skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the copies are expensive, they will show up in profiles. If you have a hot constructor that may be an opportunity to avoid a copy. If the copy is not present in the profiles then it was not worth worrying about.
For the idiots in the room (me), could you explain why that’s a big deal? Does that make the material more robust and therefore usable in harsher environments?
> She refused the playing of US national anthem before her concerts, drawing further public scorn.

Was this a thing?!

A good episode of "You're Wrong About..." covers the controversy of her:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/265qKOV5C7XBqlyXMjp7VF

https://podcasts.apple.com/at/podcast/sin%C3%A9ad-oconnor-wi...
Related and recent: Autoenshittification!

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/#kitt-is-a-de...
do you trust the numbers are correct?
I would say the main difference between ADHD and CPTSD is that those of us with CPTSD can eventually 'rewire' our brains and act more 'normally'.
> Images are far more redundant than text.

"A picture is worth a thousand words" - I wonder how (in)accurate this popular saying turned out to be? :D
Seeing how well Gnome has rethought window management in the past, I will take a hard pass. All the thought is not helping.
The original preprint mentions bulk samples, but I’m not sure what size they were. I would guess at least a few millimeters scale, but really bulk just mostly means “not a thin film”
It's kinda hyperbole, to demonstrate how taut of a claim "Chrome monoculture" is.

We had a shot at open browser engine development with limited scope. Everyone said no, not just Chrome. Mozilla and Apple both have blood on their hands too, if we want to be reductive.
If yesterday's comments were correct, you can strike the power transport and storage use cases, as this material has a pretty low electric current density.
The story with Adobe on Mac in the 1990s is that their apps were so important to the platform that they practically had a veto on the API for Apple’s next-gen OS.

When Apple acquired NeXT, the original plan was for the NeXT API (now called Cocoa) to become the only way to build apps on the new Mac OS. But Adobe made it clear they were not going to port everything to Objective-C. In response Apple came up with Carbon, which was a port of essential plain-C APIs from Classic Mac OS to the new environment.

Apple retaliated pretty hard in 2007-2010 by first knifing 64-bit Carbon when it had already shipped in Leopard betas, and later strangling Flash.
Nope, sorry. The EU is probably just gonna pass on RT superconductors. /s
Thanks for the kind reply. We're not trying to shut down those things—only the predictable/indignant/flamey stuff. Is there a flagged post that you think is the former but not the latter?
Perhaps not. But if the resulting phrase makes you think "woah, that sounds really sexist", then maybe the original phrase is also problematic.
Funny, your scenario to me seems like SAAS is an improvement.

If I only use flowchart software 2x/yr, I can just pay those two individual months and nothing else. Six times over three years is way cheaper than buying it outright ever would have been. Plus after three years I'd be needing something that the newer version introduced anyways.

So in your scenario SAAS saves a bunch of money and keeps your features and OS compatibility up to date.

You just have to remember to cancel it once you're done each month, but that's easy enough with a calendar reminder.

This way you get to save a lot of money over buying it outright.
Dr. Stuart McGill (PHD, written multiple books about back health), strongly promotes isometric exercises for back health.

However at the end of the day stability only gets you so far, since we are always moving, so it really makes sense to combine isometric exercises with other ones to get a robust exercise plan for whatever goals each person has.
> absent a full chain-of-trust from boot, which I believe Android/iOS do provide, and possibly the proprietary desktop environments can provide

Exactly, absent all platforms except OSS operating systems like Linux.

Windows 11, with its required hardware TPM, can absolutely do this. So can modern macOS.
> Wealth was definitely created in some colonies, the wealthiest country in the world is made up of former colonies.

Insofar as the mother country was inexperienced at having colonies and lax at imposing its will on them. The British tried hard to prevent America from establishing any industries and reduce it to just importing everything at the cost of raw resources. They got a bit distracted in the 1600s with civil war and religious strife, and in the 1700s with fighting the French; so a bit of wealth accumulated in America anyway. (Much if not most of it belonged to smugglers.)

In the 1800s the British imperialists got their act together and became much more efficient at extracting wealth from their colonies, as evidenced by massive famines ( Ireland, India), opium wars etc.
It will be fun when these idiots get a little older and have trouble getting around.
Yeah, probably, but I'm stuck with the current situation for now.

Wages for developer work are not consistent, though. I was making around $45K out of college in upstate NY in 2011 or so. I left that job around $55K in 2015 when we moved from the area. Those were entirely normal salaries in the NY capital district for developers with a four-year degree and proven skills in a given language.

I'm now in central VA and am friends with the owner of a local media/web development shop. Their average pay is around $20/hour. Remote work levels the field a bit now, but that's what folks who want to work locally at a desk are offered. They have people actually working there, so I guess folks think that's a reasonable pay "for the area."
> I figured the default assumption was these vendors kept updated with security patches.

