skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems to be the problem with all the developing countries. Economic growth requires, men and women both prioritising jobs over marriage and family stability. Divorces happen because there is immense incentive for women to look for better partners even after 1, or many marriages. The incentives are life long, premium monthly pensions with annual raises and child support payments. All you have to do is marry some one, and divorce them. They now owe you life long monthly pensions.

There is not a job on earth where you can work two years, and then be entitled to life long pensions. Not even in the extreme politics of communism was this even imagined, to the scale marriage has been reduced to now.

Given all, marriage and even having kids is heavily disincentivised. You have to be an idiot beyond belief to walk into something like this.

Apart from this, even with a perfect marriage. Most men have to deal with never ending disappointed feelings from women for working to death and still coming short of their expectations. Given all this I don't think there is a easy solution for this birth rate problem.

Social engineering on the scale of countries is needed. The overall social and cultural trend world wide are no where near whats needed to bring about these birth rate increases.
I deleted my account, and I avoid any URLs from that domain.

Holding a grudge is a superpower
I challenge you to listen to 4 chords of awesome and tell me again about how every song is completely original. How does eragon exist when it's definitely ripped parts from star wars, etc...ai usually doesn't spit out a full plagiarism, but a loosely inspired work which is what most media we consume is.

Edit: 4 chords of awesome link is https://youtube.com/watch?v=oOlDewpCfZQ&si=8vL6PbDnHiaffJh3
Ask HN: How would you raise $600k for a boring software co?
I want to do my own thing and I don't want to do it alone. I am happy to write boring business software with boring tech.

The not wanting to work alone for a year to bootstrap makes me want to find about $600k so I can pay a designer and two other devs to work on the software with me for 12-18 months. I project I can be to 300k ARR in 3 years so 600k to kick this off doesnt seem to risky.

I am certain I can find $100k with friends and family but I want the full amount to make the hires and take the leap.

I explicitly don't want to build a "unicorn" I just want a healthy business building clean, safe, secure software that is doing something positive in the world (even if it is just boring business admin problems).

Thoughts or ideas or how to find an angel (or two) or other avenues?
Starfield Review
Dont preorder games.
> Writing is as much about organizing your thoughts and learning how to build an argument as it is about putting words on the page.

If you cannot organize your thoughts, explain your reasoning, etc. then you’re not going to get very far leveraging an LLM. Sure, it’ll spit out a book report, but unless you can explain — in well-structured writing - what you’re looking for, you’re not going to get what you need for the vast majority of writing assignments.
I used to live in a small beach-side community in New Zealand, this was back in the time of mechanical (stepper) telephone exchanges. Locally we had 3 digit phone numbers - dialing a "2" would get us a circuit (a actual physical pair of wires) to the nearest city, in the city dialing "22" would get you a circuit to our community.

There were asmall limited number of wires going over the hill to town, if you dialed "222222222222222222222222222222" ......
Do you live in the bay area? “T.T not enough housing!”, except traffic is out of control and we’re just building more massive apartment buildings along every inch of freeway we can. No one seems to be making any plan with anything close to a spec or goal.

The reality is that not everyone can live here. Should we cut down all the trees and cover Kauai in skyscraper apartments so more people can live there?

I don’t think so.

Even this project is kicking the can (eventually Corusucant). But at least they aren’t coming into someone’s community, that THEY PICKED because of the way it is, and saying oh no no, we need to build an ADU and multi family dwellings everywhere!

Go start something new.
I think both apps have very effective visual presentation.

However, I also think changing these things breaks the one really good thing about Google maps and that is it works and looks roughly the same across all of its versions.

Breaking that may delete more value than it creates, if it creates any at all.
If you're competent.
A year's supply of paper aeropress filters weighs about 1.4 oz. This is significantly less paper than a single Monday New York Times, so if you've ever read a paper newspaper, you've eco-sinned more than drinking a year of aeropress.

Indeed, the paper is so little that I'd be really surprised if the ecological impact of mining and making that metal filter will ever be recouped.

It's a little how cotton groceries bags are so resource-intensive that you'd need to use them hundreds and hundreds of times before they're better than daily plastic bags. (Litter aside, which isn't an issue with paper filters.)
RUN is the escape hatch that everybody (understandably) abused. And because we do, it's maybe the first thing you think of when thinking of a Dockerfile. But in the context of the other Dockerfile keywords I can probably live with calling it declarative. I'm a Java guy, I'd definitely call Maven declarative, but it surely has some escape hatches too. And what about <fill in your example>...
I had a great subscription business - and when I sold it, the buyer just couldn’t care less. Body shop all the way baby. 5x the revenue - but barely broke even.

