skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>What does "outside-of-memory" data compression algorithm mean, exactly?

You keep your data structures (dictionary, Huffman tree, etc.) in storage and stream them into memory only as necessary. Same for the data being compressed. You could use an extremely large dictionary while only using a few kilobytes of memory.
Feel bad for the unborn child that will have to be raised without a father because his parents decided selfishly to conceive him or her due to illness.

Raising a child is more than genetics.
Wouldn’t that create an incentive for people to under report their income?
Isn't the UK market a lot smaller than the Chinese market?
I smell a heavy dose of MMT here.

First, the government might not have issue borrowing infinitely, but deficit spending/printing cash from thin air leads to inflation. And considering how 'beautiful' that past couple of months have been, I wouldn't dismiss its impact on livelihood.

Secondly, the government might distribute money into the economy, but it's always done inefficiently. That's where we get $20k trash cans [0] and $28 million spent on camouflage uniforms that don't blend in (for use in Afghanistan).

Arguing that government spending is mostly good because it gets money into people's hands is just the broken window fallacy at work - that cash could have been used for more productive investments in the private sector.

Thirdly, I wouldn't trust the ROI figures published by a government agency, especially since the US government has a 'use it or lose it' approach to budget allocation. They have every motivation to just make up figures to channel more cash their way.
Instant payments finally reach America with FedNow
I'm not familiar with this car, but it is not at all unusual for reverse gear to not be constant mesh, and to instead operate like an old nonsynchronous gearbox. Indeed the very same article you linked has a reverse gear section literally saying as much.
Microsoft to stop locking vital security logs behind $57-per-user monthly plan
It seems like we’re screwed either way. Reading and watching videos about Portugal, it does not look like it’s going very well. It seems like the experiment to decriminalize drugs there started out going pretty well but has turned ugly in recent years.

idk what we can possibly do.
Drugs are already effectively decriminalized in coastal cities anyway and it doesn’t look like it’s doing good things for the population.
I for one welcome the decentralized internet that Elon is ushering in. Things were better when we had small disparate forums where people could develop their perspectives in community. As long as people are members of multiple communities we should have enough cross-pollination and course corrections to keep things mostly on track.

Mods and groupthink are always a threat but it turned out they were a bigger threat still when everyone was trying to be on one social network to rule them all.
Before I pick at this, I'll clarify that I don't think Google is useless. It's still perfectly fine for many uses.

> Now it's seven pages of nearly identical listicles, some of which are on bizarre domains like "DougsAutoBodyAndFlowerShop.com", and all of which are festooned with ads, also provided by Google.

> From what I understand of your complaint, sometime in the last 20 years, the Google stopped finding outsider art. I would guess that's due to SEO. And with anything that's known to drive revenue to a business, that sort of thing becomes a target. So people target the Google algorithm to place better. I don't know that there's a solution to that. But I don't think it's because of a change inside Google - more like a change in society.

There has been SEO for all of these years, and the search engines have historically been in an arms race with these efforts to minimize how readily ranking can be gamed. "some of which are on bizarre domains" is the more important part of the complaint. It implies that Google has either stopped playing this game or has started losing the arms race.

I have (for years now) been regularly finding search results where pages that are obviously scraped from a stackexchange network site (and more recently from github or reddit and such) and stuffed full of ads are ranking above the original threads on their canonical sites.

Scammy/bizarre/non-canonical domains outranking canonical sources in search results is putting Google-search users at elevated risk of being phished or infected with malware, so it's not like the stakes are low.

As we've watched this drag on long enough to ~metastasize into the kinds of sentiment you're pushing back against, it's grown hard to imagine explanations that boil down to anything ~better than indifference or negligence (and leaving a lot of oxygen for explanations that involve incompetence, malice, etc.).
When I was living in Sweden, it was like that. I got a paper form with everything already filled, including income, loans, assets and so on. If everything was correct and you didn't have to change or amend things, then you could send a single text message (SMS) to confirm that everything was OK. Since estimated taxes are already deducted from your salary by your employer, you only have to pay the difference with that estimation. A few of the years they overestimated that a little bit, and I got the money back on my bank account within a month. This is how it can be.
Your post makes me wonder how far _I_ could get alone with just an AI partner to help me out...!
This isn't an armistice; this is closer to a scorched-earth retreat. Facebook, Amazon, and all the Chinese AI researchers, are realizing they're way behind, and aren't sacrificing any profits by releasing their DL models & datasets; but doing so helps them by relying on open-source as a force-multiplier and a way to at least sabotage the profits of successful DL-centric giants like OpenAI. This is just the latest iteration of 'commoditize your complement' https://gwern.net/complement : Facebook hopes that when DL becomes a commodity, social networks are the last ones standing; Amazon assumes that it can keep selling pickaxes in a goldrush, and its cloud services will maintain their margins. (Consider the details of the LLaMa-2 license which render it non-OSI.)

