skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>learn Danish to B2 level, just in case e.g. an accident to be able to call a police or an ambulance.

I don’t think Denmark is the best example here. English competency is _extremely_ high and Danish is quite a difficult language to grasp (as far as I know as an A2/B1 Swedish learner).
ALS patient sets record for communicating via brain implant: 62 words per minute
Having a hiring freeze and actually not hiring in excess are two different things.
This particular wording sounds like it could be a poor translation from Russian. Sdelat' karjeru (literally: to make a career) means to make a living doing something, or to succeed in doing some job.
No it doesn't matter. Where they do this is entirely beside the point. They can do it from international waters. Everyone is affected. Laws are arbitrary.
i certainly am
3DO Doom: The Story of the Worst Port
I really dislike the “didn’t try hard enough” angle. He seemed to be trying, he really wanted to be able to settle in to a productive life with his wife there. It’s lacking in empathy to assume you have all the relevant facts to pass judgement.

Countries where people are multilingual from a young age clearly have some major differences to those where they are not, and even in those countries many people are not multilingual.
Happens to me roughly 1/3 of the time in Kallio restaurants (not the oldschool grimy ones) and central fine dining spots.
Remittance flows and GDP impact by country
Berlin is full of people with attitudes like that (both local and foreign), and that's part of the reason why the city is in such a sorry state. It's funny, in addition to those expats who only speak American/British you get a ton of immigrants who speak neither English nor German in a way that any sort of meaningful conversation would be possible. But it doesn't matter because no one cares, not even the government. And then every other week in a moment of brief clarity, some of them wonder why nothing works, from mail delivery over construction to even just holding an election.

In summary: AchBerlin.jpg
Imitating Human Behaviour with Diffusion Models
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.10677.pdf
> The total number of employees of Google are 156 500

This is a non-sequitur. This statement has nothing to do with the outage. It’s just thrown in there to pad the number of words in the comment.
Oh, those devices do have UI... somehow I managed to skip this entire line. As I said, pardon my ignorance :-).

Thanks for the behind the scenes.
So laws are arbitrary and if something is arbitrary it doesn't matter, so if anyone does anything that is arbitrary (in your mind) it doesn't matter?

Let's back up for a second. What percentage would you say this experiment has in being correct?
Every local action has global consequences.

Throwing a dead battery into a dump -> Battery acid gets dragged by the rain -> Polluting a river -> Flows polluting a sea -> Currents polluting all oceans.

Of course effects become smaller as scope grows, but still in many instances it's measurable, see Fukushima.
Boy do I feel stupid now.
I have been using newsboat for almost five years now, but it never occurred to me that I could apply filtering rules for the exact use case you described.

It might be a fool's errand though if the spam is not obvious enough to catch with a regex.
In many countries governments are only allowed to communicate in the official language.

So stuff like tax forms or whatever will not be available in any other languages. You'll have to get a translator yourself.
I imagine a combination of COVID and the Ukraine War has contributed to a change in access security policies.
Python ecosystem is too old to be fixed without breaking everything else.
That said, use pipenv to get lockfiles and almost sane dep management. And, use global.require-virtualenv=true to prevent global package pollution.
> but if you look at the horrible effects climate change is already causing now

What are those "horrible effects"? And how do you know the cure won't be worst than the supposed "horrible effects" it is meant to make disappear?
Of course it matters.
I mean - isnt that how all DR is essentially configured? You need it "somehow" connected to Prod depending on the failover, config, system etc. And in many of these complex systems DR can be on a subsystem etc - not an "all or nothing" approach?
> here's a video about the apartments in Hong Kong: ...

I know. "glorified chicken coops" is an implicit reference to these apartments. It's a very dystopian direction, and we're heading towards it, yes.
It is not hard being better at translation than google at this point. Probably the best option right now is deepl.
You can't just start practicing law without a license, you'll ruin somebody's life; they'll assume you, or the computer, knows what is going on, when in fact you just want Free Dollars.

I don't want Dr. iPad Joe who spent a grand total of 15 minutes learning how to use ChatGPT making legal, medical, engineering, or other important decisions for me or the place I live.

Now, I am of course free to use ChatGPT as a private person to "come up with my own legal arguments", but should a company be allowed to sell me a ChatGPT lawyer? No. They shouldn't be allowed to sell me unlabelled asbestos products either.

I know we all hate regulations, but some of them exist for a reason, and the reason is Bad Shit happened before we had regulations.
This stuff about Japanese homes becoming worthless is factually false however; I'm not sure why people repeat it so much.