The old saying that “revenue is for vanity and profit is for sanity” never rang so true.
An introduction to the impact of native planting
The difference being that he proudly proclaimed his support for housing development.
Did you somehow remove my comment?
do people use git to provision environments? That is not a thing. What is in the repo? A dockerfile?
Yes, `explore` & `:try` are documented[0] but by "this information" I was referring to the `nu` binary's `--commands`, `--stdin` etc.

[0] When writing my original comment I had been going to link to page you linked but decided it would just clutter an already long comment no one would read anyway. :)
It is what I enjoy doing, but someone has already launched a product. =)

text-with-jesus:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/text-with-jesus/id6446922759
The wikipedia link above (that I assume you are talking about) says in part:

Built after World War II for returning white veterans and their new families, the communities offered attractive alternatives to cramped central city locations and apartments.

This is not accurate. World War II was the de facto end of The Great Depression and to their shock they were able to produce "more guns and more butter" because unemployment rates had been as high as 30 percent in the previous decade.

There was a tremendous need for housing. During the Great Depression, some people lived in the basement of their house and rented out the house to try to not lose the house. Others moved every thirteen months because if you could pay your rent on time and in full for twelve months in a row, you could get the thirteenth months free.

Levittown was the birth of the modern suburb and it helped resolve a massive need for new housing. It was so successful, we are still haunted by this ghost of Christmas past.

The entire country turned its collective will away from the newly finished war and towards building new housing. They created new policies and financing mechanisms and to this day it is challenging to build anything in the US other than suburban-style single family detached homes because our entire financing and policy infrastructure and collective subconscious supports the idea that a home in the 'burbs is the ideal home.

So we have grown 1950s-style suburban homes to be ugly homes on steroids, a la McMansions, and can't manage to build much else and then we wonder why there are so many homeless.

We are victims of the overwhelming success of Levittown.

I'm aware that racism tended to exclude people of color. I don't think this had much to do with it being the suburbs. If we had built towers of apartments in downtowns, I imagine redlining would have still kept out people of color.

Racism is not why they were suburbs. Them being suburbs is not primarily why people of color were excluded. Racism is people being shitty and they were going to be shitty in this particular way in that particular era regardless of the style of home which helped fill the overwhelming need this country had for additional housing and it finally had the means to build some of that for at least some people.
Is anyone seriously proposing removing dams on the Colombia or Snake? Or really any dam used for irrigation?

Most of the removals seem to be on very small scale hydro projects on coastal river that produce very little power, aren’t used for irrigation and open up a lot of salmon habitat.
When he wrote the Jobs biography.
this just popped up at the NYT

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/31/business/california-solan...
I haven't been to any small European towns, so I'd love to go one day to see what that lifestyle is like.
I maintain https://github.com/photostructure/tz-lookup which does this task.

*Every single time* I update the tz source file some arbitrary set of zone names and offsets change. Look at the churn and enjoy the schadenfreude: https://github.com/photostructure/tz-lookup/commits/main/tes...
That may be many things, but a hatchet job it ain't.
"I don’t want to give details, but I have reliable reports of quite reprehensible behaviour by some attendees - even members of the convention volunteer staff"

Wow.

I'm wondering, is COVID currently more of a threat to vulnerable people than the flu?

I found something describing a JAMA study that said for people hospitalized lately with either flu or COVID-19, but not both, mortality was 5.97% for COVID-19 and 3.75% for flu. 3-4x as many people were hospitalized in the first place for COVID-19.

However, I think that included the unvaccinated, so I'm curious what the rate for only those vaccinated for COVID-19 might be.
add COPY to the list of keywords we rather ignore so we can call Dockerfiles declarative.
Some compression, yes, but the analogy oversimplifies. AI rerepresents input information in a transformative way (embedding, say) then creates new, derived and combined output from a new input (e.g prompt).

It's not just lossy compression. It's potentially novel.
Have you trained as an artist? It’s very different from what LLMs are. If you’re good enough, you can reproduce any style, but people try not to because it’s obvious. And more importantly, you avoid copying ideas and presentation.

But the most glaring issue is attribution. You can avoid paying, but not doing attributions is my pet peeve. Even when doing fanart, fanfics, and parodies, most people take care to mention where their inspiration comes from.
8% range increase expected in EPA cycle
Although I disagree and consider copyright an anti-social institution only necessary due to the anti-social capitalist mode of relations, I commend you for making an actually coherent argument on this question. It is the first coherent argument I've come across outside of the small Marxist circles I run in.
Demolition Man was filmed in Irvine! :)

They are one of the pioneers of 'master planned' communities, in that they owned almost all of the land that became the city Irvine. They carefully selected various lots for types of homes, which areas would be luxury homes, which would be industrial, which areas would be 'cheaper' homes and the like.

