skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently learned that it is, but that's not at all obvious for non-US people. In Europe an apartment is an apartment, and the ownership status is a separate matter. Condo is a not a word anyone uses or probably even understands over here.
https://archive.today/ZzJ3F
> I guess any culture could be life-and-death then, including knitting, if you take into account suicide.

You realize there's a reason he committed suicide, right? People don't start knitting, face the prospect of spending the rest of their lives in prison for knitting, and then go, "I don't see any way out" and kill themselves.

This is such an insensitive and dishonest argument you're making.

> It seems like you have a bone to pick since you are claiming things about me that aren't true,

I have made exactly one claim about you: you're gatekeeping what it means to be a hacker. You said: "That couple sounds reckless, dangerous, and without regard to the consequences of their actions. Not exactly people I would picture as hackers." That's pretty clear.

If you don't like your behavior being accurately described, behave better?

> I don't care to waste my time with that. Whether you reply or not, I won't reply again.

You're better than being called a gatekeeper, but you're not better than announcing your exit, eh?
>Any sign that it's better at understanding complex textual prompts, and not just at making high-quality images?

The video I have linked.
Rent-to-own is already a thing if both parties consent.

Forcibly taking something from somebody just because somebody else wants it is rather totalitarian.
I feel like Colorado is creeping up there in terms of costs comparable to California. I'm disappointed rent control keeps failing to pass committee, they bumped my rent 12.5% this year. I didn't get a 12.5% pay increase, I can tell you that.
I can't believe a 30% performance improvement has been sitting there.. for 12 Android versions??
Metaphors for Thinking about LLMs
And one of the largest proximate causes of a housing disaster for young people in California - taking from the poorest generations in the state to give to the wealthiest and interfering with the effective operation of housing markets in the process.
I guess the best I can offer is the general principle that intellectual curiosity is the guiding value here (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...)
, and indignant/flamey/ranty comments tend to be out of that register.

One important aspect of this is repetition. If a comment is repeating something that has been said many times before, its curiosity value approaches zero—and indignation makes that happen faster.

Conversely, the more new information or unexpected twists a comment contains, the better it is for curiosity.
RFQ No. FM240014 UCSB Student Housing Infill and Redevelopment Project
The study does not include a breakdown, other than a map with unlabelled dots.

https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.adf7704

You can browse the data they used here, though:

https://grambank.clld.org/languages
Cheap phones have terrible frame rate so they have to make the animations long to appear smooth.

Imagine short animation in 200ms at 25fps only gives you 5 frames. It’s going to look janky and tacky. Make it 1000ms and it looks smooth and nice, except hopeless to use.

(Unpopular?) solution: get an iphone. Their app switcher works as fast as your finger moves, with no problem of delivering consistent 60fps.
Thought the use of the word "lake" here was interesting. (Of course, not the same as a lake you can swim in):

From French laque (“lacquer”), from Persian لاک‎ (lâk), from Hindi लाख (lākh), from Sanskrit लक्ष (lakṣa, “one hundred thousand”), referring to the number of insects that gather on the trees and make the resin seep out. Doublet of lakh, lac and lacquer.

(https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lake#Etymology_4)
The connotation of "Witch doctor" is different from "witch", and depends on the part of Africa under consideration.

Foe example, in West Africa, there is the phenomenon of "fetish priests" which is the equivalent of the "Witch Doctors" of southern Africa, and those priests are usually men. Their social meaning, though generally negative to many, is still quite different from the female witches who are accused and attacked.
Yes, and that's exactly what the GP was trying to say.
>Also, the hostility towards a prompt expert adding another layer of technical "know how" into the process... is entirely warranted

I don't know either of you and I have no stake in this but as an outside observer I think you come off pretty unreasonable here still. You seem to think your hostility was justified because you've basically made this person the scapegoat for your frustration about this topic.
It is practically impossible unless one is in prison or something. In the future it could be enforced with biometrics authentication interlocks.
I remember a website that "raced" different sorting algorithms visually but I don't remember which website, or which oddball algorithm that stood out to me as being especially good for "continuous partial ordering".

Most sorts are designed to "really sort something", however I'm very interested in eg: ranking preferences of movies, and in cases like that there may never be "the one true ordering" ... however the mechanism for getting things "closer to sorted" is incredibly close to the mechanism you mentioned: multiple passes, and continual, incremental progress.

