skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Financial advisors aren't just investment brokers, but can help you optimize your finances to get the max of your local tax regulations or maybe even recommend some foreign jurisdictions as well with more benefits.

Almost every country in the world has some undocumented open loopholes that the rich or the system savvy can exploit to reduce their tax burden, and get a lot more back from the state (or avoid paying in the first place), and the people not knowing them can loose a lot in the long run by not knowing how to play the game in their favor.

For example, in Germany and Austria, there's an insane amount of wealth built on the tax fraud of cash-only businesses, especially for small family businesses in more rural areas where strict audits are less likely. It's not legal, it's fraud, but the people who know the game, know how to exploit it without ever getting caught, that's why flashing and discussing wealth there is socially frowned upon (because many have it obtained through inheritance of a "dark past™" or tax fraud, and it's tough to explain to everyone and the tax man how you bought a new Porsche and a villa in the south of Europe just by selling sausages on the weekend, so everyone flies under the radar by driving old cars and dressing modestly, while sitting on small empires on the side without anyone being the wiser).
They take millenia to take off line

Better get started
> This is the most arbitraged thing in the world, [...]

So we agree and you say that this thing is already priced in? Good.

Yes, market participants anticipate many things, and make their contracts based on what they expect. Not on any mechanical considerations of what happened before.
Sorry, no hard data. Mostly the perception of the industry at the time. Lots of tales of people quitting, moving, or going on "indefinite hiatus".

TBH "Fly or Die" was way more common on the US side of the industry. And even in the USA by the late '90s to the end of the 2010 it was somewhat doable if you were skilled enough to make a living solo (we're talking 60-80K/year max) as a "jobber" opening for bigger acts on local venues.

Like, the entire NYC indie scene got a start from this premise. If you get a chance, give a look to "Meet Me in the Bathroom"[1], which is a documentary specifically of this timeframe.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n71c1Szjv08&themeRefresh=1
I am not a software engineer. When (for my work) I/we need a decent chunk of development done, we get the pros.

BUT, sometimes I want something that will automate the fudge out of my PC (imagine command prompt on overdrive). I usually DDG for the solution and end up in some 10yo solution in StackExchange, which doesn't do the thing.

My friends have all forgotten their DOS skills.. so I turn to ChatGPT and boom! I get me 2 paragraphs script in 30secs.

Do I hire devs? Hell yeah and we pay well, and we will continue to do so for many years.
Do I use ChatGPT for the small (personal) stuff? Hell yeah too.

Now, if a company wants to outsource everything to an LLM/AI then I wish them the best of luck, coz when something will break (and oh IT WILL), Tthe contractor they screwed over should charge them x50!!!!
>You seem to assume that creditors are a bunch of morons?

After 2008 and 'too big to fail', you don't?
git-annex is something to consider too. It's kind of like git LFS in that it doesn't directly store files in the git repo (so the files can be enormous or change frequently without all the overhead of commits in git), but it's more flexible and allows you to direct the files to be stored and retrieved from many different types of file stores (network drives, piles of discs/burned CDs/USB drives, S3 storage, etc.). Basically throw all your music files wherever you want, tell git-annex where they live, and then ask it what music you want on what machines and it will do the rest to go figure out what needs to happen to materialize those files in the right locations.

I'd be leery of storing the music files in a git repo directly as MP3 tags and metadata are a wild west and some music players do wacky things like update ID3 tags with play counts, etc. on every listen (which would require committing and pushing music on every listen!).
said by "Tim Judson, executive director of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS), a group that advocates for sustainable energy without nuclear power"

Awesome. Articles are quoting English majors on the nuances of nuclear danger...

https://www.linkedin.com/in/timothy-judson-85aa4014/

"Specialties: Organizational and Campaign Strategy, Policy Research and Analysis, Strategic Messaging and Communications, Field Organizing, Campaign Logistics, Government Relations, Grassroots Organizational Development"
Here's an example using my dog - a trained checkpoint on one of the nicer SD 1.5 models and a LoRA for the SDXL ones: https://imgur.com/a/PklEKwC

The first 3 images are some of my attempts at making her into a Pokemon. Some turned out pretty good (after generating 50+ per type), but I struggled with water in particular. It was hard to get her to have a fin, especially with no additional tail.

I haven't done many in SDXL, but that's the point. I've probably generated..10 images of her as a Pokemon, just when I first trying out the LoRA. The next 2 images are from that, and that was before I had a good ComfyUI workflow to boot.

The rest are various sample images from SDXL showing how versatile it is. In most of those, I only had to generate a few images per prompt to get something pretty darn great. In the Halo 2 one the prompt was literally "an xbox 360 screenshot of cinderdog in Halo 2, multiplayer."

