderbolt into the next one and sell me a GPU dock with it.

But someone made the Bing metrics go up for a few years, so surely that's worth burning any customer goodwill to the ground.
It's very obvious that pages for the Settings app are being written in some very restricting XML or HTML type markup and they're struggling to give any intuitive structure to settings. Everything is in a very basic single-column layout with virtually no graphics to visually guide your eye and combine or separate items. There doesn't even seem to be a generic table widget with sortable columns available.
I think it will be interesting to see what happens in Ukraine in the medium to long term.

Obviously it’s politically expedient for the US and the countries under its hegemony to provide aid to Ukraine and I don’t imagine that will change, but I wonder whether “bomb them back to the Stone Age” will prove true.

The collective trauma and destruction of infrastructure must surely have a devastating effect on the entire population, especially the younger generations who are the ones fighting.

I can easily imagine a dark age of sorts in Ukraine.
XP was fine. 2000 was good. Nobody pines for Windows ME. People said those things and they meant it. Windows 8-11 feel pretty bad, overall. 7 was okay.
It is not typically possible to blend models like that, since the training process is (lateral) order insensitive, as far as the model goes.
Harris was chief of the Windows User Experience for Windows 8. He created Windows 8. He created Metro UI. He created the Windows 8 Start screen, charms, allowed ads in its inbox apps (e.g. Weather), etc. Keep that in mind when Harris says things like "the Start menu is Microsoft's flagship user experience. It should represent the very best UI design the company is capable of."
Tested out the screen recording feature in Windows 11 yesterday. Thought it was nice to have this built into the OS - it can be activated using Win+Alt+R. It worked fine until I minimized the current window - this made it stop without giving any hint. Turns out "Gaming features aren't available for the Windows Desktop or File Explorer" - but it works fine for recording Chrome.

Experiences like this just feels user hostile and plentiful when using Windows.

The newer Start Menus causes stress any time I use them, as I have no idea how much data it will end up leaking, and because it is more likely to yield a random internet search than showing me a locally installed program.
Take a moment to appreciate how bad the idea of relying so much on those platforms was in the first place and think about less postmodern ways to earn a living.
Honestly, I think Jonny Ive makes good industrial design (minus the far too extreme "minimalism" push with the butterfly keyboard MacBooks; they really need an "editor" like Steve Jobs) but their UI/UX design has really not been good. Alan Dye is way worse.

I find modern Apple software UI/UX design to be really devoid of functionality, information density, etc. I'm not the only one with this opinion (just listen to any Accidental Tech Podcast episode where they talk about it).
Vox: you tweeted out some stuff like - we never invest your deposits

Vox: that was bs, right?

SBF: it was factually accurate

Vox: huh!!! but like - their deposits were totally not there? or do you just mean, technically it was Alameda

SBF: FTX

SBF: correct

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23462333/sam-bankman-frie...
If you do that the ships would go (dangerously ?) fast.

60 MW output from a combustion engine means rougly 3x the mechanical energy output for the same amount of Joules input with an electric engine.
Is there a current legal dispute over the VLC trademark that would make this situation ambiguous?
The search sometimes just straight up does not work for me. Like 1-2 Minutes after a cold boot (I have fast startup turned off) it's completely unusable.
Download binary: https://github.com/onelittlebit/speedy/release
Installing Guide: https://medium.com/@littbit.one/installing-speedy-af451cc372...
ever tried to test microphone volume levels? every fucking time I have to search three different things before I can find it. I try "microphone", "audio", "volume", and its always the last one I try, and I can never remember for the next time.

Search is not a good UI, because you never get muscle memory with a search.
I believe at the least the current "dark age" would be more lack of knowledge of the current times due to the fragility of digital media.

Most physical forms of history are destroyed, eroded or buried over time, but can last hundreds or thousands of years sometimes. Digital media perhaps can last the same hopefully, but its shelf life while still in use is much lower.

A book from 100 years ago can still be in good condition and perfectly legible. Early era CDs that are now 20y old are starting to fail. The average spinning disk hard drive in use lasts roughly 6 years. Our longest form of digital storage, tape, only lasts up to 30 years.

If we want our knowledge to be available to future generations and not just for our own backups, we need faster and longer lived storage. But we won't see everything ported onto it either, so history will probably have a gap of data from the 1990s to the 20XX.
I guess you need to look at the current TAM for visual production in general.
That's the baseline (so includes visualization studios, agencies, game studios etc). Generally this potentially can help in many labour intensive parts of a creative visual process.

Is that a "large" organization market or not depends on your metric and what the market positioning of the offering is. I would see applications in both specialist content creation tools as well as "stock photos and merch".

In terms of finding stock photos, if you add a better text api that is easier to control this probably can compete with static stock photos in the sense that people can tune their images as much as they like. For example with their corporate merch (Imagine producing a slideset at Acme co. "Please give me an elephant and walrus wearing acme caps".

Ad agencies already love that they can train a model to quickly iterate product shot ideas extremely rapidly.

Then we have "the usual" effect automation has on market demand - automation increases the productivity of a task requiring labour, hence allowing to reduce the cost of a unit of production, which generally increases the demand. I.e. creative stuff will be cheaper to do, you won't replace artists, but suddenly the dude or dudette who spent hours just tweaking stuff has their own art studio at finger tips to command. They can get so much more done much faster.

The tech is not 100% bullet proof yet but at this pace it will be good enough soon (or probably is for several applications if there was just an UX sugaring targeting specific domain workflow).
Poor discoverability. This means you have to know that the setting exists in the first place, and then remember its precise name. Type "static IP" into search, do you see a way to set static IP? I don't get any results at all.
There is a reasonable argument that with a lot of the newer technology like the internet that while we have made information easier to produce and move about - it is a lot more fragile that it has ever been. Resilience is traded for convenience.

