skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
... Not sure where in my post I comment on authoritarianism. I was criticising an absurdly skewed take compared to the source provided.

But sure. Lets go into this.

Part 1. Authoritarianism.

I don't like it. I do see the Australian government getting worse with it. And there is very little I could do to stop it other than vote right wing nutters out of parliament.

Part 2. heavy handed approach to COVID

I agree with it - even in hindsight. Society had no vaccine. No RAT. Awkward PCR testing process with delays. No real defense. The ONLY thing that we could do was to halt the spread until we could get a vaccine. As demonstrated by "elevator sneeze man", you can't trust the populace at large not to spread it.

And there were fuckups. Apart from "elevator sneeze man", the airport quarantine bungle anyone? These fuckups should be investigated in their own right.

But it largely worked.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

USA 100 526 312 cases, 1 105 029 deaths

Australia 10 651 218 cases, 16 119 deaths

Right now, Australia has ~10% of the number of cases as the US. Which is fair because we're roughly 10% the population size and now we're vaccinated COVID has been allowed to roam.

Australia has ~1.5% of the number of COVID deaths as the US. Which is down to being vaccinated BEFORE we let COVID roam.

I like my parents. I like the parents of many of my friends. At least some of them would have died due to COVID if it had been let to run rampant before we got a vaccine.

Conclusion

So yeah, I was happy to live through the Melbourne lockdown. As traumatic as it was, it was better than the alternative.

But ScoMo should be friggin' nailed for his "multiple ministries" bullshit.
Not everyone gets to make money from content creation. But if the content is good people will naturally donate to keep the creator creating. The fact that adblockers didn't wipe out YouTuber shows it.
> Absolutely, I'll admit to being a too-frequent customer of Little Caesars because I walk in, hand over cash, and get a pizza that is waiting

And I feel terrible each time. Its not even... very good Pizza. But hot damn, its just ready and I'm in-and-out immediately.

I think my friends make a joke that Little Caesar's Pizza takes like... Pizza that's been sitting under a heat-lamp for an hour. Because... that's pretty much what you're getting most of the time.

They definitely hit that "impulse buy". Honestly, the only reason I even go there is because its next to the grocery store, and I don't feel like cooking after doing grocery shopping (ironically).
Yes, your docking station is effectively a primitive duel disc. The write-able cards are new, though.
Sucrase is faster than SWC and esbuild in single-threaded performance and something like 20x faster than babel.

https://github.com/alangpierce/sucrase

The real issue isn't JS, but is the lack of profiling (as shown here) combined with wanting to be everything to everyone leading to layers of bloated abstraction.
Apple clears all their existing tweets following noone
I get the 1mg pills and use a pill splitter
That's fantastic! Are you saying we should force that model on every organization? Or we should not support them until they are good with that model? Or we should steal their content until they adopt your model?
Don't take that for granted
Adjusting pricing, introducing annual plans, and accelerating innovation
I come from a web dev background, and spent the last 3 years running the cloud and embedded firmware teams for a 3D printer startup. I learned that hardware isn't so hard, once you get past all the mystery. My coworkers gave me tips on which tools to use, and helped me when I got stuck.

The best advice I got was "Read the datasheet"

The biggest step for me was deciding to spend money on experimenting. With a budget, suddenly it was fun to order stuff, buy tools, try things out.

Rust Book was the best for learning Rust.
What? News on reddit?
Reddit isn't even close to twitter in terms of speed, I often see posts three, four or even 6 hours after they were posted.

This is simply unusable for fast-paced scoops, reactions and reports that made Twitter what it is today.
A couple of thoughts -

The Delta Amex appears to have an annual fee of $550. Not sure what the cost over the various nickels and dimes are, but for most of us who don't fly often, I suspect they're cheaper. Frequently flyers like yourself may find more value in their programs.

I suspect the same goes for hotels, although I'm curious what sort of things you're counting towards your "better experience" with the larger chains that the "mom and pops" aren't offering, in my (limited) experience, the smaller places are often better, because they can't afford to lose the business and "go the extra mile."

