skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I may point out here that if we take the word "democracy" at face value (i.e. That the ruling entity needs to have the support of the majority of demos) then most countries are really not democratically governed:

The people in charge get voted in by a minority of the people who go to vote - which gets even worse if you account for people who are eligible to vote but abstain.
When Trump was in office he had to threaten the Saudi's to get them to cut back on oil production (due to Covid low demand and over production). They always seem to be doing the opposite of what the US needs.
that sounds awesome
When I was in middle school around 15 year ago, I relied heavily on Lode's Computer Graphics Tutorial

> https://lodev.org/cgtutor/

I'm surprised the site is still up! There are probably more up to date resources available now though
Yes starlink works great until other people sign up too.
out of distribution tests. if the concept holds consistently over a long period, the concept is the stable thing. If not, then it's only memorizing string densities.

For a number of years we've been basically showing the first to be the case, especially as the model is scaled and the context increases, differentially against the second. String density probabilities can be surprisingly brittle, to be honest. The curse of dimensionality applies to them too, believe it or not, which I believe is why topic discussion, reasoning, and integration over longer distances of text is that differential test that shows pretty clearly that substring memorization/text density stuff is not 'just' what the model is learning. Because mathematically/statistically/from an information density perspective/etc etc otherwise it would be basically impossible, I think.

That's my best understanding, at least.
Depends on the company. Conscious Capitalism and the Infinite Game are great books on why that's not the best approach.
The ToS is necessary for GitHub to provide their services, the wording is pretty carefully constructed so that GitHub are safe to change their service and develop new things. Loosely speaking "by uploading code you grant GitHub permission to blah blah with that code"

I'm not sure how well it will go down in court fighting this... since we agreed to it. But the more interesting question will be is the result a complete "you loose" and GitHub walks away, or if they are forced to take actions in order to defend the copyright of users producing content... a "Code Id" type system that warns you if the code your uploading is too similar to someone else's in order to allow you to use the fun new AI tools to make code and pay GitHub, but also simultaneously defend users legal intellectual property rights.
A lot of that is spam, algorithmically generated music. Even calling it that is generous. Titles like "baby sleep sounds" try to get playtime as mindless background music.

SoundCloud is especially bad with the spam. You'll find tracks there that are typo squats or similar which are just text-to-speech voices advertising a porn or casino site. The conversion rate on that has to be absolutely abysmal, I suspect the person buying this kind of "advertising" is getting scammed themselves.

But either way, the article's point stands, even if 9/10ths of new music on streaming services isn't made in good faith.
>It’s the only one that properly supports ligatures and variable width characters for instance.

Are these like "powerline fonts" or what? Where are these used?
> E-Scooters are a public menace.

So are cars. They kill hundreds of thousands of people each year. They are incompatible with spaces that are occupied/moved through by humans, dangerous on the road, and consume half the city's livable space through business and residential parking lots. They poison our air, and they damage our hearing.

They also cost tens of thousands of dollars a year to buy and operate, and require untold billions of dollars to be spent on building and maintaining an endless sprawl of road infrastructure.

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... Maybe if we consider the benefits, as opposed to only the drawbacks, scooters might look a bit better than you paint them to be?
linux has lots of flavors and one can run virtual/emulated OSes on i imagine any of them. Win11 sux big time though, no doubt. I actually had a Geeksquad dude visibly grimace when i told him i accidentally "upgraded" to Win11 and he helped me wipe the HD and put win10 back.
Yes, which is why Paris is also addressing that problem. The French can walk and chew gum at the same time.
If you want to get an endocrine disruptor into the body, I can't think of a better vehicle to achieve it than putting heat into greasy sugary food, next to a surface which has something like PFAS in it.

It's going to get into the bloodstream. The gut will extract the fat or sugar molecule, and the disruptor will come along for the ride in many cases. Sure, lots would be excreted.

A microwave is basically a machine designed to increase rate of reaction for any process which is endothermic. In fact if I recall correctly, some flow processes use microwaves for contactless heating to increase rate of reaction outside the flow chamber.

All my microwave plastics which have had spag bol in them are now stained. There is clearly some kind of binding to the tomato and oil and sugar component. Some of them are blistered. The surfaces have interacted, something has been absorbed and also caused contact-heat change.

I would argue this indicates the reverse is true too: something in the plastic has had massive opportunity to cross the barrier the other way.

