skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The rise didn't take place I 1940, it was a gradual thing topping off around 1990.

And yes, standard of living (in terms of how much house, doctor time, education time and plane you can afford and how much free time you have) has gone somewhat down since 1960.
What confuses me is the leadup is about getting an ebike, vs. an ecar or emotorbike. Not about getting both a(n e)bike AND some other more ecologically damaging form of transport.
I've thought about this and i think it's analogous to becoming a performing artist. You have to either have a burning passion for something, possibly because you werent loved enough as a child, or a huge ego that makes you think anything is possible.

Starting a start-up is mostly about taking a leap into unknown and hustling together a team and a funding. Correlated with sales know-how rather than technical know-how. And sometimes, if they are smart enough, they recruit to fill their deficiencies and survive to profitability. Sometimes their ego get the best of them and they cant see past their own lies and crater into ground.

Nevertheless, you have to have ego. Due to supeority-complex or because you actually know what you're doing. Or something in-between.
Illustrated AI cheat sheet, covering LLMs, AGIs and future of work
What are the key words? Generative AI, LLM, and Prompt Engineering

Who are the key players? Midjourney, ChatGPT, and Microsoft

What are the key conversations? Future of Work, AGI, and Privacy
I always think part of the ongoing use of valve amps is because of their transient response. It would be impossible to check in practice, but I think the transient latency is lower than solid state, because they're amplifying in a free field inside the tubes. I'm not sure how digital physical modelling and class-D power amplifiers is ever going to fully replicate this. The Kemper is naturally more convenient and feature-packed, but a valve amplifier will always do the one job that really counts, basically perfectly (until it breaks or catches fire).
Ah, the result of war on drugs. People want to change their state of consciousness. People also self-medicate when facing issues, like chronic pains, or chronic mental stress.

Why don't we take a look at each category of drugs (benzos, opiates, stimulants, psychedelics, ...) and make the least harmful one or two of those legal? Regulate it, control it, make it safe. Create clinics where people can get educated about safe use, and where people can get clean, medical-grade drugs that they'll buy off of random dude in the suburbs otherwise.

People are going to use drugs. Alternatively, they'll get addicted to other things, like gambling, which can be just as destructive.

Stop making drug addiction a moral failure. It's not. It's a part of life, and a very human thing. I wonder how many wall street traders still regularly do coke nowadays.
Yes sorry but the company can very favorably provide the vehicle to employees without the employee getting taxed on the benefit at all. If you look at the new car market at relevant price points most potential buyers (self employed and people with generous salaries) have access to the scheme.
I don't understand the relevance of this.
> Owners and agents of capital are able to communicate freely with each other

Not really, and with good reason Google, Apple & co were punished when they "communicated" with each other to suppress wages by not competing with each other.

But that's besides the point. If you negotiate (or delegate the negotiation) a deal, you're doing so independent from others who might or might not negotiate a deal as well. Union employees certainly won't mind if they get more than non-union employees. Yet, when the union agrees to a worse deal, it's suddenly abhorrent and criminal.

It's understandable, employees are capitalists as well and optimize for maximum profit, but it's also pretty much what everyone everywhere goes through. If you buy a meal for $5 and someone else tomorrow buys the same meal and haggles it down to $4, should you get $1 back?
I definitely relate to that. I only started saving money seriously (with proper planning) after reading about FIRE (financial independence retire early) in a blog. Reading about that idea completely changed my mind about the true purpose of putting money aside while I was still young.

Before reading about FIRE I thought the idea of retiring silly because I was 100% sure I'd never stop working, even after turning 65. So saving money never made sense to me.

The blog about FIRE explained with a total different point of view which is not about retiring really but it's about having the choice to do only the work you really want to and being independent to make your own choices regardless of needing a paycheck.

That idea completely changed (part of) my life.
We’ll see how the incentives play out vis-a-vis the tension between quality (especially for demanding non-consumer tasks), unrestricted API access (vs “chat” ux) and cost. I fear the Stratechery article might be right and that ChatGPT becoming a consumer success will be a curse in the end.
Cheap nuclear is an oxymoron. Germany dropped it and now the tax payers are hit with over 100 billion in nuclear waste disposal costs. The operators paid 23 billion to legally wash their hands of the mess [1]. The worst part even the green party accepted it because they feared the operators would simply declare bankruptcy since there was no way for them to handle it themselves. This on top of the hundreds of billions of subsidies that in the end didn't accomplish anything. But at least they are not in South Carolina where the consumers are still paying for the 9 billion wasted on VC Summer before they concluded "this project will never be in the black" and quit [2].

Nuclear's tagline since the beginning was "energy too cheap to meter" which turned out to be one of the biggest frauds in the history of mankind.

