skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been scared to take the VVIQ test because I guess, in the back of my mind, I feared, or kinda knew...that I have aphantasia. Even spoke about aphantasia at an accessibility talk a couple days ago.

I finally pushed myself and took the test tonight. Of the 5 choices:

1. No image at all, I only “know” I am thinking of the object
2. Dim and vague image
3. Moderately realistic and vivid
4. Realistic and reasonably vivid
5. Perfectly realistic, as vivid as real seeing

I am either a 1 or 2 across the board. I can't decide which. But absolutely never a 3. And this is making me a bit wistful. Particularly because I can't remember my Dad's face. His scent. My Mom. Mom's been gone 3 years. Dad left us in 2013. I'm so jealous of people who have vivid memories of loved ones who are gone.

Been looking at subreddit /aphantasia a bit too tonight, and blown away that people actually see sheep when counting sheep. Or that reading a book means literally seeing the action. WTH? I still don't get it. That can't be real.

Whew what a night.
I’m quite happy with https://render.com after leaving Heroku
I'm not saying that you're making a risible argument, though I disagree with it. I'm simply saying that you're making a non-obvious argument, and the evidence that I offer for my claim is that you yourself didn't believe it just a few years ago, despite being one of the "token conservatives" in your law school class. It couldn't have too much to do with how you grew up, because you came by it lately.

Make whichever argument you like. I'll only object to your use of the rhetorical frame that implies surprise that someone else would disagree with you. You disagreed with you until recently, as I do now.
Tangetially associatied: what happens when you 'think' about something? I don't mean consciously deciding to imagine something. I mean something like (perhaps) thinking about an algorithm for a computing problem, or considering how a car engine works.

For me, reality utterly disappears. I have a clear image of whatever it is that blots out what is coming through my eyes. the image doesn't have photographic detail, but it's what the seeing bit of my brain is processing instead of what my eyes are getting.
Visualization is a skill that can be trained. Close your eyes for a few minutes a day and visualize and mentally "reward" yourself during the brief glimpses when the visualization is hyperreal. Eventually you can tap into it easier. It's very close imo to lucid dreaming. An easy way to help kickstart it is move around in 3D space in the imagining. Sometimes interesting stuff happens like if you are visualizing a fireplace you will suddenly feel a bunch of heat as though a fire were in front of you.
This is a perfect example of how GDPR can present challenges to innovation. The fact the top comment in this announcement revolves around GDPR compliance and associated fines raises questions about whether companies will be motivated to share research and open source datasets in the future.
Am I right to read this as a replicated, optionally encrypted, append-or-kv-set "database"? With a mechanism for adding identities which can control each "primary key" of sorts?

I think I'm not following how the checksums are produced (are you going to serialize and replicate the code too? seems odd if you're going to include Vue in that serialized data...), nor how that does much at all different than an append-only log would achieve (maybe you can compress kv-sets and discard the history after some time?)... but docs are somewhat incomplete so maybe that's just not covered sufficiently yet. Or I skimmed too quickly and missed something.
Working people may have the wealth, but not the leisure. Working people are, by definition, working -- often during the most productive hours of the day. Scientific or artistic pursuits are usually in the off-hours: the early mornings, evenings and weekends, interrupted commuting, meal preparation, child care and housework. Lady and gentlemen scientists of the past were either wealthy or supported by patrons, and had at least eight more productive hours a day (on average) than today's hobbyist scientist.
I was expecting a 'paperclip maximizer' ending where all the born children were being influenced to become male simply because the donut company margins were higher among male demographics, but I guess not.

maybe i'm being dense here, but why did the AI 'win'? Is the premise that the AI was anti-human from the get-go?
When you sell to Rich Arabs the rule is to follow the yatch salesman playbook. The main goal is to get an arms race going among them. An nytimes article (usually framed and displayed prominently) seeds the process.
I wish digitalocean offered decent pricing for spaces (s3). Unfortunately it starts at 5$, which is an enormous price for storing 70 small images, but s3 would greatly simplify my server management moving state entirely outside the server (managed database + managed object storage)
I would pay a monthly subscription for a playground that makes it very easy for me to quickly prototype and test across different browsers.

For quick JS prototyping I use RunJS a fair bit, but it is purely for JS so I can't test HTML/CSS. I've also tried Quokka for the same use case but it didn't work very well for me either (having to create files in my editor actually felt kinda annoying somehow).