The structure becomes worthless after 40 years or so, however the land does not. If you're in some dying little town, then yeah, your property will be worth nothing eventually. But if you're in a nice location in Tokyo, that land will always be very valuable, much more valuable than the structure ever was.
A lot of countries require a certain level of language knowledge to gain permanent residency. I can't imagine Sweden is too different than its western neighbor, where I have and still reside. I guess they realized that they aren't moving and need to have a plan when they retire? (I did read something in Norwegian immigration rules that it is possible if someone has lived for a significant amount of time, they can achieve permanent residency. Maybe there are stipulations. I don't know if the same thing is present in Sweden.)

It takes a bit a passion to keep on learning. I experience well enough, even though I still struggle with it. But living here, I do have a sense of FOMO though if I don't know what is happening where I live and having to be stuck translating everything or asking for summaries is extremely tedious.

I did think in the past that if universities require students to sit through local language lessons, in part to be prepared for other classes, what is the other part? My sense is that students have a lot of potential for local economies. The same "welfare" grant is rarely given by companies, where maintaining a workforce of contributing and skilled professionals could be equally as important. Yet, I found exactly one company in my own job searches that offer a stipend for a basic language course for a job that otherwise requires just English abilities. That actually sounds like an excellent job perk. This is really why people could sit 20 years without knowing more than a few phrases and can read signs. Maybe the cost of courses is not within a budget for something that is mostly optional for work life. But it is a damn shame anyway. For myself, I never took a course. I wish I did, but my language knowledge played a significant role in getting a lead developer position at a very good company (I kept saying in interviews that this is exactly something I want to improve :) )
When the ecosystem is saturated with humans, as it currently is under our current lifestyles, the increasing speed of land price increase is simply a microcosm, a symptom, of the planet saying that it's unaffordable for further humans to exist.

The answer is not to figure out how we can pack YET MORE of us into every visible empty space. But I suspect it will take some time and dramatics for that fairly existential realisation to bed in.

The real estate market in Japan is evidence that land value stagnation goes hand-in-hand with population stagnation. Imagine suddenly doubling Japan's population over the next 30-40 years - you think those Tokyo apartments would keep getting cheaper??
I liked the book, he has a style, its a bit like Marmite I think.

The scary thing is so many of the predictions he makes in his books have come through!

I would recommend his books to people who like going off on tangents and want to spend a bit of time in characters and less in plot progression.
What we have here is humans responding to change how they learned to.

In the face of impending AI changes, software engineers build start ups and try to adapt hoping to capture some relevance.

In the face of impending AI changes, lawyers threaten litigation.
> 90% of people on the street won't speak English in big European cities, no.

And who chose that percentage as some holy grail or something important? I'd say in big European cities at least 40-60% of people in productive age (18-60) will speak at least basic English, though not sure how is it relevant, even if only 1/3 of people in street spoke English it would be plenty.

> The rest of the things you said only confirm you have no intention to integrate and to be a pleasant addition to the community you live in.

The rest of the things have nothing really to do with integration since I behave same even in my home country, I don't see reason to wate my time with small talks and people doing their jobs, I have better things to do like spending time with my kids or rest. Not even sure what's pleasant addition and what's the community, those are foreign words for me, I am independent adult who doesn't feel urge to be part of some community as some young childless kid looking for their place in the word.

> Your comments about people who don't speak English, and your attitude towards local workers are pretty EFFICIENT/TIME SAVING.

FTFY
They aren't getting paid more, the companies simply make less money. Look at PPP wages over time
I updated my post with a few questions to clarify your stance.

The point of the question is to ask whether you think this has 100% chance of not causing issues.

The next step of course would then be to say, okay if it isn't 100% safe then do you support Mexico's right to say, "hey this could cause us or the world harm, stop it".
> It’s a lose-lose situation for everyone involved, really. The German speaker is limited in what she or he can express, the German audience is limited in what they can understand, the English audience doesn’t progress in learning the language of their new home country.

Maybe, but by not learning German they expats miss out on access to about 40 million Germans/Austrians/Swiss who don't also speak English (and they are likely not the smartest ones either). By not learning English, the locals block themselves out of a vast amount of knowledge and resources contributed by over 1 billion people.
I think one of the problems is that many people know about this child super power and then give up. OTH, I live in Italy which is full of adult African immigrants, and they all speak Italian.

The fact is any adult can learn any language, they just either don’t have to or don’t want to. I’m not saying it’s easy or it’s the best decision for every situation, but it’s definitely possible. This is true even more so if it’s a popular language with a lot of resources to learn it, and you live in the country where practice is virtually free.
Most sites that weigh in on this topic agree that "further" does not apply to physical distance. [0][1][2]

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/is-it-further-...

