skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
we have evidence from the 3975-year-old moscow papyrus that the egyptians knew the algorithm then

well, one egyptian hacker at least

possibly they had learned it from ethiopian hackers but we don't have any evidence of what math the ethiopians did or didn't know at the time; the earliest ge'ez inscriptions are from the iron age, a thousand years later, and as far as i know don't talk about multiplication algorithms

it's hard to know what mathematical sophistication the oral traditions or possible other lost forms of writing contained; an ethiopian version of something like khipu or wampum or beeswax tablets or tamil palm-leaf books could have been arbitrarily sophisticated but completely lost by now

but that means the people who describe it as ethiopian binary don't know either they're just making up guesses based on no evidence
There is no shortage of programming languages that can choose from. Python seems to make the right tradeoffs between accessibility and power. The market has spoken.
A commendable answer, thanks. The issue of lives I skipped as the deaths from chernobyl were counted in wiki as 60 to 60,000. Can't really conclude much from an error bar of 3 orders of magnitude.
And why would a better choice magically appear though when it’s illegal to put it on the market to let it prove itself? Why would anybody who is actually innovative pay to research and risk such a better choice in the first place? To wait for its review in a few years?!
yeah, it's pretty wild how bad it is

I ended up having to pay $2 for a Safari iOS extension to auto-redirect reddit links to old.reddit just so I could actually read the site when I got there via web searches. There's no usability whatsoever

I just painstakingly pinch and pan around old.reddit rather than try to wrestle with their dog-awful app or redesign

semi-related: I've been trying to get the WallStreetBets mods to just make their own version of Reddit instead of putting up with the admins' constant bullshit.. they're basically singlehandedly funding that whole shitshow and get nothing out of it but scam ads, users randomly banned for saying a no-no word, etc
He had a TV series in the late 80s/early 90s titled "The Secret Life of Machines" which was required viewing: https://secretlifeofmachines.com/
My understanding is that a eukaryotic cell is a state machine with multiple major "modes", where various https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrosine_kinase -es act as "transition functions" between those modes.

You can almost think of a cell "switching modes" in this way as it "booting into a different OS": the DNA of the cell gets re-phosphorylated, which means different sections of the DNA become active and begin being transcribed into proteins.

And it's this re-phosphorylization process during each cellular "mode switch" that is the primary contributor to the consumption of telomere end-caps on the ends of your DNA; and so is the primary driver of cellular senescence.

Which means that the more frequently you do things that make your cells switch modes, the sooner those cells will break down.

I'm not sure what-all set of "modes" cells switch between — it's probably different per specialized cell type.

But I would hypothesize that "glucose metabolism" vs "ketone metabolism" is a pretty universal mode switch for most cell types; which would, if true, neatly explain the life-extending benefits of intermittent fasting (your cells stay in the ketone mode for longer, rather than flapping constantly between the ketone and glucose modes); and also the negative impact of insulin (insulin being the signal observed by cells that causes them to trigger a mode-switch into the "glucose metabolism" mode, if they're not already in it.)
Yeah, Star trek faster than light time travel is -funghi- spore based
It did in my case, up until I moved in with an alcoholic.
Small bit of trivia, but the M1917 Enfield rifle, used by American forces in WWI and a derivative of the SMLE from the UK, was actually produced in CT, but in New Haven not Enfield. :^)
How are people paying for these fun and silly little side projects - tokens are even expensive for a personal side project, much less letting the internet use my API token....

maybe using on of the free models?
Overall, I agree with you.
With AMD finally taking a page from Intel with regards to providing an iGPU to everyone, Intel expected to integrate ARC into their CPUs with Meteor Lake (14th gen), and discrete GPUs from Nvidia and AMD being as bloody expensive as they are, I wonder if we're on the verge of a turning point in desktop computing as discrete GPUs go down the path once trodden by sound cards?
Look I was bored and made this during my thanksgiving break. :/
Mexico has political stability problems, for one...
Well, yes, nobody is claiming that artisanal mining is state of the art. Just that it's a modern phenomenon at this scale. I thought it was interesting, but it also lead me to more questions.
They are Legos, as in "go clean up your legos"
Indeed, twitter only benefits from people using it. Having more people use it to organise some kind of block-boycott on it will only help engagement. Ultimately it's a signal and one used by a tiny minority.

