skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Muhammad was not even literate, and unless he was inspired by divinity, his ideas were extremely powerful.

He used to take retreats in the caves near Mecca to meditate and reflect. It was during one of these sessions that he later claimed that he was overwhelmed with the inescapable presence of archangel Gabriel who commanded him to "Read!". This directive of Gabriel to Mohammad is held to be the first verse of the divine revelation in Islam.

Read!
In the Name of your Lord Who created
Created Man(kind) from a clot of blood

Read!
And your Lord is Ar-Rahman
Who Taught by the 'Pen'
Taugh Man(kind) that which he knew not.

[Q.96 'Al-Alaq']

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad%27s_first_revelation#...

As mentioned in a comment to a dup post, Paul is neglecting the reflect phase. For some this occurs prior to writing. Others, take time when writing to pause and reflect.

p.s.

> Muhammad was not even literate

We do know that he dictated and others wrote messages [correspondences] that were sent. So no records of him writing, but this was not an uneducated man. He was a merchant, traveled, and conversed with other men at markets, oasis rest stops along the trade route. (And he was not a frivolous man.)

The reason Muhammad is said to have been "illiterate" is because Qur'an refers to him (yes, it is the most meta book I've ever read) as "the un-lettered Prophet". "Ummi".

Personally, I think this is a misreading, since these are technical terms (like 'Pen' in above cited verses), and 'letter' refers to the 'mystic letters* given to Moses'.

i.e. Mohammad the Gentile Prophet. The prophet for the un-Lettered, the Gentile.

*consult your local Rabbi :)

https://aish.com/the-mystical-power-of-hebrew-letters/
> unless your first language is very different from Esperanto.

Even with a language close to Esperanto (French) it’s hard to pronounce, and not very catchy.

Honestly using an Esperanto word is a bit uninspired and mediocre.
From which raw material?
My feet get hot in my GTX boots, but they also get hot in almost everything else when I'm walking for hours on end. Overall, the boots are not the worst experience, and I can pretty comfortably wear them all day for a week, maybe because I tend to wear better socks in them.

Sandals and mesh sneakers are better in terms of heat, but not an option for many hiking trails (ymmv). And obviously not water proof.
While GTK is a gui library, it is not a rust gui library. The GTK you link to is simply rust bindings for the GTK library.

The most popular rust gui library at the time of writing seems to be egui with 489k downloads.
Rust seems to provide memory safety built-in that is still possible in C++ with appropriate linters / static analysis (e.g., don't ever assign a `new` pointer to anything other than a unique one). I remember Google's codebase generally being good on this, but does Chromium not follow that?

My guess is yes and these are issues that would affect both languages equally, with Rust it just happens to be in an `unsafe` block.
Project harp worked. This gun was made by the same person, Gerald Bull. It was obviously enough of a threat to get him assassinated.
> As an example, device drivers that are tied tightly to hardware. While it would sound nice to have an nvidia GPU fake/mock, in reality it is probably not possible to create one, keep it up to date, etc. The complexity would be enormous and might not show anything as you wouldn't know if it was a bug in the fake or driver.

Ok, but then again: How would you make sure your Nvidia driver is working correctly?
50s/70s/90s art are recognizably different

I have wondered if merely being behind the curve will be the Achilles heel of AI art -- nobody wants a bunch of old-looking crap, and if you're on the cutting edge, there isn't a large enough body of work to train the AI from, so it can never catch up; i.e., 2030 art might not look like 2020 art, and you may never have a current-enough labelled dataset to look "current"

I do hope AI art will make game and film production cheaper, but at the same time I suspect for commercial ads and a large part of graphic design, AI won't be that useful, since it is "imprecise" (can't fit the art in exactly such and such a position in a beautiful way -- or even, think of a dashed line with misaligned corner-dashes), or ads will look old and "wrong".

