skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also headline today at the Financial Times is that 87% of analysts they spoke to are betting on a recession in 2023. Also the IMF is warning recession will hit 1/3 of the world this year.
See also, Total TypeScript: https://github.com/total-typescript

The course is paid but the exercises are free on GitHub, you just won't get any explanations if you get an exercise wrong.
pretty magnificent trick :)
Nassim Taleb: Idiots, You Deserve Lex Fridman
Even worse than this, sometimes I find myself changing my mind internally but feeling compelled to defend my initial opinion, as if being convinced is having lost. That’s definitely detrimental to a conversation.
I’m not an Elon fan, but “ $2,640,000” for transporting the nominally richest man in the world is….not that much?

You could use Climeworks to actually sequester 1895 tons of CO2, forever, for €1,895,000. So about doubling the operating cost, a bit under $5 million. Still…not that much? I mean, having the CEO on-site is useful. In person meetings are useful.

https://climeworks.com/one-off-climate-purchase

Side note: I do not think Elon Musk is nearly as rich as reports make him out to be. His net worth is wrapped up in a single stock that went into a bubble, and now also in Twitter, where he is heavily underwater. He is not rich in a diversified way like Gates or Buffett.

But he is still more than rich enough to afford $5 million per year!
> what is it they are afraid of?

Maybe they're not afraid of anything. Maybe Tesla and Musk are just grubby operators.
I suspect that most US manufacturing will eventually switch to the countries in the western hemisphere. It's getting too hard to control the waterways throughout the world and make sure cargo can travel without getting highjack or destroyed. At least in the western hemisphere the US can be the ultimate security police, and make sure trade can happen without disruption. Mexico is the start but most other countries will benefit too. Climate change will impact many of these countries hard so the best way to reduce immigration from these counties to the US is to improve their economies. Manufacturing will help both the US and the respective country. I also think that in a relative short time, less than 50 years, we will see a new canal built in central america. Nicaragua is a candidate but I suspect it's not the only possibility.
Issue an arrest warrant. There is reciprocity across the nation.
Not sure what you mean by this. Hashes have collisions, so how would that work?

The attraction of the CoordSet is that it behaves as if it is storing actual objects, but is actually saving memory. So the abstraction hides the optimization, which makes it easier to reason about the rest of the program.
AI Philosopher
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An easy and fun project to test out the capabilities of language models and try out some frontend frameworks at the same time.

Picked those figures because they have the most writing available for fine-tuning. Shakespeare is there because he has a very distinct style.

Sample responses:

Does free will exist? - Nietzsche
https://philosophy.fyi/gen?id=63b14298fbda440e2d4d836c

How's it going? - Shakespeare
https://philosophy.fyi/gen?id=63b219681778e270f01f7047

Empty prompt:
https://philosophy.fyi/gen?id=63b217581778e270f01f7044
Square Enix: Is it possible to learn this power?
I wonder if this is the same server that “wasn’t fully rebooted in years”.

https://bitcoinhackers.org/@lukedashjr/107769287522154866
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Surprised no one said Haskell yet. I've been learning Rust in 2022 but I'm coming across more functional concepts so I thought I'd just bite the bullet and learn Haskell as a more fully realized functional language.
Mercedes is not a status symbol for Gen Z only because Gen Z generally just can't afford a Mercedes. Therefore for Gen Z a pair of sneakers is a status symbol.
Yes, fines should be leveled against FAANG in "billybucks" - billions of dollars. As in, "Today Google got fined 5 billybucks for privacy violations."
"just a series of operational and organizational priorities that have resulted in ships being at sea for longer and longer deployments, and resources allocated to prestige projects like carriers, instead of resolving the less sexy issue of manpower, and lack of "work horse" destroyers in the fleet."

I'll assume that's a reasonable take but the person I replied to went for an overly simplistic "government bad" line hence the style of my life
Tell HN: Z-library IPFS frontend already offline
A week or so ago this really quite nice book Linz / Z-library IPFS search frontend was unveiled:

https://zlib.zu1k.com/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34176479

Now the site has gone dead / offline. Is the only good answer to self-host?

https://github.com/zlib-searcher/zlib-searcher
Agree. With so many unknown brands on Amazon they had become a go-to, but I plan to spend my pounds elsewhere. A tiny contribution to try to effect change.
You can do whatever the fuck you want, the spec defines what it defines.
Microsoft is a corporate giant in its own right, but they do have their own search engine, Bing, if you're just looking for an alternative.
Cool, do you try to make it a seamless transition to native with the web views matching styles, etc.? Or do users know which sections are native versus not based on appearance or interactivity (slower)?
Clickable links:

https://zlib.zu1k.com/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34176479

https://github.com/zlib-searcher/zlib-searcher
If it really was a failure of the NYT then how do you explain how they ignored these egregious lies?

