skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
EFF is an industry group posing as a public interest group, operating in bad faith in order to dissolve copyright and patent law.
I’m reading this as sarcasm, am I wrong? If so, it is such a bad faith response. It is well reported that China was highly uncooperative in providing records about the research that was occurring at WIV.
I truthfully don’t get climate doomerism at all. Does the whole climate picture seem decidedly not great? It does. Seem not great.

But hectoring and chiding and unhealthy amounts of stress aren’t going to muster sufficient resources and capabilities to put a handle on this problem.

You know what will? Good old fashioned human ingenuity and optimism. This isn’t to lessen the inevitable losses. Humans will die. Species will be lost forever. Island nations will sink beneath the waves (and not just the UK this time).

Things are gonna get worse before they get better, but like the apocryphal Americans, you can always trust humanity to do the right thing after they’ve exhausted every other option.

We’ve got this. Shaming someone for throwing out a USB mini cable ain’t gonna get us there.
Meta has amazing engineering, but they just have comically bad marketing and PR. More and more people are realizing that carbon credits are just a scam compared to a decade ago
>rent or buy a house with your life savings so you can spend most of your day (and life) time cramped with other people in a noisy crowded opne office like a bunch of kindergarten kids.
Aka: being productive at corps.
Agreed, their Christmas Ale was great. My other favourite is Stone's https://www.stonebrewing.com/beer/special-releases/stone-xoc...
"If the SEC was in the business of making merit-based judgments on companies before they IPOed, they would need to somehow have expertise in everything from industrial filtration to financial management to projection technology to biotech to the manufacture of skincare products, bandages, and mouthwash. It’s simply not feasible, much less desirable."

Yeah that part doesn't make sense. A "merit-based judgement" that requires that kind of expertise is obviously not what is being asked for! The request is for them to look at [sufficiently big] securities [or possibly-securities], in the exact same way they would look at them post-IPO, using their normal realm of expertise.
Yeah but people are missing the point that congress did that in order to make it trivially easy to attack small-time patent owners.
he's splitting hairs.
https://vcai.mpi-inf.mpg.de/projects/DragGAN/ Drag Your GAN: Interactive Point-based Manipulation on the Generative Image Manifold
> I don't want to objectify you

What??? Read the post again: it was studiously neutral on the topic.

I'm describing a political reality: software should be carved out of their space. They have a ton of clout in DC, and if you insist on killing drug patents, too, then nothing will ever be done. Guaranteed.
I'd highly recommend Valis
That's an odd example. askhistorians is meant to reflect current American historians' scholarly consensus, and rigidly moderated to stay that way. While this does sometimes produce insight it's one of the least debate-oriented places on the internet.
Would an alcohol, gambling, drug or other line be more acceptable since suns are being compared?
> Either way, it's not the job of the SEC (Securities regulator) to decide coinbase gets a free pass to ignore securities regulation in this case because the existing regulations make their business model impossible.

I guess that's the job of congress, then. I think the SEC Stabilization Act is an excellent start. There's nothing unreasonable about wanting to broker securities on a public ledger.
IMHO, it comes down to the software.

It turns out you need very different kernels for good performance on different GPUs, so OpenCL is a nice tool, but not sufficient; you need a hardware-specific kernel library.

From the framework side, each integration is relatively expensive to support, so you really don’t want to invest in many of them. Without some sort of kernel API standard, you’re into a proprietary solution, and NVidia did an amazing job at investing in their software, so that’s the way things go.

I think we had a pretty solid foundation for doing something smarter with PlaidML, but after we were bought by Intel, some architectural decisions and some business decisions consigned that to be a research project; I don’t know that it’s going anywhere.

These days, I’d probably look into OctoML / TVM, or maybe Modular, for a better solution in this space… or just buy NVidia.

(I worked a bit on Intel’s Meteor Lake VPU; it’s a lovely machine, but I’m not sure what the story will be for general framework integrations. I bet OpenVINO will run really well on it, though :-)
I suspect you're right that the first time is an adventure and the fifth time is a chore.

After your first or second big move you might need to change careers or something instead.
What a bizarre little drive-by. You make several assumptions about my life, tastes and eating habits that couldn't be further from the truth, but I don't have to defend myself. I'm sorry to hear you've moved to the UK but aren't earning enough to afford decent fruit and veg.
Why do you get to be the arbiter of what's demeaning? Are "poors" too stupid to determine their own limits? Playing silly games is hardly comparable to peeing your pants in public.
I wonder if having a shared cache would make this more easeful. fwiw nix does that.
I was going to comment that that the contrast between the beautiful illustrations and red blood that violently explodes when you kill the opponent is pretty funny. But then I looked up the original Jump 'n Bump and it's just as gory, if not more! Good ol' 90s games.
I’m a Mac user, but for my job I have a company Windows laptop. It used to come with UE and I absolutely loved it. I work with large XML files (think 500 MB) a lot and UE would open/format/xpath/regex/etc. them with 0 issue.