And it made her into a freaking Elite, and it worked wonderfully. I previously tried to generate ones like those candyland images in 1.5 models and the foreground and background just didn't look good. In SDXL it just works.
UWP is dead.
A fun way to improvise without knowing any harmony on a regular keyboard is to stick to the black keys. This is basically a pentatonic scale and doesn't have any big dissonances.
If there's a security issue, I want to be able to update libraries and such independently of applications rather than waiting for the application devs to do it.

I don't think it's caused a problem for me in the last 10 years or more. It may have and just forgotten about it, though. If it happens, it's not a huge problem to fix it.
Even better when you label the "wifi montiroing device" as "WMD" and strap it to a drone.

Also, why do I even know this? What is life anymore? Haha.
> Once there was a remote mountaintop monastery, nestled high in the clouds above a deep gorge. To reach the monastery, visitors were required to ride in a basket pulled up from the top. One day, halfway up the cliff, a tourist frowned at the condition of the rope. He asked his guide, "How often do they replace this rope, anyway?" The monk answered "We have a large team of monks who continuously monitor the rope using advanced technology. We actually invented the field of reliability analysis to help us keep this rope safe. If we notice anything wrong with the rope, we immediately repair it. The rope is guarded by heavily armed guards to make sure no one sabotages it."

FTFY
The reasoning in the ruling is a bit different: copyright was invented to give humans a financial incentive to create art. Machines need no incentive, so they do not need copyright :)

So, if the basic distinction here is:

- if AI can create something all by itself, then it is not copyrightable (due to "machines need no incentive" rule)

- if AI still needs human help, then it is just a tool (like a brush, or computer with Photoshop installed), and the human is the real author. It's not just about an "editorial process" - book editors do not have any copyright even after they fix hundreds of typos and grammar mistakes of the original author.

Also, the plaintiff is making contradictory claims: when applying for copyright he said that AI was fully autonomous, but then, in the lawsuit he tries to change his story and say that his role in creating the piece of art was crucial. Probably just desperately fighting to make any money from this.
yes you're right. we have a map with a toolbar at the top of the screen. when zoom was enabled people were constantly zooming in preventing them from being able to see some or all of the buttons hindering their ability to use the app. and causing confusion because they didn't realize they were zoomed in. as soon as we disabled zoom the complaints and questions stopped.
Really? An unlabeled map scatterplot? The article copied only one of them from the original paper but the second one is just as useless. Isn't Science supposed to be a prestigious journal? The quality of the data presentation is embarrasing.
Good point! Their dataset seems to have locations associated with the languages:

https://grambank.clld.org/languages#map

spoiler: English goes in England, French goes in France
Nurses don't have to be able to legally prescribe to give you off the record advice and seem like "medically aware" people to those around them. So many people take Nurses as medical gospel even though plenty of nurses don't really take their teachings as ground truth, and they aren't exactly taking immunology anyway, with very little foundational knowledge in a Nursing degree program in terms of how medicine works, as well as less rigorous statistics than your average high schooler.

What they do learn is how all your bones and muscles and organs work and work together, and a bunch of microbio (so they would understand things like how sodium and potassium affect muscle function), and introductory classes on human psychology, and classes about how drugs interact.

Notable things nurses in this program don't learn that are relevant to COVID: Immunology, so nurses should be expected to know roughly as much as the average person about how your immune system works, and how diseases spread, and how they evolve, genetics, how to write (and read) scientific papers, enough statistics to understand what might be problematic in a scientific paper, accounting (so many myths came from or through nurses that "hospitals are counting covid deaths wrong for money", while they could never seem to explain how that worked).

Nursing is not pre-med.
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Elon Musk's X Is Testing User Verification That Requires Government ID
Please don't reencode your entire collection to "save space", or use git for version control.

Put your lossless files on a server as a source-of-truth (with a regular cold backup somewhere else) and install a streaming server, like Navidrome[1], which will allow you to transcode on-the-fly to all of your devices. This is how you build a true "digital music collection": so that you won't regret it 5 years from now, when the site you bought your flac's from closes down/erases your files (as has happened before on Bandcamp when an artist account gets deleted!), leaving you solely with the reencoded mp3/opus files you kept, unable to move to better formats as they progress.

[1] https://www.navidrome.org/
> Can't you just mute it and continue using the software without worries?

It _seems_ like a reasonable thing to ask, it's a minor inconvenience, really, so what's the big deal?

The big deal is that the behavior doesn't fit the unix philosophy. Tools are meant to do one thing, and do it well. They get composed in pipelines to get jobs done. In these pipelines, the communication medium is text, via stdin/stdout/stderr. If a tool is unpredictable in what it puts out via text, it can make the whole pipeline unpredictable, or at least more complicated.

