skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From less than an hour ago - How to do that you need to do but not motivated at all? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34000076
Nope, the PR was poorly written (maybe the Department is experimenting with chatGPT ?).

Surprisingly the publication is freely available, and yes it's all room temp:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.202206828
How Hachyderm leveraged DigitalOcean to scale their Mastodon community
It's huge? I'm really confused lol. I write in Dart/Java/C++/ObjC/TS regularly to maintain a cross-platform library and this is a massive difference from every typechecker in any other language, much less the narrower thing of if the idea of reifying random strings into an enum is a novel feature. I get a very strong sense from the thread that people are talking past eachother, somehow.
Yes, exactly this. These membranes will foul and need replacing. I don’t see why anyone would use this over freshwater. There’s plenty of freshwater available in many places. It literally runs into the ocean. You just don’t build one of these plants in the desert. It might be interesting in niche cases - desert countries where they're already producing water via desalination. But those countries tend to produce energy from fossil fuels anyway, and it's less effective to burn fossil fuels to split water than it is to just split methane to begin with. Maybe in the far future.
Who Is the Worst Person in Tech (Twitter Poll Playoff)
> The appeal of art is the artist.

To some. To others, the artistic object is all that all that matters.
Towards the end there's an interesting table that shows IBM had almost grown to the size of GE by 1964, several years before the introduction of their famous system 360.

Company GE IBM

Revenues 64,052 M 60,109 M

Earnings 5,155 M 4,726 M
> Seems like a distinction without a difference

This is giving ML models, more credit than they are due. They are unable to be imagine, they might convincingly seem to produce novel outputs, but their outputs are ultimately proscribed by their inputs and datasets and programming. They're machines. Humans can learn like machines, but humans are also able to imagine as agents. "AI" "art" is just neither of its namesakes. That doesn't mean it isn't impressive, but implying they are the same is granting ML more powers and abilities than it is capable of.
The madness ends when you have to sell your home and can't because:

* The neighbor to the left has 4 broken down cars in the front yard and a backhoe/excavator in their back yard

* The neighbor to the right has essentially a dog pound (er: "rescue") with animals barking all day/night

* The neighbor across the street has not done any lawn maintenance in over a year. The grass is so high you can find wild animals living on the property.

* The assessed value of your home has plummeted because the entire neighborhood is in similar disarray.

But, yeah, they have "freedom" to do whatever they want.
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Microsoft announces rollout of the EU Data Boundary for Microsoft Cloud 1/1/2023
> may be different if you generate it on macos than if you generate it on Linux.

That shouldn't happen. I wonder what could cause it.

I never looked them up too closely, but same versions of Python should result in same version of packages regardless of platform.
Does anyone know of a good way to disable that braindead window fading "feature" in GTK? If you look at the changelog, the text in the inactive window is barely readable. I have to squint to read it on most monitors.

Fading it is also unnecessary in most applications. Gnome apps need to do it because they have no titlebar, but this isn't a problem in most cases, and xfwm can draw titlebars just fine.

I know I can manually overload the GTK theme's backdrop properties but I was kind of hoping someone on the Interwebs found a way that doesn't require me to drag .css hacks over umpteen computers.

Background: a good chunk of my work involves things like comparing simulation and measurement results among multiple applications/windows. Text in inactive windows being unreadable is a little counterproductive when I try to do that. I begrudgingly put up with the huge widgets but having to squint at screens for eight hours a day is not fun.

(FWIW, Adwaita is even worse).
I can't reproduce this in Firefox with Duck Duck Go or Google.

