skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think is article is written from an eng/design perspective and thus fails to address business realities.

Example: “product pages are way too long”

Product pages are long because longer pages tend to perform better at SEO. Furthermore, at least in my experience, longer product pages don’t actually have a significantly negative impact for on-site conversion rates.

Sure, maybe a better global maximum exists, and every once in a while a startup finds it and achieves great success.

However, that kind of “bet the farm” mentality should be very intentional, not just based on design best practices, because in reality, companies live and die by their balance sheet, not by their UX best practices.

This got a bit rant’y, but I just wanted to provide this counterpoint. I’d love to hear what others have to say - I feel this is such a complex, nuanced topic…
GPT-3 has 175 billion parameters (says Wikipedia). What is the size of the neural network used in this riffusion project?
What search term did you use? I just tried "mcmaster 4-40 screw", clicked on the first link, clicked on the back button, and was back at the Google SERP.
Time to sell my beach front property.
Your art is fascinating; how can I donate to the cause?
Web3 is crypto in everything that I have seen, admittedly I don't pay it too close attention so I may be missing some nuance but from my understanding to write something to a Blockchain I'm going to need to pay a fee to do so.

I've not seen any web3 projects tout themselves as free data storage, perhaps you could point me to some so I can be better informed?
It turns out the source code was available from the beginning: https://github.com/JimmieKJ/unrealTournament
This comment is such a great example of the modern human brain worms GP is describing. Cavemen didn't have a damn clue about anything other than survival.

Imagine not understanding basic things about your environment like: why wife die of sick, why sky open and pour ocean, etc.

Now imagine how terrifying and demotivating that type of thing must have been.
> What do you gain from IDN domain names other that nobody who doesn't speak your language can't even type or remember them?

That people who do speak the language can type them?
> Now CAD runs ... on Windows and the experience is atrocious.

Well, maybe Windows is now atrocious, but at the time Windows was murdering Unix workstations, Windows was greatly superior. When the shop I was working for at the time switched our Pro/ENGINEER hardware from SGI to whitebox PCs running Windows NT it was like a miracle. Everything that was horrible in the day-to-day of using IRIX stopped, and suddenly our workstations were useful for more than just running Pro/E. We could run Excel and whatnot. And a dual Pentium Pro was about fifty bajillion times faster than anything MIPS ever made.
Is Bill Gates still shorting Tesla?
There was an internal x86 port of HP-UX that was never released.

https://www.theregister.com/2012/05/23/hp_project_blackbird_...
To add to this: if you're going to throw away TM because you "can't find a killer concurrent app", you'd better throw away locks and other mutexes too.
Do Matter and Thread use wifi or are they a different radio freq?
It is pretty ironic.

"AI will outdo us at repetitve, mindless tasks, but it will NEVER be able to compete with humans at, like, ART, and stuff"
I suspect that if you had tried this with previous image models the results would have been terrible. This only works since image models are so good now.
Private/Community servers don't require self-hosting. E.g. in the Battlefield franchise the community for BF3 and BF4 is still going quite strong despite there being 3 successors since. And the reason is that people can play with the same people every night. The successors (BFI, BFV, BF20something) are completely uninteresting to me since there is simply no sense of community. I don't get the point in "matchmaking" even for casual gaming.
>Regular mortals maximize their 401k contributions, use Backdoor Roth IRA, FSA, optimize for long-term capital gains, etc.

The only thing I would consider to be 'tax avoidance' in there is the Backdoor Roth, which is only used by a small subset of Americans because the majority don't make enough to need it. And even then the Backdoor Roth is a loophole/oversight that Congress is too cowardly to close.