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/german-government-does-nuclear-waste-d...
[2] https://theintercept.com/2019/02/06/south-caroline-green-new...
If that happens, raise it his boss. If that doesn't work and you feel like vomiting on your mgr's face, do it. Don't hold back.
1. Unlike Python, Clojure actually is functional and is optimized for it, with persistent immutable data structures and a huge library for functional transformations. You get faster, more expressive code in Clojure than in Python if you’re doing FP.

2. The REPL is not on par. You can run an in-editor REPL and build your entire program in a REPL session. Combined with tap you can visualize your output on the fly.

3. Macros are used, not looked down upon. But they are discouraged when not needed. Much of the power and succinctness of the language comes from macros. Boilerplate is a solved problem.

There are a lot of subtle and less obvious advantages too, like namespaced keywords, a highly productive and creative niche community, a very composable and simple library ecosystem and a huge emphasis on stability.

But disadvantages exist too. The Clojure toolchain has a nice surface but is more involved under the hood. There’s also not a single happy path framework for the web, but rather a variety of library options. Finally, Clojure isn’t the best fit for certain types of programs, it’s really optimized for applications and data centric stuff.
I don't know of any modded firmware for Z790 yet. I did change some of the settings storage and it continued booting fine. If it'll refuse to boot when I change certain areas, I don't know. I would not like to discover it, though.
That was always the promise of autocracy though. However the question becomes what's being optimized for. Autocracy isn't optimizing for the good of the nation, but securing the wealth and power of the elites.
Uproar on Long Island as NY Looks to Spur Housing Development
Satin – A 3D Graphics Framework Built on Apple's Metal
27XLL https://www.amazon.fr/Epson-C13T27914022-Cartouche-compatibl... is currently at 43€ and is rated for 2.2K pages.
This isn't a bad piece, but it somewhat oversimplifies these concepts. For example, "compathy" is more directly "viscerally feeling what another feels" while "empathy" is more accurately defined as the intellectual or emotional capacity for engaging in compathy. That capacity can be grounded in actually feeling what the observed other feels -- which, arguably, is impossible if the observed is experiencing something the observer has no shared personal experience with -- or by feeling what an observer imagines the observer would feel if sharing the personal experience of an observed. Actual empathy _requires_ that one is "able to understand what the person is feeling" -- which is what this piece uses as the (somewhat imprecise) definition of "sympathy".

Similarly, "sympathy" is more accurately defined as "(the expression of) understanding of what the person is feeling" ... one need not actually understand the feelings of another to engage in sympathy (ie, most sympathy does not require actual empathy, but actual sympathy does require actual empathy), and often actual compassion (which derives from actual empathy) requires one to not engage in actual sympathy.

Nevertheless, good to see an attempt to unpack these terms.

> “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”

... and try to recognize that what is desired, but not attained (happiness) is not as important or impactful as what is practiced, but not mastered (compassion).
What do you think the US has been trying to do since the 60s? And you know where that got us? To people using horse tranquilizers.
Hi there, my recent posts indeed have been related to topics I find of interest on India and eastern faiths. I have a particular interest in these areas but if you look at my overall profile I do post on a lot of topics. I have been on HN for a long time, not sure why I am being banned for highlighting another account who has been on here for barely a few weeks?
We did a version of this in the deviantArt forums except it was longcat instead of a tower. Somewhere I have the composite image which was a LOT of pixels tall by about 128 pixels wide.
Who decides what is "real value" and how much of it is being contributed by some activity?
“I was just following orders.”
>> If you write to cache, then depending on architecture that change has to be made visible to every other thread as well

> Only for atomics

I don't think cache coherency is aware of threads; they live at a level above it (IANAExpert though)

> where you use an atomic shared ptr to share across threads and then you downgrade it to a non atomic version in-thread (and can hand out another atomic copy at any time).

your idea of GC is very different from others', you are happy to do a ton of manual stuff. GC is generally about not doing a ton of manual stuff.
Part of me wonders if we'd have so many people gushing over the Apple II and Woz if Apple didn't turn the corner back in the 90s. The idea of cashing in on an Apple's story story seems to have a revisionist affect on history. Particularly by minimising the influence of other innovations.

Per your comment I feel a great number of machines and individuals were equally and perhaps more instrumental in driving computers into homes. This also includes many of which that came far later - I think inexpensive yet capable machines that were internet ready (such as the gumdrop iMac) played a larger role in solidifying computing for the masses, something that was honed further with affordable laptops, and finally with highly capable smartphones. Without the later I think computers would still very much be like the 90s where a family owned a computer, rather than the universal device that everyone relies on today.

