skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main benefit of social networks is secure messaging. All the other features require a combination of a sophisticated frontend and a sufficiently general authorization mechanism.

One crazy idea is to build a basic messenger and let the users write channel policies in Datalog, a-la Biscuits.
> So it's no surprise to me that AI can pretty easily replicate humans that have tried to turn themselves into robots.

this is such a great insight... i feel like it could even somehow explain a lot of politics and many other phenomena.
"Horse Carriage Driver says horseless carriages are abominations. More at 12!"
> The thing that bothered me at the time was how completely closed the architecture was. It costs hundreds of dollars to buy compilers for example.

It cost tens of thousands of dollars to buy an O2.
The sea is a harsh mistress, but if anything is going to lend itself to seaworthiness, something solid state like solar panels makes a lot of sense. Especially if we can work out flexible/durable panels.

More sensitive electronics and the batteries can be put in sealed compartments.
Wow! I can imagine at a government-size scale, 6min of time is actually quite expensive comparatively
5 hail YCombinators and 1 Elon-bad post will absolve you of your sins my child.
Just the article I come here for, thanks for sharing. Fitting background ambience for reading:
https://youtu.be/870PlmjnLHw
Which ideas are doomed to fail? I would love to hear your feedback
In my research into Ethereum, I learned that in the creation of SHA-3, they did a lot of hammering on SHA-256 to see if new weaknesses could be discovered and addressed. The conclusion was that SHA-256 is still solid as far as anyone can tell. The SHA-3 process moved forward anyway so they could have a backup-plan handy in case some problem with SHA-256 pops up out of nowhere.
Ripping these original vinyl editions is already somewhere on my list of things-to-do-before-I-get-too-old. Currently I don't have a functional pickup for my record player. I will get around to it, some day. The Switched-On Boxed Set (CDs) was released in the late 90s, and I happen to have ripped that one about 20 years ago. I should do another FLAC or high-quality AAC rip of that box, for posterity, before eventual CD rot happens.
thanks for the reply that did not answer the question asked.
Pgsql-HTTP: HTTP client for PostgreSQL
No, early 2020 was the last time I was sick, some respiratory virus (didn't test). I haven't masked in a long time either - the only places still requiring you to wear a mask around these parts are hospitals (and I really try to avoid setting foot in hospitals). I moved to a rural area in 2021 and work remotely, so I'm not around large groups of people most days.

Also, never vaccinated. Cost me a job (to make it even more stupid, the job was fully remote) - oh well.
The only thing that would move the needle on a massive societal level is reliable nuclear energy in every city and country. But is that too hard for startups to tackle? Or it doesn’t fit the narrative? Every other climate “tech” just nibbles at the margins if that even. And the byproduct of mass nuclear energy adoption would be that the issue is solved and there would be no more climate mongering amongst the conference crowd. They would have to find another “the sky is falling down” cause. That would also lead to less justifications for war from the war crowd if all the world had true energy security. Maybe that’s why?

Reminds me of this previous initiative:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Independence
What happens if you run one of the spectrogram pictures through an upscaler for images like ESRGAN ?
Does the institute not also claim that work?
Once you get the basics out of the way (e.g. clean interface) I personally find one of the biggest usability impacts comes from the fact the system know their products, and lets you filter by various properties (dimensions, material, etc) which are detailed and appropriate for the category.

I wish Amazon did the same and offered more useful and accurate filtering. +/- operators would also be great (I know you can google site:amazon.ca +headset -bluetooth but it doesn't always work well).
If you automate away some other person's job, then you can capture at portion of their wage, and pass the savings on to the client. Once you "own" a market, then you can charge whatever the market will bear.

Software engineers aren't automating away their jobs, they are automating away someone else's job.
I think the point is that you wouldn't be. The network, from your perspective, will be quite small.
It all works on my machine. Firefox/Win11. Not sure what's happening for you.
This is my experience, having gone the route you're looking. Haskell (~6 month trial) was unproductive for me. Primarily the ecosystem is full of abandonware. Secondarily it lures you into spending way too much time refactoring stuff into the most concise possible form, which you can no longer understand (and frequently needs rewritten completely because the tiniest change to the most concise possible form invariably explodes through several layers when you have to make changes later). Rust (~3 month trial) may be great for codebases where you'd legitimately consider C / C++, but too much work otherwise; I personally wasn't doing anything that I'd use C for, so it was not worth it.

I ended up being very happy with F# as a middle ground for several years, but eventually migrated back to C# as they started adding more and more F# features. The primary challenge with F# was the parity mismatch with the underlying runtime, so you end up having to write a fair amount of non-idiomatic F# to interop with common libraries. But otherwise it's great. (I also tried Scala for a year and hated it: too many ways to do any one thing).
I appreciate that this seems like something someone would write for a parody-of-NFTs comedy sketch.
Perhaps you could do a hierarchical approach somehow, first generating a "zoomed out" structure, then copying parts of it into an otherwise unspecified picture to fill in the details.

