skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We build everything "on the shoulder of giants"

There may be huge variances in the degree that we do that, though, and to the degree that we're able to prevent really bad ideas to spread. Some organizations are seeing really bad (but good looking) ideas spread like cancers, until the organization is completely perverted.

> Ceremonies mostly get discarded by evolutionary pressure in the long term.

This is perhaps the main strength of capitalism. There needs to be an actual mechanism for bad ideas to die off. Many large organizations (especially "too large to fail" or publicly owned) lack good mechanisms to limit the growth of organizational entropy.
That's false. You could have a project well underway to fulfilling its goal but not in a timeframe in accordance with what a VC would expect. It's not a full attempt because the developers didn't get to give it their all until they gave up, they just didn't have enough money to both pursue it further and support themselves and/or their families at the same time.
I know I'm not answering the question, but I felt like spilling out my opinions and experience on the topic.

I don't really have many friends. For someone to be my "friend" they'd have to be a person I'd spend time with when I'm bored, and who I could reasonably count on to have my back when I need it.

At the moment, I don't really have any people I can consider "friends" by that definition - I either don't like spending time with people (nothing to do, no place to be, too stressful, etc. etc.) or I'm simply "just another friend" to people. There is a certain type of individuals that like to be friendly with everyone. They radiate an "aura" of deep connection with you and make you feel special... When in fact they're that way with everyone, and you're just another victim of their well-trained manipulation techniques.

I don't really know how to get those "real" friendships. I remember I had some as a kid. I don't even know how I got those - was it just geographical proximity? Being forced to be in the same room for 8 hours a day?

I wish I knew. But solitude is pleasant, too, even though it's not as profitable.
I've only had to sent two faxes in my whole life, and both have been in the last four years while living in Japan. One was for Amazon, and the other for the Sapporo police.
More context here: https://twitter.com/visaskn/status/1616813002547773444
Wasting the one non-renewable resource that we possess (time) is a problem, no matter which comforting delusion we use to justify it.
Van Gogh's studies of existing works of the time still maintain his 'style', his brush strokes, use of color, rendering of form. No matter how many times he copies another's work he's still Van Gogh and his work expresses and reflects who he 'is'. There is no existing model from which we can accurately imitate the human creative process, so it begs the question, what is the nature of the imagery generated?

Think of it like your hand writing and signature style. Even if it may appear similar to others, it's still uniquely identifiable as yours. If someone copies your writing style and signature to forge documents, it wouldn't just become ok as long as they forge new documents, in any case it would be immoral and illegal without your express consent.

That is the nature of algorithmically generated imagery, complex forgery, but instead of the forgery being of an individual, it's modeled from billions of images scraped from the internet. This is entirely different from the human creative process.
I tried modafinil a few times. I was never diagnosed with ADHD but I was describing to a friend basically exactly what OP said, mixed in with a lack of focus @ work. He suggested I try modafinil and gave me a bunch of his stash (along with some stronger things I wasn't as keen on). Taking some before I hopped on the tram meant it had started to take effect around the time I sat down and started work, and I felt remarkably more motivated and focussed during the following ~8 hours or so. It's a bit of a game-changer. I felt a little bit like the day whizzed past, and had a bit of trouble sleeping afterwards so I was sure never to use it more than a couple of days out of any given week.

I think it's of questionable legality here, but if you can get a doctor to prescribe it legally it's well worth looking into.
I was sort of on the fence as to whether it was real until the end... I mean you could feasibly make a short run 486 machine today if you wanted to without too much effort (depending on how hard you are willing to try could do SB emulator, FPGA, or the real thing) and stick it in a chonky case, in fact the case and the keyboard would probably be the most expensive parts. But it would probably be a one person super short run labour of love kind of project, and there's not a huge number of people out there who would necessarily appreciate it.

Who knows, maybe this is where the dream turns into reality :D
You assume infinite resources every time you create an unbounded queue, for example.
100% agree but on certain situations, one doesn't have permissions for retriggering a build from the UI. (Sadly, I've been there)
This supposes that figuring out how something is done is a bottleneck today. It isn't. It also supposes that figuring out how stuff is done is a bigger hurdle than the problems patents present to innovators. It isn't.

For patents to make sense we also have to ignore how they are used. Patents are used as mine fields around incumbents to keep challengers out. They are also used by parasitic companies who don't actually make anything as a legal form of extortion.

Yes, it is indeed naive to ignore reality and buy into the fantasy that patents contribute to society or in any way level the playing field. They do neither.
Its up to the receiving mail server to add the RCPT TO and other enveleope information to the delivered mail.
Why? And do you mean small geographically or small population-wise? Perhaps both/neither?
I think you have to genuinely take an interest in the other person and look for areas of commonality. That gives you ground to interact with the other person.