If there is a long term decline of material/energy resources for whatever reason, we will be in a world of pain in terms of information preservation. Will we favor food or archiving? Yes, this is an extreme scenareo but one that is fun to think about.

SSD's, Hard drives, chemical photographs and high acid paper printing will end up being the Achilles heal of this stuff. It still feels like stories and stone tablets are the best we have for real multi generational - multi millennial information storage.
Mango as well and others.. the hacks before all this went down appeared to be inside jobs to those tied to the Alameda. It goes deep.
See my reply to the similar comment in this thread and https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23462333/sam-bankman-frie...

Customers deposited funds for FTX to hold. FTX said "We're holding your funds; they're safe." FTX no longer has the customer funds. Why? They gave them to Alameda and Alameda traded with them and lost them (or maybe stashed some of it somewhere). That's theft, not accounting mistakes.
> The matter is really very nuanced and trivialising it that way is unhelpful.

Harping about copyrights in the Age of Diffusion Models is unhelpful (for artists) like protesting against a tsunami. It's time to move up the ladder.

ML engineers have a similar predicament - GPT-3 like models can solve at first try, without specialised training, tasks that took a whole team a few years of work. Who dares still use LSTMs now like it's 2017? Moving up the ladder, learning to prompt and fine-tune ready made models is the only solution for ML eng.

The reckoning is coming for programmers and for writers as well. Even scientific papers can be generated by LLMs now - see the Galactica scandal where some detractors said it will empower people to write fake papers. It also has the best ability to generate appropriate citations.

The conclusion is that we need to give up some of the human-only tasks and hop on the new train.
Is there some wordplay opening there? "It was a loan, not an investment"? "I gifted the money, I didn't invest it", etc...
Yes. It did have huge initial capital investments. In fact, in one of the rounds, $420m was raised and SBF personally took $300m for himself. He just funneled it to his own entities. I'm sure investors wouldn't be happy. I would not be surprised if he defrauded them in that situation, too.
XP was fine because you could throw it into 2000 mode, though looking back the fisher-price UI was just the UI.

Windows Vista wasn't terrible if you had a beefy machine and well-supported hardware. 7 was basically Vista but with newer machines and better hardware support. 8+ has been meh.
Diffudle: Stable Diffusion Meets Wordle
But Google does adjudicate on such disputes all the time, but usually only when the issue is wrongthink and not malware.
The drawing app that shipped with windows 8 and early windows 10 was also fantastic on a surface -- it's a pity that it's gon
example?

EDIT: not that Google isn't in the wrong here, this just feels like you're trying to push some other political agenda.
Name a successful coup of the American government by an armed force
UK airports could ditch luggage liquid rules by 2024
Shitting on low hanging fruit is an unusual activity
AutismCapital on Twitter seems pretty good on this, I'm not sure if you would consider them "news" for your purposes
I think for retired people, there mostly isn't all that much other stuff to do.
Around 38% of people will close a website which design they don’t like. Find out how you can enhance your website design using various textures.
Page 10 of this document doesn't say what you say it does.
Collection of GitHub Markdown Hacks
Reminds me of flooding a market with fake rhino horn. Idk whether it worked though.
This is utterly false in my experience. The popularity of Puma and Sidekiq mean that threading issues are quickly found and fixed.
Replication, not reptilian. The title makes more sense now.
Ugly invisibility sweater tricks AI so you can’t be spotted on security cameras
Seems unlikely given their long history of adjudicating precisely this kind of dispute.
All communities in the world except maybe France (already nuclear) and some hydro-electric countries are a perfect application of this tech. Currently, most of the world burns diesel/coal/gas for most of their energy needs and politicians are actively preventing that from changing.

PS: oh hello Germany, looking at you specifically.
Kevin O'Leary's statements that he would invest in SBF again are very suspicious. He doesn't sound like someone who lost a lot of money to a crook. https://twitter.com/unusual_whales/status/159282329011176243...
Apple, and meta have as well.

Apparently Facebook has a huge problem with distribution through messenger.
If you are aboveboard you need to diversify, because you WILL eventually eat a ban.

If you are not aboveboard, then just keep climbing back on using various tricks, as you won't really care.
Plausible deniability for governments. It's like DRM for Netflix-like streaming platforms. If they don't add DRM and their content owners' content gets pirated, they could argued in court that Netflix didn't do everything in their power to stop such piracy. So too here for Stability AI, they've said this is their reasoning before.
But they are gatekeepers. Which are a morality police. And we're quickly aligning all the powerful interests in society to remove anonymity of any kind online.
Does it really not maintain a cache of songs that I played three minutes ago?

My beef with Apple Music is that they can’t even be bothered to cache the whole song that you’re listening to.

The number of times that I’ve started playing an album on my phone then had it stop the instant I drive out of WiFi range. You had a whole minute to download three megabytes over fibre and didn’t even bother. 5G is ubiquitous and perfect everywhere, right? It sure is in the Bay Area where all us apple engineers live, so how about we cache, say, one second of audio in case somebody goes through a tunnel or something.
I for one, couldn't go back to a laptop without a touch screen, and for current purposes, Id be unhappy without the pen input to go with the multi touch.

While the UIs look bad, the touch and pen UX together in windows 10 is fantastic
this should have come with a spoiler alert
Actually I'm more knowledgeable about this stuff than you are, and it's still a stupid idea. It fails to account for all the tax and legal compliance issues that vendors have to deal with.

And real vendors don't want cryptocurrency magic beans anyway. They want useful currency like dollars or euros that they can use to pay their own suppliers.
I don’t think an independence referendum is needed every month and definitely not every 100 years

There was one in 2014, what is the right frequency