But perhaps plain stable diffusion wouldn't work - you might need different neural networks trained on each "zoom level" because the structure would vary: music generally isn't like fractals and doesn't have exact self-similarity.
Just wait until they figure this applies to writing and reading too or the big elephant in the room - human discourse itself. Any exchange of ideas involves influencing another's state of mind. That's how language and communication work.

Banning TikTok does exactly one thing: it shows us how far hegemony will go to maintain itself.
Then what's the point of your comment? Did you sincerely think that somebody here didn't know that markets work through customers deciding what to buy?
Most published medical research is wrong...

https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...
> “Drew and Connor and I came to that decision with literally zero analytical rigor—we just wanted to unlock the analytics engineering workflow to as many humans as possible”

Give me a break...
You have no idea how long I've looked for this, thank you so much lol.

edit: wait, is this just a place that sells physical copies?
Ah rewrites. Sometimes you have to do them. Not because you will get new features. But just so you can hire someone at a reasonable price in the near future and it will actually run on a somewhat newish computer on a tech stack that was EOL 2 decades ago. Then you also get someone who rocks in and says 'you are just using the wrong language at my previous job we used xyz and it is the best we should just switch everything over to that'. Somewhere in the middle of those two points is where you decide to rewrite it.
What does CLI have to do with tiling windows?
The missing thing: international incentive structures.

Today, most things are done the most economical way. And that might involve emitting carbon.

A country which regulates the emissions of carbon will end up producing goods and services using carbon free methods - but those methods will often be less economically efficient than the carbon producing method, even at scale.

So any country that goes all in on the carbon-free world will end up economically worse off -- it's goods won't be competitive in the global marketplace. A government cannot subsidize itself to competitiveness in all markets.

Solve that problem, and the world will decarbonize itself almost overnight.
Unless you're a scientist or researcher in a field that would be performing research at McMurdo, your best bet is probably to apply for a support position with one of the organizations or parner institutions listed here: https://www.usap.gov/jobsandopportunities/

Though as the blog mentions in an earlier post[0], you may have to re-apply repeatedly over the course of several years.

[0]: https://brr.fyi/posts/basics
I think you've read me wrongly. All that I described above are problems in the GTK3 file picker that aren't problems in the Windows 98 file picker.

See the linked web page for a screenshot of the W98 picker for a visual aid.
If making public info more public is legally dicey, then you'd better tell me why you're okay wit Clearview, LexisNexus, et al... And not this guy.

Musk needs to go after the stalker. He deserves a good SLAPP'ing. Fuck billionaires trying to buy their way to immunity to the consequences of their own daft behavior.
Can't edit anymore: not mad about the downvotes, but I also don't understand them, at all. What about this rubbed people the wrong way? The answer to the question is that lots and lots of people don't understand how income taxes work, even a little. So many that one may expect to regularly encounter such people. I'll grant the results are from the social science side of things, which HN doesn't much care for, but that's just... where the answers to that question happen to come from.
I can answer this. Each of these markers comes into the software as part of an unconnected point cloud, which then needs to be identified and 'solved' to a constraint skeleton to get the true angles of rotation and the 'stick person' representation that you typically see.

Because of this, if you placed markers with bi-lateral symmetry, it would be much more difficult to solve joint rotation angles, as the overall facing of the point cloud would be undetermined. So, you have additional markers placed on none moving (not a joint) locations that ruin symmetry and allow facing to be easily solved. Typical locations are outside of the thighs, upper arms, and occasionally the back.

I built mocap studios for games companies.
I love how the sheer simplicity of this comment manages to convey so much about humanity and our drive to do things we love. I feel a bit silly reacting like this, but it's truly beautiful.
I don't agree. I think sites like Politico are trying to force people into believing that.

For me, the government heavily influencing speech through their tech giant proxy of choice is an explicit denial of 1st amendment rights. I don't see how that isn't a huge scandal. Any attempt from these media outlets to downplay that into something that's not worthy of attention just strengthens my conviction that it is worrisome.

Why do you believe this is "low level journalism"? It's certainly no more low level that reporting on Trump's tweets for half a decade.
The hydrogen equivalent of 1 liter of gasoline requires 0.16 liters of water. So enough fuel to drive a sedan about 300 miles requires roughly the same amount of water as an adult male consumes per day.
The thing is though, it's trained on human text. And most humans are per difinition, very fallible. Unless someone made it so that it can never get trained on subtly wrong code, how will it ever improve? Imho AI can be great for suggestions as for which method to use (visual studio has this, and I think there is an extension for visual studio code for a couple of languages). I think fine grained things like this are very useful, but I think code snippets are just too coarse to actually be helpful.
Have you even read the Microsoft case? It's not even close to the same thing [0]. Apple hasn't forced it's terms on other companies in nearly the same way. Apple has instead built a hardware and software platform that has a lot of users and is gatekeeping their OS, hardware, and user-base.