It's a bit silly, if they hate twitter they should stop using it.

nevertheless I approve of extensions allowing people to add functionality to sites.

Now let's enable people to block toxic posts, porn, adverts, politics as well. Something more helpful to people.
Or shell, or ruby, or markdown, or even just use Slack.

Sure there are generally (sometimes better) alternatives in those but backticks are pretty common for me.
Fancy that. Thanks for the update in history.

I guess before that it was Newgrounds.
Schizophrenia is a genetic disorder, so if you parents or grandparents have a history of it, then that would indicate a genetic propensity for it. I am sure there are also relevant SNPs you could look for if you have your genome decoded.
reddit basically became everything the founders mocked when they first started it. https://sp.reddit.com/reddit2.html
Ended up at a robot only dance party in deep playa at Burning Man this year and indeed you did have to solve a prove you aren't human captcha to "get in"
Definitely 100%
I've found Equinix [1] cheap, and really good. It's 100% bare metal. I've never had a problem with it. And the DC servers (at least) are often equipped with Mellanox Connect5 NICs great if you're into low level systems programming. There's on-demand, reserved, and spot server options. I typically spend $0.75/hr for the smallest instance to about $1/hr for a medium instance. They have private LANs, some flexibility with floating IP addresses. It supports IPV6. Disk and RAM is more than what I've ever needed. You get a root login over ssh.

Possible negatives depending on your needs:

- no AMAZON AMI: I don't think you can boot your custom O/S. While they have a large choice of OS, it's nowhere close to what AWS provides

- Wider cloud offerings S3, lamba, DBs etc. are not available. You have to setup all that stuff yourself.

https://console.equinix.com
No. It will never be time to stop taunting lying hack journalists.

In olden times we had the village stocks, and tar and feathering. In 2023 "learn to code" is the best we got.
Didn’t work for me, gave me the error:
Unexpected error. Try again later.

Which, um, I won’t.
Okay, but most people are not adopted.
A major fail, in my opinion, is YouTube TV. The user interface is horrendous. YouTube TV's UI is mostly images (video thumbnails) and it is hard to see what the currently selected item is. A mostly-text UI, with thumbnail only for the currently selected item would have worked much better. I tried to switch to YouTube TV as soon as it launched, but canceled because of the horrible UI. Recently I tried again — surely they would have fixed the issues — but no, navigation is still terrible, so canceled again.
It's not just about the market speaking. There's path dependence between it being easy to use for scripting and scientific things as well as bumpy which made it natural to supplant things like Matlab in teaching. And then basic knowledge translates to industry jobs.

It's not popular purely based on its merits as a language
> and I want to have a "hybrid" VCR + DVD experience

To be fair, that's exactly what I had. You could buy these two in one VCR/DVD players that had a cassette reader on one side and a DVD drawer on the other. Super handy for quite a while.

Hybrid cars will make sense economically for a while yet in my opinion.
That they funded the model is not in question. It is that they claimed they owned the IP to said model in pitches/messaging to investors when they in fact, did not.
I would much rather be correct than to make this interesting for you.

You fail to explain how exactly this market maker influences banks to charge higher rates to people with poor credit scores. You also don't address the fact that this is universally how loans work in the modern world, even outside the realm of home loans.
I had the opposite experience with MacOS. I hold every OS I've used since the early aughts up against MacOS 9 and they are all lacking in terms of keyboard navigation. Maybe it was because I had the previous 10 years to practice, but I felt I could do almost anything in pre-OSX MacOS with the keyboard, only relying on the mouse for application-specific stuff like photo editing. Navigating, filtering, opening files and folders were all incredibly easy.

