skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm excited about Wrappers because of an idea born in the GraphQL community: using GraphQL as the point of integration for many different services in your app. A use case GraphQL seemed made for. It's not without problems, though, such as when you need data from one of those services inside your database. So this takes that idea and moves it one level down into the database. You still get the benefits of a unified API (through REST or GraphQL) without the same limitations. I think there couldn't be a more ideal point of integration!

disclaimer: I am a Supabase employee, but these views are my own.
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> would you like someone making a website tracking you even if it was public information?

Mark Zuckerberg already did that. It's called Facebook.

But also tracking a plane != tracking a person. If Elon doesn't want his flights to be tracked he could always fly commercial like the rest of us plebs.
Hopefully so, the V100 is like 5 years old now. Not to mention the V100 was fabbed on 12nm silicon compared to M1's 5nm process.
I have been putting off going under the house to fix the insulation for months.

100% not motivated to do it. The trick I used was to just start.
Now is the scheduled time to do it.
Do you want to do it? Nope.
Ok go get the tools and equipment.
Didn’t you hear? I’m not motivated.

Motivation not required. Just start.
That is complain against the grant system and the way funds are distributed. It is not complain abour peer review itself.
Google "hp-ux x86" and it's the 4th hit (right now).
Why’s this matter? Corporations aren’t people.
The people listing the products are not trying to game the system with McMaster.
Pretty sure there are managers who don’t know WTF you talking about and will be happy to address your inability to work with the new “hire” by letting you go.

This wont fly at organizations that need the code to work, every time, but think about the explosion of non-programmers who can now make systems that “basically work”. If you don’t think “basically works” is a high enough bar to succeed in e-commerce, let me show you my recent support email threads with companies from whom I’ve been trying to purchase Xmas gifts for my wife.
The people who are pretending to care about free speech now by supporting doxxing efforts are way more hypocritical than anyone who supports free speech making an exception for doxxing efforts.
I think you'll find that most older, popular (or once-popular) languages perform better than you might think. Perl couldn't perform too badly or it'd have been unusable on 1990s hardware. Early webservers often had single cores clocked at sub-100Mhz, mid-tens megabytes of memory, and tiny, spinning rust hard drives—a bunch of modern web server stacks would struggle to run at all on that hardware, let alone to serve even tens of requests per minute.

Go look up some real-world-(ish) performance benchmarks for various web frameworks if you want a real surprise. You might find it'd be hard to sell any scripting language other than PHP(!!!) for a project, if performance actually matters and for some reason you can't use a compiled language. Don't assume the new thing is better, or faster, even if that's its reputation. It may not be entirely earned.
> they are likely injecting some randomness

They definitely are. That's why the 'try again' button doesn't just return the same text again.
Nice, though it's scary many open source projects still just list an MD5 sum for the binaries.
You do not have to codify this at all. Your need for control over my garbage bins is why I refuse to live somewhere with a HoA.
As a matter of fact, I have reported material that I came across
Why promote and illustrate a non-standard way, or even allow it at all?
if you watch TV, movies, read books, post games, or exist, you're already exploring someone else's world
Hitler was at least partially bluffing. He knew that he needed to secure access to the Romanian oil fields and refineries but at the time of that statement had not yet done so. It took a few more months. But even with the Romanian alliance, Germany was chronically short of petroleum products.
Amazon's Machine Learning University debuts responsible AI course
Can you write general purpose scripts in Elixir like in Ruby or Python?
I really dislike how "questioning", a cardinal virtue for science, is treated like heresy.

The critiques make me more interested, not less. One man's cherry-picking is another's identification or isolation of important signals.
I visited the Moog museum this summer with a friend while visiting Asheville, NC. I asked if they had any Wendy Carlos related memorabilia and they didn't seem to. I think may be there was a Switched on Bach vinyl up on a wall in the back.... It made me feel a little sad. I think living with gender dysphoria hurts people's self-esteem tremendously. She also lived in a time when April Ashley, who was the image of feminine beauty and grace, was accosted by old ladies in parks to shame her for "pretending" to be a woman once she was outed by UK tabloids just as her career began to take off. It's understandable why she'd want to avoid embracing fame. Even today trans people, and especially women, are an acceptable punching bag for both the public at large and public figures to take out their frustrations on....

She didn't become world famous like she may have if she'd been lucky enough to be born cisgender, but the thing that matters most is whether she found happiness in her private life. I hope she did.
Rust will complain about a recursion limit being reached during instantiation[1]. The solution in Rust is to use &dyn Trait or Box<dyn Trait> instead.[2]

[1]: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...

[2]: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...