Could you have clicked a (malicious?) Ad Sense ad?
You never need algorithms until you really do.
I don't know Mr. Altman's rationale, but FAANG companies being first to automate away programmers sounds reasonable to me on the basis of scale alone. They have more code than most companies with which to make up a company- and problem-specific dataset, as well as the resources and expertise to train and deploy complex models.
There's nothing actionable about them. They're just ex post facto justification for Musk's overtly activist Twitter purchase. Supposedly he's excised this bad part of Twitter, but instead were finding the new Twitter is just less versed in content moderation. There isn't any new policy that addresses the issues raised, just an absence of staff to continue the old policy.
Indeed it's hard to drag things around in 3d which is why we restrict movement of parts to the XZ plane effectively making it a 2d editor in a 3d viewer.
Have you actually tried to get an app working using gpt? A lot of shared stuff is heavily curated. It is no doubt an extremely impressive tool but I think we always underestimate the last 10% in AI products. We had impressive self driving demos over a decade ago, we are all still driving and L5 still seems a ways away.
15.5-Inch MacBook Air Expected to Launch in Spring 2023
For most orgs, code isn't the end product. Code is the way to build the product to sell to the user.

Therefore, in most orgs, code architecture/style is a distant secondary to 'does it achieve what the user will pay money for' and 'why isn't it finished yesterday?'.
I would do the same thing if I had the money to do it. So would you. Why waste it on government?
People also complain loudly about Hi-DPI support and tearing with X. I've not noticed either of them being an issue ever. I can play videos fine and I can plug my laptop into a 55" TV, and it all just works (as far as I can tell) with plain old X11.
Because art is the low hanging fruit of "close enough" applications.
> Fossil fuels are the best way to generate energy by far.

Nope. Not by far.

That was the case a decade ago, but fossil fuels are already not competitive on several situations, a close first on many others, and significantly ahead on very few.

What goes back to the OP's question. The IPCC projections are like that because the IPCC doesn't model technological progress at all.
Having a software showcase or landing page on Github when the underlying software is not actually open source, while completely legitimate, always leaves a really bad taste in my mouth.
poetry can add some headaches (specifically, occasionally breaks after a version update on the wrong version of python on MacOS), but IMO is worth it for lock files and some of the other features it brings.
"how is someone without a driver's license supposed to go to work to make the money?!"

Presumably by paying their child support.

I don't know if it works as intended, and it wouldn't surprise me if people have horror stories about clueless rulings by clueless judges, but obviously the intent is that the license is suspended because the person is intentionally not paying child support.
I mean, you can literally check that yourself?

But no, it's not strictly correct. The paper gives the masses as 1.08±0.13Me (minimum mass 0.95Me) and 1.36±0.17Me (minimum mass 1.19Me.)
A huge advantage of McMaster I didn't see enumerated is the 3D models - for nearly every fastener, and for certain other products, you can instantly grab a 3D model and bring it right into your CAD design. As far as I know no one else offers this, definitely not at the scale McMaster's dataset offers.

An annoyance of McMaster I didn't see enumerated is how they don't show you the shipping cost until after transaction is complete. That's fine for my day job when I'm not paying, but when I order stuff for home projects I generally would like to know how much it costs to ship say, an 8 foot piece of steel tubing, before I click submit order. EDIT: they updated this apparently! See user Certified's comment below.
It also doesn't ship world wide, even to Canada I made an order, with no way to see what shipping was and got an email saying they only ship to commercial or schools. That's a terrible e-commerce experience. Sites like NCIX were way better than this.
I suspect that might be the case regardless. FAANGs have people who can deploy this sort of tech, who can solve the problems is generates (assuming the generated solutions aren't perfect), and their engineers are the most expensive. They have the most to gain. A software shop making small apps would benefit far less.

That said, its likely that the job of being a dev is going to be largely debugging generated code in the future no matter where you work.
> shouldn’t Gates, DeVos, and others also be held to the same scrutiny?

Did they try to keep it a secret?
Daylight distribution and building footprint were toes dipped in the pool… Now everyone jumped in. ODbL-aware, both upstream & downstream of Openstreetmap. Fun times ahead at the interface between their industrial scale automation and Openstreetmap craft mapping !
SEC charges crew of social media influencers with $100M fraud
> In the US, in most cities and counties, the "sprawl" isn't rich; its poor.