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/list/?category=&ruling...
I upvoted you since I want others to see your opinion which I agree with.
Hi, welcome to HN!

I would encourage you to please take another look at the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. Edit out swipes.

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

While you may be used to making swipes such as "Are you ESL?" on other platforms, such behavior is really unwelcome here.
My boss constantly repeats that an 80% solution is what we should strive for, for the most time. It has to be good enough, but not perfect. It's easy to get bogged down by trying to make it the best it can be.
that link doesn't actually directly address the point brought up though. It uses GREET for its number though and others have used that model to answer it, but the the estimates vary widely based on inputted assumptions. E.g.[0]

Tesla Model Y (EV) vs Honda CR-V (gasoline):

9,200 miles if the grid is 100% hydroelectric
89,000 miles if the grid is 100% coal

[0]: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/lifeti...
I think most people have a higher chance of being helped out by a nerd-sniped stranger than targeted.

I.e. chances are pretty low of being spotted by someone inclined to do something bad with it, who also has reason to think you're protecting something worthwhile; but the chances of someone on HN telling you you're doing it wrong and it could be trivially done so much more securely..!
The problem wasn’t sharing the story. The problem was after sharing the story and getting a lukewarm response the story teller kept pressing for an enthusiastic response. Does that make more sense? Have I misread the article perhaps?
There is no joy in this process.
It is not a metaphor if you think the Fed is applying control theory to regulate the economy.

But some people take it too far and think if there was no Fed there wouldn't be any oscillation. That is not true. Bitcoin also "oscillates".

Oscillations happen because of a time lag that leads to an overshooting of the target which then leads to overshooting on the way back and so on.

The economy never becomes perfectly stable but there is no rule that the oscillation can't be smoothed out until it is no longer a problem. We aren't that far yet.
It is made in China afaik.
Throwing in the parenthesis:

((3 factorial) + (4 factorial)) between: 10 and: 100.

Otherwise it's just left to right processing:

3 + 4 * 10.

Becomes 70 as a consequence of these rules, the parser is pretty simple.
Most spiders have 8 eyes ...

Anyway, this was not what the question was about. It was more about how this cell culture decides where the eyes go and how many there should be.
This is way too optimistic, and the melting rate is accelerating.

Not thousands of years. Centuries probably, but also maybe only decades.
Systemd.
Vandals Destroyed 30k-Year-Old Australian Cave Art
Why shouldn't you? It's a comfortable car with lots of bells and whistles. From personal experience, it is much more pleasure to ride inside one, compared to cheaper cars. I think it is also much more pleasure to drive one (I don't drive, so I can't tell for sure)
Fwiw it's the app's fault when that doesn't work, not Firefox's or Android's. (I too encounter it frequently and it's annoying. I still have and use the Lockwise precursor app, because it's easier to copy from than Firefox when this happens.)
At least you are aware it is happening! That is a huge first step, the last bit should only require you to harden up a bit.
The same entry appeared alresdy a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32957084
Probably not a wonderful answer… but I think derivative work or whatever, forks and all, still must attribute the OG.
I am very sympathetic to the claim that urban and residential environments are filled with irritants and distraction. However...

> Unfortunately, in our modern society, houses have little to no interior
> noise insulation and almost every single electronic device makes a constant
> high-frequency drone. Neurotypicals either do not hear these sounds, or tune
> them out after a few minutes (and then claim the sound doesn't exist, having
> immediately forgotten it). These houses are then built right next to roads
> with noisy cars, often without sidewalks, and sometimes with ubiquitous
> traffic noises when buried deep inside the city. How distracting these
> noises are depends on the person, the noise, whether it is speech, music,
> a kind of music you don't like, or a ticking clock. Many places make these
> sounds inescapable, like restaurants with loud music and conversations, or
> offices with ticking clocks in every single room.
>
> In contrast, in VR you can wear noise-cancelling headphones and put on music
> no one else can hear [...]

I don't think you have to be in VR to wear noise-canceling headphones. That said, I also don't think noise-canceling headphones are a solution to incidental, sudden ambient noises, since they are pretty clearly best suited to droning sounds, such as airplane engine noise. In-store music, a baby, a passing truck, and a rattling air conditioning system all easily defeat noise cancellation.
Very true... but its still a virtual stack machine.

This gets into the "when you write the implementation or JIT" it is much easier to write something that doesn't use any registers and then target it to a machine that uses some number of registers than to write the VM for something that is register based, but then has different conventions for how to use those registers than the VM has...

This is something that had to work on a 386, Sun Sparc, MIPS, Motorola 68030, Alpha, Vax (the CISCest instruction set you'll ever find https://documentation.help/VAX11/op_POLY.htm )... and even its own Java Processor ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_processor - https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedin... ).

