skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you look at accident statistics, they are indeed dangerous. My friend broke his arm while riding one, and he's far from a careless rider, so I found some statistics, which made me realize that maybe we shouldn't let people ride these around town willy-nilly:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/reported-road-casua...
Having been young in the 80s I also wouldn't have realised that this would have needed an explanation :)
I know about wooden frame upright pianos, but grand pianos?
This kind of shenanigans either leads to a lot more car lanes, or even less car lanes and permissions. Paris has tried "more", and they're really enjoying the safety, air quality, and convenience of less.

I'm optimistic they'll keep following the Dutch model. You've seen the pictures of Amsterdam in the 70's, after all.
Individuals like LeBron James do it — a self proclaimed human rights activist. Companies do it. I have yet to see a public entity who has a spine on this topic and is well respected.

It's obvious this is a business decision, not some conclusion of "exploring the cultural differences of different countries, and China has a more respectful culture".
I was surprised when I installed Windows 10. It used to be a simple process to get rid of the OEM shitware, but now Microsoft has included a lot of shitware into the base image as well.

I installed Linux last week. The biggest issue was USB-C docking and DisplayLink. Actually, it was only the DisplayLink part, the docking worked fine.
I am wondering what has changed? Hasn't the US actually become safer over the last decades? I am from Europe btw, so this whole issue seems completely crazy to me.
What's great about this video and the discussion is that something as familiar as water can have new and non intuitive things to learn about it. Are there any other examples of common things that have non obvious behaviour from every day experience?
Now that is a thought that could not possibly have come from GPT. Thanks, this has given me something to think about.
"We don't want that s*it here" reminds of being behind the Iron Curtain for ~40 years. And than the dam broke...
If you divide the US M4 money supply in 2021 (20.6 quadrillion) by the US population (331 million) you arrive at roughly $60 million per person.

If you assume the USD will have an 'emperor wears no clothes' moment at some point, that value would be shifted to another asset.
What about the rest of the world?
In my opinion MJ v5 has better generations on average than a well-customised SD pipeline, but only by a little bit. SD definitely requires more work in terms of set-up and greater specificity in your prompt text.

I would recommend downloading one of the more aesthetically pleasing models from Huggingface or Civit.ai, such as "Deliberate", "Protogen" or "Realistic Vision".

Using 'clip interrogator' on existing images that you find appealing can be a great way to find interesting keywords to include in your prompts.

If you're comfortable hooking things together in a node based UI, I would recommend ComfyUI as it can give you greater flexibility around how your images are generated.

What kind of images are you trying to generate? I can maybe give some more specific advice on that.
Another rust post making it to the front page...
Brexit happened for many dumb reasons. The current government has been going through a patch of being deeply unpopular and have decided that banging the anti-immigration drum can help shore up their base. So in truth yeah it's unfortunately quite unlikely they'd do much to make it easier to come to the UK, particularly if you're from Russia :-/
I use a lot of open source software and directly pay for approximately none of it.

Do you behave differently and pay for it today? What do you use to accomplish (track and manage) that?
It can be misleading in places, like when it confuses the general notion of Proof-of-Work [1] with one PoW algorithm in particular (Hashcash) [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_work

[2] https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/mastering-blockchain/97...
One of the neatest features of MSHTML was how everything was exposed as a classic COM object, which allows you to drive and interact and customize it with anything that can speak COM, and do a bunch of neat things easily.

Of course, that certainly prevented some optimizations.
Right, because I would be consuming content of someone who I do not enjoy listening to.

And if you’re using the word pathological please use it right :)
I see people complain about "the" UI in linux distros all the time. I don't understand. Ubuntu itself has several options- LXQt, xfce, kde and Gnome.

I've used xfce as my desktop for the last decade or so, before that it was fluxbox/blackbox, and before that enlightenment.

Looking at other people's screens at FOSDEM there's till plenty of choice in UI
Why do people believe that giving a gift (releasing free software) obligates the recipients of those gifts?