I'm not super familiar with the Fairphones, but it seems you'd be more likely to have a better experience on (eg) FDroid, which is without the Google bloat. I will admit, I have not tried it, though. To the second half of that though, re:Disney/Marvel - they definitely have a bigger budget toward huge actions shots, but storywise, they are often pretty thin, imo.

For pizza - it seems this will vary hugely per person. For instance, my favorite pizza, across all I've ever tried, is still a frozen Jack's pizza. Not quite the cheapest available, but very close.

I guess my point is, the more expensive options can definitely have an appeal for various, valid reasons, but that doesn't invalidate the cheaper options as maybe "better" options for some people.
Any idea how well does Sucrase compare when multiple threads are allowed?
Even if the headline isn't accurate by HackerNews technical standards, don't under-estimate the power of believing this kind of experience.

For example, "What Happened to Make You Anxious?" by Jaime Castillo proposes a similar technique for addressing anxiety. The technique goes like this:

Think of a traumatic moment in your past, where you wish you could go back in time and comfort or offer yourself advice. Then imagine yourself stepping into the frame of your memory and giving your younger self the support you needed in that moment (but lacked). This might sound woo-woo, but the efficacy is documented.

Sure, GPT-generated text isn't actually equivalent to talking to yourself - but you can see the utility for therapeutic applications like this.
Yes! Going for a mysterious witchy/occult vibe.
Thanks for this!

I’ve been using Firefox since it was Firebird.

It’s critically important thing like this be done offline whenever possible.

(Trust me.)
Maersk, IBM shutting down blockchain-enabled supply chain project
There have always been stories about geek squad and other places saving customer's files for their personal use, reporting customers to the police for content found on their drives, or handing customer's data over to the state. I doubt the government or the repair shops have any interest in putting a stop to it.

Any time I've had to take my PCs in for something I pull out the hard drives before driving them over. As long as the machine can POST, I can take care of the rest. It gets a lot trickier with other devices though. I can't imagine trying to pull the storage out of laptops, tablets, cell phones, or game consoles.
Thanks!
Well, not "shipped" per se. Nobody's got one but me so far :P
I agree and did not in the past.
It's easy to see and judge things from just one convenient/aligned perspective...
>> Except for generations which did not match the prompt at all, I took every image that was created.

While I believe I understand what you mean, to me, this is not what AI generated art means, hence why I suggested limiting prompts to existing top queries to a top stock image site and the using that as the prompt. Also, I have to say that I very surprised none of the AI images were cherry picked, since I personally have run 100s if not 1000s of “high quality” prompts, and in my experience volume of misfits is normal pretty high; for sure read and reviewed 1000s of prompts and their outputs which were shared and in my experience even those have artificial artifacts and are likely cherry picked from the ones that were much worse.

Another alternative might be to get the top best selling stock images, run them through CLIP, then use those as the prompts, but then you’re evaluating CLIP + plus whatever AI image generation system you’re using.

Another huge give away is the resolution. Obviously you’re able to get ultra super resolution human generated images, but to my knowledge that’s not possible yet for AI images.

Which AI generation tool were you using and what were the prompts/settings?
Looks like the one built into chrome. You can open your browser and attach a node instance so you can debug and profile it.

Here's a basic How-to:

* Run node with `node --inspect <file>`

* Open Chrome and go to `chrome://inspect`

* After it finds your target, click the inspect button to launch a debugger.
Transparent PNG background image on the pages with other images Z-ordered below it.
Hello IT. Have you tried turning it off and turning it back on again?
Edge typically means that the software is running neither on an end device (e.g. a consumers phone/PC/tablet/TV), nor on the very backend in a big datacenter (like AWS us-east-1 or another region), but somewhere in between. E.g. a "mini-datacenter" close to the user (CDN points-of-presence (POPs) are called edge locations", or some aggregation points in between (e.g. gateway devices in factories that proxy between on-site components and in-cloud components).

The term doesn't have a lot to do with how efficient or non-efficient the software that is run in those places is.
> JetBlue and the other smaller airlines nickel and dime you for everything - seat assignment, carryon luggage, etc.