This is all well and good for open source, as it benefits from this alliance of convenience. But guys, don't forget: the leopard didn't change its spots, and it is the nature of the scorpion on your back to sting. Don't be surprised if they change their tune at some point.
If you ever want to add a client-side-only playground to your own site, have a look at the Playground Elements project: https://github.com/google/playground-elements

It's a set of custom elements and a service worker that populate an iframe with the contents of the code editor with no server, but in a way that looks like real network requests to the iframe.

This means you get a root HTML page and all the right loading behavior and ordering as a real hosted web page. Inspect the iframe with devtools and you see exactly what you wrote, nothing added by the playground.

The elements also support Node-style import specifier resolution, pulling npm dependencies automatically from unpkg.com, TypeScript, and JSX.

And the elements are very configurable. You have drop in a tabbed-editor and preview combo element, or you can separate the preview and editors for each file - which lets you write prose around each.
You make me sound like Grumpy Old Man Yells At Clouds, and that's accurate, but I'm not wrong, I don't like the look of them clouds.

It is possible that this is a problem that will solve itself. I think a lot (most?) mainstream media outlets are hemorrhaging money, and the gravy train can't go on forever. We'll reach some maximum of Terrible Crap, and it will peter out, and then maybe Google can get back to finding honest content and playing merry hell with Internet standards.
> Wouldn't opinion pieces be the first to go?

No, because they're relatively cheap to produce. Everyone has an opinion and many people compelled to share and argue about them.

The hard, expensive thing is gathering facts, doing deep investigation, or cultivating relationships so the facts come to you. That's why the intersection between blogs and journalists has always been opinion and punditry, since no one has the time to do anything else when they have a day job.

> We're already in a world where most opinion pieces are part of carefully orchestrated PR campaigns (sometimes even wholly ghostwritten) meant to drive policy discussion in one way or another. If you can AI write this and ascribe it to a reputable source, why wouldn't the industry adopt this as standard?

Isn't that an argument for the idea that "opinion pieces will be the last to go"?
That is a good point. It's also possible that Apple has made some kind of concession but has found a weasel-y way to do it that let's them feel like they can claim no concessions have been made.

Maybe the difference is that Apple feels they may be able to talk the UK out of this idea.
yes, and if he does it on a paid machine with a better GPU it'll be even faster!

While true, neither your statement or mine above is germane to the discussion. It wasn't about how long it takes. It's a discussion of how cool it is that it can be done on that machine at all.
You're not wrong but what is it about hackernews comments which focus on debunking the utility of something. I feel like the top comment on most articles I see are observing the ways in which something is useless. It's pretty staggering.

Again, you're not wrong, and I'm not even saying these comments are bad or anything. I'm guessing hackernews commentors tend to be skeptics and are tuned to poke holes? But clearly it was posted based on some apparent merit. Other reactions would be totally normal too, like "oh wow, that's really impressive. I didn't know this existed." Or how so much of the real world has been modeled in minecraft (archival libraries, computers using redstone, etc.). Or noting what works they consider worthy of entry in the library.
Yeah the ML envs are insanely bloated, but honestly it works well enough for us doing that work. It's nice having lots of battery-included stuff. It really sucks having to manage the primary dependency chains (mostly centered around CUDA versions and GPU drivers), but it's slowly getting slightly better. The overall bloat of packages generally doesn't feel like it gets in my way.

I come from an embedded systems / microcontroller background though, so the bloat does feel completely insane.

For me things like Django feel "worse" overall in terms of developer QoL than the ML universe does, but maybe just because I don't know it as well and my last real webdev experience was before PHP4/HTML5.
USGov hasn't nationalized a company like that since WW1 when they seized Merck, and even then they just sold it back after the war. We'll nationalize utilities, transportation and transport-adjacent industries like airport security. Also finance companies will drift into and out of state control, as finance companies do.

But USGov would far sooner regulate the tax prep industry more heavily than simply take it over. We ain't no China.
How about the potability of the screen? The screen is available anytime, anywhere. On a flight, doctor's waiting room, line at DMV etc.
How can you prove that they respect your preferences in those consent theater pop ups?

I think those pop ups are the worst thing that ever happened to the web because they eliminated the moral authority that anyone had to say “it is user hostile to use pop ups”. Once the EU made it appear “required” and even “laudable” or “prosocial” there was no basis to say “you shouldn’t put this other popup in that will make users feel harassed”.

