skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the surface that seems like a solid argument - but I think there are some key differences when comparing a situation where a cancer patient refuses surgery and somebody with mental illness refuses help getting their lives in shape.
For a start surgery is clearly a much more invasive and risky operation, and even if successful at removing the cancer, can leave the patient in a physically weakened/dependent state for some period of time. It also clearly requires highly-trained specialists to perform the operation and can only be done in controlled environs (operating theatre etc.). If there were any suggestion this were true for providing assistance for the severely mentally ill, then I'd be more inclined to agree with you that there's no good justification for imposing such treatment without their express consent. As it is, I certainly agree that there needs to be a strong system of checks and balances for any such scenario, including time-limits over how long it's legal to hold somebody against their will.
As it is, we don't let dementia patients simply do whatever they like even if they initially consented to entering a care facility, but then no longer want to stay there (which is not uncommon). Whether it's a duty-of-care argument, or simply that doing so would result in too much risk to others, at some point we have to accept even grown adults are no longer capable of rational/informed consent, and we do actually have doctors trained in making such diagnoses.
The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths is a page long, and you can find it online (html). It is a small example of his style. If you like that one, then you will probably like his other stories. Of his short stories, my personal favorite is The Secret Miracle (it is included in his book Fictions). He also wrote poetry. My personal favorite is The Golem (included in the book The Other, the Self).
You'd have enough time to go eat breakfast, mow the lawn, take a shower, and then come back to it being only 58% done.
Text summarization examples [1] are fun:

> Input: Product arrived labeled as Jumbo Salted Peanuts...the peanuts were actually small sized unsalted. Not sure if this was an error or if the vendor intended to represent the product as 'Jumbo'.

> Output: Not as Advertised

[1] https://huggingface.co/spaces/togethercomputer/GPT-JT
The good old days when bloated JavaScript wasn’t needed just to view read-only content
Ooo, that is very interesting. I will have to give that a shot, thanks for sharing!
For someone who is hearing impaired masks are awful. I hope that wearing of masks is never normalized.
Why are people going to work sick. That is the issue.
Of course masks don't really do much for COVID.
I appreciate typescripts stance to be a non-optimizing compiler. Having two optimization layers would make things weird
Mid-2014 15" Retina MacBook Pro

I'll replace it soon: the 1TB SSD is has been "full" for a year or two now, and with macOS Ventura it cannot run current software any more. If it weren't for that, I'd likely keep it for another few years -- unless I drop it, it would likely be fine for a 10+ year life.

My model has been to double the storage capacity with every purchase, but I think I'll likely go 4x this time (unless SSD prices go up).
I think this comment is the prime example of Firefox being unable to do an objectively and unqualified Good Thing without a million people showering hate into the comments.
BigGAN trained on JFT-300M and it worked fine. In fact, JFT-300M was easier than ImageNet. In their own words:

"Interestingly, unlike models trained on ImageNet, where training tends to collapse without heavy regularization, the models trained on JFT-300M remain stable over many hundreds of thousands of iterations. This suggests that moving beyond ImageNet to larger datasets may partially alleviate GAN stability issues."

This suggests GAN will work even better on, say, LAION-5B. It's just that nobody tried.

"GANs are not flexible enough to be effectively used in text-to-image generation" is an absurd statement. GANs have latents, there is no reason why just feeding CLIP to GANs shouldn't work. Again, nobody tried because most GAN works preceded CLIP.

We should try GANs again. It was abandoned without any evidence whatsoever that diffusion model etc is required. GANs have genuine advantages over diffusion models, like much faster sampling.
Index funds are pretty much the only thing worth investing in, so in a weird way by trying to avoid "good" investments you probably saved yourself a lot of money. Also what school was it? I can't imagine a university is a hot bed of insider trading information. Certainly mine wasn't :) Or were you working off campus somewhere?
quick give me a sip of it, it might be the anunnaki's tree of life. It might undo the dumb-ing down brain programming they put in us!!
Just FYI, I’m reasonably certain that parent is being satirical.
3 bucks! Nice! Congrats on the find!
Perhaps, less ‘obligation’ and more ‘interest’.
It really is surprisingly readable. Does excellent work on german, spanish & italian f1 news articles.
Any ideas How much does it cost to launch one of these
$ ?
> Even more worrying is the shops that claimed the systems had viruses and they installed antivirus software - conveniently the paper authors weren't able to find any activity log data on those machines. That suggests that some repair techs are actively cleaning up their tracks.

This is the conclusion that the researchers imply, but keep in mind that these computers did have malware on them: the spyware the researchers planted there! As a former repair tech, if I’d seen some thing writing screenshots and activity logs to disk (we would use, among other things, sysinternals tools like procmon to look for malware) I would definitely be deleting that.

