skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is about how (well akshually) deployment of new ideas has greater impact than the inventions themselves.
2023 Public Domain Debuts Include Last Sherlock Holmes Work
It's funny, that's exactly how I feel about ORMs! (That they're a way to create distance between the programmer and the database, when what you should have is understanding.)

Understanding the schema is important I agree - a great way to achieve that is to make the schema simpler to understand & to eliminate the need to for special case logic as much as possible.

In my view triggers like this are great, they're keeping the integrity rules you've established for your data ("though shalt not delete a record without creating a copy for observability and manual recovery by incident responders") out of your application code (where shifting requirements and much higher change rate put them in jeopardy) and enshrining them in the schema (where that can stay for decades, through rewrites etc.).
Yeah I agree 100%. A good technical interview should involve a lot of different parts. Some programming, some conversational.

Essentially, there's 100 different things you need to know to do your job well. The job of a good technical interview is to give you a (biased) sample from those 100 elements of knowledge. So, some practical programming work. Some conversational - "how is this going to be deployed and maintained". Etc.
Gambler’s Ruin
Best comment in the thread, I knew about Onyx but nothing more than the Wikipedia page (hardly anything)
The "company" at the time was not interested in mass production, it was mostly a prototype for fun.

Without Musk it would have gone nowhere.

Many people built prototypes and did conversion in small scale, no one was foolish enough to take on mass production.
Capitalism. It’s paperclip maximisers all the way down.
> except this wasn't a targeted attack, it was just a run of the mill shotgun approach to capture wallets.

Do we know that? The tweet you linked to basically says, we have no idea what happened so we have no idea if it was targeted or not.

But i do agree generally that i have no idea why "imagine the financial system but with no regulation or oversight" is considered a selling point.
There is probably a small subset of people who will, but a much larger subset who would not.
Anything Is Possible in Google Sheets, but Not Everything
Indeed, being able to tell a cop you'll have your long list of very expensive lawyers contact them has a habit of slowing them down amazingly quickly.

If only law enforcement faced severe penalties for abusing their power, given they should be held to a higher standard of demonstrating good values and restraint in such roles in society.
Anyone here use GNU Pass? Can you describe your setup? Would it be an upgrade coming from KeepassXC?
I am saying yes, Trump was less popular than Romney in 2012.

I don’t know what you’re getting at for the rest. But it doesn’t change the fact that he’s still a remarkably accomplished president for someone that has been underestimated time and time again.
I am a big fan of Rust… but I don’t understand how this type of framework would be a better choice than something in the JS/TS realm: Svelte, Solid, React, Vue, Angular, etc. I’m not calling those frameworks ideal, but it seems like working in the native lang of the web in a more mature ecosystem would be a better choice for almost anything. Is this a proof-of-concept framework, is anyone using this in production? When would it make sense to pick this over the alternatives?
Can you go into more detail about how multisig helps? I assume one of the signatures is my hardware wallet. Who holds the other signature? Do they have SIPC insurance?
If Europe is smart, it will turn Kaliningrad into Russia's Taiwan.
Can you substantiate this? It's incredibly hard to believe that the majority of universities offering a programme in computer science would not have a class on operating systems or information security, or anything more abstract or concrete about those topics.
To be more specific, the claim that SBF paid for his parent's house with ill-gotten gains appears to be false (possibly a confusion over a Bahamian property), while the claim that SBF has not had to put up anything close to $250M as a condition of the bail is apparently true (it is, instead, beside the point, as explained in the links.)
> Is that the kind of democracy you'd like to live in, where any group of people can suddenly be declared criminals without due process?

No. The solution is to use democracy to require due process.

Bitcoin remains the wrong solution for both the reasons I gave in my GP comment. It (1) doesn't get around financial regulations that can freeze access to real money and (2) even if it could, allowing funding of any type of crime is the wrong solution.

Finally, even in this case, the truckers were given access to their bank accounts right after they left because their money can't be seized without due process, which won't happen for this guy whose Bitcoins were stolen. https://www.nationalreview.com/news/canada-unlocks-vast-majo...
he doesnt have those keys, and never had. His fellow devs dont trust him too much.
Sure it's replicated. It disappears when you control for affluence of parents.

I.e. it's a covert test if parents are rich.
intriguing presentation! So I have 1 prediction and 1 question.

prediction: even though lambdas bring "code programming" into spreadsheets, and it's a huge leap in functionality for the spreadsheet, the dominant programming mode in the spreadsheet will still be interactive programming in the "traditional" spreadsheet sense. I claim this because the mental model of code programming is different from interactive programming. That said, this will extend the reach of code programming output to the hands of more millions (who will simply copy and paste).

question: the direction of spreadsheets moving into lamdas makes as much sense as "lambdas" into spreadsheets. We've seen several new spreadsheet implementations pop up in the past years, including ones with built-in programming capability, but none of them really seem like as big of a deal as Gsheets/Excel adding lambdas. Presumably this is because spreadsheets include a ton of other features that prove its widespread usefulness even before adding things like metaprogramming. Is this about right, or did I miss a great product/language in the wild?
> I think you're conflating "someone who is defending crypto in this particular instance" with "someone who thinks bitcoin will take over the world".