It is a fancy real estate development company, but they're really building cities and reshaping them in a holistic way.
Because it would be more costly to wait for a unicorn than it would be to just hire someone and teach them.
They didn't delete them. They banned them from interacting with the site in any way except read-only. As soon as I posted to a subreddit I was banned on 1 account from, via a different account (I honestly forgot at that point, this was months later), Reddit itself detected this and banned ALL accounts they could associate with me via some kind of machine-learning fingerprinting which is, I have to say, quite effective.
Even if you don't agree with it, the two lissues for the third point are that an RCE lets an attacker irreversibly
modify the firmware remotely, or that the user will intentionally install an older unsupported version that contains an RCE. Vendor controlled firmware also has this issue, but that's the "compromises the security of everyone" with #3 because the attacker can now use the device as a VPN or as part of a DDOS botnet.
>The disc drive can receive commands to read conventional DVDs and some IOS contained hidden calls to send those commands. This was particularly worrying for piracy reasons.

AFAIK this was worrying enough for someone from Team Twiizers to try actually contacting Nintendo about it. I don't remember if it was bushing or marcan that tried to reach out, but Nintendo's response was to... ignore them, then cyberstalk them and call their employer. As a "two can play at that game" move, when Nintendo blocked the first title ID the Homebrew Channel used (HAXX), they changed it to JODI instead, referencing the name of Nintendo's current head of antipiracy operations.

I'd add a citation to HackMii but I wasn't able to find the actual post. Though I did see a lot of callout posts against various idiots trying to resell the Homebrew Channel. And callout posts against one particular idiot building really terrible piracy tools that would install a bunch of modified firmwares to your system, which risked bricking it... because Nintendo's system engineering was actually not that much better.

Yeah, one thing this article didn't quite get across is how fragile the Wii system software is. strcmp on hashes is just the tip of the iceberg. In fact, Team Twiizers would regularly dissuade people from playing around with custom channel banners because it was very, very, very easy to make one that would brick your System Menu if installed. And if you did that there was no recovery (at least, not until bootmii/boot2).
Even if I had such powers, I would not use them to remove your comment. :)
> If I know anything I create is just going to be hoovered up and input into somebody's AI model

but today, without an AI model, anything you create is already going to be learnt and studied (if it is worth studying of course). What's the difference, but speed?

> they get 99% of the profit

Why is that a priori the assumption? What stops you from getting a profit?

> I do 99% of the work

you did 0.000001% of the work, since the model contains billions of other works from which they train.
Do autocompletions really make sense outside of code?
Likely, those audio/video calls will be recorded and used to train AI. Twitter is losing billions yet. Anything they offer, they expect insane ROI on. Make your conclusions.
If you're a mouse:

Furthermore, the group announced successful animal experiments using the newly developed drug 'KDS2010', which allowed the mice to successfully achieve weight loss without resorting to dietary restrictions.
I think internships qualify under educational opportunities as well as employment, so would be swept up under both. Other races may not be forbidden but as a practical matter I don't think the law would be fooled by that because as a practical matter the social sanctions of joining would make it implausible. Part of the affirmative action ruling was so clear on ruling out using proxy methods that substitute. It's depressingly forbidden to use another method to accomplish the same thing.
Still, I'd bet that a bunch of lawyers and huge funds for campaign contributions would give you better chances than the contents of your armory. Or does everything look like a nail because all you have is a hammer?
Actually you can get parts for Huffys, direct from the manufacturer online. Mine has had replaced tires, pedals, crankshaft, and chain.
> 3. Output of AI models should be copyrightable by the person running the model

i would go further, and declare that this output is uncopyrightable.
If you concatenate images into a stream container (say as tar) and then compress the stream, the compression coding will (generally) cross over the individual images. True, that's generally not lossy compression.

But concatenating images is also how you create video. Lossy video compression does typically cross over frames. So I don't actually see a difference. If you want to think about mkv or mp4 instead of zip it's still the same concept.

There's nothing stopping you from putting every available image into a video and figuring out how to compress it lossily.

Maybe there's some bounds for how much information was lost? Obviously piping everything into /dev/null destroys the input. And piping /dev/random from a true random source creates information. So somewhere between that and lossless compression there's the nebulous "plagarism" threshold. And then there's another threshold that is copyright infringement that's considered "fair use".

But the general structure of the "AI" this is about are fundamentally storage and retrieval.
How to customise a USB numeric keypad under GNU/Linux?
I don't know the answer to this but I'm interested in learning. I assume there are investors out there who aren't looking for hyper-growth, but I'm not sure where you find them.
I love seeing this comment in a thread about OCI containers ( a deeply Linux technology ). This whole discussion is about the abstraction that people hav to use on Windows to make it work.

