skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once got a wacom-like tablet but I always wondered how does one learn to use it? And specially using software like Krita or MyPaint in Linux. I mean, supposing you can already draw with pen and paper. But I found it to be somewhat different, and I could never get used to. Maybe it's the lack of practice but also seeing almost no progress made me abandon. Any advice would be appreciated
Interesting question and quality answers, but I was under the impression that specific technical Q and A posts aren't for HN. This seems like a question better suited for StackOverflow or a forum dedicated to AI engineering.
I suppose to expound on my point more - the graph is by people not housing units. Presumably if a cheap city, like Detroit, had a bunch of unused units the graph would not credit it for the built-in density because if its not being used.
Well, they're selling the ~ 2022 BMW 5 Series or the 20223 BMW 5 series. The year is part of it. That's not the case for CPUs.
Is it working properly? I got no results for: Huck Finn, Huckleberry Finn, plus a bunch of others I tried like Doom Trail (front page of PG), etc.
Or more like a basic understanding of what the thing can do and what it can't do. It's not that complicated.
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The Google department responsible for this is called Global Security and Resilience Services. Staffed by ex-military and FBI. Look it up.
Yeah this was so weird to read. This is probably the number one property I think makes interfaces like ChatGPT compelling - you don't need to know how to use it - just use the human language you already know. If you don't understand something it says, just ask it to explain it. Essentially, it makes affordances obsolete.
Now that you mention it, the last time I checked was a fair number of years ago.
Come on, under how many rocks are you living?

The IPCC reports have it all. Their models include plant growth already. Google it.
"Everything the light touches" is "within earshot" for woodpeckers, so they do like to hammer away on such items: https://youtu.be/F0v-CukKW5Y
I've been trying it on the stylus but it is difficult - f-droid hosts it I think.
Their codebase has to be a wild ride. There are still traces from the days it ran as Windows binaries in CGI fashion (very much doubt they still do it like that, just like a large number of eBay URLs still contain the ebayISAPI.dll bit from the time the site was literally a Microsoft IIS plugin). On the DB instance it also outputs like five different generations of UIs depending on the exact parameters you hand it. You can also find several different iterations of APIs, like one search API will output actual, non-trivial JS code to fill auto-completes, another gives you JSON with a totally different format and yet another XML with everything slightly different again. From their job postings it follows their backend is C++.

The previous system came from the 80s and ran on multiple Tandem/Nonstop clusters.
Looks like vanguard (vmfxx) is offering 4.78 and apple is offering 4.15. That's about 60 bps, it's not world changing, but vmfxx is a better deal but it may be a little more cumbersome for some.
What do you think would be easier: tracking a sub when you have tons of data linking your clandestine sensors' information to their location as broadcast by sonar, or when you don't?
there are many ways to avoid default.

(1) discharge petition - bill from committee to a vote.

(2) Fourteenth Amendment Constitution prevents willful default until SCOTUS says otherwise. Just keep issuing debt.

(3) High coupon and low principal. 10-year bond with $1 in principal and annual $100 coupon will increase debt ceiling almost 1000X.

(4) high denominations coin minting
Do we have any evidence or any stories of this actually ever happening? It’s among the most far fetched yet oft-repeated hypotheticals I hear these days.

Think of how rare it would be to find a working thumb drive or ssd in a landfill, amidst the mountains of literally everything else. Then think of the intersecting scenario of someone being foolish enough to store keys on a device they later throw out, while also leaving that wallet active elsewhere. I’m sure in a landfill somewhere such a treasure exists, I just don’t think anyone’s ever, ever finding it.
Astronomy article should use kilometers, not miles.
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Whenever an older person mentions the “labour shortage” I always make a point of telling them it’s really a *pay shortage*. Older people don’t realise that wages haven’t truly increased for a long time. Our buying power is incredibly small now. Why the hell would people want to work for peanuts? It’s very simple, but I guess others need to feel good by putting people down.
Your comment has given me pause with regard to my expectations of online discussion -- thank you for that. Well put.

Also, great bit here:

"some tech communities are naturally much more _about_ bringing forward the best parts of the technological spirit of the past, and less about celebrating what's just arrived."

I try to be wary of this as well. I'm often reminded of the famous Dropbox HN post, where one of the top comments said "why Dropbox? Just make it yourself".

Not sure how relevant that is, but some AI discussion does indeed remind me of that.
> But I wonder if the general public understands that scientists understand that.