Just thinking out loud.
You can go wherever you want. The house isn’t going anywhere, it’s still registered as yours and you still pay taxes for it, with a discount if you designate it as your primary residence.
read all of PG's stuff.. promise you will think otherwise. Taleb's books is hilarious and insightful but PG's essays convey those same truths and many more in a much more succinct format.
Thumb mode.
Also a classic nationalist move to play up the connection to past greatness, positioning themselves as the natural inheritors of such.
> Most research I've seen indicates that human population will likely max out at 12 billion and then decline until it reaches a stable level.

That kind of research is based on the assumption that the social/cultural trends encouraging people to have less kids continue unabated.

Humans often overcompensate. It is conceivable that a country's population may decline to the point that the threat that poses to its future becomes impossible to ignore – the threat may motivate the general population to change their behaviour, and may lead to the government introducing major incentives to encourage more children. That may lead to the population decline being reversed; but, it may then be difficult to "turn off the tap" of the new culture/policies to stop the population booming again.

There are also countercultural minorities (mostly ultra-conservative religious sects) who stubbornly continue to have lots of kids in spite of the social/cultural forces which discourage mainstream society from doing so. That kind of analysis generally ignores those minorities, because they are so small – true, but if they don't change their ways, eventually they will grow to become the majority, and then we'll be back to population boom again.

Will they eventually change their ways? That is possible, not inevitable. Many of them have been successfully resisting pressure to change their ways for decades; if they haven't succumbed to that pressure yet, why assume it is inevitable that they eventually will? If one considers that there are multiple such countercultural minorities, even if some of them do end up changing course, all it takes is for one to stubbornly resist doing so, for it to eventually become the demographic majority.
We prepend the prompt prefix to the page text to create the actual model prompt. GPT doesn't have any such abstraction.
I expect it has been made practically illegal to build new apartment blocks in desirable locations. There isn't a lot of construction relative to the amount of debt being handed out.
He is right on that regard. In Spain, CS curricula have that on any university.
> Is there a German word for "this person is very intelligent but lacks sensibilities"?

Not quite the same, but there is the word "Fachidiot" ("fach" = subject) referring to someone who is book-smart on a topic, but is generally not very smart, nor able to apply their topical knowledge in ways they weren't specifically taught.
But anybody with a spare bedroom is doing the same thing by your logic. Nobody is in the kitchen right now. You monster.

The solution isn’t to stick homeless people in every available space. It’s to build places for them to live.

In your case, if your hypothetical homeless person wants to live on my street, he can buy one of the three homes currently for sale there, for the same price mine would sell for. How about we at least wait to see if he buys one of those before you go kicking me out of mine?
I know a bunch of startups and they all struggle with the GDPR. None has any issues with environmental protection.

"just have to respect your users rights to privacy" is easier said than done. I don't know a single startup that can say for sure they are GDPR compliant. It's not just "don't use Google fonts". It's really hard questions like "Do we have to replace all our non-EU infrastructure like our CDN, our payment provider, the SaaS services we use with new infrastructure ran by companies in the EU? How do we find those? Do they even exist? Do they work well for non-EU users? Are they compliant? How do we check?".
There should be different zoning and taxes for different types of homes. A primary residence only zone for example. There is a huge difference between primary residents and vacation/rental homes and their role in society.

In the same way "ride sharing" is a loophole to have a taxi company without the regulations, Airbnb found a loophole for running a hotel company without the regulations.

The homes rented out for days at a time should not count toward the housing supply and only be allowed on designated areas just like hotels.
The lack of a frictionless way to run github actions locally
has always seemed a big issue to me.

So in many cases, I use a makefile with one of the github actions to run a makefile. It has worked okay in the few cases I've tried it.
Twitter has lost 50 of its top advertisers since Elon Musk took over
Gradient boosting performs gradient descent
> You misunderstand the parent comment.

I don’t think so. The parent seems to talk about StackOverflow answers plagiarizing some small blogs, not StackOverflow itself being scraped.