Regardless, the fact of the matter is that a negative finding in this study is meaningless, since the laptops could have had the disks removed and imaged separately, or the techs could have booted a live USB to copy off files. The researchers’ spyware would have not noticed in these cases. It is concerning to me (in terms of the quality of the overall research) that this is not mentioned in the limitations section of the paper given how obvious it is.
"Based on an idea I had in 2014, built in my spare time over the past two years, I’ve finally completed my first physical prototypes."

Too late! He completely missed the NFT boom. These could have been the definitive way to deliver NFTs. The device would check in with the blockchain, and only if the owner of the device and the owner of the NFT matches would it display.
Apple supply chain data shows receding exposure to China
You may be receiving second hand boxes already. When I ship products out, it's generally in a clean Amazon box. No one has complained yet.
Reunited: a Russian manuscript of the Alexander Romance
Thanks for the reply. Wouldn't that cause the rates to be really close to the federal funds rate then? Why are mortgages hitting 7%? If the funds rate top is 4%, wouldn't even 5% - if guaranteed - still be better?
LOL yes, if their market share increases after rapid app improvements we could call it a Fast Firefox Transformation
Based on this reasoning, C is a leaky abstraction because you can inline asm into a C program.
Well, Windows was, but that's not the point.

The parent comment noted that there was a generation who shunned Microsoft because of their corporate misbehavior. More recent generations of programmers have forgotten why that was, and Microsoft has, once again, successfully established a dominant position in the development ecosystem.

I fully expect that position to be leveraged for profit, and that would see a new generation, 25 years later, who will never trust Microsoft again.

Most things are cyclical.
I feel like it won't matter. FF translation usage statistics will be a small fraction of Google's, and I can't imagine them even being interested at that kind of data. Since it's an add on (vs. Chrome auto translation by default), it probably won't be adopted by much of the browser userbase.
Hmm , I’m no kernel writer but I don’t think trait’s necessarily offer anything in rust over C++ where I’d use polymorphism with abstract interfaces.

When I’ve written lower level components the things that have really been godsends outside the safety features are things like enums (much more powerful than C/C++ unions/enums and much more ergonomic than variants).

And even though I said traits don’t offer too much more than C++, one thing I think they do really offer is when combined with generics. Rust generics let you define trait requirements better (though not as extremely flexible) as C++ concepts/constraints.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjVC6BdnKxo
If you do go the crypto route, may I suggest you consider something... cleaner? A single BTC transaction uses ~2 months of electricity of the average household

ETH is a bit better but still not there yet. There's "3rd generation" systems like Hedera[0] that use hashgraphs instead and consume about as much electricity as anything else you'd do on the internet.

Or at least choose one that's actually dedicated to privacy like Monero

Cool project! I like the design and hope you had fun with it

[0] https://hedera.com/
Stray is a good example
Todd Howard: Lex Fridman Podcast
Following up on my comment on a standby generator: There are a lot of places where the generator needs to be able to run for a few days, in poor weather. Think of the Texas blackout, with users like hospitals and data centers.

There's got to be a point where a fuel cell with a large tank of hydrogen is cheaper than a bigger battery. And, if you can hook in some kind of electrolysis thing, it could refill itself too.
Arthur C Clarke claimed to use a very large version of something similar to accelerate the evolution of an entire species, so there’s that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monolith_(Space_Odyssey)
I own a Tesla and I don’t see being able to own another ev unless you’re willing to not go on road trips and always have a garage or other reliable location with a wall charger. I think that they’ll dominate as commuter cars in large cities where driving is infrequent but I couldn’t see using one of those as a primary car outside of that. I’m mostly familiar with Teslas infrastructure so maybe someone else can speak to non-Tesla charging infra. It’s possibly better than I think.
Covid protests escalate in Guangzhou as China lockdown anger boils
For any device connected to network the one should assume it will upload data to internet. Intentionally or not. Blocking it on router is the way to go.
That’s a tough one because Python lacks a standard convention for deep comparisons so your only options are some bespoke function you (probably copy from some random website) stick in every library you use or pull in some third party dependency or use a standard module with a fairly straightforward serialization method that does what you need which I would guess is either pickle or json. Is there a better option?
I have a Netscape email account which I still use for some old stuff ;)
Neuromancer deserves it. Such an influential trilogy and yet no major film adaptations.

I’m actually super excited for this
If needed you can make your own map that doesn't let you down: https://www.npmjs.com/package/infinity-map
CSS has done more damage to developer productivity than any other technology out there. And I'm including .csv's. CSS is over 20 years old and we as an industry have been spinning our wheels on how to do simple arrangements of rectangles the whole time. Truly, it is time to just bin the whole thing as a failure.
Jetbrains moved out of Russia.
"Very rarely do you need to update a page once it's been posted so we punted on that feature for now."