No, the general public does not. The scientific literacy of the general public is abysmal. There's entire political movements predicated on a lack of understanding of the term "scientific theory".
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I noticed this submission had become "dead" due to flagging, and retaliation for whistleblowing seems like exactly the type of thing that a coordinated group would try to bury.

I vouched for it. I don't have feelings one way or another on who is being wronged, but I thought the information was well-presented and coherent, and deserves consideration without being flagged. If the other party believes this is inaccurate they should present their side here.
>Imaginary graph of how price as a function of density would have to look

But price is not a function of density!

You think building more apartments in Cumberland, MD will increase prices, or decrease prices? I should point out: Cumberland is already a very densely built city. Its inner urban geography is not unlike Oakland. It just happens to be in a long, painful period of decline. So many of those buildings are empty.

The answer is pretty obvious, here. Prices would likely drop. The "induced demand" is caused by economic success, not density itself. Plenty of dense cities have declined. (Cumberland isn't even that cold! And it has legal marijuana! And it's close to ski resorts! Eat your hearts out, armchair prognosticators!)

>we find that indeed, the denser an area, the higher its house prices

The data in this graph skew California cities upward because their suburbs are not part of their core urban areas — Concord/Walnut Creek is considered separate from the Bay Area, as is Dublin/Pleasanton — while cities outside of California are more likely to be connected. This is due to mountains intersecting dense urban geography in California, which doesn't happen in most other major cities (but Miami is constrained by swamps and New York does hit mountains to its north). But there are other unusual forces on housing prices in California (Proposition 13, construction difficulties), and without the major California cities the correlation becomes much weaker, before we even consider reverse causation.

>No; I think the missing insight is that there’s some pool of geographically mobile Americans1 who are looking for new housing (or who might start looking if the right situation presented itself). These people have various combinations of preferences and requirements. One common pattern is to prefer any big city - they would be happy to live in Seattle, or NYC, or the Bay, if the opportunity came up.

High decadal growth rates in Nashville, Charleston SC, Fayetteville AK, Boise, Jacksonville and Bend among other places put the lie to this. There are certainly "trends", but they aren't limited to big cities, and they don't really affect all big cities: the Los Angeles metro (of all places!) grew a measly 3% from 2010-20. Surely LA's high prices aren't primarily driven by a growth rate just a little higher than that of Pittsburgh.

There might be some induced demand from certain kinds of housing construction in certain contexts, but this blog post is a long way from demonstrating any such effects. The most well-justified negative effect I've heard of from new housing construction is that businesses serving poorer populations are closed due to increasing commercial rents and competition from businesses serving the new clientele. And this can increase the cost of living for local residents, as well as causing job losses (even if employment statistics improve). What we do know is that sometimes people are worse off after construction happens (hence the uproar in the first place), and unfortunately I don't think this kind of 10000-feet analysis brings us closer to understanding why.
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Lots of changes will be made every day at Twitter that will have to keep the Musk metric healthy. Even if the changes aren't explicitly designed to promote Musk's own tweets, having the metric visible to all employees will at minimum eliminate any change that would demote Musk's tweets. Over time, the Twitter algorithm will become biased towards promoting Musk-like content.
At that price point, does it even matter?
> If a piece of art is made by a computer based on detailed instructions, that art was made by a computer, not a person.

I completely disagree with this. According to this, no code can be art. For instance, videogames.

It has been enough time since ready-made (Duchamps urinal) and found objects, djing and sampling, and concept art. Art is not only drawing beautiful illustrations since at least the 2 world wars.

> If I give detailed instructions to a human ghost writer about a story I want them to write, I don't think anyone would say that I wrote the story.

This is exactly how many artists work today, with a small army of workers, even interns, to execute the plan of the artist. Even Rembrandt had people painting to produce more pictures. Another example would be architects: does the star architect execute everything, or do they have the vision and instruct their very large teams?

IMO it is all about the intent and interpretation of a human.
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Germ theory is not widely believed. Not really. We wash our hands because we've been trained since a young age to do so, and generally accept that touching stuff is unsanitary.

But that's about it. Witness the reaction to aerosol spread of disease despite literal videos that can capture and show aerosols being spread around a room. People simply don't believe it.

They likewise don't believe in any kind of long run response to an infection. We associate the symptoms of acute immune response to be the virus itself, and the entirety of the virus.
I think that in many ways is because Fly's approach is sufficiently high-minded (in other words, aiming most comfortably at relatively difficult problems) that it's probably pretty automatic to assume that it's built on an existing hyperscaler. Mentioning that you run your own infrastructure adds encouragement that you know what you're doing.