Decoré do not use PFAS in their plastic tubs, and never have. I asked them, when PFAS-FREE labelling emerged into the wild for plastic food containers from other manufacturers: they were quite testy about this, going to the "never have" end of the story.
why is that user-unfriendly? Didn't it work? Did you miss the ads and the tracking you cannot turn off, updates that ninja-popup and log your PC for half an hour if you not careful for half a second while writing something or the simplicity of selecting the type of user you want to setup by pulling the network cable or disabling your wifi?
Yeah, I agree that some words could be choosed better, but overall it changed my mind over the use of GPL licenced code. Copilot and other ML tools should not use GPL trained models to create proprietary licenced code.
> Unfortunately for everyone, over the past few years it's become more clear that Xi is not as smart as the leader of a gigantic autocracy really needs to be.

baseless rhetoric

> If he'd been patient about Hong Kong's transition and "one country two systems" he'd be most of the way to reeling in Taiwan by now, instead of prepping for war and cosying up to Putin.

The CPC were reacting in part to outside meddling and interference into the affairs of HK.

> Sticking with that policy all the way through into late 2022 with no sign of an exit strategy was pure stupidity though.

damned if you do

> Then there's the breathtaking petulance of dropping all the Covid restrictions suddenly with absolutely no mitigation, as collective punishment to the whole population in retaliation to widespread protests.

damned if you don't

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

deaths per 1 million:

…
015 USA 3,451
024 UK 3,057
220 China 0,004

> Xi really does not like to look like an idiot, but everyone there must now surely have suspicions that he may be one.

baseless rhetoric

> Total control of the media and the Great Firewall have allowed the Party to manipulate public opinion pretty effectively, but I'm not entirely convinced support for the government could be maintained if Xi starts a war. Hopefully Xi feels the same way.

because the mass media in the West is a bastion of diverse opinion & thriving political dissent and not at all a coterie of subservient drooling establishment-worshiping lapdogs
This comment sounds clever but makes no sense. The CEO can and must apply his principles to the company if he wants to consider himself moral under his own code.

Just think it through; is he morally bound to actively pump out lies and propaganda if that increases profits?
> As to your actual point, it’s horrifying that people need to be told “don’t be distracting”, and that this passes for best-in-class analysis on the subject of business organizations.

It's really not best-in-class analysis--that honor probably goes to the Academy of Management Journal[1]. It's a free blog post on a non-peer-reviewed _magazine_'s site. Yes, there is a dynamic that makes paywall journal articles anti-viral, which is why you won't find any at the top of HN.

But I do think the article is meant to be helpful, not just inoffensive. As a manager, your peer and everyone above you is interrupt driven. There is some missed deadline or other crisis you are expected to attend do. Even your employees have an oncall function, and we have all these amazing instant messaging tools like Slack. And agile is all about changing the plan a lot, right? Heck, peopleware has a section on overhead intercoms in the office, to give you an idea of how bad it used to be. And extroverts (ie sales and marketing) don't mind interruptions, maybe even thrive on it if they made a promotion to management. It's just not obvious at all for some section of humanity, unfortunate as it is for us engineers.

Finally, think about it like this: some employers are putting spyware on employee computers to monitor work from home behavior. That is the audience for this article. Not sure why it's on HN.

[1]: https://aom.org/research/journals/journal
For me it's not just the lack of professionalism but the writing makes the author sound pretty junior and inexperienced with how the world works. Not that there's anything wrong with that (we've all been there). But it can cheapen the discussion and feel like what really needs to be untangled is overlooked by stuff like "I was upset because they changed the UI and then I got used to it." Not very interesting details and not very useful thing to discuss.
Yes, if it's fair use than the license is irrelevant (at least in the US).
But why call it prompt engineer and not just data or, you know, software engineering? Prompt engineer means the prompting, and that’s already quite dead as it is: you can just ask gpt4 to fix the user input for a specific goal. We do this in our pipeline and it’s obviously (much) faster and cheaper than ‘prompt engineers’, but it is usually also simply better for what we need it for.

The stuff you say it will evolve in already exists and has names everyone uses.
Huh, that would be pretty effective I imagine, and sounds like a classic French approach to the problem, low effort, high impact.

But wouldn't the rental companies just switch to NFC-scanning? I know most of the bikes in Sweden technically have it, even though I don't think many actually use it because our QR codes aren't being defaced and it's just easier.
Aren't these more about the tools you are using instead of the terminal emulator? Or does kitty use its own grep command?

I use vim as my main editor and while I usually stick with default terminal I have tried others in the past and at least I cant tell a difference in normal usage.
Same experience just recently: installing Windows for both of my kids. I got insanely frustrated with it.

Forget the Family Safety. I honestly don't see it working at all. I created Microsoft accounts for my kids and set their ages. This changes nothing I can see. Search menu shows VERY explicit news. It asks my kid to sign in to her Microsoft account every now and then, even though she's signed in since it was installed in the first place. It asks to add payment methods, because why not?, and this is for a 10-year-old! Edge resets the homepage to edgeservices.bing.com, shows some tabloid news on it and refreshes this page every 30 seconds or so. Ads EVERYWHERE. I'll stop here, but only to keep this short. The bottom line is: it is unfriendly and sometimes unsafe for kids, not by my standards anyway, and I am a pretty tolerant parent.