This isn't exactly true. Sprawl generally refers to low density properties on the urban periphery, which isn't enough detail to generalize either way.

There are both and poor and rich neighborhoods of all densities. High density rich is your Manhattans, wealthy urban environments for well-to-do yuppies.

High density poor is your classic "inner city" which usually gained a reputation for crime during the white flight / redlining era, which continues to plague the area to today. Common systemic issues include poorly performing school systems, food deserts, and noise pollution (particularly from highways that were built in the middle of residential neighborhoods during the redlining era; these also cause air quality issues)

Low density rich can be either a commuter "sprawl" neighborhood, often gated, with large expensive properties, in an area with a well funded school system; as well as "rural" escapes like Martha's Vineyard, Long Island, and such.

Low density poor can be rural (as in farming) areas, plus many exurbs of major cities where the poor can afford to live but in exchange need hour plus commutes to get to work.
Write a program in C++ that will have a function to swap two numbers by using a function and display on the screen.
No, buy means buy. Companies pretending otherwise are just lying.

Limited license.

They don't want to offer things like that because consumers won't all go for it, they want to get more money by deceiving prospective users/customers.
> The CCP attempted to infiltrate Google's internal systems by having spies get jobs inside of Google.

You think the CCP hasn't done this in the US with all relevant companies?
Yet somehow Search works, AWS machines spin up, and Windows gets updates.
I'm floored, the typing to jazz demo is WILD! Please keep pushing this space, you've got something real special here.
GOG offers a superior license (DRM-free), perhaps, but not client.

Steam's integrated multiplayer makes online games seamless, cloud save works better, the autopatcher beats offline installers anyday, its integrated Big Picture mode is great for TV or phone play, the built-in streaming works well, the built-in text and audio chat is useful, the Workshop allows seamless and fast mod installs vs having to use something like NexusMods, the reviews system is well implemented and waaaaay more informative than Amazon's, Proton is a godsend for Linux and the Deck, the built-in web browser overlay is handy for looking things up in the game, Family Share + offline mode is awesome despite having DRM, the sales are incredible (especially from 3rd party Steam resellers on isthereanydeal.com), the support is fast and human and very fair, GeForce Now integration is great when you're away from the gaming desktop, Valve is a gamer-centric and innovative company (Index, Deck, Controller, etc.)

And that's just for the player side. From the dev side the Steamworks API takes care of a lot of multiplayer and other stuff that normally is a huge PITA to reimplement.

As a client, it's just a MUCH better offering than either GOG or Epic or Microsoft or any of the other crap launchers. Like, not even in the same league... the others are just 90s-style download managers, while Steam is its own ecosystem. Despite not being a monopoly, they still continue to dominate the PC gaming landscape because they are just THAT good.
Now that Matter and Thread are finally starting to roll out, is there really any good reason for new products to still use Z-Wave? Or am I just crazy to see this as Z-Wave trying to continue a format war (first started with Zigbee) that they're almost certainly going to lose?
Nice reference! I had never seen that site before, but those albums had a significant impact on my musical journey.

There was a purple victorian house in Colorado Springs where the living room was converted into a record and cd store called Life By Design. I picked up these albums and a ton of other obscure music there. I was so happy to not have to drive all the way up to Wax Trax in Denver to be able to discover new artists.
Headline: "DeepMind’s AlphaCode Conquers Coding, Performing as Well as Humans"

Actual text: "AI just trounced roughly 50 percent of human coders"

I think we already all knew that about half of the coders out there weren't all that great.
Bespoke imposter! Let not your words penetrate my foundations. Let not your questions hold value in it of themselves. For you ask nothing with thinly veiled rhetoric. Now be gone, cast away with fervor and dismay.
Issues i have with the path bar (from the top of my head)