The difficulty would be if you made a... 32 register system and then you had to do the JIT from that to MIPS, but the frame pointer was foreign to the VM and $s0-$s7 where not ones you could touch without extra work... and then x86 had different conventions based on who wrote the compiler ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_calling_conventions#List_o... )...

It becomes much easier to work with a system with no registers and then make it "easier" to do the JIT than to do registers and then go from "too many" to trying to redo them for that system.

And while it's not something I follow at all, apparently the EVM is also stack based. https://medium.com/mycrypto/the-ethereum-virtual-machine-how...

> The EVM uses a 256-bit register stack from which the most recent 16 items can be accessed or manipulated at once. In total, the stack can only hold 1024 items.

Which is... kind of interesting. Reminds me somewhat of dc - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dc_(computer_program) where its stack based, but has "registers" too (though you tend to use registers for storing macros which can then be loaded onto the stack and executed).
Are you kidding? there's tons of joy. I have a backlog of hundreds of kids story requests and now instead of being able to satisfy one kid per day I can satisfy as many as I want. moreover, kids can't tell the difference and love the stories.
What newspaper do you think has overtaken it, the Washington Post or the Wallstreet Journal? Those three are the big ones, particularly the first two. They're America's de facto newspapers of record.
“Stop. We’ve understood you and now we should consider other perspectives. Anne, what’s on your mind?”
Kids are not objectionable because of lack of socialization. They're objectionable because you're government, and their parents don't like you either. Covid made political lines far more clear.
~1s per day is normal for a non-temperature-compensated quartz crystal. The cheap solution is to just sync to LF time transmissions (or GPS if not running on battery power).

The F-91W might not actually have anything resembling software; just fixed function mixed-signal circuitry, but I haven't investigated it. Given the timing of its release, it's possible that an HDL was used, but also possible it was designed at the circuit level with CAD. The F-87W (which the 91W replaced) predates either VHDL or Verilog.
>> I think it is a pragmatic way of producing code that can approach the robustness of formal verification in practice with a lot less work, so the ROI is high.

This is correct.

Design by Contract techniques help to ensure that code is robust and works as expected.

It is good that C++ is getting these tools through compiler plug-ins.

The Ada programming language added support for Design by Contract in Ada 2005:

https://learn.adacore.com/courses/intro-to-ada/chapters/cont...

The same language syntax used to define preconditions, postconditions, and invariants in Ada paved the way for SPARK to prove program correctness:

https://learn.adacore.com/courses/intro-to-spark/chapters/03...

Hopefully Design by Contract can be included in the C++ standard itself in the future.
Badly? AI is vastly superior to human capability, no human wins
Pop2piano Gradio demo: https://huggingface.co/spaces/sweetcocoa/pop2piano
CO2 emissions in the upper atmosphere are generally accepted to require a ~2.6X multiplier when measuring impact FWIW.

So if you were going to sequester that CO2 in some conscience-clearing "I'm carbon neutral!" exercise, I suppose you'd have to sequester 2.6 times the amount your private jet emitted.

And that's still ignoring the social/network effects of your behavior, which are arguably non-zero. i.e. high-roller high-visibility douche bags flying constantly encourages others to behave more in a similar fashion. "at least I'm not flying as much as that Elon guy - books flight for just a dinner somewhere different"
The governing body of the Rust programming language is basically run by furries. As is the Rust subreddit, mainstream Rust Discord servers, and so on.
Retrospective: Personal Goals for 2022
It started to be very slow some time ago for me, on my Android (Xiaomi Redmi 6 Pro). I'm thinking about not continuing my subscription.

I've attributed this to the increased number of notes, but after reading the article, I'm starting to think it might be because of the programming decisions, at least partially
Your original claim was much broader:

> despite their ambitions the BIPOC people I know haven’t been able to reap any professional benefits from it
I think that’s a distinct problem from the one the article describes; the article seems to be written about mostly one on one communication. Group conversations change the dynamics massively, even moreso when the conversation must be productive, as opposed to just enjoyable.
Not only this, but also the impact having to read something has on enjoyment. There are books like To Kill A Mockingbird that I didn’t care for in high school simply because I had to read it. When I revisited it years later of my own volition, I enjoyed it greatly.
> Casio F-91W is an iconic watch worn (among others) by Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden.

This escalated quickly.
Wait, so the ad networks are the puppet masters pulling the strings of the major corporations to support...what certain issues?
BEVs on average currently take more energy than ICE to build but the difference is made up in a couple years because electric motors are so efficient compared to gas engines.
US population has grown, and 2020 turnout was high compared to other recent elections. Trump got more votes in 2020 than Obama did in 2008. 20 million more votes than Reagan's 1984 landslide victory. So would you claim that Trump is more popular than Obama and Reagan?