I also do a decent amount of performance benchmarking, but all the websites for that right now are pretty meh (takes a while to figure out how to get libs imported, assuming they actually work, seems many JS benching sites are abandoned). And most of all they only test in my browser. While building the test suite that's good, but once I'm happy with it I'd like to be able to click a button which will bench my suite in Chrome / Firefox / Safari.
Shocking. What a load of bollocks. LLMs will happily lie through the teeth..I mean transformers.
The Chicago suburb that I live in right now was debating a quota system to prevent Black families from moving here within my own lifetime, and was until the late 1990s spending tax dollars to subsidize apartments being held vacant for white families. The harm these programs attempt to correct wasn't in the distant past.
Pretty accurate. You make yourself a name suing a waxing salon for not waxing your balls, you get a KF thread. You harass a github project for accepting contributions from a hardcore Christian, you get a KF thread. You declare "everything is racist, everything is sexist, everything is homophobic and you need to point it all out", you get a KF thread.
I don’t understand how so many people on Hacker News engage in this line of questioning.

If by “this technology” you mean “large neural networks” the answer is yes, and we’ve been doing so for several decades now. That’s very specifically what they’re good at.

If you mean “LLMs like ChatGPT” specifically, then no, they’re extremely large neural networks trained on very specific data sets. To perform a different recognition task, you train with different data sets.

Where does this idea that ChatGPT and friends are general-purpose come from?
I was plating DotA 2 recently. And while I didn't care for skins I was shocked that I was catching myself expending a lot of time exploring skins and managing inventory and the game rewards system. What was supposed to be a joyful and challenging activity became an excuse to addict and milk players.
> there’s no agreement on what “evil” means whatsoever

Indeed, which is why lawyers won’t want to take the risk.

I’m sure they wouldn’t want to use software whose license claims you can’t “hooblepop shanglefronks” either, for that matter, without discussing with the owner to clarify what that means.

Essentially the practical meaning of this license is “this can’t be used by companies with careful lawyers who take license terms seriously”, which I doubt was the intent.
Posted yesterday, "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Operating Systems" July 2023 (Open access to the Proceedings of the 2023 USENIX Annual Technical Conference)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36792157
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/atc23-jiang-yanyan.pdf
I appreciate your simplistic argument and find it almost noble in its naiveté. Somewhat ironically, I don't think you take your biological essentialism far enough.

Why do feminine beauty ideals contrast across not just cultures but socioeconomic class? Thinking just about feminine beauty, can you create a uniform rule about why certain strata and societies have historically prefer a more androgynous look and others prefer the more "bombshell" look? Why does what vary over time and wax and wane as certain looks go in and out of fashion?

Could you create such a rule which is consistent over time? Do you think those rules would have been consistent by era, or would they have varied in times of famine versus times of surplus, and could you create anything consistent across civilization? How about by geographic areas which shaped the city states which served as centers of power in those civilizations, IE how feminine beauty may exist on the steppe vs on the coast, or in the mountains?

Why don't we take it one step further and ask about such a rule in primate sociology that varies in, say, one great ape spicies versus another? How about archaic hominid differentiation between H. Neanderthalensis vs H. Florensiensis vs H. Naledi vs H. Sapiens?

> Unfortunately the cold hard truth is

Speaking about cold hard truth is challenging when working from a basis of archaeogenetic ignorance. You risk overestimating how universal your priors are.
Yeah.

The Apollo missions flew on Rockets designed and Manufactured by
Boeing (S-IC),
North American (S-II), and
Douglas (S-IVB).

The lunar lander was designed and manufactured by Grumman.

That said, a lot of engineering goes into setting good purchasing requirements and assessing the results.
> Your claim is that the market cannot deal with increased costs of a product.

which might be true, if the person cannot afford it at this higher price, despite needing the medication. For example, the gov't subsidies for these people aren't high enough.

Despite what people might think, medication and healthcare is not absolutely inelastic.
> price for storing 70 small images

Do you have to use an object store in that case? Or does it have to be separate from whatever application instance?
You have to remember that the instant payment also stops the scam of "it will be in your account in a couple of days". You can see right there and then that the payment went through.
I don't see how there could be a meaningful conflict with any sanely written laws. One jurisdiction says 10 minute break per 2 hours, one jurisdiction says 15 minute break per 3 hours? Just give them a 15 minute break per 2 hours. Why split hairs? They're human beings.
We don't call it Solaris anymore! :P
An when she isn't playing she is probably thinking about it.
It’s quite competitive.

Some of the largest Intel fabs are 52 miles away. But TSMC screwed up when selecting a site in Phoenix. They built on the other side of town. Any engineer currently working at Intel would need to sell their house and move to the other side of town, or be subjected at a 90min commute each way. If their plan was to lure those engineers, they’re going to need to pay more or provide a better quality of life. They appear to plan neither.
No, the GPLv3 includes this language:

> All other non-permissive additional terms are considered "further restrictions" within the meaning of section 10. If the Program as you received it, or any part of it, contains a notice stating that it is governed by this License along with a term that is a further restriction, you may remove that term.