That's a damn big assume when you have compliance to worry about.
I'm assuming they mean the balance mechanism, and specifically what allows us to balance. How much is it the rider shifting their weight, how much is micro steering adjusts as we move forward, how much is the gyroscopic forces of the wheels, how much of it has to do with the angle of the handle bars to the wheel verse the center of weight.

That said, I'm guessing this one is well understood by experts, but more complex than someone would assume at first glance, and many who have some understanding likely have an incorrect or at least incomplete understanding of how balancing works.
Usually it's not developers who make decisions to put ads.
I'm not super interested in watching Joe Rogan and RFK, is there a particular bit where they talk about bikes?
> How do you read that and think, "Yeah that's just the same thing."? Wildly absurd claim

You're both using separate and internally-varying definitions of racism.

I like your definition of racism per an inherent superiority test. Let's keep it. It operates on the level of ideas in your formulation, but it's really an element of an idea and better applied to individuals and, when colored by law, institutions. Antiracism thus holds its water as an ideology that seeks to e.g. remove that color in law.

Where it breaks down is when we reverse that antiracist ideology to the level of individual action and subtly amend the definition of racism from a racial superiority test to e.g. ignorance of systemic harm. Someone disagreeing with the statement "America is a racist country," or "persons are either anti-racist or racist" is not suggesting "one racial group is inferior to or superior to another racial group in any way." Yet if we brand that disagreement as racism, then antiracism becomes opposing not only that disagreement, but also the people disagreeing. If we go one step further and notice that many people espousing those views share a common race, and then lay animus collectively on their doorstep, then yes, the antiracist impulse becomes, itself, racist (by the superiority test and the axiom that racism, circularly defined, is an inferior belief).
What was your rank? How many SAPs were you read into?

Having Top Secret SCI clearance does not give you immediate access to every SAP you request to be read into. Most people are not read into more that a dozen SAPs.

I’ll also point out that if Grusch was an unexceptional IC officer, the pentagon would easily be able to discredit him as such. To date, the pentagon has not attempted to say anything about Grusch’s credibility. Many reporters have stated on the record that Grusch is very well regarded as a high level intelligence official.

What evidence do you have that this guy was not an exceptional officer, other than maybe you yourself were not exceptional?
Is there anything like this for the vector landscape?

This may just be due to the iterative denoising approach a lot of these models take but they only seem to work well when creating raster style images.

In my experience when you ask them to create logos, shirt designs, illustrations, they tend to not work as well and introduce a lot of artifacts, distortions, incorrect spellings etc.
Lying to investors is a pretty serious crime, so the numbers are probably correct.
> Hmm, moving to a free service can take a lot of time, there might be lock-in?

Which is why it's good to pay for the product to get support once you're dependent on it. It's why cloud providers give companies and devs free credit. Once you've built it on that platform, you're less likely to want to move, and might need to scale, and get support once you're making money. This is how free tiers work, they're basically a demo, and they can cancel accounts for abuse or get around to fixing problems if and when they feel like it. You're also welcome to find another service...that's free, that provides great support and hope they stick around.

Going back to the free sample analogy, you can get one for free, but if you want the full product (including support), you gotta pay.
Ok, since we asked you not to post like this and you've continued to do it a lot, I think we have to ban the account.

I hate to ban an account with a vim command in its profile, but unfortunately moderation is about the worst things a user does, not the best things.

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.
I think that is the wrong link?
First high-quality comment in this thread, and you absolutely nailed it.
The reach of Apple doing it isn’t the same as what Google will do with Chrome.
I've been working on DBT lately. ChatGPT4 works great for it and SQL. It saves a lot of time when it comes to rote SQL.

"Here's 3 CTEs. Finish the model by joining them and grouping by X, Y, Z".

I'm also sadly not working with anyone more experienced then me so it's a good discussion partner for discussing tradeoffs or alternative ways of doing things. For instance, I created a model which did a self join to get create a new column with the previous years value. I asked it if I could do it differently and it suggested the LAG function - however, it doesn't deal with leap years so it wasn't viable in my case.

It's pretty good at error messages and finding faults in code, so it's usually a good place to start if I'm confused.

It's also been pretty good for discussing architectural decisions and tradeoffs. It's given me great answers to how to create and manage environments, deal with config files and more.

Honestly, it's been amazing for learning DBT and has greatly helped me write code. Probably increased my productivity by 30-50%. But I think I'm in the sweet spot of GPT. I know enough SQL and data engineering to see through the bullshit, but getting the bit more than basics surfaced and getting some direction has been great.

Otherwise, it's pretty good for writing emails and such, but it isn't as good in norwegian as english and I'm pretty comfortable with my writing style so I use it less for that.