1. it is not permanent, it disappears and never remember anything

2. it doesn't respect the paths (can't navigate)

3. i don't want to play a keyboard shortcuts game

That's just one of the issues i have with the Gnome Filepicker, there is also the mounted disks that appears like it's a mobile UX, and many more, i have a document with everything that i hate about it, but i'm not on my PC to share it, it is an UX disaster

I wish i could use Thunar as a filepicker, that would be perfect
Or knockout.js!
You would be absolutely correct. the lossiness is in the resolution of the image (512x512 is pretty terrible) but given enough image resolution it's just an FFT transform, and the only reason that stuff falls short is because people don't give it, in turn, enough resolution. If you did wild overkill of the resolution of an FFT transform you could do anything you wanted with no loss of tone quality. If you turned that to visual images and did diffusion with it you could do AI diffusion at convincing audio quality.

In theory the tone quality is not an objection here. When it sounds bad it's because it's 512x512, because the FFT resolution isn't up to the task, etc. People cling to very inadequate audio standards for digital processing, but you don't have to.
This happened earlier than I expected, and using a much different technique than I expected.

Bracing myself for when major record labels enter the copyright brawl that diffusion technology is sparking.
I don’t see why it couldn’t.
The material improvements he could have gotten for this money...

He could have created tens of thousands of homes in apartments and gifted them to municipalities to be social housing, putting a massive dent in homelessness.

He could have built and furnished schools. He could have bought public transit vehicles. There's countless things that would have real, immediate, material impact on thousands of lives.
It isn't harder to be an artist or pianist, it's just that the cutoff of employability for these professions is much higher. It's like saying playing baseball is harder than programming because only a few thousand people are good enough to play baseball for a living.
This introduces a completely new value stack which is only accessible from taichi and it takes a lot of hacking to pass python objects back and forth between taichi and python so anything you write, you will have to rewrite pretty much everything. It is not just adding a simple decorator to speed things up if your program is just a little more complex than summing numbers.
It is strange that the article refers to McMaster as a B2B site. It works just as well for consumers.
true, but it is possible to use it in ways that benefit you or your priorities. I'm not saying that is what Musk is doing, but the ability to spend a billion dollars or potentially charitable endeavours can have direct benefits to the giver.
If the pursuit is enjoyable, it should continue to be enjoyable as a hobby, no?

Meanwhile, where is my levy of custom artists willing to do free commission work for me? It’s enjoyable, right?

I see a lot of discussion about money and copyright, and little to no discussion about the individual whose life is enriched by access to these tools and technologies.

As for your bleak future… will that even come to pass? I don’t know. Maybe it depends on your notion of “surpass”, and what that looks like.
My take is that you can control your environment with Docker and discipline but discipline alone gets you far.

Circa 2004 I was maintaining about 80 web sites for a large academic library and not much late 200 web sites for a prolific web consulting firm, plus at least 10 sites on my own account.

I came to the conclusion that you could host as many sites with the same software that you like one one machine so long as you can configure: (i) where files are in the filesystem, (ii) how to connect to the relational database, (iii) cryptographic keys.

If the server was Apache there was always an Apache configuration file, there would usually be one for the actual application. In a complicated case there would be some templating system that writes all the configuration files.

With that kind of system I could frequently get a site up 'n running in a few minutes and there was no difficultly with dev, test, and prod instances or "clon e customer A's site to make a site for customer B".

Today it is not that different though the server might be nginx and a system today might have a non-relational database and might have more than one of them and there are probably some API keys.

When docker came along me immediate response was "ho hum" and when I tried it first I was stuck behind a slow internet connection docker seemed to be a way to download 3GB of files to make a 3 kilobyte change. I've been at an office with a gigabit connection and it is not so bad but still not so good: it seems fast from an "ops" perspective but from a "dev" perspective it is slow.
Author of Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software, which is a badass book covering what open source really is in a surpassing depth & reality & context.