Spirit, yes. Jetblue? Not my experience - unless things have changed in the last few years. It was like most other airlines. Carryon free, checked in luggage costs.

> When I fly Delta (with the Amex Delta Reserve Card), I have access to an extensive airport lounge network with free food and alcoholic drinks), free checked bags, priority boarding, and I can choose my seat without paying extra. It’s just a better experience.

That's because you use a special card. Most airlines give a similar option. The Reserve card gives only one checked bag, and costs $550/year.

> Who would choose Little Caesar’s over even Papa Johns?

If you look at the other comments, you'll see many people here usually get local pizza, myself included. To me, most of the big chains all taste the same.
Usually, these CPE guest networks have their traffic routed via an IP different from the main customer one, and have their own bandwidth/QoS class as well.
It hasn't sailed. The above announcement talks about initial garden leave (employed but not expected to show up at all).
Thread on Twitter via Nitter:[0]

[0] https://nitter.net/wezm/status/1430670384362184704#m
Correct. Running those same transmission lines overnight (to charge EV's) would continue to put heat into them, meaning that temperature issue is exacerbated.
GPT is like a universal human template that can be prompted with a persona of your liking.
I've heard this sentiment before (that AI != ML, always weirdly hostile) but I've also heard key figures in the AI world say strongly that ML of any kind is a subset of the broader AI umbrella. Are you sure it is strictly wrong to refer to this example as AI? Also why are you using such strong words? I'm genuinely curious why there is so much emotion when people, maybe, misuse these terms.
I cant ever imagine staying at a company for more than 5 years tops unless at VP / executive level, I felt the same as you for a company I worked with for several years and then everything changed, the culture, the vision, the market - you literally cannot predict how things will be in a few years time in such a dynamic market.
To the victor goes the right to write history.
Will be amazing if Tesla can figure out how to manufacture a sub <$25k commuter EV.
Lots of JSON libraries can be told to enforce key order. And you’ve gotta remember that if you’re going to do something so ghoulish!
The major share holders are the ones deciding on directors and management teams and if you think this is a conspiracy theory, cannot do much more, thx for listening.
There is no connection between payment and the published page. No logs are kept either. It's open source if you want to host it yourself or audit the code
It's really the same problem extended to attributes of Data. The "immutability" in Data _also refers to the reference_.

To take Python tuples (which are morally pretty close to Data)

my_data = ([],false)
my_data[0].push(1)

tuples are immutable, but this happens, because the "immutability" is in the same vein as JS's const: "we are always pointing to the same object".
I don't know if it's some extreme libertarianism or just pure lack of compassion. Some people need - and deserve - help. "Your body, your choice" is just an all-around horrible argument to use for justifying suicide due to mentally or emotionally compromised state.
You do know what sealioning is, right? It's a denial of service attack on the debate format. I really wish you could engage in a way that doesn't evoke this style. You seem smart, why not try?
I would freeze before the JVM would warm up.
Not just GPT-3, but Stable Diffusion is also therapeutic.
I was impressed with the tooling as well. I worked at the University of Washington in Bio-engineering, and we collaborated with the Department of Radiology. They were building up the first PET scanner at UW, and the PI on my project was simulating mass transport and exchange in the tissues of the myocardium.

We all had a couple of MV/10000s, and I think four MV/4000s. Radiology ran AOS/VS, while we ran (first) MV/UX and later DG/UX.

I really admired the C compiler. It was a first class piece of work, in my view. I believe it was largely written by Michael Meissner.[1]

[1]. http://www.the-meissners.org/
Alright - thanks for the update.
The company I work for is in the healthcare tech space and we all generally despise Epic. But when I saw the MyChart app, I was really impressed.

Also, we were in the ER recently, and my spouse got their test/lab results on their phone before anyone came in for like 30 mins. It was all good news.

But probably don't want that to happen if someone ends up having cancer..
Lifer here with a short gap. I make less, but in my mid 50s can get an early retirement plus fully paid healthcare until Medicare. I’ll probably work a few years as a consultant or in sales to get my kids through college with little or no debt.