Then upper management forgot they employed engineers and did not renew the license.

Now I’m stuck with VS Code which chokes when I open a 20 MB file.
I don't mind A paid model for interaction personally, but as others have pointed out it is difficult to make the call when you can't view the content.

You already did open up your content, but personally I'd lead with that. Make lurking free and any interaction part of the subscription. This would include posting content, as it does remove the most blatant spam and gaming of the system.

Having said that, while I do think it is commendable that you want to reward the people that provide content, I am not sure if you should do so based on votes. Because that will just make it so people will try to game the system with clickbait and fluff content.

As we are on HN anyway:

"The Fluff Principle: on a user-voted news site, the links that are easiest to judge will take over unless you take specific measures to prevent it."

Source: Article by Paul Graham (the guy that started HN and funded reddit way back in the day) http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html.

What this means is basically the following, say you have two submissions:

1. An article - takes a few minutes to judge.
2. An image - takes a few seconds to judge.

So in the time that it takes person A to read and judge he article person B, C, D, E en F already saw the image and made their judgement. So basically images will rise to the top not because they are more popular, but simply because it takes less time to vote on them so they gather votes faster.

Some things out the top of my head you can do to mitigate this are:

- Don't tie it to voting, make it a different action people have to explicitly give. Basically reddit gold, but then still with the monetary reward tied to it.
- In addition to that, don't make it an infinite resource people but a monthly budget people can spend (this might already be the case? I didn't check too closely)
- Technically a bit more challenging, but if you could tie it to engagement time in addition to votes it would mitigate the fluff content issue somewhat. Some metrics you might be able to use are time spend in comments, time between clicking on an outbound link and voting (don't count votes with no outbound interaction either), etc.

As a seperate thought, I am not sure if there are liability issues when you reward posted content with money. Not all posted content will be owned by the person posting it, but they are effectively being paid for it. So that might make you as a platform more liable for copyright claims and such. Not a lawyer though, just something I thought of.
> your sole sourcing via wikipedia

IMHO the referenced articles adequately concisely describe the facts, and provide sources.

> there's literally an inexhaustible supply in the Ocean

We try to obtain uranium from seawater since the 70's, with (as with industrial breeder reactors) grand announcements from time to time. Net result: "pumping the seawater to extract this uranium would need more energy than what could be produced with the recuperated uranium".
Source: http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2017/ph241/jones-j2/docs/e...

> gross mischaracterization

Therefore, in your opinion, uranium mining operations weren't interested into launching surveying during a period of nearly exponential growth in the price of natural uranium because they already had customers?
Let's see: http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Nuclear-Fuel-Cycle/Uranium...

>> CANDU
> India is building 3 or 4

Indeed, thank you, and a relaunch in Canada could trigger a renewed interest.
It was always real therapy
I wonder if this is how retractionwatch got started.
Things prior to 1923 (depending on your jurisdiction) should be out of copyright.
Lost an opportunity to name it Pype
Why wouldn't everyone just use radix trees?
Youre completely.ignoring the fact that "heroin is illegal" is cut and dry. Securities are not illegal. Selling them without a license is. Asking them to clarify the law and getting told "the law is clear" is not in any way the same as selling heroin knowing it is illegal.
If the Economy Is So Bad, Why Is the Labor Market So Good?
It started as a real therapy drug. Then it was criminalized for politics. Now there's been some sense re-injected to the conversation after 30 years.
Of course they do. Every couple of days you see headlines like "Solar exceeds coal and nuclear". /s
Anger is fine. Hatred is desiring harm towards others. If your parents are angry at you for example, it doesn't mean they hate you.

Hate in this context also means hatred against others based on factors about themselves they cannot change and based on things they didn't cause, because they are a member of some group
No, it's probably not. It might be if you had great sales/marketing skills to reach the suckers who might buy that.

But you already told us you don't.

Have a go, but you should stay focused on getting a job. It's, unfortunately, a numbers game. I don't know your situation, smaybe you don't really need to yet.

But I did something similar when I got laid off in 2008, and in hindsight it was a massive waste of time and a way of making myself feel better without doing something actually productive to get a job.
I see people using enshittification incorrectly. It's not just that a service is poor.