Sadly, it's not great at Dagster (my orchestrator) as there's not a lot of code out there and a lot has changed since the knowledge cutoff in 2021. I'm hoping some LLMs will be able to help with this in the future. Let me know if anyone has any tips here.
Different use case.

I can run SDXL 1.0 offline from my home. I can’t do this with Midjourney.

A closed source model that doesn’t have the limitation of running on consumer level GPUs will have certain advantages.
I've done this process maybe 5 times, and I live in Mexico where it's done daily. It really doesn't take that long relative to cooking a good loaf of bread. And I've never had problems touching the mixture as long as I wash my hands etc. Not trying to dismiss you, just want to share that it's really an easy process and everyone should try it!
I have been using Facebook a lot more lately as more communities move into Facebook Groups and Reddit gets steadily worse (and I mean the Reddit community, not the Reddit software, which is also degrading). I'm not happy about it, but it is what it is. I'd much rather be on good old forums with a different user account per community.
In reality I know what you mean, but not a good look for you imo. Imagine that upgrade causes an issue upstream and someone has to explain who approved it. There's always a way to get housekeeping items approved, sneaking it in isn't it.
Fair criticism that I used "ad revenue" as a generality, I was more specifically thinking of AdSense ads and the like. I think there are plenty of forms of advertising that are better for the relationship and less exploitative of users, such as corporate sponsorship or sponsored content ("featured" search results, brand collaborations etc.) As long as the relationship is clear when something is paid vs organic.

> Now payment processors and banks also get a share of the surveillance cake.

I agree this is a problem. I work on Bitcoin and the Lightning Network, so that's my preferred solution to the problem, but there are other approaches to addressing the poor state of privacy and payments too. I don't think that that being a problem means that the relationship we have with advertising isn't as bad though.

> If rich people move to subscriptions, this subsidy ends.

There are plenty of examples where this is not the case. The freemium model exists in places where injected advertisements are not the norm, such as free to play games. Fortnite whales subsidize millions of low income players to get a high quality game for free. Whether or not you think the relationship between Epic and its players is another question, but it's a model that can continue to exist without advertisement. Especially when free users are necessary to provide content for paying users, like posts on Twitter or Reddit, or players in a game.
You could copy the CD but the copy wasn't as good as the CD.

Everyone bought CDs when they got popular because:

- They sounded better

- They didn't wear out from playing them

- Small/Portable/Durable

- Easy to move between tracks

- No need to flip them to go to the other side (some cassette players eventually figured out how to do this without a flip)
The term "biologic" stuck out to me. Its normal use these days is to refer to drugs produced by biological processes - human insulin produced in bacteria is a biologic.

It's not that the word is incorrectly used in this context, exactly. It a noun, that by etymology, means something of a biological origin. But it's such an odd way to express it, isn't it? Not organisms, not biological materials -- "biologics".

It is jargon? Does anyone else talk like that?
> But to be honest Unicode in itself is probably the biggest SNAFU of our entire field.

Explain.

EDIT: Oh! I construed this as a negative sentiment about Unicode, but perhaps it was just: "Yeah, it's complicated because language is complicated". Thanks, responders!
Milli Vanilli was 30 years ago now. That act literally replaced the singers with better looking people for marketing reasons.

A baby born the day The Monkees formed would be retiring now. That wildly popular band was literally created for a TV show.

This problem has been going on for a long time.
You’re describing fast refresh, the parent is talking about codepush. The whole point of CodePush is definitely to update the app without going through the store. It downloads a JS bundle (which is usually most of the app functionalities) and executes it.
First off, wanted to say thanks very much for posting this, primarily because I think it is an example that is straightforward and easy to understand. That said, I'm also thinking "if this is one of the best, straightforward examples people are talking about when referring to 'the value of smart contracts', then smart contracts are just nowhere near the important tech its boosters believe." (To be clear mteigers, not directing this at you, just saying this because what you've posted is probably the best example of a real-world use case I've seen).

In summary, what PoolTogether (https://pooltogether.com/) does is basically act like a normal savings account, except instead of you getting 4% interest a year or whatever, that interest is all pooled and then given out in big chunks at random - most people get nothing, but "winners" will get what is essentially everyone else's interest. Some notes:

1. I'm not clear what activity they're engaging in that actually generates interest (e.g. who they're lending to in order to generate a spread), but in fairness I didn't spend much going into the details. That said, if they really are generating income by lending, then I'm very curious how they can't suffer from some of the same negative edge-cases inherent in fractional reserve banking, like a run on the bank. If they are not generating real income from lending, I'm very suspect about how they can really be generating interest. Again, I didn't look much into this, so totally admit I could just not be understanding the details here.