So now we get pages where the popups get in the way of the other popups.
This feels like a boat that sailed long ago. I don't know anyone using cash for anything more than small incidental purchases, I'd say it's generally impossible to structure you life around using Cash at a large scale.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but it seems like we're in agreement, no?
One first needs to appreciate the many attempts failing at it. Reddit, Twitter, social media... They all were bad to begin with, but deliberately made worse still, to the point of not fulfilling their raison d'être anymore.

You need a functional format for group discussions (existed, killed off). You need functional standards for civil discussion (exist, see science, people somehow forgot). And you need to realize, anonymity is anathema to having a civil sphere (You don't need to give your real name, but for social self-regulation to work, an identity is necessary).

AI quite possibly could help a great deal with this. Sensible automated (and consistently reasoned/reviewable) moderation of internet forums is wildly underexplored.
We can use some "Congratulations to the crew of Apollo 8. You saved 1968." moments nowadays.

https://amazingstories.com/2016/12/thank-you-for-saving-1968...
> What does it take to update 2 "balance" values in databases?

Quite a bit more than you seem to think.

https://engineering.gusto.com/how-ach-works-a-developer-pers...
Pretty sure that is related to competition with China Telecom. When I was working in China, it was the same: voice only calls had to be made via our phone and charged according to China telecom rates, while video calls could be made for free.
You might be right about that, sadly.
> I'm gonna get crucified for saying this, but what do invasions of Iraq, or occupations of Afghanistan for 20 years actually really achieve?

I'm going to answer with another question. For the past thirty years, how many countries have traded crude oil in currencies OTHER than the dollar, and of those countries, which ones have NOT been invaded by the United States?

Petrodollar explained: https://www.wallstreetmojo.com/petrodollar/

This doesn't really have anything to do with NASA budget but deserves a lot more scrutiny than it gets, IMHO.
The 16th Amendment. It gave the federal government money while explicitly freeing it of any responsibility on how it spends it.
I’m not afraid of the FBI (just doing their job) but I don’t need to get crap from the other people who were involved in that story and might still be sore about the crazy stuff that went down.
Defaults from the Huggingface repo, just copy-pasted. So, iirc 50 steps and the image is 512x512.

Edit: confirmed.

> Prompt length shouldn't influence creation time...

Yeah, checks out with my experience too. Longer prompts were truncated.
> Stabilized or not, I still won't get near it. For one thing, I'm a drug discovery chemist, and if you think a structure like this is going to be a drug, then you must be on some strong ones yourself.
My stance says nothing about punishment. Punishment has nothing to do with lack of forgiveness. Forgiveness is also not a necessity to treat other people, including those who have harmed you, as inherently flawed humans that deserve basic things like dignity.

Forgiveness is a broken concept. Just because you can be a better person later in life should not absolve you of bad things you did before. This isn't a call for everyone to carry grudges, but a call that we should stop trying to play this dumb "just keep pretending everything is always and will always be 'okay' in some way" ideology. People sometimes do bad things because they are bad people or do not care about others, and it's okay to not forgive that. People sometimes do bad things through no real fault of their own and it's okay to still not forgive that.
No, they don't. The scientists at NASA are as good as those in the private sector. If the private sector needs it badly enough, it'll make it without government interference.
different for different people I imagine. I can see "software architect" being one thats dying out these days. Another would be some form of researcher.
So if first mover advantage has been debunked why is Akamai not only the largest CDN by sales but also the only profitable one too?
That's from a decade ago. Verb tense matters. Apple denied knowledge of PRISM before the leak, I don't see where they are denying it since. In any event, you may not believe it, and it's not the craziest thing to be suspicious, but you also unfortunately don't seem to have any counter.

> What a conspicuous coincidence that all of the exonerating evidence.

What exonerating evidence? How does one generally exonerate themselves that they don't know something or were never privy to it.

And I'm no fan of Apple (I'm also not a fan of baseless conspiracy theories), and the flip side of this is what benefit would it be to the NSA to disclose a program to a multinational company of >100k employees if they didn't have to.

You're trying to make it sound like there is a smoking gun that Apple has been lying about their NSA involvement, moreover insinuating in ways that don't seem to serve the best interests of the NSA - and I might even believe you - but so far you have put up nothing but innuendo.

> Is there a hardware issue?

Ok, so you audit your firmware. Why do you trust the hardware you're going to run this audited firmware on? You have thus far proven my point about general public access to source code.

The bottom line is that for the threat model faced by most developed nation citizens, Apple's privacy value proposition is pretty good. If you're up against a large nation-state that is willing to spend some resources you're fucked - and auditing your firmware isn't going to change that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13516780
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It seems the liberalization approach is failing in a few places.

Part of me knows that it’s because only the most surface level feel good things are being done, and we are just helping addicts stay addicts (and alive!) instead of treating them.

On the other hand, I’m not holding my breath for “our current approach is failing, we need more of it” to get ANY political traction. Not these days.
But you know which one it will be right?