The point is that people make a free and good service to cultivate users. Then, once people are established and moving to another platform is expensive, the bean counters reap from the disgruntled users.
No but seriously ... I play a couple StarCraft and Total Annihilation both work flawlessly...
The Most Beautiful Sound – the sound of cancer cells being destroyed
absolutely.

i think the problem with this whole space is, it's entirely voluntary, or sometimes we have carrots like tax incentives for building renewable energy infrastructure.

i think that instead, for scopes 1 and 2, we should have regulation that phases out dirty technologies. in my industry (refrigerants) the montreal protocol is a great example of how to force the phase-out of polluting technology. we know this can work (i wrote a blog post about this at https://www.recoolit.com/post/refrigerants-what-are-they).

for scope 3, i think it's hard to regulate "buy fewer flights". or, like, "buy flights only if it's really important to have an in-person meeting". this is where carbon pricing comes in -- then we can use market incentives to force companies to only buy the important flights.
> which package manager/distribution I need to use, and what system libraries those dependencies need to function properly

I don't understand why things are so complicated in Python+ML world.

Normally, when I have a Python project, I just pick the latest Python version - unless documentation specifically tells me otherwise (like if it's still Python 2 or if 3.11 is not yet supported). If the project maintainer had some sense, it will have a requirements list with exact locked versions, so I run `pip install -r requirements.txt` (if there is a requirements.txt), `pipenv sync` (if there is a Pipfile), or `poetry install` (if there's pyproject.toml). That's three commands to remember, and that's not one just because pip (the one de-facto package manager) has its limitations but community hadn't really decided on the successor. Kinda like `make` vs automake vs `cmake` (vs `bazel` and other less common stuff; same with Python).

External libraries are typically not needed - because they'll be either provided in binary form with wheels (prebuilt for all most common system types), or automatically built during the installation process, assuming that `gcc`, `pkgconfig` and essential headers are available.

Although, I guess, maybe binary wheels aren't covering all those Nvidia driver/CUDA variations? I'm not a ML guy, so I'm sure how this is handled - I've heard there are binary wheels for CUDA libraries, but never used that.

Ideally, there's Nix (and poetry2nix) that could take care of everything, but only a few folks write Flakes for their projects.

> Usually the most complicated part is running `make` or `cmake` with `pkgconfig` somewhere in my path

Getting the correct version of all the dependencies is the trickiest part as there is no universal package managers - so it's all highly OS/distro specific. Some projects vendor their dependencies just to avoid this (and risk getting stuck with awfully out-of-date stuff).

> Maybe install some missing system libraries if necessary.

And hope their ABIs (if they're just dynamically loaded)/headers (if linked with) are still compatible with what the project expects. At least that is my primary frustration when I try to build something and it says it doesn't work anymore with whatever OS provides (mostly, Debian stable fault lol). It is not exactly fun to backport a Debian package (twice so if doing this properly and not handwaving it with checkinstall).
A system to organise projects:Johnny.decimal
We've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines and ignoring our request to stop. Not cool.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
> Imagine a porn star making vids to give to charity. Would people give equal praise to her?

The only difference is the audience viewers don’t see the direct benefit of the charitable acts/contributions. I don’t see what the point of this comment/comparison is.
Too much fun to be had, Streisand:

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There's a genocide against white people going on right now in Ukraine.
> "The textured finish on a perfectly shaped barrel - innovations from German industrial designer Gerd A. Müller - means the pen fits great in my hand and provides perfect friction on my fingers, with a silvery metal section toward the nib that keeps them from slipping too low. Look at that subtle off-white coloring. The tasteful thickness of it."
> not letting your kids watch saturday morning cartoons because you find them to be annoying seems pretty dickish and seems like it has an extremely asymmetric possible negative long run consequence.

What negative long run consequence could possibly be created by not being able to watch noisy, annoying, brain-mush kids TV? I'm glad I was discouraged from watching TV on a saturday morning. I didn't miss it at the time either. I did more interesting things, and half the time I had swimming lessons or sports on a Sat morning anyway.

And how is it "dickish"? It's their house. It's their TV. They paid for it, they own it, they control it. That's how the world works, and will always work, and should always work. The idea that they have some sort of obligation to put up with obnoxious screeching American cartoons is just... I don't even know what to say to that. It's just so backwards I can't even put it into words.

>you're talking about it to this very day in a way that seems like you can't wait to enforce these rules on your own children.

I brought it up because it was relevant to the conversation, It's not like I'm sitting here thinking about it all the time. I probably haven't thought about it once in the last.. 15 years?

>i can't recall a single thing my parents did along these lines. this is just not how they operated - by just laying down restriction after restriction. seems kind of shitty, honestly.

Restriction after restriction? I mentioned one thing, mate. Relax a bit please. I really don't understand your mindset though. Should parents not set boundaries? People talk all the time about how it should be parents that set boundaries for their children and not the state. Then people like you turn around and suggest that if they actually do that, they're somehow stifling their children and will breed resentment for their whole life.

