skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
what has changed in that landscape the past 2 years?
Would you rather websites keep using animated GIFs instead? Because I think this is why GIFs are still in active use despite being a terrible format in terms of compression/bandwidth: browsers impose all of these limitations on video, which don't apply to GIFs because they're images.
It is amazing. Although I am not surprised it's able to give such result, with the amount of information it is trained with, it will only keep getting better and better.
>Caesar did this all the time; he believed (ultimately incorrectly in my view, based on the way he died), that he would be much better served by brining these people to his side, with their existing powerbases and supporters.

Yes, but this all occurred prior to his dictatorship. Coalitions are needed when sovereignty is in doubt. If he intended to be king or imperator (and allegedly already was de facto), what incentives does he have to effectively double the elites requiring patronage and titles? Praetors and consuls were limited as were provincial commands. And the Proscriptions were fresh enough in everyone's mind (and subsequently repeated after his death) that it doesn't jive with me that a Rex Caesar needed former Pompeiians to justify his rule when both his ability to rule and his pool of seized wealth to distribute were negatively impacted by their rehabilitation.

>But he certainly didn't have to take the bait and remove the tribunes, and the accounts of the diadem incident I've read suggest he knew it would happen ahead of time.

Given the need of Caesar to be seen as doing the "right thing" rather than the "public thing" I think it's understandable why he would defend citizens and supporters against spurious charges drummed up to harm him. It recalls the episode where Marcus Claudius Marcellus had a Transpadane magistrate whipped (something forbidden to be done to Roman citizens) because Caesar had treated them as citizens while not actually being so. I imagine events like that hit a sore spot personally and not simply puncturing his auctoritas. Something akin to Buzz Aldrin punching a conspiracy theorist in the face for calling him a liar and a phony.

The diadem incident was a scissor statement regardless of who actually orchestrated it. Opponents would see it as testing the waters for kingship and allies an explicit repudiation of it. Given what I perceive to be Caesar's prudence and the desperation of his opponents to manufacture opposition, I find the latter motivation to be more credible, by far.

>But I gotta say, the stuff I've read about what he did in Gaul and elsewhere makes it impossible for me to view him as any sort of paragon.

I meant specifically as a Roman, not necessarily under modern mores. Caesar in my mind was a necessary force rather than a desirable one. Yet I will admit that I'm in the minority when it comes to "cruel necessity" in war, particularly conducted by those that abide by tit for two tats. I think I would rather have punctuated Gaulish atrocities, Sacks of Wexford, Burning of Atlantas, and Hiroshimas than continual and ineffective warfare that sacrifices more real humans and real wealth for slower but larger meat grinders led by forgotten and incompetent men. In short, there are only two kinds of historical personages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody remembers.
I suspect the folks here defending philosophy had a very different experience with philosophy than I did. I took an ethics class in college through the philosophy department and all I remember from the class was the professor telling us that pro-choice was the only philosophically defensible position, and reading various excerpts from Plato, etc., without ever discussing “how to think about it” like some siblings mention.

Does anyone have any recommended resources for learning about philosophy? I’ve read some Aristotle and Plato but I think I’d benefit from something more structured.
How much memory would a spark worker need to process a single JSON file that is 25GB?

To clarify, this is not JSONL or NDJSON file. Just a single JSON object.
I think it's reasonably widely-read in the United States, though I haven't read it myself.

Probably more are familiar with the British Granada Television adaptation, which was shown here on the Great Performances series on PBS. I don't know how well that conformed with the book.
The 80s and the 90s do seem in retrospect to be exemplars of what I consider the college experience.

By the end of the 80s, the canon wars had been fought and lost, so any topic was fair game for study. In loco parentis had been gone for a while. Ethnic boundaries were all but gone, and class boundaries were disappearing as well as more people went to college.

By the time the 90s rolled around university life seemed to be the free-wheeling intellectual pursuit with a healthy dose of libertinism that I considered the college experience. I grew up in that era, so maybe I am just a product of it. But there seems to be something pure in that model of university life.

In later years after the 90s, taboo subjects became more common, in loco parentis returned under the guise of limiting legal liability, tuition costs made class differences more stark, and most sadly of all I think we've lost a bit of the universality of the human experience thing, and focus too much on identity and how that divides people.
And what should they do? Repeal the first amendment?
What part of my comment suggests that I think people are stupid?

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Tools can solve important problems "and" increase the complexity to point where they create other problems which makes the trade-off untenable.
I'm guessing this product line is kept alive by outdated local government/municipality regulations or something along the lines of that. Oh, and owners of cars with CD players :).

About now is probably the time to hoard.
It seems like a great idea if the use case is that its silently being run in the background to alert the operator/system of a possible breach.