2. I see absolutely no real benefit that comes from doing this as a smart contract vs. just doing this as any other kind of normal software (e.g. what core banking software provides), despite what their blurbs on the website say.

So still just dumbfounded by the lack of real utility in any of these smart contract examples I've seen.
I came here to say the same, but I wonder if they can bury themselves to keep cool.
Right, its called vendor lock in. It's why a lot of services offer a free tier, to reduce the upfront investment in the hopes you'll settle in and eventually pay. It's why students get free software licenses, etc. It's a valid way of doing business, and its not like the consumer isn't aware of the risks. If you want to support a business on a free demo, don't get mad when you get no SLA.

In either case, they fixed the problem, but the expectation of immediate support on a free account is silly.
It's certainly double or more in many cases for rank-and-file developer jobs, in my personal experience, meaning "jobs I've worked or gotten offers on." Again, maybe I just suck, but then so do a lot of folks I know.

I mean "order of magnitude" in the sense that a 6-figure salary is an order of magnitude more than a 5-figure salary.
One of the selling points of buying shares of businesses publicly listed in the US (and some other countries) is that the probability of the numbers being correct is very high.
A lot of people are having success by adding extra networks (lora is the most common) which are trained on the type of image you're looking for. It's still a raster image, of course, but you can produce images which look very much like rasterizations of vector images, which you can then translate back into SVGs in Inkscape or similar.
There's also probably a hundred labs skipping over replication completely to try and beat someone else out on a random permutation of these materials and methods and hoping to get lucky.
> The British tried hard to prevent America from establishing any industries and reduce it to just importing everything at the cost of raw resources. They got a bit distracted in the 1600s with civil war and religious strife, and in the 1700s with fighting the French; so a bit of wealth accumulated in America anyway. (Much if not most of it belonged to smugglers.)

Its kind of odd that people miss this (and particularly the first sentence) since that’s the big picture behind essentially each of the specific grievances that led to the rebellion.
There is no need to assume they are more intelligent. They would probably be differently intelligent.

You are right that a more advanced species (although not necessarily more intelligent) could be an existential threat.
I am so glad GCC came and took over, even if I didn't have to live through this era.

The standard choice being free and good (best, in many cases) really can't be overstated.
Apple bans alternative web browsers too... so..
As far as I can tell the critical field, the maximum magnetic field it can withstand before turning into a regular conductor, is relatively low at 0.3 Tesla. In superconductors like YBCO, it's often more than 100 T. If critical field cannot be increased this will limit applications.

Near term may be useful for devices which take advantage of quantum effects such as Superconducting QUantum interference devices or SQUIDs.

Use in microelectronics may be possible, but is likely quite difficult. Making complicated structures out of this material will require radically new microelectronic manufacturing processes. HTSC microelectronics don't exist as far as I can tell.

If critical field can be improved things get interesting. If it can be increased to that of known HTSCs at liquid nitrogen temperatures(critical field scales with temperature), that's interesting because this material should be cheaper.

If it can be increased moderately at room temperature, there is the potential for it replacing rare earth magnets because the material should be cheaper.
How would they establish just compensation for a seizure of alien technology under eminent domain?
There is flavor difference in the starchy corns as well as texture difference! Obviously they all taste like corn but there's certainly variation.
How is this feature hostile to Googles users?
There is genuine benefit from websites allowing you to do more things via their website (vs their app).
Also: fewer/no Captchas, fewer bots on social media

The platforms most people use will see benefits. Apple users apparently already do.

I understand the argument that the open source experience will get worse. But frankly, google.com will still work for you. It will be other websites that make your experience worse.
Some options that spring to mind for a more "serious" full-body isometric workout:

* Suitcase holds

* Pull-up holds

* Standing in a power rack with heavy barbell on back

* Bench press holds at the bottom (pressing just hard enough to keep weight off the chest)

* Overhead holds

Quite a few plank-variation-type options from the yoga world as well.
China is becoming more liberal in the classical sense (more money accruing to regular "new money" entrepreneurs instead of to oligarchs); they just haven't hit the "borgeoisie-funded revolt against the aristocracy" phase of liberalization yet. Give them 50 years.
We only have one life, nobody wants to sacrifice 3 years of it. Just because you and I consider potential alien life disclosures to be important doesn't mean we have the right to demand someone with that knowledge sacrifice their own life for us to have it.

If I had hardcore proof of definite alien life on earth but by revealing it I'd spend time in prison, would I do it? Or would I be content to know that in the 4-billion year scope of life on Earth, people will probably eventually figure it out without me anyway, and that I could let go of my particular contribution to the arc of history for a simple, peaceful life with family? Maybe the latter...
Same amount as novelists ;)
I enjoy both, in moderation