skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We can't ask it questions, but we can enter a data sequence and let the model extrapolate it. Similar to how foundation language models (without instruction tuning) used to work, but not just for human readable text.
Sure, I agree. I just take issue with the framing. It's highly manipulative.
> Even on one iOS device, there's a minimum of 3 environments a website could find itself in, based on operating system states.

Besides the fact that I'm not convinced the 3d touch one is a real viewport, how can he miss the fact that there is landscape mode on these devices, which have completely different dimensions?
Given you're on Route53 I'm surprised you would even bother with anyone else. Route53 is hands down the best registrar no questions asked. They have no side hustle to auction off domains that fall off renewal and all their customers would be pisssed if that ever happened. They're a company where the incentives actually align.
This is good advice, as I assume most here are fairly young.

Be mindful to take chronic pain into consideration for any plans later in life, especially if you've not been the most disciplined with your health.

Also get up and stretch more. Please.
A positive effect for performers is that people still want to go to concerts, but less and less people know how to play an instrument. The market is really much better now than even 10 years ago.
> You have to think your optimization approach from the other end, as how it might fail.
And yet, this does not contradict what I said. Oil prices, and thus gas prices, did go up quite a bit in the US, but that was clearly "transitory". Certainly this had a large impact on the perception of inflation, since gas prices are very visible. But high gas prices didn't last very long, went up well after inflation had taken root, and went back down well before inflation had begun to ease.

I think it's possible that other energy prices (like natural gas, which is not a global market) may have driven inflation outside the US in a more meaningful way, but like I said, I'm not sure that's true either because I just haven't followed that so much.
Modules and assemblies are different. Lots of languages ban circular dependencies between modules (most!). Delphi units were single source files though, and that's a much more painful proposition because it forcibly links source file size and program architecture. I saw a lot of big unit files in Delphi code bases.
Proton leads to some bizarre behaviors though. My worst experience is on a surplus "mobile workstation" with Optimus graphics. It has a pretty robust Intel quad-core and one of their better iGPUs as well as an NVIDIA Quadro M5000M which has decent VRAM and should compare almost to a GTX 1650.

The packages pulled in by steam define a bunch of vulkan providers which then confuses steam. Many games won't even launch and you have to manually kill off a bunch of steam worker processes to even successfully shutdown and restart steam. You can't uninstall the package due to dependencies, so instead have to manually move/rename some files under /usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/ to only leave the one for NVIDIA.

Then, games launch but have very inconsistent performance. I don't know if this is because Optimus is competing with the game for PCIe bandwidth, or something else still going awry with the driver stack.
I have no idea how that relates to my empirical point (nor does it refute it, other than, yes, there are finer points about normalizing things across countries, per capita etc.).
This is an amazing response, thank you so much! I appreciate the wealth of links here.

Best of luck in your own GI journey!
Covid years flew past
Getting better. Paid with a QR code and Apple Pay in an ihop last week (chain breakfast restaurant)
Isn't the theory of compound interest sufficient to explain why the rich get richer faster than that poor get richer?
Doctoral student completes a PhD in Chemistry entirely in Welsh
> It allows the brand to target different people without confusing everyone with a single brand saying different things; yet still allow for economies of scale. Great business for them, may seriously suck to be a customer since the alternatives are potentially no better if you don't like one.

It also allows them to capture the money of disgruntled customers. Someone who has a terrible experience with (say) Tinder may swear it up and start using a "competitor" like ... OkCupid.

IIRC, this is also a strategy in home appliance space. My understanding is most home appliance brands are owned by just two companies: Whirlpool and Electrolux. They've really cheapened their designs, but if you get pissed off your washer breaks after 3 years and decide to go with a competitor, there's a good chance you may end up buying literally the same model, from the same company, with different branding and styling.
The carrying capacity of the environment isn't fixed, or this would have happened in the 60s and 70s as originally predicted. Technology and policies change the carrying capacity. We don't have to have decline with the right approach. The sun provides more than enough energy, fusion and superconductivity breakthroughs would be huge as well.
easy to find from the homepage:

https://p2panda.org/libraries/

> The core library is shipped both as a Rust crate p2panda-rs with WebAssembly bindings and a NPM package p2panda-js with TypeScript definitions running in NodeJS or any modern web browser.
My last CEO (healthcare startup) told me during my interview with them "but you don't look autistic!" and that should have been the end of the conversation there. When people show you who they are, believe them and all that.
IIRC, it's called the Windows API now, with Win64 being the active variant on modern Windows. It is essentially Win32 with 64-bit additions.