Networking is complete bullshit because people who are highly social recognize potential areas for self-interest in relationship-building and any behavior that follows that path gets flagged subconsciously as disingenuous. Make friends and treat other people as you would like to be treated.

There is also a need to communicate, in order to give the other person a sense of your investment in the relationship (as represented by your time, effort, and candor) and material with which to formulate substantive responses and reciprocate with their own time, effort, and candor.

You have no control over how other people connect with you, and frankly, their opinion and feelings toward you are none of your business. Don't overtrain your behavior upon your perception of the progress of bonding. Just do what is right, fun, kind, and ethical. The rest falls into place.
Guess it simplifies parsing, e.g. infamous "most vexing parse" etc.
Sure, same goes for hydrogen. I don't think there are any hydrogen deposits that can be readily used.

But important distinction nonetheless.
Active vs. Passive Software Development
When software developers enter in management positions, they are often lacking to not code actively.

However, passive software development through delegation is indeed a valuable exercise. It still makes you a better developer.
KDE has it.
This is the reason often stated, but I don't think it's always the true reason. I think people just don't want to live in a house that another family lived in if they have the choice (rental apartments seem to be different).

Also if it was true then people wouldn't be living in any house older than 30 years since they'd fear death by earthquake. But that's not true - I know loads of Japanese people who have lived in their house for more than 30 years. It's only when the land changes hands that it suddenly becomes vitally important to implement this rule.
I think calling them out is fine! If a company has a harmful policy, definitely go ahead and say so. I'm specifically objecting here to calling them out as hypocrites, for having a policy that is in conflict with advice in one of their open source repos.
Or

git commit --amend -C@ && git push -f
Related: you can rotate a square by translating each quadrant to the position of its neighbor, and repeating recursively within each quadrant, until you stop at the single-pixel level.

If you think about these mrhtods using physics, it's extremely frustrating because nothing actually rotates. At the first detail, each pixel is facing the same direction. This is fine for discrete pixels, but feels wrong. Is it valid in real physics? Do the smallest particles have orientation?
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I've been diagnosed with ADHD but was told my ASD (Asperger's, but the docs can't call it that anymore) "masks" it because my urge to systematize everything means I can make use of much of my information hoarding (either for work or recreation). I don't want to celebrate these conditions, but I also think I wouldn't be as productive in my current field of endeavor without them working in tandem.. and I certainly wouldn't be as good as I am at the NYT crossword! ;-)
Most of the friends I’ve made in later life has been through work. Started by having lunch together and then meeting up after work every now and then.

I still keep in touch with and meet up with people I’ve not worked with in years.
>> so it begs the question, what is the nature of the imagery generated?

Yep, exactly. That's the question we're all going to have to deal with as AI grows in popularity and utility.
Paid about that for my 20Mhz 286 in 1987. With the fancy EGA card that had a 640x400 that mode nothing actually used.
Image lookups with bad locality is exactly what a GPU's texture pipeline is for
This is what I’m looking for too. I have three places I plug in displays: home office, work office, no displays (coffee shop). I have specific windows I want in specific places when plugged into external displays at home or work. Browser, Remote Desktop tool, chat client, etc. Every time I come back from the coffee shop, I have to manually re-arrange my windows. First world problem I know but every time I think “it should be smart enough to land these windows in this spot”

Similar with code editors: it should be smart enough to re-arrange my docks based on screen size. When I have big screen, expand side and bottom sub-windows. When I’m just on laptop screen, auto hide them.
>is that there exist other hierarchies of languages and associated machines

Please explain.
It takes one person (somewhere between invention and extinction) to flip that switch.

I'm fairly convinced drone technology is a bad idea for the very same reason.
No, where AMD went wrong was in marketing.

For some years, and especially during the last six months before the Bulldozer launch in 2011, AMD has continuously made various claims about its performance, always stressing that it will crush Sandy Bridge, due to having a double number of "cores".

Immediately after launch, all the AMD claims were proved to be shameless lies. There is absolutely no excuse for AMD. Intel had published accurate information about the performance of Sandy Bridge, one year in advance. Even without the advance publication, the performance of Sandy Bridge could have been easily extrapolated from the evolution of Penryn, Nehalem and Westmere.

The performance of Bulldozer was determined by design decisions taken by AMD at least 3 to 4 years before its launch. Therefore, during the last 6 months, when they have lied the most, they knew perfectly well that they were lying and it should have been obvious to them that this is futile, because the lies will be exposed by independent benchmarks immediately after launch.

For most operations, a so-called Bulldozer "module" (with 2 "cores") had exactly the same execution resources as a Sandy Bridge core, while for a few operations, like integer multiplication, a Bulldozer "module" had even less execution resources than a Sandy Bridge core.