^ This blows the stack because it keeps calling itself with no break condition, but shows how the type system accepted the code.
This is supported in Bazel with package visibility rules. Once you've got that feature as a way to tame a larger and expanding codebase, you'll wonder why it isn't a feature in more systems.

https://bazel.build/concepts/visibility
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THIS.

I remember the days when you could pick a theme (which was just a set of bitmaps with a fixed palette) and then pick a couple of "accent colors" to customise it. If you picked your favourite shade of dark wine red as your GTK_ACCENT_COLOR (might have been called something else, I forget), then highlighted things like buttons, selected text, and the title bar of the active window only would be that color.

I loved the old flexibility of being able to choose the shape of my buttons, title bars and widgets and then tweak the color myself - "I like that theme's rounded buttons, but I want them in red not blue" kind of thing.
You're trying to bait me. I think we both know policing has a history and tradition in areas of the United States that outlawed slavery long prior to the civil war.
> A paper that is not peer reviewed is basically like a blog article.

The one thing has nothing to do with the other.

I have seen many "peer-reviewed" articles regarding Covid in 2020-2022 that were no better than blog posts. It isn't a panacea, and the last two years have drawn into sharp relief one of the major problems of the system: confirmation bias.

Peer review is worth no more than the "peers" who review it, their objectivity, personal investment in the claim, and the level of effort they put into the review. For example, if the "peers" are a group of people who are all seeking to confirm their prior beliefs about a controversial topic, the peer review process is almost completely useless as a signal of quality. Papers that confirm groupthink are routinely shunted to the high-status members of the group for like-minded "review" and rubber-stamp approval. Papers that challenge groupthink are almost invariably nit-picked and/or dismissed entirely. Many never even make it to peer review, because the journal editor rejects the submission.

Throw in issues like reviewer bias toward "established" authors and fields, as well as lack of blinding and selection bias amongst the reviewer pool, and you have a recipe for a formalized system of groupthink.
The building part is not a novel problem and probably not very interesting. I'm not a product person, so I don't have an alternative suggestion, but unless someone could explain to me how they plan to do it without advertising, I'm not helping. That's an ethical line for me and I wish it was for more people.

First thoughts on max 10 member groups - I'd probably opt for a simple group text for that use case. Nobody has to register for anything, trust some 3rd party, it's self-moderated. I'd need some decent incentive to invite some unknown 3rd party into something that's already working.
You can also tell it the code it wrote produces an error-that-isn't-an-error, it will find that "error", explain what it did "wrong" and "fix" it.

If you don't understand the program ChatGPT wrote, it will happily butcher it for you, because it doesn't really understand it either.
Honestly Apple's product line is so bulletproof, they deserve this valuation.
I did this and it is pretty inconsistent. It kept telling me I was using the wrong version of a library (which from what I could tell by looking at documentation was just not correct, but I didn't look into it too long), and at one point it just kept insisting that it's code solution was correct when in reality the error was due to it importing two different libraries that use the same namespace, which led to an error saying it couldn't find the function being called.
I couldn’t agree more. Most of my job consists of gathering requirements and brokering deals between affected departments. I think most college students dream of the type of job that could feasibly be replaced by AI. In reality, the coding is the easiest part of the job and takes the least amount of time.
Would it though? Most of these operations seem to use botnets. So it's enterprise routers and smart fridges and juiceros doing the heavy lifting.
Most underestimate how important laying out a clear map of your content is. Rather than letting the user build some incompletely inefficient map inside his head, lay it our clearly somewhere easily accessible.

That's why I love websites with sitemaps or when their url scheme tells me the topology of content clearly.
Wokwi does this pretty well
We're just going to move to on-site interviews only. ChatGPT can't enter the equation then.
I'm not using any political rhetoric, and never accused anarchists of being criminals.
Exactly. It's not some hack that magically makes income tax liability just disappear, as many commenters are thinking it could be. Rather there are marginal tax benefits combined with strong asset protection, that make sense when you've got an obscene amount of money to manage so the administrative overhead becomes negligible - the question goes from "why" to "why not".

Another thing people are missing is that it's not an income tax dodge, but rather an estate tax dodge. The money will remain in control of his heirs, assuring they'll never go hungry or want for a place in the world.

It also creates more opportunities to play with asset valuations to evade taxes (eg separate the financial and voting interest of some stock in a closely held company, then claim the financial interest is worth very little without the control interest). But it's impossible to know if this is actually being done without seeing tax filings, including his (eventual) estate tax filing.
Upload them too your palm pilot, and wedge that in?
> Primarily because they are really easy to misinterpret

No, that's the thing. This is something that was asserted early one by someone influential, without any data to back it up. And then when HCI people started to actually test it they found no issues whatsoever.

