skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More likely - dried out husks of small cities that shrivel up and die. Look to the US rust belt as a historical indicator.

For modern times, climate change has made it impossible to insure some areas of the US (Norther CA fire country, Florida hurricane corridor, etc). Insurers are going out of business or just not paying claims.
Ask HN: How to run a service as a co-op?
I have a twitch chat bot which has a subscription model and has some niche services for a specific game. It uses some aws services and is tied to a twitch account. I want turn it into a co-op. So instead of subscriptions it would run on voluntary donations to pay for aws services. The bot is well known among the players of a certain game. The community is fairly small and not tech savvy. Has anyone done something like this? Few questions,
1. How to setup payments so that donations go towards aws costs?
2. How to communicate this to existing paying patrons? I’m worried they might object to this.
3. Is there a better model to turn this into a co-op? I don’t want to make it open-source and none of the users are savvy enough to setup their own aws services.
It's pretty simple. They decide what to pay each other and they're usually all in agreement that theyre all incredibly valuable.
Even if you are taking the gradient of a scalar field, the resulting object is not a vector. The difference is that if you apply some transformation to your coordinate system a gradient transforms differently from a normal vector.

In the ML context it generally doesn't matter because you don't do these transformations (and more generally there is no metric for your space). So you can just treat a gradient as an array of numbers. But in a physical context the distinction starts to matter, at least on a manifold with curvature.

The one place it does matter in ML (that I'm aware of) is information geometry, where you try to do a transformation from the normal coordinate space to a more "natural" coordinate system that is based on the Fisher information, and this introduces curvature into model.
True, but did you notice the US tends to have more successful IT companies? Maybe it’s worth paying more to attract the world’s best workers.
"Reddit's content isn't special. It's all network effects. "

Yes, but they are strong and in place.

Reddit has a LOT of content and users.
“Let’s ban computers on a forum about computers”
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This is the nature/danger of being 100% dependent on a free API. You're at the mercy of the API vendor, and there may be no alternative.

In Christian's case, if Reddit doesn't change their mind, his best bet is probably to eliminate the free tier, and increase the paid tier pricing. It's worth a shot, but Apollo would probably take such a hit it may no longer be viable as a business.
"""
As regards the police, the hatred of a costermonger to a “peeler” is
intense, and with their opinion of the police, all the more ignorant
unite that of the governing power. “Can you wonder at it, sir,” said a
costermonger to me, “that I hate the police? They drive us about, we
must move on, we can’t stand here, and we can’t pitch there. But if
we’re cracked up, that is if we’re forced to go into the Union (I’ve
known it both at Clerkenwell and the City of London workhouses,) why
the parish gives us money to buy a barrow, or a shallow, or to hire
them, and leave the house and start for ourselves: and what’s the use
of that, if the police won’t let us sell our goods?--Which is right,
the parish or the police?”
"""

Henry Mayhew, _London Labor and the London Poor_, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/55998/55998-0.txt
> Now could you find someone to do as good a job as an executive for less?

Yes, 100% absolutely, yes.
Facebook and Instagram started the enshittification process long before Twitter did. And Reddit even hired Ellen Pao as a scapegoat to push through unpopular decisions.

Reddit was heading in this direction long before Musk was involved.
Note these benchmarks only applies to pure emulation. For "real" programs, it will likely need some shared libraries. Box64 wraps some commonly used shared libraries, and function calls to these libraries will be forwarded to the corresponding native library for execution, which is almost native speed.
> building technology to serve this purpose explicitly is absolutely worse

The end result of the current trends in population trees will be the collapse of many nations, and pretty much a four horsemen situation that'll follow. Supplementing the unhealthy fertility rates might help stave this off, if we're lucky, and there's no reason to believe it would create any worse of a wage slavery system than already exists. I can't imagine that it would be more dystopian than the future we're already making a beeline toward.
is there a way to export it to geometry with textures?
There's some nuance there. The situation was not nearly as "unknown" as the CDC advocates would like to believe, and the international community provided plenty of evidence for individuals to make more informed decisions. Even early on, the number of case reports of people getting sick despite following recommended practices or not having any contact with potentially contaminated objects made the droplet thesis dubious. I don't recall ever seeing convincing evidence that COVID-19 could be transmitted through produce in grocery stores for example... yet for a while people were told to disinfect them before using, and many avoided restaurants due to the perceived risk of contaminated food.