If it _was_ okay, we should welcome everyone putting nag features in these simple cli tools, right? Well, I'd be on board with that as long as I can blanket disable all of them. If not, let's just leave our political/professional/begging messaging outside our computing tools. Okay?
Haha thank you! Strongly agree—a characteristic part of HN are definitely the opinionated and inevitably contrarian replies, so in the future, we want to create opinionated fakeHN agents mapping to the past comments of real individual HN users. That way, we can hopefully create higher-fidelity comments capturing their biases and technical depth to capture more of the magic of HN.
Agreed on the lack of any functionality for ages.

I still don't think (in Android; I can't speak for iOS) the built-in app is viable. It only detects in insanely optimal conditions, and non-optimal scans produce no errors or diagnostics to the user: you can very likely be doing everything correct, be aiming the camera in such a manner that there is adequate lighting & pixels to scan a QR code, and get bumpkiss — and further, you'd have no idea the feature even exists … whereas a dedicated app will scan it instantly with the same image, and if you don't get it, you know that the app is capable of it and you probably just need to move closer. (Also, the app I have has a decent viewfinder showing you how much it needs, and it shows visible feedback about what it is finding, even if it can't make a full match.)
I'm building https://www.datasette.cloud/ and https://datasette.io/ almost entirely open source for a number of commercial reasons.

1. I want organizations (initially newsrooms that care about data journalism, but rapidly growing beyond that) to be able to trust the product. The default result of 95% of startups is to go out of business, and going all-in on a product that then blinks out of existence is bad! When I'm selecting a vendor this is a thing I always consider, so I'd like my customers to feel confident that they have the ultimate escape hatch - run it yourself - should they ever need it.

2. Newsrooms in particular have learned this lesson before, many times over - and not just for startups. Remember Google Fusion Tables? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fusion_Tables That's just one relatively recent example.

3. Datasette is an ecosystem play. There are over 100 plugins already - https://datasette.io/plugins - and I hope for there to be thousands more. Developers don't invest nearly as heavily in building and releasing plugins for closed-source platforms.

4. Open source is a way for me to punch _way_ above my weight. I can have a much larger impact on the world by participating in open source, compared to if everything I'd been building had been closed.
If only he knew how many millions of lives would be lost indefinitely scrolling on a small sheet of glass.
Lunar Codex: digitised works of 30k artists to be archived on moon
I case you refer to me as the MLS co-author, I'm not directly affiliated with the p2panda project. I think p2panda uses OpenMLS (OSS implementation of the MLS protocol, https://openmls.tech), hence the connection. I did however exchange with this friendly an motivated team!
ncmpc used to be this simple little thing, now it seems to be a C++ mess that doesn't even have backward compatibility (so here sticking with an old version thats works with MPD).

Ref. patches, I use a cheap Amazon RF remote to control MPD - essentially a bit of code that receives button clicks and controls volume. forward/back etc. Low tech FTW :)
Knowing a Thai lady, I've got some idea of how it differs from English. Bit of an eye-opener. But I don't conclude that tense and gender are superfluous; far from it. In fact the tenses in English are extensive and extremely useful. If they're unnecessary then a whole lot of other things might be considered so as well. Perhaps we should just say there are differences in languages, and not judge those.
I don’t know this for sure without looking it up, but I include .net because I think .net and .com are both using a legacy registry agreement. Everything else uses a new agreement that has fewer protections for registrants. For example, there are no price caps on the new gTLDs IIRC.
We could spend a trillion dollars on 50 nuclear reactors and increase the nuclear percentage to 30% (there are actually 92 nuclear reactors in US).

Or we could spend a trillion dollars on 1TW of solar (400GW actual power). Or a mix of solar and wind, or solar and batteries for the off-peak usage. That is enough to wipe out coal. Enough to bankrupt nuclear power plants.

Two trillion is probably enough to decarbonize electricity except for natural gas peaker plants that need for bad days.
Don't forget the Diplomatic plates

https://diplomacy.state.gov/items/diplomatic-license-plates/
https://i.etsystatic.com/12654735/r/il/dd7fb3/1754142363/il_...

Or Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, Northern Mariana, and the Virgin Islands

Or the Native American Nations
Yeah, hard drives are never going to be great (although 15k rpm drives aren't too bad), but IMHO, the real thing that causes perf to be awful is that windows 10 (and I assume 11 has gotten worse) can't seem to ever stop writing to the disk. Those writes seem to interrupt reads enough that you never can get good sustained read speeds, so loading anything is painful.

