skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’d never heard of Airnow; do you know if that’s where Apple and Google Maps get their AQI data too? I like seeing some points spill over to Canada… nice hint of the international cooperation… https://www.airnow.gov/partners/canadian-partners/
Email hosting (Namecheap, meh)

A VPS for my websites (DigitalOcean)

A VPN for torrenting (Private Internet Access)

Spotify

Wachete (monitors sites for changes)

Plausible (privacy-friendly analytics)

That's about it
Twitch apologises as streamers leave after adverts row
If we are just looking at "Fun" numbers it might make sense to include house prices. After all I need a power socket to plug in my light bulb vs say a candle or lamp I can fire up anywhere.
I've been shopping Dell.com for 23 years. They've been doing fake discount for 23 years. Price delta isn't as big as it used to be, but they make it hard to do comparison shopping even within their own site.

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/desktop-computers/sr/desktop...
intentionally reducing the scope of possible scenarios and declaring analysis completion .. does not fit and is counterproductive to others that are engaged in alternatives to that scenario.
Does this detect gravity as distinct from acceleration?
Did you see the samples from https://rikorose.github.io/DeepFilterNet2-Samples/?
It would be hard for me personally to trust the medical and school system with my child in China.

If you are rich enough I'm sure there are private alternatives, but you still live in a totalitarian country where especially as a foreigner you can get on the wrong end of the argument quickly.

For single young person I would recommend going, but its not the best place for foreigner families, unless you are either very rich or very connected to higher ups.
I agree there are a few versions you could do, but most languages tend to do lexicographic.

This has been a suprising thread to me -- I just assumed "everyone knew" that the vast majority of languages do lexicographic comparision of lists.

I will say typescript does "rely on an implicit choice", it has a default implement (the "convert to string"), which I'm going to be honest, doesn't ever seem like a sensible choice to me -- although maybe it feels more natural to javascript/typescript people.

My personal upset (I lost like a day to this) is that if you keep your numbers under 10, you do get the lexicographic ordering, as then lexicographic = string. I had a bunch of unit tests (all using numbers under 10), just larger inputs kept breaking, and it didn't occur to me to go read the docs for < :)
Or at the very least, makes for a perpetually stinky spaceship.
The Shape of Space
It makes abortions irrelevant!
Thank you for the reminder that I meant to add some of that context in the story (which I will do after finishing this comment). I've written several stories over the years about how the major email providers have erected various hurdles designed to increase the costs for spammers, most notably phone verification. However, much of the data I'm aware of on the topic of pricing is somewhat dated. Here's one study from 2011, which found Hotmail accounts were far cheaper than Gmail and others because they were basically way easier to register.

Accounts Craigslist PVA 10 (4) $4.25
[§B.1] Gmail Accounts 6 (5) $0.07
Hotmail Accounts* 21 (12) $0.007
Facebook Accounts* 24 (10) $0.07

I doubt these prices are relevant today, apart from the continued price disparity between email providers.

Source:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/sec11...
Good point.

I find myself frequently at an inflection point between the tyranny of time and the need for correctness in communication. The role technology plays and the toll it takes in return is particularly troubling as humans have been overwhelmed by the broad and deep flood of information coming at them in increasingly asymptotic time-scales since the publication of Infinite Jest nearly 3 decades ago, which is roughly where the time scales in Peter Pirolli's research start. See the slides linked below.

That's the phenomenological n-of-1 take. For a more empirical treatement, see Peter Piroli's slide deck here:

https://www.efsa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/event/180918-...

The self-reflective point that you make is good, but it hides the fact that what we are missing is a set of meta tools around emergent AI that allow us to build scalable collaborations of human-computer sensemaking teams - the kind Pirolli implies.

At this point, even the ability to do that batch mode overnight meaning-making, sense-making, validation and verification feedback loops would be an improvement from where we are since our accusations of scientism vs. anthropo-robotic models of mental disorders could be rendered mute by agents that could actually resolve complex models of evolutionary epistemology.