Given the general state of PaaS offerings, this is a differentiator.
Unrelated, I once did a salesforce buildout for a well-known church. You would be surprised at the amount of fields on the “church member management” page. Large text fields for input on “what did this person say about the church that was negative?” Investigation and credibility tracking… I was shocked.
From the conclusion:

"These findings provide preliminary evidence suggesting that a smaller muscular effort (a delayed pre-activation timing and decreased amplitude of evertor muscle activity) and changed proprioceptive feedback may result from wearing high-top shoes, and this might be detrimental to establishing and maintaining functional ankle joint stability in ankle strain situations."

I disagree that using lower muscular effort means the joint is less stable. I would conclude the opposite, that if it takes less effort to maintain balance, the ankle is more stable. Ergo, high tops are more supportive.
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I'm always confused by this. Climate change is inherently a global issue. It will take progress by _every_ country, not just those with the highest populations. Blaming China and India does no good to help the planet. We should instead push forward progress wherever we can get it and encourage technological progress, market changes, and regulation in this area.

People in India and China hate pollution just as much as the rest of us, they've just been forced by their governments to endure it for the sake of growth. India last year banned single-use plastics. Few other countries have made those sorts of sweeping regulations.
I will echo what the other reply to your comment said about "humans must also be parrots, then";

But also, I'm not so sure scientists "don't have the time" but rather, "literally cannot" know with regard to an LLM's "insides".
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Never mind houses, what about gas/petrol? It always seems to be more expensive in dense cities, even though there is greater competition and economies of scale (e.g. delivery of the fuel to the stations) while it tends to be cheaper in rural middle-of-nowheres, even if there is no immediate local competition. The cost of land and labor is higher, sure, but even the stations that are owned rather than rented don't seem to be much cheaper.

People in cities have higher incomes, and sellers - whether it's gas, rent, or property - are very adept as sussing out what the local market will bear and sustain. So they charge more. They have their own income and profit floors that they will resist breaking to compete on price, because they can see where a race to the bottom ends.

It wouldn't be surprising if a dynamic like that is a large part of these effects.
I didn't know either. Gonna try it out!
> I've convinced you that chatbots are a terrible interface for LLMs.

I was already convinced of this. What I'm not convinced of, and the article has little to say about, is

> Chatbots Are Not the Future... chatbots are not the future of interfaces.

Chatbots are a terrible interface to LLMs, and yet they are absolutely going to be the future of every third godawful website I must visit.
The SF Bay Area really did the right thing here.

No, no they really didn't. They spent millions rebranding it, there is (was?) a huge lag between adding value and posting the value depending on how you added value. The original card readers were incredibly unreliable, and because Clipper/TransLink did absolutely nothing to unify* the fare structure across the twenty-four different systems you could be set up for a nasty encounter with a pop cop because you couldn't tag on or get charged the max fare when you can't tap off. Been there, done that.

BART did their best to make a fantastic mess too and, at least according to their web site, they still only sell paper tickets at SFO. For whatever reason the three other vendors at SFO do sell plastic cards. Because three additional vendors isn't confusing at all.

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But that's entirely different. A digital artist is directly engaging in art. The computer is, in that case, just a tool like a paintbrush. The artist is still the one making all the creative decisions.

To go back to my ghost writer analogy, the reason that nobody would say I was the author is because I wasn't the one who made the creative decisions. I just described what I wanted to another person who made the creative decisions. Therefore, the other person is the author, not me.
It might be true that they have better "average" outcomes. Were I some sort of mathematical abstract that existed only in the imaginations of statisticians this might actually be a winning argument.

If the average can be improved simply by giving slightly more to the 20% who are chronically unhealthy, while letting things get worse for the 80% (I assume I'm in this bucket), then you're asking for me to be worse off so that a smaller number of people who are half-dead anyway can have a few more weeks of slightly less misery.
Yup, I ran a Minecraft server for about 8 years, I loved a bunch of procedurally generated games. I've worked on games in the past and present that use procedural generation. Furthermore, the most interesting part of Minecraft was what people built, not what world the seed generated, IME. Usually we'd WorldEdit vast swathes of it away to have flat areas to build and have fun, or we'd WE with brushes and materials to hand create terrain because the procedural generation was so-so.

My point still remains that there's a very different experience in something intentional and exact. One feels very human.

The quality isn't the issue, the broad strokes without intent are.

This is like preferring impressionism over a Dutch master. Audiences for both. I'm not invalidating any of them, I'm just saying that for me, I prefer something more human and different.
Nice, an appeal to a false equivalence.

The conservative obstructionist and scorched earth tactics are obscene.