In KDE it's pretty much a joke every time I have to save-as. Can't even get through that filesystem menu without a mouse unless it supports <ctrl>-l. Dolphin is slightly better, especially if you enable the console pane to make it easier to switch to the command line, but it's still way behind Apple's finder from 1999.
Dumb hit-piece, Stability's contribution was vital to the creation of those models. Article doesn't even make the claim that the investors were confused on if Stability owned the models, it just insinuates they were for absolutely no reason.
I think there is a special circle of hell for people that sell those drugs as LSD. I have personally had great experiences with DOI but only when I dosed it out myself, was very mindful of set and setting, knew about and anticipated the body load, and carved out a full 48hrs to give myself a full extra day of recovery.

If you don’t anticipate all of those things, I’d imagine it would be a very hellish experience.
Tribune?
The thc/gram is higher, but you can easily control intake with edibles. It is easy to still get low quality shake weed, like the stuff our parents smoked in the 70s, you just have to go to the weed shops in the poorer parts of town and tell them you are making brownies. I can get an ounce of crap weed in Seattle for 30-40. Perfect for cookies or brownies.
Investors probably shouldn't be chucking $100m+ at startups without doing the bare minimum of DD if that's the point of contention here...
Looking now I already have 7/7 Annoyances lists enabled, what filter do you mean exactly?
As someone with great credit, I'm not. I worked my ass off for this.
The model was initially released in August 22, 2022, and everything from the GitHub organization that hosted the code, to the actual licenses being around and all the communication made it very clear that there was a bunch of groups involved with the model; Runway, CompVis, and Stability AI

Then Stability AI raised money from investors in October 2022.

Are you really telling me these investors didn't even do any sort of due diligence (not even "barely any" but literally any at all), didn't realized that Stable Diffusion was the work of many, and checked the license of the model and code?

That's a bit far fetched, to be honest.

Supposedly, this "leaked pitch deck" is supposed to show us that they lied to investors, but where is the pitch deck itself? Seemingly, only one of the slides is in the article, how could anyone reach any sort of conclusion based on just one slide?

Edit: The article seems to be some sort of clickbait trash that is so rampant around the web... One selected part:

> The Stable Diffusion code was released by researchers at LMU Munich in April 2022.

Links to https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.10752 which is the Version 2 of the paper, indeed released in April 2022. However, that paper is about, and links to https://github.com/CompVis/latent-diffusion which is not Stable Diffusion, it's Latent Diffusion. Stable Diffusion was released in August 2022, and is at https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion
No

https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/early-dr...
I'm the living counter example. I've experienced it multiple times in settings that would be very closed to ideal for psy-heads, hence one random day, something very similar to what's described in this article happened. Took me about a decade to recover.
I was very close friends with lots of people in the psychedelic harm reduction associations and had a lot of theoritical and practical knowledge...
X-Ray-Luminous Supernovae: Threats to Terrestrial Biospheres
> I've always been high strung, and maybe my experience reveals something that needs fixing inside of me, but given how marijuana turned my anxiety up to a measure that has only ever been matched by an actual panic attack, I'll avoid LSD (and anything similar like shrooms) like it's a loaded gun pointed right at me.

I'm the same way, perhaps to a lesser degree. My sister more so.

Part of me thinks I need to get really high more often and explore myself, but there's a chance I'm just chasing shadows and another approach is needed.

Lots of people have an "always sober" policy and they do fine. Or are they square?
given that you're _trying_ to make huge gates with poor switching speed, my guess is you can use a pretty antiquated process
“Edge” is doing a lot of work here, haha. In fact, a paper airplane has flown higher than this balloon!
On a somewhat related note. For the last few years I've been working on a website that tracks the value of LEGO sets and minifigures. For example here is a list of most valuable LEGO minifigures.

https://brickranker.com/rankings/minifigures
I have always had this exact sentiment towards twitter. Also lacking human element for me.
Perhaps you’re right…which brings up another point: all these people building idealist products need to stop selling out to investors and acquiring companies.