There are arguments for side-loading on Apple, but that doesn't have anything to do with breaking up the iOS-Android mobile OS duopoly, which seems to be the thing you're really mad about.

Android allows side-loading. Making iOS more like Android doesn't strike me as "increasing consumer choice".

>illegal anticompetitive business practices

None of what Apple has done is apparently illegal. In fact, this is a _new_ law that Apple is complying with.

[0] https://www.justice.gov/atr/complaint-us-v-microsoft-corp
Is that not a good thing?
> so everyone expects

Hmm..

> Matter started life in 2019 as Project CHIP (Connected Home over IP), a collaboration between some of the biggest players in tech; Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, the Zigbee Alliance, and various other tech brands, which aimed to create a unified smart home standard. [0]

Ahh, that explains it. I bought most of my devices a few years before this existed, and having those companies involved pretty much guarantees people expecting this to succeed over anything else.

Honestly though, Google and Amazon being involved make me less interested in it. It pretty much guarantees requiring a cloud connection.

[0] https://www.the-ambient.com/guides/matter-smart-home-explain...
Not really unfortunately, the US hasn't been a democracy reflecting the collective will of it's voters for some time now.

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746
I feel like my main pain point is following someone and then their account gets censored and i don't get any updates. I feel like it'd be nice if a "follow" subscribes to an RSS feed. A platform can "filter out" a feed if it's "bad" but the feed is still live and i just need to use a different client.

Like the notification feed and the "timeline" feed are 2 separate things, maybe? I can click on a notification and it opens in a different client.
Like apple can remove a podcast from the podcast app, but the podcaster can still publish on the rss feed and you can subscribe on a different client.
Spot on. Our thinking on these matters is more adherence to faith than reason. We are stuck in a collective meme.

A belief system that centers around human well being sounds more reasonable than *unbounded* capitalism. We know it, we don't know what to do with it.
This is true. Almost all C# projects will take a while for you to run. It is unfortunate.

The upside is hopefully you "don't need to run it as many times" but ... eh. No thanks.
"If you work on your own, pick the tool that works best for you. If you work in a team, pick the tool that works best for the team."

... thanks for the insight.
Could you use a PCMCIA wifi card in it?
The results of this are similar to my nitpicks of AI generated images (well, duh!). There's definitely something recognizable there, but somethings just not quite right about it.

I'm quite impressed that there was enough training data within SD to know what a spectrograph looks like for the different sounds.
If you haven't played it, I highly recommend Richie's Plank Experience [0].

The main focus of the game is you take an elevator to the top of a building, there is a plank an you jump off it.

I've found depending on the age of the participant the experience ranges from light fun to harrowing encounter with our own fears of death. I've seen people that, if it's their first time in VR, can take nearly an hour to finally do it.

0. https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/1642239225880682/
Uhuh, I'm sure both developer who has to learn a whole new platform and a user who suffers without needed application understand your reasons and definitions.
If that were true we'd see more patent applications in, say, engineering, than journal papers in the same field. (Or at least around the same order of magnitude). Do the numbers check out?
Seriously? Hydrogen peroxide? Do you realize that the foaming is it releasing free oxygen? Which basically guarantees burns.
Until there is an AI that can take as input a JIRA ticket (potentially asking for clarifications) and can output a Pull Request, I'm not too worried.
The progress of science has never been greater than under the peer review system.

I'm sure we can improve it, but if science since the 1960s is a failure, than almost everything in human history is a failure.
The same options [1] are built into `String.prototype.localeCompare` (which is just a handy shortcut for calling `Collator` [2]). So for example:

```
['B 1', 'A 20', 'A 3'].sort((a, b) => a.localeCompare(b, 'en', { numeric: true }))
// ['A 3', 'A 20', 'B 1']
```

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

[2] https://tc39.es/ecma402/#sup-String.prototype.localeCompare
Russians torturing children, Ukrainian Ombudsman reports
Absolutely this -- and in many (maybe most cases), there was no consent for the use of the work in training the model, and quite possibly no notice or compensation at all.

That's a huge ethical issue whether or not it's explicitly addressed in copyright/ip law.
Content warnings on Mastodon are just ridiculous
Exactly, which is nothing compared to how much water a human uses per day for other purposes. The volume is so small here.
I can't find a reference now, but there was some kind of military radar control system, which painted real-time light on film, which was continuously developed and projected on large projectors. It wasn't exactly video, but vector graphics, updated with a new frame every few seconds if I recall. A really wondrous system, with a built in permanent record of what had been shown on screen. (I wonder if these projectors were the inspiration for the projectors in War Games.)
Future hires.
I agree but it's better than listening to Ed Sheeran

Edit: To be honest, I find something like 'Band In A Box' to be more impressive and actually useful, I don't understand how I would ever use this or listen to this. To me, it's further proof that Stable Diffusion really just doesn't work that well
But that's my point, when we get where we're heading you won't need a cooking recipe website, an AI will cook much better than you could.