Lots of posts here mention the "debloat" apps. No way. I already paid for the OS. And I cannot just go and check my kids’ computers every now and then to see if Microsoft decided to roll out another dark pattern.

Anyway, just yesterday I placed two orders for reconditioned MacBooks, and will be selling the two PCs as soon as those get delivered.

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Please excuse me if you are a Windows user and the following sounds strong, I don't want to be mean, but to raise awareness. My guess is just like frogs get boiled slowly, Windows users got tolerant to the progressive decrease in the quality and don’t even notice it anymore. In my experience, when you switch from Linux or Mac, you can't help but see all that is outright wrong with Windows.
> but no matter how much I love it, Linux is janky.

To be honest though, so is Windows (in certain aspects).

I believe that someone who works with Linux every day, gets used to certain stuff being janky and no longer notices it - just like someon working with Windows every day gets used to the jank found there, and no longer notices it.

It's only when you are used to one system and switch over to the other, that you notice the jank - because it's a degradation from your normal experience.

I've been using Mint for years now (and a few years of Ubuntu before that, and a single year of OSX before that, and many years of Windows before that). Despite still having a Windows PC for gaming which I use regularly - I've grown accustomed to Linux enough, that trying to use Windows professionally causes me pain.

For example: I'm so used to package managers these days, that the practice of installing software by going to a website, downloading a downloader which downloads an installer that installs an updater... all the while having to agree to various long and complicated EULAs and T&Cs, and also having to take care that no unwanted "bundled" software comes along... these days this seems just utterly absurd to me - but back when I was a Windows user, this was just normal - and having to do `sudo apt install the-thing-I-want` instead, would have seemed completely arcane and stupid to me.
I remember the same thing with magazines for 8-bit machines and later the Commodore Amiga as the user bases and readerships declined. But not just the thinner page count - sometimes your favorite magazine also switched to thinner (cheaper) paper!
With 7.45% turnout, it's more of an elderly's bad joke.
Elderly and wealthy people who have been brainwashed by television and want to continue using their murderous and polluting cars and taxis.

Other people are more concerns by ecological problems and the rise in the pension age.
You're right in a way, and I long for those days when it was easier to understand the system, but 90s Linux had its own headaches and really was the embodiment of the "ugh, sometimes you have to edit files to make computer go" meme that still survives to this day.

Yes, you had to edit your XF86Config to make your graphics work right, maybe even write your own modeline and be nervous that you screwed up your timings and blew up your CRT permanently. Maybe you had to recompile the kernel to set the proper settings for your Soundblaster. Less fragmentation? Desktop consistency? FORGET IT. A million window managers to choose from. Whichever you go with, your apps will be in a mixture of Motif, Tk, GTK, Qt and/or plain Athena widgets and there are no theme engines that will save you. Just deal with it or write your own.

For those without memory of how it was, search up some screenshots of RedHat 5.2 and its stock FVWM95 window manager. That was the easy to use, business-oriented distro of the day. That was considered acceptable look and feel to ship to an end user.

But all this? Fun. FWIW I still think a kid could have fun tinkering with modern Linux, it's probably just that they would tinker with different things. (Because contrary to popular belief, video and audio almost always "just work" these days)
How often do you need this? Feels a pretty niche need. Also not the only terminal emulator capable of this.
These new models could be the downfall of authoritarian regimes. These regimes rely on suppressing access to information but soon we'll have an LLM that can answer any questions about the world and fit on a USB stick that can be passed from person to person. No more great firewall of China.
Not sure about this, but training a model on the website that displays the code is not quite the same as training it specifically on just the code. Moreover, (raw) repo content files might not even be included in crawled datasets (e.g., look at https://gitlab.com/robots.txt). I think there is something specific to GitHub as it being part of Microsoft that makes processing that data much easier.
As Socrates said, why be so afraid of death? Maybe it's the best thing that could ever happen to you.
Mussolini actually did the same thing. This led the fascist to come up with a bunch of new words to replace the ones that they had forbidden, often to absurd degrees.

Edit #1 with examples:

mescita = cafè/bar

acquavite = brandy/whisky.

tramezzino = sandwich

bevanda arlecchina = cocktail

torpedone = bus

Pellicola = film

And a bunch football terms

I personally like instead of “gangster” you say “malfattore”, which just sounds very funny.

Anyways here’s a link for those who are interested: https://www.archeome.it/approfondimento-le-parole-proibite-d...