Uh... okay.
Help with livestreaming social app. Video SDK (Twilio, Agora) too expensive
Hi, we are two GenZ cofounders (24 and 21) building the first study stream platform in Southeast Asia to help young professionals focus and feel less lonely. Check us out at: www.lean.social
Our biggest struggle right now is our video streaming infrastructure and its prohibitive cost. We are using P2P WebRTC and each video room has a limit of 5 participants. There is no cost but it's very limiting and low-performance.
If we wanted more, we have 2 options:
1/ Buy a video sdk server plan (Twilio, Daily.co, Agora, Amazon Chime, etc):
- The cheapest these can get is 0.0015$ per participant minute. Without scale it is 0.004$/participant minute
- This is prohibitively expensive for us with limited funding. 1000 users using our service for 2 hours daily is a 10$k bill montly
Is there any more affordable providers? How much of the cost can we save if:
- We increase the latency to 10-15s? Real-time is not important for us
- We Reduce the video resolution to super low ~ 240p? Our video frame is very small to increase focus

2/ Build our own self-hosted server:
- We are leaning towards open-source projects like LiveKit (seems better) and Jitsi. We plan to host the instances on AWS because of our CTO's familiarity with its infrastructure.
Has anyone tried building B2C social apps with video calls from open-source projects like these? Could you share:
- How much does self-hosting on aws would save us?
- How deeply can we customize their UI? We don't do anything like the usual video conferencing layout. We want to build our own layout which is vastly different.
Like many people, they have no family members left. I don't think I'm at all wrong to assign blame to people like RFK Jr. for exploiting him.
The Driftless portion of north eastern iowa can be quite nice.
Check out nextdns if you don't want to host your own.
I had several thoughts while reading this article.

> Cambodia is contaminated with millions of unexploded ordnances dropped as cluster bombs by the U.S. during the Vietnam War. In addition, millions of land mines were buried throughout the country during a series of civil wars from the 1970s–1990s.

Millions. I can't process numbers that large. I know what a million is, but I struggle to imagine what a million land mines would look like. What happened to Southeast Asia during the 20th century was so sad and tragic.

> Rats have been so successful that the rodents are now seen as competition for the more traditionally used military dogs for mine clearance.

I didn't know dogs were used to clear mines. I would have thought they would be too heavy to walk on mines, considering that mines can kill children, and military working dogs have a weight comparable to children.

Lastly, I wondered whether it would be both possible, economical, and militarily sensible to create mines that expire after a certain time, due to an engineered deterioration process for the detonator or for the explosive charge. A form of planned obsolescence. Few conflicts last more than a few years. Is a five year old mine really that useful militarily? Fresh mines can be dropped from aircraft now if a sudden need arised. The Korean Demilitarized Zone is the most obvious example I can think of where old mines might still serve a future purpose.
Technological Windows
this is really cool, but how can I trust this free service. If I use this for my project and one day they shutdown?
I don’t get it. As a data engineer aren’t you the one who has to deal with the DS code? Whereas a DS someone else has to deal with your code?
Isn't the current owner losing $20-30K/yr in mortgage+property taxes?
Drug slows cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s patients, study reveals
It has to be the major share holders, or they cannot push their ppl at the head of the company and steer it strongely the way they want. And it seems that some of those ppl can be members of several boards at the same time.

On the companies I had a look at, vanguard + blackrock is usually ~30% and both are usually the biggest share holders.

For instance, amazon, vanguard + blackrock are not in control because, one, there is the azur fund which has a bigger part, two, JB has a massive part of the shares, JB is explicitely in control here.

What I could read from the net vanguard and blackrock are still small in tesla compared to musk, so until he sells to them most of his shares, he is still the capitain on board. In the end, we cannot tell if musk is one of them.
> a family of as little as two pages should share a stylesheet for their common classes, ids and common structures, not consistently repeat identical CSS in multiple files.

Why?
I haven’t driven in a year so maybe it’s changed but the Mountain View costco always offered boxes if you had a lot of purchases. The number of people doing what appears to be instacart or other company shopping for customers has skyrocketed during first year of Covid so those delivery services might be using many of the boxes they previously tried to give to customers.
Seems interesting.

Cell phone are new Skinner box
"Your claim of batteries powering a gigawatt scale grid for two days does not pass the smell test."

What smell test? What doesn't specifically sound right?