The recent news about Imgur violating its original purpose of being the anti-photobucket image host for Reddit is the same thing, and even worse: Imgur was bootstrapped.

A founder can’t be said to have an idealist perspective if they sell their idealist platform to the highest bidder.

Jack Dorsey also comes to mind.
So: on one side we have the opinions of the people who create and defend open source software licenses, and of the majority of the software industry 'per se'; on the other side we have the opinion of a single videogames reporter who apparently believes there exists a magical piece of software called a 'decompiler' where: in comes all kinds of copyright encumbered software, and out comes clean, free-from-restrictions source code you are free to redistribute to anyone without any authorization whatsoever.

Yes, sorry if I tend to at least initially trust the opinion that does not _completely_ destroy all software licenses in place today. This is a forum where software developers comprise a large % of the audience.

> "I am eagerly awaiting the jurisprudence supporting that."

I say that if I castrate people without their consent it is OK, as long as I only do it using properly sterilized scalpels in accordance to current medical practice.

You say I can't. I am eagerly awaiting the jurisprudence supporting that.
I find this hard to believe. Don’t get me wrong, freedom to sideload apps is a thing I believe in, but saying ‘it’s because my parents want more freedom’ is certainly a stretch.
The comment above yours currently says:

"[...] gets boring rather quickly due to the lack of a human element to empathize with."

Which is also like LinkedIn!
I feel I understand how this happened. I’ve gone through the process multiple times - smooth sailing for many apps to getting rejected for 4 months de facto (we’re rejecting you know we will be back in touch) only to be told, “you download YouTube videos” … for a text based app with no download features!

What I think is this: apple is optimizing for a 24 hour turn around time. That means many systems do high level checks: entitlements, api calls, then simulator based testing. This means that if one targets specifically for simulator, there are certain ways around what is presented to AppStore, vs what is published. Further, there appears to be a check for similar references only in the target categories, or the terms placed in the App Review request. So gaming all of these features at once can lead to extremely smooth sailing by an organized effort.
> I no longer want to have to think about memory management and related issues.

In some cases efficient memory management _is_ the problem to be solved. I'm not just talking about esoteric or embedded systems here. If you're developing for modern GPU's with a modern API, like Vulkan, you must manage GPU memory yourself. With direct memory access you can do many "unsafe" things, like memory aliasing, to improve performance. "Safe" languages, like Rust, will not help you here.
ZX Spectrum trolls’ game of deepfake vengeance
Yes, even if they did do that which they didn't, that is also what OpenAI, etc do with their models like GPT and Dall-E when infact they come off papers like Transformers is all you need and the same LMU paper.

Stability has done it better since they purposely acknowledge the researchers instead of the way the public domain research is just used to make their own model with no acknowledgements (no co created mention anywhere). OpenAI would say 'co created by Google' if they did.
If only it was that simple. In my experience (with four step kids aging from 23 down to 16, and I've been in that position for over 13 years), I'd say my input has had maybe 5-10% influence, if that.

If they're not interested in that area (and mine aren't), then there's not much you can do, even if you spend a lot of time and effort trying.
Emad also put up ~$20M of his own (real!) money for the initial compute. And released everything as OSS.

Its just sad to see such a negative article.