The rest all serve different purposes, primarily to make necessary aspects of life (Retirement, Healthcare, etc) more affordable in our unaffordable country.
Their phone support is excellent, I will say. Still, to call for a ship quote is a bit of a faff that feels intentionally anachronistic.
Seeing lots of confusion on here so: I put 15% of a mid-8-figure startup exit into a private foundation, AMA
This seems like a flawed premise. It's an interview, there's nothing to be automated. It's a test, a task that the company wants you to do as a candidate, not a task that they need automated. They don't even need the task done, they aren't using the code you write to solve real world problems, they're using it to assess your suitability for the job.

To put it another way - they can already automate solving their leetcode problems by looking up the solution in their database, no need for AI. But that's not the point at all.
Does not reflect on the job work to regurgitate algorithm answers and it's too easily gamed. A novice that has practiced algorithms will outperform an expert that has not studied recently.

That said, its probably more used as a filter for people interested enough in working there to study.
@haykmartiros, @seth_, thank you for open sourcing this!

Played a bit with the very impressive demos, now waiting in queue for my very own riff to get generate.

Great as this is, I'm imagining what it could do for song crossfades (actual mixing instead of plain crossfade even with beat matching).
This might fit into edge cases. I've used McMaster-Carr as a consumer many times, and though I might get a discount if I bought a minimum quantity, I've been able to purchase what I needed in singles each time. I doubt if there's an e-commerce site out there that will let you purchase and ship 4 screws for less than what you would pay for 200. Even at brick and mortar hardware stores you're ripping yourself off by buying 50 screws instead of 200 (or 1000). I get that you don't need them all but the price per unit is still astronomical.
How to Build Beautiful Maps with Folium and Leaflet (2021)
That makes its absence even more strange - presumably then they should be able to expose that functionality to the user?
you won't see it in your phone or laptop any time soon

I know it's (probably) a compound and doesn't have the same properties as the individual constituents, but still I wouldn't feel entirely comfortable carrying around sodium and sulphur in my pocket all day. Maybe I'll let other people prove its safety over a few years first.
Gnome has really surprised me (in a good way). I was really just looking to have a better dev experience since I use containers so extensively. But the UI is really pleasant to look at and intuitive. I particularly enjoy not having to disable ads and other nuisances that Microsoft keeps throwing onto the pile.
> I said it doesn't 'always' correlate.

It either correlates or it doesn't, and outliers, as the name implies, are statistical anomalies.

That being said I also think quality of life is important, but I think being dead is quite a poor quality of life.
Digikey's empty search for the entire catalog listing in categories (and then extraordinary filtering tools within categories) is absolute perfection.
Fine I'll humor you with a quick quote.

Arthur Schopenhauer; Ueber die Grundlage der Moral, 1840:

"the everyday phenomenon of compassion, … the immediate participation, independent of all ulterior considerations, primarily in the suffering of another, and thus in the prevention or elimination of it…. Only insofar as an action has sprung from compassion does it have moral value; and every action resulting from any other motives has none."
That seems like an inconsistent point. You also had to buy the Windows compiler.
Job's done, crew, time to go home. ;)
I bought a bunch of defective keg o-rings that waste CO2 and emptied a keg on to the floor over night (looking at you: More Beer!). For the price of one retail kit, I put together 10 rebuild kits worth of o-rings at McMaster. In that case (5 hours of researching which $0.05 o-ring to buy), the minimum quantity was more a feature than a bug.

I can understand the annoyance for non consumables, like screws.
Stable Diffusion 'only' has ~1B parameters IIRC.
Thre flip side of all the "habit" talk is that habits are as much what keeps you from doing those things by creating distractions -- opportunities for procrastination. For instance, if I sit at a workstation and the first thing I do is reflexively open a browser and type `news+Enter` to get to this orange site, that's what I'll do instead of whatever I went to the computer for.

Blocking habits that induce procrastination by rearranging your life or home can do a lot to break that cycle long enough to re-orient your life toward one where you do the things you need to do because "eh, I've got nothing better to do".
A rubber duck doesn't even give imaginary arguments.