This idea that open source code can be "stolen" is insane. You can't steal a gift. Once you give it away, it is no longer yours.
Has HN become an airport now that we are broadcasting departures? This article is interesting on a personal level if you know the author, but his reasons are not something most users care about and him moving on is not something I will think about at all
It’s capitalism and centralized control. Once again, Linux and open source projects, scientists etc. do not have such an issue.

Their software is available to everyone everywhere. These organizations have taken a “stance” alright — and that is basically that anyone can use it for any purpose. Including satire!

I bet you Stable Diffusion won’t have such a controversy.

The fact that GitHub had to beg the permission of the US government to let their centralized platform serve open source software to Iran says quite a lot. It shows how centralized governments and corporations create the problems to start with, whereas gift economies don’t have any of these problems

https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/5/22215588/github-iran-sanct...
Presents himself as a “MIT guy” while he did his bachelors and masters at a no name university his dad works at. Always talks about programming, then when asked to elaborate about his experience with GPT and programming, starts to talk about memes. Blocks even prominent people who criticise his research, yet talks about how open minded he is. Only references the most mainstream material. The list goes on…
Most of the modern world has common public transport, the US is a weird edge case.
I'm sorry, I forgot about that. I removed Google Analytics from my personal website just now.
which provider goes to 2500/2500?
It's useful if your goal is to find a movie you'll probably like before you head out to the theater. Liking movies is not an exact science. Why do you expect Rotten Tomatoes (or any) site that doesn't collect a bunch of data to be able to know about your personal tastes?

I suppose what is needed is a site that can curate the list of reviews to people who you typically agree with and then provide results from that list for new movies that come out. That requires a lot more work and data from the user. It wouldn't be a passive website experience.
Thanks for sharing...I think the GitHub PR summary bot is a great idea. It can save a lot of time for developers, as they will no longer need to read through the entire pull request to get a sense of what it is about. This bot potentially can also help to identify potential problems with the pull request, such as security vulnerabilities or code style issues? It help people decide if the pull requests are of high quality before they are merged into the codebase

Code for the bot is also open source, which is good. This flows.network is just a platform, correct for people to write their own bots? You can make it more clearer about encouraging other people to contribute other (different) bot templates.
You just described proprietary software. It's a philosophy incompatible with free software.

You aren't required to pay for a gift, which is what free software is.
ChatGPT Is a Marvel of Multilingualism
https://archive.ph/OSNzF
The drawings one is weird. In the case of the "decoy" being of age, it doesn't matter because the person intended to abuse a child. But a drawing? It's disgusting but I don't see why it should be a crime.
WWE Agrees to Merge with UFC
You can't log in to Midjourney from China anyway, as Discord has been blocked a while back. So only VPN users will have access.
This is super interesting. From Leta FAQ[0]:

Did you make your own search engine from scratch?

We did not, we made a front end to the Google Search API.

Our search engine performs the searches on behalf of our users. This means that rather than using Google Search directly, our Leta server makes the requests.

Searching by proxy in other words.

[0]: https://leta.mullvad.net/faq
There is no piracy if there is a trial available.
Charities are generally incompetent at managing projects, building and maintaining products.

Considering teaching instead.

Check out Big Brothers Big Sisters mentorship program, I think your contribution there could be more impactful.
Thanks for this, easy to remember :)
BTW, just a nitpick; this does not represent the philosophy of Buddhism. Buddhism is derived from the "adwaita" philosophy of Hinduism. Hinduism has two philosophical strands, "dwaita" i.e. dualism, (which is what Christianity, Islam and Judaism follow too), and "adwaita" i.e. non-dualism (which is what Buddhism and some section of Hinduism follow).

Dwaita stipulates that God is out there, separate from humans. Where as adwaita stipulates that there is no external "God"; instead of searching for God elsewhere one should look within oneself to attain Moksha(in Hinduism) or Nirvana(in Buddhism).

So it is odd that the Tibetan monks in the movie will print names of "God".

