skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some personal anecdata: I have a genetic auto-immune condition, and my current treatment requires an injection every eight weeks. If untreated, the symptoms include inflammation of my body, especially sinuses, hands & fingers, feet & toes, elbows & knees. After taking my injection, the inflammation subsides.

About a year after starting treatment, I noticed that during the final week of that eight-week cycle and continuing for a few days after treatment, my time on Twitter was much higher than during the other 6.5-ish weeks. I figured it was something psychological, and was able to get my doctor to increase the frequency of doses, which curbed my Twitter visits even more.

Recently, I had a bout where due to insurance nonsense, I was delayed in getting my injection. I was heavily on Twitter, not as a result of conscious choice, but just because I felt like it. I took my shot a couple weeks ago, and have barely logged into Twitter over the last week and a half.

Correlation does not imply causation, but using my own anecdata, I can't rule out this study and in fact have some personal evidence to confirm it. I find it interesting that someone attempted to test a hypothesis that I had informally stated a few years ago.
also safetensors security audit: https://huggingface.co/blog/safetensors-security-audit
For what it's worth, 20/20 is a woefully inadequate measurement to claim good eyesight in the context of reading or computer use. (It works well for "can walk around town" or "can drive a car".)

Vision works differently at different distances. I have "20/20 vision" (see distant objects at least as well as average), but I also am practically unable to read small print, need reading glasses to read for more than 15 minutes or to read a backlit Kindle in the dark, I sometimes get eye strain headaches if I don't wear my computer glasses, and I'm suffering from glaucoma which, if untreated, will make me blind in a way where I'll likely retain 20/20 vision for a very long time while losing peripheral vision, contrast, and ability to read for more than 15 minutes.

The eye, and the nervous system it feeds, is a complex system with various failure modes.

If you have eye strain, go see an optician. If they think you should also see an ophthalmologist, do that too. If any of your parents/their siblings/grandparents developed glaucoma, and you're 40+ years, go see an ophthalmologist and tell them who all was affected, it's hereditary.
Darling Progress Report Q2 2023
I've read the opinion that comments were omitted from JSON in order to forestall hacky round-trip conversions to/from other formats (like XML).

Can anyone confirm/deny ?
I'm sure they would be more than happy to do that as soon as the check clears that you write them to fund the project.
A simpler test FWIW..
type:

data:text/html,<html>

Into your url bar and inspect that. Avoids server messing with encoding values. And yes, here on my linux machine in firefox it is windows-1252 too.

(You can type the complete document, but <html> is sufficient. Browsers autocomplete a valid document. BTW, data:text/html,<html contenteditable> is something I use quite a lot)

But yeah, I think windows-1252 is standard for quirks mode, for historical reasons.
Oh yeah, Windows key + A = Quick Actions

I dont really ever go into Quick Actions or use notifications in windows

Genuinely had not noticed there are ads in there. But there are, you are right. Well, I see a single 'suggested app' advert for a game.

Also I disabled web results in Windows Search a while back, maybe that helped
If cannot exceed due to bandwidth limit, can try https://web.archive.org/web/20230821170315/http://fpgaretroc...
Ah, the crummy US retail banking and payment system strikes again.
All designers I currently work with are 100% figma, but I work for bigcorp where things are a bit more formalised & designer friends working in the startup world are much more on the multitool/Adobe wagon.

Even so though, Figma, while an improvement, is still not where tools should be in this regard. It's a compromise between what's expected by Adobe-educated users and how things actually work on the web.
In Lower German, Norwegian and Swedish (at least), "lake" means "brine", as in pickling liquid. E.g. "saltlake" means specifically a brine that has a lot of salt. And this again comes from "lake" as in "body of water".