We've talked a few times, I always appreciate your perspective :)
The root scenario is if a large volcanic eruption causes prolonged limited sunlight. So solar isn't the best option in this case.
I was trying this recently with the Sierra Christmas Card from 1986![0] The images that I generated were[1], and I was trying to tweak the model parameters with different denoising and CFG scales. When you get the parameters just right you can preserve the composition of the input image very well while still adding a lot of detail. This isn't a completely automatic process though, with Stable Diffusion you have to provide the right prompt otherwise the generation process isn't guided correctly, so approach works better for aesthetics and style transfer than regular image super-resolution such as ESRGAN.

[0] https://archive.org/details/sierra-christmas-card-1986

[1] https://i.imgur.com/WxD05gX.jpeg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9uZlEqUQw0&ab_channel=Londo...
Gold also loses value due to dilution, when more gold is mined.
Measured using fake dollars. Aka dollars made in other sham Crypto coins and loans.

And now the same is happening to the regular markets since higher rates are sucking dollars from the market.

My Amazon RSUs are 1/2 of my grant date and falling fast.

Shtcoins gonna sht, but BTC hasn't failed in any way, and multisig makes it easier than any other commodity to secure.
It seems like one of those things that's probably more common than you think, given that you'd have to pay very close attention and know what you're looking for to see them in use.
Something is fundamentally broken. "We can write perfect software to prevent all attacks" is fundamentally broken, because we have empirically proven that we can't. (The previous model, "we can trust people", is even more broken. But maybe it's the same breakage? "If this packet that came over the internet passes all of our filters of known bad things, then we should go ahead and process it.")

People have touted capability-based security, but I don't think that's the answer, at least for consumer devices (phones and not-administered-by-IT computers). Users will give an app whatever permissions it asks for in order for it to shut up and start running, and those permissions will be used to gut their security. It may limit the damage somewhat, depending on how disciplined the app and the user are, but it will only reduce the damage.

We need a completely different answer. I don't know what it is.
I find this interesting. I've read Graeber essays, but the only book I tried is "Utopia of Rules" and I found that it read as if he did exactly what you describe Harrari as doing.

It felt like he set up a windmill separate from reality to tilt at.

I do agree that Harari is great for thought piece stuff, I put him in the same category as Gladwell. Entertaining to read, but not to be trusted as a singular source.
They absolutely do. Without fail.
Not surprised. Most people just want to watch the races/sports/etc. They’re tired of everything being used as a platform for a political statement.
This wasn't a bug. It was designed with the properties and the builder knew it would happen. It also causes physical damage. Minimize this all you want but irresponsible is going easy.
Check out RealThunder's fork and what he's added!
The "right track", you say. And parents know better. That's pretty self-serving, don't you think?

Self-determination and the ultimate responsibility of children to outgrow the default acceptance of their parents' belief systems are the absolute rights of every generation. Some communities acknowledge that fact, some encourage it, and some hide from it. Hiding won't make it go away.

Anyone who holds them back is committing an injustice against future generations.

It's not measured in economic success. That's a plainly myopic point of view. Freedom of activity and of thought is very noisy stuff, and it necessarily includes some failures. There are parallels to other systems of control exerted upon others here too, i.e. governments, etc. The seeds of those failures live in every community, they just are not dealt with as honestly in some.

The paternalist-authoritarian impulse to constrain the next generation's path is just old people not being able to admit that they don't know everything. This is like the landed gentry model of democracy. This way lies the death of the mind and the spirit.

Remember we're talking about overbearing parents having opinions about what brand of car their child's (inevitably, their daughter's) suitor drives. This is a trivial case of the parents' belief system failing the child. There are much more dramatic cases, of course, springing from the same self-serving impulses.
I really don't understand why everyone does this, Elon has pointed out, he designed one of the original cars for Tesla. He was in fact a founding member of the company. One could say, since he was a founding Engineer, he was one of the real people to do some of the real work at Tesla. He also didn't exactly inherit Tesla in a successful time, he had to bring it up to where it is today, and every year people say its doing the worst it'll shut down, and this and that. I just don't get the hate he's gotten for decades. Does someone have some context?

My understanding is when he took it over, it wasn't anywhere near where it was, and he has in fact placed it as a competing company that mass produces cars, and is a leader in its respective space in the industry.
I know you’re making fun of me, but I still had a chuckle myself.
Curious. What made you ask that question?
Interesting things about the Lua interpreter (2020)
> Unlike photo-based PG, LiDAR does not get confused by lighting conditions.