The common FPU of 2 Bulldozer "cores" was more or less equivalent with the FPU of a single Sandy Bridge core.

The Bulldozer integer "cores" were stripped down in comparison with the cores of the previous AMD CPUs, e.g. a new "core" had 2/3 of the addition throughput and 1/2 of the multiplication throughput of an old core.

So 2 Bulldozer integer "cores" were together barely faster than one old AMD core, while a single Sandy Bridge core was faster than them, by having an equal addition throughput, but a double multiplication throughput.

Bulldozer could have been a decent CPU, if only AMD, instead of describing it as a 4-"module"/8-"core" CPU, would have described it as a 4-core/8-thread CPU, which matched Sandy Bridge, except that in Sandy Bridge the 2 threads of a core shared dynamically most execution resources, while in Bulldozer only a part of the execution resources were shared dynamically, e.g. the FPU, while the rest of the execution resources were allocated statically to the 2 threads of a core, which is less efficient.

Such a description would have set correctly the expectations of the users, and they would not have felt cheated.

I am pretty certain that the huge disappointment that has accompanied the Bulldozer launch has hurt much more the AMD sales than they might have gained from the buyers lured by the false advertising about the 8-core monster AMD CPUs, which should easily beat the puny 4-core Intel CPUs.
as the article states, R = STS, where S is the same shear in both factors.
Friendships often endure or are made because both sides have made sacrifices for each other. Usually these start small like making time to talk semi regularly. Friendships are like growing plants: they are fragile at start and require just the right amount of care (from both parties) to flourish.
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> House prices are going down the last few months, but much more slowly than they consistently rose during the preceding 15 years.

You are looking at nominal prices. Inflation adjusted real estate prices crashed hard. They literally went down when everything else rose 8%.
Before you do something "dangerous" note the commit hash. You can always reset HEAD to that value.
On the other hand, what's the point of sitting on the toilet if you're not allowed to think while you're there?

Or less flippantly....

It's like making a budget before you spend. The money is still real, you simply evaluated where to use it and set ground rules for yourself.
I see… Thanks for confirming!
I haven't managed my ADHD very well in the last 2 years, my life is becoming a nightmare. But HN is less and less of a factor, I think my interests have somewhat diverged and I don't click that much anymore. Also, very often I see interesting stuff on the front page of HN that I have seen before somewhere else, which is probably not a good sign.
Solution: sign every log entry with its own key. To repudiate an entry, publish the private key you used to sign it. But of course, it needs to be baked in the protocol from the start.
I cope with various strategies:

- Mobile is always disconnected. I have a few moments per day I check my WhatsApp and other apps, just like you would actively check mail in the old days. People get used to the fact that I'm not a quick responder.

- I use 2 machines, a work laptop and a home desktop. On work laptop never check socials or news. On real quiet days I might check HN on my work laptop but that's an exception.

- For work, I try to find real challenges. Even when fixing a little UI bug, try to understand completely, read a best practice, try to optimize it or design a cleaner solution. I discovered being distracted is also boredom and having no focus. Making even simple tasks more challenging makes it less likely to search distraction.

- Get out of your head some times, for me it's indoor bouldering twice a week but there are many other activities. You need a balance :)
Then why haven't they? I doubt the efficiency claim.
That's true, though the only protection for new tenants is rent control (the type where rents can't exceed a reference rent by ~10%), which is active in most cities - but is also generally ignored (~80 % of new leases violate these laws). New construction, modernized (also "modernized") and first-time-leased flats are excluded as well, and if the previous tenant overpaid, rent control is suspended as well.
Makes sense that it is the UI used by one of the PlayStation BIOSes.

I really liked the visualizations built in as a kid. It was my CD player for years.
Actually, time (and maybe space) are infinite (countably so, thanks to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle) ?

Not a physicist, so better get a second opinion, but I do not think that this is something you can get out of the uncertainty principle. As far as I can tell it does not turn continuous space and time into some discrete voxel space, i.e. while there is uncertainty, the location of the peak of the amplitude, for example, can still be located anywhere in continuous space.

Energy probably isn't though (maybe it is, if space is ?), that is going to put a limit on non-reversible computation ?

The total energy of the universe might be zero. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-energy_universe
Almost exclusively through school, work, shared hobbies and volunteering. As I age through my kids friends too.
Once you can do that, people and societies are only puppets, if they don't have analytical and adversarial technologies to counteract that.

What you describe is a propaganda officer for every human mind.
Train jiu jitsu. I’m currently in Paris for the week with 12 of my teammates who are also now some of my best friends, all of who I met after I was 30.
> I'd also like websites to show me things like news and recipes without having them run javascript, but apparently this means I deserve white pages because writing HTML is too much of a hassle for the modern web developer.