Not an issue I’ve witnessed though.
Your argument vs OP that tried rust, is that they should try rust until they agree with you?
How would functional programming help with Rust? I am fluent in both, and having map and reduce in the Iterator trait does not make Rust anything like a functional language.
Complexity of tax law is an absolute killer to productivity. I have a small business (not in USA) and I don't know how many times I've wished it could just be a simpler system, even if it meant I have to pay more! The savings in time, accounting complexity, professional fees, mental overhead, and stress would more than make up for it. It would also make efforts to automate compliance more feasible (as opposed to a system of nuanced rules that is constantly changing).
> the reflect phase. For some this occurs prior to writing. Others, take time when writing to pause and reflect.

First you load the dataset then you train the model.
With you on the pension fund remark, bit whats next / else?
small scale trust the science?
But he could probably make the next piece in 80 minutes, if not 80 seconds.
Well yes, lifetimes also exist in C, but it is only in Rust that they are compiler checked
And GPT-3 remembers the prefix at the end of a long story and writes a summary?

That sounds very surprising to me. I would have strongly expected it continues the story.
If that was the tweet, then 100% yes. This person should not be suspended.

Free-speech would let Elon fire the dude, but not ban his account.
I'm doing a 50% off (first year) for my SaaS KTool, https://ktool.io

It allows you to send multiple types of content to your Kindle: Reddit posts, Hacker News discussions, Twitter threads & newsletters. It supports multiple file types too: PDF, DOCX, markdown etc.
In cold climates, having Goretex on the outer layer is key.
You have a nuke, so people don't invade your territory for fear you might use it.
> What I said was that war is good sometimes

And I don't agree with you there. War may be necessary sometimes, but never good.
This is a good question. I use it a lot less than I used to, and I don't have Prime.

Sometimes it's because of price, if something's significantly cheaper on Amazon I'll buy it from Amazon. Free delivery tips it in Amazon's favour sometimes.

Sometimes it's availability. It can be quite painful to order things from outside the UK, most sellers aren't equipped to deal with VAT/duty their end so I end up with the delivery company holding packages hostage until I pay those (which is fine) plus a £20-30 "admin fee" for their package-hostage service. Pre-Brexit I could avoid this by ordering from elsewhere in the EU, but now I'm even more limited. Looking through my Amazon purchase history 3 of the last 5 things I've ordered are only available from Amazon in the UK (and at twice the price from a couple of dodgy looking online stores I've never heard of).

The other reason is their returns policy, if the thing I order doesn't work they'll take it back with no fuss and refund the money. Other major retailers in the UK make this difficult, frustrating and/or time-consuming.

I think they succeeded in retail because of a relentless focus on making the experience for customers better than their competitors. That's all still there, in the background - but it's being eclipsed by some other part of the org that wants to trick those customers into buying a load of shit.
Using C++ as a scripting language, part 5
Um, lifetimes are not a made up concept of rust to be in your way. It helps you understand issues that would be real and undetected in your C app.

Your C app would work by happy accident and you would not notice until later when data is corrupted in another part of your program. This is the rest of us wanted to leave C/C++.
the many men, women and children they kill daily to get it.

just because there's no colonial empires fighting each other, doesn't mean there's peace.
It could run at least NetSurf about 4.5y ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgzjQfocCIE
Does HackerNews count as reading?
Would this mean an end to holiday homes and second homes?
Electrolysis without first desalinating produces chlorine.
I managed to see Einstein on the Beach in London a while back, recommended! It is performed maybe once a decade or something somewhere…
It’s more typical for small business owners to rather have the money. It’s not hard to keep manageable Quickbooks and pay $1k/year for bookkeeping and tax prep. People on the losing end of tax reform would stand to lose thousands (or simply worry they would lose money.) Even a few thousand could mean the difference between viable and comfortable or struggling and viable. Those who are disorganized and/or worry over and internalize financial tasks as you describe tend to do so regardless of the complexity.

That’s not to say we shouldn’t reform, and there are certainly businesses who would benefit from it financially.
From what I understand falling asleep in response to getting comfortable is simply a sign of sleep shortage, so I wouldn't hold that against your wife
You could put the space gun at high altitude to start with to reduce the air resistance.