The philosophy of dwaita and adwaita originates from the Hindu Vedic text.

Anyone who does Yoga and chants OM(AUM_, to be precise) during meditation is actually practising the adwaita philosophy to attain Moksha/Nirvana.
WebKitGTK Accelerated Compositing Rendering
Safari releases are development hell
Yes exactly. You or I may not like where MidJourney draws the line on allowable content, but if they want to run a service buisness they must draw a line somewhere.
> To be fair, you can easily use apple hardware for 5 years

I have a MacBook Pro from 2015 which I still use every day. It's still going strong.

My only issue with it is that it can't be upgraded to MacOS Ventura, and it prevents me from enabling full encryption on all the iCloud stuff. I will probably replace it with a top-of-the-line MacBook Pro 16" later this year and my expectation is that it'll last me for another 8 years. Yes, 4 grand for a laptop is a lot, but not really if it lasts for 8 years and then can be resold to recoup some of the cost or given to a family member.

So for me the lifespan of the machine is over (iCloud encryption being the dealbreaker), but I'm sure it'll last at least a couple of more years for someone else.
The passport required for foreign travel seems the likely answer, given:

> Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s spokesperson, confirmed Russia had tightened the restrictions on foreign travel for some who work in “sensitive” areas
The fact that starlink is technologically impressive doesn't really change that paying 150 for a "30-50/2-10Mbps" connection is worth a whine
Russia has many thousands of high-quality Soviet tanks

I've got a high quality 486 processor here but it still gets slaughtered by a cheap, ropey CPU I bought last year. A high-quality Soviet tank is a high-quality outdated tank that's very vulnerable to modern weaponry.
Also Australian - based in Hunter Valley (~ 200km north-west of Sydney). Definitely rural.

I replaced our Skymesh (geo-stationary) satellite (the only barely viable alternative) two years ago with Starlink. Skymesh gave me ~600ms RTT to Sydney servers, and maybe 25Mbps down (at 3am, clear sky, etc). Data cap was around 120GB / month, IIRC. Pricing was probably 75% of what I'm paying for Starlink now.

We can kinda sorta get 3G, but effectively only for voice & SMS - our nearest tower is ~ 10km away, and my yagi / repeater requires power to establish a very feeble back to that. 3G is being retired almost definitely in 2024, at which point I believe the national carriers' plan is to have no plan - as the replacement technology requires a much higher density of tower placements than rural areas will ever substantiate. The joy of a fully privatised communications industry.
I wish this article had been available a few weeks ago when I was implementing my own hash table for my language. The explanations of the algorithms are great. It's given me enough confidence to try to implement Robin Hood probing. Should be a nice upgrade.

I'm also wondering how to implement that virtual memory trick...
>a white tech-upper class quasi cult.

>Sam Altman and Lex Fridman

This thing with white Gentiles and Jews reminds of tennis pros from Scotland. They're described in the English press as Scottish when they lose and British when they win. Likewise, if a member of the tribe does something bad in America it's on whiteness and white supremacy, but if they do something great we suddenly remember that they're Jewish. A conspicuous pattern, and not one that I think is good for relations in the long run.
and here in Austria I just cannot get symmetrical, running on 1000/50 Mb/s right now
Isn't Firefox already reselling mulvad for their VPN?
No, sorry, that's an absolute nonsense argument.

To start with, the official law enforcement, and park maintenance is managed and facilitated by the state, payed by the tax payers.

Secondly, the associations like the one mentioned above, although making use of the resources of their members, are in part being bankrolled by the state. So, again, payed with tax payers' money.

Thirdly, the association, labelled an association of public benefit, should fit the following definition: "Elle n'exerce pas d'activité lucrative. Sa gestion est désintéressée. Elle ne fonctionne pas au profit d'un cercle restreint de personnes", or, after loosely translated:
1) It should not be profit driven
2) Its management should be selfless
3) It should not function at the benefit of only a restricted group of people.