I'll give you that for vulnerable populations it might have made sense in the early days of the pandemic to follow the most neurotic guidelines in an abundance of caution, but again, it took government agencies far longer than necessary to update their recommendations. And let's not forget the flip-flopping about masks which contradicted the available data even at the time. The CDC was still peddling unproven and disproved claims as of last year at least, and that's how the United States was practically the last country on Earth to maintain pointless mandates, like vaccination for international travelers, far longer than even other countries that acted more aggressively prior like Canada and Australia.

The CDC was quick to make imprudent recommendations that led to authoritarian policies, and slow to retract them when they were shown to be presumptuous, so as far as I'm concerned that's grounds enough to consider them "discredited", in the sense that I'll be skeptical of what they publish in the future instead of taking their recommendations at face value.
heh. the high tafifs were explicitly asked for apple in the early 80s.

brazil had 68k and 8080 clones that were sometimes better than the originals. mostly sold to Soviet bloc countries and yoguslavia.

until they decided to also ship full mac clones instead of only the 68k cpus. the lore says jobs pushed for demands to dept of state, and got that brazil both closed the two cpu clone factories and also added a high eletronics tarif to further make inroads into a viable competition harder. the leverage state dpto used was cutting imports of oranges, from brazil, which was provided by most of the farms from corrupt military-politicians in power at the time.

not many sources online https://www.cultofmac.com/266710/meet-unitron-mac-512-worlds...

...those same people now own soy farms, which china buys and usa sells. so guess which way they will align.
I found some papers which propose alternative methods (source: https://MirrorThink.ai):

1. Point-NeRF: Point-based Neural Radiance Fields - 2022: This paper presents Point-NeRF, a localized neural representation that combines volumetric radiance fields with point clouds to model complex local scene geometry and appearance. It achieves better rendering quality than NeRF and is more efficient in reconstructing complex and large-scale scenes.

2. TensoRF: Tensorial Radiance Fields - 2022: TensoRF proposes a tensorial radiance field representation that can achieve fast reconstruction and high rendering quality. It is significantly faster than NeRF and many previous methods.

3. GazeNeRF: 3D-Aware Gaze Redirection with Neural Radiance Fields - 2022: GazeNeRF incorporates 3D awareness with gaze redirection by applying a rotation matrix to the disentangled eyeball feature maps. It represents a static scene with multi-layer perceptrons and maps the 3D positions and viewing directions to a density and radiance for generating novel views with volume rendering.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.04823

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.09517

[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.08845
Mastering both the pen and the sword? Cicero in the game of Diplomacy
And China had ... no? large-scale battery factories 10-15 years ago? What's the point? people forget that China was not a manufacturing powerhouse 25 years ago. Building factories at ridiculous speed & scales is something that humans are, apparently, really great at — it's the whole point of the Industrial Revolution.
PiHole will run in a VM these days, and doesn't use many resources. For example, I have a copy running on a Pc Engines OpenBSD router.

The real time clock is busted inside the VM, but it's using an early version of their hypervisor; that might be fixed now. Other than that, it works fine.
It is rare that stacks go away entirely. There's still a bunch of folks in their 70s employed writing COBOL, just as I'm sure there's at least 1 operating blacksmith within driving distance of you. The option to rest up and ride out one stack is there, but yeah the fun new work stops going to that stack.

I went through a similar mid-career burnout where I couldn't face jumping in with the 21 year old fresh grads to ramp up on yet another round of bloated frameworks. Shifting to management was the route out for me where I get to direct high-impact work and provide guard-rails that stop my reports from repeating the mistakes I made. They are all far better programmers than I ever was, and I've been doing it enough years now where it's profoundly satisfying to see my early hires thriving and far surpassing me professionally - while none of the code I wrote even 5 years ago exists any more (another existentially depressing thing about our profession).