I feel like we all want the same thing: Truth. However, some of us are more tolerant of what we have now: prototypes, proxies, and n-of-1, back of the envelope verification, validation, fact-checking, if you will.
What? Do photographers not need a camera, at times costing thousands or tens of thousands of dollars when including lenses…to make that stock photography?
China abandoned ‘zero Covid.’ But some don’t want to leave it behind
Worked great with Stable Diffusion. You can basically get exactly what you want, rather than something similar.

Control-net is pretty much the best thing ever if the first shot didn't work.
https://archive.ph/IvBrs
> Who's supposed to be impressed by getting middling performance on Death Stranding 4 years after it came out? Literal definition of "also ran".

Plenty of people are impressed at 3060/3070 performance in a 25W system-power envelope.

You literally can't even run the memory chips for a 3070 in that power budget let alone the whole APU.

Like I'd love to see the AMD equivalent APU to that "also-ran 3070 performance" macbook, please link a laptop with what you think would be comparable.
I've seen a wide variety, including some with 10%. There really aren't any standard configs -- there's a local coffee shop chain I go to with 3 locations, and I'm pretty sure each of their 3 locations has different defaults come up.
I'd argue that none of these things are hyper-collective, though. These things are authoritarian. I'm not going to argue with you about the Covid response. But in the case of economic management, the policies you describe aren't meant to benefit the collective. They are meant to benefit a small elite.
No risk of investing money in studio time and equipment with the result being sub-par. You see what you pay for before you actually pay.
Information about dementia, as well as tips for caregivers, from nurse of 36 years Priscilla Baker.
Ah indeed, this is a trade off.
You already know what you get with stock images. When you do a shoot, it's not a sure bet that you're even going to get the images you wanted or needed.
this is on Ultra graphics settings.. not lot of laptop could even run it on Low

Cyberpunk is known to be a VERY demanding open world game

on lowest setting, this should probably be fine
Languages with diacritical marks have added them because they are beneficial in disambiguating different sounds.

English's lack of diacritical marks is why romanized Korean is so difficult to read, with digraphs used for monophthongs.
A Nvidia 1650 is significantly cheaper also!

Upgrading from full-spec M2 Max to M2 Ultra costs $1200. Nvidia 1650 launched at $190 (inflation adjusted, $159 2019 USD).
In that case, for email please check out Aurinko API https://docs.aurinko.io/unified-mailbox-api/email-api

Which payroll platforms are important to you?

We are also building a virtualization layer, so you could configure a virtualized unified API for your specific needs provided that we have the required connectors.
https://www.aurinko.io/blog/virtualized-unified-api/

Email me at alexey at aurinko.io if you have quesitons.
Apple’s view of the future is a lonely one
> Recent empirical work from independent laboratories shows strong, overly precise priors can engender hallucinations in healthy subjects and that individuals who hallucinate in the real world are more susceptible to these laboratory phenomena.

https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S136...

Trends in Cognitive Science

OPINION | VOLUME 23, ISSUE 2, P114-127, FEBRUARY 2019

Hallucinations and Strong Priors

Philip R. Corlett,
Guillermo Horga,
Paul C. Fletcher,
Ben Alderson-Day,
Katharina Schmack,
Albert R. Powers III

Open Access

Published: December 21, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2018.12.001
Can't there be a c) of "Who the hell knows, but there's a lot of evidence piling up." I'm with you in that I don't believe that an alien civilization that has overcome challenges of FTL, etc. would come to Earth to apparently joy-ride. There's something else that's causing trustworthy individuals to make these claims. At this point I just call it "magic" until a better word comes along.