And it this case, it sure sounds like point 2 and 3 are put in doubt with their patent and intellectual property fighting nonsense barring open maps from including their paths.

Beyond a recognition for the time and effort invested in the maintaining of the markings on the hiking trails they trace, it really looks like a disproportionate and misplaced application of intellectual property rights.

And taking into account that a lot of tax payers' money is making the entire endeavour possible, it would make some sense to return a bit of that value back to the tax payers by making the markings available for free in openly accessible maps.
I welcome all new non-chromium based browsers.
This was done in Slovenia (računalnik)
Unfortunately 2016 was the worst year to buy a MacBook Pro in the last 10 years. 2016 models still only had a 4-core CPU and DDR3 RAM. 2018 models saw a big improvement in performance (6 cores, DDR4), 2019 models fixed the keyboard, and then 2021 the M1 chips arrived.
This is the most beautiful thing I’ve seen in a long while
Engineering with Code Ownership
Awesome seeing fundamental Rust crates maturing into 1.0. I hope this pushes Rust to gain even more traction in embedded systems.
AFAIK if the first pubkey doesn't work for some reason then all of the pubkeys in ~/.ssh/ are tried and thus may reveal information about machines that you're (frequently) logging into.
This only serves to form unnecessary barriers. If tomorrow, everyone spoke the same language (ignore which one it was), society would be better off.

History and historical culture, on their own, are a bad reason to do something (ie learning from history makes sense. Doing something for no other reason than the length of time its been does not)

The rest is just about which language and who chooses.

The only thing this sort of bill does is make it harder to get to a better state. At least here they are not pretending it's helpful to do it
Struggling with machine learning try these prompts to get better results, instead of wasting your time and increase productivity.
Ignoring the arrogance that, the network effects of his podcast is incredible. I don't know of another podcast that gets the kind of guest list lex does. But you're right, his questions are often quite (pseudo-intellectual?) he's got a thing for "are we living in a simulation"
Some if Buls Berglund's recent videos about waves in mazes made me realize this.

Funnily enough he uploaded a video two hours ago that shows what it looks like.

https://youtu.be/lBLlYmM6tjU
Can you give some examples of ways databases misuse the filesystem?
I quite like Mullvad. I haven't needed to use them much (mostly when my ISP has wonky routing and I need something semi-urgent), but their service is pretty good, their website feels like it's designed for the more "techy users". Their billing is the least sketchiest of VPN providers, with no ticking clocks, no upsell and other nonsense.

I also like they provide a Wireguard file and a way to filter it, so it's super easy to get started.
Yes, in fact that's how it started. The 'upright' was a way to sell pianos to lower income families because it's cheaper to manufacture and easier to situate in a small home. Prior to 1825 all pianos were made of just wood, and played reasonably soft, usually with just one or at most two strings per note (that's where the term Una Corda originally comes from, now it denotes a pedal that (on grand pianos) causes the action to shift a bit to the right so it will miss a string in the higher register).

That also made them pretty finicky, changing moisture and temperature would have a significant effect on the pitch of the piano. At that time 'standard pitch' was about A4@423 Hz, considerably below what it is today (A4@440), which lessened the problems somewhat but if you wanted to have your instrument well tuned you had better learn how to tune it yourself.

For harpsichord players (the predecessor to the piano) today self tuning is still the standard.

Piano history is fascinating, if you are interested in the subject I'd recommend reading 'Of men, women and pianos' by Arthur Loesser. It's an old book but a fantastic source of historical information about the development of the piano/grand piano.
> It's obviously not possible to have a constructive, non-ad-hom discussion here

It is possible, but you'd have to radically change your typical approach to these discussions and treat me like an equal human being rather than as a "narrative" to fight.

> so I am bowing out.

I thought you already did.

> Have a good one.

Good chat. Have a nice one. Have a good one. Why did you even need to add the superfluous line to your comment that I've already highlighted as sarcastic?
If you ask people to select a pure red that isn't tinted towards either orange or purple, then on average they say somewhere around -15°. So 'computer' red at 0° is a little bit orange compared to that.
While it looks like poverty rate is more correlated, idk how you look at those maps and see anything but an obvious political correlation, albeit not perfect. What do the stats say?