Edit #2 they also changed famous peoples names

For example Louis Armstrong = “Luigi Braccioforte”
I grew up with blackface (zwarte piet), sung about him/her, even was one on occasion. Never thought anything about it. Until out of nowhere I get called a racist and people show up screaming "Racist!" at a, what was always, just a fun time for kids.

Sure, I, and many people in my country, had a reaction against it, very conservative in nature. But now, over a few years and seeing some reasonable people explain to me that zwarte piet hurts them and that the hair, the lips, the earrings, the slave-like behavior in songs is really quite racist. I, and many others changed their mind. It also helped when I talked to people that held the opinion that I am/was not a despicable person for taking part in this old tradition, there was no "original sin" that I should feel for the rest of my life.

And so a lot of people in my country changed their mind. Sinterklaas is a kids party/holiday and it should be inclusive. Kids couldn't care less about the color of zwarte piet of course. I and everybody I now know is glad we changed course, or rather are still changing course. Mostly smaller villages defiantly keep the old black face, but it will rot away, as it should, over time. It takes time to convince those people, or perhaps they are too stuck in their ways. My grandma lived through WW2 and still always said horribly racist things (i.e. a common saying was that if a river was dirty, "the Turkish people swim in there."). You really couldn't change her anymore. She also lived in constant fear that Islamic people will come to our country and, "since they all live together in small houses, they will come and live with us in our houses if we don't protect our country".

I also cringe at children's books like Pinkeltje (first part published 1939) that I have lying around from my own youth and read to my children until I hit parts that I really couldn't read anymore. Parts are pure racism, i.e. in Africa Pinkeltje is basically battling small black devils, really portayed as sub-human. It takes time for people to see it, to see it as people of other races experience these texts.

I'm 100% on your side now, and I reason with people that aren't and I try not to judge. Easy for me to do of course, when you are at the receiving end I can imagine screaming "Racist!" at a kids party feels, and perhaps is, the only way towards change.

Btw, I also cringe at our still very popular "Jip and Janneke", Jip is the boy, always dirty and mischievous. Janneke the girl: Always clean and vacuuming with her mother and doing the laundry. They also get candy for anything they do well. I tell my daughter she can be a knight, does not have to be the princess. But these things run deep in our culture, and we should get rid of them.

I know it does not really make sense, but I apologize to you and to people that felt hurt. I didn't see it. Thank you for your sustained effort to make me see it as it is and how you experienced it. The world our kids grow up in will be better because of it.
Maybe a Steam Deck could be a better game computer. BTW it's Linux under the hood anyway.
IANAL either, but the license still applies to the end-user (the person who trained the AI) so it would seem like it would add at least 1 non-trivial license violation for that user?

Edit: I googled "fair use copyright US" and have now decided that US copyright law is stupid.
This is ridiculous. They should ban cars first.
> Would you call it “intentionally exploitative” if I build the linux kernel on my computer?

If you then sold/gave it away as "Krisoft OS" then I think most people would see that as exploiting the nature of open source software/hardware, even if not exactly against the letter of the license.
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I hadn’t seen it, but I also as a rule don’t use Reddit. I rely on HN to surface the good stuff to me. Like this!
Dolby Vision IQ is supposed to do this. No idea if it works or not, but I did just read a comment above here from someone complaining that it doesn't work well.

My AVR has "loudness management" which compresses the audio. It just doesn't work transparently so I find it irritating because it's obvious when it's changing the volume. My partner does prefer it though, but I'm more of a purist.

So the answer to your question seems to be that it doesn't work well as a solution.
+1 for Forgejo
It's pretty much the same in France, standard internet cost is about 35€ and fiber is being deployed at record speed, I live in the countryside (real countryside, 50 inhabitants village) and I have access to fiber.

I'm not sure starlink has a future in this kind of environment outside of niche applications.

Their business model is difficult in my opinion, they both need a lot of customers from rich countries to recoup the costs but in the same time, the vast majority of those rich countries are well equipped already (or about to) since having a decent internet coverage is critical for their economies.
This is really interesting. How did you get the "A map of the world with elevation" out of it?

I've got the install working (this is my requirements.txt):

contourpy==1.0.7
cycler==0.11.0
fonttools==4.39.3
imageio==2.27.0
kiwisolver==1.4.4
lazy_loader==0.2
matplotlib==3.7.1
networkx==3.0
numpy==1.24.2
packaging==23.0
Pillow==9.5.0
pyparsing==3.0.9
python-dateutil==2.8.2
PyWavelets==1.4.1
scikit-image==0.20.0
scipy==1.10.1
six==1.16.0
tifffile==2023.3.21

But when I run python main.py images/world_elevation.jpg the image it generates is nothing like what you have (even if I play with the sliders)