One theory is that these bogeys have been here as long as we have and are basically automated tests, sort-of like the monolith in 2001 A Space Odyssey. It's ridiculous, but less ridiculous than a). The more I think about it, flying octopuses from Europa is less ridiculous than a).
OpenAI still not training GPT-5, Sam Altman says
There is no simple way to do this. If it were easy to identify trustworthy research we wouldn't be having this discussion. From a slightly broader point of view, I'd argue that the idea that things can be easily or even meaningfully sorted into trustworthy and non-trustworthy is epistemologically facile, at the very least.
Potential impact of broader central clearing on dealer balance sheet capacity
The rapid increase in 'adobe stock' seems obviously to have been influenced by the rise of generative images in the first place (the big growth matches perfectly with when these things were released).
> it can never compete with the gaming PCs which are far less expensive and far more powerfull graphics-wise

I don't think Apple is chasing the "dedicated gaming machine" crowd here. They want casual gamers to be able to load up a couple of games on the machine they're buying for non-gaming reasons. I'm exactly one of those people: I rarely play video games these days but when the pandemic hit I ended up installing Boot Camp to play COD:Warzone with friends. It was great (it performed... okay). I've since upgraded to a Silicon-based Mac so the door has closed on that. This toolkit is the means to reopen it. I'm not, and likely won't ever be, in the market for a gaming PC. I can't justify the purchase.

> And Apple also doesn't know how to keep relationships with the AAA developers

The App Store would beg to differ. I agree that historically they haven't been great at relationships with game developers but they're clearly able to maintain relationships with third party developers when they have the incentive.
If you haven't tried to purchase a stock photo recently, it is incredibly difficult. I can order same day delivery of physical goods from Amazon much faster than trying to buy a single stock photo. All of the services are subscriptions now and they have dark UX patterns to convince you the only way to get the images is to sign up for an annual plan that will auto-renew.

In comparison, typing a prompt into a generative AI is a superior user experience. I'm willing to pay a photographer, they just don't make it easy.
Did Apple kill fingerprinting with Privacy Manifests?
Yeah I get your point now, I agree the entire grow at all costs is not good for building a sustainable company. Investors are never happy with normal growth rates, they want exponential growth which isn't possible after a certain point without ruining your product.
How does this handle load ?

Does each customer get their own VM to run requests against?

Do you have a rare limit built in ? What if I need to do something more complex, is it possible to have a block of say Python code that executes?

Honestly I'm not sure who this is meant to serve,AWS has a rather robust API offering with the added bonus of integrating with AWS services.

Anything more complex than that might be better served by coding it yourself in Python or another high level language.

Is it possible to export the API with source code if I need more control. That would perk my interest.
A ChatGPT hallucination about OpenAI turned into a real Python library
OP here! When asked about LLMs and Apache Cassandra, ChatGPT started going on about this amazing OSS library from OpenAI called CassIO. Here's the story about making a hallucination into reality. This was a fun project but did the AI just coerce us into something?
I think people underestimated the value of Russia (they have a much lowe gdp, so they are small vs western countries) when in reality they do produce and provide a lot but at cut down prices because of corruption (or at the expense of their citizens)
All comes down to man's pridefulness.
Huh, I've been using this in production for years. Given my company's choices, I just assumed it was pretty well known & standard. Overall it's pretty nice, although I've run into a critical error a couple times which rendered a flag untouchable.
10 years after Snowden's first leak, what have we learned?
When I looked at stock photography as a possible side income, licensing my photographs (those that Getty wanted - they didn't care for most of them because they were more artistic than stock) would have gotten pennies for each photograph.

I can certainly appreciate those who take stock photography (and I've seen some of them in my travels - taking 100s photos of slightly different poses of a model at a location because the stock buyer could say "I like this one but the arm is in the wrong spot for the page layout" and go with someone else's photograph).

Being a stock photographer has never been easy. In the days before digital it represented countless rolls of film shot (and processed at the photographer's expense) and now its even more digital images to ensure that you've got just the right one for some client a few years from now.

