skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve begun to learn Vulkan recently, and honestly, the API is not the best. But I feel like it’s the best long-term option - it’s really more about the mental model: buffers, pipelines, commands and queues, all exist in one way or another in Vulkan, Metal, and DX12. OpenGL is the odd one out as it’s a global state machine. That said, you can build a vulkan-like abstraction atop of OpenGL (I’ve tried).

The problem however, is compatibility. We’re in a very weird transitional era for graphics. Things aren’t unified anymore. Modern OpenGL features that aren’t difficult to implement are held back by drivers since most of that work is done by drivers in the first place. It’s not like the GPU can or can’t do these things, it’s that the vendors don’t expose that functionality. Vulkan is not available on my ivy bridge thinkpad (unless I run Linux and an open source driver). OpenGL greater than 4.1 is not available on MacOS because apple writes the drivers and they chose to stop writing them. Vulkan is not available natively on MacOS, except, with MoltenVK you can enable it, since at the end of the chain a GPU is just a GPU and it doesn’t care what API you use. Microsoft, in their commitment to legacy compatibility, allows DX12 to run on any windows machine made in the last decade, the catch is it’s windows only. So all the options have their ups and downs and pitfalls whereas it felt like 10 years ago OpenGL was ‘the’ answer.

Honestly, the state of graphics programming is a mess. To be compatible, you have to stick to some narrow versions of OpenGL that are uncomfortable and outdated, because computers or drivers are either too old or too new or both, or you have to write individual abstractions for every platform you target.

I hate the state of it but I get why indie devs are all just using Unity now. When I was growing up it was SDL2+OpenGL, and then it was XNA, but it seems coding at all is too much now. And I don’t really blame them, the problem domain has expanded significantly and the knowledge required has expanded along with it. Libraries can’t just be libraries to solve one task, they have to be frameworks or engines or entire graphical editors because all this is just too much for one person to figure out anymore. I just wanna write some code that draws some shapes, man.
the ball gear might be a good candidate for metal 3d printing
Japan's refusal to fully acknowledge comfort women, and the evils of the co-prosperity sphere is feeding opposition in countries as diametrically different as south Korea and china.

If they want to defuse tension, stopping writing their history books as white out and celebrating yasakuni shrine war criminals would be a good start, based on the west German experience. I don't love the federal Republic of Germany or the CDU but they aren't in denial about 33-45.
GPT3/DALL-E2 in Discord, chat like ChatGPT, generate images, and more
I've build a GPT3 and DALL-E2 integration for Discord. With it, you can ask GPT3 questions, have full conversations with GPT3 (just like ChatGPT), generate, vary, and redo images, and even optimize text prompts for image generation!

The conversation functionality also has medium term memory, and you can chat with it infinitely without having to worry about context/token limits. Moreover, in the next few days, I will be implementing long term and permanent memory for the bot using embeddings!
Shadow banning doesn't work. Trolls will do the same regardless and they have multiple accounts to do it with.

They also know that they can run a separate window in private mode to view their own posts for suspected shadow-banning, and then create new accounts easily if they need to, at a minimum, it easily expands in scale to a VPN and beyond with minimal effort.

As for the consequences, if you strip individual people of voice and have done it for years without telling them, it tends to have only a few different outcomes, nothing positive in every respect. Voice is directly tied to agency, they stop reacting, stop providing anything of value, stop being generous, anywhere, some tend to have self esteem issues, and some become radical. These are the natural outcomes of marginalized individual.

Shadow-banning is a stupid idea put forth by stupid people with a spectacular lack of vision, and pushes a philosophy that has no future.

That philosophy being the same as identity politics under Mao, that the group is paramount, and the individual isn't important.

Any entity participating in this is effectively supporting the spread of socialist/communist philosophy, while conveniently ignoring the downsides.

We know in the context of communities that the presence of knowledgeable and actively engaged individuals make or break communities.

Moderation is important, shadow-banning isn't the way to do it.

Having anyone stripping the agency or voice of someone else without their knowledge, is an act of true evil regardless of the circumstances about how that came about.

Those that authorized and performed the work in case of automated systems, to make the system happen are equally responsible.

If you've read any serious history, you would know this is how evil works. Its usually about putting a system in place in a way that people blindly follow which separates individual tasks from the overall actions, and gives plausible deniability to the people who support often unknowingly in exchange for food/wages. This is how great acts of evil often come about.

Its what has happened in WW2, East Germany (Stasi), USSR, Vietnam (Hue), and China (Mao), and probably the US in the not so distant future given some of the secret systems the Snowden leak showed that are in place now and the general lack of public transparency in the past 20 or so years.
> First, one piece of opinion in a larger body of text doesn't tell you "all you need to know" about the rest of it.

It certainly does when Falun Gong and the Moonies are purveyors of far right propaganda, which the author subscribes to.