[1] https://www.grammarly.com/blog/farther-further/

[2] https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/eb/qa/what-s-the-diffe...
How is it less restrictive when AGPL allows you to run a SaSS, but this one doesn't?
And I wonder if this is the scanning equivalent of wet lithography for making microchips?
The math seems a bit off on the 70k USD per person redistribution; GDP per capita in rich countries is around $70,000, but worldwide it's much lower.

Wikipedia:

> The per capita PPP GWP in 2017 was approximately 17,500 international dollars according to the World Factbook. According to the World Bank, the 2020 GWP in current dollars was approximately $84.705 trillion.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_world_product)
It's funny when countries fuzz up their google maps images of military bases, or oil companies, or whatever. The US military clearly thinks doing that is a joke: you can zoom in on area 51 and look at parked aircraft.
That’s not the only solution. You can also use different characters. In fact, kebab–case should not use minuses, but dashes, like this:

kebab-case // three tokens: ‘kebab’ ‘minus’ ‘case’
kebab–case // single token ‘kebab n–dash case’
kebab—case // single token ‘kebab m–dash case’

;-)
If it's obvious that the product won't get approved by risk management due do missing essential policies, I won't even take a glance at the actual product.

Automatisch would be interesting for me exactly due to:

> It allows you to store your data on your own servers, which is essential for businesses that handle sensitive user information and cannot risk sharing it with external cloud services. This is especially relevant for industries such as healthcare and finance, as well as for European companies that must comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

But automatisch.io doesn't include any data protection policies despite advertising a paid enterprise offering on their website and asking for data in a typeform. Also, there is only a copyright symbol without any link to a legal entity.

If it was just a non-profit open source package, I'd still look into it. But as it is, the website screams „don't touch this with a ten foot pole“ from a perspective of someone who is supposed to be the target group of your product ;)
Low carb diet is about lowering the amount of carbs someone consumes, only some vegetables that have many carbs or starches are best to avoided, because they have more then 60% of their content in the form of carbs vs less then 10% for other vegetables. on the list to avoid, or eat limited amounts are Potatoes, rice, grains.

For example:
Broccoli has 6 gram of carbs per 100 gram vs rice that has 80 grams of carbs per 100 gram.
Yes, you're missing my point to the GP, and he missed the point to the GGP.

It's in Mexico's right to stop experiments on the global atmosphere from their country.
How about we treat freedom of speech like the inalienable right it is? We better now?
I suspect the part that is failing is not the connector itself, but rather a controller chip somewhere upstream.

Given the skills you could def DIY repair it for cheaper, the high price is likely including uncertainty of what's broken and some form of warranty.
1. Subversion lets you configure granular permissions.

2. Subversion lets you check out portions of your repository.

3. Subversion working copy does not have all regions history. Just a snapshot of the checked out revision.

So at least Subversion would have allowed them to limit the amount of leaked data + no revision history leaked.
Hardly surprising, you try to automate lawyers they are going to get litigious.
Nice to see that my blogposts about building a Linux kernel with Rust support on ArchLinux were useful for at least someone else :)

This post does a lot better job at describing the prerequisites to enable Rust in the Linux kernel, while I just referred to the AUR package I created.
How to Provide SQL Access to MS Excel Files Without Coding
The article describes the workflow of how you can get quick access to MS Excel files via the SQL (Structured Query Language) interface.
>When I was at Square and the team was smaller we had a dreaded “analytics on-call” rotation. It was strictly rotated on a weekly basis, and if it was your turn up you knew you would get very little “real” work done that week and spend most of your time fielding ad-hoc questions from the various product and operations teams at the company (SQL monkeying, we called it).

To be part of an analytics team and deliver work like this is actually highly sought after and a great role to have. I don't know why the author thought it was terrible. Doing data analytics on a company's datasets is most certainly real work.

Doesn't take away from the point of the story though, GPT is great.
Perhaps the goalposts were always in the wrong place.

AI researchers tend to use their own definitions of intelligence - playing chess/go, having conversations about trivia that require no true emotional insight, "making" "art", writing code, driving.

What if those are all peripheral side effects and not at all necessary to human AGI?
The countries affected the most will pioneer this and the same mechanism that kept us from acting against the free market carbon death cult, will prevent measures against it.
Then all it takes, is one slip up, one bad year, and all of humanity burns to ash in a fire storm.
> Honestly only place where you need to speak local language is communication with gov officials

That's what I wrote. But how often you deal with gov officials and various forms, on average once or twice a year? Is it worth learning whole new language to fill bunch of forms, which can be filled with help of friend within few minutes?