Curious if the etymology that lake is coming via the French "lacquer" is actually the correct one, when the alternative that is coming from proto-Germanic "laki" is much closer to the actual chemical composition and way of preparation of the dye lake?
Right. I use a microsoft account buit I'm in Europe so maybe that helps
Which firm was this?
It’s trivial as an Indian to get a tourist visa to Europe. I really doubt this is a valid scheme since it’s harder to do than the regular way.
Also check out Glorious Eggroll on Gihub for even better performance.
Well, to throw extra praise it ran GUI faster on the triple digit single core CPUs than near-any current JS abominations on quad digit multicore CPUs do nowadays...
> Just thinking about how to productize this flow, it should be quite easy to implement the "thumbs up/down" feedback option on every image generated in the UI, plus an optional text label to override "wrong". Then when you have enough HF (or nightly) you could have a batch job to re-train a new LoRA with your updated preferences.

The AI Horde [1] (an open source distributed cluster of GPUs contributed by volunteers) has a partnership with Stability.ai to effectively do this [2]. They are contributing some GPU resources to AI Horde to run an A/B test.

If a user of one of the AI Horde UIs (Lucid Creations[3] or ArtBot[4]... made by me) requests an image using an SDXL model, they get 2 images back. One was created using SDXL v1.0. The other was created using an updated model (you don't know which is which).

You're asked to pick which image you like better of the two. That's pretty much it. The result is sent back to Stability.ai for analysis and incorporation into future image models.

EDIT: There is a similar partnership between the AI Horde and LAION to provide user-defined aesthetics ratings for the same thing[5].

[1] https://aihorde.net/

[2] https://dbzer0.com/blog/stable-diffusion-xl-beta-on-the-ai-h...

[3] https://dbzer0.itch.io/lucid-creations

[4] https://tinybots.net/artbot

[5] https://laion.ai/blog/laion-stable-horde/
Apply advice from YouTube videos is hard. My friend and I built an app to help
Hey Hacker News, so my friend and I watch a lot of YouTube and feel inspired only to never end up applying the advice in the videos to our lives. So we built an app to help.

You can share any YouTube video or screenshot or notes (eg, taken during a talk) and it will guide you to setting relevant habits and goals. You can track these habits in-app and also have our AI check up on your progress.

Let us know what you think! Have you faced the same problem? How have y'all been solving it so far? Do you think there's a better way than what we built?
Re: economic growth from innovation vs capital + labor, a clear example is the Industrial Revolution. Innovations in the steam engine facilitated innovations in manufacturing processes. Prior innovations in agricultural techniques enabled labor to move into the city to operate these new machines.

The capital and labor followed the innovation. Without the innovation, there would not have been an extreme boost in growth, no matter how much capital and labor accumulation took place.

Hanson, a brilliant economics professor (among other things), shouldn't need to justify or provide citations for every basic statement about economics. It is often useful to lay out assumptions up front to provide context for the body of the essay.
I tried to address that in the article. Did you read it? If so, what could I do to clarify?
> You are being very reductive

And why is that bad?

> Lots of us already live in cities but our neighbors and elected leaders have let this get massively out of hand. I have lived in Seattle my entire life, as has my wife, and we raised kids here. One of them has had to move away because they can't afford housing here and the other has moved to Marysville just to be able to afford something.

A quick check. Can you tell me how many new units Seattle has created within the last ~12 years in percentage of the total?

> Never mind that a lot of those "trendy" areas are where jobs and cultural activities are.

"Cultural activities" that are specific for large cities for the vast majority of people consist of going to a game maybe once a year.
question, why aren't we building more nuclear power plant like china?
isn't gen 4 reactor safer?
My phone's GPS only works because that mapping keeps being better than anything else we've tested on that scale.

The atomic clocks (as I mentioned in another comment) demonstrating gravitational time dilation within a building is another fun example.
If you run a successful restaurant and the landlord hikes your rent you can hardly move town.

Yes it’s rent seeking. It’s also the way capitalism works.
>So there's a motivation to store simpler strings using 1 byte per char.