And the LGPLv3 incorporates the GPLv3 by reference, then grants additional permissions.
It won't be free, but the only way it could cost the tax payers billions is massive inefficiency or corruption.
What hardware are you buying? Across tens of thousands of physical nodes in my environment, only a few would have "fatal" enough problems that required manual intervention per year.
Yes we had hundreds of drives die a year, some ECC ram would exceed error thresholds, but downtime on any given node was rare (aside from patching, but we'd just live migrate KVM instances around as needed.
> Having such a large processor means the data never has to go off-die and wait in memory, wasting power, and can continually be moved onto the next stage of the calculation in a pipelined fashion. The compiler and processor are also designed with sparsity in mind, allowing high utilization regardless of batch size, or can enable parameter search algorithms to run simultaneously.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16626/cerebras-unveils-wafer-...
The correct reading is that the lawyer recognizes, correctly, that “evil” has no clear legal meaning and therefore wants to clarify what the author actually meant before deciding whether to use his software.
This amounts to saying ‘how dare someone publish some code that they wrote!’

Is it your impression that this is being pitched as some grand solution?

That this was published as a way to shut out other people from doing the same thing in other ways?

Can’t we just look at a cool thing someone did, and released for other people to play with, and say ‘huh! That’s neat!’ And get inspired?
But you can't tell that png is lossless as you don't know how much loss there was before png
> During one two-week period last month, three children under the age of 4 overdosed in Portland after ingesting fentanyl

What the fuck?
You did pretty bad compared to ChatGPT
Bard replies:

You're right, I didn't do as well as ChatGPT on that request. I'm still under development, and I'm always learning. I'll try to do better next time.

Here are some of the reasons why ChatGPT might have done better on that request:

ChatGPT is a larger language model, with more parameters. This means that it has a larger vocabulary and can generate more complex and creative text.

ChatGPT is trained on a different dataset than I am. The dataset that ChatGPT is trained on includes more examples of words being combined to create new words.

ChatGPT is specifically designed to generate creative text. I am not as well-optimized for this task.

I'm not giving up. I'll keep working hard to improve my ability to generate creative text. I'll also try to learn from ChatGPT's strengths. I'm confident that I can improve my performance in the future.
This is actually my favorite font execution and post I’ve seen on this site, and believe me, I click on all of them.

(I’m also writing a book, and typeface distraction obviously comes with the territory.)
bitcoin-esque systems, yea - largely agreed. they're trying to technologically force rules on a social system. there are Issues™ frequently adjacent to that.

blockchains have little to do with that though, they're more of an easily-validated data replication technique than anything that has social implications. and they've been around for much, MUCH longer than bitcoin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle_tree
There are layers.
It is like the license needs a bootstrapping license
True to some extent but middle class people in their 20s before having kids and after their kids are in high school have a ton of leisure time. It’s just usually spent spending money. Their entertainment dollars.
> But youtube videos of this genre, they grind it down to a dozen. It's impressive.

True. Diluted in memes, bad jokes, and stock video imagery.
I wonder how this will play out for Audible and the likes. Will they have a Kodak moment?
It sure does. It crippled my intern gaming laptop just later found out that she is using docker desktop instead of docker.io in Linux.after reinstalling that , there's no visible performance problems running containers
Do you have an original source for this and is there a breakdown by cause? US State Department data only accounts for non-natural causes - namely suicides and accidents.
Not nearly as fun or easy as it looks

Also, you underestimate how difficult it is to get technical people to talk about tech to multiple audiences, including non-tech people.

Also also, many of the good devrel folks in the industry _do_ have code in production; they just wanted something different than doing engineering day in day out. (Think of the person doing devrel at Tailscale, for example; they are very technical).

It's not a trophy job; it's just more extroverted and people-facing.
Any favorites you want to share? Loved this video
Maybe in general, but there are particular species of termites (drywood termites) that can derive their water from the wood they consume.
Incredibly unimpressed at fly.io staff for hiding/making private the downtime forum support thread.
Thanks so much for your work, the components look great and straightforward to use. Next time I'm building something will definitely try to give Shoelace a spin.

Can I ask, are ARIA attributes handled by default?
More like marketing in disguise
Having children.
As far as I can tell activity-pub is what you get when you want a store and forward type message transport but are too embarrassed to base it on smtp. so you base it on http/json as that is the "modern" way of doing things.
Yup, still nothing...
> what connection is there?

Caring for the customer is not limited to privacy. One could argue that protecting them from blatant financial loot is also something to strive for. Since Apple delights in this massive scam, one is led to believe that they don't really care about the customer. The marketing push around "privacy" is simply marketing.
This book is fantastic. I’d also recommend Black Holes and Time Warps by Kip Thorne to learn more about Oppenheimer’s scientific accomplishments.
Not necessarily. In Germany we have "GiroPay", which literarily redirects you to a prefilled form in your online banking website. You have to choose your bank, enter your PIN, and click "okay". It's basically the same complexity as PayPal. (It's not hugely popular currently because it's fairly new and credit based services like PayPal have a headstart.)
But I already have end to end encryption - that's literally any sensible TLS configuration, and what iOS requires for apps unless they explicitly opt in to allowing weak connections.