My imaginary GUI for interactive sorting in this manner is something like starting with a few "A vs. B" of a generally accepted "top 10/100 vs generic v pretty bad", and then morph to a "drag this new movie in between a few other movies either above, between, or below"

There are sorting algorithms for computers (eg: compare + swap), but fewer sorting algorithms for humans (eg: bucket sort / postman's sort - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucket_sort#Postman's_sort ) which can take advantage of "not just compare and swap" to get things "close to correct" quicker.
That's the justification, but not the reason.
Looked very interesting untill I saw the monthly subscription. Does not make sense.. What would make sense in my head is a full demo for a week. Then $100-200 onetime for a personal pro..

I really hope this project surfaces in my feed in a couple of weeks with a more sane model
To be fair, our current capitalist country isn't really innovating much. Most of our products are getting worse due to de-featurization, engineering-obselescence, anti-repair, throw away culture, and the like.

Like vehicles, the new feature is monthly charge for heated seats, or 'enable the whole battery pack to be used'. Cell phones are battery-sealed for 'reasons', along with easy rapid charging (read: battery destroying charge).

I know plastics are used EVERYWHERE, including things like gears and structural members that will guaranteedly break. And where old electronics had schematics and repair diagrams, now "just throw it away" cause there are no replacement parts to buy.

Or worse yet, theres the expensive gadgets that have required cloud tie-in. Cloud changes/goes away? Hello garbage bin.

I get tired of all this.
Should be Medical Lies and Manipulations
I think it's already shifting back. Everyone couple I know under the age of 30 met IRL
Like many commonly used, potentially life-saving medications, hydroxychloroquine has contraindications--circumstances in which it is not safe to prescribe.

Hydroxychloroquine in particular can cause fatal cardiac arrhythmias in people with certain heart abnormalities that may be diagnosed with a stethoscope or EKG. (That's not its only contraindication, but it seems to be the one relevant to this lawsuit.)

> The wrongful death lawsuit claims that Culver never performed a physical examination of Parker, then 52 years old, nor did she run any diagnostic tests to ensure that drug would be safe to prescribe.

There are plenty of medications that are prescribed to millions of people but still aren't safe to prescribe to just anyone. Sometimes doctors must weigh risks against benefits and prescribe hazardous medications, but I hope you'd agree they shouldn't just... not make the simplest effort to check for known risk factors?
Innovate on a cure for childhood cancers, for example.

Don’t pretend that we have all we need.
> The hijacking of scrolling pisses me off so god damn much that I've considered building Firefox from source and modifying the code to completely eliminate a website's ability to set the scroll position.[0]

That'll break just about every cloud logging UI I'm aware of, but what you do to your own UA is your business.
All programs are guaranteed to either halt or repeat their state. There is no guarantee they will halt.
Yup. I support expensive social programs with minimal means testing. I'd rather give every kid a school lunch on my tax dime than have kids go hungry because their parents weren't poor enough to get a free meal. The wealthy kids parents are already subsidizing meals so why not let them have a free meal as well?

It's silly to bill people twice for the same product to make sure the underserved aren't accidently helped.
Freelancers in the united states are not allowed to bargain collectively for better prices, as that's considered market manipulation/price fixing. ["Independent Contractors" are literally banned from forming a union in the USA.]
I don't think anyone would make a deal with oracle on a "don't worry this isn't legally binding, you're just stating your intent to comply" basis.
I've been using .xyz as my primary email address. Everything from banking to shopping, to governmental stuff. The number of sites that gave me problems is probably less than 10 that I can remember. I have around 700 accounts in my password manager so go figure.
It's not anyone's responsibility to answer at all.
Results and quality are often not entirely linearly correlated.

MrBeast said something along the lines of, spending 2x longer on a YouTube video might lead to 10x more views. The reason for that is, that a video that does decently well and a video that really goes viral are often quite similar in quality, it's just that last bit of effort to take everything from good to perfect that can 10x or even 100x your results.

In that way, it might be better to upload 1 really good video every month than 4 great videos or even 30 okay videos.

I'd imagine the same goes for blogging.
I thought the same thing on correlation/causation. However, the most SM active person I know also has lupus so it checks out /s

I tend to think being idle is what drives most SM usage. Inflammation just happens to drive idle time because of pain being the alternative.
Intermittent fasting improves Alzheimer's pathology in mouse model
Direct link to primary source. As mentioned in:

https://therealdeal.com/la/2023/08/08/ucsb-wants-to-replace-...

https://www.archpaper.com/2023/08/university-california-aban...

https://www.dwell.com/article/modern-dorm-design-student-hou...
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2023/08/latest-art... has a lot more details.
I'm sure they ment that. It's also enough to have a program fetch truely random data from random.org.
> That's like saying as the price of circular saws drop in price, hand made furniture becomes cheaper.

Uh... and it's true? If the price of circular saws drop in price, and the demand for hand-made furniture doesn't change, then they'll become cheaper. How much cheaper is another question, as circular saws are already very cheap today, compared to hand-made furniture.

