skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>A point in favor is that normal earth-like atmosphere is a lifting gas on Venus, so just large, lightly built structures would float naturally.

That's not really a point in favour compared to an orbiting spinhab. You only need it to float so that it doesn't fall to the ground. And you can achieve that by not leaving orbit in the first place.
Me too!

I don't trust to open my network to the internet though. So I've created a VPN to connect with my ubiquity network from mobile. Sadly, I can't share photos with other folks or allow my family to participate easily.

I'm a layman in terms of networking. I always wonder how people can sleep if they open their home network. In this case either by using QuickConnect or forward ports and access the machine through a custom domain secured by TLS. I mean that would be perfect but I just can't convince me to take that burden of maintaining that open door into my network.

I've read about creating sub networks with the power of ubiquiti (or any other router), but I will never trust anything I configure there either because I can't confirm it's secure.

So I'm stuck with Google Photos additionally to Synology Photos because of the convenience of sharing.
Just to add context - I do have backups, but they're spread across a myriad of different hard drives. I had used Amazon Photos to consolidate, and benefit from the facial recognition to be able to quickly locate pictures of family members quickly.

I think that I'll give DigiKam another go, against the NAS loaded up.

Thanks for the comments!
I love the quote he referenced from Halt and Catch Fire…

> Amazing possibility to be able to go anywhere within something that is magnificent and never-ending.” Halt and Catch Fire, season3, episode 10, ~34:00 Joe MacMillian (played by Lee Pace) (talking about a childhood trip to New York City, also related to the internet in 1990)

I love when things I noticed are noticed by others as well. It’s interesting and a glimpse into the unmeasured, uncommunicated worlds that I think people have but don’t really have a reason to talk about, so they don’t. But it still exists.

Filed under secret history, dark wealth, etc.
>concurrency code.

Likely parallel but not concurrency, i.e. there are very few (if any) contention points.
Thank you! It's exciting to be here. The Guidelines seemed brief, but informative. Thank you as well for pointing out the FAQ.

We used REBOUND <https://rebound.readthedocs.io/> to run our N-body simulations and a modified version of REBOUNDx <https://reboundx.readthedocs.io/> to add the first-order post-Newtonian correction from GR and adjust it over time <https://github.com/zyrxvo/reboundx/tree/GR_Sweep>.

We used the exact same setup and initial conditions for each of the 1280 simulations. Thus, the only variation between them was our choice of how slowly to turn off GR. "Turning off GR" is similar too, but not the same as increasing the speed of light from ~3e8 m/s to infinity. We started with GR at the currently accepted value (equivalent to c=3e8) and then ramped it down linearly so that c=∞ at some time t=τ (again, not exactly the same as changing the speed of light, but related to it).

We would expect that without any differences, we could run two N-body simulations with REBOUND and reproduce them exactly, bit for bit even though the system is chaotic. Therefore, with even the slightest changes, such as slowly altering the perihelion precession rate of Mercury, chaos would cause any two similar or nearby trajectories to diverge to different results.

For the most part running the simulations themselves didn't pose any challenges. The most difficult aspect of running them was the walltime, or the real-world time it takes for a simulation to run. With a timestep of ~3 days, it took about 82 days to run one simulation to 12.5 billion years. Based on the ending times of all 1280 simulations, it required about 132 years of walltime to run. This is why we were very grateful for Compute Canada and the Niagara supercomputer, because we were able to run all of these simulations in less than 3-4 months.
I'll take a moment to note that if you're interested in this kind of thing, there's a whole community of people who build generators for RPGs.

I built a web directory to find them here: https://rpggen.dev/
>> "solution looking for a problem to solve"

I wonder if this is a bad as everyone thinks. When a new technology arrives which is not completely understood, isn't the right approach to try to find some applications for it? Sure, most will fail, but some valid use cases will likely emerge.

I'm pretty sure almost all technologies at some point were solutions looking for a problem to solve. Examples include the internet, the computer and math.
Beyond the Valley: Nine companies hit hard by the global tech crash
There are thousands of 4 letter idioms in Chinese and I believe in Japanese too, a very common game in China is a group of people each say a 4 letter idiom and next person say another that starts with the last letter of the last one said.
Would that be because of the Sprint merger, I wonder? Maybe Nebraska had good Sprint coverage.
> I don't know if it's due to one of those weird GDPR blocking rules (I'm in Europe) but amazonforum.com doesn't let me connect.

It's not, I'm in EU as well, can connect without any issues
Americans are starting to understand how Europeans feel about Silicon Valley internet companies in EU.