The Win32/low-level Windows programmers I know still just refer to it as "Win32", though.
Making Computers and the Internet Fun Again
You're still overseeing other subcontractors. My next step is likely in a similar direction but I want to start out with a couple of former colleagues in more of a partnership role.

IMO being responsible for other people is tiring and unrewarding, I just want a structure to tackle interesting projects without a middleman.
I'd actually argue there's more evidence of Jobs having good taste in general than being good at business.
Ugh, not 15 minutes before this I was testing a new yet to be released version of my companies software. And while testing I get an error message like

"Cannot do X with upload"

Number one this is a behavior change and should not have been changed in the first place.

But number two, all the error had to say was "Cannot do X with upload because application is set to Y"

The first one generates a support ticket, the second one gives a legitimate reason on why the failure occurred and what they can do about it.
I'm still not sure how I feel about the actual copyright issue, but this was a bad test case. Thaler is trying to have his cake and eat it too; his position is inconsistent (this similar to a previous comment I've made: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34783707).

He wants credit for creating the AI, and he wants to that AI to be recognized as autonomous and independent by getting the Copyright Office's imprimatur. But at the same time he wants to treat the art created by the AI as if it were his, or at least to act on behalf of the AI as if it were not autonomous.
Comeback when anyone builds an iconic brand around .$BRAND_NAME or even .museum

Seriously. It’s not an issue of brand recognition. It’s an issue of decades of basic phishing defense.
> We might as well get rid of photographers and illustrate our news with cell phone pictures while we're at it.

Wait... Hasn't this already happened? Professional/specialized press photography seems way down compared to pre-smartphone era? Now a journalist/reporter is expected to do a passable photo job on their own. Or a random member of the public
The original claim was that browsers don't ever use UTF-8 unless you specify it. Then ko27 provided a counterexample that clearly shows that a browser can choose UTF-8 without you specifying it. You then said "I'm pretty sure this is incorrect"--which part? ko27's counterexample is correct; I tried it and it renders correctly as ko27 said. If you do it, the browser does choose UTF-8. I'm not sure where you're going with this now. This was a minimal counterexample for a narrow claim.
> If you average a bunch of different types of galaxies, you do not get a blackbody.

Black body averages emission of trillions of trillions of atoms. Why it will not work for emission of trillions of trillions of galaxies? Can you prove that?

> Energy conservation only holds locally, when space is nearly flat.

Space is flat in all directions.
DDR5 memory has this thing where it needs to be "trained" to figure out the best settings for a particular memory/motherboard combination.

Maybe your PC "trains" the memory every boot instead of just the first one.

https://www.crucial.com/support/articles-faq-memory/ddr5-mem...
Fine, I’ll crop it and copyright that instead.
>Win32 ABI is the most stable and rock solid compared to the messy moving target of the Linux world,

Blatant lie bordering on disinformation.

The only reason it is a "stable ABI" is that every dev of every windows program bundles every library with their program. You could do the same thing on Linux and the stability "story" would be exactly the same, or in fact even better on Linux because Win32 isnt actually stable and the Linux system call ABI is.
"So if you make it boot ten seconds faster, you've saved a dozen lives."

That's emotional blackmail. The implication is failing to do that will cost a dozen lives. It's also incorrect. Making it boot ten seconds faster saves zero lives.
> I'm saying take it easy on Namecheap because it's out of their control…

If we assume that Namecheap is incapable of malice, then it means Namecheap's systems and/or processes are broken. (Registry agreements don't allow registries to retroactively reclassify domains as "premium".)
The biggest problem I see with LLM-generated imagery is a near total inability to get details right, which makes perfect sense when one considers how they work.

LLMs pick out patterns in the data they're trained on and then regurgitates them. This works great for broad strokes, because those have relatively little variance between training pieces and have distinct visual signatures that act as anchors.

Details on the other hand differ dramatically between pieces and have no such consistent visual anchor. Take limbs for example, which are notoriously problematic for LLMs: there are so many different ways that arms, legs, and especially hands and fingers can look between their innumerable possible articulations, positions relative to the rest of the body, clothing, objects obscuring them, etc etc and the LLM, not actually understanding the subject matter, is predictably terrible at drawing the connections between all of these disparate states and struggles to draw them without human guidance.

You see this effect in other fine details, too. Jewelry, chain-link fences, fishing nets, chainmail, lace, etc are all near-guaranteed disasters for these things.
That’s a shame that .tk is getting abused, but not surprising.

I guess, in addition to maintaining the database, a TLD probably needs to prevent abuse to be a good citizen. Add in fees and I have no idea what a reasonable price would be. Maybe I’ll stop complaining…
> Relevant comic: https://phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1174

Yes, but in the ~15 years since this came out, University PR have closed the gap between their work and that of cable news :)
It’s been many years since I was current on the state of cross platform gaming.