Democrats kept chanting "vote blue no matter who" before the election, then they turn around afterward and claim Biden won because he was so personally popular (a claim never supported by opinion polls), which makes one wonder why they needed to chant "vote blue no matter who" in the first place...
It's still better than being paved over for an expressway before the study is over, I guess.
you could probably build this w/ current img-gen model tech! totally agree, absolutely crazy.
> Maybe they're not afraid of anything. Maybe Tesla and Musk are just grubby operators.

what it mean grubby operators? there is no major headline in 2022/2023 than daily obsession with musk and every move?

there is narrative to destroy musk and undermine his companies. paradox that tesla ev company and media favors progressive shift to ev going away from fossil fuel.

much of anger and propaganda since he bought twitter i think they fear his active management style is threat to american mass media monopoly on shaping culture and world opinion. they fear because he owns twitter and fired much of company that had political alignment with american mass media machinery.
If you're assuming that Satoshi was a spook, wouldn't the use of L1 English and Western timezones more likely to be an attempt to obfuscate?
Predictions Scorecard, 2023 January 01
Requires dependent types. And yeah, research is probably a fair characterisation.
This is some sort of dispute, I'm not sure over what but it's not related to solvency.
> Generates digital art and paintings from chat

Does it now?

https://i.imgur.com/WIuXLSQ.png
This is a false assumption, because some people definitely are. What is the real point of your statement? That you are not interested in opinions of such people?
i guarantee the people building the spacecraft and choosing the CPUs have thought about this more than you, and have much more knowledge about the problem space than anyone here questioning their decision-making processes.

if it was a good idea to have multiple redundant CPUs on these spacecraft, the spacecraft would have multiple redundant CPUs.
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Yeah but they also cut two thirds of thier staff and have cut other costs and will continue to do so.

People here hate musk but Twitter will no go out of business.
FWIW, the URL I was originally submitting was:

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3794301-google-to-pay-...

I changed it to the release instead of the third party backgrounder, but had kept the article title:

"Google has agreed to pay $29.5M to settle lawsuits with Washington DC and Indiana over location tracking practices, after agreeing to pay ~$392M to 40 US states" -- Jared Gans / The Hill
Quality of Seiko 5 is pretty good, but IIRC the Rolex movement is more compact.
Get out of my head!

I literally just registered spritesheet.ai yesterday.

and I've already had mild success training a model on spritesheet data.
I have a question. Stable diffusion is based on gradually processing noise into a coherent image, by training a denoiser. Would it be possible to feed low-fidelity image (such as pixel art, or pixelated image) directly into the denoiser step and get a higher-fidelity image that would match the original?
Fair point, changes the cost to to a bit over 4 million euros. Maybe make that $7.5 million dollars?

And yeah to do this ethically you’d probably want to publicly support sequestering your own usage, say how to do it, and then you’d likely have a net positive impact.

So I’m down with people criticizing him for hyping his environmental contributions while not doing it on this point. My main point is that the overall costs are not extravagant given his position.

That said, they may well come to look extravagant depending how badly the Tesla bubble bursts….
Depends on what country you're in. It's illegal here in Australia, but almost universally practised regardless. The law is not in reality available to most people, nor is it by and large adhered to by business except where absolutely necessary (ie. predictably enforced). Every large company I've worked for has broken the law with impunity.

There good cause for "the law" in daily reality (as opposed to "The Law" as an abstract good) not to be held in any esteem by ordinary folk.
> what it mean grubby operators?

Breaking labour laws by telling workers not to discuss pay is the mark of a grubby operator. All US workers are entitled to discuss wages, whether a company likes it or not:

https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/your-right...
Pedialyte, asprin, and bacon.
This same site has an article on laser decapsulation not too long ago:

https://zeptobars.com/en/read/laser-decapsulation-fail-not-s...

It appears to not work so well, but the video looked very cool.
Yeah, I'm not sad about any of this. The guy is an ivory tower conspiracy theorist and moralistic extremist whose crazy apparently does not reach to the point of doing the bare minimum to ensuring that his stash was safe. Not even the first time he was hacked in the past 2 months.
Can anyone explain why all the emphasis on hashing algorithms? Can't the attacker just treat the encrypted vault like a black box and brute force passwords against it? Or is there some additional key material that needs to be guessed along with the password?

For example, if the master password is one of the 100k most common passwords, can the attacker loop through those passwords and attempt to open the vault with each? So there would only be 100k iterations required? Or does each check need its own set of iterations?
because they didn't need the MBA for the roles they did land

its all part of one contiguous complete thought