What advantage would this have over UTF-7, especially since the upper 128 characters wouldn't match their Unicode values?
If they don't want to explain how to do things in a way they disagree with, then the appropriate response is to not say anything at all.

The current culture on SO is to flood questions with "don't do X, do Y", then upvote those answers. The result is that questions look answered but actually aren't, so the questions stay unanswered. When I come along months or years later having already considered all options, I don't want to have my time wasted by a question that perfectly matches my goal but was never answered because it got drowned in alternative approaches that I already ruled out.
A professional artist that is proficient in the latest generative image models can increase their ability to attend to client needs.
In-Q-Tel (https://www.iqt.org/) is what you want.
> And reporters are pretty bad at taking this on.

If they do, they won’t get the interview next time.
Small consultants, like me, are a world apart from what is otherwise an accurate depiction of big consulting. My firm and many of my friendly competitors, work on specific questions or projects - do it cheaply, quickly and within scope.

Sometimes you need the resources size brings to the project, but absent mergers, migrations and enterprise software launches - small consulting is probably the better choice.

Also, the same can be said of big law and big accounting - albeit on the legal side senior partners often bring more value.
How the rich get richer (2020)
I think you're right about the current limitations, but imagine a trillion or ten trillion parameter model trained and RLHF'd for this specific use case. It may take a year or two, but I see no reason to think it isn't coming.

Yes, hardware requirements will be steep, but it will still be cheap compared to equivalent human illustrators. And compute costs will go down in the long run.
> Both firefox and chrome give me "windows-1252" on Windows, for which the "windows" part in the name is of course irrelevant; what matters is what it's not, which is that it's not UTF-8, because the content has nothing in it to warrant UTF-8.

While technically latin-1/iso-8859-1 is a different encoding than windows-1252, html5 spec says browsers are supposed to treat latin1 as windows-1252.
Has Trump’s Patriot Legal Defense Fund Website Been Hacked?
“Clean” energy. Gas fired plants are clean: they only produce CO2 and H20. Nuclear is “dirty”: they produce no CO2, but relatively small amounts of highly toxic waste.

Bonus for “clean” “biomass” plants that actually produce hazard gases from burning tires!
I don't know how common it is, but the AI War developers posted recently about their new game & said Steam recommended they drop their Linux port, saying that just relying on Proton would be better performing & a better use of time.

I'm very curious how widespread this advice is. It's a little sad & ironic to me if Proton is now entrenching Windows as the only target platform. I'm hoping this wasn't blanket advice Valve is handing out but really something specific to the team.
Zypper has excellent dependency resolution, it hasn't given me any trouble. DNF is just as good, from what I hear. Apt and yum are an earlier generation of package manager, and I've seem them get themselves into jams on more than one occasion so I understand what you're saying and can sympathize with your perspective, but those shortcomings aren't inherent to the premise of traditional package management.

I use AppImage for the sort of software that won't get packaged (proprietary or obscure) and zypper for pretty much everything else (excepting a few programs I build myself due to reasons.)
Homes are still moving in my area of Orange county. Average home sale is > 2x what we paid in the first half of 2016. Jumbo loans at 7%. It truly blows my mind.
There is zero "chance" in being in serious accident while intoxicated. Nobody fell down on a bottle of whiskey and accidentally drank it and then chose to drive.

We can have a meaningful discussion whether a single bad decision should destroy a life,but let's call it what it is, a decision, not a "chance".
Can you not simply move your registration to another provider (Amazon etc)
I don't recall. It was just an article I read on the subject this weekend, and I don't even remember who published it to even attempt to look it up.

However, I don't know why the specific service actually matters. There's a word for a person not granted access to a system accessing the system without permission. It's in the name of this website
Mostly agreed on all of this. The only real way out for people on SSI, based on my experience, is to get a degree in a field where your disability doesn't hold you back. For me, this was computer science.

However, I'm not about to go tell everyone on SSI the way out of that poverty trap is to simply 'learn to code'. I'm fully aware that 'learning to code' isn't even an option for most of the able bodied population, much less those dealing with disabilities.