With regards to being delicate, we already have rocket assisted guided artillery shells. These require complex electronic and can survive the high acceleration.
I’ve used this a bunch; I actually don’t know how else you’d write and test a GitHub action. Do people just push them and hope they work and push more commits with “fix” as the message until it works?
You can also solve the problem before people get addicted. It won't turn up in any statistic, people will simply take it for granted.
More specifically, the invention of print processes suitable for reproducing photographs displaced a huge number of artists. If you go looking through glossy magazines of the 1940s, they were packed with illustrations.
You think that World War 3 starting in Ukraine would have been less catastrophic for the civilians of Ukraine?

If NATO starts openly fighting Russia, do you imagine there is even one shred of a chance that Ukraine doesn't get nuked?
Just found this channel some days ago, it was a good few hours of a Sunday spent.
The reason for this taxonomy is the same reason you use consts instead of plain numbers in computer code. You change the definition of “green” in just one place when someone invents a new loophole, or someone invents a new green method of obtaining sustainable hydrogen.

Also, the descriptions would be too long in some cases. To be green, according to the new taxonomy, it’s not enough for hydrogen to be generated using renewables. It has to be generated by renewables built specifically for this purpose, and from water that is not drinking water - so that we don’t drain lakes and rivers to produce it.

Now, gold hydrogen is just a marketing gimmick. It’s just brown or black, unless they store generated co2 safely and permamently - then it can become green.
I find it funny how the geek/nerd fandom first made out Elon to be Techjesus, and now that he's isn't cool anymore, are now having kittens and trying to create reasons to negate his achievements.

"Oh it was from Daddy's emerald mine money"

"He just buys companies, his success is bought not made"

"He just hires competent people like Shotwell, Mueller etc, it not him, it's his employees"

"His success is not that big a deal"

and on and on

Like seriously, it's embarrassing. Really? A random nameless intern's tumbler post is now what we are using to get our rage boner on? And for what? something we will not even care about six months from now?

how about we realize it's not a net-sum game and a person can both be a genius AND an asshole at the same time? Like It is possible for MULTIPLE things to be true, we are supposed to be better than this.
All of this is true but it's totally unrelated to the fact that fluoropolymers are forever chemicals. Fluoropolymers themselves are harmless, even if their byproducts are not necessarily. And presumably the compounds of concern you've highlighted are actually not forever chemicals.
> trying to focus less on the things I do at work and more on the things I do outside of it

This is an under-recommended but totally solid approach to a happy life. The takeaway I got from Po Bronson's "What Should I Do With My Life?" was that vocations are overrated -- your job might be funding the things that make you happy today and that's just fine. The secret is to be happy today, not to be miserable now because <some story about future happiness>.
Ok sorry, I think that's me misinterpreting what banker's rounding mean. But I know the regulator will expect round(0.5) = 1, not 0.
‘Surprisingly tasty’: putting Neanderthal cooking to the test
Some places tax empty homes more, which seems like the real problem. If you have it rented all the time, potentially to low income tenants, I'm fine with it paying normal rates.
I wouldn't call it a RiiR. It takes inspiration from other projects (namely Minix, Plan9, and ZFS for the filesystem) but is otherwise it's own thing and makes some interesting design decisions (e.g. being URL-centered).
I’m not saying you’re wrong, but I think you are suggesting a very poor solution to argue that no one wants to have the problem solved? Maybe there are good solutions waiting to be discovered. I think it’s abundantly clear that lots of organizations would have use for a smoother way to collaborate between developers, designers and content creators.
This week in KDE: Humongous UI improvements
You're free to buy other brands' membranes but if you want to use Gore-Tex then you'll have to sign that license agreement.
So seizing the money without any proof of it being illegal?
How fair is it?
No it would just mean paying higher taxes on second homes and vacation homes. Which feels like the right thing to do.
yeah

i also use other incredibly informative messages like:

- oh oops

- fix for real this time

- will this actually work?