I tried to use the app that GP mentioned, inside of a dark room. This confused the app and it thought I was in motion.
These are great tips, and something to pay close attention to if you find yourself struggling in basic socialisation with strangers, or get the sense that you're widely regarded as overly intense or disagreeable.

But ultimately, as with all such things, it's really a question of inner and family culture, and goes to broader issues of intelligence and acculturation, more so than outward mannerisms. A person constitutionally uninterested in what others have to say because they have a very self-involved approach to interactions in general isn't going to revolutionise their thinking from a few tips on how to converse better. The psychology that gives rise to that is much broader and more insidious, not a simple failure of decorum or manners.

Notwithstanding that, a possible downside of an overly fundamentalist reading of these tips is that, when applied too literally, they might foreclose on ultimately productive conversations, and especially on persuasion. There is such a thing as _too_ agreeable. As any skilled public-sphere rhetorician knows, conversations aren't just about "positive feelings" and "good vibes", and so-called "negative" feelings have their place too. For example, making someone feel--to any degree whatsoever, big or small--stupid or ignorant, whether to themselves or in front of their friends, is a valid and occasionally necessary strategy for changing hearts and minds. No, you won't be well-liked if that's your main shtick, and as with all sharp weapons, it is most effective when used sparingly. Still, it has its place.

The incentives and goals are somewhat different in a semi-private conversation vs a highly performative public debate, too, as the author of the definitive 19th century guide to bullshit tells us. :-) [ http://coolhaus.de/art-of-controversy/ ]

Another highly relevant instance is getting someone interested in something they weren't previously interested in: it does occasionally take some force. Those of us who have children might find this particularly familiar. No, fundamentally you can't jam something down the throat of someone who's just not interested, and if you do that a lot, you'll get the sense after a while that people detour around you. But in a world of narrow specialisations and obscure niches, lots of listeners exist in a liminal space where they're not really sure they're interested--which defaults to a weak "no"--and their verbal cues and body language will reflect that. But if you key off of them with the sensitivity and immediacy suggested by the author, that really precludes any shot at making the sale, so to speak.
Why is it funny to say 174 words without mentioning Musk?
If I had 200 BTCs I would use several multi-sig wallets. Stealing any single wallet would grant the hacker no access, and stealing multiple would grant them only access to a slice of the asset. Maybe 200 BTC isn't just worth much to the developer to warrant so many protections.
Corporations may be on a somewhat level playing field with each other but they are given an unfair advantage relative to every other business (especially small business). Any help from the money printers can radically alter outcomes. If a large corporations is getting enough help to allow them to cut their profit margins by even 10%, that may be enough to put all their competitors out of business. Survival is often a matter of tiny differences.
Choosing to ignore the rules of conversation and follow a purely intuitive approach doesn’t actually make you behave in a more “authentic” way, it is just a different way of behaving that is equally authentic.

Yes, you need to have an open mind. But we live in a society! The society has norms. Following the norms fosters trust; people are usually more comfortable when other people follow the norms. It’s a fast track to getting to the deeper, juicy bits of conversation. The norms can be intuitively learned if you are empathetic, but some of us are distracted or careless and it helps to have a reminder of what the norms are and what purposes they serve.

Smalltalk and politesse may be shallow but it’s the shallow parts of conversation where people learn to trust each other. The deeper parts of conversation follow.
> Twitter files gives a lot of content into this issue.

The Twitter files is selective releasing of information to present a narrative. It doesn't have good content on anything.
Its funny because Elon is the poster boy for Tesla.
I guarantee that you will be able to "grok" it from this book: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34207380
He didn't put his wallet on his server.
Can you go into more detail about how multisig helps?

I assume one of the signatures is my hardware wallet. Who holds the other signature? Do they have SIPC insurance?

What happens if my wallet is lost or destroyed?
Granted a passenger car is not a heavy truck or bus, but living in the upper Midwest, I've learned that snow tires make a huge difference for winter driving. I'd heard the folklore that snow tires are more important than all wheel drive for handling on both snow and ice, and having used them for a few years now, I'm a believer. So called "all season" tires are not snow tires.

You can get a complete set of snow tires, mounted and balanced on rims, delivered to your door by Tire Rack (no relationship, just a happy customer). If you don't want to change the tires yourself, there are shops that will change them out and store them for you.
The average number of eyes a human has is actually less than 2.
Except cameras don't work in low-vis situations. Their range is shorter.

In fact, when Tesla removed the radar their max-speed with self-driving (or what is it called) dropped from 80mph to 75mph.