I say all this because Woz is often trotted out to give his opinion on subjects that he clearly has little idea about, seemingly just there as nerd-furniture and Woz appreciating the fame. When I hear him speak, it so often feels like this is the tail wagging the dog. He's not an oracle and crucially he so frequently "bets on the wrong horse" when it comes to what he thinks will make an impact.
Sounds similar to (unproven) boiling frog: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
This was taken by Robert Schwarz who's one of the more prolific winterovers and also spent a lot of his time down there perfecting his photography. A common project for folks down there is building camera boxes. Quite often we use things like old insulated medical crates (think scrap polystyrene) with some heating device inside. 5 days is doable - people often put cameras out for days to do timelapses - but the impressive thing here is the tracking. It's also taken in summer when it's not that cold.

The first problem is power. I have no idea where he got a hookup from that spot - I'd guess running a cable from BICEP (the closest dish with the mast on the roof). Then there's heating for the camera, which you can solve easily enough if you have power, but the real challenge is keeping the tracker moving. I guess if you somehow insulated the entire gear assembly you could do it.
A system to help people get pass the substance abuse is amazingly expensive.

Criminalization also implies that the government has any right to tell citizens what they can and cannot do with their mind. Ridiculous.
Working inside any huge ( non tech ) or government system, along with quite literally broken VPN or networking. Yes, you spend at least 1 hour per day just starting up the machine, wait for it to connect, and downloading things on a slow network. Along with unresponsive Application using things like Team.

Most people in the decision making grade have absolutely no clue about tech, be it software or hardware in general.
we do, it's called the algebraic numbers!

every polynomial with algebraic coefficients has 'n' solutions (counted with multiplicity)!

so e.g. x^121 + sqrt(7)x^9 + fithroot(22)x^7 + (1+i)x^3 + 22/7 = 0 has 121 solutions. and they're all algebraic numbers: nothing weird like pi in there.
China gets its advanced chips from TSMC and used to get the equipment from other western manufacturers - it does not have latest-generations chip capability. They would be as f*ed as everyone, even more so. The US will have its own TSMC factory by then, and the chip lithography equipment is also made in Denmark and elsewhere.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/04/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas...
They are alternatives, but they leave much to be desired. I dislike Adobe, but Substance is just too good.
First thing I saw was Superman beating up Homelander and the rest of The Boys villains while Saitama and Mob Psycho look on and Indian Superman dances in an ad in the background. This just reminds me of how much of my mental real estate is used up on pop culture, really.
Assuming 250 work days (50 weeks * 5 days), that's 40km/day.

I don't think most people bike at 40km/hour.

Across a year, that averages to 27.4 km per day, biking each and every day.

If done in an hour, that's rather faster than my average biking speed of about 16 kph.
The readme.md has some image examples. If I interpret them correctly, the first one is the input image, the second the segmented output, and the rest are example outputs using the prompt text shown above the collage.

The visual quality of the output images is not particularly impressive compared to what we've become used to.

What (IMO) it attempts to showcase is how the input image segmentation is used to guide the final image generation. That part is quite impressive. The shapes, and "segments" are very well preserved from input to output.
Apple’s plunge in PC shipments is steepest among major computer makers
There's a precedent with antismartphone, so maybe you can reuse it for tv.
Most homeless shelters that I'm familiar with are in the US, and most of those are Christian. I really couldn't tell you. I stopped hearing so much about them when I moved to Northern Europe. I don't know if it is a language barrier, the culture, or if they are better.

I'm not going to distinguish between the folks that "follow christ" and who does not - many are going to claim it and I'm not really willing to engage some of these folks to see if they are "true" or not. Living in the US, there wasn't a big outcry against folks discriminating. You were told to just be normal. Don't be gay. (I'm bisexual). In the 90s and before, a lot of folks used it to justify outright racism. And there isn't enough outcry now or then.

Granted, this isn't just Christianity. But I'm not going to give Christianity a break because they aren't special when folks are glossing over the harms.
JSON itself (rfc 8259) has no schema, nor any mention of it. There are several additional RFCs that allow to add schema or other semantics or limitations, though. But JSON has no schemas.
Are you aware of clojure.spec?
Liberal media wet dream, but clearly no.
Yup, but I never worked with it. When I last dabbled in Clojure it was still in development, AFAIK.
> I'm perplexed what the problem is here?

...

> Annoying but hey that's the way the system is

Wut? First, why the self contradiction. If it is annoying then there is a problem, that point of annoyance.

And keep in mind, as also pointed out elsewhere, this is not how it is everywhere.

You might be content with the situation (which is understandable, as your wife gets her pay by it), but that does not mean there are no issues are that's how it is.
Maybe by understanding that “mattering” is a subjective, internal thing, not an objective property in the world.
I'm a member of banking coop (but don't personally use them), and I'm renting from a housing coop. It's cheap, but they're also much more tolerant of deviance than commercial landlords are so you have to deal with loud neighbors, smoking in the stair case etc.