Is it possible that proton could become the de facto target platform?

That is, if a developer builds to ensure that their game works correctly under proton, then will it also work correctly under windows? So by just ensuring it works under proton, which seems to be minimal effort, do they get access to the expanded market for “free”?

Do any of the consoles support proton, so that the only barrier to releasing a game are the legal agreements?
The one time I dealt with KcKinsey, the partner was pretty sharp, one of the associates was as well, and the other, well, more arrogant than justified.

Overall, in retrospect, the experience was... not terrible.

We answered a lot of questions, did a lot of education. They produced a bunch of spreadsheets that kept the business planning people occupied (a good thing). And they basically validated to the senior management that the product managers and related advising on strategy were on the right track. Expensive, yeah. But it's not always the worst thing to get an external sanity check.
No kidding. I'm not blaming Tinder, I'm describing my experience.
Have you even done SS or read the book, actually end to end?

Comparing 5/3/1 or a reddit post to SS indicates a complete lack of familiarity.

You can use dismissive like survivorship bias all you’d like, but end do the day Rip knows and runs a tier 1 program to get in life shape. It’s very difficult to read SS and execute it as designed and not come to that conclusion.
Definitely flirting.
I'm a little weirded out that languages are plotted on a map. Where does English go? Or French? Or are these just plotted everywhere that language is spoken? (Probably not.) It reminded me of a hill I chose to (not really) die on, a long time ago, where the product folks in my organization were dead-set on indicating the language choice with a (country) flag. Not sure if we ever set on what flag to use for English (it was probably configurable). And the flag for Dutch was a weird abomination between the Dutch and Belgian flag. Weirdly, the French flag was used for French, while Belgium probably speaks as much French as they do Dutch (so why wasn't there a French/Belgian abomination too).
TIL a lot about natural gas. Gas-fired plants use "dry" natural gas which has had most impurities removed and consists of around 94% methane, with the rest mostly ethane, propane, and butane. I was about to say "ah-ha! what about ethane combustion?" but then I looked it up and the combustion reactions with ethane, propane, and butane all produce only water vapor and carbon dioxide.

Now, how to dry "wet" natural gas (remove the impurities that don't burn to just H2O + CO2), and how to "sweeten" "sour" natural gas (remove the toxic/lethal sulfur compounds like H2S)? I don't know what all of those reactions look like and what the processes cost in terms of energy and waste byproducts, but those are the kinds of externalities that are sometimes dismissed because they're not as visible (like the wastewater heating for the Diablo nuclear plant).
Python.

Just the inclusion of argparse alone is worth it IMO.

> Python’s support for pipes was difficult

Well, the idea would be to replace a lot of your pipe usage.

Off the wall, but Scala has a concise syntax for process operations, but startup time is likely prohibitive.
Isn't medic a valid military vocation? I'm not really sure anyone should be allowed to administer substances with an LD50 if they are functionally illiterate at identifying an improbable calculation.
If you are on iPhone, you can switch

Settings -> Accessibility -> Motion -> Reduce Motion

The Android a11y menu probably has something similar. Try it out and see if you like it more.
Apple exec on App Store complaints (2009)
Noone would expect that so you'd need to explain it and get people to spell correctly. Not convinced it is a good UX.

"Just localization" isn't "just". Many people have the wrong localization on their computers. Partly because they don't always communicate in their native language. But also because google et. al. are doing such a piss poor job of it.

It is also always weird if your are on an international site. Enter everything in English and then suddenly is expected to enter some fields in your native language.
before i moved to porkbun, i had 12 domains. now i have 23. their great domain search, their friendly, funny words everywhere, and cute graphics.. it gets people to buy more domains than they normally would, and not want to move away. that's my guess.

edit: here is their announcement..

august 8 - https://mailchi.mp/porkbun.com/porkbun-unwrapped-whats-in-st...

"We expect our pricing to change from $9.73 to around $10.37 on September 1"
What language should they have used instead of C?

And given that C's stdlib has a quicksort function, how would using a different language have helped?
> The police who murdered George Floyd are in jail, and serious reforms were enacted as a result of their misconduct.

This is probably the highest profile situation that worked out as it should (with the PD firing the officers within 24 hours of the event). Oftentimes, this does not happen. Let's look at several high profile deaths:

Eric Garner - no indictments, no charges.

Michael Brown - County, DA, DOJ all declined to press charges.

Tamir Rice - all charges declined.

Laquan MacDonald - officer guilty of second degree murder, released 3 years in to a 7 year sentence.