The point is to stimulate brainstorming, not get answers.
U.S. planning to give Ukraine smart-bomb kits
I agree. A group of actual (traditional) friends is not the same thing as a bunch of online people that have something in common. For a group of real life friends, online conversations are often/best handled in a chat-like experience. Here in Europe it's mostly WhatsApp.

There's also differences in what you expect from content. When one of my real friends share that they took their family to a zoo and had a great day, that's mildly interesting. I know these people.

When an online stranger (or digital only "friend") shares this same thing, I couldn't care less. I'm happy for them, and it's part of normal conversation, but it's not a very interesting type of information to read in large quantities every single day. There has to be some higher shared purpose, the more specific the better.
https://archive.ph/sRbWl
> especially with the rise in outspoken detransitioners

Detransitioners are rare among those who have transitioned, and of detransitioners, most of tjkse that are public about their views most support trans rights and access to gender affirming care. The propaganda narrative that you are being sold with outspoken detransitioners is, like everything else about trans issues from the same media channels that isn’t an outright lie, a distortiom.

> They have first-hand experience of how harmful these medical interventions are

The data shows that they are overwhelming helpful. You are, when the individuals in question aren’t lying about the specific cases, still just being sold isolated anecdotes with no perspective on relation to the normal experience, designed as emotional manipulation by professional propagandists, to get you to support a campaign of death (both through neglect and more actively) for trans people.

> Some European health systems have already massively walked back their 'gender-affirming' care for children.

Yes, and so have some American ones, as the consequence if an international political movement actively seeking the elimination of trans people, by death if necessary—and this walk-back absolutely, provably contributes to deaths.
Sodium-sulfur batteries are already in use for grid storage [0] [1]. They're large and they have to be kept hot, so they won't work for mobile applications. This article seems to be describing one that works at room temperature.

[0] https://www.energy-storage.news/uae-integrates-648mwh-of-sod...

[1] https://www.bestmag.co.uk/worlds-largest-sodium-sulphur-ess-...
It works pretty well for consumers, but McMaster is 100% aimed at MRO/B2B. The couple of complaint comments here in this thread make it pretty clear that people don't know that, and are blaming the website for business choices that have made McMaster as dominant as they are.
Please, shorten your sentences. Check out "On Writing Well" by Zinsser.
I do care about games. I play lots of games. I play some that have online components and I play knowing that it could all disappear out from under me. That'd suck but that's a risk I'm willing to take.

Other games I choose to not play because of the online requirements.

Lastly, they're just video games. It's nothing critical like food or housing. Not having video games is not a humanitarian crisis. I've been playing WoW since launch and if Blizzard shut it down and my characters I've had for 18 years vanished, it'd suck for like a minute, then I'd go do something else.
Specifically for grid storage I'd like to see more attention given to gravity batteries [0], the compressed liquid type.

Recently saw a video (in German, [1]) in which there was back-of-the-envelope calculation that a gravity battery built by hydraulically raising a cylindrical landmass with 1km diameter by 500 meters stores about 2TWh (recent yearly gross electricity consumption of Germany is 560TWh).

It's such a simple concept! Also, they are looking for investors: https://heindl-energy.com/

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_battery

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=pnomwGCBNAE
The shipping always killed it for me. I started ordering fasteners through the office. It's basically the same whether you order an envelope or a pallet.
incredible, Ive often wondered why they were all so shit
wasn’t their ceo on HN recently bragging about how they’re going to turn the ship around? Looks like an already sunken ship at this point.

someone should assemble and post a list of all tools that makes medium better?
While you may love/hate certain classes of people it would probably be helpful for you to refresh how economies work and, not just modern day economies, all economies. There will always be some level of exploitation in every single type of government/economy and there will always be government there to support interest of its people.

You might finesse your argument to the fact that you deem the level of exploitation and gains accrued to "billionaires" is too great for your tastes and that there needs to be a better balance struck.