> Secondly, whether Falun Gong was cult-like or not doesn't change the fact that China brutally repressed a religious movement of tens of millions of members that didn't engage in terrorism, violence or forcibly integrate new members.

As far as China's repression of Falun Gong, I wholeheartedly disagree with its methods, but as Falun Gong was and remains an anti-CCP entity, the repression of that organization is entirely understandable.
Even the one in Blackpool is rather pleasant, which is somewhat unusual for the city as you’re probably aware. :)
The proper time segment https://youtu.be/aAdzW-mRKTk?t=67 (unless you are referring to another spot)

> travel restrictions based on favoritism and politics rather than a risk will be counterproductive

Are these travel restrictions based on favoritism and politics; or risk?

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/...

For China: https://china.usembassy-china.org.cn/covid-19-information/

From wayback:

* Dec 6: https://web.archive.org/web/20221220134012/https://china.use...

* October 20: https://web.archive.org/web/20220929083845/https://china.use...

> Effective Sunday, June 12 at 12:01 a.m. EDT, the CDC rescinded its Order requiring all airline or other aircraft passengers to show a negative COVID-19 test result or documentation of recovery from COVID-19 to board any aircraft destined to the United States from a foreign country. Of note, CDC’s Order requiring proof of vaccination for non-U.S. citizen nonimmigrants to travel to the United States is still in effect. For more information see Requirement for Proof of COVID-19 Vaccination for Air Passengers.

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The xenophobia passage: https://youtu.be/aAdzW-mRKTk?t=18

> but neither should we panic or fall back on xenophobia labeling Covid 19 a foreign virus

Terms such as: "kung flu" and "Chinese Virus" fall into that category of xenophobia.

Trump again uses racially insensitive term to describe coronavirus - https://wapo.st/3ju4v8l

> “Wuhan. Wuhan was catching on, coronavirus, kung flu,” he said, repeating it as the crowd roared. “I could give you many, many names. Some people call it the Chinese flu, the China flu, they call it the China.”
This is a case from 1996, in which a group of towns created a pool of candidates for a bunch of different jobs based on a civil service exam that included the Wonderlic test, and then assigned ranges of scores to different jobs. A survey done shortly after the appeals case, at a police management training course (at the University of Louisville), found that actual police, with experience ranging from 7-33 years, overwhelmingly disagreed with the premise of that scoring system. It seems likely that the New London situation was anomalous.
Thanks for this, I may take a more manual approach. Do you have a preferred webserver?
A lot of medicine isn't latest research as standard of care isn't a fast moving target its just attention to detail.
It would be great if we could rid ourselves of all disease. Unfortunately everybody wearing masks all the time forever won’t actually accomplish that that goal and is wildly impractical and unrealistic.

I don’t care if other people want to wear masks forever. That is their choice. I was happy to wear a mask when COVID was high in my area (rural, low population). I got my shots.

But this is absurd. If we can come up with a permanent vaccine for the flu and the common cold I’ll sign right up but as it is, I’m going to live a normal life unless/until things change.
> the People's Daily, ran an article in which two Chinese academics challenged Japan's sovereignty over the Ryukyu chain of islands, which includes Okinawa.

This is Beijing's policy about as much as Fox News' rantings were GOP or Trump Administration policy. Beijing holds a leash and can tighten or loosen at will, but to that extent it's still just saber rattling and fodder for domestic politics. Just like with American media, such opinions deserve attention only after after a long-term, durable pattern of specific policy preferences which see significant uptake by the political machine.
My bad I hope you find the help you need.
If only there was a worldview to speak of.

Throwing money at a trendy thing to make more money is hardly a worldview.
Fun point from that page:

> The IMP software and the ARPA network communications protocol running on the IMPs was discussed in RFC 1 (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1), the first of a series of standardization documents published by what later became the Internet Engineering Task Force.

On that note, it's actually quite interesting to peruse the first few RFCs (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc-index-100a.html). Internet RFCs pretty clearly started off as the "Network Working Group"'s internal mailing list, where they'd throw any old thing: plans (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4.html), meeting notes (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6.html), mirrors for internal use (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc12.html), storytelling (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc89.html), etc.

It was also pretty clear that the IMP itself, and BBN as its vendor, was kind of at the center of this whole thing, where RFCs were always implicitly for internal discussion between these people who were also always in external discussion with BBN, recording what BBN said and what changes to the IMP were coming that would allow for/enable changes to planned protocols and software.

You might say that the IETF was really just a user group for "amateur" BBN IMP enthusiasts. :) I say "amateur", because BBN's real paying customers, as a DARPA contractor, would have been government, military, and telcos. Thus why none of those were participants in the "Network Working Group" — they were getting white-glove service directly from BBN!