There are, however, fair questions about valuation and (lack of) moat.
It occurs to me that many people don’t actually test their drugs, and that it’s easy to get research chemicals with LSD-like effects. With MDMA often what you get is either partially or fully methamphetamine. So you have to test what you’re getting before you take it and there’s a culture of testing everything and not taking random pills from people. I wonder if any of these bad trips are from lsd-analogues sold as lsd.
Another poorly reported hit-piece from Sifted. This is a non-event. Anyone who’s been close to fundraising knows that investors expect founders to build a narrative and do their own due diligence.
disclaimer: this is yours
Incognito site asks for a Google captcha. Nice site design though.
My experience with YouTube seems to be entirely dissimilar with the clickbait/algorithm horror stories I'm reading here in the comments. I watch a lot of Youtube and I let my 1st grader watch YouTube somewhat unregulated. It's seems entirely fine to me. When I do look over his viewing history, I'm relieved it's all fairly wholesome content. No, he's not always learning science and math (but sometimes), but I simply do not consider his research into "what every color light saber means" as harmful. Looking over my own current recommendations it's all science and engineering related videos because that's what it knows I'm interested it. You get out what you put in.
>However it's a good argument for distinguishing between simplifications introduced by feelings

It's not based on my feelings but on the personal experience and some research I did. All the smartest people I personally know and worked with have left the country. I also looked up the top 10 AI researchers at Yandex, and out of the ten I looked at only one was is still in Russia, that's a 90% loss for the top talent in the hottest industry at the (arguably) most innovative company in the country.

>We must first establish and agree on the dimension by which you're willing to evaluate that significance

Sure thing, let's take two, scientists and entrepreneurs as their accomplishments are the easiest to quantify. The unit of measurement would be the influential papers written for scientists (measured by the number of citations) and for the entrepreneurs the market cap of the companies they started, obviously both of those are not perfect metrics but they generally track with the value created.

Do you think the million people like the "MIPT, MSU and HSE graduates" that have left the country that the other guys are mentioning will do better on those dimensions versus the ones staying at rosatom/roskosmos/etc?
Yesterday, on 4/22/2023, there were 7,252 calls - 3,265 just for the uuid service. How did this happen.
I’m a very strict curator of my watch history. If I ever succumb to click bait and click on some video I immediately regret, I go into my watch history and delete the offending video. This puts an immediate stop to any recommendations of similar videos. I recommend it to everyone!
https://archive.is/0KK71
How is that far fetched? There are plenty of recent examples where investors didn’t do enough due diligence in projects seeking huge valuations.

And why are you putting leaked pitch deck in quotes?
Well, if we're talking about climate change action items, then it actually makes sense to me, although I cannot find any numbers on how effective it is (comparing, to, say, better insulation of house windows).

By the way, "the government deciding" sounds like it's totally detached from public wish. But in democratic countries public has a lot of influence on the government, way more than popular meme says (speaking as an emigrant from autocratic regime), it just public is not exercising their right (or really trust the government). So it's actually "people are going to decide".
I'm pretty sure it's a joke or "because we can" project, not something someone would seriously use
And Minecraft is a computer game one can no longer play legally after microsoft bought it (without creating a microsoft account). That's worse than piracy.
Are the “chippers” autonomous? After creating one do you just sit back and wait for it to chirp?
LOL. I'm currently in Italy and I'm getting: "Sorry. This is currently unavailable in your region. Type in your email below and tell the producers you want it in your country!" (when trying to sign in, don't know if it's worth trying with a VPN service tough)
Productivity, ambition and being realistic in older age
So your argument is that credit scores do not correlate with risk? How do you think these models get made? Do you understand how trivial it is for an institution to analyze the past 10 years of loans and see whether the rates they are charging leads to profits or losses.
You actually do PR reviews as a manager? In my last few jobs that was all delegated. The EMs were either too busy or not technical enough.
>You trust open source apps on desktop all the time

The desktop has the luxury to afford not being as secure as your phone, which serves as a 2FA device, a digital wallet, something that can record your voice and location, and your main means of everyday communication.

Side-loading would just mean every person getting nagged or strong-armed to side-load alls kind of apps (from official stuff from major companies wanting to avoid Apple's pay-cut, to all kinds of shady BS), with average Joes and Janes getting their phone smashed with malware, spyware and such.

The app store review doesn't have to be perfect or catch all. It just needs to be better than no review, and it does fare majorly better than Android (e.g. studies showing the latter gets 90% of the mobile malware).

The app store process and notarization also means apps can be revoked.