Americans don't like Chinese internet companies gobbling their data and yet they are surprised that Europeans don't like it either from American companies.
Lots of reminders to make backups and alternatives offered, but I think it's fair to expect something from Amazon here since Photos, being a Prime benefit, is a paid service, which should come with a reasonable expectation of stability. It's a shame Amazon doesn't have an easier way to find formal support.
Does anyone know if iCloud (photos) storage is AWS S3? Curious if using both iCloud & Amazon Photos is a decent redundant backup plan in addition to a local copy. Or if I have iCloud & Prime, why not? (I also use Backblaze.)
Studies Link Marijuana Legalization to Positive Public Health Outcomes
Calling people fighting for REAL issues "woke" is incorrect. Poverty is real and affected the majority of the population. Current woke issues do not affect the majority of the population, to say the least.
Perhaps in part owing to the fact that people don’t generally keep hefty sums of cash in hand?

Anyway, how are you expecting to transact digitally with your paper notes?
> I think that I'll give DigiKam another go, against the NAS loaded up.

I'm also looking for something FOSS that can do basic face recognition + maybe even more, but last time I checked DigiKam's detection didn't work so well, or maybe I got spoiled by the detection in Google Photos. If you do give it a go, would be nice if you reported back on your experience :)
Great tool.

BUT, leaks memory like crazy.

Despite documentation stating the verbs are fully streaming.

> Fully streaming verbs
> These don't retain any state from one record to the next. They are memory-friendly, and they don't wait for end of input to produce their output.

https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/6.7.0/streaming-and-memory/...
Here’s how GPT-4 scored on the GRE, LSAT, AP English, and other exams
Digikam is the bees knees in digital asset management. I manage my personal photo archive with that, and it punches way above its weight.
> You can stop eating fish and you can limit the amount of junk you buy!

I'm vegetarian, yet these plastic rocks still exist: my actions did not prevent their formation.

Collective action is needed. That will not happen until the "good" actions (e.g. using recyclable materials) are easier/cheaper than the "bad" ones (e.g. single-use, unrecyclable plastic trash). There are two ways to do that:

- Make the "good" actions easier/cheaper. This is very difficult, and may require new inventions, etc.

- Make the "bad" actions harder/expensive. This can be done using regulation and taxation; which (in a democracy) requires collective action.
For iCloud, would just copying images from iCloud to the backup media be enough?
It required a monospaced font to work, and the only thing you got was laying out characters on a 1 x 1/2 space grid. So it wasn't all that fine of control. There was no control over character size. Equations produced by LaTeX or MS Word looked a lot better.

The manuscripts we produced were not journal-ready, though they were certainly thesis-committee-ready. The technology raised the standards, and today, people care about having beautiful manuscripts. The trend was already well on the way by the time I finished grad school. I was one of the few stragglers who didn't value the extra time spent on aesthetic perfection. The students who used LaTeX seemed to take longer to finish.

The only advantage of T3 was speed. I was in a hurry to finish.
"In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it."
Or simply procrastination. If there's no hard deadline and there are more interesting things to do, keep putting it off until it would be embarrassing to bring it up again. And then never mention it again. Who, after all, is proud of, say, an email kept "unread" for 4 months because you really should get to it, and then quietly toggled to "read" because that's now the prudent thing to do (as opposed to following up on it that late). In that context, it also makes sense not to correct anyone referring to you as "Dr. So-and-so". "No, I don't have a PhD... why not... oh because..." never mind. Just let the sleeping dog lie.
I think you missed the part where the island is an active volcano.
Open...Confidential bold letters...join waiting list.

When did English language change so much? I can't keep up as a foreigner anymore.
There are many simple reasons to write. Nothing fancy.

Just to name a few (I have a daily blog):

- I kickstart my day with my own thoughts, not someone else's (i.e. social media).

- I can feel I created something instead of just (mindlessly) consuming

- I can work out what I really think about something: when you start to write what you think, you need to understand it or at least order your thoughts

- I have an ever growing vault of things I can point to (I do this a lot)

- I always keep an eye out for interesting things to blog about. It makes you notice more.

- I enjoy it!

The audience is 1 (me).

If there are other people who want to read it, great! But I mainly write to/for me.
So why don't I just keep a diary? Accountability. I have to hit publish every day and make what I post coherent. My diary (which I also have) is more incoherent and definitely more boring.
I also. I don't know why they would offer that as part of their base Prime service when no competitors seem to. The upsell for printing doesn't seem appealing to the type of person who would be storing RAWs.
That would be an interesting experiment. Take something like ChatGPT, train it to play tic-tac-toe and reversi and chess and go. Tic-tac-toe it will probably be unbeatable. How does it do at chess and go? Is there a level of difficulty of the game where its ability to master it tops out?

Can ChatGPT(-ish), trained on a ton of games, beat AlphaGo?
This whole article sounds to me like a prank they made. There are too many things that don't make sense. I wonder if they're making fun of a whole generation that doesn't know how a typewriter works.
Again no. The idea that you as an individual can’t make choices that are better for the world is self-delusion. You choose not to make those choices because it is easier to blame someone else. And again, there’s nothing wrong with this. But at least be honest about it.