"Among 3110 U.S counties and Washington, D.C., change in life expectancy at the county level was negatively associated with Republican share of the vote in the 2020 Presidential election"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8209240/
Yep. And the issue is that because AI will depend on some form of expensive ASIC, AI compute and knowledge storage will be heavily centralized, guarded and sooner than later we'll start seeing rentseeking behaviour once again.
Ukraine is not a small country. And Russia is also relying on imported weapons from Iran despite its "infinite" resources. And finally it does not matter how many men Russia has, what matters is how many soldiers they have. Just because they hand rifle to someone doesn't make him a soldier.
> Am I being unfair, but doesn't this article seem a bit of a selfish whine.

It does for sure and I was debating whether I should comment and say it or not.

> I think we need to step back and take perspective on this one.

Disagree here though. If we were taking account of the global state of things, sure. When OP pays for a service, gets unreliable service, and prices go up, they have a legit reason to complain and not be told to take in the big picture.

—

It might seem like I’m taking both sides, but really I’m not. OP decided to live in the middle of nowhere (I grew up in the same state, so I speak from experience), with that comes tradeoffs. Want fast and reliable internet? Be ready to pay for multiple providers! Yes, $200/month for internet seem high compared to other costs of living in rural Kansas, but it’s the compromise you endure for living so remote but wanting a job that requires you to be connected.
They are overpriced to the extent that I am discouraged to even buy a MBP now because I would have to baby it so much given the absurd price tag. It would just end up sitting on a desk for its entire life, and at that point I might as well buy a Mac mini.
Nice one!

I think Prompt Engineering Jobs could become popular
My M1 MBP is built and still performing so well, it’s going to last at least 3 more years.

Unless Apple integrates a new accelerated ML chip next year that’s going to revolutionize the way we’re able to train and interact with small, specialized AI models in macOS.
Well, you assume I am a right-wing libertarian. I am a left-libertarian:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_socialism

I don’t want concentrations of power in unaccountable corporations, either. I want housing cooperatives, credit unions etc.

But given that we have large states and corporations, let’s use that “public control” to vote body cameras for all cops and make ALL negotiations by our politicians publicly accessible. They work for us! We should know why they failed to prevent a war or a pandemic! Do you agree w that?

PS: It hasn’t happened, democracy wasn’t able to even get term limits for Congress despite overwhelming agreement it should happen. MAYBE they will outlaw insider trading. I would say that the problem is large concentrations of power in the hands of those who put profit / ideology over human lives — this whole “democracy” thing is just the system (organizations) pacifying people. Sometimes it can even make things worse as administrations change (eg Clinton’s deal with North Korea and Obama’s deal with Iran were killed by the next administrations… and USA has been doing this for centuries, eg Andrew Jackson renegging on Jefferson’s promises and causing the trail of tears). A small kingdom like Morocco or Monaco may actually be more stable and peaceful and less belligerent than a large democracy. The UK was a democracy during the British Raj and that didnt make it any nicer than when it was less of a democracy.

https://youtu.be/VP_SpW-DyQg
> Simply because every other alternative is worse than atrociously bad.

Perhaps true in the past, but these days have long since come and gone. As long ago as a decade, Here Maps on Nokia Windows Phones was better. These days, Apple Maps and Google Maps are pretty solid competitors, but I prefer Apple Maps whilst driving, because it gives more detailed directions (lane warnings come earlier, verbal directions often include details such as "go past the next light, then use the left lane to turn left").

For certain areas, Google Maps is, itself, a second-rate alternative to the best option, too. For instance, in London, Citymapper is worlds better than Google Maps for navigating without a car.
> Whenever politics or other controversial topics come up, the MJ teams tries to stay out of it.

Actively engaging in censorship is the opposite of staying out of politics. It's engaging with a political system actively.