>also my parents didn't teach me how to sit in front of a computer for 20 hours until i got a program to compile without errors. did they MAKE you do stuff like that? lol in fact i remember my parents complaining that i was wasting time on the internet.

Of course they didn't "teach" me how to do that, but their parenting influenced by development, because that's what parenting does.
> The exact same argument is made against government programs. And there's a long history of research showing just how much government grants crowd out charitable giving because tax payers feel like "I already did my part".

How much?

> But I don't see how you can consistently argue against Mr. Beast without also arguing against government funding, if crowding out is the issue you're concerned about.

They could believe public programs and some charitable giving is more effective than no public programs and more charitable giving. Or someone who feels like a friend telling you you gave to charity affects charitable giving more.
The Henry Ford quote is based on the premise that most people lack the technical knowledge and problem understanding needed to develop visionary solutions, and would just try to give you what they think is best for you (a faster horse, a cleaner car, a fancy new dependency, etc).
Thank you. Any theories on why it hasn't gained traction?
There are fact-free things on HN all the time. Then there's nuance-free comments like this one which are even more insidious.
Or the direct link thither: https://github.com/mackyle/sqlite/blob/18cf47156abe94255ae14....
Sue on what grounds?
"free medical care until he dies peacefully of old age" its all about qualia
Nearly all the research code for my lab is written in BBEdit.
Rapidly test Google's latest language model PaLM2 through this integration in Microsoft Word
Superforms: SvelteKit Forms library with server and client validation
If you actually read the UK crypto bill[1] rather than what Coinbase says about it, you find that it's quite restrictive.

"The government’s view is that cryptoassets and the activities
underpinning their use should follow the standards expected of other
similar financial services activities, commensurate to the risks they
pose, while harnessing potential benefits of the technology behind
them."

...

"HM Treasury proposes to capture
cryptoasset activities provided in or to the United Kingdom."

...

"For cryptoasset issuance and disclosures, the government
proposes to follow a similar approach to that for securities and apply
regulation when the asset is admitted to trading on a regulated
cryptoasset trading venue and therefore becomes exchangeable for fiat
currency, or subject to a public offer."

...

"The government considers public offers of cryptoassets –
including ICOs where a fund raiser creates new tokens and sells
them to investors – may meet the definition of a security offering"

...

"In practice many cryptoasset exchanges play a central role in the
cryptoasset ecosystem – conducting many more activities than solely
operating a trading venue (e.g. custody, post-trade activities,
proprietary trading, lending and admission of cryptoassets to a
platform). Some venues may also issue their own native cryptoasset or
act as intermediaries for the distribution of stablecoins. This is
sometimes referred to as “vertical integration” or “agglomeration”.
Accordingly, the government expects, as a minimum, that these
entities follow rules covering all of these activities – not just those
relevant for operating a trading venue. To illustrate, a major cryptoasset
exchange would be required to comply with the issuance and
disclosure rules for assets that they admit for trading (Chapter 5), the
rules relating to the operation of a trading venue (Chapter 6) and
certain surveillance and reporting requirements to detect and prevent
market abuse (Chapter 9). Additionally, and depending on the sorts of
activities they undertake, they would also need to comply with rules for
market intermediaries (Chapter 7), cryptoasset custody rules for
cryptoassets which they safeguard or safeguard and administer
(Chapter 8) and rules for operating a cryptoasset lending platform
(Chapter 10)."

All this is close to what the SEC requires. If it works like a security, a broker, or an exchange, it's regulated like a security, a broker, or an exchange.

This is probably more "clarity" than Coinbase wants.

[1] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
But the SEC has never told them no. They've said "we don't know, you'll find out if we ever sue you."
My kids love Mr Beast and I have no real problem with it. I feel more comfortable with his channels than I do with some of the other crap I see them watching. I also think that it is ok for kids to get a sense of kindness and optimism from the content they consume. They have plenty of years in the future to become jaded and cynical.
The same applies to most websites too
Adjusting the water for different styles or consistency across production facilities is a thing that is done at commercial scale. I had a professor in college who figured out how to do that for Bass' UK production facilities in the 1980s.
The government wants us taking more road trips.
You don't even need a mirror website, hiding flagged posts is a setting.
No, it really isn't. Xerox had a bug in the image compression algorithm. Smartphones use neural networks and multiple exposures to achieve picture quality far beyond what the hardware is capable of. This is very different technology for a very different purpose.
If only it was more affordable to convert office space to housing. Two big wins: more housing, more people living in downtowns.
Thanks, I didn't know how expensive it was computationally.
My comment pointed out that they outright refuse to state which ones fall into which category. That is a 100% factual statement and highly relevant to the discussion.

If you'd like to provide a rebuttal to that, be my guest. But childish swipes that don't address the point being made are just that... childish.