If anyone knows exactly when DARPA itself (and US gov/mil installations as a consequence) began participating in the IETF / switched their own internal networks to using IETF-developed standards, that'd likely be a fascinating little point of history to learn about.
No, I can't. I am on Android using web version.
im saving up to hopefully own a house someday, but buying a bigger apartment isn't as easy as it might have been 20 years ago. Boomers have rigged the real-estate market to protect their "investment" by severely constricting housing supply, and this has created pressure across the entire housing market, even for renters. This is the biggest apartment I can afford.
Interesting. I've never seen that spelling for tchotchke before.

Okay, I thought of B&N as a defunct random junk store. I think I'll go take a look. I wonder if these B&Ns have local identities or if somehow they have a common book load. From this article it would appear the former.
I've not given M** or Twitter, neither of which I have any form of relationship with at all, a moment's thought. I have a Mastodon account, and am pretty sure my assessment of its denizens reactions are about right.
Nobody can compel you to destroy a DRM-free digital copy AND enforce this. It is impossible.
What you’re suggesting is one of the talking points of trickle down economics
>There is even a bible verse about this:

Please don't (mis)quote the Bible at me if you don't take it seriously. This isn't what this verse means and is a distraction.

>How can you say that the authors of the bible made up 99 miracles but were honest about a few of them?

My comment was directed to a fellow Christian and lacked a lot of context important for non believers. Let me try and unpack my original intent.

There are a LOT of facts and pseudofacts in the Bible. There are a LOT (like a lot) of distractions in the discussions of Christianity. There is a small number of relevant and key facts that are critical to agree on. If these facts are wrong - nothing else matters. If we disagree on these facts - nothing else matters. These facts are commonly summarized as "The Gospel". Here they are:

God created everything

God created you and me to be in a perfect relationship with Him

We sinned and are separated from this perfect relationship

There is no way we can earn our way back to this perfect relationship

Jesus, who is God, came to earth. He lived a perfect life. He died the death that I deserve.

He was resurrected

He ascended to heaven

If I accept His death in place of mine, I can live forever in a perfect relationship with the God of the Universe

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That is it. Here are some things that don't matter: How many fish Jesus used to feed people. Are Angels real. What on earth was happening in Genesis ch 6 (Christians, you know what I'm talking about). Was David king.

These questions might be nice to talk about amd agree on - BUT - and this is important - if we can't agree on the Gospel then nothing else matters. Nothing. So let's not get distracted with "do all 4 gospels agree on the order of the miracles". Let's stay focused on things that point to the gospel. Did Jesus die? Was he resurrected? Did he ascend into heaven?

Because if we can agree on these questions (and the others in the gospel), then and only then can we talk about "Did Jesus walk on water" or "is homosexuality wrong". But if Jesus didn't come back to life, then I am truely screwed and nothing else matters. (and, yes, there is a bible verse for that, but I'm not going to waste my time looking it up)
Also, look at Logical Increments. It's a great site for figuring out what you should actually be buying at any given price point.
I didn't experience a lot of crashes (though I do remember the General Protection Fault screen).

Today, I'm happily using Windows 10 with Open Shell at work and Debian/LXDE at home.

I don't have the option of doing anything too out of the ordinary at work, because they've adopted MS Teams, rely on our calendars for scheduling, etc. I also make extensive use of a touchscreen and pen combination for annotating PDFs and I doubt (but you never know!) that any of the old OSes could handle that well.
My understanding is there's controversy about the "new" LGBT flag even among the movement.
Depends on what type of book. I don't usually re-read novels and you're probably right that there's no point in worrying about jeff bezos taking them away, but most of my books are either textbooks which I keep around as a reference, or comics which don't take nearly as much time to re-read as a novel would.
I went to a different one when one refused. Libraries hold book sales from time to time. Find one that does book sales. They would appreciate the donation.
I think so, because there's no proof that either cohort wouldn't have been better off under an alternative arrangement.

To make things a little bit more concrete -- I know the typical argument here is that the poorest are moved forward more by rapid expansion/growth/harnessing of greed, but the problem is that we do not consider the right tail trajectory of those below.

Making life better at a rapid rate is great, but it seems to be at a tradeoff -- a cap is developing on the "better off" part (widening wealth disparity). If it always trended up then the problem would be easy (and people wouldn't be too worried). It's a problem because the graph seems to go up for the poorer cohort then level off yet continue growing for one cohort. The derivatives are the problem, essentially.

Also I'd argue that what people are seeing is a future where quality of life for the poorer cohort actually goes off a cliff and starts to go lower. Since we have no idea if/how that will happen (robots/automation most likely), the only way to ensure trajectories for the both cohorts is for both cohorts to have similar influence/power/decision making input.