There's no way they wrote, designed and recorded 17000 endings with even minutes differences. This will be a standard "your choices matter" ending that has like 6 cutscenes and each cutscene has maybe 3 or 4 variants spliced into it depending on your romance options, alignment, and completed quests.

I almost guarantee it's nothing we haven't seen before in games.

I'll happily eat my words if I'm wrong.
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By default, your account is created on the machine. You can use it without connecting to any network. We allow you to sync notes in a peer-to-peer way in local networks, or over the Anytype network (or your self-hosted network) via the internet. Currently, you can sync notes among your devices. Soon, you'll be able to collaborate with others using end-to-end encryption. I can't agree that the claim about the key is vague, as there is documentation and code on GitHub. You can check it, and we are happy to hear arguments.

We are genuinely implementing a local-first approach. Why do you have doubts? We have a clear description of the data format, which is MIT licensed. Feel free to write and read. We hope that data adaptors will soon be available with the help of the community. You have full control over your data. Compile your version, and that's it.
> how exactly are you going to convince a Russian?

That is flaming you for not rotating fast enough.

To be clear this is commentary on your average counter strike player, not necessarily Russian cs players.
TLDR: Nearly all payments will irrefutably settle within a handful of seconds

Strictly speaking the primary means in which money moves in the United States from a volume perspective is ACH today. That system is a T+1 day from a default perspective, but it has offered the option to same-day settle during a handful of batches throughout a business day. However, ACH is not irrefutable and so it is common to have holds associated with this movement of money.

FedNow is truly 24/7/365 and push only.

All payment flows are subject to an end-to-end payment timeout clock of 20 seconds, starting from the creation timestamp to the point at which the recipient FI (almost always really a Service Provider on their behalf) sends a formal response that they intend to accept or reject the message.

An accepted payment must then be posted to the receiving account "as soon as practicable, but no longer than a few seconds” unless there are compliance/fraud concerns.

In practice, it should rarely take 23 seconds and will likely take 1-5 seconds from an end-to-end perspective depending on the processing speed of the originator, receiver and FedNow Service itself.
I used PGP Phone with my dad, which means it was pre-Dec 1999. The crypto battle is kind of orthogonal to general privacy concerns. Stuff like being allowed to sell location data from your phone is not related to building back-doors into encryption. The argument against crypto backdoors is pretty simple: bad guys can get good crypto, and backdoors invariably end up providing access to bad actors, via hacking or secret leaking or corruption.
Haha I like the idea of walking past, glancing now and then to see if there's something you really love...

but on the other hand I would also love the statement behind something unconnected to the internet that's slowly churning out unique, ephemeral pictures. Yours to enjoy, then gone forever.
I don’t know if you can hide an object that large if you move it close to the Earth.
This is likely lesspipe.sh used via LESSOPEN. Less itself certainly doesn’t understand PDF, but it allows automatic custom preprocessing of its input, which many Linux distributions have preconfigured as the system default.
Pancreatic cancer really sucks. A friend of mine passed away from it a few months ago at the ripe old age of 25. She was first diagnosed with it at 20, beat it, and then nearly three years later it came back at stage 4. Like Kevin she also underwent a few different experimental treatments, the first of which worked remarkably well. (Until it didn't, which is typical of these treatments) A cure or effective treatment feels so close, and I'm sure if one comes soon I'll be having a bittersweet celebration.

I never did get to meet Kevin, but it's clear that I missed out on an amazing person. RIP Mr Mitnick.
> This is exactly the romanticism I was writing about.

And you don't think the people allocating the resources subscribe to it? That's more or less my point about why they're doing it. The VOC and British India Companies may have done it for profit, but the romanticized version has been drilled into our barons and leaders.
Reddit the place was great, but it was because of the contributers and despite the system.

The network effect is hell of a drug. Most contributers are/were there, because it seemed like the most relevant place to put their information, and that was because of the other people on the platform, not because the system was particularily sophisticated or well designed.

Now the reddit design has the advantage that people already know it, but on the other hand if you change communities anyways why not try a new thing?
Is that different than now
I was looking into how much of the revenue share goes to creators yesterday; couldn't find any percentage or dollar amount from the fee, but that a premium user view is worth ~double a standard view.
Let the taxpayer risk their money while private enterprise keeps all the intellectual property.
Is there a circumstance in which an invasion of a country on the periphery of NATO is worthwhile for the U.S. to get involved with in your mind? If so what would such a circumstance look at?

From my perspective we have seen Russia involved in “invasions” of a sort in Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine 2014, Georgia, Armenia, and one of the stans. At what point does it become morally acceptable to thwart Russian imperial ambitions? Russia is Europe’s last imperial power and they have been quite belligerent.
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