While I think there isn't much ease in acquiring the AI voice with "just 4 minutes" of what was likely clear and unambiguous recording, I still don't think biometrics are good as passwords, they're good as shortcuts -after- having already provided the correct password for a single session.

This also means the voice can be gathered passively from earlier phone calls, and generally might be a good idea for government services/banks to implement regardless.
Wow. Just + and - i away from completing the Riemann sphere.
Totally agree. And what baffles me even more is that most corporate IT is fine with that. Invest millions on cybersecurity and data protection, but never mind the spyware bloat.
> You are naive to believe regicide was not the end goal of the revolution.

Your patronizing attitude is inappropriate, parent obviously knows more than you about the topic.
This is on purpose, because otherwise it would lead to proliferation of redundant, potentially crappy and insecure formats on the Web.

You could end up with sites using some Windows-only formats (e.g. some internal MS Office format), iPhone-centric sites would serve patented HEIC, and then browsers on other platforms would be forced to adopt these formats.

Not every plugin dumped in the local OS is as hardened as web-facing codecs. People would likely get pwned through some legacy fax codec from their scanner software.

Users seeing broken images is not a good UX, and users installing random code-running plugins, because websites tell them to, is even more annoying and dangerous.

We've got decades of experience, and scars in the User-Agent header, showing that developers can't be trusted to make sensible technical choices.
Obviously the entire test is about what’s taught in class, but distilling it down to the single dimension of “basic math” in your dismissal was what I found interesting.
I hope for a while yet. My car has a 6 cd changer :-D
Why learn math when we all carry a superhuman calculator in our pocket?
>>less prone to degredation

Are they, over time? I always assumed thumb drives would rot after years let alone decades.
That would result in all those videos getting replaced with gifs and wasting more resources.
> You're driving a car, too fast, and in a moment have to choose

Did you really just try to reframe the trolley problem with lambs and rosebushes?

So it's not an either or. I choose to drive my large heavy vehicles in a very safe and reasonable manner to maximize my chances to avoid running into herds of sheep or other livestock. If I had to choose between livestock and smashing my bumper on a pole, I would choose avoid the livestock of course. If they were headed to market tomorrow, it'd be the same 100%.

My children all eat veal and lamb but love roses too and are fairly ambivalent about poles and bumpers. They are not confused by any of this. If I read them your arguments and explained your beliefs, they would also know instantly that you have lead a very sheltered life and would feel a little sorry for you. It isn't really that hard to understand right and wrong.

> ditto

Well I'm not trying to convince you because you are clearly delusional. I'm pointing out to other, rational, people the gaping flaws in your arguments. I feel that wide-eyed idealistic activists are over-represented in these comments and I'm trying to ensure that nobody forgets that most people don't agree with these positions.
Buy some fresh ones while you can.
Interesting, I didn’t know that. I decided to standardize on “click to play”, and added some logic to try starting the audio engine again if it didn’t start the first time.
As I recall the anarchist cookbooks aren’t that bad. Stuff like how to make napalm (gasoline and styrofoam as I recall).
Ha! There were some PLATO terminals at the University of Western Australia through to the 1990s. I spent a couple of months in 1990 using PLATO to learn to touch-type. My speed dropped from 35wpm to 20wpm, until I built it up again to a peak of 95wpm a few years later, reached by spending hours on IRC typing in complete sentences.
And we’ve had the Scholastic Book Faire every year since
Increased efficiency leads to more demand, not less. This is known as the Jevons paradox in economics (see: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox).

The historical precedent would be for increased productivity to lead to more software being developed, not the same amount but by fewer developers.
Yes, using just the FE part is still joyful (Svelte, React etc). It's the move towards full-stack (Next, SvelteKit etc) that I'm slightly complaining about. My complaint is also limited to how complex the build process is in combination with other aspects of the fast moving TS/JS ecosystem.
I buy steel all the time. certainly not at Lowes. its about $.90/lb for hotroll now.

edit: the issue is they only sell 'wholesale' quantities. 20' sticks, 4'x8' sheets
Ah, now I get it. All along, you've been arguing in the scorched-earth style of modern culture warriors (on all sides). I couldn't understand it in a discussion about Caesar. But now I understand. You're using Caesar as a proxy to fight modern-day culture wars. You're not actually talking about Caesar; you're talking about your projection of him onto our present day.

He really wasn't as spotless as you're trying to paint him. Neither are the ones that you're trying to project him onto. (And neither were the other side, in his day and in ours.) Neither side is worth your level of battle to whitewash their reputation.
No former President has ever been prosecuted for crimes committed in office either during or after leaving office, even in cases where they quite clearly did commit crimes.