I wish I had bookmarked the sites/videos where I saw this.
You avoid both income and gift taxes and they don’t pay taxes on benefits like health insurance so it’s a significant tax savings over just handing out money. More importantly is the social benefits as working at a charity is seen more positively than living on a trust fund.
These first couple aren't from the Fed directly, but: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/09/20/fed-inter...

> Higher rates ... are designed to slow the economy by dampening consumer demand.

> The Fed can’t do anything to boost chip manufacturing or build more houses, which would fix the supply side of the equation. So it has to focus on slowing down demand instead. It wants fewer people to buy new cars or put in bids for houses,

https://www.levyinstitute.org/publications/why-does-the-fed-...

https://fortune.com/2022/03/17/fed-slowdown-rates-economy-in...

Interpreting the Fed's own statements take a bit of critical reading since they're both open about it, but also aware that most of the public would have a different view if they heard and understood what was being said. So, their wording remains cautious: https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/cook2022113...

> When firms see rising output per hour, they have room to keep prices low. For consumer goods, this can help lower inflation.

Here the Fed demonstrates a preference that the value produced by increases in productivity shouldn't go to labor, but that their share of value should be reduced to keep prices low (aka a wealth transfer from labor to capital).

Then: https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/waller20221...

> I will begin with some comments on the overall outlook for economic growth and then try to explain how tighter monetary policy this year is intended to dampen demand and put downward pressure on inflation.

Here the Fed refers to wage growth and inflation as interchangeable, but even if you disregard that they state a goal of dampening demand. Perhaps the ends justify the means in terms, but it should be acknowledged that both supply and demand feed productivity. Dampening demand is tantamount to the Fed shutting down factories and keeping employees off of work. The demand for goods and services exists because they are needed inputs into other aspects of the economy. The goal is not to facilitate a productive economy, but to facilitate a stable one even if that means reducing productivity.
This is what I've been talking about all year. It is such a relief to see it actually happen.

In summary: The search for AGI is dead. Intelligence was here and more general than we realized this whole time. Humans are not special as far as intelligence goes. Just look how often people predict that an AI cannot X or Y or Z. And then when an AI does one of those things they say, "well it cannot A or B or C".

What is next: This trend is going to accelerate as people realize that AI's power isn't in replacing human tasks with AI agents, but letting the AI operate in latent spaces and domains that we never even thought about trying.
You want to fight the CO2 that does the warming, that's an elite thought which generates itself in elite and rich areas such as California and New York.

I meant it as a way to fight the CO2 which causes cancer and respiratory problems, so you move the large emissions to unpopulated areas and then use high voltage to bring electricity in populated areas.

The rest of the world wants to fight pollution, only the elites want to fight climate change because their wealth affords them to focus on problems and time horizons which are simply not relevant nor accessible for the rest of the world.
Why is it legal to ship it in intel-media-driver and not in Mesa?
You're correct, it would be.

However, when the Gates' donations are disclosed they tend to say "$xB was given to the Gates Foundation" while Musk's was apparently "donated to a charity". (Note: I do not follow this topic regularly, this conclusion was based on some basic searches.)

To dig a bit deeper, it could be argued that the contributions and outcomes of the Gates' foundation are relatively well known at this point while Musk's outcomes are less so.
Batteries don't store "power". They store energy. Uranium fission, on the other hand, produces energy. Comparing energy storage with energy production is not valid.

Also, your numbers are way, way off. 1 kg of U-235 can produce about 24,000,000 kWh of energy. There's no way you're going to store that in 1 kg of lithium batteries.
Trump or NFTs?
That's just a bad take and it doesn't excuse the problems with GPT.
Can you finally resize windows with a larger grab area than 1pixel? That drove me nuts
Wow those examples are shockingly good. It's funny that the lyrics are garbled analogously to text in stable diffusion images.

The audio quality is surprisingly good, but does sound like it's being played through an above-average quality phone line. I bet you could tack on an audio-upres model afterwards. Could train it by turning music into comparable-resolution spectrograms.
AIUI, Z-Wave means interoperability at device level, without even a controller or a compatibility shim, across a variety of manufacturers. Niche devices can exist because it's easy for a niche manufacturer to integrate. And if my Internet connection is down, or even the controller is down, the system still functions with graceful degradation only.

With Zigbee, AIUI you get a mostly closed system locked in to whichever Zigbee vendor you chose. Interoperability only occurs at a higher level in a much more error-prone and lowest common denominator fashion.
Prior to the regulatory actions aimed at banks that underwrite startup fintech companies over the last few years (Column, Radius, Blue Ridge etc) I didn't think startups would have to care about this, but they do. This piece covers bank portability:
- who needs it (startups issuing financial instruments)
- when to get it (when you're scaling)
- how to prep for it (get a bin, routing number, and abstracted ledger)
He better be careful with the ever more ridiculous level of grift. I suspect many Trump acolytes are already migrating to Elon Musk as the primary focus of their idolatry.
Please be aware that some of us actually don't amass piles of erotica in our alone time, as if some sort of pornsick squirrel.