I simply don't hold out much hope that governments will ever allow those 'on disability' to live a dignified life.
Also people cannot judge great art or imagery. Unless you have had the training. But the average person? Nope. You can tell what you LIKE but that’s not the same.
Stack overflow started out with a lot of Microsoft ecosystem people, eg. Joel Spolsky. I worked at Microsoft in 2008 and this kind of de-framing was a bit of a corporate cultural obsession there at that time. You'd report a bug internally and PMs would ask you what you were really trying to do ... It was frustrating when you wanted people to just fix their shit. Instead people would universally treat you like you didn't know what you were doing and really meant to ask something else. I saw this trait a lot on SO around the same time.
Best of luck with your side business in that case. I have a similar "exit strategy" myself, but working on an indie game has never been described as a safe investment. I may not be frustrated at the job market, but I don't wanna be another one of those stories of "I quit my full time job to make this cruddy rougelite! Why does the world hate me".

Similar to my current situation, I want to make sure I have savings and backup plans and backup-backup plans for if/when that venture fails. But I want to try at least once, something to truly call "my own", made on my own power.
Greenhouse gas emissions don't exist to make the earth cooler in general; or in the long run; it exists to make existing residents of Earth richer.

It is intended to make the earth warmer for others (future Earth entrants).

It is redistributive in that it heats the earth for future, richer, more technologically advanced populations that will be more equipped to handle the heat and runaway warming, while allowing more wealth accumulation for the less technologically advanced (and thus more deserving) current human society.

yes, in very much the same way as climate - destroying what exists (affordable housing) in order to benefit incumbents is bad politics, bad policy, and bad ethically.

nevermind that, looking at the poll, most indicate that rent controlled apartments fall into the hands of the rich anyways - who then are protected from poorer renting populations moving in. See: New York City.
Sure, as I said in my post I agree the rest is up for debate, and again I'm not supporting the raid. But the specific claim about the document being a public record seems prima facie false, and nothing you mentioning here is supporting that claim.

I do appreciate the deeper analysis on why the warrant doesn't hold up. It doesn't seem to me that you need to make any claim about the document being public in order to make it clear that the warrant was dubious; I think you could just retract that specific claim and then your argument would be on very strong ground.
> University media offices

Relevant comic: https://phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1174
Probably because it is a scam or a vaporware I guess...
Proton has earned steam my business forever. I haven't booted into Windows in over a year.
>Haven't you heard of Postel's Maxim?

Otherwise known as "Making other people's incompetence and inability to implement a specification your problem." Just because it's a widely quoted maxim doesn't make it good advice.
But in general the better something is the harder it is to improve.

From an outsiders' perspective it looks like we've had a series of achievements where AI worked impressively well considering it isn't a human. But afterwards we got an incremental grind that never got close to an AI that's just good, period.

I'm very impressed people got self-driving car demos working. I couldn't do that. But year after year self-driving cars remained a demo, albeit an incrementally improving one.
> .tk allows free registration, so that seems promising, but I doubt it will last

.tk has been free for years and years. i think it's lasted ok. it won't be good for search engine results though, and probably isn't good to use for email. it's good if you have no money.. like those free1000.hostingforyou.net hosts. you can put together a warez site from the street!
> This is wrong. You can prove this very easily by creating a HTML file with UTF-8 text while omitting the charset. It will render correctly.

I'm pretty sure this is incorrect.
I have been using stable diffusion for my web designs and it’s been working great for me but I always build my figma designs separately. I use the generated designs as a palette where I sample from. It’s a glorified Behance or Pinterest vision board. Chat GPT is similar with code as it’s a glorified stack overflow where I get inspiration or quick fixes. The AI tools haven’t as of yet been so cohesive enough to replace the aggregator of these pieces of inspiration. Being classical trained in not CS and design will always be needed to filter AI suggestions. AI will eventually get proficient enough to reach that stage, but as it is now, it’s not even close.
If the devs test with Proton, then I don't see a problem. Proton is open source, so the future of games that run well with Proton seems secure.
Do you want more games to be played on Linux or not? Because we've been trying the whole "please target native Linux" thing for awhile now and it simply isn't appealing enough to ever work.