You can take individual action and put effort into activity that might lead to actual change. But I’m guessing most people opt for the make no change, blame someone else, and put no effort into activity that might lead to actual change option. And again, nothing wrong with this! It’s our planet to fuck up.
> we really really need to do a better job of keeping plastic out of the oceans

This was really hammered home to me on a trip I took a couple of months ago. I was on an uninhabited island and, while the island as a whole was beautiful, the beaches were all COVERED in plastic debris from the high-tide line upwards. It was really quite shocking to see.

I knew that there's a lot of plastic floating in the oceans, but I hadn't considered how much of it gets washed ashore. It doesn't accumulate if there's someone around to clean it up, but in uninhabited areas it's devastating. I wouldn't have believed how bad things are if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes.

I wrote about the whole trip here, scroll down about halfway for a photo of what I'm talking about:

https://blackshaw.substack.com/p/desert-island
My solution is to not open it. Use the cloud for browsing, use the home machine to copy the files down. You rarely need to browse on the home machine, it's really just there if the cloud provider ditches you.
That is why always you should synchronize your cloud with a local backup storage, always remain skeptical on cloud-backed storage as you are relying on someone else keeping it up (it can go anytime).

Cloud storage is just as volatile as your physical storage breaking or getting lost.
There quite a few inaccuracies. The fact they are ok w/ using a naked sleep and w/o checking the interrupt flag is a flag on its own. (if you want sleep w/o exceptions use LockSupport.parkNanos not lombok)

The more glaring one is the fact that stack memory uses virtual memory space and it's not 'allocate' until used. On 64bit OS it means it's quite cheap. To me that's an unmissable, if one has spent any time doing anything with io or threads in any capacity.

There is a distinct different between parallel tasks and concurrent ones and the article seems to be confused about that part as well. (There is a reason the term is 'embarrassingly parallel' instead of 'embarrassingly concurrent')
That super sucks. Stories like this (but about Google Photos) led to me setting up the following backup strategy.

1. First, all photos are on a fat external harddrive connected to a homelab server. When I come home with photos, I dump them onto this (TODO to find a way to automatically copy them into the proper spot off the camera upon the camera being plugged in, or a different spot if the gopro is plugged in)

2. Once a day, these are rsynced to a separate set of harddrives, which serve self hosted photo software I use (similar functionality to google photos. Looking for a replacement that lets me create arbitrary albums of photos, and then create web pages pointing to those arbitrary albums, that's FOSS. Currently evaluating photoview and librephotos)

3. Once a day, all photos are backed up to a backblaze b2 bucket using duplicati. with several previous versions also kept.

4. Once a year, a fucknormous external drive is purchased, all photos dumped onto it, and mailed to my parent's house, where they put it into a firebox.

5. Oh, and all my photos are also uploaded to google photos, because why not

I'm very much a scrub when it comes to sysadmin tasks and was able to set up all of the above with about... I don't know, no more than 100 hours of effort I'm sure, probably less. I recommend at least looking into consumer backup services like the one by backblaze!
It sounds good to say "we should do something about it," but that ignores the fact that there will always be inequality.

Steve J. and Steve W. knew each other. They knew some other people. They used their social connections to found Apple. As a result of that, bears in the jungles of Darkest Peru can now typeset Dennis Ritchie's thesis in full-color on a supercomputer that fits under their hat next to their marmalade sandwich.

Putting barriers up to prevent this sort of thing in the name of some airy-fairy equity ideology to make people "feel good" isn't the progress some think it is.
It's fairly easy to teach the behaviour of LR parsers (though which grammars end up being LR and which end up conflicting is very inintuitive).

It's much harder to teach the inner working / implementation of such parsers. Table generation adds an extra layer of indirection. I skip this in my class, because I doubt it will be very valuable to students to be able to implement an LR parser compared to other things we cover in the class.

Doing the OP's approach, you can get some intuition for how a LR parser behaves / is implemented without going to the full complexity.
Containers have never been about system efficiency, rather admin/developer efficiency - lower skilled staff can pump out a working product cheaper.

Need to run 2 separate apps that both need to use the same userid/filesystem path/network listener port? No problems.

Need to have different library versions? No worries.

Sure you can workaround all this stuff with ld preloads and other things, but that requires more skill than copying a base dockerfile from a google search and putting in a bunch of RUN commands.
Local photo library is a folder, disguised as a package. One of the folders store all the originals on the device. Copy that folder, and you're good to go. You can also get the full folder hierarchy, if you wish.
I play the guitar, every day, for no reason. But I'd like to add that it's very hard to play guitar on a napkin.
Except for it's horrible face recognition right?.. ugh.
It will be fun to watch them argue.
I was accepted into the program.
First trained open source floor plan recognition network
A trained network to annotate raster images of floor plans was just published by Archilyse under AGPL. You can try it under the link above, additional information is shared in the discord channel.