Responding to the nonsense introduction:

> By design, traditional web applications enable server administrators to monitor all user activities.

That's a choice. What is the compelling reason for a company that wants to monitor the use of their apps to use a system that ostensibly says you can't?

> Although these web apps offer “privacy settings” to users, they fail to provide any real privacy protection.

Yes, because the options are either the data is inherently insecure, or the data is fully encrypted. Governments and users both have difficulty with this concept: you cannot have data security and also backdoors, you can't have data security and also "I have lost every component of my account identity: devices, passwords, and passcodes, but want you to recover my data".

This is ignoring companies for whom "privacy settings" are an intentional lie (Facebook, Google, ...), and again, why would such a company adopt a platform that ostensibly forces lack of spying?

> Shelter Protocol introduces new ways to handle logins and data storage on the server while preserving the conventional username/password experience that users are familiar with.

The username/password system people are familiar with is widely understood, and clearly demonstrated, as being bad for security.

> Instead of storing data in a database in clear text on the server, data can now be end-to-end encrypted and synced across multiple devices, and even across servers operated by different individuals.

Already completely doable, and the companies that don't do so have chosen not to, for a variety of reasons - some good, some bad, but those reasons are not because encrypting content securely is hard.

> The Shelter Protocol (SP) defines operations for a high-level, lightweight, federated, end-to-end encrypted virtual machine.

Or you can use JS, which is already available, runs on every machine that exists at this point (is this good?), is already federated: any device can run any JS you send it.

> [remainder of front page]

Largely nonsense.

* Key concepts *

> Since every action in SP is signed using a user’s private key, which in turn is derived from their password

So it's bad crypto. Huzzah!

After this I got bored reading this nonsense.

There's no actual justification for why this magical VM is necessary or good, nor any explanation of how they're going to make it "federated" (because despite advertising federation, it does not appear to be), what they consider federation to be, or why that is good.

Their one example app does nothing that requires any of their advertised features - literally every part of this could be done with existing web tech, and largely be done better.
I wish people would stop referring to AI as "coming to life". All they do is guess the next word based on probabilities. There's no life or "understanding".
According to their Status page it's all resolved: https://status.flyio.net/
Seems like the OP should have made a HN thread in the first place instead of posting to community.stri^H^H^H^Hfly.io
Principal engineer at a FAANG for sure.
To me I feel the money Id save on using the credit card is so infinitesimally small that it’s easily worth it to use debit for the ease of mind that everything is settled and I truly can afford everything I pay for. I also hate credit card rewards programs with a passion because they just complicate our lives to get back money that should’ve just been lower credit card fees to begin with.

The argument that you save interest on savings account doesn’t make any sense at all because I count my credit cards towards my emergency buffer. If I maxed out the credit card I would absolutely make sure to keep more money in my savings account.

I get that it’s different for people living paycheck to paycheck. But arguing that credit is a solution for the poor is a slippery slope. We should solve those problems other ways.
But you look at your image viewer that could have the lossless indicator? (and there is an issue open to add this indicator to the jxl files)

https://github.com/libjxl/libjxl/issues/432
by starting
This interpretation is also dishonest.

One of the three suicides seems to have not happened at all (would have been reported to the US consul in Japan), two others were attributed to posts that did not comply to KF moderation standards, were created by freshly registered users and were removed much faster than similar stuff typically remains visible on Twitter of Facebook.

Thought experiment: if KF founder committed suicide, would you demand deplatforming MotherJones?
In the same vein, this no-boil baked ziti recipe is also great: https://www.seriouseats.com/food-lab-no-boil-baked-ziti-reci...

“But who's to say that these two phases, water absorption and protein denaturing, have to occur at the same time? […] You don't have to complete both processes simultaneously. In fact, if you leave uncooked pasta in lukewarm water for long enough, it'll absorb just as much water as boiled pasta.”
At their heart, that's what pixel/fragment shaders are. They're calculations for determining what color a pixel should be.

A really basic one returning red for every pixel would make a red screen. The most common use would be rendering a textured mesh and determining how lighting should effect it (is it skin? A metal surface?).

Then you can look at crazy things like https://www.shadertoy.com/ which are all purely made in pixel shaders (also that site is run by the creator of the Human Shader)
> It always amazes me how people's minds can be so fundamentally different.

Not just between different people. What about a single individual. Is a single individual's mind the same over time? Is your mind the same now as it was yesterday? Is it the same before your nap and after you awake? Everyone is separated from each other by their own personal subjective reality. But does that also apply to the individual?