- this probably won't fix it

- a
What other platforms do you sell your videos? I'm a huge fan of your coding math series, also playing with chaos book. Thanks for the great work, I've learned a lot from you.
how do you check footprint?
>Jealous Shamiko, with tail curled protectively around Momo

Why can't this be done? It also seems like an object-composition problem, so assuming the model has some concept of "Momo" like it does for "forest" it would seem to be possible? Is this just a limitation of the Dreambooth finetuning process?

Also if you happen to have more samples of the Dreambooth output, could you share? (I want to see that Shamiko in a spacesuit wandering mars...)

I'm interested to know how well diffusion models can generalize across style (I guess this could be tested by keeping a fixed prompt and varying the initial seed state). Have diffusion models successfully learned some latent space for "style"? This doesn't matter for real-world objects since all apples look pretty much the same, but it matters a lot for 2D art where artists usually have a unique style (which I guess would be defined by proportions, palette, etc.).
This isn't the only way to generate/extract hydrogen
The downside to this approach is that you have to wait longer for things to pass compared to certain actions.

For example, linting can be run in seconds with an action. If you instead clone and install dependencies before linting, you’re waiting much longer to realize you have more whitespace than you should have
You've described my workflow perfectly. Edit: Downvoters, please help me.
GTX in shoes generally does not last very long. In my experience in about a season or so there are patches/ cracks that let the water in. I guess something to do with the stresses of using a soft membrane meant to wrap around human body to support the weight of said body...
This produces the same amount of co2 as the regular hydrogen generated from fossil fuels.p, unless they lock it underground permamently.
Really? "No reason"? You can't think of one rea$on?
The US was the one that doing the meddling primarily, they used the EU as one of the carrots. Victoria Newland famously was recorded saying “fuck the EU”. Germany for example deliberately moved to cut out Ukraine as a transfer country for their gas supply by going for Nordstream 1&2. One reason was that Ukraine tried to use that dependence as leverage on multiple occasions. It is a long and complicated story starting sometime after the collapse of the Soviet Union but in many ways even connected to WW1. I feel sympathy for the Russian and Ukrainian people, that they had consistently some of the worst politicians and rulers imaginable.
Capturing the CO2 from doing this is the same lie as capturing fugitive methane.

The line is stop drilling, digging and cutting.
Until now, I have used Gore-Tex only in various kinds of shoes, for many years.

However, in all those kinds of shoes, Gore-Tex has provided a very noticeable improvement, through their ability of keeping the feet dry even when having to walk through water or partially-melted snow.

Even when just walking through a city for the daily commuting, I have found this feature very valuable, especially when going to an office where I would not be able to change my shoes with a dry pair.

So I disagree that Gore-Tex is useful only in an extended outdoor setting.
JoyCons are 100% valid bluetooth controllers as well.
If the CO2 emissions produce energy that funges against carbon intensive energy, it is a net benefit. The arithmetic here really isn't hard.
Maybe you shouldn't consider Stable Diffusion the "artist" but actually the "work of art". Several artist have been experimenting with 'machines' that can make art for a long time, but it is always the machine that is considered "work of art" not its output.

One such artist is Jean Tinguely. You can go to the Jean Tinguely museum and make a free "painting" using one of his machines, and that picture has no value and isn't very good. The machine itself however is very valuable and is what is everybody (including Tinguely) considers the actual work of art.

The main differences now is that now the machine can produce aesthetically pleasing results.
'Gold hydrogen'? Sounds like the marketing term 'clean coal'.
> Technically from the EU27 only Germany, Austria, Italy, Czechia, Slovakia, and Bulgaria are the ones actually dependent on Russian Gas (6 out of 27 nations). It's important to not generalize.

And Switzerland. Switzerland is not a member of the EU but is Europe, and its economy (and culture) is strongly interconnected with the EU.
Lex Fridman, podcaster, and Lex Friedman, podcaster. I was confused for a moment.
Which museum is the first documented piece of AI art held in?