I'm not going to setup a system to test, because it's too painful, but I'm now idly wondering if you could set the checkbox on a hard drive for "Turn off Windows write-cache buffer flushing on the device", and if that would help. Doing a aggregated write of a couple MB once a minute would probably work better than doing a few KB every second. Of course, at great risk of data loss, but YOLO. (a smidge of research seems to indicate this is for asking the device to pretty-please flush its internal write cache, so that might help a bit, but probably not very much; maybe there's a knob somewhere to tune the system file cache)
>Conventional wisdom suggests that richer individuals put more of their assets toward high risk investments, which can result in higher returns. But our research finds that wealthy people often earn a higher return even on more conservative investments. Richer individuals enjoy pure “returns to scale” to their wealth. Specifically, for given portfolio allocation, individuals who are wealthier are more likely to get higher risk-adjusted returns...
The more prestigious the journal, often the more garbage the science they publish. Alas.
The rich get richer for 2 simple reasons. Half is because they are better with money management, they think about incentives and trends constantly and financially position themselves appropriately. The other half is that our money doesn't achieve its foremost goal of a store of value, leading to the monetization of assets like real estate and stocks; since rich people have a higher fraction of income/wealth towards investment, they capitalize on inflation that redistributes wealth towards assets; compared to lower income/wealth people who have a higher fraction towards consumer spending. The idea that the average income earner doesn't yeild the same as the rich is partly true, they have better access to advanced financial instruments, but its also that they are better at analyzing the incentives.
True. I am not asking people to just accept anything though.

If you want growth, have at it. When my phone completely breaks, I would love to get a better hardware with more features.
It depends. While mortgages lock in a monthly payment you must first save up a down payment. The same cash flow directed into the stock market would also build "equity." If one does not move within seven years buying housing is better.
While true... I figured out how little I was saving by not doing FLAC. And there wasn't a point in saving that storage. I've got plenty, and that's with 5 bays still empty in the Synology.

I only wish I could do the same with video.
The more expensive the services, the less likely you are to get a bid in this format.
> AFAIK, ... combusting with air will always lead to some oxides of nitrogen appearing in the output.

I was curious so I did a search. I know this is a problem with internal combustion engines which operate under higher pressure (not sure about temperature.) There were a lot of hits for "do gas turbines produce nox", many of which were about dealing with the problem.
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This can be surprisingly hard to get right. Look at the chart in https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/10/11/russian-... for an example. Humans are bad at making up numbers.
I am confused by your first link.

The vote was in 2016. Looking for 2015 to now, it clearly shows the UK having achieved 0% growth (in GDP per capita) since 2015. Literally all the other countries and the EU as a whole out performed us.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-per-capita-worldbank?...

I think the ability to look at data like this and come to completely different conclusions perfectly sums up the divide between brexiteer (I assume you are, I hope that is ok?) And remoaners like me.
Of course, the people that have been handling archival for hundreds of years have done zero thought about it, and they just needed you, so smart, to tell them how to do it right.
Meh. In my experience version churn with shared library dependencies is pretty minor. You have to worry about and work at it if you're doing stuff like deploying a single binary across a bunch of different linux distros. But the straightforward case of "build on your desktop and copy the file up to the host" is a routine thing you can expect to work.

It's nothing like that with Python or Node. The rule there is that you get something working locally and then spend a while reverse engineering a pip/venv recipe or manifest or whatever to make it work somewhere else. It's decidedly non-trivial.
There used to be operating systems where the only stable interface was glibc.
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Honestly? I personally care very little whether or not something is open source at this point in time. Code bases have become so large that there’s little benefit to me other than self-hosting, and there are few things I care to self-host. The main argument I would make is that companies should, at the very least, open source everything before shuttering. If you’re going out of business, allow your former customers to maintain themselves what you’re no longer going to maintain yourself.
It's mostly a problem of resolution, model size, and dataset quality, which can be mitigated with compositing. Larger models don't have problems with hands, and if they do, it can be solved by higher-order guidance (e.g. controlnets) and doing multiple supersampled passes on regions to avoid to fit too much detail in one generation. Even SD 1.5 (a notoriously tiny model) issues with faces and hands can be solved with multiple passes, which is what everyone does.
10000 years is a long, long time. Civilization has only been around for 3-4k years. We shouldn't bother planning further than 1000 years ahead, it's too hard to imagine. Realistically, humanity is awful at planning further than 100 years. Even the most critical infrastructure is built with a lifespan of about 50-100 years and needs to be refurbished.

In 100 years at a 2% growth rate we'd have to grow the economy about 7x.

This seems quite do-able. We would need significant technological advancement but this seems to be happening; there is no technological ceiling. We do not need to colonize space to achieve this, even though it would be nice to colonize space and give us another few hundred years of runway.

There's no reason to assume we can't maintain 2% global growth for the duration of our lifetimes. Whatever is after that we'll have to leave for future generations. Sustainability is important. Controlling climate change is important. I expect the world will look quite different in 100 years and at some point we must trust in the future generations.
Thanks for clarifying that. I’m sorry if I misunderstood but I really appreciate you pointing out those facts.