So yeah, you're right, it's just like saying that.

> if there was no money in the career

It's unlikely to decline indefinitely. Piracy, Spotify, more youtube channel teaching how to make music... all these didn't prevent Billie Eilish from becoming a star.
One option is to dither around, and digitize nothing and then it all gets lost.
For what it’s worth, I agree. I’m circumcised and I turned out ok - but I probably wouldn’t have chosen it, I don’t like the idea of forcing it on people, and it doesn’t seem as though there’s a lot of benefit in a country like the US.

In the case of using male circumcision as a prophylaxis against HIV in Africa, the benefits seem much clearer (there’s an HIV epidemic running out of control), and the WHO guidelines are careful to say “Aimed at adolescent boys and men” in the title:

https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/978-92-4-000854-0
Rate-Limiting Primer
Okay, but I've been in plenty of conversations where I ask "I read in a book that we should be doing X, how are people doing X?"[1], and the answers I got, _from a community that included the book author_, were "first, make sure you're doing A, B and C."[2] When in fact I am doing that already. Do I have to really preface every question with "i promise i'm not the idiot you assume I am?"

1: "This book says to monitor ML systems for distribution shifts; what tools are people using to store that data and monitor for changes?"
2: "Make sure you're monitoring normal SRE statistics like request failure rate"
Thank you for not considering ad spam. I know some people whose work I respect, who have the worst ads on their sites. I'm going to make time to ask them if they're getting paid well for those terrible ads, and if they're aware how bad it makes their sites look.

If you can identify some quality resources for people who are going bald, you might reach out to those people and see if they'll buy an ad spot from you. That's how it used to work, and with a high quality site that's getting views, that approach might work.
Quaking Giants Might Solve the Mysteries of Stellar Magnetism
Society has changed, though. I've seen it during my lifetime. The pandemic certainly changed everything as far as in-person socialization is concerned. But even before the pandemic, people were becoming increasingly isolated and antisocial, and there are a lot of factors at play here. Technology has changed how we interact. Instead of looking around and striking up a conversation with a stranger, they have their heads down looking at their smartphones. And the increasing prevalence of remote work has left fewer opportunities to meet people at work. Sexual mores have also changed. There's a lot more awareness of sexual harassment nowadays, which is good, but it also makes people more reticent to flirt in many situations.

That's not a comprehensive list of relevant societal changes, just some factors off the top of my head.

The very existence of the dating apps makes them difficult to avoid, because if that's where a significant % of the population are already looking, then you're ruling yourself out from that population by avoiding them.
You can read the article and the linked Android developer blog post if you want to get a glimpse of why this is so complicated.
China’s property crisis deepens as developer Country Garden at risk of default
Yes, there are downsides of the flexibility that renting provides.

So if you feel a need to buy a home, you should be able to do it. But the government should not be propping up unsustainable markets at considerable risk to the rest of us to let you do so - if you can afford a home and get a bank to lend you the money and assume the risk, you should be able to. But I am not sacrificing my ability to afford quality housing to give you government-guaranteed mortgages, it's a massive moral hazard.

If you need the fixed-income security, pay for it.
Then you send them to the new website. It's about as much a bother as changing postal addresses.
Politicians do it all the time: "Answer the question you wish you were asked, not the question you were actually asked." And reporters are pretty bad at taking this on.
Cool concept, I think it's a good mission & target, too many platforms are just content farms or for keeping up appearances.

And awesome to see what you're doing with Flutter! Looks like Map support has come a long way. Loaded well for me on desktop.

UX feedback - definitely want some more onboarding for the web experience (as others have mentioned), and maybe a smoother intro into the big space. The map view is really cool, good for generating interest, but also a bit overwhelming (where to start?).

Looks like you're onto something.
Can confirm the boot time with Win10 on HDD. Can't argue about updates, took about a couple of hours, def. not days.
The same reason anyone has always used a HDD? … they're dirt cheap, compared to SSDs.

I'd consider hybrid being the best cost option, with a small SSD backing frequently used data, like the OS. But there's more complexity in that setup. I'm also a Linux user, and boot times don't bother me.
Back in the day I was hacking on WoW-related stuff like server emulators, and it was always very noticeable how much care Blizzard put into this kind of stuff. The (iirc) torrent-based patch distribution for WoW etc. was really well done. Kudos, especially in such a high-pressure industry!
Not a video call but a recording made by the user, and not specifically for accessibility testing, but UserTesting is something similar like that.
I view this in the same way I view the use of an actor's voice for ai generations. Even if the person knows what you're doing with their data, it still feels really scummy and unethical. The idea that we can sample someone else's labor and be able to own that and generate shit from it in perpetuity (probably without paying them) feels very alienating.
After a 1-hour presentation, "come back tomorrow and we'll tell you the details of the job."