What's worse is that they disabled the radar for everybody. How is that not a class action? You're losing features.
This is the next frontier for AI art as it will let you build a series, graphic novel, or even video with consistent objects.
There’s techniques like textual inversion that let you associate a label with an object, but they rely on having multiple images of that object already, so it won’t work for an image you just generated. To get around that, some people have tried using tools to generate multiple images of a synthetic object, eg Deep Nostalgia that can animate a static portrait photo.

So in theory you select one photo with the AI image generator, create variants of it with separate image tools, then build a fine-tuned model based on some cherry-picked variants.

I think this will get easier as AI image tools focus more on depth and 3D modelling.

The “aiactors” subreddit has some interesting experiments along these lines.
You just revealed your very biased agenda:

> My version of the truth is based on reading verifiable historical examples of what happens under socialism, and what happens under freedom. Not novels of either.

Here you fail not only in fact, but also in logic: Your defining socialism as the opposite of freedom begs the question. Who's the one being "heavy-handed"? You've clearly got your finger on the scales as you weigh your "truths".

We've never had real socialism; we've had totalitarianism that tries to look nice by pretending to be socialism. We've also seen what happens under capitalism: slavery, exploitation, a different kind of caste system, a rape of the environment, and an every soulless materialistic and selfist culture. Also, these days everyone says, "Look at all that capitalism as given us!" That's just another self-serving assumption, not fact. Why does capitalism get the credit, when the real causes were science and The Enlightenment, democracy and democratic rule of law (relatively speaking, as I think we are far from a true democracy), the evolution of human rights, and more... but I gotta get back to work.

You're welcome to have the last word as I think I have said plenty.
The inspiration was taken directly from D, I credit as much in the README =)

https://github.com/GavinRay97/gcc-invariant-plugin#gcc-desig...

> Inspired wholly by the D Programming Language's invariant feature.

How I wish D had caught on as the popular language rather than C++.
> I believe that sports have the unique ability to unite people from different backgrounds and beliefs, without requiring them to compromise their values. While it may be tempting for athletes to use their platform to advocate for their causes, doing so will mostly divide rather than unite people.

“You’re being paid to dance, so dance. Nobody wants to hear what else you have to say.”

If a person has been put on a pedestal because something they do brings them to the public’s attention, even with the help of some private organization, it’s their pedestal to make use of. If you’re an F1 driver with a megaphone, you get to be heard. That’s how it works right now.

F1 is a private organization, so they make the rules which govern the sport, and that’s fine. The rules listed in the article appear to be limited to what drivers can do during races/events. That’s up to them.

Any attempt to quash the personal speech of drivers outside of those events should be aggressively struck down. They can always remove the driver by putting out a statement: “what X said will divide rather than unite people.” The driver can choose to put their career on the line by standing up for what they believe in. This has always been the case.
I think it's far more likely to money/pressure coming from the middle east than the US.
And after that we need to figure out why it is constantly screaming.
I guess that explains why the results were only vaguely related to the original pictures.
Obvious but i've not thought about it before...

Interlinked with the value rule:
- All data cells can be read for any code cell
- A code cell's writes only the value of its data cell

https://youtu.be/U9uZlEqUQw0?t=474 (start at 7:51)
Anyone know of any browser extensions / projects that highlight when an article or PDF had been debunked / retracted?

Seems like without this meta data over the original article that were destined to keep consuming even retracted knowledge.
If history tells us anything: a printed, hard-bound book can last hundreds of years and remains readable through multiple technological revolutions.
Yes, right now you have 3 options:

- dreambooth, ~15-20 minutes finetuning but generally generates high quality and diverse outputs if trained properly,

- textual inversion, you essentially find a new "word" in the embedding space that describes the object/person, this can generate good results, but generally less effective than dreambooth,

- LORA finetuning[1], similar to dreambooth, but you're essentially finetuning the weight deltas to achieve the look, faster than dreambooth, much smaller output.

1: https://github.com/cloneofsimo/lora
The ever-relevant Richard Feynman:

'I think the educational and psychological studies I mentioned are examples of what I would like to call Cargo Cult Science. In the South Seas there is a Cargo Cult of people. During the war they saw airplanes land with lots of good materials, and they want the same thing to happen now. So they’ve arranged to make things like runways, to put fires along the sides of the runways, to make a wooden hut for a man to sit in, with two wooden pieces on his head like headphones and bars of bamboo sticking out like antennas—he’s the controller—and they wait for the airplanes to land. They’re doing everything right. The form is perfect. It looks exactly the way it looked before. But it doesn’t work. No airplanes land. So I call these things Cargo Cult Science, because they follow all the apparent precepts and forms of scientific investigation, but they’re missing something essential, because the planes don’t land.'

https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm
Or use it to run Twitter successfully.
There are some articles from march 2022 saying that payouts had reached 1.1$ Billion.