That is neither "mental gymnastics" nor "off-topic flamebait". It is simply a fact.
I tried to use Anki a long time ago, but maintaining cards ended up being too toilsome. Now that we have ChatGPT and other AI tech to take some of the pain out of that, I might give it another try for language study.

I do however maintain that for many skills it’s better to memorize processes over facts, and develop a more nuanced embedding with natural repetition intervals, rather than overfitting via excessive Anki-fication.
Startup idea:

Become a source of software where paranoid people install your things instead of from the OEM. Install rootkits on your drivers and sell to the CIA
> uses the modern Linux namespaces to prepare isolated filesystems without needing to reinvent a whole bunch of wheels.

I'm confused; Nix mostly works by passing the '--prefix' argument to standard, off-the-shelf configure scripts. Some build/packaging tools don't seem to work with a user-chosen prefix, and hence need some sort of workarounds; but that's surely a fault with those tools.

> Horrible-horrible way to compute runtime-dependencies of packages. This may be okay as a heuristic to initialize a project, but in the end it must be tweakable manually.

I completely agree with this one. I've never experienced a problem with it; but that surprises me ;)

> This would be solved by a more modular architecture, where we can manage package with a one tool and build packages with a different tool. Until then, I would be forced to code in Nix, and that's problematic no matter how good the package management is.

The Nix store provides quite a nice separation between the "definition" side (where the Nix language lives), and the "building" side. In principle you can avoid the Nix language, e.g. the way Guix uses Guile Scheme. The only reason I use the Nix language is due to all of the definitions provided by Nixpkgs ;)
> but the recent spike in natural gas costs in SoCal had me cut back considerably on making pizzas

How much in gas cost can making a couple of pizzas a week take?
> Do you mean college used to be paid for by taxes and now students have to pay for it and that's why college is so expensive?

That’s exactly what it means. Not sure why you think this is an opinion. It’s a demonstrable, historical fact based on solid evidence. I provided reliable sources in my initial comment which you waved away and dismissed out of hand. Tax cuts for the rich, supported by deep cuts to educational budgets, led to increases in the cost of education for everyone else. This isn’t seriously disputed by anyone. It was Koch’s published strategy circa 1980, it was subsequently embraced by Reagan conservatives for that decade, and is now enshrined by conservatives as standard operating procedure. There are literally hundreds of academic sources supporting this fact. Conservatives don’t want to pay for public education because they believe it produces liberals and democrats, and they aren’t entirely wrong, in the sense that education does have a liberalizing influence on society. The problem is that public opinion (also known as democracy) is against conservatives, as the public overwhelmingly supports funding education and lowering the cost for everyone. Conservatives are aware of this, which is why they are passing anti-democratic legislation in as many states as they can. None of what I’ve written here is controversial in any way. This is what is occurring.
Life isn’t a Marvel comic book. There aren’t good guys and bad guys in Washington, DC, just corrupt self serving politicians on both sides of the aisle that say what they think their constituents want to hear while doing the bidding of their campaign donors.
Ah yes, going into work every day sneering at your employer as they are your true mortal enemy, sounds like a perfect way to live.

I am assuming that since you think this, you don't have a job?
Specialized Deep Learning Architectures for Time Series Forecasting
UX/UI needs some improvement
> relatively little utility

I wouldn’t call being used in virtually all microchips “little utility,” even relatively.
Maybe 2023 is the year people stop using python.
If your licenses are time-limited, you can use regular X.509 certificates to represent a license (where the subject name signed is the computer ID, and the validity period of the certificate is the validity period of the license). You could even run standard X.509 revocation checks in order to enable blocking of illegally shared keys.
Or maybe you can have opinions that mainstream culture finds repulsive without being "sexist, or racist, or transphobic, or smell bad".

Just because the US media landscape has split the people into 2 camps engaged in culture war does not mean that most people neatly fit into one of those categories. Many are a combination of both categories, with opinions on one subject matching one camp and another subject matching the other camp. With your comment you are merely repeating stereotypes we already know are just that and therefore inaccurate.

All humans are flawed and we should not use positive traits to justify or excuse negative traits. There is no net total of a persons personality.

Why do you engage in trying to associate the traits you listed with being interesting and their absence with dullness?
We have a local hackerspace that regularly holds gamedev meetings and once or twice a year holds a weekend long Gamejam.

I love those because it's 2 days of challenging yourself to actually finish your project and do something crazy if you like. These constraints make it fun.

Our regular meetings are a good mix of hobbiests, professionals and the very occasional idea guy to allow great discussions and feelings of community.

Obviously there is no corporate sponsor and no prices besides the appreciation of your fellow hackers.