Very not a fan of youtube videos but giving this a chance.
GPT-3 fine tuning guide
This is a bad take - most UIs from that era are objectively worse, and most of the good ones have been carried forwards and incorporated into newer versions.

With old software, you have a lot of experimental ideas that make it into prod. Want properties on this item? Sorry, right click rotates the component. Click the component and press P instead.

Today, at least in the professional software world, UIs are better than they’ve ever been and the programs are capable of infinitely more. And in 20 years we’ll be looking back on this era the same way: “What do you mean you can’t see an AR preview of this component you’re working on?“ “You had to label each wire of the I3C bus by hand??”
I find it really cool that the "uncanny valley" that's audible on nearly every sample is exactly as I would imagine that the visual artifacts would sound that crop up in most generated art. Not really surprising I guess, but still cool that there's such a direct correlation between completely different mediums!
You won't run into it most of the time, but if you've got OS specific wheels you can have dependencies that require different requirements files for different OS.
"I'm sorry Dave...I can't do that"
I also want to mention that I am in my 40s and had never climbed before I started about 5 months ago. I just signed up to take an intro to bouldering course at a local gym and went from there.
Additionally climbing is a very technical sport that involves a lot of problem solving which I find very appealing.
Being overweight or out of shape shouldn't stop you from giving it a try, you might stay climbing lower grade problems longer than others but you will still find challenging physical and mental puzzles that you can complete.
Absolute nothing like of which you speak exists in the US. Pretty cool that is happening in England (assuming)
I would consider property managers pretty unlikely to buy anything but the least expensive thermostat available.
Of course. Technically speaking, the Macs are the last commercial UNIX workstations.
The volumes are huge. Each hydrogen molecule needs one water to break down. That adds up at industrial scale.
You can't automate a live performance or an oil painting with AI in this way. This isn't going to replace musicians and artists. If anything, I think a preponderance of AI art would make people appreciate the real stuff more.

As to why, music is fun to create, and this is just a tool.
The cost basis step-up is not insane, IMO. It's partly practical ("how am I going to find out the date purchase and basis of some shares my grandfather bought in an account that was doing dividend reinvesting?!"), and partly to avoid unexpected outcomes ("grandpa gave the house to Alice and the rest of his estate to Bob"; if capital gains were due on the house, would Alice have to pay them or would Bob?).

IMO, the basis should be as of the date of death, with any taxes due owed from the estate, not the heirs.

(It's also fairly difficult to repeatedly exploit this as a loophole, as you have to die to take advantage of it. If we're looking to close loopholes, ones that can be repeatedly applied might be more fruitful places to start.)
I start every day with the creation of a shortlist of MUST-DO tasks. Things I must absolutely finish not just to stay out of trouble, also to not consider myself a failure. I willingly instill a sense of urgency and remove optionality for these tasks, even if I have to dramatize it. These tasks typically add up to about 4 hours of work. For me this is a sweet spot, a kind of minimum where even if all else fails, I can look back on a reasonable day and feel OK about myself. It's a contract with yourself. Nobody cares if you're motivated to honor a contract, a contract demands you honor it regardless.

By doing this as a habit, you train yourself to keep some momentum even when not motivated. Kind of an auto pilot thing. If you'd even struggle with this block of work, look for ways to make it more fun. Play some music, take short walks outside, play with your pet. Yet avoid things that suck you in, like Youtube.

As for the rest of the day and tasks, I ride my energy flow instead of fighting it. When I feel slow and weak, I read email and update notes. When I feel better, I do more challenging tasks.
Although I do wonder how much an earlier technology, audio reproduction, contributed to that. My grandmother worked for a time as a piano player as part of a nightclub orchestra. It was a stable job back then. I have to wonder how many musician jobs were killed off by the jukebox and related technologies.
Amazon and Flipkart challenged in India over sale of acid on sites
NCIX doesn't seem to be shipping to anyone these days