Evangelism is useless in the face of results.
Proton almost always runs better than Linux native. Windows is the only stable ABI on Linux, now.
I love deep dark places. My favorite memory is of visiting the Grand Canyon Caverns. I loved when they turned out the lights and it was absolutely pitch black. A dorm like that would be amazing for me. No street lights, no car noise, no windows for people to peek into. However I can see why it would make a bunch of non troglodyte people feel weird.
If reporters really wanted an answer to the question, the next reporter to be called on could just press for an answer to the previous question. But they don’t; in a press conference situation, the goal of reporters is to be seen, so their fame goes up, and to avoid antagonizing the host, since if they do, they won’t be invited to the next press conference.
Faint young Sun paradox
I don't get it.

If I say that I have two children and (at least) one is a boy you will say that the probability that I have one boy and one girl is 2/3.

If I say that I have two children and (at least) one is a girl you will say that the probability that I have one boy and one girl is 2/3.

If I say that I have two children and (at least) one is a [unintelligible] will you say that the probability that I have one boy and one girl is 1/2 or 2/3?

Edit: If you're going to say that [unintelligible] could be anything other than boy or girl - and are not willing to assume that it has to be one or the other consider the following alternatives:

If I say that I have two children and (at least) one is a [word in a foreign language that you know that means girl or boy but you don't remember which one] will you say that the probability that I have one boy and one girl is 1/2 or 2/3?

If I say that I have two children and (at least) one is [of the same sex as the first child of some other person that you don't know] will you say that the probability that I have one boy and one girl is 1/2 or 2/3?
Where in the US are perpetual rights to extend 1 year leases the law?
> In an update the university provided to students when the RFQ went out, which a UCSB representative shared with TRD, school officials said they are continuing “to work on the planning and consultation process for Munger Hall” and that the university “is also actively moving forward simultaneously with plans to develop additional housing options for our students.”

IOW: "We're working our contacts in Sacramento and Washington for alternative funding, but at the moment we have zippo, nada."
> The no-circular-dependencies rule was a huge pain though. It allowed the compiler to be very fast (along with it basically not optimizing), but no other language has copied this

C++20 Modules, .NET Assemblies, D modules, Ada packages, and plenty of other othes.

Also, Turbo Pascal did indeed allow for circular dependencies between units, as long as the related uses statements were written in the implementation section of the unit, and there were no public dependencies.

Thanks to bitsavers, Turbo Pascal 5 manual, page 97,

http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/borland/tur...
I regret not buying an apt in 2021 at a fantastic interest rate. Even though I moved since then, it would have been very easy to rent it, and inflation would have paid for it.

Since then, interest rates have only increased, and in my location, real estate is at a record high. It's been increasing pretty much since the 90s without a break. I don't believe a bubble will break any time soon. Also, materials/energy is getting more expensive, there's a lack of labour, so even building/renovating places isn't an option.
Eh, that's part of it, but it's also that the next reporter already knew which question they wanted to ask. They probably didn't pay that much attention to the answer to the previous question because they were busy formulating their own question.
I had an interview for a large well-known bank software internship maybe 15 years ago. One interview was a role-play in which I was attending a meeting in lieu of my boss with someone from another division of the bank to discuss a behind-schedule project.

Role-play starts and this guy storms in, slams the door and starts shouting about how the software department are useless and how are we going to proceed. At one point he yelled that without his department we wouldn't have money to keep the lights on.

In retrospect, I'm sure this was a lot of fun for him and it might have been a good filter but I also am more than happy that I did not proceed to the next round if this is what they wanted to show me about their culture.