It's not an easy job and no one has gotten rich off of it.
And if you think that's bad, just wait till you hear about string theory! /s

Honestly this is a thin critique indeed. Social sciences are difficult precisely because they focus on phenomena with multi-factorial causes. Simple, high confidence, predictive theories are rare in psychology, sociology, anthropology etc, not because social scientists are committing a 'hoax'. In part because the factors impacting individual and collective behaviour are profoundly complex. And also because experimentalism in the social world is ethically, practically and epistemically fraught. We can't easily experiment on people or societies, and we can't stand as independent observers of phenomena of which we are part. We can develop hypotheses, develop experiments which attempt to falsify our null hypothesis, triangulate evidence from different observations and so on. We can model, observe, and infer. Over time we can develop frameworks that are measurably useful - from CBT to behavioural economics. But none of this is easy or definitive.

I note how common this perspective - that social science is some kind of conspiracy of faux expertise - is becoming on Hackernews. And how ironic it is, given that it's rooted in a lack of expertise or even familiarity with the topics critiqued.

This is just one forum in which the growing social skepticism of expertise in general, and science in particular is being articulated.
It's a fair ask! I don't mind.

It's occurred to me, but I expect a fair bit of push back; 'you abuse the array and expect it to... what?'

I'm not really interested in debating that, and it's remarkably easy to get hung up on. I've floated this issue a few times unofficially and it's a constant stickler

I know expecting coherency in this situation is a little silly, but BTRFS is notably less reliable/robust than the alternatives

All in all... I'm avoiding a situation that may or may not occur, by not participating.

Not saying it's a good thing, but it's easier for me to just use What Works
Hands-On with Apple Vision Pro: This Is Not a VR Headset
1. Why can you not push all your traffic through a single PgBouncer?
2. You can have three PgBouncers and clients can have their own balancing of available database proxies as well, the entire migration is doable with multiple PgBouncers too - it’s just a bit more code to implement the pausing and the switch over for many instances simultaneously.
This is a fair assumption, although to be fair a botnet is essentially a collection of residential proxies.

And yes, Kopeechka controls the inbox, and only lets you see stuff going forward that matches the regex you specify.
I don't get the point of this comment. Was this stopping these issues from being pursued? Is it wrong to pursue other objectives while these (objectively difficult) problems are solved? Or is this just sterile contempt?
Fuck Lenovo too. Overcharging for their laptops then putting them on a huge sale multiple times a month.
Stroke After SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccine: A Nationwide Registry Study
Steam has been on the Mac for over a decade. Get over yourself.
I am not talking about brute force. Haven't you noticed how I've never said a word about attacking Russia? Surely you can't be saying that defending your own country is "brute force" in any way. You're projecting and strawmanning in every reply.

Funny you should mention the Minsk agreements. Why did Russia not keep to them? Why should we trust them with an armistice considering they already broke the Minsk agreements?

The kicker is: We know that appeasement doesn't work. We know that if Russia gains any territory, they will attack again, and that if they don't the chance of another attack is massively smaller (since the population will not see the current war as a victory, making it political - and most likely literal - suicide). But somehow that doesn't matter to you, just like it doesn't matter to you what happens after the armistice.
IIRC grafana cloud requires to use their importer which was a no-start for me.

Also 14 days retention is not useful for home, I want to know temperature and power stats from last winter, not from last 2 weeks.

Even the "first paid" tier contains only 13 months of retention

I just used VictoriaMetrics all-in-one binary for home stuff + grafana as visualisation
Neat! Do you know what I also want - I wish the aggregator I'm describing was API compatible with Reddit, so that Apollo and etc could have a setting to switch servers to it. Or I could hack my VPN to point at it. Does Lemmy happen to do that?

Also, mandatory Lemmy or God:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM1UPeAOyHM
My Cheap Electric Go-Kart Is Better Than Ever–and Now You Can Build It Too
If your going to try to construct a meta-analysis of many studies, the first step is going to be reading the materials and methods sections of all the included papers, the goal being to ensure that the data is actually comparable within some (small) margin of error.