"Ok, great, then I don't have to cook!"

Yeah, but what will you do instead? We will be reduced to pure consumers as anything worthwhile to produce will be produced better and faster by an AI.
McMaster is the easiest web site to order from hands down. There is no friction.
You might be interested in the EUs new carbon border adjustment tax.

https://www.ft.com/content/51e6bd85-dbb2-4071-b635-8ab9bd2ab...
Weird that the page neglects to explain what xfce is, even by hyperlink

After several clicks:

Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems. It aims to be fast and low on system resources, while still being visually appealing and user friendly.
The .NET ecosystem is great.

It feels a lot more professional than other ecosystems. For example, they actually talk about layering/coupling as professionals should! People actually seem to talk about architecture as well rather than blindly believing that the conventions forced on them by a framework are sufficient for all use cases.

I especially like the gradient in the .NET world from micro ORMs to full-fledged ORMS. Most ecosystems seem to develop a big ORM that constantly accrues features (and bugs) and eventually becomes enshrined as a "best practice" because it acts as a kitchen sink.
There is no world in which a billionaire can donate billions of dollars and come ahead financially. The only reason to do this is the legitimate intention to use that money for reasons that aren't self serving. Conversations about "hiring his kids" and treating it like a slush fund are ridiculous. If he had a dozen kids each getting the maximum allowed salary (~$300k) for 30 years, that's still only 1.8% of the total contribution.
https://www.twelve.co is doing this (with fuels as well as other carbon-derived chemicals). Trouble is, this is carbon recycling, not carbon sequestering. It's better than the status quo, but I'm more excited about ideas that either sequester GHGs permanently or replace industrial GHG-generating processes permanently.
I have a general system for representing metadata in source files. (I use YAML documents embedded in block comments).

Some of this metadata gives traceability information for requirements, tests etc.. while other metadata enables me to associate a maturity level with each file.

My build system understands this metadata and uses it to inform e.g. the minimum test coverage that it expects on a file-by-file basis.

The same metadata is used to ensure that all of the other components that a file references are at the same level of maturity or higher.

I also have metadata for each file (partly derived from location in the repository) that gives each file a number which defines it's position in a hierarchy of design elements.

The position in the hierarchy helps to indicate what the purpose of the file is. I use this to make a distinction between those core, foundational, stable design elements upon which other design elements may build, and those more peripheral, ephemeral and 'agile' design elements which can be quickly tailored to meet the needs of a client or partner.

This means that a (hopefully stable) core API component can be prevented from relying upon a (perhaps less stable) bespoke customer-specific component. It also means that there's more freedom in changing and adapting peripheral designs as you can have confidence that it's stability is not something that is going to be relied upon.
I kind of agree to that and would hope to be able to revisit it, but no earlier than a century and half later. We are not there yet by at least that much.
Funny thing is that the site doesn't even work right now. Kiss of death and all that..
I think of HN (And really, any other website driven by user-generated contented content like reddit and forums) to be social media but not a social network.

I consider social networks to be a subset of social media where the focus becomes following specific users and having a feed consist of posts made by specific users, whereas reddit has a feed consisting on posts on specific topics.
No, it has the same problem as every other classical music station. If you turn up the volume to an appropriate level you get voices yelling at you.

The DJ's should be no louder than the quietest part of anything played on the station.
The mouse doubles as a microphone. You speak into the mouse as seen in the early 80s Star Trek movie where the characters have travelled back in time. And, the hand held microphone is used at work in the Orwellian 1984 movie involving changes to the news speak vocab. The iPhone is an other handed navigational mini digi compass to assist the microphone mouse. On screen, the before and after state is being composed by logico wiring, generative patterns for selection.
> Tesla for home appliances: re-inventing home appliances (water heaters, induction stoves, clothes dryers, etc) to create better consumer experiences using specific advantages of electric technology.

> Tesla-like experience for home energy management: smart hub, including smart charging, load shifting, software-based load shedding for improved resiliency, and better circuit-level energy use measurement.

With how Tesla vehicles are rated, and the unanimous lack of confidence in "autopilot" I've witnessed in owners, no way in hell am I do I want to "Teslify" everything in my home. In order to prove that there's something wrong with the current consumer experience, you have to bring an example to show it. So far, I've only seen ways to further add more surveillance and advertising into everyday people's lives, not to mention the increased disposability of appliances. No thanks.