If you love coding and want to keep working on green-field stuff, the freelance (contract, consulting, freelance, etc) route might be good for you. Change in this field is inevitable, and only going to get more rapid. You will need to either keep adapting, or find a way to incorporate or shift to something that has more ever-green skills.
Not surprised - the universal issue with AI generated content is that it's near impossible to curate (not helped by what we'll call... a certain eagerness of its advocates to share the output of these tools) and often is wrong in imperceptibly tiny ways.
Also, making analog computer components requires high precision. With digital components, the individual elements are driven to saturation, so much less precision is needed. This means digital components can be made very small. Indeed, this is why integrated circuits work so well.
I mean, would you want HN to be completely overrun by bots?
I mean, I agree with the sentiment 100%. It's the end of reddit as I know it and I'm bummed about that. It would be swell if they reverse course in the next month, but this event just has me re-evaluating my use of the platform and at least for now, I'm just preparing myself for whatever is next. Which, if the studies are to be trusted, would be healthier if it was not the next social platform.
I don't understand why you would, for the forseeable future, want to allow AI generated content on SO. Not with the current state of the art in generative AI.

If I want an AI generated answer, with all the pros and cons specific to LLMs, I'll just open chatgpt or turn on copilot... SO answers (used to be) in an entirely different league in terms of trustworthiness.

I'm totally on board with this moderator strike.

Edit: it appears there is a very high false positive rate, making it difficult to distinguish between some answers. So, there's that to consider...
what about the natural resources?
The difference is that your co-workers sign on their own work -- if it breaks, it's their responsibility. If you commit some code, and it breaks, it's on you, no matter which fancy tool you used to write it.
The case is from 2021 (ruling Jan 2022) meaning her rejection of treatment had to be prior to that. She had to have TB even before that. It’s fair to assume she got it mid-2021 or earlier
>We expect the CEO of McDonalds to make more money than the CEO of a local diner

We expect the CEO of McDonalds to earn hundreds of millions even if he destroys McDonalds as a functioning entity.

It's a kind of Stockholm syndrome.

We should really think about performance based incentives - e.g. average pay + shares that start to vest 7-9 years later.
Related:

Radiation-hardened quine (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18840797 - Jan 2019 (22 comments)

Radiation-hardened Quine is now “ascii-arted” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8318879 - Sept 2014 (1 comment)

Radiation-hardened quine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7276976 - Feb 2014 (71 comments)
> Yes, 100%, Boomers are the parent generation of Millennials. They spent our whole childhoods giving us participation trophies, and our whole young adulthood criticizing us for having received them.

I don't mean as a cohort, I mean as individuals. I have my doubts that the exact same person who has given out participation trophies is the one who criticized. I think you are mixing two separate groups into one, by using their birth years as a commonality.

Also, I suspect that participation trophies is a Western creation, perhaps even an American phenomenon, and the Boomers who are not part of those cultures did not participate in those actitivities.
No idea if relevant, but a friend of mine lives on the side of a steep hill and... got flooded recently.

They had heavy sudden rainfall, exceeding the capacity of drainage pipes. He just got superficial damage, his next door neighbour had 1ft of water everywhere on ground floor. No basement at least.
This doesn't really address the point. A block of organized investors puts pressure, but if stock owners can only cast non-binding votes, companies can just ignore the ESG votes and pay the execs whatever the execs want.
Why? If the answers are good, leave them.
Only if paying users also had to pay for free users. They could charge $2-3/mo and make the app only available by subscription.

It sucks and I still think the developer(s?) would take a pay cut, but it seems like the only viable choice at this point.
She's mentally ill.
As an indie, I feel for the people who made it big with these apps.

But, its a ticking time bomb. Your whole business is a derivative of content provided by another company's community. Yet, these alternative apps squeeze in their own advertisements between posts.

I don't think $20 million/year is reasonable at all, but they have been monetizing off free APIs.
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To me this is a good example of why if I ever became mega rich I'd still probalby just invest in index funds rather than trying to sit on some board and play power games.
Beelink N5095 with 8GB RAM and a 256GB M.2 drive goes for $130 on Amazon. If you want just the board, the case is easy to strip off. The only reason not to do this is if you want GPIO pins, but USB->FTDI->Cheap Arduino board is an easy workaround to that.

The pi is dead.
I found JDBi[1] to be a really nice balance between ORM and raw SQL. It gives me the flexibility I need but takes care of a lot of the boilerplate. It's almost like a third category.

1. http://jdbi.org
None of this stuff actually matters though. The main use case for crypto is speculation, store of value, and money-sending, and that's been working from the very beginning.
Chemical Found in Common Sweetener Damages DNA
To be fair, I had this same issue pre-Elon. You have to go into your settings and turn off everything except "Related to you and your tweets"
I have the Adafruit DVI board and have been hacking on it some. It's more fun than should be allowed.