Disassembling the materials and methods section is the typically the most difficult part of reconstructing a paper's experimental approach as authors often are less than complete, or may refer to other (obscure) papers, or there may be concepts that are so well known in the field that they're taken for granted and not explicitly described.

This entails a lot of work and some people are careful and some are sloppy. This is also true for construction of large datasets from individual scientific reports that are then used to produce analytical papers (this is not a 'meta-analysis') based on that dataset, such as in genomic studies, climate studies, etc. The solution here is again to carefully curate the databases and understand their stengths and weaknesses (quality of genomic sequencing matters, for example, and satellite data is not the same as weather ballon data in terms of climate).

So if you try to do a meta-analysis of analytical studies based on databases constructed from the results of many individual scientific reports there are all kinds of pitfalls, so it's not surprising that the value of such meta-analysis can be very questionable, unless the authors are extremely careful and clear about their criteria for including or excluding papers from their study.

Read enough of them, however, and it becomes easier to identify when the authors are trying to sell their predetermined conclusion via cherry-picking studies that support their position. Unclear methods sections are a good warning sign.
How about this: my family gave me a firsthand account of what happened at the end of WW2 in my hometown (which was mass executions by a mob, with all the kids invited to come and see, one of those kids was my grandfather, grandmother and another one of those kids became professor and bartender in the student union). They used a bridge over the central river in the town and hung several dozen people, including 1 kid. People watched from the next bridge over, the kids were given most of the front part of the bridge to look on. My grandmother claims she didn't dare leave. For weeks afterwards, dozens of people disappeared or were outright found murdered in the street before revenge killings slowly died down. This was in the center of Northwest Europe.

I also know what the history books and the state says, namely that no such thing happened.

In fact this happened in essentially every town, all but the smallest, in Northwest Europe. There were local differences. In some cities kids got executed because of who their parents were. Sometimes the Nazi soldiers were gone, people in hiding came out, and the local government turned out to have internalized Nazi ideology ... and executed them. Mostly the government never looked at it's own role in what happened, and CERTAINLY never did anything to return possessions of deported people, mostly but certainly not exclusively Jews. Sometimes opportunists used the opportunity to execute local rich families or rival farmers and confiscate their possessions. In another relatively famous story, the local police commander knew that civil servants and things like notaries, but also some youth services related clergy, were cooperating with the Nazi government ... and executed them. In some places it even came to a battle between pro- and anti-Nazi forces (yes, after liberation).

You will find some reference to some of what happened in history books about the South Part of the Netherlands, but this happened everywhere. The government denies it happened in my hometown, and in fact denies it happened anywhere in the country. A general amnesty was declared by the Americans some months later, mostly out of total desperation that they were losing everyone, and that it needed to stop and instead they'd do the Nuremberg trials, which were limited to the worst of the worst, and exclusively people from the actual Nazi party.

Of course, all the European governments did all decide they were never going to repay or return anything that was stolen, not to Jews, not to those rich families, not to the Church, nothing. War pensions were awarded to survivors of the camps, the same or similar to what was awarded to soldiers.

Western European Governments just wanted control, and let murders happen, provided official documents "confirming" possessions of goods stolen through massacres, if only they were allowed to stay in power.

This included falsifying birth certificates for a LOT of children where, shall we say, parental responsibilities were redistributed. This practice would continue for decades after the war ended.
I haven't had to put together a new graphics-heavy presentation recently but in the future I could absolutely see using AI to augment Creative Commons and various graphs etc. from the Web. (I don't really use stock photos because I don't have a budget.)

As things stand, I would still probably use stock for "official" company marketing materials although I understand that some companies, especially smaller ones, are probably less risk adverse.
Just push to github and people will contribute the rest for you. Easy!