I didn’t have the education get get into a FAANG in the early years and don’t have the risk tolerance for a startup.
SEC Seeks to Stop the Registration of Misleading Crypto Asset Offerings
This is a conversation a man had with his younger self. It's way, way better: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XFGAQrEUaeU
It's a metaphor. Buying things is like going to the mall. Finding only three stores at the mall is like finding a majority of consumer items offered by a few sprawling conglomerates.
> But just 30 minutes in any direction are suburbs that have only chains.

The article isn't anti-chain. Just anti-major chains.

As for suburbs, my suburb is full of pizza stores that are not Papa John's, Dominos or Pizza Hut. The majority are something else - either local or smaller chain.
Oh, the spider was not a terrible car. Some interesting engineering choices for the RHD Alfas to cope with the dual carbs getting in the way of the brake booster should go meant they either had the crazy remote dual boosters, or a hideous metal bracket that ran the width of the firewall (Alfetta, 75 etc).

Other than that, the first spider I had was a wonderful thing. Plenty of performance, dynamic handling, looked gorgeous. The 2nd one was a complete sh*tbox because it was allowed to rust and never fixed properly or drove properly.

Chryslers have a bad reputation in Australia. Poor quality control, bad reliability (compared to Toyota), hard to get parts, interiors that eat themselves etc. I should know having owned a few (and rebuilding a 300C at the moment). Once they bought AMC all the terrible Chrysler problems seemed to be like a virus on Jeeps.
Obsessed and delusional
In what might be the only non-editable text on the page, there in the payment box you have two boxes that the user must agree to with a check mark.

The text associated with those boxes could use some work. Perhaps you need a hammer to smooth out the grammar.

>I agree to the not post anything illegal.

>I have saved by secret phase and
Reminds me of the mall I went to near Dubai, where every store sold gold. Like 20 stores just selling gold. The mall probably had more gold than a small country.
How thick would the e-ink version of this deck be:

https://i.redd.it/wufrxonvm0t41.jpg
I enjoy Elixir a lot but it feels like a tool designed for a whole different purpose. I don’t really know what that purpose it. It’s possible that my brain is just not well organized for the way elixir is laid out, but Crystal is so fluid with my brain.
How do they know you wrote this code.
And how do they know how much you copied, and how much you understand from what you copied.
Rust's deep immutability is different than most in that it allows setting a reference as recursively immutable even if the data type it's pointing to has mutable fields.

Scala gives you immutable data types but unless I'm mistaken there's no way to say "recursively disable mutating functions for all elements in this list"—you just have a list that cannot be mutated. If you stick a Java object in a Scala list, it's liable to mutate, so Scala has shallow immutability.
Yeah, the secret phrase is the only way to delete the page once it's been published. It wouldn't be a big leap to accept crypto, the fees would just be crazy though for a single page. Thanks for the comment
Just as typical as it is for people who live in democratic countries to support democratic laws. I'm not quite sure what you expect us to conclude here.
Strauss family farms does that in the SF Bay Area, available at all the fancy grocery stores.
Would that not mean general excitement on the part of the author?

I find it hard to analyze these things by numbers alone. It's context that really matters and if there truly is a baseline excitement, there really should be a high number of exclamations.
How can I see my HN “history”?
is there a way, like bookmarking or history lists... directly inside HN? currently mixing bookmarks history from browser, email links for special stuff. Newbie at HN, use ZimWiki as my primary note tool.
As far as I know, Safari is doing something along these lines already (I believe WebRTC connections only work there after requesting camera or microphone permissions).

An explicit permission would be nicer, possibly ("this site is requesting to establish direct connections" or similar).
Circle: A Haskell Client for Circle's REST API
- CISCO / Juniper
-- AWS
--- Cloudflare
> You correctly classified 22 of 30 (73%) images!

Probably shouldn't show duplicate images in the same test, as that's just dropping the sample size.