I also participated in "local government" sponsored Hackathon and while those are nice to meet people and encourage the bueocracy to embrace the modern world it's almost always about some social goal like accessibility, open data etc. These are important and interesting topics but the projects are never that "fun".
Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium. They put ttys and later silent 700s in elementary schools and libraries connected by dialup to a CDC. they had a early mud called Milieu that I spent a lot of time on...and I wrote some basic and pascal programs. in fact I think I took a programming class at some kind of summer school at the community college that was hosted there too.
What exactly is the disinformation here?
Maybe a more appropriate term would have been "pedantic" instead of strict, to avoid the miscommunication?
I think I understand what you mean. I am nor racist nor transphobic nor <insert-minority>-phobic (at least I hope so), yet I think that the debate about, for example, biologically male people in female sport competitions ought to be (whatever my opinion on the matter might be) and that alone could flag me as transphobic to some people. But I'm not sure they are more "strict anti-transphobe", I just think they are more pedantic, that's all.

Anyway, in the end of the day it was clearly a miscommunication, not necessarily a divergence of opinion. Words are hard.
I agree that you could have communism without concentrated power but the key there would be that all governance and choice of governance would be rescinded to the smallest possible communities. That means, absolutely and without debate, that those communities could choose whatever form of economic organization that they wanted to, so you would wind up with a heterogenous mixture of every kind of economic theory, communism, capitalism, socialism, mercantilism, and probably a dozen other variations. That would be great if you could ensure that certain rights were broadly respected such as freedom of movement so that people could leave a system they disliked and join one they preferred.

I don't necessarily see communism working over a long period even at that scale though. I think attrition would be too high. The chance of some whacko gaining too much power would be too high. Moral would degrade over time when people were able to compare their own situation with that of their neighbours under other systems.

Honestly, I think we'd be better off making room for small communes and giving them legal protections similar to corporations. Establish some decent laws that allow people to organize and live that way for as long as they want to but also ensure that such systems aren't abused and are held to account when they do wrong. There's a time and place for them in many people's lives but it isn't something we should try to impose on a broad, unwilling populace.
There are extensions that do that.
I haven’t heard of this tradition.
everybody use im because the number of formats it supports. If you remove psd/ps/pdf/tiff supports, the number of vulnerabilities is halved.

still not great, but this give some context to understanding the number.
Here's what I can't figure out. My wife moved us from Portland to Florida because she hated to see all that stuff. Same issues, massive homelessness problem and very, very sad state of people. It is very different than the homelessness situation from ten years ago.

Why isn't it in Florida?

Housing costs are lower, but look at the price of housing even in smaller cities, they have doubled in just the last two years. If homelessness is really mainly a function of housing costs, is this problem coming quickly to Florida?

For example, gas prices are indeed cheaper. But add on those toll roads and suddenly the cost of a trip isn't so cheap. COL is not as straightforward as you would think in Florida.

Florida and other southern states have a much larger prison population per capita. Is that it, does everyone unwilling or unable to find housing just go to prison?

Is it heavy handed police that keep the problem away from the urban areas because tourism?

Are the drug cartels only interested in blue states?

Are the drugs here in Florida but just hidden differently?

If you read about drug use, just a few years ago the statistics would have shown higher use in Midwestern and Southern states, but the rampant degeneration of humanity is clearly more evident in blue liberal cities, and it's giving me an existential identity crisis.

I always felt like looking at the problems homelessness are facing holistically was a compassionate thing to do as a liberal, and I still do, but it hasn't made a difference since before the pandemic.
Can you elaborate more on what frustrates you about how supplements are bought, the misleading labeling, the lack of regulation, and the incentive structures designed to keep people in the dark?

I ask because I consume and browse a lot of supplements and have never come across (or have never noticed) most of the above on any supplements I’ve ever considered.

Also, adding my two cents on things I care about when buying supplements:

- does this contain as much as it says it does?

- how does this ingredient benefit me?

- how bioavailable is this form?

Comparing the above is a huge time sink because the information is either hard to find or unknown or speculative.
Did it actually make any money? Would have been more interesting without the investor bit.

Kinda just proved that random people will give you money to be a part of something popular.
It is odd that they are building it in C when it is already written in C.
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I hope more people play Prosperous Universe. Using NPCs to simulate an economy can be done in theory but it is probably too impractical to have been implemented in actual video games. Yes, some research grade simulations use machine learning to simulate economic actors which is as good as it gets but when it comes to games it is better if every economic actor is another player as this avoids the NPC Vs human behavior mismatch. I mean, if you want to even remotely realistically model economic actors you would have to at least implement actor specific utility curves into your game and somehow ensure that these utility curves are coherent and non abusable across all goods and services in your simulated economy. It would be strange if a human were to be addicted to catnip, for instance.

https://prosperousuniverse.com/
Not sure if the author is here, but I would happily fling a few dollars his way for an epub/pdf. This looks great.
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