When you want to talk about how the world has progressed, I guess you do not mean Kubernetes or Docker. Give me an example of how Windows has changed the world in the last 30 years.
How accurate are the empirical internucleon potentials, though? According to the wikipedia page on "Nuclear force", one major obstacle is: "There is evidence that three-nucleon forces (and possibly higher multi-particle interactions) play a significant role. This means that three-nucleon potentials must be included into the model."
Yeah they're wide open to charges plus they were under investigation earlier last year. https://www.axios.com/2020/10/06/labor-department-probes-mic...
All the major cities in Ireland started as fortified encampments in order to raid the surrounding territory.
Do you see #1 and #3 conflicting at all? Ex: you produce a model, run it, publish and copyright some output. I can then use that as training data for another model in the style of your existing model?
Preliminary analyses, graphically represented, have unveiled the presence of Aluminum (Al), Sulphur (S), Calcium (Ca), Iron (Fe), Chromium (Cr), and Titanium (Ti) on the lunar surface. Further measurements have revealed the presence of manganese (Mn), silicon (Si), and oxygen (O). Thorough investigation regarding the presence of Hydrogen is underway.

It seems to me, we know there is hydrogen because we know there is water. Not to say they shouldn't test it anyway, but that's my layman's understanding of the current science.
as a manager, I'm not looking to challenge your outcome, I'm looking for you to explain why your solution works best compared to the others that were suggested. "have you thought about X?" is a genuine curiosity so that I may defend your solution to the higher ups when they ask me "what about X?". They are constantly being courted by vendors. Vendors who think they know the problem better than you do. Let's show them that you covered the bases and hit that home run properly.

In this context, is it weird to ask if you've "thought about X"? Is it disingenuine or condescending to you? Servant leadership is about supporting the team that I'm responsible for, to block and shield them from the wrath of VPs who want blood because their napkin-idea-over-cocktails wasn't selected for funding.

I'm trying to prepare you, the presenter of the solution, for the onslaught of questions that will come your way. If you feel these kinds of questions are a praise sandwich, I'm more than happy to present your solution for you.
Maybe you can but please consider, first, whether you should.
Have you read Marx or socialist stuff? From the bits I’ve read the Nordic countries have little to do with socialism (means of production).

Cuba has seemingly fared really well since you pointed out the issue with the country being handicapped. Cuba has medicine to stop lung cancer I heard. Americans die every day from lung cancer.
> if the generated text/image/sound is a nearly identical copy of the original material they don’t recognize

how does the industry today deal with artists that "copy" off some other works? This isn't a problem with AI at all - just that AI provides a tool to generate such works faster.
To be fair, the majority of professional interaction with AWS should be via text interfaces - infrastructure as code, SDKs, commandline - where icons don't matter.

The names aren't often all that much better, of course
> * Driving very late at night

> * Sleep deprived driving

* Driving after having an emotional argument or any other serious emotional stress

Those are all things that we're all probably going to do at the low points in our lives.

We conveniently edit those out of our perception of ourselves, though, because we had excuses for them (possibly quite good ones, but in reality those all count towards how good or bad of a driver you are).

> You want the car to be safer than you, rather than safer than the average.

You probably aren't as good of a driver as you think you are.

And half of you out there are just chronic tailgaters who incorrectly believe that you have to do that in order for traffic to flow faster, or just believe that people "cutting you off" will significantly increase the time it takes to get to your destination. If you don't keep about a semi-trailers worth of distance between you and the car in front of you, then an AI probably would be a safer driver.

[ Or just the passive-aggressive shithead that wasn't going to slow down for me in the crosswalk the other night ]
$300k ARR in 3 years is not much. ARR is not profit so how will investors make money back? At $300k ARR, you’ll barely break even paying for the expense (employees, severs, etc).
Unhelpfully it does not.
Can an AI express to you how van gogh affected it as an artist? I'm not sure that AI is "learning" the way we say humans are "learning," when humans learn and study art. Obviously there is no debate that you can input van gogh into a model and produce something van gogh-like as a result. But I've not seen anything that indicates that the AI is learning anything about van gogh at all. Perhaps it comes down to whether you think learning van gogh is just creating a mapping of all of his brush strokes ever, and only exactly what they look like. It's obvious the AI knows nothing more than that. If you think that's what humans do when they learn art, I'd be sad for you!

As to your hypothetical, we don't give copyrights to people who make rote copies of things, human or otherwise. Is the implication of the shock, that there is sufficient difference with the work as to render it a derivative and not a copy? Okay, how so? And of what consequence? Making derivatives of a copyright without license is infringement.
Agreed - I've been working with AWS almost daily for the last four years and got 4/20.
Not quite: https://www.calculateme.com/area/acres/to-square-miles/50000
The next bottleneck will not be caused by climate change challenges but by tinder and out of control hypergamy.
Whats with the Captcha loops lately?

Any solution to this?

Happens to me in desktop Chrome and Safari iOS.