You may want to spell out exactly what you mean by "AI". If someone goes into photoshop and clicks "Edit › Sky Replacement.", it's not quite what I'd call human made.
There's an HN for cryptocurrencies (as in, running the same software, not the content)

https://www.laarc.io/
Ha! No, but you can imagine people like to personalize everything. MLB season, perhaps you'd like to have a Dodgers themed tag, NFL switch to the... Raiders? Change of address? Phone number changes? People are creative. I'm sure they'd use it in ways you can't imagine.
I'll totally start a new project once holograms get good and cheap enough ;)
Do you have some principled definition of what AI is or what it means to "understand"? GPT-3 outputs certainly show enough high-level non-scripted information processing to qualify as "understanding" in my book – not human understanding, clearly, but an artificial one.

AI researchers do in fact educate the public. [1] They face serious pushback from obscurantists like Hofstadter [2] and Marcus who refuse to commit to any definition and instead go by hunches about what architecture or data representation can support "understanding" and what certain behaviors indicate.

1. https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2022/06/09/artificia...

2. https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2022/06/09/artificia...
Agreed. That's me rushing to get it done this week, these were links to published Single Pages with more details but the content wasn't done so I removed them.
Less predictable than a recording, - of course you can add a better source of entropy too ;)

ffmpeg -f rawvideo -video_size 1280x720 -pixel_format yuv420p -framerate 25 \
-i /dev/urandom -ar 48000 -ac 2 -f s16le -i /dev/urandom -codec:a copy \
-vf hue=s=0 -f matroska - | ffplay -
> Not sure what the cost over the various nickels and dimes are, but for most of us who don't fly often, I suspect they're cheaper.

Indeed - it was the rationale for shifting to this model in the early 2000s - they promised lower fares, and they delivered.
The world was still normal in February 2020
I mean, you can do this at 7-11 too. But I don't. Because it's 7-11. It's pizza that's been sitting under heat lamp for anyone's guess. Do I even need to go on about the whys?

People eat all sorts of things "because". Doesn't mean it's good let alone good for you. Making it fast and easy to eat garbage is the ultimate in the American way. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of shitty food fast and cheap. Just like the founding fathers envisioned not so long ago.
Centralization Caused the FTX Fiasco
If you want to use something like this right now (with a threadsafe bonus) concurrent-ruby has some useful specialized structs that offer similar behavior:

* ImmutableStruct: Immutable struct where values are set at construction and cannot be changed later.

* MutableStruct: Synchronized, mutable struct where values can be safely changed at any time.

* SettableStruct: Synchronized, write-once struct where values can be set at most once, either at construction or any time thereafter.

https://github.com/ruby-concurrency/concurrent-ruby
Ah I see. In that case, Tesla has 4 board members that come from companies with large ownership percentages by Blackrock/Vanguard.

Robyn Denholm came from Jupiter networks, Vanguard owns ~11%.

James Murdoch came from Fox. Vanguard owns ~7%.

Joe Gebbia was an Airbnb founder, vanguard owns ~6%.

Kathleen Wilson-Thompson is a long time Walgreens exec, Vanguard owns ~7%

So no, that doesn’t seem to be the difference.
It you're gonna get all ethical, surly you have also heard, how hard it is to get out of those subscriptions?

How about when an article gets changed (or removed), without archiving sites, how would you know?

At the end of the day, if its "actually" valuable to someone (e.g their livelyhood depends on it or something), they will probably pay for it.
Cloudflare – pricing adjustments and introducing annual plans
But moderns are jaded and blasé about stuff that's recycled.

When the Gospels were written, the known world was fascinated and captivated with what was being preached. Because it was familiar, logical, and somewhat inevitable to them. To Jews it was revolutionary, and to Greeks it was transcendent.

The inspired authors of the New Testament tugged on every heart string, checked every name, and copied every dank meme that mattered. This stuff is fulfillment of every prophecy. Of course it's cliché; that's a good thing!
I am also interested in this. For example how should we best formulate the input? Just our own messages, or including the parent message, or the whole chain to the top and the linked article. I think in the future we will have easier ways to train a persona.
Non-Convergent Discourse
Sometimes it's good to ask. One may get additional context that way. And if that happens, it's a good thing.