Often enough the content is there but just hidden until the JS loads for ... reasons, idk.
Those two parties agree on most things that actually matter.

They are both right wing capitalist parties.

Sure - one of them might talk about LGBT rights or whatever. But when a LGBT person gets in an accident - they will still receive a crippling medical bill. Unlike in "homophobic" countries like Poland, South Korea or Japan.
It comes down to spending time with a person. I think it also depends on where you are in life sometimes. When you are younger, it is easier to get out and do things.

Once you have kids, it often happens that you only have time to see the parents of their friends. Sometimes you don't have a choice, but sometimes you find like minded parents that turn into friends.
I’m pretty sure the Leonardo DiCaprio’s of the world don’t care about the opinions of chattering spinsters and cat ladies.
The Billionaire Era in News Is Fizzling
It is an extreme, but it's fair. I would not fight unless I was forced to fight. I am quite passive even though I own guns for sport purposes. If I was forced to enlist because of something traumatic, I would have to be in a indirect combat position(drones, communications,etc).

The crux of what I was trying to say is that Japan, with all of it's modern cultural failings(harder life for women, heavy drinking culture, endless work hours) is still much closer to my idea of a modern utopia than anything else the world has to offer.

This is 100% an opinion.
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EMail is more alive than any other federated communication protocol on the internet. It is only rivaled by phones and physical mail.

Defeatism here helps noone.
Git has an easy way to mark a commit hash, even two. One is to create a branch. Another is to create a tag. Both are extremely cheap.
I never understood this example used to explain it, vsauce made a video on the banach tarski theorem.

You make an infinite list of numbers between 0 and 1 chosen at random. Apparently you can make a new number that was never seen in the list before if you pick a digit from each number in the list and add one to it.

Say the list has numbers
0.36285728..
0.95825597..
0.47264112..
..
I can make a new number by taking the 3 from the first number the 5 from the second and the 2 from the third num and so on.
0.463..
I never understood
It is indeed an unusual assertion, but it does bring up some interesting ideas - it seems obvious that the speed of evolutionary change in species is highest whenever the environment changes (especially after various great extinction events associated with drastic change) but in any particular place would settle up in some local optimum (or Nash equilibrium between the related species) after some time of no significant change, so in some way one might say that the evolution is "completed" at that point.

Of course, even for this definition human evolution is absolutely not "completed" at the moment, since however fit/adapted homo sapiens were to the conditions of Africa 200 000 years ago, the last few thousand years have seen enormous changes in our environment to which we definitely haven't adapted yet in the insignificantly small span of 100 or so generations; If the major changes in our social and physical environment would stop today, perhaps we might reach some evolutionary "stable spot" in a 100 000 years (or much more), but right now we haven't even fully adapted to agriculture, much less modern conditions.
I like to joke that my dream is to one day be able to afford my own free time.

But you’re better off being excited about a lot and only having time for a little than the alternative. Getting excited about this stuff is the key to success in the field. That endless desire to learn is critical in a field where you need to constantly learn everyday.
Inflammatory comments should be welcome. New technologies, when not scrutinized, become tomorrows problems.

Just because the model does not save any imagery directly does not change the fact that the model cannot exist without copyrighted imagery. These diffusion models are being made by humans, not aliens and should be judged as such.
Great points. The one thing I would respectfully disagree with is the idea that this stuff can be shut down by buyout, legal action or whatever. The fact that the technology and process is now 'out of the bottle' so to speak, means that it won't go away. Progress is progress, and whether it's open source or foreign countries as actors, means that love it or hate it, we're going to have to live with the consequences of our actions.

It's going to be fascinating to see how we deal with androids which integrate advanced AI and therefore perfectly mimic human beings. The mind boggles.
I used https://acquire.com/ in this case. I looked at maybe 80 companies just from the surface. Then inquired about 15-20 of them for more details. After about a week of thinking, zeplo wouldn’t leave my mind. There was one other close contender but zeplo was more present in my mind and had better metrics.

From there it was letter of intent, due diligence, asset agreement, escrow, and asset transfer. Hopefully this helps.
Whisper is way better than at least some other transcription solutions: https://blog.lopp.net/open-source-transcription-software-com...
Open Source Transcription Software Comparisons
You got convinced that it's important. What if it's only natural that it happens infrequently and you aren't missing out on anything.
Convenience should be for users of a tool not creator. And if it is fn than why not function instead. This single / double character constructs / modifiers in my opinion reduce readability. When reading Rust code apostrophe modifier for example is hard to see.
One thing I notice when doing night photography is that digital sensors tend to saturate quickly, leading to loss of color saturation if one of the channels gets fully exposed.

Film tends to deal with that a bit more gracefully so you don't get white centers on colored point lights.