I might have miscalculated of course,

50M cars x 50kwh = 2500Gwh = 2.5Twh

Germany Electricty usage:

561,8 Twh/ year -> /365 = 1.54Twh / day

So two days ~3TwH, Battery capacity ~2.5Twh

I would be interested in any corrections, especially as you are a renewable energy researcher and I'm just a coder.
Namedtuples were (are?) constructed with eval under the hood
I still think you're misunderstanding. It sounds like you think that the component has a class and everything flows from that. Like .component-name a {}

The point is that HTML elements don't need to have semantic class names at all. So even the top most element in the component would still use utility classes.
https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile It encodes image media in base-64 and produces an HTML single file.

And, if I want to remove parts of the page, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/print-edit-we/olnb...
which can save in MHTML format (one file, a zip archive container).

Another alternative is the paid level of pinboard.in, which essentially makes an archive copy of every page you bookmark and tag.

(And for all I know, there may be self-hosted versions of pinboard.in with the archive feature.)
This being on the front page at the same time as "The Army tried to develop a missile guided by pigeons" is...interesting [0]. Looks like militaries are having fun using animals for warfare.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33779361
Beware Putin: Russia Is Surprisingly Vulnerable to Bombardment from Ukraine
They surely meant the booming of rubber bullets and riot shields. Victoria boomed like never before.
Mo' free lunch paid by "somebody else"! Let's fight inflation together! ;)
I think google is suffering big company problems. I think a lot of googlers want to penalise malicious sites but it's a second tier goal for the search team, who are getting hammered constantly by other players trying to alter rankings.

Obviously a few open source projects complaining won't move the needle much, but law enforcement and cyber agencies do have big requirements for improving resilience to these attacks (and supply chain especially). Improving the consumer supply chain security is a big government goal in many countries.
Go to Receive Multipe Error Wrapping – Fixing a Common Complaint
Verbose error handling's the most common complaint about Go and this goes a fair way toward minimizing it. (I would argue the core model is a boon and most in the community prefer to be part of a community placing such importance on error handling, in spite of the boilerplate.)

There are many situations where you want to collect all triggered errors instead of only the first and this collects them together, letting you test for them at different layers. You can see the implementation here: https://t.co/jj3PSfYubQ
Antipersonnel mines absolutely should have an expiry date after which they are no longer triggered by the depression of their sensor. Issue is, these things are mass manufactured and probably have some defect rate which increases with time after deployment. So they couldn’t be trusted to be ‘safe’ after expiring anyway. But still would save lives & limbs to have a mechanism like that built in.
I believe they don't have any batteries in them but only powered when connected to the dock. E-ink only requires power when changing the image, not for displaying it.
1 Year of Blogging
I don't think I quite understood this the first time I read it but it looks like that content you show is part of the prompt.

"Great for toddlers" is the summarization actually provided by the model for "My toddler loves this game to a point where he asks for it. ...<several sentences omitted>... Please keep up the great work."

The prompt contains the instructions on how to execute the summarization with a couple of examples. "Not as Advertised" is one of the examples.
That's a fair point. I would like to have the entire thing be open source for security purposes like you mentioned, but right now the frontend is built with TailwindUI, which is a paid set of components, so I was worried about open sourcing that up front.

I will take a closer look at how to open source it, especially the parts that would be security critical. I do agree with the general policy of not trusting security devices you can't audit yourself (which is why I opened up the core library earlier).
thanks for sharing! those are really valuable thoughts.

one of the top takeaways :

> The most important thing is to get a lot of practice taking pictures of the thing you like to photograph.
Thanks for the pointer! Just bought the audiobook version of your book, looks like a great read.
Being fatter than Homer Simpson
Life is complicated, cooking doesn’t have to be
because if they don't then the snowflakes are gonna call them out as ruthless on twitter.

I'm continually appalled by the level of entitlement in the tech bros community, apparently layoff has no right to exist. Just because company is still making money they have to keep sharing it with you, some person who knows how to code. Someone please tell them about capitalism and the concept of "job".
Since you have a Twitter background, what's your opinion of the social components of https://bearblog.dev/? Could you imagine to have an RSS and ActivityPub stream for pages that want to gain publicity?
Have you considered putting your community up on ic.org?

https://www.ic.org/directory/
>to create mines that expire after a certain time

Some modern mines have a programmed self destruct time. An additional safety is an electrical detonator system that is powered by a battery with a limited capacity: once the battery runs out, it can no longer fire the detonator. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GATOR_mine_system

A mine with a discharged battery is not exactly safe, but without the detonator it requires extreme conditions or decades of aging to explode.
> It so happens that "good" behaviour that we seek to embed in our children is generally the same as behaviour that is good for society.

The behaviour that most of the school system seeks to embed in children is primarily "obey and do as you're told, don't question", which is far from good.
how absurd that Tax Payers are subsidizing 1%ers that are buying 10 investment properties.