Nope.
I once was interviewing for an internship at a quant firm in Chicago (I was in my Sophomore year I think at UIUC) and my interview went pretty well up to the point of my second-last interview of the day.

Then, I sat down with the VP of engineering, and he opened the interview with "so, what do you think it is we do here?" And I naturally stuttered through a canned answer about how they use arbitrage opportunities in the market to profit off of mis-priced securities, etc. Then he asked me, "but what benefit do we provide? Why is working here good for society?"

I blanked, and didn't answer for about 15 seconds. Then, I tried to start piecing together an answer until he stopped me, told me he had found my Facebook, and wasn't appreciative of my politics (I was moderately lefty in high school, significantly more so now; maybe this conversation is part of why). He had _printouts_ of some posts I had made criticizing George W. Bush, talking about why I thought we should be raising taxes on higher earners, supporting Obamacare, etc. He told me that he didn't think I had the "cojones to stomach the job" (direct quote), and told the recruiter not to bother with the last interview and that I had failed.

I _sobbed_ on the train home; I think it was the worst I had ever felt about an interview in my entire life, and yet looking back at it, I think this was the best possible outcome. Imagine if I had worked for this asshole.

I've worked for companies I don't personally agree with in the past; it's part of living in a society(TM). I am able to hold my nose to a certain extent to make an income for my family (heck, I am currently having to cross picket lines to come to work, which makes me feel icky). But I can't fathom what hell I would have been living under had I gotten and taken that job.
What is the point of domain brokering? A company shows up to squat on a domain nobody was using and then extort a premium when someone comes along who actually wants to use it. It's pure useless rent seeking. They add no value to anything, they merely tax the public in exchange for nothing.
Life is better without circular dependencies
>No, this is not an answer, because it breaks number of laws of physics, such conservation of energy.

THE WHOLE POINT of GR is that it explains things that "classical" physics did not, while also explaining everything that classical physics did. Nothing in GR "breaks the laws of physics" because GR largely IS the laws of physics now.

If you want to throw away GR by using a "Static Universe" theory, you have to re-derive a hundred different solutions to problems you bring back into physics by doing so. Einstein literally TRIED to put a static universe into GR because he thought it felt better, and turned out to be dead wrong!

In terms of "what drives the expansion", to us, within the universe, it's just what we see. It could very well be that it's a property of whatever "substrate" or "Stuff/emptyness" that a "Universe" exists in, if "exists" even makes sense in that context. It could be a completely unknowable to us thing. There are very likely phenomena and questions that we cannot ever answer, because we simply have no way of probing them.

All we know is that the way GR says to do the math works out really well for like 99.99% of things, and if you want to come up with a model that doesn't allow space to change "size", you have a shitload of math left to do at a minimum. If you want to understand how we got here, you have 400 years of physics history to read up on. None of this is about the "correctness" of GR either. It just makes the best predictions so far, and in science, all that matters is who makes the best predictions. Want to supersede the GR model? Just predict something correctly that GR cannot, while also predicting everything else correctly.
EasyDNS pricing - over 11% increase, from $17 to $19.
> they should just change the published requirements to reflect reality.

Marketing won't let them so long as it would piss off PC OEMs that still ship crappy systems and want to use the Windows logo.
My personal culture that I adhere to.

That said, I mentioned stigma, I didn't say anything about culture - and I'm not sure why it is at all relevant to my point.
That's my porch cat, Sable. She just showed up one day and made herself at home. Real sweet cat. I've taken her to the vet a few times for bad wounds.

Was on the porch the other night and saw her take a 15 foot dump out of a tree with a rat ( big one too). She landed on top and made short work of the rat. She's an excellent ratter.
meanwhile, python DASK is very well funded to be cloud-native, and also local.. however it relies on a python runtime, so you know .. also not sure about the DASK license terms
… that video really doesn't sell Windows very well. My Linux laptop boots ~40s faster.
This reminds me of when Paul Graham asked a question about Python and someone said they weren't going to do their homework for them.
I've actually done it [0], I'd like to have an AI assistant that I could directly use the results from, and the results were really terrible, mostly laughably terrible. I think it was too far from what the models handled correctly at the time, and given that issue it was not enough training images. Although I had also tried with a model that was better at handling stylised 2D. I'd like it to work, but I don't think it's viable for most people.

[0] https://woolion.art/2022/11/16/SDDB.html
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Uh, the most simple explanation is that’s he’s not attractive enough?