There's a project to get this running using Rust[1]. Currently it outputs the blue channel with sync, but has trouble with the other two channels. I don't have a hardware lab with scope, logic analyzer, etc., so it's not easy for me to debug.

In the meantime, I've been doing some experiments in the C codebase as well[2], mostly in the direction of proportionally spaced bitmap text, using the fonts in the X11 distribution.

[1]: https://github.com/DusterTheFirst/pico-dvi-rs

[2]: https://github.com/Wren6991/PicoDVI/pull/48
Yes. Write your entire application in SQL, IF it's the kind of application for which this can be done. Is the application a flight simulator or a game engine or resource manager or a distributed task scheduler? No, that's probably not a good case for SQL. Neither would be a machine learning application that relies heavily on Python packages, and it's easy to think of other examples as well. But, is the application responding to user input to query and display data, perform transformations over those data, impose constraints and invariants over those data, and validate user input against those data? Those are tasks for which relational databases with SQL (and other kinds of databases as well, but here we're talking about SQL) are tailor-made. What then does, say, Python bring to the party?
And rent -- easily 2-4x in HCOL areas of US compared to Europe
Not criticizing Firebug, aboslutely. Just speaking to the challenges of trying to run on individual donations.
Actually, the people who say things like this are arguing for the degradation of human rights, because there's significant overlap between this and "humans aren't special" and "AI is our successor species". It's nihilism all the way down but they're forcing the rest of the world on their little suicide charge and expecting everyone else to be just as enthusiastic about it as they are.
You're right, but if you can do in 30 minutes what used to take a day, then we're going to need a lot fewer writers...
Thank you for sharing! I’ve never understood the purpose of this activity. I’m pretty sure no one bothers to read them and even if they do they don’t understand them.
More like all but 5 or 10 are incomparably unpopular... But I'm pretty bad at statistics, so maybe your conclusion is truer.
Postmortem: The HN moderators marked this one as a [dupe] too.
Sure, but the context is industries and products quickly spun up in 2020. Those masks were basic cloth ones, not the surgical masks more common now.
> For all the talk about the Deep State, the truly unaccountable power holders are the C-suite class.

Most billionaires realized that they do not need to be in the news or do any work, they can let the CEOs of this world take a small part of the profits and all the blame for what companies do. That is why we know nothing about the super-rich but many CEOs are always on TV. Smaller shareholders do not have power to change things.
(2012)

I think I'm gonna see which ones are still alive enough to be runnable over a decade later.

Update: I'm fond of using MOC (https://moc.daper.net/), and it sorta kinda works. It likes to segfault once in a couple months, and it likes to exit with a weird complaint about Timidity++ config file on a bare install, but otherwise it hits that sweet spot for me.

Also, its keyboard shortcuts are not weird if you come from DOS/IBM CUA world. Arrow and Tab keys, you know.
I think a big point in this change that people are ignoring is the restriction of explicit content, even to paying customers. As I understand it, anything labeled with the "NSFW" tag will only be available through the official app, even for paying customers.
Sounds like a great case of penny wise and pound foolish to me.
I think you're overthinking this, especially as to hidden psychological motivations.

The primary reason some people still mask is very simple: For anyone who follows basic science, not what the crowd is doing -- N95 masks in enclosed / crowded situations are still a good idea, especially for those of a certain age.

Many people continue to wear useless (or only marginally) useful masks, and in non-crowded situations (even way out in the open). Which of course ranges from silly to, at best, only marginally useful. However it seems safe to suppose that they're doing so primarily out of strictly rational concerns (however faulty their understanding of better masking practices may be). Some partially, or entirely out of fear (an understandable reaction, if they've experienced a heavy bout of Covid, or have seen its effects in others).

Also, some may remember the temporary shortage of N95s, and still think they're being good, self-sacrificing citizens by wearing less effective (or even basically useless) masks. Or they just don't like wearing N95s because they're too constricting (meaning, "too effective"). However, that is at best a secondary factory, and not the main reason why they choose to mask in the first place.

But to recap: For the vast majority of folks who mask, it's mostly out of a (perhaps flawed) sense of pragmatism -- not because they are superstitious idiots, or primarily motivated by some subconscious desire to make a social statement about "who they are".