[EDIT] - I should note, the current extent is not that bad. It could be much much worse, and I think that's what people should be tinkering/trying to prevent.
No amount of prostrating will ever appease every faction, such as Polish conservatives regard Germany. It's all irrelevant anyhow as Japan and Germany are about distant from their pre-war selves in terms of militarism and nationalism as any country on this planet. What's actually keeping these debates alive are cultural enmities which predate WWII by centuries. That's why you don't see, e.g., Vietnam constantly making a fuss about American reverence for their soldiers who fought and killed Vietnamese--the history just isn't there to support that kind of national grudge even if there are plenty of individuals who might be bothered by it.
Probably a malapropism. s/aphantasia/amnesia

Just for my own personal interest, did you already know the two words aphantasia and amnesia? If so, would you mind rank-ordering the following three possibilities in your mind when you posted the comment:

- GP comment mixed up the two words

- GP comment intended aphantasia in a way that makes sense but you do not yet know how

- GP comment intended aphantasia but that does not make sense
> You are summarizing, with near perfect accuracy, the motte and bailey.

Certainly not; there is an enormous difference between "I am saying one thing but my secret plan is another thing" and "using a bad slogan that's easily misinterpreted".

I don't like this whole "motte and bailey" kind of stuff in the first place; it's guessing at people's motivations and poison for reasonable constructive solutions or compromises. If everyone keeps guessing at people's motivation and what's in their heart of hearts we'll never get anywhere with anything.

> You are, at best, repeating a dog-whistle of a slogan

I'm not "repeating" it; I'm saying it's a bad slogan, but also adding some nuance because sure, here are some people who mean it literally, but for many others it's "just" a phrase. I wish people would stop using it, yes, but I'm also not going to dismiss the entire argument or movement just because they're using a bad slogan.
This sounds like what you might expect from a using a random process (genetic algorithms, simulated annealing) to solve the NP-complete problem. The randomness injects suboptimal routes like this, as well as more optimal ones, but the fitness/cost function has to distill a whole bunch of things into one scalar. In my experience what happens is that the different things you want to value sort of compete with each other. I'm guessing the current state of the system is quite suboptimal, and it might not be able to remove the randomness.

It's quite feasible to get within a factor of 2 of the optimal solution (with much less processing power), which sounds great from a CS algorithm analysis standpoint, but a factor of 2 looks like an awful schedule from a human standpoint.
The author thinks that maybe a addiction is a developmental issue, or a sort of learning disability and he questions the AA-informed "progressive disease" model of addiction. It's an important topic, and well worth discussing.

I don't know what I have to add to the discussion, though. I came from a pretty difficult childhood, with a fairly messed-up family. I live in an area with a lot of rehabs, and a lot of my friends, through the years, have been involved in recovery.
I'm comfortable around recovering addicts. I can relate to a lot of their experiences. I could have easily gone down that path. But, for whatever reason, alcoholism or addiction were never much of a problem in my life.

In some sense it must have seemed like a good idea during the active addiction. Why is it so hard to see the problem? The years of addiction (averages - cocaine, 4; marijuana, 6; alcohol, 15) -- that's a lot of years of destruction to rebuild from. That's a lot of, what, blindness? justification? lack of self awareness?
I always heard "young upcoming professional ".
Very cool design (and analysis, and animation) -- this is one case where I'm glad the authors paid up to make the paper available to the public. (And equally annoyed that they had to.)

I will say that I don't really get the problem being solved here, though. There are any number of ways to do this if you don't need to rotate the output arm around its own axis. If you do, simply adding another motor to the output arm seems like the most straightforward way to solve the problem, and with fewer compromises elsewhere. Can any robotics gurus comment on the relative advantages of the all-in-one approach using a single spherical gear?
Shortly after joining the PyTorch compiler team, I was part of a team that decided that we should build our own tensor-expression compiler for PyTorch (called NNC, although it wasn’t well-publicized) instead of using an existing one like Halide or TVM.

We ended up sinking two years into it, and never ended up with a particularly good compiler (although we did absolutely crush a couple toy benchmarks).

Arguably both sides of that tradeoff were wrong, though, as the eventually successful PyTorch 2.0 compiler (TorchInductor) was based on Triton (plus some custom higher-level scheduling logic).
I don't know about correctly, but I do find that there is some mildly buggy behaviour with multiple monitors on Windows 10. I haven't had great trouble with my touchscreen either, but you're right that there are occasional hiccups.

That being said, I'm much happier with those features than without them!
Not me. Was automatically logged out of the web app, and am unable to log back in because error.
If I was the product manager on maps, I'd keep it exactly as it is.

The worst thing is for maps to be "silent" when there's a route available that can save you half a day of driving. You don't want that but an average driver does.

You are basically a power user who knows better than the map which is fine, but then just add a waypoint that forces the Southern route and go on with your life.

For the average user, nagging them to get the 5 hour faster route is the right strategy.