If not it just reads as thoughtless criticism without understanding how are human systems work.
I know that the data is public, but it takes a bit of code to do what he did.
I don't understand why they don't just open source an engine that uses OpenStreetMap .. Why do we need a new project and new foundation? .. It just seems like a new wall around it so that AWS et. al. can lock people into EC2 and data charges.
Charities (501c3) cannot make political donations or even endorse candidates. The Sierra Club lost their 501c3 status over this.
How’s the MacBook Air for iOS/Swift development?

I’ve always purchased MacBook Pros.

My Late 2013 model, with 16GB RAM, is still great but can longer get last couple versions of macOS. Probably need to get something next year.
> It's really hard for them to figure out when people are in cars, buses, bikes, etc. Did you ever see the artist that created "red traffic jams" on google maps by using 100 phones in a kiddy trailer?

I don't think it's got much to do with the map data being hard to figure at as much as "carrying 100 phones set to a car trip up and down the road in a hand pulled wagon for an hour" being an irrelevant thing to worry about. 100 people aren't going to be driving on top of each other with the directions accidentally set to walk very often and outside of that kind of use case the data is going to be extraordinarily accurate.
Niji Journey: An AI That Draws Custom Anime Illustrations
This is true, and many bitter wars are fought over ISS licensing. I’m not sure it derails his point - there’s an awful lot of BSD, MIT etc licensed code out there.
IKEA uses Svelte in a couple of places, but we’re majority React (mostly server-rendered) for customer facing pages.
Presumably you are referring to work here, as the worth of anything you do in your personal life should be quite evident.

You can find rewarding work.
If the game requires an internet connection, it's a time-limited license.
Non-paywall version: https://archive.vn/doB9S
Sure. Now, what are the chances you can find me? Let's assume I decide to take a not-a-limo as my ride home though.
Anyone who has doubts has to look at the price. It’s free for now, and will be cheap enough when openai starts monetizing. Price wins over quality. It’s demonstrated time and time again.
You're oversimplifying imagination. It could be related to something they've seen before, or it could not be. It could be entirely invented and novel in a way that has no antecedent to senses. Nor is it mere randomness added in. Imagining is something an agent does and is capable of. The fly in the ointment is still that ML models simply do not have agency in a fundamental way; they are programmed and they're are limited by that programming, that's what makes them and computers so effective as tools: they do exactly as they are programmed, which can't be said for humans. We, as humans, might find the output imaginative or novel or even surprising, but the ML model hasn't done anything more than follow through on its programming. The ML programmer simply didn't expect (or can't explain the programming) the output and is anthropomorphizing their own creation as a means of explanation.
They do seem to have moved past the "minimalism for the sake of minimalism" of recent years - the Studio also has a nice selection of ports, and a theoretically-replaceable SSD. Just be sure to buy what you need now, because there's no upgrading.

Then there's the MacBook keyboard. Hello, what happened to PgUp/PgDn/Home/End? I use those a LOT, enough to be a deal-breaker.
NIST is announcing that SHA-1 should be phased out by Dec. 31, 2030
Parent is not talking about bloat in Python but in what goes above and below it in the stack.
Tough love time. If you buy a game that depends on someone else's servers in any fashion (even just a server browser), you are accepting that it will be shut down at some point.

This has been shown to be the operating model of modern games for over a decade now. Even if it costs a penny to keep running, they will eventually shut it down. The outliers - those who will keep them up - are exactly that: outliers.

I wish it were otherwise, but this is a purely capitalistic move that will never get enough support to be regulated; and so it will never change.
Musk has previously claimed his use of the word "pedo" comes from South Africa where he says it is/was a common insult when he was growing up, akin to calling someone a "creep" in American English
Language serialization is tricky:

Examples of Issues Found with RFC 3454

4.1. Dhivehi

Dhivehi, the official language of the Maldives, is written with the
Thaana script. This script displays some of the characteristics of
the Arabic script, including its directional properties, and the
indication of vowels by the diacritical marking of consonantal base
characters. This marking is obligatory, and both two consecutive
vowels and syllable-final consonants are indicated with unvoiced
combining marks. Every Dhivehi word therefore ends with a combining
mark.
They do! My point is that open sourcing is a benefit for the people, even if the build instructions are missing. It's a major boost to not have to reverse engineer.
Given how things turned out, I think the answer might be ‘no’…
Yep so do Musk and Zuck's charities.
Not exactly true. Given an image, you can find the closest point in the latent space that image corresponds to. It is totally feasible to do this with every image in the training set, and if that point in the latent space is too close to the training image, just add it to a set of "disallowed" latent points. This wouldn't fly for local generation, as the process would take a long time and generate a multi gigabyte (maybe even terabyte) "disallowed" database, but for online image generators it's not insane.
>They aren't using the code you write to solve real world problems, they're using it to assess your suitability for the job.

If they aren't evaluating how the code you write fits into the context of a real world problem, how can they possibly use it to asses your suitability for the job? Using fake code problems to evaluate candidates is the flawed premise here.
I saw a comment that was without irony posting how Musk is the new Trump. And I think there is so much truth to that it’s painful, but not in the way some people may think.
It's a host DRM, and many games also integrate with steamworks, making it an embedded DRM that can prevent your games from launching without a connection even if they otherwise wouldn't need one. As others have said, this is inferior to both GOG, and physical media, except a large percentage of physical media now also does not function without the aid of online DRM.
Maybe he's infected. But he's certainly not entirely wrong on that claim. There's people academically smarter than him that share the same belief.
General Availability of Google Cloud AlloyDB for PostgreSQL
What a load of horseshit:

* There are less great discoveries because there are less great and easy things to discover

* Time has filtered the scientific studies of the previous centuries

* You don't look at the efficiency of a filter (peer reviewing) by the amount of shit that pass through, but by the rating between this amount and the amount of shit that doesn't pass through

* A lot of researchers don't want to release their raw data not because they invented their data but because they want to keep the monopoly for them

* Peer reviewing has failures and could be improved, but it is the best and quickest way to judge a scientific work (with credentials let's be honest)
> he has probably had net positive environmental impact than the next 1m people combined.

He probably could be this or that potentially
Why by the end of next year? That seems optimistically short.

Why hadn't it happened this year, or last? Nanite is great, but IMO doesnt change the equation that dramatically.

The cost for a studio to manually decimate game quality versions have been small enough that of the will had been there, we could have been doing it for years.
You seem to be confused, transformative works are still derivative works. Being sufficiently transformative can allow for a fair use exception but you may need a court case to prove something is sufficiently transformative to qualify.
This article was originally published with the title "The Human Engine" in Scientific American 328, 1, 24-29 (January 2023)

doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0123-24
Welcome to the world of tools. If I can “check myself” I wouldn’t ever need google and chatgpt would be useless.
> Product pages are long because longer pages tend to perform better at SEO

If you own the category, however, folks will go directly to you instead of Google. I'm not googling for a 8-32 button head sheet metal screw.
Thread is a mesh IPv6 based network that operates over the 2.4 GHz ISM band but is not WiFi. Matter is a communication protocol built on top of Thread, WiFi, and BLE (and potentially others in the future).
It's interesting that this is a consortium of second-tier map providers -- all the commercial enterprises that aren't as good as Google or Mapbox on the web. No ESRI participation on the GIS front. No OpenLayers or Leaflet or Maplibre on the open source front.

This reminds me of the Micro Four Thirds model, where smaller camera manufacturers teamed up to fight Canon and Nikon. This looks like a bunch of smaller map companies trying to stay relevant.

(edit: the below is incorrect, please see boise's reply below)
FWIW, I believe none of the founding members generate their own mapping data the way that Google, the Census, or Here.com do. They mostly republish Census/USPS data along with relicensing ESRI or Here spatial data. So it's not even a consortium of data creators, but more like an interop group that's trying to create a competing standard to what's already out there.
What are some examples of these laws?