Btw. officials are not allowed LEGALLY communicate with you in other than official language (in letters, official forms). In spoken language it's their word against your word in case of argument, so there is no reason (other than being lazy) to not hold informal communication in English, if the official is nice/welcoming person (and it's actually required in some positions with foreigners, despite legal documents being only in local language).
It seems that this wasn't as routine as these things aught to be but rarely are.
Where's your chip that does all that in 1k gates?
You’re right that one might only need English to live in a given country.

But then how much insight has that person into how other people think (they can’t hold a conversation with the vast majority of non english speaking people), or access to local news and studies...

I think many Spanish speaking countries are in the same boat: not speaking the local language means you end up in a foreign friendly bubble with limited access to anything that didn’t get picked up by that english speaking sphere, which will often include the really interesting stuff.
Partially diffuse globally, partially come down in a downplume. The area under the downplume gets the maximum cooling effect.
Would love to! There's a library called Math.NET that I wanted to look into, but never got around to it (plus, I forgot 99% of the math I learned in college so wouldn't know how to use it). Can you get in touch via email: antonio [at] querystorm.com?
Can you please find me a licensed lawyer for less than the price of a parking ticket?
Thats actually my strategy;

This makes it so that 1. my quality overall becomes better and my bosses always liked that (doing things per hand are more error prone, not on time etc.)

2. I can go on holiday knowing my company doesn't need me desperate

3. I can spend the free time of actually innovating and bringing more value to the company/product

The problem is not automating yourself out of a job but not being able to leverage the new gained capacity.
I often got the sense, when living in Switzerland, that if there was a designated process for something it would nearly always be followed to the letter, which at least provided a great deal of certainty (although rarely the process didn't benefit either party). If there wasn't one in place, people seemed to operate using a healthy dose of understanding and common sense. This is true virtually everywhere but to varying degrees, with the two seemingly melded together more in some societies.
Too bad about 8h of downtime in the middle of it trending, but yeah, can't complain too much about it:)
Making dependency management easy, you end up with large tree of dependencies.
It is one of the main concern I have with modern package manager.

In my opinion, it lacks a kind of trust management. Packages from a same team/author could belong to a same trust group. When a package get updated, we have to audit dependencies from new trust groups. This could create a culture of reduced and audited third-party dependencies.
Back online now
Yes, protogen is based on merging of checkpoints. The checkpoints it's merged from are also mostly based on merging. Tracing the degree of ancestry back to fine tuned models is hard, but there's a ton of booru-tagged anime and porn in there.

If there's one style I dislike more than the bland Midjourney style, it's the super-smooth "realistic" child faces on adult bodies that protogen (and its own many descendants) spit out.
Oof, I did all of this, for years.

I had a Nikon Coolscan 9000 that was the best scanner I ever had for 35mm and 120mm film. I worked professionally and would submit perfect scans to clients and retouchers that were far better than anything the labs were producing.

I bought a Pakon (Dogbowl variant) and modded an old Macbook Air to run it. It was great.

But, again and again, I found myself running up against entropy of time and software. It was always going to fail. I miss my Rolleiflex, I miss my Leica, I miss my Mamiya RZ and my Mamiya 7II. I miss film and writing shot notes in my notebook.

But the manufacturers and the labs are all going in one direction, digital, and the price of film and development is rising.

Since I've moved to Amsterdam from NYC I've looked at darkrooms/dokas but it's all too hobbyist and caught in an older era. Reluctantly, I've gone all digital and adapted my workflow to make it less painful: profiles, curves, mobile cloud syncing, batch treatments, decent historical archiving.

I've found a great digital printer and a great print shop, and now the only real issue if finding a good framer.
Absolutely not. I haven't even used ChatGPT. I'm not against it, I just like to run things locally. I have gpt-2 and gpt-j and tons of different stable diffusion models local and I get way more enjoyment from diffusion rather than some large text prediction model.

All these models know are what they are trained on. That's it. What they are trained on along with whatever limited window of memory that they have for an open-ended chat type query.

I don't consider any large language model a replacement for research and searching. Although I do get a kick out of it for generating ridiculous nonsense and that brings me great joy because I get to laugh at it. Making nonsense top 10 lists or nonsense drink recipes. Those are hilarious times. Deliberately tuning the model so it's running a fever is just wonderful.
Empty spaces, what are we living for?

Abandoned places, I guess we know the score, on and on

Does anybody know what we are looking for?
That's nice to hear.

The actual interview was really fun (although it was at the end clear you are looking for someone a little different) and I learned about eBPF, which was great.

If you fixed the delays, then it's even better.