Walter Scott - officer found not guilty of murder, guilty of violating federal civil rights. State dropped charges.

Freddie Grey - six officers charged, three cases dropped, three acquitted. DOJ declined charges.

Philando Castile - officer acquitted of manslaughter despite their own bodycam (but to your point, he was charged).

Justine Damond - shot after calling 911 to report being raped. Officer convicted of murder and manslaughter, murder overturned on appeal.

Breonna Taylor - no charges filed, and officials stated it was justified because someone else was firing at them. One officer convicted of negligence after shooting at entirely the wrong home.

Many of the above charges also only came about after significant public protest over PD/DA/DOJ initially declining any charges or denying there was any issue.

> As I write this, there is a real chance the former president will serve jail time after a fair trial.

You are entirely too optimistic. Realistically, at best, he will be placed under limited house arrest.
Those countries all have plenty of languages which are native to their territory which aren't the dominant one in the country. Aboriginal languages in Australia, native American languages in the US, various tribal languages in Brazil.
No video game has any use for GTK+.

XLib is tiny by modern standards.
Wikipedia has 17 indigenous languages for Brazil alone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Brazil
I think your usage of "matter" and theirs is different. It's furniture. Furniture "matters" in a restaurant and having the wrong furniture can hurt your business— but compared to the food, it's essentially inconsequential.

There's a spectrum of how much furniture matters in any given place ranging from very short stay waiting areas to architect's offices, and commercial art is no different. If that image was truly inconsequential, you wouldn't need one there. Non-informational graphics on most non-professionally designed power point decks likely matter less. I'd say there's about a zero percent chance of a two page spread opening a feature article in a magazine being ai-generated unless it's an article about ai-generated images, and even then, it probably took professionals longer to massage it into shape than all of the rest of them. Specificity and per-pixel control is just so important in professional graphics workflows and despite what a huge stack of people who aren't professional designers will tell you, they are simply the wrong tool for the job. It's fundamentally the wrong interface. Maybe what Adobe or another player who knows what the industry needs will nail it, but it won't look like Midjourney— that's for sure.
Nothing especially rational, although generally I like to minimize what I can. If I can easily reduce one form of data leak I will.

Your point is correct. There are many sources that we each hemorrhage data from, and it’s likely a lost battle.

Thinking a little more there are aspects of choice and consent here. I know I bought a car with telemetry, a cell modem in it, and a gps receiver, so it can be tracked. I’m not willingly opting into continuous surveillance by various third parties. It happens and driving is worth more to me then my loss of data tantrum, so I have a car and drive.

It’s not all rational.

That said, I also have an older car with no electronic monitoring and love it too.
And absent some major technology changes Spotify in your example has no way to do credit assignment back to the training set for any attempts at royalties should they be so inclined.
No, why? There's no single 'theory of compound interest'.

First, the rich don't reliably get richer faster than the poor get richer. (Despite what the linked article or other texts might claim.)

Second, interest rates are mostly an abstraction. Yes, if two people are both putting money in a bank account in the same currency, the one with the higher interest rate will get richer faster.

In the real world, many investments yield a variable nominal rate of return (eg real estate, stocks, art, etc). And you also have to worry about factors like inflation or counter party risk.
> People will prime their image generation with a specific series of image and combine them with new prompts, packages will be made to prime their AI and then they’ll go from there

Whether its finetuning checkpoints, creating LoRa/Hypernetworks/TIs, etc., that's already the status quo.
Look closely, it's one click to dismiss any cookies, other sites force you in a sub page and deselect all cookies.
There is no "library surgery". This is EXACTLY what people are forced to do on Windows already: bundle all dependencies.

>No game developer is ever going to individually package, and consistently repackage, their game for 20 distributions. That’s never going to happen.

Nobody has suggested they should.
Proton was the missing piece to Linux gaming/desktop. It’s also a vital part of steam deck. Maybe someday we’ll get a standard rendering pipeline :/ /s.
It doesn't square, it's extraordinarily irrational.

With a trillion dollars the US could build 40-60 new domestic nuclear power plants (we have 54 currently). We can afford it (witness stimulus programs, or the Ukraine v Russia war).

What we can't afford is to not do it and to watch our nuclear power base vanish. And we should be going further than that. We should be leveraging the global reserve currency and trade agreements to assist other stable countries in more cheaply (as cheaply as is possible with nuclear) building their own nuclear power plants. We can help countries either skip the fossil fuel driven economic build-out phase (in regards to fairly stable developing nations), or accelerate their leap off of it. And it can be beneficial to the US economy: export our tech, develop it further, train domestic labor specifically for this program.