The most reliable way of not getting caught out storing dodgy images on your computer is to not procure them in the first place.

And, it's better for keeping a healthy and well-adjusted attitude towards sexual desire, rather than being trained on whatever pornographers want to you see. From an ethical point of view, not being complicit in the sexual abuse that is so rife in the porn industry is also a big plus.
oh, no, that must be so hard on them, having to use paper maps and their eyes to navigate whilst their troops operate literal torture chambers for children[1] in a country they're trying to invade

[1] - https://twitter.com/Lyla_lilas/status/1603042758729650178
I really love do coding in python and always asked myself when the skill set will become legacy like COBOL.

Not sure if you could compare it, but it seems that the next gen coders will say to the AI what to code rather than to code by themselves. A complete different skill set.
Can the spectrogram image be AI upscaled before transforming back to the time domain?
Google Docs rolling out code blocks for easier formatting and display
Tamagotchi: (trademarked) an electronic toy displaying a digital image of a creature, which has to be looked after and responded to by the ‘owner’ as if it were a pet.
I have observed that companies will choose not to invest further in irreplaceable labor, under any circumstance. Every single company with, that I have been part of over the decades (30ish?), exhibits the same behavior when it becomes common knowledge that someone is a linchpin. Put the company in a game of chicken for a raise (which includes an implicit, or-I-quit) and they let the "irreplaceable" employee go. Every single time. It's not hard to see why. No company wants to have a disgruntled linchpin nor do they want to be beholden to some lower level character.
This was a regular practice when I worked on services at EA. Old games had online components shut down or de-registered. The utilization of the game was always a factor, but games that were 2-3 years old, particularly in sports, got discontinued regularly - with player communication involved.
I admit the only time I reach for Perl is when I need a really strong and dependable regex service. Still one of the best ways to parse text to this day. Perl text parsing capabilities are nearly unrivaled still.
Sadly, his fate is still unlearn’d
A high-rise being built in Detroit could change the way cities are built [video]
Why is a "waste pile" worse than having it distributed all over the ocean floor?
it depends if lucy is idempotent
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> In my humble estimation, making art is vastly more difficult than the huge majority of computer programming that is done.

You're comparing apples to oranges. Digging a trench by hand is also vastly more difficult than art or programming.

There's just as much AI hype around code generation, and some programmers are also complaining (https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/8/23446821/microsoft-openai...).

Overall though the sentiment is that AI tools are useful and are a sign of progress. The fact that they are stirring so much contention and controversy is just a sign of how revolutionary they are.
It does just that though? Don't tell me nobody is surpised sometimes while prompting a diffusion model, that can only happen if a significant portion of creation happens, in a non-intuitive way for the user - what you could describe as 'coming up with something'.
Well done. XFCE is a desktop for people who want just a desktop, and a file manager that manages files well - Thunar is a great piece of software IMO.
ooh been wondering this for ages actually. (I've played with Rails a bunch, but never E/P)

Why do you say you'd prob be better off with rails?
This is explicitly the role of city planning boards - and almost every city has at least one

I sat on the Cheverly, MD planning board for two years

If you want to provide that pressure then you should join the city planning board
This incident clearly shows why there should be a firewall between owners and moderation. This is in no way a way to run any social media site.
If someone is using a component that important that far outside its EOL it isn't a performance issue. It's either something extremely legacy, massively underbudgeted, or maybe non-internet-facing and non-critical. It isn't the kind of project someone is fine tuning for high performance.
Lichess gets a big upgrade. It doesn't go as planned
i7 is a series. A quad core i7 from 2022 isn't retro. One from a decade ago yeah.
What do you mean by evidence against it?
It would be AMD's problem, but US patient law lets them sue anybody downstream too. Another failing.
Going with MBP still gets you 64GB max ram, more cpu and gpu cores, and more than 1 external monitor. I think the 16” MBP will stick around for a while.
> the DeepMind team built a custom dataset from CodeContests from two previous datasets, with over 13,500 challenges. Each came with an explanation of the task at hand, and multiple potential solutions across multiple languages. The result is a massive library of training data tailored to the challenge at hand.

Isn't this just over-fitting the model?
> If you can send an IP packet from your computer across the world, why not energy?

This has already begun in the form of the new transmission line under the North Sea between England and Norway, which will be used to store wind power from the UK in pumped hydro facilities in Norway. [1]

But sending electricity at grid transmission levels across major ocean distances may not pencil out economically.

Politics also comes into play. In the US for example, the Texas grid won't even attach to the rest of the national grid.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_Link