I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who can afford to pay 30% more, quality of life is important. I should've moved already, but I'm lazy and inertia is a beast.
We should look at why our society has such high levels of mental illness, stress, and dysfunction. Putting a bandaid on a gunshot wound or having self medication become standard isn't a real solution, the underlying problems persist. If it's something about modern lifestyles, philosophies, or social environments, then fixing those could lead to much better mental health outcomes. We can do studies on which groups have the best mental health outcomes and encourage those.
I give it value.

Value is just some human made up currency after all. "Is it worth the time?" etc.

If I were to approach life with the mindset "well everyone I know is going to die some day and humanity will die out so what's the point?" I'm not going to have a very positive outlook to life.

But I figure I'm here. I get 90 years or so if I am lucky. I might as well enjoy them while this combination of atoms is me.
Why do you read it so literally? It's the artist expressing their intention that the work is unfinished and being added to by others than the original artist themself

"0x00 says, that it took 3 years to make the project look like it looks now. 1 year was spent on development and 2 years to create the first 8 bays. Now though, that everyone can add any bay and doesn't have to deal with programming, the author hopes that the project will continue growing exponentially."
Super cool. I wonder how it would look in color. I'm also a bit curious on the geometry, it seems to be much flatter than what I'd expect, but this may just be an issue with the reconstruction.
Reminds me of a game I used to play called Space Station 13. It's a completely unique game. Imagine a giant game of Among Us, but with the engine complexity of Dwarf Fortress. Most servers are high level roleplay, where each player has a role (doctor, janitor, captain, clown, etcetera) and the rounds play out until chaos ensues (theme changes each round, but it could anything from station terrorists to a wizard causing bedlam). This YouTuber really expresses it better than I ever could: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URJ_qSXruW0

Everyone has their goals to achieve each round, but it's general havoc. The OP animation really channels the feeling of playing the game.
> Unless CloudFlare cables are somehow shinier than the rest of the internet’s, adding one hop almost certainly adds latency. More hops more time.

In my experience, CloudFlare (and other CDNs) can often provide a better route then a regular ISP. Sometimes downloading speed is really slow, switching to CloudFlare wrap (VPN) can at least double or triple the speed.
I am filing this under How to Restore Your Faith in Humanity. Thanks for that 0x00 !
I wish there was a sizable center echo chamber, unfortunately there isn’t really one.
Is it the same mechanism that's used by Computrace / Absolute?
The problem with natural gas turbine is the energy cost of fuel. One looses a lot extracting it from Earth. And then there are unknown, and, as such, potentially catastrophic, consequences of pumping more and more CO2 into the atmosphere.

Fusion reactors has none of that. But the cost of gizmos as seen currently is a way too high indeed.
> who else do you recommend following for CNNs?

Hard to say tbh. Saining Xie was last on both convnext papers. I do know Trever Darrel always has interesting things going on in his lab. But I can't say anyone consistently though. I've done a few architecture papers but my focus is on generative modeling.
Since apple digital jail is even worse than msft one, even though you have the same steering from blackrock/vanguard share holders...

jez... this is actually good news.

But all that is linked, the sane way out of this are risc-v based systems with _LEAN_ open source (hence excluding the current "web"). We could even push to "open source" performant risc-v design.
Depends... for search, cmd + K, cmd + P come to mind, sure, but: In the MS office world, search is cmd + F.

My point is: I would think about my app and research which apps are most used together with mine. A disassembly tool will be used most likely together with an IDE, for example. A BI tool will be used together with MS Excel. Then I would use a shortcut scheme that is similar, to ensure a seamless work experience when switching between apps.

Bonus points if you can configure multiple shortcut schemes ("office style" vs "vs code style" for example).
> While AI can significantly enhance our decision-making processes by providing _objective analysis and recommendations_

Since when ? If this is your base assumption that's wild
JIDL – A simple, flexible, JSON-based Interface Definition Language
yes, but in theory phishing attacks are still possible because passwords can be entered manually into the phishing site
Hah, that would be nice! Unfortunately, I live in the USA. Where are you?
>Wait until you learn that MS has hooks for the firmware to download executables that will run during kernel boot time...

Could you elaborate? Sounds very sinister
Maybe take one per week over the course of a year. ;)
Computrace uses WPBT, which is one of them.
China's population crisis; some women continue to say ‘no’ to having babies
Made by a Russian who grew up in the USSR?

Reasoning:

https://floor796.com/data/misc/kvass.jpg

https://floor796.com/data/misc/kin-dza-dza.mp4

Too obscure.
OpenGL is not dead, long live Vulkan
Casio stainless steel version is pretty dope.
It just means they didn’t set the price high enough.
A well designed system will have fail safes.
Interim report on the failures of control at FTX
The whole site looks like an Adobe ripoff, from the font to the design to the menu to the button borders. If you were to show me that site, I would absolutely think it belongs to the Adobe family.
Shame the infrastructure is so lacking, and the Victorian government have a road tax specifically for EVs