Previously, Archilyse has published the largest curated dataset of dwellings https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7070951 and its full codebase https://github.com/Archilyse for data labelling, quality assurance, georeferencing , simulation, and benchmarking.

Archilyse is one of the world's leading R&D teams regarding the document class floor plan and cooperates with several famous universities.
Last vulcanic activity on the islands was 50.000 years ago.
Yes! with enough generative AI capabilities (Star Trek) Holodeck can be achieved.
A 'better than nothing' but very easy thing I do is use two cloud providers for photo storage. Since my photos are all phone based, backing up to any cloud provider is pretty straightforward.
Perhaps - but normally you'll have a narrowly defined and very specific technical topic/hypothesis that you're working on, and many/most of these aren't going to be closed off by ChatGPT4

Will this effect the job market (both academic and commercial) for these folks? It's very hard to say. Clearly lots of value will be generated by the new generation of models. There will be a lot of catchup and utilisation work where people will want to have models in house and with specific features that the hyperscale models don't have (for example constrained training sets). I'm wondering how many commercial illustrators have had their practices disrupted by Stable Diffusion? Will the same dynamics (what ever they are) apply for the use of LLM's?
I'm away from my desktop computer, but it wasn't half bad when I last updated its DB. I don't take much portraits, so I don't use that feature much, but give it a look when I can and update you.
And configs could be reloaded in CONTENTS view.
> I'm vegetarian, yet these plastic rocks still exist: my actions did not prevent their formation.

But your actions are contributing less to the creation of new plastic rocks compared to the person who is out there buying a can of tuna. Whether your choice as an individual has a significant effect is another question. But it’s undeniable that one choice is better for the environment than another. As people we can make the better choice or the worse choice. It’s up to us as individuals.

Anybody who’s eating a can of tuna waiting for new inventions and government to save the day is just deluding themselves.
Previously discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27776830, triggered by the recent article on Close Doors buttons
Yes! I had to compromise with the manor map as it should have had a round room. You can make them I think but it's very awkward. Running http://blog.trilemma.com/2018/09/the-sorcerers-feast.html this this weekend.
I learned a new word from this article, "Omissis", which means "omissions and reactions". Equivalent in this context to "...snip..." or "some code omitted".
How does GPT-4 remember things this long? The memory of it is just 8k / 32k tokens long, right? Seems you would run out of tokens quickly.
Is uses the python shell. I asked it.
I’m writing a short sci-fi piece about a world that’s rotation was linked to the psionic energy of the creative thoughts of its inhabitants, and one day they discover mechanical tools to think for them. As the natural harmonic waves of psionic energy deminish the world starts to spin slower and slower.... and now I’m finished writing it. Very short indeed.
Twitter Is Basically Circuit City Now. Prepare for HR Nightmares
I hope the Swiss will let it fail. That's appropriate.
"might kill us, but then new creatures will evolve and grow, with plastic being part of their ecosystem, perhaps even desirable."

Is that possible? As far as I know nothing consumes rocks and they've been around forever.
Even without aliases, I still prefer PowerShell on Windows. Once you've turned the text into an object, you can pipeline it to hell.

Get-Content .\example.csv | ConvertFrom-Csv | Where-Object -Property color -eq red
The most amazing thing about ChatGPT translation is, that you can even instruct it how to translate. For example "dutzen" and "sietzen" in German. I just simply tell it how it should do it and it did. Absolutely amazing. It's like actually working with a real translator.
> To behead Ma Su (name) while crying. [...]

I wonder how much further ahead of western cultures, eastern asian cultures would have been if they didn't kill (or commit suicide) every time someone made a mistake.
I own a Synology NAS, and now believe that it would have been easier to just set up a computer for the tasks I use it for. There are just too many cases where the solution is to use a container (and the clumsy web interfaces for reverse proxying &c), and if I end up SSHing into it too much, I prefer to have a more controllable environment.

It does fit some workflows very well though, you just have to assess if your needs over the next few years fit their business intentions.
And people laugh when they hear about my USB HDD docking station and a fleet of 3.5" HDDs backup setup....
Why is this getting so heavily upvoted? Are we sure OPs title is even correct?

This may be user error? It's possible the photos are still there, or if they are gone, perhaps Amazon can restore.

OP, did you try to call / contact Amazon before you posted this?
(Genuine question, not being argumentative)

Why isn’t it possible for someone to sell their shares privately?
Great points by the author. Fortunately this fixation on race and sex are unstable. The bottom line will win out.
I believe iCloud uses Google's cloud as storage backend.